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[24hGold.com RSS Feed - 24hGold Editorials and commentaries] The Futility Economy by James Howard Kunstler: Discerning an imminent future of protracted socioeconomic crisis, Kunstler foresees the progressive dilapidation of subdivisions and strip malls, the depopulation of the American Southwest, and, amid a world at war over oil, military invasions of the West Coast; when the convulsion subsides, Americans will live in smaller places and eat locally grown food.')">

[Digital Bits Skeptic] IEDs and the futility of increased armor | Digital Bits Skeptic:  New Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (or MRAPs) are designed and put into production, existing vehicles are upgraded with additional armor plating, troops are issued more ballistic vests and trauma plates, and electronic jammers are installed. While training and doctrine have been altered, the response to these devices has mainly been to field more heavily armored hardware.

[Buy Video Games Today] Game Battalion | Buy Video Games Today: But, the Norris-Tobin ownership, had not attended the affairs of the team, resulting it to be the model of futility in the NHL. Between 1945 and 1958, they only made the playoffs twice.

[Dangerous Intersection] Drones, dollars, and the open-source insurgency | Dangerous ...: “We are in the midst of a shift away from American mil­i­tary pre­dom­i­nance towards some­thing dif­fer­ent,” Daggett said, “we’re still for sev­eral years clearly going to be tech­no­log­i­cally pre­dom­i­nant in mil­i­tary capa­bil­i­ties. How long we’ll have the abil­ity to do all of the above, to project power in every kind, ground forces, mar­itime forces, air forces, I don’t know, but it’s erod­ing slowly over time.”

[AlterNet.org] War Vet: I Served 40 Months in Iraq, After Which I Didn't Want to ...: It won't be long now until the US economy completely falls off a cliff, and these two wars played a tremendous role in making that a reality. After the economy collapses again (probably in about a year or two) the US government will collapse with it, and this tyranny will finally come to an end.

[Real Media News] What do you think about the New World Order conspiracy? | Real ...: The conspiracy is evident and everyone needs to look at what we do everyday.For example most of us shop at grocery stores,eat meat,watch television,take aspirin.Look at the money markets and information we have access to just like using the computer i am on right now. My point is that we are dependent on things that are destroying us.

[Open Left - Front Page] Open Left:: Why Democrats Are Trying to Commit Electoral Suicide: The tea partiers are used by corporate interests, but many of them seem to be sort of marginal and confused people who either are facing economic insecurity or are made to feel insecure by Obama's very presence (threatens their claim to white privilege).  Much of their rhetoric is populist, of the Kansas Prairie Populist variety (against the bankers, for example) but most of them also seem to be believers in white privilege and are kind of unhinged by the very thought of Obama.

[Uncommon Thought Journal] Hackable Drones, Crumbling Empire - Uncommon Thought Journal: Thisis no idle speculation, but rather a possible glimpse into the futureof what has been called by military theorists "asymmetric warfare." Theclassic examples of this type of uneven combat between states andinsurgent forces are the various communist guerrilla armies thattoppled colonial or neocolonial governments backed by the UnitedStates, e.g. China, Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua.

[Public Intelligence Blog] Search: how could cybernetics help obama to govern « Public ...: a generic code phrase meaning “actively working to undermine American cultural, social, military, and economic institutions.” Destroying property and sabotaging business operations made them feel good, as each imagined himself a noble hidalgo, fighting the powerful and defending the oppressed masses.

[CJO's Avenger212] CJO's Avenger212 » Blog Archive » Hackable Drones, Crumbling Empire: Here, crucially, fantasies of military omniscience and omnipotence, which blur seamlessly into wider sci-fi and cyberpunk imaginations of future military technoscience, become indistinguishable from major US military research and development programmes. The fantasies of linking sentient, automated and omnipotent surveillance–which bring God-like levels of ’situational awareness’

[Afghanistan Dispatches] Wanted: combat barbers - Afghanistan Dispatches: On a recent trip outside of Kandahar Airfield, I started talking with a lady who had an unusual patch on her body armour. It was a skull with the words, "comat barber" underneath.

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Klare, Bush Goes Over to Imperial Defense | TomDispatch: After it became inescapably evident that American forces needed to shift quickly to a defensive strategy and put in place leadership better suited to manage such a shift -- a point reached well before the end of 2004 in Iraq -- Bush chose to cling to the old strategy as well as the old leadership, and simply go on hallucinating about a last-second miracle touchdown that would avert certain defeat. It took a while, but the American public finally grasped the insane folly of this stance and voted for change on November 7.

[EUCMH] EUCMH » Blog Archive » 23rd Inf Regt, 2nd Infantry Division 1945: Release Procedures Discharge procedures were simple and were similar to those in the 12th Armored Division areas as described by Professor Earl F. Ziemke in his book, The US Army in the Occupation.

[Common Sense Political Thought] Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Is it more ...: 2009 August - September: On September 24 William Boyd and Hysen Sherifi charged with “conducting reconnaissance of the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia and obtaining armor-piercing ammunition with the intent to attack Americans”. Boyd, two of his sons and several other suspects had been charged on international terrorism charges in August, but at the time there was no indication that they wanted to plot a United States attack.

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