Marcus Aurelius: Blame Congress and Obama for Military Disarray — Never Mind Secretary of Defense and Four Dishonest Services…

This seems like a relatively simple question.  For different reasons, both POTUS and Congress apaprently seek to break the military.  POTUS’ view, arguably rooted in anticolonialism, focuses on reducing the US, to include the military, to the status of the Third World, while in Congressional (read:  Tea Party) minds, the military is the principal cash cow and thus acceptable/desirable …

Mini-Me: Latin America to USA — “Piss Off” + Cuba Makes Four Offering Asylum + Bolivia RECAP + Exchange for US Extradicting Bankers on Table

Huh? Three Latin American leftist leaders offer asylum to Snowden (Reuters) – Bolivia offered asylum on Saturday to former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, joining leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs. EXTRACTS: “I want to tell … the …

Rickard Falkvinge: NSA is Stasi Scaled Global + Naked NSA RECAP

Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who’s Worse – A Visual Guide Privacy:  If you were to compare the evil, reprehensible Stasi to the NSA side by side in a visual comparison, who’s the worse surveillance hawk? The people over at OpenDataCity have put together a nice visual guide with astonishing results. We tend …

Congressional Research Service — Index Frozen 2 JUNE 2015

NOTICE: We are suspending our update of this index. All CRS reports will continue to be offered at the Federation of American Scientists, and updated as new version are received, but we will not longer maintain this separate index.   Updated FAS new 2 June 2015. All links lead to Federation of American Scientists (FAS) …

Richard Stallman: Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013

Free Software Supporter Issue 63, June 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Free Software Foundation statement on PRISM revelations A second FSF-certified device from ThinkPenguin: long-range USB Wifi adapter with Atheros chip April’s English translation team is recruiting volunteers MediaGoblin 0.4.0: Hall of the Archivist Announcing the newest fully free GNU/Linux distribution: LibreWRT FSF polo shirts have …

Gordon Duff: Modern Cars As Murder Weapons — Just Attach A Transceiver to the On Board Computer, and Assume Control — Works on Aircraft as Well

“We Got The Message…” Hastings “Boston Brakes” Killing a Warning? Imagine a new “E Class” Mercedes exploding in flames, burning to a cinder.  220 km/hr crashes on the Autobahn are often survived, certainly without a fire. There is a reason to own a Mercedes, in normal circumstances the chances of dying in one are quite …

Marcus Aurelius: SOCOM Working on Global Network — Comment by Robert Steele

Well worth reading between the lines. Socom Officials Work on Plan for Global Network By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., June 3, 2013 – About 100 people are hard at work at the U.S. Special Operations Command headquarters here on a new plan that will operationalize the way the …