Winslow Wheeler: Stop the Assassination of the A-10

Usually ignored by the press as insufficiently interesting to technology dazzled editors and reviled by the civilian and military leadership of the Air Force as not what they think they should spend money and careers on, the A-10 “Warthog” has broken through into Washington DC’s consciousness.  Interestingly, the attention was provoked by a heavy handed …

Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff

Assasins for Hire – Pay with Bitcoin China and Bitcoin Cyber Security Tools List Cyber Threat to Energy Sector CryptoLocker Protection Dark Money Groups Fueled by Cable Deterrence? A Revaluation of Premises (Russ Wellen) Hanford Nuclear Gets Worse Happiness is Love.  Period. (Harvard Study, 75 Years) Intelligence Information Sharing (Small Wars Journal) Malware Epidemics (Recorded …

Chuck Spinney: Wanna Start a Revolution? Watch Fed Feed Wall Street While Looting Main Street…

…. Read this obscene description of the “let them eat cake” policies of the Fed (and by extension, the President and Congress) that feed Wall Street at the expense of Main Street. Andrew Huszar: Confessions of a Quantitative Easer We went on a bond-buying spree that was supposed to help Main Street. Instead, it was …

Marcus Aurelius: WaPo (Carter/Barno) on Military Isolation

Invite your attention to following generally overstated (IMHO) article and my accompanying comments in yellow-highlighted red.  Happy Veterans’ Day How the military isolates itself — and hurts veterans By Phillip Carter and David Barno, Published: November 8 Phillip Carter and retired Lt. Gen. David Barno are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, and senior fellows at …

Paul Craig Roberts: Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race

Ignored Reality Is Going To Wipe Out The Human Race To inform people is hard slugging. Everything is lined up against the public being informed, or the policymakers for that matter. News is contaminated by its service to special interests and hidden agendas. Many scientists or their employers are dependent on federal money. Even psychologists …