Monthly Archives: August 2009

Homeless or internally displaced peoples?

Most of these houseless families are Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian).  It would be more historically accurate to describe them as landless or internally displaced peoples, uprooted from ancestral homelands by America’s taking of Hawaiian lands, ‘collateral damage’ of U.S. occupation. The eviction of the houseless from the beaches is only moving them further into the… Read more »

Why is the Army National Guard hiring Internment / Resettlement Specialists?

Army National Guard hiring Internment / Resettlement Specialists.  Are they planning something?  Watch video on the website.  Pretty chilling. >><< http://www.nationalguard.com/careers/mos/description.php?mos_code=31E 31E – INTERNMENT / RESETTLEMENT SPECIALIST Description Internment / Resettlement Specialists in the Army are primarily responsible for day-to-day operations in a military confinement/correctional facility or detention/internment facility. Internment / Resettlement Specialists provide rehabilitative,… Read more »

Cyberwar = real collateral damage

Cyberwar U.S. Weighs Risks of Civilian Harm in Cyberwarfare By JOHN MARKOFF and THOM SHANKER Published: August 1, 2009 It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank accounts of… Read more »

‘Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days,’

U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’ By MICHAEL R. GORDON Published: July 30, 2009 WASHINGTON – A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that Iraqi forces suffer from entrenched deficiencies but are now able to protect the Iraqi government, and that it is time… Read more »