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Everybody play nice together while the bulk of already inadequate and dwindling resources are weighted to Navy and Air Force in the Pacific. [Oh, BTW, in separate Armed Forces Journal reporting, twp Army officers, a major general and a colonel, assert that former Chief of Naval Operations ADM (Ret) Gary Roughead and Hoover Institution analyst Kori Schake have recommended in a recent presentation at the Brookings Institution, that, “The active duty Army would be reduced by 200,000 soldiers from the 490,000 planned for the FY 2013 budget” to pay for it.

The Future Of Joint Operations

Real Cooperation for Real Threats

By Martin E. Dempsey

ForeignAffairs.com, June 20, 2013

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Marcus Aurelius: Obama and Kerry on Syria — Who Is Stabbing Who in the Back?

02 Diplomacy

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Dividing line

Obama And Kerry Fail To Mask Foreign Policy Strains

The two politicians appear to have different views over how Washington should exercise its influence across the globe, writes Geoff Dyer

Financial Times, June 22, 2013, Pg. 4

When Barack Obama asked John Kerry to be his second-term secretary of state, the president appeared to have chosen someone whose instincts matched his own natural caution on foreign affairs.

A Vietnam veteran who spent nearly three decades in the Senate, Mr Kerry mocked Republican “neocons” at last year’s Democratic convention and at his confirmation hearing he cited a Henry Kissinger quote about a new era of emerging powers replacing superpower dominance.

Yet after five months in office, it is becoming clearer that the principal dividing line in the Obama administration's foreign policy, from Syria to the Israel-Palestinian peace process, is between the president and Mr Kerry.

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2013/06/23

Marcus Aurelius: Jim Bamford on Five Myths About NSA

Cultural Intelligence, Government, Law Enforcement, Military

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Five Myths About The National Security Agency

By James Bamford

Washingtonpost.com, June 21, 2013

When the National Security Agency was created through a top-secret memorandum signed by President Harry Truman in 1952, the agency was so secret that only a few members of Congress knew about it. While the NSA gradually became known over the decades, its inner workings remain extremely hidden, even with the recent leaks about its gathering of Americans' phone records and tapping into data from the nine largest Internet companies. Let's pull back the shroud a bit to demystify this agency.

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2013/06/22

Worth a Look: Nigerian 4 in 1 Farming Device — The Farmking

Design, Innovation

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On one end you have 3 devices, for chipping, grating and milling. In the middle is the power plant, and in the rear is a large steel drum that can hold 50kgs of milled cassava, that uses a spin filter to process up to 2.5 tons of milled cassava into starch.

It’s used for processing of cassava, soya beans, maize, sweet potatoes, yam and many other roots and grains. One of the more interesting uses for it is the capture of starch.

Sulaiman went to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for his undergrad, then on to the Polytechnic Institute of NYU for his masters, finishing in 1976. The Farmking is a project of his that he built on his nights and weekends, claiming that he likes best to work by himself when no one else is around to bother him. It cost approximately 2.5m Naira ($16,000) to buy one, and the prototype (seen here) was built using his own money.

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