corbett report: episode175 - the rand corporation exposed

from corbett report: What is a think tank and how can a mere research institution actually shape the society it claims to be studying? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we head down into the nuclear bunker with the boys from RAND to unearth the secrets of the research institution that has molded our world for the past 60 years.

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the latest corbett report videos:
sunday update - feb13: everything is related
the last word on overpopulation

the latest corbett report interviews:
#286 – aaron james & #287 – alex abella

previous: episode173/174 - inside rand/patriot mythology

bio/drug\war updates: contamination, collapse & fighting back

biowars/envirohealth:
new research from natl academy of sciences:
atrazine, common weedkiller, turns male frogs into females*
100% of fish in US streams contaminated with mercury*
watching 2 scientific paradigms collapse: gmo's & vaccines*
georgia has glut of swine flu vaccine*
'planetary skin': thinktank/ngo's hi-tech monitoring of agw hype*
chinese fluoride is a homeland security matter*
documents reveal leaks & spills at canada's national microbiology lab*
glaxo pays out $1b in birth defect cases with 600 lawsuits to go*
video: kentucky govt swine flu ad portrays vaccine skeptics as raving lunatics*

drugwar:
5 things you may 'know' about marijuana that aren't true*
ads in a russian town promote marijuana*
cbs billboards: anti-abortion yes; marijuana legal no*
colorado congressman fights back against dea's medical marijuana raids*

think tank urges uk to cut working week to 21 hours

from bbc: The working week should be cut to 21 hours to help boost the economy and improve quality of life, a left-wing think tank has said. The New Economics Foundation claimed in a report the reduction in hours would help to ease unemployment and overwork. The think tank said people were working longer hours now than 30 years ago even though unemployment was at 2.5 million. The foundation admitted people would earn less, but said they would have more time to carry out worthy tasks. They would have better scope to look after children or other dependants, there would be more opportunity for civic duties, and older people could even delay retirement, it said.

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new world next week - jan28

Suspicious deaths, DARPA's DNA & the dangers of biofuels are the focus of this latest episode of the New World Next Week. James Corbett of CorbettReport.com & James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com give you the rundown on these stories, as well as the supplemental & contextual connections to help us make sense of what's really going on in this new world of disorder.

Story#1: Davos Security Head Found Dead Day Before Forum
Davos 2010: Soros Calls for Break-up of Big Banks

Story#2: Pentagon Wants 'Digital DNA' to Identify Hackers
'Cyber Genome Project' Kicked Off by DARPA
Richard Clarke Says There's an i9/11 & iPatriot Act

Story#3: 1/4 of US Grain Crops Fed to Cars - Not People
US Feeds 1/4 of Its Grain to Cars With Hunger on the Rise

As always, stay tuned to MediaMonarchy.com, FoodWorldOrder.com, CyberSpaceWar.com and Corbettreport.com for all the news & analysis that's unfit for print. Subscribe to the feeds from Corbett Report here: http://ur1.ca/kbj1 & Media Monarchy here: http://ur1.ca/kuec

previous episode: nwnw - jan21

biowars/swine flu updates: planning the pandemic

will americans obey govt orders during a swine flu pandemic?
from paul joseph watson: Local authorities are keen to know whether American citizens will obey the government in the event of an H1N1 pandemic and take the swine flu vaccine, amidst growing fears of quarantines and forced injections that have been circulating in recent weeks.

Every sign points to the fact that health authorities are preparing mass vaccination programs and quarantines that could be instituted should the H1N1 virus make a deadlier comeback, which has been all but guaranteed by U.S. health authorities as well as the WHO.

Part of those preparations include gauging the potential reaction of Americans to unpopular orders dictated by an increasingly distrusted government. How many citizens will follow orders to stay indoors, evacuate or take a shot?

Some of those questions form part of a survey being conducted by the University of Virginia’s health department targeting everyone except “federal government agencies and their employees,” who “are not qualified respondents for the survey target population,” according to an advisory sent with the survey.

The survey was forwarded to us by a reader who is part of a CEO-only networking group called MindShare in the Washington DC.

“I was sent the survey below that is probing folks in VA, MD, and Washington DC on what they would do in a pandemic or anthrax situation,” writes Etienne De La Boetie. “They appear to be trying to determine if folks will comply with government directives in either a flu pandemic or anthrax attack.”

The survey, entitled Community Shielding Shared Spectrum, was issued by the Critical Incident Analysis Group at the University of Virginia and can be read here.

in other biowars news:
pandemic flu vaccine production to fall short*
video: canada prepares for h1n1 pandemic with body bags*
planning the pandemic: body bags, mass graves & quarantine orders*
swine flu could kill millions says leaked united nations report*
state says forced injections, quarantines for 'rapidly spreading germ,' but not swine flu*
pandemic charges filed with fbi in nyc - private global biotechnology 'trust' behind pandemic*
verichip shares jump after h1n1 patent license win*
what did the florida gators put up their noses to combat influenza?*
china begins mass vaccinations for swine flu*
novartis chip to help ensure bitter pills are swallowed*
daycare worker told she'll be fired for refusing mandatory flu shot*

updates from 9/24:
panel sees mounting bioterror risk*
volunteers help out when 1st responders can't*
canadians willing to suspend liberties in a pandemic: poll*
mom says swine flu contributed to teen son's death*
hospitals make flu shots mandatory*
nurses plan rally to protest mandatory swine flu shot*
mandatory swine flu shots for firefighters?*

neocon godfather & trotskyite, irving kristol, dead at 89

from aljazeera: Irving Kristol, the political writer whose right-wing ideology heavily influenced the previous US administration of President George Bush, has died at 89 after battling lung cancer. Known as the "godfather" of American neoconservatism, his death in the US state of Virginia on Friday was announced by the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, run by his son William.

Although he did not comment much in public on the war in Iraq, prominent neoconservatives inside and outside the Bush administration played a major role in pushing for the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002, praising him as "a wide-ranging thinker whose writings have helped transform America's political landscape."

While attending college in New York in the 1930s, Kristol was a follower of the Russian Communist Leon Trotsky.

Perceived failures
He later soured on socialism and became a liberal, but also left those ideas behind as he became increasingly disillusioned by the perceived failures of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, which government programmes did not manage to solve problems such as the rise of crime and drug abuse.

During the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s, Kristol finally became a supporter of the Republican Party, which he said was once as "foreign to me as attending a Catholic mass".

He became a flagship in the network of think-tanks, media outlets and corporations that helped make US conservatism a reigning ideology for at least two decades.

"The influence of Irving Kristol's ideas has been one of the most important factors in reshaping the American climate of opinion over the past 40 years," said Norman Podhoretz, another neoconservative theorist.

'Mugged by reality'
Kristol released several books, including Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of An Idea, and co-founded a neoconservative journal, The Public Interest.

He was a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, writing a series of essays in the 1970s that urged businesses to invest in conservative scholarship and counter the "permanent brain trust" of liberal politics.

The neoconservative movement was named by Michael Harrington, a socialist writer, in the early 1970s, and Kristol defined a neoconservative as a liberal who had been "mugged by reality."

Kristol was the son of Jewish immigrants from Ukraine, born in New York's Brooklyn neighborhood.

warwhores: mercenaries, afghanisurge & lewd behavior

state dept extends blackwater/dyncorp contracts in iraq*
flashback: dyncorp/halliburton sex slave scandal won't go away*
blackwater prince accused in US district court of intent to kill*
poll: most americans oppose more troops for afghanistan*
US afghan strategy 'not working'*
US to boost combat force in afghanistan*
ray mcgovern: afghanistan for dummies*
pentagon terminates controversial contract with rendon group*
military cancels controversial reporter-rating contract*
cia secret prisons organized from germany*
cia doctors face human experimentation claims*
boeing’s new death beam zaps vehicle*
trucks carrying nuclear weapons around the country revealed*
saic announces financial results for 2nd qtr of fiscal year 2010*
video: 'lewd & deviant' behavior by guards at US embassy in kabul*

econocrash updates: the fed, failures & bailout bust

geithner says auditing the fed is a 'line that we don't want to cross'
from corbett report: In an interview released today by Digg and the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was pressured about the growing popular movement to Audit the Fed spearheaded by Texas Congressman Ron Paul. A visibly uncomfortable Geithner attempts to dismiss the question by stating "I'm sure people understand that you want to keep politics out of monetary policy." When Geithner is again pressed on the issue, he makes the stunning assertion that conducting an audit of the Federal Reserve—something never before done in its 96 year history—is a "line that we don't want to cross," proclaiming that such a move would be "problematic for the country."

Geithner's response that auditing the Fed would give politicians dangerous control over American monetary policy is mistaken at best and a deliberate lie at worst. Allowing the public to know what happened to their $24 trillion in bailout money does not give undue control of monetary policy to the people's elected representatives. Instead, such an audit would finally allow the public to see how their money has been spent in the midst of the largest spending binge in the history of the world's economy, hardly an unreasonable demand given the well-documented revolving door between the Treasury and Goldman Sachs, the main recipient of bailout funds. Ultimately, the Treasury Secretary is left spewing the absurdity that "I think even the sponsor of that bill recognizes how important it is to us to have the Fed independent of politics," which can only be said to be true insofar as Ron Paul—the sponsor of House Resolution (HR) 1207— wants to abolish the Federal Reserve system altogether.

secret societies for c-suite executive assistants*
spain's bbva buys guaranty bank; 2009 toll hits 81*
analyst sees 150-200 more US bank failures*
video: bankunited ceo says 1,000 banks to fail in next 2yrs*
millions face shrinking social security checks*
unemployment edges up to great depression level*
judge orders fed to disclose who received bailout trillions*
brookings 'experts' admit stimulus a bust*
rhose island gov to shut down state govt for 12 days*
obama's spending plans will nearly double the national debt*
US problem banks at 15-year high*
bernanke personal bank account struck by identity theft*
video: sudden ominous music heard across US, nation panicking*

warwhores: killing hope, sowing terror, torture tech & force protect

mcchrystal preparing new afghan war strategy*
cia/media war on 'conspiracy theorists': invisible history, afghanistan's untold story, is no theory*
civilian toll rising in afghanistan, un report says*
killing hope, sowing terror:
the assassination bureau*
more innocents caught in afghanistan’s crossfire*
air force in a-stan: still dropping bombs*
christians largely mum on torture*
landing gadget could let drones see like pilots*
cia drone targeting tech revealed, qaeda claims*
raytheon's rise in profits reflects new world order*
raytheon pain ray's first commercial sale looms*
saic awarded US air force contract to provide worldwide force protection security services*
US wants to make 30k pound bomb*
photo gallery: inside alaska's answer to area 51 - haarp*
think tank: china beats US in simulated taiwan air war*
senator says army failed to protect troops from 'deadly poison' in iraq*

6/4 newspurge

9/11 updates:
prince harry makes ground zero pilgrimage*
obama doj backs saudi royal family on 9/11 lawsuit*
richard 'yr govt failed you' clarke says: 9/11 trauma defense - it's a lie*
abu hamza & more - additions to the 9/11 timeline as of may31*
video: ny senator gillibrand supports new 9/11 investigation*
obama appoints 9/11 commissioner to post of envoy to india*
hyman brown was not wtc 'chief engineer'*

swine flu/biowar:
video: world 'getting closer' to swine flu pandemic*
france considers mandatory flu vaccinations*
sarkozy’s secret plan for mandatory swine flu vaccination*
'human error' cause of a(h1n1) probed*
cdc vaccine advisor pockets $29m promoting vaccines*
swine flu hysteria to be launched again*
medimmune wins key contract to develop swine flu vaccine*
US swine flu cases hit all 50 states*
swine flu infects US official in france for obama trip*
5 most powerful anti-viral remedies for swine flu*
should immunisation be compulsory?*
more cases of swine flu in west virginia*
swine flu: two more schools close as 55 new cases reported in uk*
mmr jab should be compulsory for all children starting school, expert says*
dead silence: fear & terror on the anthrax trail*
video: new infectious disease spreads in large areas of china*
music as medicine: docs use tunes as treatment*

drugwar:
will obama end 'war on drugs'?*
student’s marijuana speech ends with flourish – & trip to jail*

econocrash:
without congressional approval or legislative authority,
obama plans for govt to take majority interest in general motors*
video: general motors files for bankruptcy*
US manufacturer general motors declares bankruptcy*
gm to sell hummer to chinese company*
gm to lose opel after nurturing it through recessions & nazis*
grand theft auto: how stevie the rat bankrupted general motors*
manipulation: how financial markets really work*
US manufacturing sector contracts for 16th straight month*
krugman: inflation fearmongering is a right-wing plot*
geithner in china, says US concerned about the deficits*
why the chinese laughed at geithner*
the big collapse could be very near*
dollar declines as nations mull reserve currency alternative*
leap in US debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink *
california now faces budget cuts 'beyond draconian'*
california's state parks are on chopping block*
from hero to zero: schwarzenegger & california's abyss*
foreclosed florida homes considered for hurricane housing*
ireland set to go bust, claims economic historian*
germany blasts 'powers of the fed'*
daniel estulin's "true story of the bilderberg group" &
what they may be planning now*

history/mystery:
last titanic survivor dies at 97*
cia withheld documents on jfk murder from president clinton*
cia was responsible for the assassination of jfk*
how a sleazy news story about jfk went unreported*
celebrity pathologist, cyril wecht, cleared*
hendrix 'was murdered' by his manager, claims roadie*
US doubles funds for agent orange cleanup*
co-pilot who bombed nagasaki is dead*
adolf hitler, up close - new photos from skull & bones life mag*
obscure 1943 book reveals german plan for world government*

media/memes:
bruno & eminem stunt 'was rehearsed'*

obamessiah & the apostles of war:
obamas' latest date: flight to nyc for dinner & a show*
bloomberg touts obamas' 'affordable' night on broadway*
in president obama, american muslims find new ally*
video: cheney confuses obama with osama*
no 'change you can believe in' for obama ambassadors*
bush/clinton joke & defend each other in canada*
ex-gop congressman says sotomayor part of 'latino kkk'*
osama speaks as obama lands in saudi arabia*
obama seeks saudi king's advice before cairo speech*
obama's occult health care symbolism*
obama names house republican to top army post*
it’s increasingly evident that obama should resign*
muslim brotherhood among invitees to obama speech*
bush told journalist: if elected "i'm going to invade iraq"*
obl: the 8yr long psyop*
osama slams obama in new tape*
audio: criminal liddy claims obama born in kenya*
video: obama vows 'new beginning' with islam*
obama seeks islam 'common ground'*
obama mentions 'world order' & dismisses 'that some question... the events of 9/11' in cairo speech*
obama's election has been a boon to liberal think tanks & lobbying firms*
source claims obama intel pick tied to cia torture program*
obama's speech in egypt warns not to challenge official 9/11 story*
obama admits US involvement in iran coup in 1953,
but doesn't admit american involvement in false flags*

police state int'l:
as of june 1st, we’re all prisoners in the USA*
US violates human rights humiliating air passengers*
homeland security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the US*
new york city's eco-cops*
florida county to fingerprint for video games sales*
boston cops getting more semiautomatic assault rifles*
marines train 'civilians' to accept coming martial law*
support your local 'domestic warrior-heroes' - or get kicked in the head*
US firm says handheld puke ray is ready to go*
ny state, local agencies hold 'dirty bomb' exercise*
wilmington, nc wants surveillance cameras to record every license plate*
uk mother 'too stupid' to keep child*
uk 10yr olds taught how to spot a terrorist in police dvd*
video: grandmother tasered at traffic stop*
video: man says cops don’t own him, is tased, then escapes*
ruling allowing taser use to get dna may be nation’s first*
detention & the constitution*
taxpayer subsidized organization’s cover-up of sexual abuse*
islamic group says newburgh 4 'not real muslims'*
new charges filed against newburgh 4*
newburgh 4 plead not guilty in plot to bomb synagogue*
internet radio host hal turner faces connecticut charges*
fbi operative hal turner arrested*
US intel officials link groups listed in dhs 'extremist' reports to al-qaeda bioattack*
dhs takes seriously claim militias may collaborate with al-qaeda on bioattack*
new doc pays homage to maverick patriot aaron russo*

warwhores:
american death squad:
obama inherits cheney's army of assassins – and promotes their commander*
ft lewis nco faces sex trafficking charge*
US army closes ft campbell for 3 days after suicide surge*
study says female marine recruits lax on sex*
army investigates nude photos at fort dix*
general apologizes for tillman 'confusion'*
inside the military’s secret terror-tagging tech*
US broke bombing rules in afghanistan*
more senior military sources confirm rape & sodomy at abu ghraib*
video: former detainee says torture still going on*
did mancow fake his waterboarding for publicity?*

wv worry:
judge arranges sterilization as part of charleston woman's probation*
have west virginia officials lost their minds when it comes to water safety standards?*
obama caves in to coal pressure,
approves 42 mountaintop mining permits in wv*
byrd hospital stay extended by staph infection*

corbett report: episode080 - the summer of our discontent

from corbett report: The governments of the developed world have been preparing for decades to implement martial law. Now intelligence agencies, CFR members, Trilaterals, think tanks and analysts of all stripes are predicting a summer of rage. Join us for this week's edition of The Corbett Report as we use this slim window of opportunity to warn others that the elite are planning a New World Order out of chaos.

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police state usa: talking cameras, preemptive war & domestic troops

north hollywood installs 'talking cameras'

from infowars: North Hollywood is going the way of Baltimore, Martin County, and Middlesbrough, England. It has installed “talking cameras,” ostensibly to ward off taggers and people who dump trash. “Los Angeles police are using motion-activated cameras to warn vandals that they’re being watched,” reports WOAI for NBC News. “The motion triggers a recorded voice that states, ‘This is the Los Angeles Police Department. It is illegal to spray graffiti or dump trash here.’ The voice warns vandals that they are being recorded and will be prosecuted. The camera provides a high-resolution image of the tagger and the vehicle. It can capture an image of a license plate from 250 feet.”

gates expands preemptive war doctrine to include nuclear strikes
from wsws: In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes. It is widely rumored that, in the likely event that Democrat Barack Obama wins next week's US presidential election, Obama will keep Gates as defense secretary. Gates' speech, given in the waning days of the Bush presidency, has the character of a policy declaration of the next US administration.

the new technology of repression
from consortium news: In its final months, the Bush administration is pressing ahead with a new generation of spy technology designed to strengthen the U.S. military’s ability to detect and eliminate suspected insurgents in Iraq and elsewhere based on computer analyses of their movements and activities. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has begun granting contracts to software firms to create algorithms (632kb PDF) that can be applied to the real-time video feeds from drone aircraft so the data can be sorted and stored on a wide range of human activities, from digging a ditch to climbing into a car to kissing someone.

'reorganizing US domestic intel': new report from rand
from homestation: The question of whether the United States needs a new domestic intelligence service that is independent of law enforcement is examined by Greg Treverton of the RAND Corporation in a new report for Congress entitled "Reorganizing U.S. Domestic Intelligence." (1mb PDF)
"One of the questions in the fight against terrorism is whether the United States needs a dedicated domestic intelligence agency separate from law enforcement, on the model of many comparable democracies. To examine this issue, Congress directed that the Department of Homeland Security perform an independent study on the feasibility of creating a counterterrorism intelligence agency and the department turned to the RAND Corporation for this analysis but asked it specifically not to make a recommendation."

2 more combat units assigned to homeland brigade
from paul joseph watson: Northcom has announced that two more U.S. military units will be assigned for domestic homeland security missions, bringing the total number of combat ready service members operating inside the U.S. to around 4,700, as fears grow about the increasing militarization of law enforcement. The announcement follows the controversy surrounding a September 8 Army Times report (revised on September 30), which revealed that the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team, fresh from combat duties in Iraq, would be operating inside America for tasks including “civil unrest and crowd control,” a detail that was later denied by Northcom despite the concession that forces would be armed with both non-lethal and lethal weapons as well as having access to tanks. “In the next three years the military plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations, according to Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions,” reports the Colorado Independent.

US border police arrest mexican troops
from reuters: U.S. border police arrested seven Mexican soldiers after they accidentally strayed over the international boundary into Arizona, authorities said. The U.S. Border Patrol said agents encountered the troops in a Humvee a short distance north of the border near Yuma, in far west Arizona, early on Friday. "The Border Patrol agents on scene established a dialogue with the subjects, who identified themselves as members of the Mexican military," the Border Patrol said in a news release. "The ... agents informed them of their presence within the United States. Upon notification, the subjects were peaceably taken into custody," it added.

at&t to try limiting subscribers' data use, too
from latimes: AT&T Inc. customers who obsessively play World of Warcraft while downloading dozens of movies: Your days of online impunity may be numbered. AT&T has joined the ranks of telecommunications companies that are exploring the idea of limiting the amount of bandwidth that subscribers can use each month. The company began this month to apply such limits, testing the policy first in Reno. Subscribers to AT&T's slowest Internet service there will be limited to downloading 20 gigabytes of data per month. Those who subscribe to the fastest plan will be able to download as much as 150 gigabytes per month. Anyone who goes over the limit will pay $1 per extra gigabyte of data downloaded.

envirohealth: biodefense, flying syringes & vaccine protests

huge new biodefense lab is dedicated at ft detrick
from washington post: The Department of Homeland Security dedicated a massive biodefense laboratory in Frederick yesterday, moving toward the facility's opening despite questions raised about the risks of deadly pathogens to be studied there. When the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Fort Detrick is fully operational in March, about 150 scientists in the lab will be tasked with protecting the country from a bioterrorist attack through prevention or containment. Another goal is to allow investigators to fingerprint biological agents such as viruses and bacteria, quickly tracing their source and catching the offender. But critics cite the case of Bruce E. Ivins, a researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, also at Fort Detrick, as evidence that such installations might help bioterrorists get access to lethal agents. FBI investigators think Ivins, who committed suicide in July, was responsible for the 2001 anthrax attacks.

emergency declarations smooth way for vaccine makers

fda conspired with chem industry to declare bpa harmless
from natural news: The FDA has been caught red-handed conspiring with the chemical industry to conclude that Bisphenol-A, the plastics chemical, is harmless to human health. As revealed by the Environmental Working Group, the FDA based its evaluation of BPA on a report authored by the American Chemistry Council (ACC), a trade group that represents chemical companies and plastics manufacturers. The FDA's evaluation concluded that BPA was perfectly safe for consumers of any age, including infants. This conclusion stands in direct opposition to the Canadian government, which declared BPA to be a toxic chemical on Oct. 18 and moved towards banning the chemical in baby bottles. Even the U.S. National Institutes of Health says BPA may be dangerous, admitting it is concerned about BPA's "effects on development of the prostate gland and brain and for behavioral effects in fetuses, infants and children."

officials fear greyhound passengers exposed to tb

gates funds research into 'flying syringe' mosquitos for 'vaccines'
from afp: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded 100,000 dollars each on Wednesday to scientists in 22 countries including funding for a Japanese proposal to turn mosquitos into "flying syringes" delivering vaccines. The charitable foundation created by the founder of software giant Microsoft said in a statement that the grants were designed to "explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve global health."

bill gates' mysterious new company

what do we consider to be an act of war in cyberspace?

from washington times: U.S. military officials seeking to boost the nation's cyberwarfare capabilities are looking beyond defending the Internet: They are developing ways to launch virtual attacks on enemies.

But first the military will have to figure out the proper boundaries.

"What do we consider to be an act of war in cyberspace?" asked Lt. Gen. Robert J. Elder Jr., who heads the Air Force's cyberoperations command. "The military is not going to tend to do that (use virtual strike capabilities) until you cross some line that constitutes an act of war."

Elder said initial uses likely would be limited to diverting or killing data packets that threaten the nation's systems, the way the military may intercept a foreign ship carrying arms in international waters.

The remarks came late Friday during a New York chapter meeting of the Association For Intelligence Officers, a nonprofit group for current and former intelligence agents and their supporters.

chinese hacks, autism vax, israel tracks & blair attacks

chinese cyberattacks target US think tanks
from upi: Defense-related think tanks and contractors, as well as the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, were the target of repeated computer network intrusions last year apparently originating in China, the Department of Defense said this week.

court finds vaccine-autism link?
from ap: For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence. The government has agreed to pay the girl's family for injury caused by vaccines.


israel's quiet killers
from danger room: "Wary Gaza militants using binoculars are on constant lookout for drones," the A.P. reports on the latest round of fighting with Israel... The U.S. employs many of the same tactics for similar purposes, flying Predator drones in Pakistan to quietly pick off suspected jihadists. I'm not sure about the cell phone connection: while the technology exists to track people by way of their phones, many drones employ more direct means of targeting, including daylight and IR sensors. The Taliban in Afghanistan is certainly convinced cell phones are a vulnerability, though.

blair to teach about the nwo at yale
from afp: Former British prime minister Tony Blair is to take up a post teaching at Yale, one of the top educational institutions in the United States, the university said Friday. Blair, who stepped down as prime minister last year after 10 years in power, was to lecture on faith and globalization as the Howland Distinguished Fellow, and would start in the next academic year, the university said.

psu class in top 10 'most dangerous' courses

from kgw: A conservative think tank has listed a Portland State University class as among America’s most dangerous college courses.

PSU Adjunct Professor Rick Rolf and his students will simultaneously celebrate and denounce the selection of his course, “Truth, Lies, Politics and Policy” by the Family Security Matters organization as one of “America’s Top Ten Most Dangerous College Courses,” Rolf said Tuesday.

He learned of his course’s selection from a student e-mail and at first thought it was a joke.

“On a whim I Googled the list and couldn’t believe my eyes. We were ranked the '6th Most Dangerous Course in America,'" he said.

group labels psu class dangerous, anti-american
from katu: A Portland State University professor is fighting back after a national conservative group has labeled a politics class he teaches as the "sixth-most dangerous" taught in America.

The group, Family Security Matters, says the class "Truth, Lies, Politics and Policy" is full of anti-American rhetoric.

Prof. Rick Rolf called the charges laughable and dangerous.

"I think this mean-spirited sort of action is exactly what they're trying to do is to muzzle people and to shut them down," he told KATU.