NOTE: USMC submission won the JNIDS IV competition but that win was over-turned by an Admiral without integrity whose words were quoted (too late to go to CMC and CNO) “We are a Navy shop, we will do a Navy problem.” It is precisely this kind of amoral attention to duty, persistent across the flag ranks — and the staffs that let them get away with it — that undermines national security and national competitiveness.
TAMPA–The emblem of the U.S. Special Operations Command pointedly illustrates its mission: It shows the tip of a spear. Now SOCOM is expanding this arsenal to create a global network that can project power even as America's armies withdraw from the battlefields of the last decade.
Adm. William McRaven, the SOCOM commander, has been developing this ambitious new role at his headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base here. McRaven is among the nation’s most celebrated warriors. He planned the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011; in his office is a small sculpture tagged “Bull Frog,” honoring him as the longest-serving Navy SEAL in uniform.
McRaven’s plan to create a “global SOF network” was endorsed in February by the Pentagon, which gave McRaven direct control over special operations forces around the world. The move appears to have support from other top military commanders, even though it would potentially diminish their authority. But there has been little public discussion of the policy, despite its significant changes. The White House appears to like the concept but has not signed off on final details.
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Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge
(NaturalNews) The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads:
“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.” – Mohandas Gandhi, an Autobiography, page 446.
This historical quote was apparently too much for Facebook's censors to bear. They suspended our account and gave us a “final warning” that one more violation of their so-called “community guidelines” would result in our account being permanently deactivated.
They then demanded we send them a color copy of a “government issued identification” in order to reactivate our account. Our account was removed from suspension just minutes before InfoWars posted its article on this Facebook censorship, and the Facebook page is now functioning at: www.Facebook.com/NaturalNews
This is a separate account from our primary Facebook account, which has nearly 250,000 followers at: www.Facebook.com/NaturalNews
Logic is an enemy and history is a menace
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InfoWars.com is also now reporting that Facebook is running an across-the-board PURGE of pro-gun accounts. A huge number of accounts are all being systematically disabled or suspended, with all content being wiped clean.
An analysis, conducted earlier this year, showed that Hong Kong boasted the world’s fastest internet speeds. But right outside its borders, an economic beast is building a newer version so powerful and efficient, that it’s expected to surpass anything currently being used in the west.
With a population so vast, the Chinese government foresaw that it would need a network infrastructure that can accommodate its one billion plus population. The solution they devised, called China Next Generation Internet, is an ambitious 5-year project designed to address two of the biggest flaws with the world wide web: malicious traffic and space limitations.
A study recently published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society reveals how these various advancements, currently under development, would work.
Unlike the networks being used, China’s NGI will feature an integrated security system, known as Source Address Validation Architecture (SAVA), that authenticates all users that attempts to plug into the network. This is achieved by setting up checkpoints throughout the data pipeline and using the information collected to build a database (basically a white-list) of trusted computers based on their IP addresses. Any computer that doesn’t check out against the database will have their data packets blocked. In time, the network could build up a strong immunity to viruses and other malicious gunk.