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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan–Eye Witness Accounts of Occupation

March 1, 2008 · 1 Comment

Iraq Veterans against the War presents Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan.

Live streaming video of the testimony from U.S. veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.

Thursday March 13 - Sunday March 16

Video available from here.

Don’t miss it.

This is the Five Year Anniversary of the War and Occupation of Iraq.

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Warships Becoming Invisible

March 1, 2008 · No Comments

The military’s new stealth technology allows naval warships:

  • to be virtually invisible to the human eye,
  • to dodge roaming radars,
  • to hide from heat-seeking missiles,
  • to disguise their own sound vibrations,
  • and even to reduce the way they distort the Earth’s magnetic field.

The next generation of warships would truly invisible by exploiting metamaterials. Metamaterials are engineered to have specific electromagnetic properties that are not found in nature: they make an object appear invisible by bending light around it so the waves seem to pass through empty space.
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