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Journal: DoD Falling…30-50% Cut in KR, Cuts to Benefits Next

(COMMENT:  Retirees being targeted again…) Tom Philpott | August 05, 2010 Advisory Panels Say Military Benefits Unsustainable A consensus is building among current and former military leaders and defense industry executives that rising military personnel costs threaten the viability of the all-volunteer force. FULL STORY, Excellent Quotes from MajGen Arnold Punaro, USMC (Ret) former Staff …

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Journal: Consumer Group Calls for Hearings on Google Relations with NSA and CIA, Google’s Global Street-Level Survey of Wi-Fi Packet Interceptability

Group Calls for Hearings Into Google’s Ties to CIA and NSA Prisonplanet.com July 20, 2010 More information has emerged about Google’s relationship with the government and spook agencies (see PR Newswire below). The revelations should come as no surprise. FULL STORY ONLINE Consumer Watchdog, formerly the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is a nonprofit, …

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Journal: William Polk on Afghanistan Non-Strategy Plus Consolidated Journal, Review, and Reference Links for Afghanistan

William R. Polk recently sent out the attached letter to his distribution list.  It is a very comprehensive and I believe important review of Afghanistan.  I urge you to take the time to read it.  Appended to the end are a series of notes he used in the construction of his letter.   Polk know …

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Event Report CORRECTED LINKS: Responding to Real Time Information, Open Systems and the Obama IT Vision [Google-Microsoft Meld]

FIXED Big File Problem.  Three Separate Files, each at Their Respectuve Thumbnails. EVENT REPORT: Have you been wondered just how we are going to implement M4IS2* and add to it Real-Time-Processing (RTP) and Near-Real-Time Processing (NRTP)?  This event introduced to the Washington, D.C. environment, for the first time, the concept of operations and related technologies …

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