WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of weapons valued at up to $6 billion, including 400 Stryker wheeled vehicles, military radios, training aircraft, 20 coastal patrol boats and 140 M1A1 Abrams tanks.
The US Army and Navy have both hired experts in the ethics of building machines to prevent the creation of an amoral Terminator-style killing machine that murders indiscriminately. By 2010 the US will have invested $4 billion in a research programme into "autonomous systems", the military jargon for robots, on the basis that they would not succumb to fear or the desire for vengeance that
I’ve been giving Obama a hard time on his administration picks being Clintonites, lobbyists, and everything but the change his mantra promised. I’m not gonna do that on this one.
Note that there are more retired generals working for private mercenaries'contractors than in the Pentagon.The definition for such a situation is Feudal Fascism...Private Military Contractors Writing theNews? The Pentagon's Propaganda at Its WorstAlterNet | Months after the Pentagon pundits flap, the Department of Defensecontinues to hand down contracts for propaganda in Iraq and beyond. Jim Ma
Israel has asked to buy up to 75 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters in a deal worth as much as $15.2 billion if all options are exercised, the Pentagon said Sept. 30.The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the sale initially would be for 25 fighters designed for conventional take off and landing.But Israel would have the option of buying another 50 of the aircraft, either designed for conventional ta
I can tell you these chopsticks are the best chopsticks in my store. I prefer the new pentagon shaped chopsticks and here are some reasons why:The pentagon shape is a modern, non-traditional shape in chopsticks. Most Japanese chopsticks have a square or round shape. Why a pentagon shape? Because in Japanese “Gokaku” translates to pentagon and ”success on an examination”. This item has beco
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed a $630 billion-plus spending bill Wednesday that wraps together a record Pentagon budget with aid for automakers and natural disaster victims, and increased health care for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.The year-end budget measure also would lift a quarter-century ban on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The legislation, which sena
One-Half Mile to Beltway & One Block to Express Bus to Pentagon METRO...Elegant one-level living in Gorgeous subdivision w/ Million $ homes, on one plus acre lots; Completely Remodeled Kitchen w/ Sile
By David Morgan 17 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Monday that Russia has not met its obligations to withdraw troops from Georgia under a French-brokered ceasefire agreement.
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Paul Joseph Watson, prisonplanet.com
August 8, 2008
IntelCenter and SITE Intelligence Group, two “terrorism monitoring firms” who routinely obtain so-called Al-Qaeda tapes that usually turn out to be completely fraudulent, yesterday released a video purported to feature members of a Chinese Muslim terror group threatening to attack the Olympics.
“The threat, attributed to the Turkistan Islam
By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Wednesday studied intelligence on Iran's latest missile test to figure out exactly what was launched and what it shows about Tehran's missile capabilities.
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The White House called on Iran to refrain from any more tests. And Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert
A report issued late Friday by the Pentagon under Congressional mandate and comments by Defense Secretary Gates indicate the fragility of the security situation in Afghanistan. The "Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan" is the first formal report ever issued by DoD on the status of the security situation there. "The Taliban regrouped after its fall from power and have co
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said that it would discourage Afghanistan from undertaking any missions in Pakistani territory and urged resolution of the issues through a tripartite mechanism. A Pentagon spokesman said the United States opposed military operation on Pakistani territory.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks pursued abusive interrogation techniques once used by North Korea and Vietnam on American POWs despite stern warnings by several military lawyers that the methods were cruel and even illegal, according to a Senate investigation….
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Filed by John Byrne The man who leaked secret documents about the US war in Vietnam has a name for the invasion of Iraq. "Supreme war crime." He also has appellations for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: "domestic enemies of the Constitution" and "war criminals." Speaking at a church in San Francisco Saturday, Daniel Ellsberg bemoaned the Administration's war and
The Secretary of the Defense of U.S.A., Robert Gates, fired two high commanders from the Air Force in this thursday after errors committed in its more delicate mission --to guarantee the security of the nuclear weapons of U.S.A. Gates said that two incidents --the sending of detonators of nuclear missiles the Taiwan and the flight on the country carried through for a equivocadamente armed bom
Green Party Presidential candidate Jesse Johnson says the US needs an auditable accounting system at the Pentagon, following a report showing $1.6 trillion has been overspent on nuclear weapons. Jesse says this money could have gone to pay off 15%...
"'What are you, some kind of a nut?' Mr. Rumsfeld cut in, drawing laughter. 'You don’t believe in the Constitution?'" (NY Times) I don’t know if it is just me, but government officials joking about breaking the Constitution doesn’t give me a great amount of confidence in our country. Last month, the New York Times released an expose on the connection between the Pentagon and senior military
The recent revelaltions by former Bush press secretary, Scott McClellan, about efforts to sell the Iraq invasion by Republicans, has once again raised questions concerning the role of the military in how it presents itself to the American public. Is it conveying information or is it part of a propaganda machine trying to sell administration [...]
A full-fledged cottage industry is already focused on those who eagerly await the end of the George W Bush administration, offering calendars, magnets and t-shirts for sale as well as counters and graphics to download onto blogs and websites. But when the countdown ends and Bush vacates the Oval Office, he will leave a legacy to contend with. Certainly, he wills to his successor a world
Last Thursday, I was honored to chair one of four panels at a special seminar, "Dealing with Today's Asymmetric Threat," co-sponsored by the National Defense University and CACI International , with assistance from the Counterterrorism Foundation. The purpose of the seminar was to establish a framework for the development of an integrated and synchronized strategy, by the end of the calendar year,
In a new blow to the Bush administration's troubled military commission system, a military judge has disqualified a Pentagon general who has been centrally involved in overseeing Guantánamo war crimes tribunals from any role in the first case headed for trial. The judge said the general was too closely aligned with the prosecution, raising questions about whether he could carry out his
Illuminated 9/11 Memorial FlagA memorial flag is illuminated, Sept. 11, 2007, near the spot where American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon six years ago. Defense Secretary Robert Gates hosted a Pentagon Sept. 11 Memorial observance. Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Brandan W. Schulze, September 11, 2007Images on the Army Web site are cleared for release and are considered in the public domain. Request credit be given as "Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army" and credit to individual photographer whenever possible.Tags: Public Domain Clip Art and clip art or public domain and The Pentagon or Memorial Day
From: Helen Vlachos Doesn't Love You Anymore: Conversations With A Greek In Exile ...On a table in the living room is a short-wave receiver tuned to the Voice of America. "I always listen to their news broadcasts," Mrs. Vlachos explains. "When the Voice of America refers to 'the Greek junta' instead of to 'the government of Greece,' I'll know that American policy has changed, that I will soon be able to return home." Post-Scarcity Totalitarianism The image of contemporary Greece that Mrs. Vlachos conveys is a powerful and tragic one. It is a country, she says, whose democratic institutions are stifled by a brutal elite of cynical opportunists. The list of their abuses is long. The power of the colonels, she asserts, is upheld by secret police, political arrests, widespread surve
By Greg Mitchell
Published: April 20, 2008 1:25 PM ET
Source: Editor and Publisher
NEW YORK The New York Times today published a massive piece by David Barstow on how the Pentagon for years has secretly deployed a large crew of retired military officers to flood the airwaves – network and cable – to offer [...]
A 'must read' from Babblemur. " ... For twenty years this nation has been at war in Indochina. Tens of thousands of Americans have been killed, half a million have been wounded, a million Asians have died, and millions more have been maimed or have become refugees in their own land. Meanwhile, the greatest representative democracy the world has even seen, the nation of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, has had its nose rubbed in the swamp by petty war lords, jealous generals, black marketeers, and grand-scale dope pushers. And the war still goes on. People are still dying, arms and legs are being severed, metal is crashing through human bodies, as a direct result of policy deecisions conceived in secret and still kept from the American people. H. G. Wells, the English no
Christina Aguilera's post-pregnancy mamma-jamma's of power (above from February) are rapidly shrinking, according to The Sun:
Like countless other celebs mums, the Dirrty star has been quick to shed the pounds after giving birth. Apparently, she has been doing a spot of boxing as well as lifting weights in a bid to get into shape for her chart comeback.
Christina has also taken up swimming but not the healthy aerobic kind. It's more like the "totally gross I can't believe I'm out to repeat it" kind:
Her neighbours have reportedly got a little upset with Xtina and hubby, JORDAN BRATMAN, going skinny dipping at their $6 million Beverly Hills mansion because they're TOO noisy.
One told a US magazine: "They don’t just splash around – they laugh, scream, swear and make sexy noises."
Waterboarding may be a thing of the past once the Pentagon introduces its new hand-held lie detection device. The device will end up in the hands of troops in Afghanistan who are actively engaging...
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(Op-ed) Nick Turse - Tomdispatch.com
Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects.
It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition.
Right now, researchers are already growing insects with electronics inside them. They’re creating cyborg moths and flying beetles [...]
From Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's Battle Bugs : We at Tomdispatch love anniversaries. So how could we have forgotten DARPA's for so many months? This very year, the Pentagon's research outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), turns 50 years old. Happy birthday, DARPA! You were born as a response to the Soviet Union's launching of the first earth-girdling satellite, Sputnik, which gave Americans a mighty shock. To prevent another "technological surprise" by the Soviets -- or anybody else, anytime, ever -- the agency has grown into the Pentagon's good right arm, always there to reach into the future and grab another wild idea for weaponization. Each year, DARPA now spends about $3 billion on a two-fold mission: "to prevent technological surprise
The Pentagon is expected to shutter a controversial intelligence office that has drawn fire from lawmakers and civil liberties groups who charge that it was part of an effort by the Defense Department to expand into domestic spying. The move, government officials say, is part of a broad effort under Defense Secretary Robert Gates to review, overhaul and, in some cases, dismantle an intelligence architecture built by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. The intelligence unit, called the Counterintelligence Field Activity office, was created by Rumsfeld after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as part of an effort to counter the operations of foreign intelligence services and terror groups inside the United States and abroad. ~ read on... ~
Image from Wikipedia Pentagon Releases 2003 'Torture Memo'Pentagon Releases 2003 'Torture Memo' Justifying Harsh Interrogation TacticsExcerpt:"The Pentagon has released a declassified 2003 Justice Department memo that claimed the president's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture, and concluded that the Fifth and Eighth amendments do not apply to foreign prisoners held outside the country."Related articlesLawyer: Gitmo Trials Pegged To '08 Campaign [via Zemanta]Incompetence Alert: Pentagon gives inexperienced 22 year-old $300 million contract [via Zemanta]Pentagon Accidentally Sends Missiles To Taiwan, Declares War To Get Them Back [Smooth Move] [via Zemanta]
Image from Wikipedia Pentagon Releases 2003 'Torture Memo'Pentagon Releases 2003 'Torture Memo' Justifying Harsh Interrogation TacticsExcerpt:"The Pentagon has released a declassified 2003 Justice Department memo that claimed the president's wartime authority trumps any international ban on torture, and concluded that the Fifth and Eighth amendments do not apply to foreign prisoners held outside the country."Related articlesLawyer: Gitmo Trials Pegged To '08 Campaign [via Zemanta]Incompetence Alert: Pentagon gives inexperienced 22 year-old $300 million contract [via Zemanta]Pentagon Accidentally Sends Missiles To Taiwan, Declares War To Get Them Back [Smooth Move] [via Zemanta]
The Defense Department has announced a new get tough policy with colleges that refuse to turn over the names of students since that information is of vital importance to milltary recruiters. The Pentagon wants the exact same access tos tudent directories that is provided all other prospective employers. Students can opt out of having this [...]
If you're wondering where some of your hard-earned tax dollars are going, look at Efraim E. Diveroli above, who is the president of AEY Inc., which was rewarded a $300 million defense contract by our government.In return, AEY provided decades old, substandard munitions to US and Afghan troops fighting the war on terror. Think about that while you're struggling to pay the rent for April.If you're wondering where I got that picture from, it is taken from Diveroli's MySpace page, which has this on his profile:About me:Well of course im a super nice guy!!! , i know what i want out of life but not exactly quite sure how to get it yet. I was born and bred in miami beach and have no immediate plans to leave but i have thought about it. Im a pretty easy going guy and many say i have a good sense o
Raw vid - 29 min press briefing... good summary at the beginning.
Pentagon Briefing
The Pentagon announced Tuesday it mistakenly shipped part of the triggering mechanism for four nuclear warheads to Taiwan a year and a half ago, and only realized the mistake last week and recovered the material in recent days. But officials say the missile nosecones contained only electrical components and had
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced Tuesday that the United States mistakenly shipped to Taiwan four electrical fuses designed for use on intercontinental ballistic missiles, but has since recovered them.
The error is particularly disturbing, officials said, because of its indirect link to nuclear weaponry and because of the sensitivity of U.S. [...]
The Pentagon has decided to push the limits of engineering, by looking for “information on technology areas for the creation of micro- and nano-scale display technologies for the
The March 13th Wall Street Journal front-page article by Yochi J. Dreazen entitled “Wounded Soldiers See the Pentagon in Private Parade” describes the Wounded Warrior March, which takes place at the Pentagon about every six weeks and is a little-known event. The article describes the Pentagon visit of 22-year-old Marine Corporal Kenny Lyon, who lost his leg in a mortar attack on a small U.S. outpost near Fallujah in Iraq. Though he had hoped to walk on his prosthetic leg for the Pentagon march, he had to be pushed in a wheelchair by his mother, Gigi Windsor. According to The Wall Street Journal article, hundreds of Defense Department employees lined the corridor to cheer for Cpl. Lyon and the other military personnel wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. I especially connected to
The Bush Administration canned another report Bush didn't like:The Pentagon this week canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the al Qaida terrorist network. Suppressing information it doesn't like is a hallmark of the Bush family. read more | digg story
I had no doubt that it wouldn’t be long before the Pentagon study showing that there was no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda would be available on line, despite the attempts of the Bush administration to prevent this. ABC News has obtained a copy and has posted it on line here (pdf file).
Pentagon Cites Tapes Showing Interrogations
By MARK MAZZETTI and SCOTT SHANE
Published: March 13, 2008
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is conducting an extensive review of the videotaping of interrogations at military facilities from Iraq to Guantánamo Bay, and so far it has identified nearly 50 tapes, including one that showed what a military spokesman described [...]
Yesterday a Pentagon study showed that there was no connection between al Qaeda and Saddam. This contradicted claims made by the Bush administration to invade Iraq. It appears that the Bush administration wants to keep this evidence that they were wrong, and probably lying, from being disseminated. ABC News reports:
The Bush Administration apparently does not [...]
Supporters of the Iraq war have justified the war because of disputed claims such as that we were threatened by WMD from Iraq or that there was a connection between Saddam and al Qaeda. Of course such claims are not limited to the right. Even Hillary Clinton has used the 9/11 attack to rationalize her [...]
~Snooper~The key word is "operational" but the report goes further to emphasize "direct operational" ties. Now, the Pentagon hasn't released the report yet the Houston Chronicle has begun the usual Leftinistra Damage control spin:Study: Iraq had no link to al-QaidaAnd there ya have it. Simply amazing. Must have been one of those mysterious and undisclosed secret leakers that cannot be identified for fear of being exposed as a damn liar moments.We all know the drill. It was all spelled out in the 911 Commission Report and the ISG Reports. Also, Ray Robison of the ISG has spelled it all out for us...with Pentagon approval...in his book Both In One Trench. I am just about finished with my third time through the book.The sub-title to the Houston Chronicle is equally inane: Pentagon finds
Geçen hafta ABD’li yetkililerin sistemlerinde çok ciddi hasarlara yol açan saldırılarla karşılaştıklarını açıklaması gözleri yine hacker’lara çevirdi. CNN’in konuştuğu ABD’nin belalısı Çinli hackerlar ise Pentagon’un bilgisayarlarına girdiklerini iddia ediyor. Hacker’lar üs olarak bir Çin adasındaki boş daireyi kullanıyorlar.İşleri aralarında Pentagon’un da olduğu dünyanın en hassas sitelerini hack’lemek.Zaman zaman Çin Hükümeti için para karşılığı iş yaptıklarını söyleseler de Pekin bu iddiayı yalanlıyor. “Hiçbir internet sitesi yüzde yüz güvenli değildir” diyen grubun lideri Xiao Chen çok iddialı: “Çok güvenli olduğunu iddia eden siteler var ancak her zaman bir arka bulunur…” ‘Xiao Chen’ internette
The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases. Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said. The move follows the discovery of images of the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas on Google Maps. A Google spokesman said that where the US military had expressed concerns, images had been removed. Google has now been barred from filming and conducting detailed studies of bases, following the discovery of detailed, three-dimensional panoramas online - and in particular, views of the Texan base. "Images include 360-degree views of the covered area to include access control points, barriers, headquarters, facilities and community areas
Google Maps has removed Pentagon images of US military bases from its online Internet service.
Google Pulls Pentagon Images From Online Internet Map Service
Google has removed Pentagon images of US military bases from its online Internet Map service.
The Pentagon says the online images posted on Google's online street level map service poses a security threat to US military bases.
"We have
A Google team entered the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas and mapped everything, but the Mountain View-based company spokesman, Larry Yu, said that it was only a mistake. Naturally, the army had to take measures towards this possible security threat in the future, so itbanned Google map-makers from filming and conducting detailed studies of bases. I say naturally because the three-dimensional panoramas of the Texan base have found their way on the Internet, and are available for any terrorist with a plan of action, for further documentation."Images include 360-degree views of the covered area to include access control points, barriers, headquarters, facilities and community areas," the AFP news agency quoted a defense department statement. In response, Yu said on behalf of Google that
A Google team entered the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas and mapped everything, but the Mountain View-based company spokesman, Larry Yu, said that it was only a mistake. Naturally, the army had to take measures towards this possible security threat in the future, so it banned Google map-makers from filming and conducting detailed studies of bases. I say naturally because the
A Google team entered the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas and mapped everything, but the Mountain View-based company spokesman, Larry Yu, said that it was only a mistake. Naturally, the army had to take measures towards this possible security threat in the future, so it banned Google map-makers from filming and conducting detailed studies of bases. I say naturally because the
On June 22, 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged that the Pentagon's network had been successfully attacked the previous Wednesday, and that this attack was...
Google finds itself in a row with the pentagon over “street view” where “by accident” Google street view went around fort Sam Huston taking street level pictures. This is not the first time that street view has been in trouble, but this is the first time that the pentagon has gotten involved. Like they need [...]
The US defence department has banned the giant internet search engine Google from filming inside and making detailed studies of US military bases.A message sent to all Defense Department bases and installations around the country late last week told officials to not allow the popular mapping website from taking panoramic views inside the facilities.Close-up, ground-level imagery of US military sites posed a "potential threat" to security, it said.The move follows the discovery of images of the Fort Sam Houston army base in Texas on Google Maps."Images include 360-degree views of the covered area to include access control points, barriers, headquarters, facilities and community areas," said the defence department in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.It said such detailed mapping could p
The truth finally comes out
A network intrusion at the Pentagon nine months ago resulted in the theft of an “amazing amount of data” that continues to pose a threat to national security, the CIO of the Defense Department said earlier this week.…
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Pentagon officials call it a major breakthrough which could change the rules of war and save huge numbers of lives in Iraq. But it's still not there. That because in the middle of a war, the military just can't bring itself to trust a weapon that doesn't kill. It's a long vid w/ a commercial in the beginning but it's pretty cool.
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While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy. The annual meeting's corridors can be a sounding board for unlikely ''solutions'' to climate change - from filling the skies with soot to block the sun, to cultivating oceans of seaweed to absorb the atmosphere's heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Unlike other ideas, however, one this year had an influential backer, the Pentagon, which is investigating whether space-based solar power - beaming energy down from satellites - will provide ''affordable, clean, safe, reliable, sustainable and expandable energy for mankind.'' Tommy Remengesau Jr. is interested, too. ''We'd like to look at it,'' said the president of the tiny western Pacific nation of Palau. The Defense Department this October quietly issued a 75-page study conducted for its National Security Space
Well if you're a bit of a clubber then watch your back, the Pentagon is reportedly working on a non-lethal weapon that utilizes light and sound to sicken and disorient targets.
Is this just a sign that the president does not like the nation's clubbers or is this another ploy in the war on terror?
In my opinion, how stupid are the weapons getting now?
To find out more on the latest weapon system from the Pentagon click here
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The USA Today has an article that seems to have slipped under the radar this holiday weekend. While everyone is out gorging on turkey and draining their bank accounts on Black Friday, it turns out a little investigation by the USA Today revealed the Pentagon grossly understated how many U.S. Soldiers have been injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.The Pentagon claims 30,327 soldiers have been injured fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, of which 4,471 have suffered some form of brain trauma. The USA Today's investigation, which included results from a medical conference and Freedom of Information Act requests from military bases and VA hospitals, showed at least 20,000 soldiers suffered brain injuries. Those 20,000+ are also not included in the 30,327 total soldiers the Pentagon claims have been injured.But 20,000 may only be the tip of the iceberg. Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., founder of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, says more than 150,000 soldiers have suffered head injuries in c
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The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself.
Designed by architect George Bergstrom (1876 - 1955) and built
On October 24, I posted three suggestions for federal financial regulators in the U.S. to consider to improve anti-terrorist financing efforts . Two separate terrorist financing issues worth considering include (1) a recent report which raises questions whether Canada's financial intelligence units are reliable partners in anti-terrorist financing efforts or "a big black hole," and (2) the degree of integration of "threat finance" into the Defense Department intelligence and military operations....(read more)
The former lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay has alleged that “politically motivated officials at the Pentagon have pushed for convictions of high-profile detainees ahead of the 2008 elections." Unfortunately this isn’t the first time the Bush administration has manipulated terrorism prosecutions to score political points.read more | digg story
The drums of war are beating a little louder in the Middle East today after the Pentagon released intelligence they gathered from a recent raid on insurgents in Baghdad that allegedly contained airtight proof that Oil Ocean Zone has been providing financing, training, and weapons for insurgent groups for at least the past year.
The announcement couldnt have come at a worse time. Relations between the United States and oil ocean zone were already at a historical low. A recent visit by Oil Ocean Zone president Dr. Ivo Robotnik merely fanned the flames of public opinion against the small Middle Eastern zone, with the dictator making remarks such as There are no non-robotic living animals in Oil Ocean Zone, and the president of Columbia University calling Robotnik a two-bit mad scientist with designs on taking over the world with his robotic minions.
The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force. DF-ST-87-06962_screen.jpgHigh Resolution ImageInformation presented on DefenseLINK is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.Headquarters of the Department of Defense, the Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings. It is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York. The National Capitol could fit into any one of the five wedge-shaped sections. There are very few people throughout the United States who do not have some knowledge of the Pentagon. Many have followed news stories emanating from the defense establishment housed in this building. However, relatively few people have had the opportunity to visit with us.The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23
This is thanks to a random email sent to me. A highly interesting read from a highly experienced man.Please read Dr. Robert Bowman's Letter to the Pentagon Sept. 13, 2007 in full (below) "..I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal."Dr., Lt. Col. Bob Bowman www.thepatriots.us View / Download PDF Download Zip File Here Dr. Bob Bowman , Lt. Col., USAF, ret. is President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, Executive Vice President of Millennium III Corporation, and retired Presiding Archbishop of the United Catholic Church. The recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Pri
Pentagon system has been hacked by some hackers, according to Robert Gates, defence secretary Pentagon. Unknown official from the US Defence have told the Financial Times an internal investigation has revealed that the incursion came from the People’s Liberation Army.One senior US official said the Pentagon had pinpointed the exact origins of the attack. Another person familiar with the event said there was a “very high level of confidence...trending towards total certainty” that the PLA was responsible. The defence ministry in Beijing declined to comment on Monday. (read more ).View blog authority
THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.Click here for complete article.
The Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days.read more | digg story
I read an article from bloomberg.com that the Pentagon has paid a small South Carolina part supplier $20.5 million dollars in freight cost over the last 6 years and it was overlooked because they have an auto-payment system that pays suppliers as long as the orders are deemed high priority.
My first reaction was stated in the second half of the title “Why doesn’t the Pentagon use FedEx and ask the suppliers to use their account for shipping“?
As I thought about this more, all of these automatic bill pay that I’m enrolled in is basically the same thing as Pentagon’s auto-payment system. Right now, I’m basically automatically paying off my credit card bills, and to be honest, I don’t look at every line of every statement ever since everything became electronic and automatic. Could someone overcharge me for something? Of course they can. Will it get through without me noticing it at this point? Possibly.
I’m sure a $20.5 million pack of bubble gum will not go
Part 1Part 2See Original StoryThe Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press."Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote.He added that "such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks."Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines called the response "at once outrageous and d
According to BBC News, a hacker has managed to penetrate one of the e-mail systems in the Pentagon. Because of that, up to 1,500 accounts were taken off-line as a precaution. US Secretary of defense Robert Gates, speaking at a news briefing, said that the penetrated system was an unclassified one that does not contain information related to military operations. Gates says that the Defense Department gets “perhaps hundreds of attacks a day.” You can read more here: Cyber attack on Pentagon e-mail (BBC News) Hacker breaks into Pentagon email system (The Register) Pentagon e-mail taken down by hackers (Ars Technica) Apparently, in various reports, when pressed further about whether his own e-mail was disrupted by the security breach, Gates explained that he is a “low-tech person” and doesn’t personally “do e-mail.”
DoD shuts down 1,500 computers
The Pentagon took as many as 1,500 computers offline yesterday to stamp out a security breach in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.…
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Yoggie is a tiny linux-based hardware firewall that fits in our hand, requires no wall outlet, and provides enterprise-level firewall protection for our computer. It has two operating modes one draws power from the built-in USB cable, connects to our ethernet port, and the ethernet wall socket, and the second just uses the USB port and performs packet-packet filtering for our computer's own WiFi adapter through the use of a virtual bridge. It has a web based front end that shows us its status, and keeps us informed as to what sorts of attacks it has encountered. >>
Pentagon specialists fix a day to more than three million attempts by hackers to find flaw in computer network defense department. As a specialist in military intelligence, defense networks and information integration Pentagon press Patrick Ryder (Patrick Ryder), all threats to the global information network (GIS) Pentagon taken seriously, “their large and diverse nature.” “The Pentagon is being scrutinized every day, and every day in place for their protection. As far committed more than three million GIS scanning vulnerability. Many attempts to infiltrate the GIS is known malicious programs, “said Ryder. According to him, experts from the Pentagon to receive reports on incidents relating to illegal entry into a network of defense agencies, and scrutinize all of the incidents. “On such cases we report to the authorities or counterintelligence agency, which is continuing to investigate,” said Ryder. He said that the Pentagon does not keep track of ho
YouTube's co-founders on Thursday challenged the Pentagon's assertion that soldiers overseas were sapping too much bandwidth by watching online videos, the military's principal rationale for blocking popular Web sites from Defense Department computers."They said it might be a bandwidth issue, but they created the Internet, so I don't know what the problem is," CEO Chad Hurley said with a hearty laugh during an interview with The Associated Press.Hurley, Chief Technology Officer Steve Chen and YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan emphasized that the online video company is trying to work with the Pentagon in hopes the military will reverse course or at least partially repeal the ban.
Is it a coincidence that the wing of the Pentagon hit by the “plane” had been under construction for years and there was no one in it? Or that the hole is only the size of the body of a 757, but there is no damage where the wings should have hit, and there where no wings to be found. And that all video tapes from security cameras around there area (gas stations, etc…) where taken and never shown to anyone by the FBI on 9/11.
What don’t they want us to know? What are they hiding? Don’t let them tell you it’s because we don’t want the terrorist to know what we’re doing, because if the terrorist (see - Bush Administration) were the ones responsible then they already know what happend. What ever it is the government is hiding they are hiding it from US! Welcome to the New World Order, you no longer get to know whats going on around you…
This video explains it more in detail, please watch…
The US military is now posting video clips on YouTube showing US troops in combat and insurgents being bombed in a “boots on the ground” perspective of the Iraq war, officials said today. White House spokesman Tony Snow said he thought airing video clips of combat on YouTube was “a good idea.” “Because [...]
Gary McKinnon pops down to Infosec
Infosec Accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon appeared on a hackers’ panel at the Infosec show on Thursday.…
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Gary McKinnon pops down to Infosec
Infosec Accused Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon appeared on a hackers’ panel at the Infosec show on Thursday.…
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Why technology sharing wont work with the Russians. Our leaders keep making the same mistake over and over again when dealing with the Russians. We will make brash public statements about sharing anti missile defense technology with the and wonder why we get such a chilly reception.What Washington still doesnt see is that Americans are like the rich preppies driving the new Ferrari inviting the kids from the poor side of town on a cruise to the beach. But the poor kids 78 Oldsmobile wont start half the time and when it does run it always overheats. Back during the space race days NASA spent about a million dollars developing a pen that would work in zero gravity for our astronauts to use in space. The Soviets had their cosmonauts use pencils instead. And that's a perfect example of how America and Russia approach things differently. The Russians just plain do not have the economic wherewithal to keep up with us on any technologically advanced military systems and they know it.
