Trip Hop Clan - Part 481

chris-chittleborough writes: “The Wall Street Journal reports that ‘a Marine officer in Iraq, a small network-design company in California, a nonprofit troop-support group, a blogger and other undeterrable folk designed a handheld insurgent-identification device, built it, shipped it and deployed it in [Iraq] in 30 days.’ Compare this to the Automated Biometric Identification System, a multi-megabuck Pentagon project now 2 years old. With bureaucracy increasingly strangling innovation, will agile smaller businesses be able to accomplish what once required a sprawling government project?”

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Feb9th

Pentagon office produced ‘alternative’ intelligence on Iraq

LowCommotion FTW! (Politics, War)

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/16656258.html

A special unit run by former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s top policy aide inappropriately produced “alternative” intelligence reports that wrongly concluded that Saddam Hussein’s regime had cooperated with al-Qaida, a Pentagon investigation has determined.

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Feb9th

Former Narc: Don’t Get Busted

LowCommotion FTW! (Drugs, Movies, Your Rights)

http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/2007-02-01/news/feature_full.html

Former drug warrior sees the light, goes to the dark side and makes a video, Never Get Busted Again, with shady tips on how to fool the fuzz. Stoners rejoice. The new beginning of the end of prohibition is near.

“The drug war is a failed policy, and the legal side effects on the families are worse than the drugs,” Cooper says. “I was so wrong in the things I did back then. I ruined lives.”

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