A Battle Worth Fighting

Full-contact armored fighting events grew out of participation in historical re-enactments, which are largely theatrical and tame. More common re-enactment fighting involves wooden weapons in the United States. The Battle of the Nations, in its fourth year, is the first international full-contact competition of this scale that uses steel armor — a heightened risk factor that has attracted a certain breed of fighters. It has been won by Russia every year.
Ivan, one of the many participants, has an arsenal of armor and weapons costing around $4,000. A steel rounded shield; a five point wooden shield; a red, white and blue surcoat; a protective vest; a wraparound helmet, pockmarked with dents; steel pads to hide his forearms, knees, legs and hands; and a blunt-edged sword designed to inflict pain but not cut. 

North Korea Gets Hacked

On April 15, Hackers associated with Anonymous was able to hack into North Korea's network. Members of Anonymous manage to take down North Korea's information and Central news site such as: Uriminzokkiri, minjok, and jajusang. All their websites were then defaced and replaces with a photoshopped  image of Kim Jong Un as a pig. In earlier attacks, Members of Anonymous seize control of North Korea's Twitter and Flickr account; they then continued to post sayings of each website being taken down. Information released later saying that Anonymous was working with under cover spy's in North Korea in the assist of hacking into to there network. By the end of the day, Anonymous have stolen more than 15,000 passwords from one of there websites.

Parallel Universes?

Parallel universes are yet proven or confirmed  to actually exist. There are many theory's that suggest that multiverses could  exist meaning there could be another universe exactly like ours. One theory states that  there many other universes in which we make different choices in everyday life meaning each universe are not all alike but has it's little twist. An example would be like a student that is failing at math, this student in one universe would choose to study harder and ensure that he passes his course, but in another the student wouldn't even give a care in the world and proceeds to failing the course. This continues to go with every little choice the student makes and thus there is a another universe for each choice made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywn2Lz5zmYg

Forgiveness or not?

"A soldier obeys his commander's order to shoot an unarmed mother and child. Should this man deserve forgiveness or not? This man should not be forgiven for what he has done. He had options, either to obey and go against his morals or stand his ground  and go against the commander's direct orders. One would never shoot a women and her child. Even though you may suffer the superiors wrath, it would be better than having that kind of blood on your hands. In the Vietnam War, Many troops are scared by what they had to do in order to continue going. During the battles with the Vietcong, many of them were men's, but what the U.S. troops didn't realized  that woman also took part in the wars. Later, all troops were order to shoot anyone on site that carried a weapon. It lead to the  mass killing of troops from both sides including women and children. In this case these men can be forgiven for what they have done. It was pretty much kill or be killed.

Cyber War

A Reserve Bank in Australia was hacked today and was "repeatedly and successfully hacked and information stolen" They believe that one of the senior staff member of the bank is sending out an email titled "Strategic Planning FY2012" to the banks high ranked staff members. Some of the staff member who received the email has already opened it and has been subjected to compromising workstations. The email apparently contains a malware capable of staying hidden within the system which could takes a couple of months to find and eliminate. China has also been hacked by P.L.A. Unit 61398. It was one of the most aggressive cyber attacks in Shanghai.

Site:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/technology/australian-central-bank-hit-by-cyberattack.html?ref=technology&_r=0

To War Again?

“If your side ignites a war of aggression by staging the reckless joint military exercises Key Resolve and Foal Eagle again under the cover of ‘defensive and annual ones’ at this dangerous time, from that moment your fate will be hung by a thread with every hour”. This was said by North Korea's Military chief. I don't understand why North Korea would want to start a war over a "reckless joint military exercises", it's a waste of life. Knowing if North Korea started attacking the south would mean sending more U.S. soldiers over seas and increase in military spending's.
But what I see is that there are also blaming us if the war breaks out,“You had better bear in mind that those igniting a war are destined to meet a miserable destruction.”, pretty much they're the ones who would have actually started the war.

Russian Spy

Yesterday, Jeffrey Delisle, a former Canadian naval intelligence officer, is guilty of selling secret information to Russia since 2007. He was sent to 20 years in prison which I think that a Russian spy should deserve a lifetime in prison.

link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/world/americas/canada-spy-for-russia-sentenced.html?ref=americas&_r=0