Air power for warfighting is a story that's been told many times. Air power for peacekeeping and UN enforcement is a story that desperately needs to be told. For the first-time, this volume covers the fascinating range of aerial peace functions. In rich detail it describes: aircraft transporting vital supplies to UN peacekeepers and massive amounts of humanitarian aid to war-affected populations; aircraft serving as the “eyes in sky” to keep watch for the world organization; and combat aircraft enforcing the peace. Rich poignant case studies illuminate the past and present use of UN air power, pointing the way for the future. This book impressively fills the large gap in the current literature on peace operations, on the United Nations and on air power generally.
An interesting summary from JFK assassingation to 9/11. Not seen elsewhere are organized comments with links on FBI complicity in 9/11, and an organized section on US citizen witnesses and investigators murdered for persisting in questioning the government cover story on 9/11.
Security expert Steve Durbin discusses nation-state espionage and the dangers lurking in cyberspace, and urges organizations to become cyber resilient.
QUESTIONS ONLY
What should CIOs be most concerned about in Threat Horizon 2016?
How can enterprises mitigate nation-state espionage?
What threat intelligence-sharing forums should enterprise CIOs be following? What are useful security resources they might not be aware of?
Why do you think the Balkanization of the Internet is a large threat? Only a few nations are trying to create geopolitical borders on the Internet.
Regarding the unintended consequences of nation-states policing the Internet, what are the most likely types of incidents we'll see in 2014?
How can enterprises reduce the vulnerabilities posed by third-party service providers? What's a good action plan you've observed?
Your advice about using encryption now that it appears that encryption isn't the fail-safe tool that we'd believed it was.
When companies apply data analytics to information security problems, what are the most common things they do right? And what do they often do wrong?
If you read either the daily SR or the monthly version you know my thinking on why I believe that there will be two major migrations, one away from the coasts, the other out of the Southwest and Great Plains. The first because of too much water, the second because of too little. Here is a good representation of the reasons why I think this.
Phi Beta Iota: The federal government — which should not own any land at all — owns most of the west. States should be giving serious thought to ending federal ownership of land at the same time that they begin nullifying insane federal policies that are clearly inimical to society. What the west needs is a Manhattan Project to desalinate massive amounts of water and bring them from the sea inland using solar power, while creating hydroponics industries and ending all fracking and all contamination of groundwater from any source including mega-agricultural fertilizers and toxins.
Fearing for their safety as armed protesters gathered in the Nevada back country, federal officials on Saturday suddenly ended a controversial effort to seize hundreds of cattle that a rancher has kept illegally on public land.
The cattle ranch’s owner, Cliven Bundy, and hundreds of armed supporters had threatened to forcefully keep Bureau of Land Management employees from rounding up the approximately 900 cattle. Nearly 400 of the cattle had been seized during the past week. They were being held nearby and could be sent to Utah, authorities said.
The real reason they are going after Bundy, making way for the frackers? Mike Adams lays out the case in detail for frackers behind federal persecution of Bundy:
“This document from the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology(1) shows significant exploratory drilling being conducted in precisely the same area where the Bundy family has been running cattle since the 1870's. The “Gold Butte” area is indicated on the lower right corner of the document (see below), and it clearly shows numerous exploratory drilling operations have been conducted there. What's also clear is that oil has been found in nearby areas and possibly even within the Gold Butte area itself.
Or maybe THIS is the real reason they are after Bundy: Senator Harry Reid & son will make a bundle:
“Back in 2012, the New American reported that Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, was the chief representative for a Chinese energy firm planning to build a $5-billion solar plant on public land in Laughlin, Nevada. And journalist Marcus Stern with Reuters also reported that Sen. Reid was heavily involved in the deal as well. [Reid] and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert,” he wrote. “Reid has been one of the project’s most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada.” “His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.” Although these reports are in plain view, the mainstream media has so far ignored this link.”
