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- The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”.
- SOCOM’s Joint Military Information Support Command, which “orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media campaign formatted to the cultures and languages of relevant audiences” in “what has become a tough, entrenched war of ideas” has deployed what it calls the Trans-Regional Web Initiative (TRWI). Specs on the programme were issued last year (pdf) and earlier this month General Dynamics was awarded $10,116,177 to run the Initiative for the first year.
- The SOCOM psywar sites will be run much in the same fashion as any normal web-media portal. There will be “indigenous content stringers and editors” within “targeted regions” providing 24-hour “original features, news, sports, entertainment, economics, politics, cultural reports, business, and similar items of interest to targeted readers”.
Israeli Strike On Iran ‘Inevitable’
An Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities now looks inevitable and President Obama appears to be doing his best to speed the process along, Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal. The president has accepted Iran’s offer for talks—despite Iran making it clear that its nuclear program won’t be up for discussion—Stephens writes, making it clear to Israel’s leaders that he’s not playing hardball and they must take action themselves to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.
Israel has made its willingness to strike Iran clear in an effort to goad the US into taking a firmer stance on Iran, Stephens argues, but Obama hasn’t taken the bait. “President Obama has now ceded the driver’s seat on Iran policy to Prime Minister Netanyahu,” Stephens concludes, and has apparently failed to realize that while it is certainly in America’s best interests for Iran to not acquire a nuclear capability, it shouldn’t be Israel that has to take action.
—Rob Quinn
SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
Cary Grant with Raymond Massey & Peter Lorre in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, dir. Frank Capra) (via TCM)
“Look, I probably should have told you this before, but you see, well…insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.”
I wish I had a DVD copy of this. Especially now that September 24th is quickly approaching. So I could rewatch it properly.
And yes, I am talking about this movie yet again! :P
Where there is smoke there is fire.
Except when it’s just something smoldering. Or, a smoke machine. Or, maybe a cigarette. And I guess a car with a bad engine.
But other than that…
Hendrix and Jagger
The commonality of difference.
The first step to understanding people is to realize there are very, very few people in the world who think like you. You can lament that as your awkwardness or you can celebrate it as your specialness but, really, it makes you neither worse nor better than anyone else. It’s just the same for everybody.
In that way, the first step to understanding other people is to understand yourself.
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (via somethingintellectual)
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