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Steven Aftergood: DIA Gaslighting? UFO “Research” for Corrupt Senator Harry Reid’s Favored Constituent?

Extraterrestial Intelligence
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Steven Aftergood

More Light on Black Program to Track UFOs

The Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed this week that it had funded research on warp drive, invisibility cloaking, and other areas of fringe or speculative science and engineering as part of a now-defunct program to track and identify threats from space.

From 2007 to 2012, the DIA spent $22 million on the activity, formally known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. It was apparently initiated at the behest of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with most of the funding directed to a Nevada constituent of his. See “Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program” by Helene Cooper, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean, New York Times, December 16, 2017.

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SPECIAL: Robert Steele – Yes, Lindsey Graham is Compromised… But He is Also Born Again. Representative Ilham Omar is Correct — and Both She and Senator Graham Should be Protected.

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While I am quite stunned that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who is owned by the Zionists more ways than anyone can count, has put Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) on the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HRAC) this is a stroke of genius and exactly the right thing to do. This is an opening for our President. The Zionist apartheid genocidal state of Israel has been controlling Congress for too long, and putting an elected US citizen who is sympathetic to the Palestinians and antithetical to the Zionist lies and bribery and blackmail that frame every bit of US legislation (including the legislation making it a felony in the USA to advocate for the boycott of Zionist Isreal) into the HRAC is exactly the right thing to do. Whether she had the right intentions or not, Hats Off to Nancy Pelosi for an inspired appointment.

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SPECIAL: Winslow Wheeler – US Congress Hides The Earmarks But They Are Still There — Most Corrupt Congress in History, With Lockheed As a Particular Beneficiary

Corruption, Government, Military
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Winslow Wheeler

Those Porky Pentagon Earmarks Never Really Went Away

In fact, the new scheme is even more venal, underhanded, and wasteful.

The new pork system is deceptive and complex. It took all of my 31 years of experience on Capitol Hill to fully unravel it, with the help of some excellent research from two outstanding watchdog groups, Taxpayers for Common Sense and the Taxpayers Protection Alliance.

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) reported that 68 procurement programs in this defense bill received $7.5 billion in new, unrequested spending, a large portion going to the Lockheed Corporation. These are blatant earmarks, as explained by TCS, which also pointed out that the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee added $5.6 billion to the procurement account for these items, while its Senate counterpart added a more generous $6.2 billion. The bill was “compromised” by the conference committee at a level above both: $7.5 billion.

Read full article in The American Conservative.

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Penguin: Open Source Software Crossroads

Software
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Open Source Software At A Crossroads

Over the years we’ve seen different approaches to monetizing open source, and we have examples of them all in the past year’s exits:

  • Sell support and services (Heptio acquired by VMware VMW -1.98%)
  • Sell managed open source ( MongoDB as-a-service)
  • Have an open source core, sell the bits around it ( Elastic , Pivotal IPOs)
  • Make order out of chaos ( Red Hat RHT -0.16% acquired by IBM IBM -0.09%)
  • Aggregate and accelerate other peoples’ code (GitHub acquired by Microsoft)

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Stephen E. Arnold: Ignoring Amazon — Bad Idea…

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
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Stephen E. Arnold

Ignoring Amazon: Risky, Short Sighted, Maybe Not an Informed Decision

I read “AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source.” The write up does a good job of explaining how convenience can generate cash for old line businesses.

There are several facets of Amazon’s system and method for competition which may be more important than the inclusion of open source software in its suite of “conveniences.”

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