According the Hawaii Tribune Herald, the Air Force Pan-STARRS telescope proposed to be built on the sacred mountain Mauna Kea has been delayed, in part by cost overruns. The article states: When complete, Pan-STARRS will scan the heavens for “near-Earth objects,” comets and asteroids that pose an impact threat to Earth. The Air Force funding… Read more »
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Schofield Barracks soldier arrested in Kahala store robbery
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100107/BREAKING01/100107029/Schofield+Barracks+soldier+arrested+in+Kahala+store+robbery Updated at 10:38 a.m., Thursday, January 7, 2010 Schofield Barracks soldier arrested in Kahala store robbery Advertiser Staff A 22-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier was arrested yesterday in connection with an early-morning robbery of a convenience store in Kahala. An employee told police the man entered the store at 12:43 a.m., pulled out a knife,… Read more »
Former Assistant Secretary of Defense cautions U.S. regarding Okinawa
Joseph Gerson of the AFSC Cambridge office sent along the following NYT op-ed by Joseph Nye, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, cautioning the U.S. in its approach to handling the dispute over military bases in Okinawa: Throughout the Clinton era, Nye was the driving force in U.S. policy toward Asia, and before Obama appointed a… Read more »
The sinister powers of crowdsourcing
“Crowdsourcing” (solving a task by appealing to a large undefined group of web users to each do a small chunk of it) is a powerful new social technology made possible by computers and the internet. However, this article from New Scientist describes how the technique could be used to covertly enlist anonymous and unwitting participants… Read more »
Mosquitoes of Makua
War of the small, War of the flea, Where the strongest bomb is human Who is bursting to be free. The moon will be my lantern, And my heart will find the way To sow the seeds of courage That will blossom into day, To blossom up a garden So green before they came, Our… Read more »
Is Blackwater CEO ‘graymailing’ the U.S. Government?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091221/scahill2 Is Erik Prince ‘Graymailing’ the US Government? By Jeremy Scahill December 4, 2009 The in-depth Vanity Fair profile of the infamous owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince, is remarkable on many levels–not least among them that Prince appeared to give the story’s author, former CIA lawyer Adam Ciralsky, unprecedented access to information about sensitive, classified… Read more »
Briefing Paper: Military Buildup in the Mariana Islands
Koohan Paik created this briefing paper from the military’s Draft Envirionmental Impact Statement for the military expansion in Guam and the Northern Marianas: THE MILITARY BUILDUP IN THE MARIANA ISLANDS Guam, a possession of the United States, is one of 15 islands in the Marianas, an archipelago in the western Pacific so pristine and rich… Read more »
US missile defense blocking nuclear arms reduction agreement
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/091229/world/international_us_russia_usa_treaty U.S. missile shield holding up nuclear deal-Putin Tue Dec 29, 4:33 PM By Gleb Bryanski VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday U.S. plans for a missile defense system were the main obstacle to reaching a new deal on reducing Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons. The two largest nuclear… Read more »
Afghan President Karzai demands US hand over gunmen who killed children
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6973001.ece From The Times January 1, 2010 Hamid Karzai demands US hand over gunmen who killed children President Karzai’s security chiefs have demanded that America should hand over the gunmen behind a night raid in eastern Afghanistan that government investigators and the United Nations say killed at least eight schoolchildren. It was the Afghan Government’s… Read more »
Gerson: Globe misstates key facts about Nuclear Posture Review
Joseph Gerson wrote this letter to the editor of the Boston Globe commenting on its article about the Nuclear Posture Review currently underway: Dear Editor, Brian Bender’s article “Obama presses review of nuclear strategy” contains misstatements of fact, makes no reference to essential context of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, and misses the… Read more »
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