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Shooty Fruity has announced a new £2 million fund. This will be used to co-fund and publish VR content from third-party developers which are now being actively sought. The initiative will be led by nDreams’ David Corless, VP of Publishing and Steve Tagger, Business Development Director. They’ll be looking for projects that embrace VR’s potential, providing immersive gameplay that can’t be found on any other medium. Studios selected for funding won’t just receive development cash, th...

The Fourth Dimension of Warfare: An Interview With an OSS Veteran John Singlaub served as a covert operative in Europe and the Pacific. Below is Bob Bergins interview with Singlaub, first published in 2008. Heres What You Need to Know: Major General John K. Singlaub was a young airborne lieutenant when he took up an offer from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to become engaged in “hazardous duty behind enemy lines.” He was a participant in Operation Jedburgh and parachuted into occ...

Britain’s Special Operations Executive conducted abortive covert operations in Albania during 1943-1944. Heres What You Need to Know: Needing Albania as a major source of chromium, the Germans rushed in two divisions after Italys surrender. When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to organize guerrilla resistance against the Nazis, he famously ordered it to set Europe on fire. But those officers heading into the wildest, most remote, part o...

Personally, mr. president mr. president "interesting choice of words, remember chuck schumers warning before the president was sworn into office. they will find a way to get back at you. if joining now, mike baker, covert ops officer. why would a cia director defends someone whose political biases have been well documented, what message does that send? >> this a couple of things here. i dont think director gina haspel needs any self-righteous lectures from former cia officers, no matter how seni...

The president was sworn into office. they will find a way to get back at you. if joining now, mike baker, covert ops officer. why would a cia director defends someone whose political biases have been well documented, what message does that send? >> this a couple of things here. i dont think director gina haspel needs any self-righteous lectures from former cia officers, no matter how senior they might be. she doesnt need them trying to explain to her how to set her compass or to do the right thi...

Some publication. >> melissa: i think your answer this question. so we dont know for the transcripts like this report on the same system. i thought there was some reporting before that this procedure was in response to the various leaks that had gone on before. >> heres what i was told yesterday. after the leaks of the transcripts and information, the calls with malcolm turnbull, the white house did take steps to button up access to these transcripts. as to whether or not this transcript was put...

For taking the time. as we mentioned at the top, last nights statement from the 12, then the 13 and now the 15 intelligence chiefs and deputies was followed late today by a statement from 60 other former intelligence professionals. i just want to highlight a few of those names and their accomplishments so you can get a better sense of the caliber and the sacrifice and the service of these men and women. lets start with greg vogel, is the former cia deputy director for operations. he was in charg...

Clappers case that clappers interference won the election to trump." senior intelligence officers know we speculate at our own peril.tr joining us now with reaction is lee smith, the real clear investigation reporter who wrote that piece. were joined by former cia covert ops operator baker and "wall street "wall street [ indiscernible ] >> it seems a lot of conservative have seen what happened to john brennan and a lesser extent to james clapper. what else did you find in your reporting? >> ther...

Ii, i would never if i were president, never appoint a person who had been in the bowels of the cia in covert operations, getting people to betray their countries for money essentially then running those people, having those people killed and then hiring new people. thats what they do. with he need them, but they stay in the bowels of the cia, no the as the director of the cia. i would never appoint a person who had been in covert ops for 33 years as the director of that organization. >> i mean,...

And pompeo? the upgrades are the story and not so much the chaos. >> im very excited about mike pompeo. but what about the rest of the story? >> mom pay pompeo is one guy. he is largely unstaffed at the senior levels. we are heading into a potential foreign policy crisis with north korea or some kind of gigantic negotiation, which is a different form, in my view, of the foreign policy crisis. if it all falls apart to be in a position to impose sanctions or run covert ops, that is very unnerving ...