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  • Student Inquiry Riles University [semi-satire]

    04/07/2025 11:47:45 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 2 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 6 April 2025 | John Semmens
    Inspired by the exploits of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), 20-year-old sophomore Alex Shieh sent emails to all 3,805 administrators at Brown University asking them to "describe what tasks you performed in the past week." Shieh said "I expected some level of engagement, but only 20 people got back to me, one of whom only replied with a 'bleep you,' and another of whom suggested I 'stick a cactus up my ass.' Remember, these responses weren't from smart aleck college teenagers. These were from 'Dean of this' 'Vice-president of that' at a highly touted ivy league school that charges...
  • Canada Doesn’t Rule Out Sending Troops to Ukraine — Trudeau

    03/02/2025 7:22:52 PM PST · by marshmallow · 83 replies
    TASS ^ | 3/2/25
    Prime Minister told reporters in London following a meeting of Western leaders devoted to the Ukrainian conflictOTTAWA, March 2. /TASS/. Canada is considering all options to ensure Ukraine's security, including sending military personnel to the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters in London following a meeting of Western leaders devoted to the Ukrainian conflict. "Everything’s on the table," he said in televised remarks, when asked if Canada could offer troops for a mission in Ukraine.
  • Execution of ‘nuclear Ukraine’ project was mere months away, source says

    03/06/2022 7:21:58 AM PST · by Navy Patriot · 147 replies
    Tass ^ | March 6, 2022
    Sub Headline: According to its data, by implementing programs in both nuclear and rocket spheres over more than two decades, Ukraine was consistently nearing all the necessary conditions to create its own nuclear weaponsUkraine could have obtained nuclear weapons within several months, a source in one of Russian agencies told TASS."According to conclusions by Western experts, the Kiev regime was extremely close to creating a nuclear explosive device based on plutonium due to its covert obtainment from spent nuclear fuel stored in the country’s territory. Ukrainian specialists could have made such a device within several months," the source said.
  • Halliburton gets $72 mll bonus for work in Iraq - (it's about time for some good news for H'burton)

    05/11/2005 5:49:06 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 8 replies · 416+ views
    YAHOO.COM ^ | MAY 10, 2005 | SUE PLEMMING
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army said on Tuesday it had awarded $72 million in bonuses to Halliburton Co. for logistics work in Iraq but had not decided whether to give the Texas company bonuses for disputed dining services to troops. Army Field Support Command in Rock Island, Illinois, said in a statement it had given Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown & Root ratings from "excellent" to "very good" for six task orders for work supporting U.S. troops in Iraq. The Army said its Award Fee Board in Iraq had met in March and had agreed to pay KBR bonuses for...