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Venezuela, missiles, and you
A couple of years ago, I wrote a quick vignette titled “A Short History of the Venezuelan Missile Crisis” after rumors began to circulate that Ahmadinejad of Iran and Chavez of Venezuela were working toward military cooperation that could include transfer of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Operations, Defense, Government, History, Iran, Military, Nations, News, North Korea, Predictions, Syria, United States, Venezuela, World Watch
Tagged Iran, missiles, North Korea, Predictions, Syria, Threats, United States, Venezuela
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What will you wish you had if disaster strikes?
What will you wish you had if disaster strikes? Why don’t you have it now? It’s too easy, in our current era, to believe that things will somehow continue to improve, yet history tells us that there is no evidence … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, History, Predictions, Preparedness, Quid Facis, Society, World Watch
Tagged Future, History, questions, readiness
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Are you ready?
Are you ready? For what you might ask? Are you ready for whatever comes next? We Americans have lived through several decades of unparalleled prosperity, marked by an almost unchecked rise in consumption and the rapid development of the institutions … Continue reading
Posted in Entities, History, Nations, Philosophy, Predictions, Preparedness, Quid Facis, United States, West, the, World Watch
Tagged Action, clothing, Food, History, readiness, ready for whatever comes next, shelter
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Non-state actors
The recent release of over 80,000* classified documents by the website WikiLeaks represents what is very likely the largest and most damaging public disclosure of protected information to the public in the history of espionage. The potential damage caused by … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Current Operations, Groups, Military, Nations, News, Politics, Predictions, Society, Taliban, United States, World Watch
Tagged disclosures, Governments, Julian Assange, non-state actors, secrets, Threats, WikiLeaks
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Does synthetic life prove something else?
Certain parts of the interwebs are atwitter with the news that scientists in the United States have managed to create a cell containing a synthetic genome (that is, one that was manufactured as a copy of an existing genome) that … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, News, Predictions, Society, Synthetic Life
Tagged capacity, century, creation, Humans, Life, Reality, science, Synthetic Life, the end
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