It takes 16 hours to “boot up,” it can’t cook a turkey, the non-ionizing radiation won’t cause permanent damage, but a person affected by ADS feels a sudden blast of heat that many compare to opening a very hot oven.

After years of testing, the military had hoped last week to generate good PR about the non-lethal “Active Denial System, ”  and staged a presentation  for US servicemen to immediately disperse a group of disguised marines and journalists who played the role of an aggressive crowd.


(Source: Wired)

utnereader:

They fight the same battles with similar weapons and training. But when  it comes to aftershock, British and U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq  and Afghanistan report very different experiences. Soldiers in the  United States experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at a rate  of 30 percent. Brits: 4 percent.
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‘Crack on with it if you can.’

utnereader:

They fight the same battles with similar weapons and training. But when it comes to aftershock, British and U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan report very different experiences. Soldiers in the United States experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at a rate of 30 percent. Brits: 4 percent.

Find out what’s going on …

‘Crack on with it if you can.’

Tags: military PTSD

theatlantic:

The Navy’s Green Devices: Coming to a Store Near You?

The Department of Defense is the single largest energy purchaser in America, if not the world. That’s why the Navy’s goal to source 50 percent of its energy from alternative fuels by 2020 potentially has huge ramifications for future fuel supplies and alternative energy technologies.
In the past year alone, the Navy has deployed portable solar panels, LED lighting systems, hybrid electric ship technologies, and, perhaps most significantly, so-called “green flights” (using aircraft powered by a mix of fossil fuels and biofuel). Some Marine Corps patrol bases in Afghanistan now operate exclusively on solar powered generators, while China Lake Base in California actually puts energy back into the grid. All of which raises a couple of questions. Why, exactly, is the Navy so determined to become green? And could the average consumer benefit from the new products the Navy is supporting?

Read more at The Atlantic

theatlantic:

The Navy’s Green Devices: Coming to a Store Near You?

The Department of Defense is the single largest energy purchaser in America, if not the world. That’s why the Navy’s goal to source 50 percent of its energy from alternative fuels by 2020 potentially has huge ramifications for future fuel supplies and alternative energy technologies.

In the past year alone, the Navy has deployed portable solar panels, LED lighting systems, hybrid electric ship technologies, and, perhaps most significantly, so-called “green flights” (using aircraft powered by a mix of fossil fuels and biofuel). Some Marine Corps patrol bases in Afghanistan now operate exclusively on solar powered generators, while China Lake Base in California actually puts energy back into the grid. All of which raises a couple of questions. Why, exactly, is the Navy so determined to become green? And could the average consumer benefit from the new products the Navy is supporting?

Read more at The Atlantic

Russia vs US, China vs US

something to think about…

via Refreshing News:

Using information from articles in the European Union Times and Bloomberg, Chuck Baldwin warns that fears from the expected implosion of the US banking system could lead to an outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.

Evidently, the US Air Force has been given orders to increase troops to 1 million by January 30, 2010.

There are “over 220 million American people armed to the teeth and ready to explode.”

In case you aren’t buying this, Baldwin continues with citing (from the Bloomberg article) that the banksters at Goldman Sachs have been buying their own guns and “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.”

My questions:

If we have a complete economic meltdown will people even question the basis of the system?

Do the Russian analysts and Wall Street know something that we don’t?

Are Americans really armed to the teeth?

Why did George W. Bush initiate USNORTHCOM to begin with — and is this why Barack Obama is beefing it up?

(I guess, that could explain the reports of the refurbishing of those potential abandoned military detention camps, wouldn’t it?)

Are the American people disgusted enough with the federal government and Wall Street to take up arms in anger?

Scary thoughts? Indeed.

from RBN:

According to an obscure report in the European Union Times (EUTimes.net), “Russian Military Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin that US President Barack Obama has issued an order to his Northern Command’s (USNORTHCOM) top leader, US Air Force General Gene Renuart, to ‘begin immediately’ increasing his military forces to 1 million troops by January 30, 2010, in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter.

“According to these reports, Obama has had over these past weeks ‘numerous’ meetings with his war council abut how best to manage the expected implosion of his Nation’s banking system while at the same time attempting to keep the United States military hegemony over the World in what Russian Military Analysts state is a ‘last ditch gambit’ whose success is ‘far from certain.’”

The EU Times article continues by saying, “To the fears of Obama over the United States erupting into civil war once the full extent of the rape and pillaging of these peoples by their banks and government becomes known to them, grim evidence now shows the likelihood of this occurring much sooner than later.”

The Times story goes on to say that there are “over 220 million American people armed to the teeth and ready to explode.”

The Times article concludes by saying, “Though the coming civil war in the United States is being virtually ignored by their propaganda media, the same cannot be said of Russia, where leading Russian political analyst, Professor Igor Panarin has long warned that the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the US is heading for collapse.”

Many of us would be inclined to pooh-pooh such a story, but then there is this column from Bloomberg.com entitled “Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public,” written by Alice Schroeder. According to Ms Schroeder:

“‘I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,’ said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.”

There is no doubt that the American people have good reason to despise these international banksters epitomized by Goldman Sachs. Even one of Goldman’s poster-boys, Henry Paulson, US Treasury secretary and former Goldman CEO, admitted that the American people were fed up. Schroeder quotes Paulson as saying, during testimony to Congress last summer, “[People] were unhappy with the big discrepancies in wealth, but they at least believed in the system and in some form of market-driven capitalism. But if we had a complete meltdown, it could lead to people questioning the basis of the system.”

Schroeder correctly opines, “There you have it. The bailout was meant to keep the curtain drawn on the way the rich make money, not from the free market, but from the lack of one. Goldman Sachs blew its cover when the firm’s revenue from trading reached a record $27 billion in the first nine months of this year, and a public that was writhing in financial agony caught on that the profits earned on taxpayer capital were going to pay employee bonuses.”

Read it all.

A young boy pointed a mock pistol at Greek riot police officers, as they stood guard during a peaceful demonstration in central Athens on Thursday. The demonstration was staged four days after the first anniversary of the killing of a teenager by police last year. (Simela Pantzartzi/EPA )