Journal ISSN 1078-1935 – Page 1835 – Public Intelligence Blog

There is lot of stuff flying around Pentagon these days. There is memo that underlies article next below but I haven't seen it yet, trying to get from Sister service. Irrespective of your opinion of publication, this might be very good week to buy current Army Times (12 Aug 2013) because it has some data and graphics I haven't previously seen about what may be coming. Trends I'm sensing so far:

Hardware is more important than humans.
Sequestration decrements will be largely borne by MILPERS and CIVPERS
Even if sequestration disappeared today, MILPERS and CIVPERS would be principal targets.
DoD is seeking to ((FUNDAMENTALLY)) change, in negative ways, compensation scheme for MILPERS.
DoD will seek to screw retirees under age 55 out of TRICARE coverage
Cart is clearly before horse — DEPSECDEF has relayed SECDEF's guidance to cut HQs by 20 percent without determining what functions will no longer be performed. Long experience is being ignored: downsizing, rightsizing, doing more with less don't work. Less is less and, generally, all you can do with less is less.
SECDEF appears to be disproportionately influenced by one particular retired Marine Reserve GO who also happens to be an executive of one of the big defense contractors.

DOD Memo Provides Specifics for Headquarters Spending Cuts

By Cheryl Pellerin

American Forces Press Service

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: BREAKING – Defense to Protect Hardware Contracts, Savage the People”

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John Maguire: BREAKING: Monsanto Hires Blackwater, Big Plans for Africa

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption

This is a truly Satanic combination. The Southweb article sums it up best:

“While they may not be owned by the same individuals, one thing is clear: the relationship between these two companies is enough cause for alarm.”

So Monsanto has not bought Blackwater, but is leveraging them against its opponents, and one can only imagine what Blackwater might offer to do in Africa, where murder by mob is done every day with impunity, led by CIA with its drones. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation connection is highlights in the 3 August piece, they are known for their eugenics agenda that is not well covered by the mainstream media.

20 July 2013 Monsanto buys Blackwater the largest Mercenary Army in the World? UPDATE

The truth of the matter is that Academi (Blackwater) was purchased by private investors, and the heavily sourced article written by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation actually says nothing about Monsanto buying Blackwater.

What the articles does say, however, is that Monsanto and Blackwater are indeed working together to target anti-Monsanto activists and organizations.

3 August 2013 Academi (ex-Blackwater) acquired by Monsanto

29 June 2013 Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group!

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Wolfram|Alpha on Calculations Related to Lowering Sea Level

12 Water, Earth Intelligence

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Phi Beta Iota: We think very highly of Wolfram Alfa and its creator Stephen Wolfram. Below is the beginning of a conversation about what it would take to lower sea levels and keep them constant so Singapore among other countries, need not worry, at the same time that we leverage solar power to desalinate water and create hydrogen energy.

WE ASKED:

What is the volume of sea water that would have to be desalinated and withdrawn for aquifer replenishment, deforestation, de-desertification, and general land use, to keep sea level at a constant? Discussion: the intersection of solar energy and water purification, desalination, and splitting to produce hydrogen power and oxygen is now reaching a tipping point. We are very close to a price point where it makes sense to actually lower the ocean and restock our clean water, doing this on a world wide basis, a Manhattan Project to create 1000 massive water desalination and power plants world wide.

WOLFRAM ALFA RESPONDED:

Continue reading “Wolfram|Alpha on Calculations Related to Lowering Sea Level”

2013/08/05

Anthony Judge: Is There Never Enough? Religious Doublespeak on Population and Poverty

Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Ethics

Is There Never Enough?

Religious doublespeak on population and poverty

Introduction
Mass distraction enabling Mass destruction?
Denial of “overpopulation” as a problematic factor
Overpopulation denial as promoted by religions and fellow-travellers
Deficient analytic capacity of religions
Blame-gaming: always someone else's responsibility
Withholding aid as a means of saving future lives?
Hypocrisy of current Papal focus on poverty?
Challenge for a poverty-focused Pope
Towards a realistic simulation of faith-based population policies
LETS indulge the impoverished!?
References

2013/08/05

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists Achieve Solar Hydrogen Production Breakthrough

05 Energy

Looks like a neat advance in solar technology. Storage of electrical energy is always a problem and producing hydrogen builds the storage right in, with a fuel that can be used in a variety of ways …

Scientists Achieve Solar Hydrogen Production Breakthrough

A newly published study reveals how scientists used a solar cell and a photo anode made of a metal oxide to achieve a solar hydrogen production breakthrough.

The experts were able to develop a rather elegant and simple system for using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.

This process, called artificial photosynthesis, allows solar energy to be stored in the form of hydrogen. The hydrogen can then be used as a fuel either directly or in the form of methane, or it can generate electricity in a fuel cell.

One rough estimate shows the potential inherent in this technology: At a solar performance in Germany of roughly 600 Watts per square meter, 100 square meters of this type of system is theoretically capable of storing 3 kilowatt hours of energy in the form of hydrogen in just one single hour of sunshine. This energy could then be available at night or on cloudy days.

Read full article.

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Berto Jongman: Sharing Science is a Crime [Against Humanity]

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement

Sharing Science Is A Crime

The more one shares, the more one undermines a future patent application and a system that encourages privatization [profit for the few, suffering for the many]

Charles Davis

Al Jazeera, 3 August 2013

EXTRACT:

Signed into law by President Bill Clinton, the Economic Espionage Act of 1995 makes it a federal offence punishable by up to 15 years in prison for someone to “knowingly” deliver a “trade secret” into the hands of a foreign government or institution. As written, that means even if someone had the most honest of intentions – hey, maybe people outside of America get cancer too – they would still be considered a spy for letting a scientific secret cross a body of water. If that secret is ever disclosed, it will be disclosed on corporate America's terms. And it will make someone a lot of money.

Consider the case of Hua Jun Zhao. A researcher at Wisconsin Medical College, Zhao was recently accused of stealing several vials of a potentially cancer-fighting compound he was working on with the intent of passing it on to a university in China, allegedly as his own work. If true, Zhao certainly committed a crime – theft – and perhaps intended to commit academic fraud. But when the FBI came knocking, the $8,000 in missing goods was treated as espionage. Zhao, according to the bureau, was a spy.

In a press release, the FBI alleged that the Chinese native used his position to “illegally acquire patented cancer research material and to have taken steps to provide that material to Zhejiang University in China”. Among the goals served by his arrest, the bureau stated, was protecting America's “competitiveness in an age of globalisation”. By law, the espionage case had to first be approved by a top official at the Justice Department.

Read full article with multiple links.

2013/08/05

Berto Jongman: Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, DHS, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement, Military

Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex

How to turn the US-Mexican border into a war zone [profitable for the few]

Todd Miller

al Jazeera, 3 August 2013

The first thing I did at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix this March was climb the brown “explosion-resistant” tower, 10 metres high and 3 metres wide, directly in the centre of the spacious room that holds this annual trade show. From a platform where, assumedly, a border guard would stand, you could take in the constellation of small booths offering the surveillance industry's finest products, including a staggering multitude of ways to monitor, chase, capture, or even kill people, thanks to modernistic arrays of cameras and sensors, up-armored jeeps, the latest in guns, and even surveillance balloons.

Although at the time, headlines in the Southwest emphasised potential cuts to future border-security budgets thanks to Congress's “sequester”, the vast Phoenix Convention Center hall – where the defence and security industries strut their stuff for law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – told quite a different story. Clearly, the expanding global industry of border security wasn't about to go anywhere. It was as if the milling crowds of business people, government officials, and Border Patrol agents sensed that they were about to be truly in the money thanks to “immigration reform”, no matter what version of it did or didn't pass Congress. And it looks like they were absolutely right.

All around me in that tower were poster-sized fiery photos demonstrating ways it could help thwart massive attacks and fireball-style explosions. A border like the one just over 161 kilometres away between the United States and Mexico, it seemed to say, was not so much a place that divided people in situations of unprecedented global inequality, but a site of constant war-like danger.

Below me were booths as far as the eye could see surrounded by Disneyesque fake desert shrubbery, barbed wire, sand bags, and desert camouflage. Throw in the products on display and you could almost believe that you were wandering through a militarised border zone with a Hollywood flair.

To an awed potential customer, a salesman in a suit and tie demonstrated a mini-drone that fits in your hand like a Frisbee. It seemed to catch the technological fetishism that makes Expo the extravaganza it is. Later I asked him what such a drone would be used for. “To see what's over the next hill,” he replied.

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