DARPA Sims, Directed Energy Weapons

Darpa Wants Sim to 'Resurrect' Battlefield Trauma

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/darpa-wants-sim.html

Far-off commanders can already watch battles unfold, thanks to spy drones, streaming video overhead. They can read after-action reports, to learn how troops on the ground experienced the fight. But those officers don't have detailed, digitally-animated simulations, merging all that info -- and showing how similar fights might go, in the future.
Which is a situation Darpa, the Pentagon's blue-sky research arm, would like to fix. The agency is holding a mid-December meeting in Virginia to launch its "RESURRECT" (REstoring SURvivability by REConstructing Trauma) project. It aims to "create high-fidelity computer simulations" of warzone events "for tactical, operational and strategic review."
The program will likely have a medical bent. Darpa says the simulations should merge "anecdotal descriptions of events [with] medical records, autopsy findings and imagery." RESURRECT's program manager -- Col. Geoffrey Ling, MD -- also chairs the Department of Neurology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He heads up Darpa efforts in prosthetics, long-term blood storage, and predicting disease.
RESURRECT could also do some forecasting, too. Darpa would like the program to include "descriptive and predictive algorithms that can be implemented in an existing simulation software package."

The most famous weapon of science fiction is rapidly becoming fact

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12502799

LIKE so much else in science fiction, the ray gun was invented by H.G. Wells. In the tentacles of Wells’s Martians it was a weapon as unanswerable by earthlings as the Maxim gun in the hands of British troops was unanswerable by Africans. Science fiction, though, it has remained. Neither hand-held pistols nor giant, orbiting anti-missile versions of the weapon have worked. But that is about to change. The first serious battlefield ray gun is now being deployed. And the next generation, now in the laboratory, is coming soon.
The deployed ray gun (or “directed-energy weapon”, in the tedious jargon that military men seem compelled to use to describe technology) is known as Zeus. It is not designed to kill. Rather, its purpose is to allow you to remain at a safe distance when you detonate unexploded ordnance, such as the homemade roadside bombs that plague foreign troops in Iraq.

Please see: History of "Directed Energy Weapons"

http://911researchers.com/node/1206

EADS North America's Tentainer(TM) Mobile Shelter Debuts at the U.S. Military Surgeons Association's Annual Meeting

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/EADS-North-Americas-TentainerTM-Mobile/story.aspx?guid=%7BDFD967D1-66B1-470E-BA04-58188260670F%7D
ARLINGTON, VA and RUSSELLVILLE, AR, Nov 10, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- A compact and highly deployable mobile shelter for military medical support missions, emergency response and disaster relief will be unveiled by EADS North America at this month's Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas, beginning Monday, Nov. 10.
The new unit, called Tentainer(TM), is a hybrid shelter that combines a rigid-walled, lightweight lower container with a multi-cell inflatable tent upper portion. Built by EADS North America Integrated Shelter Systems in Russellville, Ark., Tentainer is tailored for applications such as military forward surgical stations, trauma treatment facilities, first aid stations and mobile command posts.

Kuwaiti Navy, NATO conclude military drills in the Gulf

http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=770493&SMap=1

Kuwaiti Navy and ships from the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) concluded strategic military exercises Sunday, the first of their kind in the Gulf region.The joint exercises were part of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and a security agreement with the NATO on information exchange.The six-day drills included fast inshore attack training, anti-piracy demonstration, an air defense exercise, and a demonstration of firepower.

US NORTHCOM Exercise Vigilant Shield 09

NORAD, USNORTHCOM participate in Exercise Vigilant Shield 09

http://www.northcom.mil/News/2008/110508.html

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command will participate in Exercise Vigilant Shield 09 Nov. 12 - 18.
The focus of VS09 is on homeland defense and civil support. The exercise will include scenarios to achieve exercise objectives within the maritime, aerospace, ballistic missile defense, cyber, consequence management, strategic communications, and counter terrorism domains.
VS09 will run concurrent with other Department of Defense-sponsored and international exercises to more realistically test the synchronized response of federal, state, local and international mission partners in preparation for homeland defense, homeland security and civil support missions in the United States and abroad.
Concurrent exercises include U.S. Strategic Command GLOBAL LIGHTNING 09 and BULWARK DEFENDER 09; Canada Command DETERMINED DRAGON; California National Guard VIGILANT GUARD; and the State of California GOLDEN GUARDIAN.
VS09 is a Command Post Exercise. During a CPX, many of the forces involved in the exercise are notional and most of the real forces and equipment are not deployed from their home bases.
NORAD is the bi-national command charged with aerospace warning and control, missile warning as well as maritime for the United States and Canada.
Formed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, USNORTHCOM is responsible for Homeland Defense and civil support missions.

Miami Pandemic Drill, Russia/NATO, China Space

Test drill at Miami International Airport aims to slow pandemics
http://www.miamiherald.com/living/story/758787.html

About 400 people participated in the nation's first pandemic flu exercise at Miami International Airport.

What if a deadly global pandemic were sweeping across the world and the United States needed to try to delay its effect on our shores?
For the first time, at Miami International Airport on Wednesday, about a dozen federal, state and local agencies participated in a simulation exercise to review the steps needed to screen international passengers arriving in the face of a severe influenza pandemic.
''It's an opportunity to test the plan, see how it works and what needs to be improved, so that when we need to use it for real we are ready,'' said Christine Pearson, spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
About 400 people participated in the test drill, including about 200 voluntary actors. CDC, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation led the effort.
In the 20th century, the nation faced three influenza pandemics, in 1918, 1957 and 1968. A pandemic is defined as a new virus for which no one has immunity, which can affect humans and is spread easily between people.
And more pandemics are expected. Bird flu, which affects mostly poultry and wild birds in Asia, Africa and Europe, is being watched, because it sickened about 300 humans during the past decade.
''A pandemic is inevitable, but we can't say it's imminent,'' said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine for the CDC.

Navy Intercepts Ballistic Missile Target In Fleet Exercise
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Navy_Intercepts_Ballistic_Missile_Target_In_Fleet_Exercise_999.html
Extensive analysis of the flight mission will be used to improve the deployed Aegis BMD system. The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) flight record is 16 of 19 intercepts.

Vice Adm. Samuel J. Locklear, Commander, U.S. Third Fleet has announced the successful Navy intercept of a ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean during Fleet Exercise Pacific Blitz. This was the first Fleet operational firing to employ the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) against a ballistic missile target.
Command and control of this mission resided with Commander, U.S. Third Fleet, based in San Diego, Calif.
Pearl Harbor-based Aegis destroyers, USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) and USS Hopper (DDG 70), which have been upgraded to engage ballistic missiles, fired SM-3 missiles at separate targets. During this event, a short-range ballistic missile target was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii.....

NATO voices 'serious worries' about Russian missile plans
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/NATO_voices_serious_worries_about_Russian_missile_plans_999.html
NATO has "serious worries" about the compatibility of Russian plans to deploy missiles in a western Russian enclave with arm control "arrangements," an alliance spokesman said Wednesday.
"We have seen the press reports on the statement of President (Dmitry) Medvedev regarding deployment of Iskander missiles to the Kaliningrad region," spokesman Robert Pszczel told AFP.

"If confirmed, it would raise serious worries concerning the conformity with existing arms control arrangements which are important for European security," he added.

Venezuela, Russia discuss nuclear energy, flights
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_russia_1
CARACAS, Venezuela – Top Venezuelan and Russian officials met Thursday to discuss bilateral agreements on everything from nuclear energy to direct flights connecting Caracas to Moscow.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin headed a delegation of business leaders visiting Venezuela to discuss development plans prior to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev's visit later this month.
"In a moment when the banks of the developing world are going bankrupt and disappearing, our two countries are negotiating the creation of a binational bank that will allow the financing of development," Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez said...

The Chinese Space Industry Set For Take Off
http://www.spacedaily.com/pageone/spacedaily-2008-11-06.html

China put another two satellites into orbit on Wednesday, just weeks after its third successful manned space mission and the first space walk by Chinese astronauts in September. The space industry is taking off, thanks to the 30-year-old Reform and Opening-up Drive, said Zhou Jianping, chief designer of the manned space program. China established its space sector in the 1950s, an ...


Postal Anthrax Aftermath: Has Biodefense Spending Made Us Safer?
The Anthrax attacks in 2001 led to a massive increase in biodefense funding, which critics claim has done more harm than good
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=postal-anthrax-aftermath

Obama: All Hope Gone for Truth & Justice

The selection of Obama as the 44th President of the U.S.

was not met with any jubilation from me. Yes I know it's historic to have a black man in the White House. Yes I know that Bush is finally gone. What makes me deeply depressed is that with Obama taking office, all the crimes of the Bush junta will get a pass and the slate wiped clean by the treasonous complicit Democrats.

What about the mass murder of 3'000 Americans by our own military apparatus? Justice will not be served.The Patriot Act reversed? No chance. Wars ended? No dice. Will Obama reverse any of the crimes of the last 8 years?

I see a broader war with Russia and China, an economy doomed to collapse, and a general false

sense of ease among the masses since Bush is gone. Activism will remain only for those who never drank the Obama kool aid.

We know the power structure would never let real change to occur, other than a cosmetic one. The criminals that have destroyed our country are still at large and will remain so. As long as we still have the Pentagon system (replete with the 9/11 criminals) America is not a free country. Dark dark days may be ahead.....

Bethesda drill tests emergency resources

A firefighter sprays water on a simulated fire during a drill. The Oct. 30 drill simulated a terrorist attack involving Sarin nerve gas and an improvised explosive device. It was intended to test the readiness of Bethesda emergency agencies and facilities

Hundreds of emergency personnel descended on the National Naval Medical Center last week trying to save 76 victims of a terrorist attack. But Suzanne Patterson just tried to make them look as gruesome as possible.
Patterson was the special effects artist responsible for the "blood and guts" at the Bethesda Hospitals' Emergency Preparedness Drill on Oct. 30, which simulated a Sarin gas and bomb attack outside Navy Med's Uniformed Services University to test the readiness of local, federal and military personnel. Her company, Military Moulage Combat Injury Simulation, has worked for the New York City Fire Department, the Pentagon, and other government and military agencies.
To create the victims' protruding bowels, third-degree burns and imbedded bits of shrapnel, the Emmy Award-winning Patterson utilized a wide variety of materials, from silicon to a bubbling Alka Seltzer tablet that mimicked a "sucking" chest wound. Gelatin and wax were used to simulate other deep wounds http://www.gazette.net/stories/11052008/nortnew215813_32477.shtml

Russia to base missiles on EU border: Medvedev
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081105114620.ota6n5i1&show_article=1

Russia will place short-range missile systems on the EU's eastern border to counter planned US missile defence installations in Eastern Europe, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
"Iskander missile systems will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region to neutralise the missile defence system," Medvedev said.
"There will also be radio-electronic neutralisation of the new US missile defence installations from the Kaliningrad region," he added.
Kaliningrad is a Russian exclave with a large military base that is wedged between Poland and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coastline.
The Iskander are short-range missiles that use conventional warheads with a range of up to 400 kilometres (248 miles). Medvedev did not give any details on the type of scrambling devices that Russia would deploy in Kaliningrad.
The United States is pursuing plans to build a radar base in the Czec Republic and install interceptor missiles in Poland to counter what it describes as a missile threat from "rogue states" such as Iran.

DARPA Awards Northrop Grumman Contract To Develop New Laser Technology For High-Efficiency Fiber Amplifiers http://www.photonicsonline.com/article.mvc/DARPA-Awards-Northrop-Grumman-Contract-0001?atc~c=771+s=773+r=001+l=a&VNETCOOKIE=NO

Redondo Beach, CA — Northrop Grumman Corporation has been chosen to develop single-frequency fiber amplifiers for the new Revolution in Fiber Lasers (RIFL) program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The RIFL program takes a similar approach to maturing fiber laser technology as Northrop Grumman demonstrated for solid-state lasers through support from U.S. military services and government agencies — by designing the building blocks needed to combine laser beams that can be scaled to a weapons-class power level while maintaining good beam quality.

Free flu shots to NH drill participants
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2008/11/04/free_flu_shots_to_nh_drill_participants/ LEBANON, N.H.—Participants in a pandemic flu drill later this month will get free shots at two mass innoculation sites in New Hampshire's Upper Valley.
The Nov. 19 drill will test the region's ability to respond to a large-scale public health emergency. Lebanon Fire Chief Chris Christopoulos said the drills are important because they find areas for improvement.

Space Weaponization: Aye or Nay?http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_11/Book_review

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2009 in Davos-Klosters will offer an historic opportunity to "Reshape the Post- Crisis World"
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=78955

DOD Cuts, Brzezinski Threataganda, War Games

DOD braces for expected budget cuts (False flag time)
http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online/1_1/33853-1.html
The financial meltdown might have a serious impact on future Defense Department spending, reports The New York Times.
Across the military services, deep apprehension has led to closed-door meetings and detailed calculations in anticipation of potential cuts. Civilian and military budget planners concede that they are already analyzing worst-case contingency spending plans that would freeze or slash their overall budgets. Defense Department planners, top commanders and weapons manufacturers are all in agreement that money will be tight for defense programs in the years ahead.
The obvious targets for savings would be expensive new arms programs, which have racked up cost overruns of at least $300 billion for the top 75 weapons systems, according to the Government Accountability Office. Congressional budget experts say likely targets for reductions are the Army’s plans for fielding advanced combat systems, the Air Force’s Joint Strike Fighter, the Navy’s new destroyer and the ground-based missile defense system.
Restocking For Another Decade Of War Part One
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Restocking_For_Another_Decade_Of_War_Part_One_999.html




Obama puppet master Brzezinski continues threataganda

Brzezinski: Obama Will Face “Imminent” Foreign Policy Problems

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0811/02/fzgps.01.html
Trilateral Commission co-founder and top Obama advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski told CNN yesterday that Barack Obama would be faced with “imminent problems” in the context of foreign policy once he takes office, echoing prophetic warnings made recently by Joe Biden, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright.

Appearing on CNN’s Global Public Square with host Fareed Zakaria, Brzezinski said that President Carter contacted him to ask who he should appoint to different posts after he captured the White House, perhaps a hint that Obama might do the same.



India, China aim to hold regular joint exercises
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/India_China_aim_regular_exercises/articleshow/3670587.cms
NEW DELHI: Despite differences, the Elephant and the Dragon are getting all set for a full-fledged military tango now. India and China are stepping up the pace of their bilateral confidence building measures, with joint exercises and regular exchanges on the anvil. On Monday, even as Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta hosted his Chinese counterpart Admiral Wu Shengli here, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal F H Major was in Beijing holding talks with his People's Liberation Army air force chief General Xu Qiliang to promote bilateral defence cooperation.


NATO Ships Sail For Kuwait
http://www.menewsline.com/article-1150,1885-NATO-Ships-Sail-For-Kuwait.aspx
ABU DHABI [MENL] -- For the first time, a NATO armada would exercise withGulf Cooperation Council states.Warships from Standing NATO Maritime Group-2 were sailing toward theGulf for visits and exercises with GCC states. On Nov. 4, the NATO groupwould arrive in Kuwait for a five-day visit that would include training andand exercise.


Air Force Plans Flight Exercise Above Washington
http://wjz.com/local/air.force.flight.2.854956.html
The U.S. Air Force is planning a one-day flight exercise in the Washington area.
The training flights are slated to begin early Monday. The North American Aerospace Defense Command and other agencies are coordinating the flights.
Officials say the exercise, named Falcon Virgo, refines the command's interception and identification operations. It also helps with testing visual warning systems.


Exercise will measure pandemic response
http://www.mississauga.com/article/20600


China backs Iranian full membership at SCO (missed from a few days back)
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20081031080045/China%20backs%20Iranian%20full%20membership%20at%20SCO


New US commander in Pakistan for talks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081103/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanusmilitarydiplomacy_081103085437

Obama and McCain belong in the Hague, not the White House

The naivete and idiocy of the American public
knows no lows. To think that millions will still
go into polling stations, where there is no transparency, no paper ballots and 8 years of proven election fraud, is beyond an exercise in futility, it's deep denial - The denial that America
died years ago. Do people not know that we had
a coup d'etat on 9/11 in 2001?

How could "elections" be even considered when the entire U.S. Government has been operating as a criminal enterprise? Boycott the staged elections (scripted pro-wrestling for pseudo intellectuals) and pursue direct action against the traitors to humanity parading around as decent Americans.

Please read Carolyn Baker's excellent post:

TRUTH TO POWER: Why I Will Not Vote For A President In 2008 http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2008/02/15/truth-power-why-i-will-not-vote-president-2008

Pre-emptive Nuclear war, Russia War Games, NATO

* Monday Daily Dose of Terror will have an election scam special on why I don't bother voting.


US defense secretary expands pre-emptive war doctrine to include nuclear strikes
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/oct2008/gate-o30.shtml

In a remarkable speech on nuclear policy delivered October 28 at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), US Defense Secretary Robert Gates painted a dire portrait of international affairs and argued that Washington should expand the doctrine of pre-emptive war formulated by the Bush administration to include possible nuclear strikes.
It is widely rumored that, in the likely event that Democrat Barack Obama wins next week's US presidential election, Obama will keep Gates as defense secretary. Gates' speech, given in the waning days of the Bush presidency, has the character of a policy declaration of the next US administration. (cont...)


"A Second 9/11": An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10767


World Faces Growing Risk Of War
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081031180559.hq1yll01&show_article=1
The world faces a growing risk of conflict over the next 20 to 30 years amid an unprecedented transfer of wealth and power from West to East, according to the US intelligence chief..


Russia in 'muscle-flexing' war games
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24589297-663,00.html
THE Russian navy will hold war games in the Indian Ocean in a bid to boost its global presence, a navy spokesman says, announcing Moscow's latest move to flex its military muscle.
Ships from the Pacific Ocean Fleet and forces from the Northern Fleet will meet and carry out joint military exercises in the Indian Ocean basin,'' navy spokesman Igor Dygalo today said in a statement.
Mr Dygalo did not specify when the exercises would take place, but he said warships from Russia's Vladivostok-based Pacific Ocean Fleet would leave "shortly'' for the Arabian Sea, docking in various ports on the way.
He called the Indian Ocean manoeuvres part of an effort to raise the Russian navy's worldwide profile before the end of the year


Gulf countries to hold joint naval exercises with Nato
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081101/FOREIGN/320451753/1011/SPORT
MANAMA // Four Gulf navies are to take part in maritime exercises with visiting Nato ships this week, the first operation under the 2004 Istanbul Co-operation Initiative (ICI).The initiative, which calls on the alliance to work with the countries of the region, aims to contribute to long-term global and regional security by offering Middle-Eastern countries security co-operation with Nato.

Greenwich officers pose as terrorists in Bridgeport training
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/localnews/ci_10872270



Preparing for a pandemic (NC)
Base 'tabletop exercise' helps emergency teams prepare for disaster scenario
http://www.enctoday.com/news/lejeune_60416_jdn__article.html/camp_flu.html



Pre-pandemic PCV vax campaign would save lives
http://www.fiercevaccines.com/story/pcv-vaccination-campaign-would-save-lives-pandemic/2008-10-30

Please see Nico haupts latest 9/11 Summary:
http://forum.911movement.org/index.php?showtopic=5541&st=0#entry15276897