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2012/04/132012/04/13

DefDog: The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes’ hearing from 1998 — Tens of Billions Later, NSA and OMB Have Not Done Their Jobs, US Cyber is Wide Open and Unsafe at Any Speed + Meta-RECAP

This is the famous hearing where Mudge told senators he could K-O the Internet in 30 minutes. It was a wide-ranging discussion, though Mudge’s claim is what the media ran with at the time. Watch and ask yourself, as Trustwave’s Tom Brennan does on his Facebook page this morning: “14 Years… have we gotten better?” …

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2012/04/11

Berto Jongman: Interesting National Security Links

Alexander Hitchens on history of AQ media Do Economists Lie More? Grandpa Patriot Claims Credit for Taking Down Al Qaeda Websites Intergenerational Covenant Integral leadership collaborative

2012/04/082012/04/08

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …

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2012/04/082012/04/08

Chuck Spinney: The Afghanistan Disaster Part I – When the War Comes Home

WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 6-8, 2012 Wait Till the War Really Comes Home The Afghan Disaster by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch The PR disasters over the last three months — including pictures of American troops urinating on Afghan corpses, the burning of Qurans, and the massacre of Afghan civilians, including women and children, by at least one …

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2012/04/052012/04/05

Mini-Me: Provocative Comparison – Imperial Conquest & Catholic Conquistadores

Huh? The doctrine of intervention Manuela Picq Manuela Picq has just completed her time as a visiting professor and research fellow at Amherst College. Today’s political ethics are surprisingly similar to the doctrine of discovery set by the Vatican back in 1452. Al Jazeera, 04 Apr 2012 New York, NY – One does not think …

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2012/04/03

David Isenberg: US Taxes Funding Substantial Human Trafficking Schemes by DoD Contractors in War Zones

Some Things Are Just Unacceptable David Isenberg Huffington Post, On March 27 the Technology, Informational Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and Procurement Reform Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing, “Labor Abuses, Human Trafficking, and Government Contracts: Is the Government Doing Enough to Protect Vulnerable Workers?” This is a subject of more …

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2012/04/012012/04/01

Chuck Spinney: Cancer of Careerism – Final Word on Colin Powell’s Moral Suicide

There is not much new here, other than Curveball’s public admission, but note Colonel Wilkerson’s comment below. One the one hand, Wilkerson admits he was a party to the “sexed up” intelligence; on the other, he wants us to believe Powell (and by extension himself) was being used. Given that “Curveball” was suspected of being …

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