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7 incredible ways the Pentagon mismanages its massive budget
It's worse than you ever imagined.
LIST ONLY
1) The Pentagon cooks the books
2) Those “plugs” add up to a lot of money
3) It doesn't comply with mandatory audits
4) It has too many old and incopmpatible accounts and business management systems
5) It has too many supplies and no idea how to manage them
6) It can't keep track of its contracts
7) It has wasted billions of dollars trying to fix its billion-dollar waste problems
Intel CEO Refuses To Answer Questions On Whether NSA Can Access Processors
Previously leaked NSA slide bragged that Intel chips were compromised
Steve Watson
Infowars.com
February 20, 2014
During a Q&A in which he’d promised to answer any questions put to him, The CEO of computer chip company Intel stayed silent when asked about NSA spying.
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Secrecy = culture of waste.
Balancing Transparency and National Security
Is keeping military funding secret truly necessary for national security? Not according to Pieter and Siemon Wezeman. Greater transparency not only makes governments more accountable, it also helps reduce the causes of insecurity and conflict.
By Pieter Wezeman and Siemon Wezeman for SIPRI
EXTRACT
The secrecy of military matters is an illusion
Many governments justify secrecy in military budgets on the basis that such information should not be allowed to fall into the hands of potentially hostile forces. However, maintaining secrecy about military spending and key military procurement projects is practically impossible. For example, SIPRI has had 45 years of experience in collecting information about military budgets and international arms transfers. Open sources, official or non-official, provide SIPRI with a wealth of information about the procurement of major arms. If organizations like SIPRI, with minimal resources and working only with open sources, can calculate military spending and map global arms transfers with a high degree of comprehensiveness and accuracy, then national intelligence agencies in potentially hostile countries are obviously able to achieve a lot more.
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The New F-35 Fighter Jet Can Be Taken Down Without A Bullet Ever Being Fired
The F-35, the latest fighter jet being developed for the U.S. Armed Forces, has hit another potential snag.This time, it's not questions of the jet's structural integrity or even questions of relevance in combat.
It's the plane's vulnerability to hackers.
The F-35's helmet displays an augmented reality overview, which is drawn from six cameras across the body of the plane. This enables the pilot to look around the cockpit and, instead of seeing the interior of the plane, see directly through the cameras at the world outside.
This computational capability is all run by a computer system called ALIS.
India-Afghanistan: Indian Minister of External Affairs Slaman Khurshid said on 15 February that India will provide helicopters to Afghanistan.
“We are giving them helicopters and we will be supplying them very soon,” Khurshid told reporters accompanying him on a day-long visit to the Afghan city of Kandahar, where he inaugurated an agricultural university built with Indian aid. “We also have been giving them some logistical support and we hopefully will be able to upgrade and refurbish their transport aircraft.”
Khurshid did not specify the number or type of helicopters to be provided to Afghanistan. Nor did he elaborate on transport aircraft contracts.
Religious zealotry runs rampant in the U.S. military, and among those wishing to deploy it.
By PHILIP GIRALDI, American Conservative, February 12, 2014
Phi Beta Iota: Complete article below the line. This may be one of the most important articles ever posted here. Between financial corruption and religious treason, the US Government and military are hosed. Incompetence is the third leg.
Germany, France to mastermind European data network – bypassing US
Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande will review plans to build up a trustworthy data protection network in Europe. The challenge is to avoid data passing through the US after revelations of mass NSA spying in Germany and France.
Merkel has been one of the biggest supporters of greater data protection in Europe since the revelations that the US tapped her phone emerged in a Der Spiegel news report in October, based on information leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Earlier, France learned from reports in Le Monde that the NSA has also been recording dozens of millions of French phone calls, including those of the French authorities. According to the report, in just one month between December 10, 2012 and January 8, 2013, the NSA recorded a total of 70.3 million French phone calls.
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