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2010/02/25

MILNET Headlines, 25 February 2010

Afghanistan: Night Raids Violate Afghans’ Deepest Moral Code Cloud: Ranum& Peterson Vidoe on Cloud Computing Commentary: Opinion: Running Out of Time Copyright: New ACTA Leak–U.S., Korea, Singapore, Denmark Do Not Support Transparency Cyber-Security: Cybersecurity Coordinator Lacks Accountability Cyber-Security: Federal Regulation Urged on Cybersecurity Cyber-Security: Software Defects Threaten Census Rollout Cyber-Security: US Would Lose Cyberwar Cyber-Security: …

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2010/02/252010/02/25

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistani Education as Weapon Against USA–The Failure of US Militarization

Pakistan: Special note. The second part of yesterday’s PBS show Frontline concerned the condition of the public school system in Pakistan. It has collapsed in nearly every respect. The video report noted that nearly half of the 65 million school age kids in Pakistan do not attend public schools. It did not follow-up that datum …

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2010/02/24

NIGHTWATCH on Afghanistan Open Source Video

Afghanistan: Special note. Lessons from the PBS show, Frontline, titled Behind Taliban Lines. The first-hand video by Najibullah Quraishi is worth viewing on the PBS home page where it was posted today. Quraishi accepted an invitation by a Hizbe Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) commander to live with a HIG anti-government fighting unit in Baghlan Province. Until …

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2010/02/212010/02/21

Review: Willful Neglect–The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security

Final Review: Ground-Level View of Obvious Vulnerabilities and a General Failure to Protect February 10, 2010 [final review 21 February] Sam Faddis My own new book is finally at the printer, INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty and I am really enjoying getting back into serial reading. I totally respected and agreed with …

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2010/02/202010/02/20

Search: how much is al-qaeda worth?

Very cool question. We don’t have the answers, but here are a few thoughts. Who benefits? There is only one beneficiary of Al Qaeda as a virtual actor: the US Military-Industrial-Intelligence-Congressional Complex whose outrageously wasteful funding and excessive (70%) obligations to contractors are bankrupting the US economy, but who cares as long as the corporate …

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2010/02/172011/10/22

Journal: Potential End to Two-Party Monopoly

Disillusioned Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system In an interview on MSNBC this morning, newly retiring Sen. Evan Bayh declared the American political system “dysfunctional,” riddled with “brain-dead partisanship” and permanent campaigning. Flatly denying any possibility that he’d seek the presidency or any other higher office, Bayh argued that the American people needed to …

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2010/02/112010/02/11

NIGHTWATCH Highlight of the Day 11 February 2010

IEDs. Update. The Taliban claim they have invented a new bomb that defeats US detection vehicles and technology. A BBC report from the UK forces supporting Operation Together” in Marjah lends credence to the Taliban claim, after the detection vehicle was disabled by a bomb it was supposed to detect yesterday. The Taliban posted to …

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