Search Results for “defense budget” – Page 112

2012/06/212016/03/25

Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email

Most of my liberal friends reluctantly support President Obama’s re-election, because the alternative is so much worse. Invariably, they invoke the effects of a Romney presidency on judicial appointments, especially those to the Supreme Court (ironically, Obama’s two appointees just voted with the majority to decline to hear the Guantanamo case, if effect, putting another …

Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Progressives Argue Over Defeating Obama – a Conversation on Email”

2012/06/14

Marcus Aurelius: The Battle For The Military’s Future

Note the contradiction between the planned personnel cuts and the comments on the urgency of keeping the volunteer force intact and coherent. The Battle For The Military’s Future Walter Pincus The Washington Post, 13 June 2012 “The face of war, the face of how we do business, is changing.” That’s retired Marine Corps Gen. James …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: The Battle For The Military’s Future”

2012/05/272012/05/28

Marcus Aurelius: Jennifer Sims Party Line on Military Clandestine Service with Robert Steele Comment + RECAP

Here we go again…. Why the CIA Is Applauding the Pentagon’s Intelligence Grab Jennifer Sims Foreign Affairs, May 18, 2012 Last month, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the creation of a new U.S. espionage agency: the Defense Clandestine Service, or DCS. DCS is expected to expand the …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Jennifer Sims Party Line on Military Clandestine Service with Robert Steele Comment + RECAP”

2012/05/182012/05/18

Winslow Wheeler: The F-22, Toxic Stealth, Secrets Screw Sick…

Dina Rasor and Pierre Sprey have collaborated on an important and informative piece on the F-22. It expands the publically available thinking about the nature of the toxicity problem facing F-22 pilots, and–just as importantly–it probes the nature of one of the prime suspects for the problem: the F-22’s “stealth” coating. Note at the end of …

Continue reading “Winslow Wheeler: The F-22, Toxic Stealth, Secrets Screw Sick…”

2012/05/122012/05/12

Top Atlee: Final Words from Ernest Callenbach the Author of Ecotopia & Ecotopia Emerging

Dear friends, Ernest Callenbach’s ECOTOPIA and its prequel ECOTOPIA EMERGING were major books in my developing thinking about how a sustainable society might evolve. ECOTOPIA, the more famous of the two, provides Callenbach’s overall vision of what might be possible. ECOTOPIA EMERGING – with far better characterization and more compelling plot – tells the story …

Continue reading “Top Atlee: Final Words from Ernest Callenbach the Author of Ecotopia & Ecotopia Emerging”

2012/05/102012/05/10

Winslow Wheeler: Marine Aviation in the Toilet (Ethically, Technically, & Financially)

Last week I circulated a piece discusing an eight page advertising special in The Washington Post, paid for by Lockheed-Martin and Boeing (and a credit union). The huge ad commemorated the 100th anniversary of Marine Corps aviation. (My piece with a link to the advertisement is at the end of this message.) In the special …

Continue reading “Winslow Wheeler: Marine Aviation in the Toilet (Ethically, Technically, & Financially)”

2012/05/072012/05/07

Penguin: Pentagon Spending Taxpayer Money to Identify Insider Threats — Never Realizing that Pentagon Misbehavior Inspires Insider Patriots

After paying for the development of this bullshit we can all plan building this expense into our family budgets. The Way The Pentagon Is Predicting Your Potential To Become A National Threat Is Frightening Eloise Lee Business Insider, May 7, 2012, Tom Cruise made “pre-crime’” a futuresque and controversial method of law enforcement in the …

Continue reading “Penguin: Pentagon Spending Taxpayer Money to Identify Insider Threats — Never Realizing that Pentagon Misbehavior Inspires Insider Patriots”