Tag Archives: CIA

MISSILE AWAY by Peter Nolan Smith

March 31, 2013 – 4:13 pm

During his youth my older brother was a a good student. He was the top of his class, but he was also a pyromaniac. On several occasions Frunk came close to burning down our house in Maine. After our family moved to a suburb south of Boston in 1960, my brother exemplied our nation’s fascination [...]

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Drones Over DC

February 7, 2013 – 9:25 pm

It’s winter in the Hindu Kush. The high temperature in Kabul will hit 42 F around noon. Sunny skies will afford the US drone operators excellent down-ground vision over Taliban territoryty. They are also seeking targets throughout the world to exact a deadly toll on the enemies of America with a lethal tool. According to [...]

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NO REST FOR THE WICKED by Peter Nolan Smith

January 9, 2013 – 2:23 pm

Eight years after leaving the USA I left Thailand in May of 2008. My internet business had been wiped out by the shrinking dollar. Being broke in New York was not fun and at the month’s end I bussed up to Boston to celebrate my birthday. That night my brother-in-law, she, and I ate homemade [...]

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No Sleep In Space

January 9, 2013 – 11:02 am

NASA conducted the first fly-by of MArs in 1965. The Mariner 4 orbited the Red Planet sending back photos as well as measuring factors of Space for future missions. Communications with the satellite ceased on the winter solstice of 1967, however the US space agency continued to explore the distant planet with unmanned robots. At [...]

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A Little Secret

November 12, 2012 – 8:44 pm

Washington has expressed shock over the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus after his affair with a biographer and a former army officer came to light. At first I thought that the former general was ousted by a cabal of right-minded thinkers seeking to avenge his wrong-doings in Afghanistan and Iraq, however Petraeus’s meandering from [...]

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