Tag: pentagon
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space defense program gets extra funding
from washington post: While wrestling with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is preparing weapons to fight the next battle from space, according to information in the 621-page, House-Senate conference report on the fiscal 2008 defense appropriations bill. The $459 billion bill, which awaits President Bush’s signature, provides $100 million for a new “prompt…
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pentagon forecast: cloudy, 80% chance of riots
from wired: The Pentagon is paying Lockheed Martin to try to predict insurgencies and civil unrest like the weather. It’s part of a larger military effort to blend forecasting software with social science that has some counterinsurgency experts cringing. Lockheed recently won a $1.3 million, 15-month contract from the Defense Department to help develop the…
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our new robot army will be controlled by malware
from register: A US defence department advisory board has warned of the danger that American war robots scheduled for delivery within a decade might be riddled with malicious code. The kill machines will use software largely written overseas, and it is feared that sinister forces might meddle with it in production, thus gaining control of…
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pentagon ok with martial law in pakistan
from the news: The Pentagon said Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of state of emergency in Pakistan does not affect U.S. military support, a spokesman said. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is monitoring the fast-developing situation, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said. “Pakistan is a very important ally in the war on terror and he is closely…
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‘link iraq to iran,’ rumsfeld argued before proof
from raw story: Ten months before the US aired formal proof of Iranian involvement in funding Iraqi insurgents, then-Secretary of Defense warned in secret Pentagon memos that Iran should be the “concern of the American people” and he issued explicit instructions to the military. “[L]ink Iraq to Iran,” Rumsfeld wrote in one of thousands of…
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pentagon & fbi misusing secret info requests
from raw story: The Department of Defense has conspired with the FBI to “circumvent the law” in accessing hundreds of Americans’ telephone, e-mail and financial records, say two civil liberties groups that released reams of new documents obtained in a contested public records request. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has challenged the Bush Administration’s…
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nsa writes more potent malware than hackers
from false flag news: Also remember that Symantec, the makers of ‘Norton Anti-Virus,’ are top DoD contractors, as are Dell, Microsoft, Oracle, McAfee, etc… from channel register: A project aimed at developing defences against malware that attacks unpatched vulnerabilities involved tests on samples developed by the NSA. The ultra-secretive US spy agency supplied network testing…
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september clearinghouse
ron paul – the internet sensation video: kevin barrett questions amy goodman on building 7 international narcotics agenda behind myanmar instability cheney to address top secret conservative policy group gun bill rewrites law to disarm more americans defense stocks hit new highs pentagon seeks $190bn war funds security company death squads timeline mukasey poised to…
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pentagon releases edited interview with ‘9/11 mastermind’
from kltv: The Pentagon has released an audio tape of a closed court session with the suspected mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. The words of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have been censored. The Defense Department decided to edit out his comments about his justification for waging a holy war against the United States. A spokesman says…
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chinese military hacked into pentagon
from financial times: The Chinese military hacked into a Pentagon computer network in June in the most successful cyber attack on the US defence department, say American officials. The Pentagon acknowledged shutting down part of a computer system serving the office of Robert Gates, defence secretary, but declined to say who it believed was behind…
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news on the march
chatter about west coast ‘incident’ at all time highfrom wayne madsen report: Chatter picked up by WMR’s sources in the nation’s capital and in California point to unusual events that could be a prelude to a 9/11-like false flag “incident” during the Labor Day weekend, possibly one focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. The…
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pentagon’s new drug weapons
from wired: They’ve got Skunk, they’ve got Special K, they’ve got Angel Dust, they’ve got Aceeeeed… and they’ve also got a whole pharmacy of extra special stuff that they’re not going to tell anyone about. They’re heavily armed, and the law can’t touch them. Because they’re the Pentagon’s own nonlethal chemical weapons developers. While the…
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US military practices genetic discrimination in denying benefits
from los angeles times: Eric Miller’s career as an Army Ranger wasn’t ended by a battlefield wound, but his DNA. Lurking in his genes was a mutation that made him vulnerable to uncontrolled tumor growth. After suffering back pain during a tour in Afghanistan, he underwent three surgeries to remove tumors from his brain and…
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news on the march
nsa, dod, & fbi seek hackers as alliesfrom the age: US federal agents are reaching out to computer hackers for help fighting crime and terrorism as a tug-of-war between privacy and public safety continues on the Internet. The National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Defense and the FBI were among the spy, military and…
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pentagon to implant microchips in soldiers
from press esc: The Department of Defense is planning to implant microchips in soldiers’ brains for monitoring their health information, and has already awarded a $1.6 million contract to the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B) at Clemson University for the development of an implantable “biochip”. Soldiers fear that the biochip, about the size…
