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Judging the cyber war terrorist threat : The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/11/01/101101fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all, posted 2010 by peter in china essay politics privacy security toread usa war
A great deal of money is at stake. Cyber security is a major growth industry, and warnings from Clarke, McConnell, and others have helped to create what has become a military-cyber complex.
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American intelligence and security officials for the most part agree that the Chinese military, or, for that matter, an independent hacker, is theoretically capable of creating a degree of chaos inside America. But I was told by military, technical, and intelligence experts that these fears have been exaggerated, and are based on a fundamental confusion between cyber espionage and cyber war. Cyber espionage is the science of covertly capturing e-mail traffic, text messages, other electronic communications, and corporate data for the purpose of gathering national-security or commercial intelligence. Cyber war involves the penetration of foreign networks for the purpose of disrupting or dismantling those networks, and making them inoperable.
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WikiLeaks should be declared 'enemy combatants', says Fox News contributor
www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/26/wikileaks-fox-iraq-war-logs, posted 2010 by peter in fascism media opinion politics propaganda toread usa war
A Fox News contributor and former state department adviser has accused WikiLeaks of conducting "political warfare against the US" and called for those behind the whistleblowing website to be declared "enemy combatants" so they can be subjected to "non-judicial actions".
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Stuxnet: the online front line - 06 October 2010 - New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827815.200-stuxnet-the-online-front-line.html, posted 2010 by peter in business opinion scam security terrorism war windows
IS CYBERWARFARE (a) one of the biggest threats of the 21st century or (b) an elaborate hoax designed to extract money from gullible governments? Stuxnet, the computer worm running rampant in Iran's nuclear facilities, tells us the answer. An analysis
of the worm by computer security company Symantec makes it abundantly clear that a few lines of malicious computer code can trip electricity grids, burn out power-station generators, pollute water supplies and sabotage gas pipelines. That cyberattacks can become real-world attacks is no longer a matter of conjecture.
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Why diamonds don’t cut it any more
women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7134303.ece, posted 2010 by peter in business propaganda war
It’s that moment. He’s on one knee, he opens the box, the ring twinkles in the light. Ah, a diamond! Does that mean it must be love? Or that your suitor has paid a massively overinflated price for a cheap and common stone, whose value is artificially manipulated by a single company founded by Britain’s greatest colonialist, a stone whose profits have recently funded the bloodiest of violent conflicts in Africa, and whose entire modern tradition was invented by an expensive marketing campaign in the mid-20th century?
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US planned one big nuclear blast for mankind | Science | The Observer
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/may/14/spaceexploration.theobserver, posted 2010 by peter in environment history propaganda space usa war
The US Air Force developed a top-secret plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon as a display of military might at the height of the Cold War.
In an exclusive interview with The Observer, Dr Leonard Reiffel, 73, the physicist who fronted the project in the late Fifties at the US military-backed Armour Research Foundation, revealed America's extraordinary lunar plan.
'It was clear the main aim of the proposed detonation was a PR exercise and a show of one-upmanship. The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth,' he said yesterday. 'The US was lagging behind in the space race.'
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Friend - CCRFC, DPRK
www.friend.com.kp/, posted 2010 by peter in asia conspiracy fascism korea news politics propaganda war
We opened homepage titled "Friend" with an aim to achieve a common progress of humankind and contribute to promoting mutual understanding and cooperation under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship.
A fascinating mix of friendly greetings, celebratory "news" and harsh propaganda from North Korea.
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The Physics of Space Battles - Space battle - Gizmodo
gizmodo.com/5426453/the-physics-of-space-battles, posted 2009 by peter in physics science scifi space toread war
I had a discussion recently with friends about the various depictions of space combat in science fiction movies, TV shows, and books. We have the fighter-plane engagements of Star Wars, the subdued, two-dimensional naval combat in Star Trek, the Newtonian planes of Battlestar Galactica, the staggeringly furious energy exchanges of the combat wasps in Peter Hamilton's books, and the use of antimatter rocket engines themselves as weapons in other sci-fi. But suppose we get out there, go terraform Mars, and the Martian colonists actually revolt. Or suppose we encounter hostile aliens. How would space combat actually go?
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"Utnämningen av Obama är skamlig och motverkar sitt syfte" - Artikel av Anna Ek - Newsmill
www.newsmill.se/artikel/2009/10/09/utnamningen-av-obama-ar-skamlig-och-motverkar-sitt-syfte, posted 2009 by peter in inswedish opinion toread usa war
USA spenderar årligen 600 miljarder amerikanska dollar på sina militära styrkor. Det utgör hälften av världens samlade militära utgifter. USA innehar idag 2700 av världens 8000 kärnvapenstridsspetsar. I dagsläget bedriver USA två krig där tusentals civila dödas varje år. Senast i förra veckan kom nya rapporter på hur civila dödats av flygstridskrafter och andra offensiva delar av det amerikanska kriget mot terrorismen i Afghanistan, operation Enduring Freedom.
Obama må vara en bättre president än George W Bush. Men det kvalificerar knappast någon till att per automatik få världens finaste fredsutmärkelse. Utmärkelsen säger en hel del om hur mycket krig Nobelkommittén tycker är okej för att fortfarande ses som en fredshjälte.
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Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand?currentPage=all, posted 2009 by peter in history msm politics russia usa war
Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
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Kavkazcenter.com
www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/, posted 2009 by peter in media news politics propaganda religion russia terrorism war
The internet agency Kavkaz Centre provides reporting of events in the Islamic world, the Caucasus, and Russia. One of Kavkaz Centre's chief objectives is to report events in the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria connected to the Russian military aggression against the CRI. Besides we also provide international news agencies with news-letters, background information and assistance in making independent journalistic work in Caucasus.
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