Thin ground fog and still a bit on the warm side for February along California’s northern coast, but still way-better than a lot of other spots on this fragile earth. On Tuesday night, President Obama droned on about how terrible the US has become because of gun violence, but didn’t take into consideration the gun violence in Afghanistan, or Pakistan, or Yemen, or a dozen other spots across the globe where Read More ...
Overcast and a bit on the warm side this morning along California’s northern coast, but that’s gotten to be fairly normal lately. A lot of shit has become ‘normal‘ most recently. President Obama nominated a couple of guys yesterday for some important government posts — one was a good choice, the other right out of an Orwellian/Strangelove pot-roast. (Illustration found here). Obama selected former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel for defense Read More ...
One crucial element off the World Trade Center attacks was fright, and from this fear arose a desire coupled with the technical ability to scrutinize perceived enemies, real or maybe politically imagined. The ongoing David Petraeus freak show details how this shit can morph into something way different — and all US peoples should beware of how aware are prying eyes. Last March, King David blubbered at a spy conference: Read More ...
A clear, quiet early morning here on California’s northern coast, and compared to the remarkable heat-wave blasting the eastern part of the country this week, the weather around these local parts is near-envious. The environment can change quick, though, as I was outside a minute ago on a smoke break and it’s getting a bit foggy, shading the stars and turning a chill — if one doesn’t like the weather Read More ...
(Illustration found here). The US drone war is the one conflict that’s always continually escalating — even as the US vacates an isolated Pakistani base from where UAV aircraft were launched will apparently not slow the operations down at all. From Wired: The CIA just got kicked out of a major Pakistani launching pad for the drone war. But just because the agency is packing up its stuff like a Read More ...
“It’s getting a lot of attention,” the source says. “But no one’s panicking. “Yet.” (Illustration found here). The quote above comes from a Danger Room blog post on a computer virus that’s infested the US unmanned drone program, and although reportedly the canker hasn’t bothered flight operations at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, the problem is no one knows for sure the source. And the infection underscores the ongoing Read More ...
“If this works out, we’ll have the ability to track people persistently across wide areas,” says Tim Faltemier, the lead biometrics researcher at Progeny Systems Corporation, which recently won one of the Army contracts. “A guy can go under a bridge or inside a house. But when he comes out, we’ll know it was the same guy that went in.” – Description of innovative drone technology, from Wired (Illustration found Read More ...
New US DOD honcho Leon Panetta opened his big yap last week and blubbered to the troops in Iraq that they were there “because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,” but he, of course, was just playing, talking shit to the troops. He backpedaled, or tried to run it back: “I wasn’t saying, you know, the invasion — or going into the issues or the justification of that. It Read More ...
We can all rest much, much easier as Jackboot John McCain has his slippers fast on the ground in Libya: Aljazeera ‘s Sue Turton, reporting from Benghazi, said McCain told reporters he was there to meet the Transitional National Council and members of the military to assess the situation on the ground. He also denied concerns about the possibility of extremist or al-Qaeda elements fighting alongside the rebel forces, saying Read More ...
(Illustration found here). This country is in a shotgun-wedding to strange disaster. From Reuters: A victim of last week’s Arizona shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation after threatening a Tea Party leader during the taping of a television show, police said…Fuller stood, turned and snapped a picture of Humphries, said Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jason Ogan. “Then he yelled at him and Read More ...
