RT: Britain’s MIC has announced it is creating a military
cyber unit and has welcomed tech-savvy hackers to consider taking the
Queen’s virtual shilling in a recruitment drive starting October.
The UK is channeling part of its military budget on recruiting
hundreds of computer experts to constitute the new Joint Cyber
Reserve Unit, the country’s Defense Secretary, Philip Hammond,
announced Sunday.
For the first time, the UK’s would-be cyber warriors will
be tasked with offensive missions.
"In response to the growing cyber threat, we are developing a
full-spectrum military cyber capability, including a strike
capability, to enhance the UK's range of military
capabilities," AFP reported Hammond as saying.
CultOfDusty: Another one of those stories that is hard to believe is real but
actually is. Matt Pitt, leader of one of the largest Christian Youth
organizations on earth, gets wasted on live TV and tries to lure kids
into his basement.
CNN: Dave Foley of "The Kids in the Hall" discusses the costs of child support - Canada style!
Kevin Zeese: The Trans-Pacific Partnership has nothing to do with trade
or freedom, and ongoing demonstrations could encourage those on the
inside to speak up
Canadian financial analyst
Rob Kirby and German financial journalist Lars Schall discuss this
week’s dismissal by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission of
complaints about manipulation of the silver market. In particular, Kirby
and Schall focus on a powerful entity that is rarely mentioned in
financial mainstream journalism, if at all: the Exchange Stabilization
Fund.
By Michael Krieger: So about that whole drone debate in the USA…
It seems the feds decided to simply skip over such a quaint notion
and deploy them without telling anyone. Back in December of last year, I highlighted a press release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) about current drone flights in the U.S. They disclosed that:
Today EFF posted several thousand pages of new drone license
records and a new map that tracks the location of drone flights across
the United States.
These records, received as a result of EFF’s Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), come from state and local law enforcement
agencies, universities and—for the first time—three branches of the U.S.
military: the Air Force, Marine Corps, and DARPA (Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency.
That story was big news to me at the time, and it was particularly
disturbing in light of the fact that Congress has cleared the way for
the Federal Aviation Administration to allow 30,000 drones in the nation’s skies by 2020.
