Military set to lead on US domestic cyber-security
• TheRegister.co.uk/Philip Reitinger, DHS bigwig, seemed to imply that the military would lead on cybersecurity even in the domestic sphere.
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Military Industrial Complex
There’s a Secret Patriot Act, Senator Says
• Wired.com/“We’re getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says. When you’ve got that kind of a gap, you’re going to have a problem on your hands.”
Will You Be Able To Hide From SEEK (Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit)
• strategypage.comCalled SEEK (Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit), this is a portable electronic toolkit that collects biometrics from people. This includes fingerprints, eye (iris) scan and photos of suspects, which are stored electronically. All this is stored...
Northrop Grumman Wins Biometrics Order For Timely Identification of Individual Suspects
• govconwire.comNorthrop Grumman has been awarded a follow-on task order worth up to $141 million for continued work of the U.S. Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System, which provides military personnel with reliable and timely ID...
Obama's Own Assassination Crew: Joint Special Operations Command
• InformationClearingHouse.infoKnown as "JSOC" -- Joint Special Operations Command. They report directly to the president and, as National Journal reporter Marc Ambinder put it "operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential direction.
'Minority Report' Long Range 3D Facial Recognition Systems Are Coming
• BlackListedNews.comWill facial recognition devices be used to keep track of everyone that goes to a baseball game, the supermarket, or a political rally? The DSC website doesn’t offer any information about what their cameras can do.
DHS Seeking as Many as 5,200,000 Bullets a Year for use Throughout U.S., Including Guam
• ADAM BROWNDHS is looking for suppliers of more than 5.2 million 9 mm and .38 Special rounds a year for Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands and locations throughout the continental United States, according to a solicitation notice.
Pentagon weapons buyer quietly visits California to discuss bomber planes
• W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles TimesThere is $197 million set aside for developing the bomber in the 2012 fiscal budget, and $3.7 billion is allocated for the program over the next five years, said Maj. Chad Steffey, an Air Force spokesman. The program's prospects in Congress also l
Paul Craig Roberts: How Many SEALs Died?
• InformationClearingHouse.infoMohammad Bashir, describes the event as it unfolded. Of the three helicopters, "there was only one that landed the men and came back to pick them up, but as he [the helicopter] was picking them up, it blew away and caught fire."
Smile! Air Force Wants to Track You Forever With a Single Camera Click
• Wired.com/If an Air Force plan works out as planned, all you’ll need to track your prey is a single camera, snapping a few seconds of footage from far, far away.
Congressional Leadership Seeks Four-Year Patriot Act Extension
• AntiWar.comCongressional leadership from both houses and both parties today reached a deal on a long-term extension of the PATRIOT Act, exactly as worded and without any of the inconvenient civil rights provisions that the Obama Administration...
‘No Evidence’ But Keeps Accusing Pakistani Govt of Hiding bin Laden
• AntiWar.comRobert Gates reiterated the accusation that elements within the Pakistani government knew about the location of Osama bin Laden and were keeping that information from the United States. Bin Laden was killed in a US raid earlier this month.
Is The FBI Using Afghanistan As A Biometrics Proving Ground?
• thecypresstimes.comFormally established in late 2009 to collect the fingerprints, iris scans, and facial images of Afghan national security forces, the program’s initial goal... But information sharing—with partners like the FBI—is also a key component of the program.
Congress To Vote On Declaration of Worldwide Perpetual War
• Rense.comPeople this is not just another political fantasy by a mindless-moron acting out some fantasy of his real-owners: This would declare the entire world to be enemies of the US, and thus liable to be attacked whenever one of our paranoid psycho's...
As U.S. Military Exits Iraq, Contractors To Enter
• Tom Bowmanl. NPROn the ground, it's the same story. American soldiers and Marines will leave. Those replacing them, right down to carrying assault weapons, will come from places with names like Aegis Defence Services and Global Strategies Group — eight companies in
The Military-Industrial Complex for VAT
• EconomicPolicyJournal.comBottom line, watch what is going on here, the debate over the deficit is slowly being moved from a debate about reducing spending to a debate over increasing government revenues.
Army embeds PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations
• BlackListedNews.comI hope you realize these are only two examples of embedding military personnel into American newsrooms.
Justin Raimondo: Empire or Solvency?
• AntiWar.com9/11 radically distorted our foreign policy, and handed it over to a cabal of neoconservative ideologues whose policies, however much they damaged America, are being faithfully carried out today under a Democratic administration.
All Hail Caligula: Some Ruminations on Children of Empire
• InformationClearingHouse.infoFor any of you familiar with Roman history we are now firmly in Caligula territory, 'taking out' whomever we please, age, sex, location or 'guilt', immaterial. Faithfully played to us citizens of Empire to the sounds of cheers and flags...
Gonzalo Lira: Sorry, But I Don’t Believe This
• Gonzalolira.blogspot.com/The whole story smells: Where he was supposedly located; how he was shot twice in the head, rather than captured; how he was buried at sea; how there’s (so far) no picture of his corpse.
Chris Hedges: Osama bin Laden’s Death and The Dark Elixir of American Nationalism
• TruthDig.comAnd empire finally, as Thucydides understood, is a disease. As Thucydides wrote, the tyranny that the Athenian empire imposed on others it finally imposed on itself. The disease of empire, according to Thucydides, would finally kill...
Taliban Vow Revenge
• ZeroHedge.comAnd now, it is time for "happy nation" to be reintroduced to "police nation."
US Intervention In Syria: CNN and Fox Are Leading the Charge
• Rense.comIn other words, "constructive chaos" would be used to redraw the region according to US-Israeli "geo-strategic needs and objectives." The strategy is currently playing out violently in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, and may erupt...
Karen Kwiatkowski: A Crack Team in Washington
• LewRockwell.comFor the moment, there is no hope for a rational and rapid contraction of the metastasizing U.S. empire. There is no hope for a serious reduction in debt accumulation, pointless and costly military spending, or any kind of fiscal sanity...
Libya: It’s Not About Oil, It’s About Currency and Loans
• InformationClearingHouse.infoWhat happens when a “rogue” country threatens to bring the banking system that benefits the corporatocracy to its knees? What happens to an “empire” when it can no longer effectively be overtly imperialistic?
Is the US Military America's biggest security threat?
• Rob Kall, OpEd NewsThe USA's military is supposed to make the US more secure. But it has become, for many reasons and in many ways, the biggest threat to American security, the American way of life and even America's future, , , The US Military is a huge cancer on our
The Drone-ification of America
• John W. WhiteheadPolice agencies around the USA soon could have a new tool in their crime-fighting arsenal: unmanned aircraft inspired by the success of such drones on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. Local governments have been pressing the Federal Aviation
US can’t afford to master the globe
• Eric Margolis (America Angle)In 2010, US military spending exceeded by 50 per cent the average spent in the Cold War years when America had a serious rival in the Soviet Union. Since 2000, US military spending has grown by 67 per cent (all figures adjusted for inflation). Yet t
A Professional Military and the Privatization of Warfare
• Jeff ShearSo quickly have logistics and security companies swept onto the battlefield that the government and the armed services have lost control over them. -- There are more contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than there are uniformed soldiers. -- In Iraq an
The war complex
• Tom Turnipseed, The NewsObama won the presidency campaigning as a peacemaker but approved $40 billion for arms sales to other countries in his first year in the White House compared to the $34.5 billion President G W Bush approved in his last year in office according to the
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