0 UK Soldiers train with only the best gaming software, minus the civilian casualty's

Simulation Specialists Help Troops Stay Ahead of the Game, Surrey-based company enlists gaming technology

Members of the British Army’s PlayStation generation will head to Helmand province next month having honed their soldiering skills in virtual combat. As part of their year-long preparations for a winter tour of Afghanistan, troops from 20th Armoured Brigade have been immersed in a succession of cutting-edge simulation serials tailored to replicate real-life threats in theatre.

The digital deployment – delivered by leading training and simulation company NSC – saw each of the formation’s battlegroups plugged into JCOVE (Joint Combat Operations Virtual Environment).

Originally introduced to British Service personnel in 2007 as a means of training troops in vehicle convoy drills, JCOVE has been developed to emulate and test soldiers’ reactions to foot patrols, Taliban ambushes and the ever-present threat of improvised explosive devices.

Utilising military simulator Virtual Battlespace 2, a spin-off from commercial game engines, the training is run on a network of laptop computers with those taking part able to communicate via headsets. It boasts console-quality aesthetics and features authentic weaponry, vehicles and Afghan-style terrain.

NSC has already rolled-out digital duplicates of Mastiff and Jackal – two recent arrivals in the Army’s armoured vehicle arsenal – and virtual versions of the Ridgback and Husky are revving up for action. The Service’s new multi-terrain pattern camouflage will also be added to the war-game’s wardrobe in the coming weeks.

“This sort of training has its limitations but soldiers, particularly those using JCOVE, really get involved with it and don’t just sit there thinking ‘I’m playing a computer game’,” Chris Williams, project group manager of virtual training and simulation systems at the Surrey-based company, said. “It is far more realistic than any game on the market and is not there for entertainment – it is there for training and troops see and treat it differently.

“A game only has to have enough code behind it to make the on-screen soldiers and enemies do the things necessary for the title’s storyline; a training system has to be able to do anything,” he added. “Our ‘soldiers’ are at the will of the operator and consequently you can’t have any areas of the map which are off limits.

“We also have to make sure that the software’s weapons systems are realistic – in a simulation you can’t suddenly acquire a super weapon that can take out all of the enemy in one shot.”

Williams said that the realism brought to the pre-deployment mix by NSC, which also develops and delivers strategic and operational war-gaming solutions for the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College and Land Warfare Centre, complemented traditional training methods.

“With an exercise on Salisbury Plain it can be raining and muddy, the soldiers all wear green and they’ve got Afghans driving about in brand new 4x4s – so much so that it doesn’t look authentic,” he added. “Put the training on a computer screen and these things do look real: the scenery looks real, the Afghans look real and there are beaten-up cars instead of shiny vehicles. 

Source:http://www.defpro.com/daily/details/891/?SID=8419b3205f4db455eb7f422ae4d8a6ee

 Gulf War syndrome, suicide wait, alcoholism, and no retirement pension!! are paid for add-ons apparently....

0 3 Dozen Boeing military aircraft workers face drug charges After Entrapment Sting

Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged three dozen current and former employees of a Boeing plant that manufactures military aircraft with buying or selling prescription drugs abused at the site.

FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the Ridley Park, Pennsylvania plant earlier following a four-year, undercover operation to curtail drug abuse at the plant, which manufactures CH-47 Chinook helicopters and V-22 Osprey helicopter-airplane hybrids used by the military.

Of those charged, 36 were current or former Boeing employees, while another was neither, prosecutors said.

The US Department of Justice said 23 of the accused were indicted on charges of illegally distributing prescription drugs, including painkillers fentanyl (Actiq) and oxycodone (Oxycontin); anti-anxiety medication alprazolam (Xanax); and buprenorphine (Suboxone), an opioid used to treat addiction.

Maximum penalties varied greatly for those workers, depending on the severity of the charges, ranging from 10 years in prison and a $500,000 fine to 220 years in prison and an $11 million fine for Joseph Salvato, who charged with nine counts of distributing oxycodone and two counts for fentanyl.

Another 14 defendants were charged with attempted possession of the drugs being sold by their co-workers, a misdemeanor charge.

That group of employees faces up to a year in prison for each count.

Each worker was said to have either sold a controlled substance to an FBI cooperator or bought a placebo they believed was a controlled substance from an FBI cooperator.

Source:http://www.defencetalk.com/boeing-military-aircraft-workers-face-drug-charges-37370/

This isn't right, is it any different than the FBI selling a suspected terrorist placebo bomb making making equipment , and then arresting him for attemping to use it??

I think it's called "entrapment".... it aint legal..and it's 3 more steps forward to a 1984 type environment in the workplace.

0 $3.1M joins war against bioterror

Bioterrorism research at Albany Medical College received a $3.1 million boost in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.

The money will be used to study the molecular "signature" of tularemia, naturally occurring bacteria that can be cultivated in a lab as a biological weapon. If inhaled into the lungs, it is fatal.

Tularensis, which is found in soil and water, was weaponized during the Cold War by scientists in the United States and Soviet Union. It is considered a likely bioterrorism agent for modern-day terrorists.

The grant will allow Professor Karsten R.O. Hazlett, a molecular microbiologist, to study the difference between naturally occurring and lab-produced tularemia. The work will help public health officials quickly determine whether a tularemia outbreak is a fluke of nature or a threat to national security.

The chemical makeup of tularemia has a molecular signature that varies depending on where it was cultivated, Hazlett said. If the scientists catalog those signatures "we can say with some level of certainty that this was grown in the lab, this was grown in a macrophage (an immune cell in the body) or this was grown in pond water."

As the research is fine-tuned, it could even point to which lab made it, much like the anthrax investigations conducted a decade ago.

For the research, Hazlett and his team members will cultivate tularemia under conditions that mimic the bacterium's natural environment and the lab conditions that would be used by bioterrorists. Samples will be sent for analysis to collaborators at the universities of Maryland and Chicago.

Not only will better knowledge of the bacteria aid in national security, but Hazlett said the information can help vaccine research. Albany Med's Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease is working on a vaccine.

source:http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/3-1M-joins-war-against-bioterror-2195832.php

0 Lost TRICARE backup tapes could expose nearly 5 million records

TRICARE, which provides civilian health benefits for military personnel, military retirees and their dependents, announced on Wednesday that Science Applications International (SAIC) has reported a data breach involving  personally identifiable and protected health information (PII/PHI) impacting an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients.

 

The breach was reported by SAIC on Sept. 14 and involved backup tapes from an electronic healthcare record used in the Military Health System (MHS) to capture patient data from 1992 through Sept. 7, 2011, from patients who received care in the San Antonio area military treatment facilities (including the filling of pharmacy prescriptions) and others whose laboratory workups were processed in these same facilities even though the patients were receiving treatment elsewhere.

The back-up tapes may have included Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and some personal health data such as clinical notes, laboratory tests and prescriptions, but officials said there was no financial data, such as credit card or bank account information.

Officials said they delayed posting a notification about the breach for two weeks because they did not want to cause “undue alarm” and wanted to be able to assess the risk to the public, which they have determined is low.

“The risk of harm to patients is judged to be low despite the data elements involved since retrieving the data on the tapes would require knowledge of and access to specific hardware and software and knowledge of the system and data structure,” TRICARE officials said.

The incident is under investigation and officials said additional information will be published as soon as it is available.

SAIC and TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) officials said they are also reviewing current data protection security policies and procedures to prevent similar breaches in the future.

SAIC has created an Incident Response Call Center for what it refers to on its website as “reported loss” of back-up computer tapes for patients who believe they may have been impacted.

0 BAE Systems "Cloaking Device"

"Once mounted on a vehicles hull or ballistic armour plates, ADAPTIV renders a vehicle invisible to infra-red and other surveillance technology.

Whether it is day or night, whether they are on the move or stationary, ADAPTIV gives your vehicles increased stealth - and greater survivability".

0 Bisphenol A, Toxins in your tea kettle

Think about this as you drink your morning cup o’ tea: The kettle you boiled the water in could contain a plastic compound and synthetic hormone that’s potentially cancer causing. 

 Controversial Bisphenol A, or BPA, has been banned from baby bottles in some countries—and France’s food safety agency issued two reports on Tuesday condemning BPA as dangerous—but authorities in Switzerland are dragging their heels over the issue, saying we’re not at risk from levels of the substance that we normally come into contact to. ABE, the Consumer Show continues its investigation: Download/Print Test Results (PDF)

ABE submitted 22 kettles purchased in French-speaking Switzerland—15 plastic kettles and seven metal—for analysis at the laboratory of Neuchâtel’s Cantonal Chemist.
Prior to analysis, each object was prepared according to the manufacturer’s instructions: up to four rinses before taking into consideration its contents for analysis.
TEST RESULTS—PLASTIC KETTLES:
The worst offenders:
MioStar SilverBelt: 160 ng/l (Migros, CHF 39.90) Kenwood Atom: 120 ng/l (Maxi-Discount, CHF 40) Melitta Look Aqua Vario: 75 ng/l (Media Markt, CHF 49) Rotel Rapid 280: 15 ng/l (Manor, CHF 49.90) Trisa Vitessa: 10 ng/l (Media Markt, CHF 29.90)
Eight kettles contained BPA prior to rinsing, but no detectable amount afterwards:
Turmix CX 170 (Media Markt, CHF 29.90) Satrap Thermoboil (Coop, CHF 34.40) Tefal Vitesse (Manor, CHF 74.90) Durabase Aqua (Migros, CHF 19.90) Füst Primotecq WK 9010 (Fust, CHF 19.90) Bosch Private Collection TWK6004N (Fust, CHF 69.90) Philips HD4676 (Maxi-Discount, CHF 55) Miostar XS (Migros, CHF 24.90)
Winners
Two kettles showed no traces of BPA, either before or after rinsing:
Intertronic (Inter Discount, CHF 19.95) Braun AquaExpress WK 210 (Fust, CHF 69.90)
TEST RESULTS—METAL KETTLES:
The worst offenders:
Trisa Expressboil: 140 ng/l (Media Markt, CHF 49) Tefal Expressboil: 60 ng/l (Media Markt, CHF 85) Füst Primotecq WK1340: 55 ng/l (Fust, CHF 34.90) Solis AQUAMAT 554: 25 ng/l (Media Markt, CHF 69) Satrap Quickboil: 20 ng/l (Coop, CHF 54.90) Bosch Private Collection TWK 6801: 20 ng/l (Fust, CHF 89.90)
The winner:
The only metal kettle without any detectable bisphenol A following rinsing: Miostar Chà (CHF 49.90)
For information purposes, the Cantonal Chemist also analysed the water in the three kettles used by the laboratory’s employees, kettles a few years old. All three contained BPA—up to 410 ng/l.

over 3x more than the Worst tested, The reason? 

Old plastic produces more BPA. As the plastic ages, it starts to show micro-cracks and degrades with age.

0 Missing Libya stingers are not all we should be worried about.....

2007 GOA report to Congressional Committees stresses that DOD can not guarantee that US funded weapons reach Iraqi security forces.

Here's the bottom line on this particular mess;

110 thousand AK-47s and 80 thousand pistols purchased with US tax payers money in order to arm Iraqi security forces are simply "unaccounted" for by US Army.

Also, 135 thousand body armor vests, and 115 thousand helmets are also "missing".

October 2006 Congress report stated that in 2003, 14 thousand firearms went "missing" in Iraq.

It also has to be mentioned, that out of more then 370 thousand guns US provided to Iraqi forces, serial numbers of only 10 thousand were registered by Pentagon, thus automatically leaving 360 thousand as unaccounted for.

Source: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07711.pdf

0 The Last Word with Lawrance O'Donnell, Re-writing The Wall Street Protests

Probably the first time in history that I have agreed with Lawrence O'Donnell about anything for nine minutes.

Please watch the whole video.

0 NASA warns of geomagnetic storm after behemoth solar flare

NASA says geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma with latest blast

NASA today said a strong-to-severe geomagnetic storm is in progress following a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME).   CMEs are a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth.  Simulations indicate that solar wind plasma has penetrated close to geosynchronous orbit starting at 9am today. Geosynchronous satellites could therefore be directly exposed to solar wind plasma and magnetic fields. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras after nightfall, NASA stated.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather forecast center went further saying: A CME that erupted from NOAA Active Region 1302 on Saturday September 24 in conjunction with an M7 strength solar flare, arrived this morning at 1237 UT (8:37am Eastern Time). It has kicked off moderate (G2) geomagnetic storms for low latitudes, but high latitudes are seeing severe (G4) levels of activity. Aurora watchers in Asia and Europe are most favorably positioned for this event, though it may persist long enough for viewers in North America. The bulk of the CME missed the Earth, meaning the storm intensity and duration are less than what they would have been in the case of a direct hit. Region 1302 remains capable of producing more activity and will be in a favorable position for that activity to have impacts on Earth for the next 3-5 days.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash.

This particular sunspot, 1302 has already produced two X-flares (X1.4 on Sept. 22nd and X1.9 on Sept. 24th). The entire active region stretches more than 100,000 km from end to end. None of the blasts have been squarely Earth-directed, but this could change as the sunspot turns toward our planet in the days ahead. AR1302 is growing and shows no immediate signs of quieting down, NASA said.

The sunspot's magnetic field is currently crackling with sub-X-class flares that could grow into larger eruptions as the sunspot continues to turn toward Earth, NASA stated. The Goddard Space Weather Lab reported a strong compression of Earth's magnetosphere.

According to the space agency: "The biggest flares are known as "X-class flares" based on a classification system that divides solar flares according to their strength. The smallest ones are A-class (near background levels), followed by B, C, M and X. Similar to the Richter scale for earthquakes, each letter represents a 10-fold increase in energy output. So an X is ten times an M and 100 times a C. Within each letter class there is a finer scale from 1 to 9.  C-class and smaller flares are too weak to noticeably affect Earth. M-class flares can cause brief radio blackouts at the poles and minor radiation storms that might endanger astronauts."

Earlier this year NASA noted that the Sun hadn't blasted out any X-flares for four years but produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity associated with our sun's regular 11-year cycle, and confirms that Solar Cycle 24 is indeed heating up, as solar experts have expected. Solar activity will continue to increase as the solar cycle progresses toward solar maximum, expected in the 2013 time frame.

NASA and NOAA - as well as the US Air Force Weather Agency and others -- keep a constant watch on the sun to monitor for X-class flares and their associated magnetic storms. With advance warning many satellites and spacecraft can be protected from the worst effects, NASA stated.

0 US moves to massively boost stockpiles of vaccines to counter bioterror threats

Anthrax vaccine - check. Antibiotics - check. A botulism treatment - check. Smallpox vaccine - check.

Ten years after the anthrax attacks brought home the reality of bioterrorism, the nation has a stockpile of some basic tools to fight back against a few of the threats that worry defense experts the most.

These defenses are not just gathering dust awaiting the next attack. In August, a Minneapolis hospital dipped into the stockpile to treat a critically ill patient - a tourist who, somewhere on his Midwest vacation, had the extraordinary bad luck to breathe anthrax spores that naturally linger in the dirt in parts of the country. The man, who survived, received a kind of medication not available in October 2001 when anthrax spores sent through the mail killed five people and sickened 17.

But there's wide concern that the nation's arsenal hasn't grown fast enough. A decade later, there are no treatments for a number of bugs on the worry list, and little to offer for other threats like a radiation emergency. Even a long-promised next-generation anthrax vaccine, that would be easier to produce, hasn't arrived yet. Nor is there information on how to treat children.

"Where are the countermeasures?" advisers to the Department of Health and Human Services asked in a critical report last year.

There are some: There's enough smallpox vaccine for everyone, plus some of a specially formulated version safe for cancer patients and others with weak immune systems. There's an improved version of the decades-old anthrax vaccine used in 2001. There are a few treatments for the toxins produced by anthrax and botulism, and a smallpox treatment is due soon.

But federal health officials are working to jump-start production of more countermeasures, and they say that more than 80 candidates are in advanced development. Over the past year, the goal has evolved into a push for more multiuse therapies, products that work not just for biodefense but for everyday health problems, too.

That's a major shift that should entice more big drug companies to the field, said Dr. Robin Robinson, who heads the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.

Source:http://azstarnet.com/news/science/health-med-fit/article_5279b415-8086-50bb-a91e-01ffd3f05c25.html

Hope you people like needles....your about to be inundated by them.

0 Employer Facebook policy changing workplace social networking

Do you know who's keeping a close look at your Facebook page? It may not just be your friends.

 

Your employer may have a Facebook policy.  If they do, it may be time to learn what it says.

"There's no free speech," one person told us. That person didn't want their identity known and chose their words carefully.

"You have to watch what you say," the person told us. Especially, they said, on Facebook and other social media.

"I have heard about people getting in trouble for what they put on Facebook, but I never thought it would happen to me," the person explained. But it did. They told us a co-worker and Facebook friend reported them to the boss for talking about work on the social media site.

"They gave me a verbal warning and told me to remove my place of work from Facebook," they explained. "You catch yourself starting to write something, then turn around and no, I better take that off." 

What has developed, social media and legal experts told Eyewitness News, is a sophisticated and damning version of the workplace complaint session at the bar after hours.  Only on social media sites, it's in print... and doesn't go away.

Full Article:http://www.wthr.com/story/15554691/employer-facebook-policy-changing-workplace-social-networking

Are people really this stupid? 

0 Fracking Hell: The Untold Story, Europe Is Next.

Marcellus Shale contains enough natural gas to supply all US gas needs for 14 years. But as gas drilling takes place, using a process called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking," toxic chemicals and methane gas seep into drinking water. Now experts fear that unacceptable levels of radioactive Radium 226 in gas development waste.

Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.

Waste from Pennsylvania gas wells -- waste that may also contain unacceptable levels of radium -- is routinely dumped across state lines into landfills in New York, Ohio and West Virginia. New York does not require testing waste for radioactivity prior to dumping or treatment. So drill cuttings from Pennsylvania have been dumped in New York's Chemung and other counties and liquid waste is shipped to treatment plants in Auburn and Watertown New York. How radioactive is this waste? Experts are calling are for testing to find out.
New York State may have been the first state in the nation to put a temporary hold on fracking pending a safety review, but it allows other states to dump toxic frack waste within its boundaries.

With a gas production boom underway in the Marcellus Shale and plans for some 400,000 wells in the coming decades, the cumulative impact of dumping potential lethal waste without adequate oversight is a catastrophe waiting to happen. And now U.S. companies are exporting fracking to Europe.

0 Recombobulate After Your TSA Experience

At Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee,

this sign is hanging immediately after the security area.

I guess so you know where to redress, put your shoes back on, etc

"recombobulate (verb) : to reorganize, regroup, refocus or straighten up

After my frenzied start to the morning, I needed a few quiet moments to recombobulate" 

http://www3.merriam-webster.com/opendictionary/newword_display_recent.php?id=10051 

0 Peaceful Women Penned In & Maced During Wall Street Protest

While on a peaceful march near Union Square in downtown Manhattan, multiple female protestors were penned up in the street by orange mesh baricade, then maliciously maced.

The women were peaceful and unarmed. They were secured by barricade with an overwhelming police presence. And they were then sprayed directly in the face with pressurized mace...

0 This pope guy does not seem to have much "faith" in these people.....

0 Planned chip will provide rapid bioagent detection

The National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Food and Drug Administration plan to team up to develop a chip that will predict drug toxicities and the safety of vaccines.

The chip will bring together many different types of human cells onto a chip and have them communicate with one another. The agencies plan to spend up to $140 million over five years in an effort to develop the chip, Smart Planet reports.

Experts say that the chip will also aid in the fight against bioterror.

"The Department of Defense needs to rapidly develop and field safe an effective medical countermeasures against biological threats to US warfighters," Smart Planet reports.

The chip will be inlaid with human cells that represent human physiological systems from the brain to the heart and everything in between. The collaboration will make an effort to combine human cell types like liver and kidney cells to represent physiological systems and have them "talk to each other" on a chip. The goal is to get 10 different physiological systems represented in 3D on the chip, which would allow scientists to assess the effects of a candidate drug on gene expression, the neurological system, on proteins in the cardiovascular system and more.

“The idea is you’re looking for signatures that would tell you whether this is a safe compound to try in a human patient,” Collins said, according to Smart Planet.
 According to the DARPA press release, the NIH will focus on developing micro-sized systems to mimic human physiology and pathology, DARPA will develop engineering platforms and the biology required and the FDA will advise the agencies on how to meet requirements for safety and effectiveness.

“Drug toxicity is one of the most common reasons why promising compounds fail,” Francis Collins, the NIH director, said in a press release, according to Smart Planet. “If things are going to fail, you want them to fail early."

source: http://bioprepwatch.com/news/270313-planned-chip-will-provide-rapid-bioagent-detection

0 Environmental activists or a disgruntled scientist more likely next "Terror threat"

AUSTRALIAN defence and security experts have "increasing concerns" that Australia may be the target for deadly bioterrorism attacks.

 

But a decade after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, environmental activists or a disgruntled scientist are seen as more likely threats than the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

Recently released proceedings of a "biodefence scenario planning workshop", held last year at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Fishermans Bend laboratories, reveal that senior federal and state security and health experts have reviewed bioterrorism threats based on the assumption that al-Qaeda may seek to attack on Australian soil.

But participants at the conference observed that "overseas terrorists' interest in attacking Australia may not be particularly high" and that it was "more likely" that "a disgruntled person with a scientific background, [or] groups advocating environmental preservation and protection" would be responsible for any bioterrorist attack. Unidentified "local ethnic groups" were also identified as a risk. 

Full Article:http://www.smh.com.au/national/security-health-talks-flag-homegrown-terror-20110909-1k223.html

0 Dengue Fever – a case of bioterrorism?

A lot of rumours are in the air about the fast spreading dengue, considered the severest epidemic that hit the city in decades, Pakistan Today has learnt. 

The first incidence of dengue fever was reported in 2003 in Lahore with an earlier outbreak in Karachi almost a decade ago. The disease reappeared in 2006, hitting on alternate years until 2010 and returning with even greater fury this year. Medical experts have different theories regarding the arrival of dengue mosquito in Pakistan, with many believing that back in the 1990s, it spread in Delhi during a sports event and those returning from there took dengue to Pakistan. However, people at large from different strata of the society have formulated different theories about the arrival of the deadly mosquito which was not here only a decade ago.
A banker, Ahsan Manzoor, thinks that it came with used tyres imported from East Asia, which were initially banned.
“When those countries discard the tyres, we import it for use not realising that they could bring diseases like dengue, as all mosquitoes came in those containers,” he added. A housewife from DHA however believed that the virus came from Africa in containers. “The virus initially hit Africa and reached Thailand and from there came in containers to Pakistan,” she added.
Many others however consider it one of the worst forms of bioterrorism with some foreign hand involved in it. “Just look at the route of all flights coming from abroad.
They fly over DHA, Model Town and Cantt; the three most hit localities in the city, right before landing. It is possible that the planes, before landing, drop dengue mosquitoes from the tyres chamber. The fact is obvious from the incidence of dengue in these localities,” a female doctor from Mayo Hospital said.
Many others further think it to have come from NATO containers. “The NATO containers come with all kinds of stuff and recently a scandal also came to light showing they are not even properly checked.
These containers pass through Pakistan and stay at various stations before reaching Afghanistan. It is possible that the dengue mosquito came from NATO containers,” Nasir, a BCom student, said. 

Source:http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/09/dengue-%E2%80%93-a-case-of-bioterrorism/ 

What really interested me was the 1 and only public comment that has been placed on the above article, pasted below:

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"Real Facts "

DENGUE & vector “Aedes Aegypti Mosquito” are Germs Warfare Weapon Genetically Engineered in Lahore.

Do you want to know the whole truth about “The Killer Mosquito “Aedes Aegypti”?

31 years (June 1980) ago I exposed the American’s secret Biological & Germs Warfare work & laboratory in Lahore. Where they Genetically Engineered Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever virus, Dengue Fever Virus, West Nile virus & Chikungunya Fever virus etc. After my report I was threaten to life, forced to refute my report, sacked from job, harassed & finally arrested under Martial law regulation to the notorious torture camp Lahore Fort & investigated under high treason offence . Ehsan: bllf@hotmail.com

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I wonder how legit it is?

0 New Computer Game Is "War Porn" Say Journalists

A group of software developers from Brisbane is creating a computer game in which the players are war correspondents reporting from a conflict zone.

 

The game's creators say it is a realistic portrayal of life as a war correspondent, although with many of the more mundane details taken out.

But not everyone is impressed.

In WarCo, players run around in a conflict zone with a camera, dodging bullets, grenades and bombs in an attempt to make the best possible story.

The game's developer, Morgan Jaffitt, says there are plenty of stories that players can follow.

"What we ask you to do is to go and film the story elements that you find interesting and then at the end of that section the game will put together a story based on which story elements you focused on," he said.

"We also offer you the ability to go on and edit your own story. 

"As an example: in the opening of the game - as you arrive on a plane into an airport that's currently under fire in the middle of the revolution you can focus on the story of the loyalist soldiers who are defending the airport; you can focus on the story of a wounder civilian who's looking for her daughter; or you can focus on the issue of the arms that are coming into the country, and being supplied by various international agencies, and what that means about their relationships with the loyalist forces."

War porn

Not everyone is enthusiastic about the idea.

BBC reporter Nick Bryant has been a correspondent in several conflict zones including Afghanistan, Kashmir, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

He has just released a book on his experiences.

He says he worries that a game about war reporting could be sending the wrong message.

"I think there's a trend within the industry at the moment to give prominence in news reports and prominence online to footage where war correspondents come under fire and I think it's a worrying trend because it makes the war correspondent the story rather than the war," he said.

"And I think it sends a very dangerous message to the young journalists who are coming up: that the best way for them to very quickly make their name is to go to somewhere very dangerous, and hope to get shot at, and then to broadcast that material and hope to make their name.

"I guess my concern about this sort of game is that it reinforces that trend. It's a kind of war porn, almost."

Mmmmmm...

0 GAME OVER?

0 Psychologists help 9/11 truth deniers

Psychologists help out the conspiracy theorists that won't let go of the official conspiracy theory.

0 Zionist Ted Poe "Do You Know The Muffin Man? The Muffin Man The Muffin Man"

Like there's nothing else going on in the world....oh brother!

0 Pentagon rethinks bioterror effort

Critics say US$1.5-billion initiative has not delivered results.

In the film Contagion, it takes just a few months for scientists to make a vaccine against a deadly virus. Yet a real US military programme that aimed to do just that is being dismantled after five years of trying.

Soldiers are yet to see any effective new countermeasures against bioterror agents.

The Transformational Medical Technologies (TMT) initiative, born in the US Department of Defense in 2006, was originally conceived as a five-year, US$1.5-billion project that would substantially accelerate the development of countermeasures to protect soldiers against biological attacks. Made into a permanent programme in 2009, it set out to sequence the genomes of potential bioterror agents, explore new drug technologies and develop 'broad-spectrum' therapies that would work against multiple bacterial and viral pathogens — especially haemorrhagic fever viruses such as Ebola and Marburg. Supporters of the programme point out that three candidate drugs developed under the programme, for pathogens including Ebola virus, are now in clinical trials.

The TMT programme, however, has ceased to exist as a stand-alone effort. Alan Rudolph, director of Chemical and Biological Technologies for the TMT's parent office, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, is folding some TMT projects into other Pentagon efforts and reordering their priorities. Critics say that it has failed in its underlying objective to provide a faster, game-changing approach to biodefence. No antibiotics developed by the TMT have entered clinical trials. The drug candidates it has developed are designed for single pathogens, not multiple threats. And although the programme is set to award a major clinical-trial contract later this year, the drug being tested would treat not exotic, untreatable pathogens but ordinary influenza, a disease already heavily researched outside the Pentagon.

Full Story :http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110921/full/477380a.html

0 Israeli Army Use New "Sound Weapons" to Disperse Protesters

A youth holds up the national flag at demonstration

The Israeli army Wednesday used an acoustic weapon called 'The Scream' for the first time to disperse Palestinians demonstrating at Qalandia checkpoint, north of Jerusalem, in support of the Palestinian bid to the United Nations.

Within seconds, the sound emitted by the weapon causes people to fall to their knees, unable to maintain their balance. The weapon also causes dizziness and nausea, and long exposure to the sound can cause damage to hearing. It can be heard even if sound-proof earplugs are used.

Dozens were injured with peculiar medical condition causing the Palestinian protesters to immediately disperse after the Israeli army fired the weapons.

Soldiers also used a new kind of tear gas bombs which caused people to faint giving them no time to move away, which made it hard for reporters to be at the scene. 

Shortly before noon, Israeli soldiers shot an unnamed 15-year-old in the eye with a rubber-coated steel bullet from a distance of 25 meters. 

He was taken to a Ramallah hospital, where it was confirmed he lost his eye. The boy, as well as many others at the demonstration, was throwing rocks and bottles at the soldiers, who in violation of their own open-fire regulations shot from close range.

Four other Palestinians were shot and an international solidarity activist was shot in his ear. Three Palestinians--one from Jenin, one from Nablus, and one from Ramallah--were arrested by plainclothes Israeli troops. Palestinians burned tires to obscure Israeli soldiers' lines of sight as the battle went on into the evening.

 Full Story: http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com

And the Faux News coverage....
just for that, should I say "different angle"...

0 Woman’s afro searched for explosives

Airline passenger left in tears after officers 'dig' her scalp 

HUMILIATED: Isis Brantley was left in tears after officers stopped her at airport and checked for explosives in her hair

A WOMAN was left in tears after security at a US airport insisted on checking her afro in case she was concealing explosives.
Isis Brantley was stopped at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia after she had cleared security checks.
Brantley, a hairdresser from Dallas, Texas, claims she was traveling down an escalator when she heard someone shout, 'Hey you, hey you, ma'am, stop. Stop - the lady with the hair, you.’
She says that two Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents told her she could not go any further until they checked her hair for explosives.
“And so she started patting my hair, and I was in tears at that point,” Miss Brantley told NBC News.

“And she was digging in my scalp,” she added.
Miss Brantely says she was left “humiliated” as the TSA staff patted her hair down right there instead of asking to return to a private area for screening.
After the pat-down, Brantley complained to a TSA supervisor at Hartsfield-Jackson who then apologised to her.
She explained: “She said, ‘Ma'am, please, I promise you, I'm going to take care of it. I'm so sorry that happened to you,’”
Miss Brantley, who has worn her hair naturally for 20 years and frequently travels across the U.S. to see clients, says she has never had her hair checked until Monday's (Sept 19) incident.
The TSA said in a statement: “Our screening procedures are designed to ensure the security of the traveling public,
“Additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair where prohibited items could be hidden.
“This passenger left the checkpoint prior to the completion of the screening process. She was offered but refused private screening.”

0 Obama Wrong About Palestinian State?

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down President Obama's speech at the United Nations regarding Israel and a Palestinian state.

0 Ron Paul Facing Huge Conspiracy & Needs All Help He Can Get in 2012 - Ignorance is Not Bliss!

0 "If They Support Terror Roots That Denies Israel's Right To Exist Why Should They Get Statehood"

Hannity = Douche

This guy makes actual bile rise up into my throat.

0 'Palestinians need just two more Security Council votes in bid for statehood'

Palestinian Foreign Minister says attempts underway to win over Gabon, Nigeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina, in quest for UNSC majority; U.S. has vowed to veto the proposal if it cannot garner a blocking majority.

The United Nations Security Council.

Palestinian officials have so far enlisted the support of at least six or seven members of the 15-member Security Council in their bid to gain United Nations recognition as a sovereign state, a senior official said Tuesday.

"They are trying to convince two or three more Security Council members to vote in favor of accepting Palestine as a UN member state," Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki said.
The Palestinians hope to enlist nine members behind them, even if "the U.S. is going to veto it and embarrass itself," he told Voice of Palestine Radio from New York.
Full Story: http://www.haaretz.com/news/

0 Obama, the Palestinian State & Zionist Schizophrenia

By Gilad Atzmon

Those who monitor the Hebrew press and understand the Jewish State may be slightly puzzled to find out that while in the Hebrew press there is only just a little and insignificant attention to the current Palestinian leaders' drive for statehood, the Israeli English media outlets are saturated with news about the prospect of a pro-Palestinian resolution in the UN next week.

If you want to understand this clear discrepancy between the Jewish Hebrew press and English outlets, then here it is--we are dealing here with a clear split within the Jewish collective psyche.

 

I guess that some may be surprised to learn that Israel and most Israelis actually want the Palestinian initiative to go ahead and to succeed. They want a Palestinian State because this is the only solution that would save the ‘Jews only State’ from a demographic meltdown.

 

Recent polls in Israel prove that the majority of Israelis are very excited about the ‘Two State Solution’. Not only are the Israelis not threatened by the idea of a Palestinian State, they actually love it, for It would settle their reality within a framework of international law. Also, you may want to bear in mind that Kadima party, that won the last two elections in Israel, has been and still is, devoted to ‘disengagement’, a clear separation between the ‘Jews’ and the Palestinians by means of Israeli unilateral withdraw. In other words, a Palestinian statehood achieves the exact same goal; it removes Israelis from any responsibility to territories it once occupied and destroyed. It is obvious that some elements in Israel oppose the Palestinian UN initiative: I guess that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is not too happy about it. West Bank settlers may also be very angry  but for some reason, even they are relatively quiet these days.

 

And yet, the Jewish Lobby around the world totally opposes the Palestinian UN initiative: it clearly holds a very simplistic image of an expansionist Jewish State from the ‘river to the sea’. And as it seems, it is not going to give up on its dream very soon.

 

What we see here in practice is a clear identity crisis or even a schizophrenic counter flow of aspirations between the Israeli and the Diaspora Zionist. While the Israelis are reverting to the old Jewish Ghetto attitude, they prefer to shrink, stay together and surround themselves with vast and impenetrable concrete walls, the Diaspora Zionist Jewish narrative is confrontational, belligerent, hawkish militant and expansionist. They want it all, with the Palestinians or without them.

 

Once again we notice that Israel and Zionism have evolved into two separate and opposing discourses. While Israel is seeking to maintain its racially oriented identity through politics of segregation, the Diaspora Zionist discourse is still insisting on solving the Jewish Question by the means of a conflict with no end.

 

But let us for a moment look at America; let’s try to understand how the world’s ‘single superpower’ is handling this Judeo-centric schizophrenic apparatus.

 

President Obama and his administration are obviously very confused. On the one hand, they are subject to some relentless pressure inflicted by the Jewish lobby. The Lobby doesn’t leave the American administration with much room to manoeuvre. But on the other hand, both American administration and Israeli Government do realise that, as far as Israel and its ‘security’ are concerned, the Palestinian UN initiative is not such a bad idea at all. In fact, Israel cannot pray for more than that.

 

It is clear by now that President Obama is not going to be saved by any of the so- called ‘America’s best friends’. For AIPAC and the Lobby, Obama is an instrument. By now the Lobby is used to regarding American politicians as their subservient puppets. Israel, on the other hand, is not going to save America either. It is too suspicious of the current administration. Israel is basically tired of the current American Administration. It will be happy to see Obama beaten.

 

Consequently, the American Administration is heading towards an inevitable humiliation in the UN. It will have to veto a decision voted for by many of America’s allies. This is clearly a disaster for Obama. And yet, one man can save America from its doomed fate. This man is no other than the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Only Abbas and the PA can let America off the hook.

 

But the meaning of it all is also very embarrassing. It means that the Palestinian President Abbas (who is a relatively weak figure in Palestinian politics as well as in international diplomacy) is the only person who can save our world’s ‘single superpower’ from a   diplomatic fiasco. 

 

I cannot make up my mind whether this is funny or sad, but let me tell you, it is certainly volatile.

The time is certainly right for America, Britain and the West to find the strength to oppose Zionist Lobbying and the power of Jerusalem.

http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=5818 

0 Surge in Afghan night raids causes backlash

A surge in the number of controversial Nato night raids in Afghanistan has caused a "tremendous backlash" among Afghans and is endangering civilian lives, a new study said on Monday.

The US-led coalition force carries out raids under cover of dark to pick off insurgents alongside a counter-insurgency campaign aimed at coaxing the population away from supporting the Taliban.

But any gains made by night raids come "at a high cost", said the study by billionaire philanthropist George Soros's Open Society Foundations and Afghan non-governmental organisation The Liaison Office.

"Touted gains have come at a high cost. The escalation in raids has taken the battlefield more directly into Afghan homes, sparking tremendous backlash among the Afghan population," the 38-page report said.

A lack of transparency and accountability had also "reinforced Afghan perceptions that international military use night raids to kill, harass and intimidate civilians with impunity," it said.

Isaf: Night raids a tactical success

The report said the number of night raids had increased fivefold between February 2009 and December 2010, with an average of 19 raids per night across the country as foreign combat troops aim to leave by the end of 2014.

A spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) defended the raids as a tactical success but said the report's findings would be studied and recommendations implemented "that may improve the effectiveness of our operations in Afghanistan".

"Night operations are an effective method of maintaining the pressure on the enemy while minimising risk to innocent civilians," said ISAF spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings.

President Hamid Karzai has led public criticism of the raids for causing civilian casualties, a thorny issue in the 10-year war that began when US-led troops brought down the Taliban regime in 2001, sparking the insurgency.

Civilians unfairly subject to night raids

But "85% of night operations are conducted without a shot being fired and account for less than 1% of civilian casualties", added Cummings.

The report acknowledged that Nato directives and operational guidance had significantly reduced civilian casualties, but said that "many of these improvements have been undermined or overshadowed by the surge in night raids".

"In many cases, non-combatants appear to be subjected to night raids due to their proximity to insurgent activities, or incidental information about insurgent groups, rather than due to their actual conduct or status," it added.

There are about 140 000 foreign, mainly American troops, serving in Afghanistan to help Karzai's Western-backed government defeat the Taliban.

http://www.news24.com/World/News/Surge-in-Afghan-night-raids-causes-backlash-20110919 

0 Mayor Attempts to Block "Occupy Wall Street"

0 What is the true cost of the Afghanistan war? Narrated by Tony Benn.

Britain is spending tens of billions waging the unjustified war in Afghanistan, with horrific costs in the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians, and of soldiers sent to kill and be killed. This video, narrated by Tony Benn with music by Brian Eno, dramatically conveys the cost of wars which are opposed by most people in Britain. It ends with a call to join the Antiwar Mass Assembly in Trafalgar Square on 8 October: 

http://www.antiwarassembly.org

0 US Army Releases Suicide Data for August

The Army released suicide data on Thursday for the month of August.

Among active-duty soldiers, there were 19 potential suicides: three have been confirmed as suicides and 16 remain under investigation. For July 2011, the Army reported 22 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers. Since the release of that report, five cases have been confirmed as suicide, and 17 cases remain under investigation. During August 2011, among reserve component soldiers who were not on active duty, there were nine potential suicides: none have been confirmed as suicide and nine remain under investigation. For July 2011, the Army reported 10 potential suicides among not-on-active-duty soldiers. Since the release of that report, one case has been added for a total of 11 cases. Three cases have been confirmed as suicide and eight cases remain under investigation.

Source:http://www.turnto23.com/news/29196695/detail.html



The US army suicide rate 'alarming and it's increasing'

A large number of the U.S. military suicides take place due to Veterans Administration (VA) doctors' prescription of anti-psychotic and other medications for the war-weary American soldiers, says Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon official.

“The suicide rate is alarming and it's increasing,” said Kwiatkowski in a Sunday interview with Press TV's U.S. Desk.

“There's actually two things that we're doing; one is we're returning them back, we're letting them have a little break and returning them back to the battle zone,” said the ex-Pentagon official.

 And if they're not going back, if they're being discharged, or staying in the service away… we're trying to tell them they're not sick. If they insist that they're sick or stressed we're giving them a lot of anti-psychotics medication,” Kwiatkowski noted.

Source:http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/193968.html

0 Israeli Embassy Amman, 15th September 2011 (VIDEO)

Western media have reported this as a "Small Turnout"....

This is being reported in all press as being a 100 person or so turnout....I think some fibs are being told there, mind you that said even though the crowd were pretty angry but harmless, it seems the Amman police/military handled the situation rather oddly...why are they not firing teargas, goading and taunting, or even beating the protesters?...

I've never seen anything like it....the west could learn a lot from these guys.  

0 Ex IDF Education Head: Religious Zionism Getting 'Too Religious'

Former IDF Education head Stern, known for criticism of religious Zionists, called for end to their “move to the far religious right”.

Former IDF Education and Personnel head Elazar Stern, known for his shapr criticism of Religious Zionists, called for an end to what he said was “a move to the far religious right” on the part of rabbis of the National Religious community.

In an interview with the Hebrew newspaper, Makor Rishon, Stern said that there was a hyper-sensitivity to issues of modesty among many IDF soldiers who have studied at yeshivot associated with the National Religious movement, with what he termed "many innovations" that were harming the morale and performance of religious soldiers.

Stern, a controversial figure who wanted to eliminate the hesder yeshiva program and denigrated its service when he was head of IDF Education, this despite the overwhelming number of heroes and officers it has spawned, made the comment on the backdrop of an incident last week, in which nine religious IDF soldiers left a performance where female soldiers sang.  Four of them were later sent to the brig.

The group had been refused permission to leave even though they said that they had been instructed by their rabbi to leave in order to avoid violating the halakhic law against hearing live singing performances by women.

Read Full Article Here:http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147918#.TnLrpNR6KuI

0 A New "Facebook uprising" to begin in Algeria this Saturday?.

Facebook page calling for a Day of Anger in Algeria on September 17th, Algerian Government reacts with some very interesting points.....

"The Algerian Minister of Interior and Local Government, Dahou Ould Kablia said that foreign parties are involved in order to cause unrest in Algeria September 17. The survey conducted by security services, confirmed a general reluctance on these malicious calls from foreign parties whose purpose is to destabilize the country.

In a statement to Ennahar, Ould Kablia said that the authorities, who surveyed the streets of Algeria, through social networking sites, like Facebook, have concluded that there was no impact of these nuisance calls on the Algerians. On the contrary, many people, especially youth, organize to combat these ideas by calling for wisdom and mobilization in order to bar the way to any attempt to destabilize the country.

According to the Minister of Interior, “the appeals find no echo and there will be no demonstrations or disturbances at that precise date.”

Responding to a question as to the results of the survey which was conducted by the security services, to reach the authors of this appeal, Ould Kablia said that they were foreign parties, given the date chosen which coincides with the Camp David and also with the events of Sabra and Shatila. It is, in his view, a Zionist plan against Algeria. “If it was the work of people inside the country, we would have unmasked and arrested them, but the clues point us to foreign parties in relation to the Zionist entity.”

The date of September 17, 2011 of the alleged revolution in Algeria, to which call hundreds of Facebook and Internet users as the French journalist of Jewish origin, Bernard Henri Levy, for the overthrow of the regime in Algeria, coincides with the same day when Napoleon III had trampled Algerian soil. The choice of the date by the French philosopher is not accidental.
According to an article by Daniel R. published in the French magazine “Histoire” in January 1991, Napoleon III came to Algeria September 17, 1760. He dreamed of creating a Jewish state stretching from Algiers to Baghdad, under a French protectorate.

So the date chosen by the French writer and journalist Levy, of Jewish origins, and his consorts fans of Napoleon Bonaparte, those who belong to the new philosophical movement whose slogan “liberation of nations from domination” and follow a new modern way, using the youth of the Arab countries, and Algerians in particular, by encouraging them to revolt; a way to re-colonize these nations and put their people once again under the boots of Napoleon Bonaparte.

We shall see the outcome on Saturday... 
"Bernard Henri Levy" involved?....should be very interesting.