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U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons’ Role in 9/11

 A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created [...]

Pentagon Looks to Network Science to Predict Future

The University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science just announced that it’s been awarded a $7.5 million grant to work in this fast emerging field of network science, which melds everything from mathematics to sociology.
Network science is increasingly the “hot” area for Pentagon research. Why? Because the Pentagon hopes that if it can [...]

Pentagon issues pocket lie detector to troops

The Pentagon is planning to give US troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan “hand-held lie detectors” aimed at rooting out potential insurgents and terrorists. But polygraph experts doubt the system’s accuracy and Defense Department memos show results of the few tests that were run were manipulated to demonstrate more success with them than was achieved, [...]

Building a Bigger Beast, Presidential Order Links Cybersecurity Program to NSA

Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has dropped the bomb.At a speech to hundreds of security professionals Wednesday, Chertoff declared that the federal government has created a cyber security “Mahattan Project,” referencing the 1941-1946 project led by the Army Corps of Engineers to develop American’s first atomic bomb.
According to Wired’s Ryan Singel, Chertoff gave few [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates orders full inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has ordered a full inventory of all nuclear weapons and related materials after the mistaken delivery of ballistic missile fuses to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Thursday.Gates told officials with the Air Force, Navy and Defense Logistics Agency to assess inventory control procedures for the materials and to submit a report within [...]

Quick Links 2/26/08

 Montanans insist on gun rights - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper‘Any person’ has right to gun, state says
Fresh tests on Shroud of Turin - Telegraph
7,000-Year Old City Found in Egypt
Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA’s Highest Ranks
US expects 140000 troops in Iraq after surge
New Japanese satellite could boost Internet speeds
NASA picks up [...]