Top Ten Founding Fathers(Terrorist) of the REVOLUTION against{Jew Controlled} Great Britain!
George Washington was a member of the First Continental Congress. He was then chosen to lead the Continental Army. He was the president of the Constitutional Convention and of course became the first president of the United States. In all these leadership positions, he showed a steadfastness of purpose and helped create the precedents and foundations that would form America.
2. John Adams was an important figure in both the First and Second Continental Congresses. He was on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence and was central to its adoption. Because of his foresight, George Washington was named Commander of the Continental Army at the Second Continental Congress. He was chosen to help negotiate the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the American Revolution. He later became the first vice president and then the second president of the United States.
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From Change to Chains
Publication Date: January 28, 2011
How did past civilizations rise and fall? How rare is America's experiment with a republic? With every crisis, is power being taken away from "the people" and transfered to the central government. Does history give us a clue as to where all this is all headed? George Washington warned in his Farewell Address, 1796: "Disorders and miseries...gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an Individual...[who] turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public...and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism." Ronald Reagan stated at St. John's University, NY, March 28, 1985: "Government that is big enough to give you everything you want is more likely to simply take everything you've got." Woodrow Wilson warned in New York, 1912: "The history of Liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the powers of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties." In the nearly 6,000 years of recorded human history, power, like gravity, seems to inevitably concentrate into the hands of one individual, sometimes called pharoah, caesar, czar, kaiser, king, emperor, monarch, sultan, president or communist dictator. No matter what the autocratic leader's particular title is, the default setting for human government throughout history has most often been monarchy. When power is concentrated, the State is supreme. When power is separated, the individual is supreme. America's founders had a unique window of opportunity in the long train of world history, to maximize the freedom and opportunity of the individual. Ronald Reagan stated in 1961: "In this country of ours took place the greatest revolution that has ever taken place in the world's history...Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another." Is past behavior the best indicator of future performance? What can we expect? Find out as world history comes alive from a whole new perspective in "Change to Chains - the 6000 year quest for control - Volume I: Rise of the Republic."
Present Day Communist America!
Source-PPJ Gazette.com
February 22, 2012 by ppjg
Marti Oakley
The attempts to take over the net, regardless of what reasons they give are indicative of a government that has removed itself so far from the people it claims to represent that I believe we are insane to even let these people assemble. Its too much like watching an invading army that is fully determined to destroy us at any cost.
Just today, another of those staged “committee hearings” was taking place in the efforts to revive the federal governments intention to launch a full frontal attack on the first amendment and free speech. Of course no one of any consequence appeared as a witness opposing this intent to take over the net, but we did have the usual line-up of the Permanent Political Class sitting front and center ready to deliver what could be nothing less than their own personal version of the dooms-day scenario they envision for us if we do not comply with their desire to throttle the net for political purposes.
Among these political hacks who are cheering on the assault on freedom of speech was Diane Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller, Susan Collins and of course our all-time despised political puppet, good ol’ Joe Lieberman. These characters were accompanied by Tom Ridge, Janet Napolitano and whomever else Lieberman could drag in to this stage show, willing to do their part in attempting to terrify the nation into viewing an open and free internet as not only a threat to national security, but to economic security as well.
Personally, considering the massive wreckage that is our economy I cannot think what could possibly happen on the net that could conceivably make one iota of difference. The fact is, it can’t and it doesn’t.
The fact is, this is not about the economy or national security.
This is about controlling your free access to information, videos, websites and other sources that our government would rather you didn’t have. It is about the government granting itself the police state authority to expand its unfettered spying and surveillance, its dossier building on every US citizen, its expansion of “suspects” lists, blacklists, domestic terrorists lists, no-fly lists, its unlawful eavesdropping and wiretapping of US citizens, its paranoid surveillance programs and most especially bringing to halt any free flow of information that highlights, exposes or identifies the massive corruption that emanates from the District of Criminals and CRAPital Hill that has eaten away at our Republic like a cancer.
To quote a recent comment here on PPJ: “We are insane to even let these people assemble”. I could not agree more.
Senator Collins repeatedly referred to the economy and sited vague instances where ideas and creative interests were supposedly stolen by maybe, the Chinese. She claimed they are stealing our inventions and ideas and that they are able to do this because we have no way of stopping them other than to pass another mindless, bloated piece of legislation.
Apparently, Senator Collins, Janet Napolitano and Tom Ridge, Jay Rockefeller and of course Joe Lieberman, are totally unaware of the TRIPS agreement to which 188 countries are signatories that protects all these grandiose designs, creations, inventions, patents, photography, genetic modifications, industrial designs, creative images, plays, poetry, music, pharmaceutical concoctions, vaccines formulas, mechanical designs, works of art, seeds, plants, hybrid animals and birds, among many, many other things. TRIPS also includes a harmonization agreement on enforcement. So what is the problem? You already have the agreements..use them!
It’s the same problem that existed before 9/11 and the insidious Patriot Act. We had laws on the books dealing specifically with terrorism that were never utilized because there is not one terrorist out there who gives a damn what kind of laws we pass. And, if the Patriot Act had actually been intended to thwart terrorism, it is a dismal failure according to reports from the FBI, Homeland Security and whatever other agency routinely hammers us with reports of suspected terror plots!
Apparently the Patriot Act, and none of the subsequent bills that followed it had any affect on terrorism at all! And why, you ask are they not effective? Because the focus of every one of those bills beginning with the Patriot Act was NOT terrorists. The focus was the striking down of Constitutional protections and direct assaults on US citizens under the false flag of fighting terrorism.
Every bill; The Patriot Acts 1 & 2, The military Commissions Act of 2006, The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, and the recent abomination called the NDAA were not focused on foreign terrorists, they were focused on us…..the people of the United States. We are the only people who are affected by provisions of these bills. The military already had the power to kidnap, torture, imprison, try or hold indefinitely non-US citizens and were active in all these areas already. So what did they get that they didn’t already have?
Collins went on to admonish the carefully chosen panel that it was urgent that this new bill be passed. Repeatedly she cried about cybersecurity, cyber attacks, hacking and how vulnerable the government was to these activities. Really?? The government has spent billions and billions of dollars supposedly assembling the most advanced, stat-of-the-art systems in the world…….and these are vulnerable to hackers? She continued saying that this could seriously affect our economy. In what way? Maybe what she meant was that it could seriously impact the corporations that keep the District of Criminals awash in funds.
This hearing was nothing more than another stage show, as all of them are. At one point, Lieberman mentioned that “Dirty Harry” Reid wanted the new bill brought to the floor as soon as possible. I suppose “Dirty Harry” has another of his dirty deals in works like the one he pulled off with the fake food safety bill. And I have no doubt that should the fight against this bill reach the levels it did on SOPA, 99 Democrats and Republicans will voluntarily exit the senate chamber so Dirty Harry can cast another of his infamous “one unanimous vote” after gutting one bill and replacing the text with the arbitrary bill as an amendment.
The only thing this new bill will do is to limit our access to the internet, and to use it freely. I have to wonder how many of the telecoms are behind this, hoping to parcel out the net. This bunch has tried everything to get a bill passed that would limit access, would interfere with free speech and halt the free flow of information.
PIPA, the bill supposedly aimed at protecting children from online pornography was such a flagrant piece of bait legislation, (we’re doing it for the kids! You do love the kids don’t you?) and SOPA was to protect us from online piracy. How many of us are worried about that? So if we can’t be baited with our kids and now they tried baiting us with “they” are stealing our stuff!” what is next?
The fact is, if this was actually what their concerns were, they would have done something about it. Obama would have issued an executive order, or Congress would have ceded power and authority they don’t possess to one of their Gestapo agencies like Homeland Security to implement by rule and regulation.
I find it odd that they have no trouble locating any one of us, but they can’t find an online pornographer. At least a few of the people behind this should check the history on their computers where I am sure there is ample information on pornography.
The actual problem isn’t pornographers, and it isn’t the economy or national security. The actual problem is that our government and its jackboot spy agencies spend massive amounts of time, energy, resources, equipment and massive wads of cash spying on us! Collecting billions and billions of bits of absolutely useless information about people here in the US only because they are on the net. If all of this paranoid energy was spent looking for actual important information, narrowing the focus to actual threats or possible plots, we could all rest a little easier. But, considering the massive waste of resources and the mountains of useless information unlawfully gathered, a plot could develop right on their computer screens, and they would most likely miss it. This may be the reason why they create fictional threats that we later find out about.
We are being dictated to and controlled by what in essence has become a hostile foreign government. The reconstruction of our government into an entity separate from us, fearful of us, embroiled in its own paranoid fantasies as a result of the massive corruption within its ranks, produces ever more threatening legislation and assumptions of power. For more than two decades, whether Democrat or Republican controlled, the federal government has been systematically, incrementally, reconstructing itself, morphing into a full police state.
This Permanent Political Class knows far better than we do just how badly they have betrayed us. But! The net makes it possible for us to uncover the corruption. And this IS in my opinion exactly why they want to take it down.
Source- End The Lie.com
John McCain to introduce more "terror legislation"...
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
During the Senate’s major hearing on cybersecurity last week, Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, announced that the Republicans in the Senate would introduce a bill to compete with S. 2105, also known as the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
McCain seeks to give the NSA and the military previously unimaginable powers over civilian networks, even further expanding the ludicrous power over American citizens given to the military under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (NDAA).
This is similar to the conclusions drawn by a study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which unsurprisingly had a long list of corporate “advisers” who would directly benefit from such a centralization.
Although, even the legislation as it is currently being considered follows the study’s recommendations by putting the power in the hands of DHS. McCain would apparently rather see that power in the military’s hands.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is currently being supported by the chairmen of not only the Senate’s Homeland Security committee but also the chairs of the commerce and intelligence committees as well.
The current bill is cosponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent, Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California.
McCain spoke out against rushing the debate on this legislation and instead called for widening the role of the National Security Agency (NSA) in cybersecurity matters domestically.
On the February 16 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee McCain said that the fact that similar legislation has been introduced in the past by Lieberman and Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, in the past does not mean that this new bill should be rushed to a vote.
“To suggest that this bill should move directly to the Senate floor because it has ‘been around’ since 2009 is outrageous,” McCain said.
“First, the bill was introduced two days ago. Secondly, where do Senate Rules state that a bill’s progress in a previous congress can supplant the necessary work on that bill in the present one?”
McCain said that even though previous sessions of Congress had debated the bill, it was a different set of senators who must now consider the legislation.
This is quite a valid point given that just the homeland security committee alone has four Republicans who were not Senators back in 2009.
Instead of treating “the last Congress as a legislative mulligan by bypassing the committee process and bringing the legislation directly to the floor,” McCain says that Congress should be deliberating with transparency.
This includes holding markup sessions and open debate instead of circumventing the legislative process and just placing it on the calender immediately.
However, this is only part of McCain’s problems with the proposed bill.
He says that the legislation places most of the responsibility to protect American information systems on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), something which he believes to be a mistake.
McCain says that while the legislation would force the DHS to enlarge its mission and size in order to meet the mandates of the bill, the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) already have the resources and know-how to meet the mandates.
The problem here is that the NSA and the military, which USCYBERCOM is part of, currently do not have the legal authority to go in and secure civilian networks.
So, McCain seeks to introduce legislation to change that, giving the military even more unprecedented powers over civilians in the United States.
Following the hearing, Lieberman made a statement in which he nonsensically claimed that he “feels like it is September 10, 2001” and that “The system is blinking red — again. Yet, we are failing to connect the dots — again. We have come so far and in such a bipartisan way that we cannot allow this moment to slip away from us. We need to act now to defend America’s cyberspace as a matter of national and economic security.”
It seems quite clear to me that this is the typical fear mongering leveraged by our so-called representatives in order to suppress critical thinking and debate over policies like this.
“I am heartened that Republicans will offer their own cybersecurity proposal so that we can engage in rigorous debate and pass badly needed legislation this year,” Lieberman said, according to Homeland Security Today, although both proposals are far from acceptable in my humble opinion.
Both of the proposed bills take the power out of the hands of the American people and give it to centralized government agencies. The only significant difference is that McCain wants the NSA and the military to be in control and Lieberman and others want it to be the DHS with all the power.
It doesn’t make a bit of difference to me or anyone else who opposes giving the government even more power than they already have, especially when it comes to the private sector.
After all, if the government can’t even manage to keep their drone fleet secure, who in their right mind would task them with securing a sensitive civilian network?
The fear mongering being used by Lieberman is becoming almost sickeningly pervasive surrounding this legislation – and that is usually far from a good sign.
“The warnings of our vulnerability to a major cyber attack come from all directions and countless experts, and are underscored by the intrusions that have already occurred. Each day we fail to act, the threat increases to our national and economic security,” Collins said.
The second sentence of this statement from Collins is eerily reminiscent of the rhetoric that has been used time and time again to scare the American people into accepting federal tyranny.
Hopefully most of us are now able to see past their attempts to pull our heart strings and bypass all critical thinking faculties and thus reject any and all of this alarmist language.
McCain objected to the aspect of the cybersecurity legislation that tasks the DHS with carrying out risk assessments of businesses that they determine to be part of “critical infrastructure.”
While businesses would be allowed to appeal their designation, if they were deemed to be part of this critical infrastructure they would have to undergo annual re-certification of their cybersecurity standards.
As per usual, the program is incentivized in order to get companies to readily accept being controlled by the federal government.
In this case, companies who are deemed to be “in compliance with the regulations” would be given liability protection by the government for cyberattacks on their infrastructure so long as they maintain the standards set by the DHS.
McCain said that this process would be too burdensome for American companies, a position shared by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge who spoke on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce at the hearing on February 16.
During the hearing Ridge stated that more government regulation would simply be too costly and ineffective for protecting information systems, and I couldn’t agree more (something which I honestly thought I would never say in reference to Tom Ridge).
The government has proven time and time again that they are wildly incompetent at securing their own networks, so why would we ever allow them to have dominion over the civilian sector? It simply makes no sense whatsoever.
McCain then exploited the traditional free market thinking in an attempt to make the American people think he is working for job creation and innovation, not instead to give the military as much control as possible.
“Additionally, if the legislation before us today were enacted into law, unelected bureaucrats at the DHS could promulgate prescriptive regulations on American businesses, which own roughly 90 percent of critical cyber infrastructure,” McCain said.
“The regulations that would be created under this new authority would stymie job creation, blur the definition of private property rights and divert resources from actual cybersecurity to compliance with government mandates. A super-regulator, like DHS under this bill, would impact free market forces, which currently allow our brightest minds to develop the most effective network security solutions,” he added.
McCain also claimed that making the DHS carry out the bill’s mandates would require growth of the agency which would thus cost more for the taxpayer, however, he failed to present evidence showing that the costs would be greater under the DHS or the NSA/military’s command.
Either option is unacceptable in my view, and this is one case where there is no lesser of two evils, really.
McCain claims that is legislation, which he plans to introduce soon, will be “fundamentally” different from the current bill.
He says that he will introduce it with other Republican senators including Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Charles Grassley of Iowa.
The fundamental difference seems to be essentially a rhetorical one, with McCain claiming that his legislation would create a collaborative relationship with businesses focusing on the sharing of information, whereas he characterizes the currently proposed bill as creating an adversarial relationship through regulations.
While the bill will not be introduced until the senators return from recess, it includes many more provisions than just increasing information sharing between the NSA/military and the private sector.
McCain claimed it will also act to reform the Federal Information Security Management Act, funnel more federal investments towards cybersecurity and even update the criminal code regarding cybercrime (likely increasing the penalties and punishments, one would assume).
All in all, this is really like choosing between chugging a glass of cyanide or having your head blown off with a 12 gauge shotgun. Either way, you’re screwed but if someone tried hard enough they might be able to convince you that one way is better than the other.
In my view, both of these proposed bills are wholly unacceptable and we should do everything to resist more power being put in the hands of criminal agencies like the DHS, NSA and the ever-more-powerful military.
The last thing we need is for the American people to be even more controlled by centralized agencies.
What do you think? Did I miss something? Want to tip me off to another story? Email me at Admin@EndtheLie.com with whatever information you have.
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Sovereign Citizens targetted by FBI
Source- LA Times.com
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau
February 23, 2012, 4:52 p.m.
Reporting from Washington— With the FBI pounding on his door, and his wife and two children barely awake, Shawn Rice allegedly strapped on a bulletproof vest, grabbed a semiautomatic pistol and stepped out his back door on Dec. 22.
But dozens of FBI agents and local police had surrounded the ranch house in Seligman, Ariz., about 80 miles west of Flagstaff, and the only nearby cover was knee-high sagebrush. Rice ducked back inside, and warned the FBI to keep away.
After a tense 10-hour standoff, Rice, 49, was arrested. He now sits in a Las Vegas jail awaiting trial on federal money-laundering charges.
But it wasn't Rice's alleged offense alone that prompted the FBI's interest.
According to court papers, Rice was involved in the "sovereign citizen" movement, a group that has attracted little national media attention but which the FBI classifies as an "extremist antigovernment group." So-called sovereign citizens argue that they are not subject to local, state or federal laws, and some refuse to recognize the authority of courts or police.
Since 2000, members of the movement have killed six police officers, and clashes with law enforcement are on the rise, according to the FBI. The deadliest incident came in 2010, when a shootout with a member left four people dead, including two police officers, during what began as a routine traffic stop in West Memphis, Ark.
Since then, in a notable shift in policy, federal officials have stepped up their attention on sovereign citizens.
"We are focusing our efforts because of the threat of violence," said Stuart R. McArthur, a deputy assistant director in the FBI's Counterterrorism Division.
In two recent unpublished studies, the Homeland Security Department and the National Counterterrorism Center ranked the sovereign citizen movement as a major threat, along with Islamic extremists and white supremacists. The FBI assigned a supervisor to coordinate investigations of the movement last year.
"This is a movement that has absolutely exploded," said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Montgomery, Ala., that tracks domestic terrorists and hate groups. More than 100,000 Americans have aligned themselves with the sovereign citizens, the center said.
Adherents cite a patchwork of beliefs, including that the U.S. is essentially under martial law, that some U.S. constitutional amendments are invalid, and that dollars have been illegitimate since the U.S. Treasury went off the gold standard during the Great Depression.
Most important, some followers believe they are entitled to use armed force to resist arrest and fight police.
The FBI also is investigating followers for alleged mail fraud and harassment of federal officials through nuisance lawsuits and property liens. Such cases are clogging courts in every state, said Casey Carty, who heads the FBI's sovereign citizen unit.
Until recently, federal officials had steered clear of any extensive focus on right-wing extremist groups. In 2009, some members of Congress complained after a Homeland Security Department report warned that such groups might seek to recruit disaffected military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as others. The report highlighted several groups, including the sovereign citizen movement.
Bowing to the criticism, Homeland Security officials gutted the office that had focused on right-wing extremism. They also canceled planned presentations and shelved a reference guide that the office had produced to inform local police about the movement.
"The topic had become too politically charged," said Daryl Johnson, who headed the team that wrote the 2009 report.
That changed after the West Memphis shootout with Jerry Kane Jr., a sovereign citizen proponent who had traveled the country offering $100-a-head seminars that taught spurious ways to avoid paying taxes, among other movement tactics.
Kane and his 16-year-old son, Joseph, were killed in the shootout. Also killed was Police Sgt. Brandon Paudert, son of the local police chief, Bob Paudert.
Paudert had never heard of the sovereign citizen movement until that day. Now retired, he has spoken to more than 75 law enforcement groups around the country warning of its danger.
Paudert remains angry that Kane wasn't identified as potentially armed and dangerous in the FBI-run database that local police normally access for warrants and other data when they stop a vehicle. He wants the FBI to change the database to flag known sovereign citizen adherents.
"If we had that, [my son] would have immediately called for backup," Paudert said. "He would be alive today."
brian.bennett@latimes.com
U.S. vs USA Republic
The Coming Drone Warfare Against "Certain American's"???
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How the U.S. Government will use the Census Bureau data for the coming "Round-Up" of American's???
Why did the Census Bureau award a $500 Million Dollar Contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation, The Worlds Largest Defense Contractor?
In 2004 the United Nations Secretariat published a pdf entitled “United Nations Expert Group Meeting to Review Critical Issues Relevant to the Planning of the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses”. Subtitled “Integration of GPS,Digital Imagery and GIS with Census Mapping” On page 2 it says “4. The census symposium, held in New York in 2001, provided a comprehensive review of the significant capabilities of GPS, Satellite imagery, GIS and handheld computers, and their relevance to census mapping operations. ” This study is about GPS mapping during the census process.
A Similar pdf from the UN Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs Statistic Division says that the aim of the meeting was to “set priorities and propose concrete outputs for the developement of the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme.” The meeting was attended by representatives from 18 countries including the US who was represented by Jay K. Keller, Chief of International Relations, US Census Bureau.
In July 2006 NPR carried the story, Census Bureau Adopts GPS to Find American Homes, where it states, “Two-and-a-half years from now, in early 2009, the Census Bureau plans to send an army of 100,000 temporary workers down every street and dusty, dirt road in America. They will be armed with handheld GPS devices. Robert LaMacchia, head of the Census Bureau’s geography division, says they’ll capture the latitude and longitude of the front door of every house, apartment and improvised shelter they find. “We will actually knock on doors and look for hidden housing units,” he says. “We will find converted garages; from the outside, it may not look like anybody lives there.” But census workers will add each dwelling, legal or not, to the Census Bureau’s Master Address File. Recent proposed budget cuts have put part of this plan in jeopardy. But if Congress restores the money, the census will end up with the geographic coordinates — accurate to within 10 feet — for about 110 million residences. “
Several defense contractors were awarded contracts to help carry out this operation in the US. From a $500 Million dollar contract awarded to Lockheed Martin, see link, to HARRIS who supplied the GPS handheld devices used by census workers.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act facilitates the government use of unmanned spy planes in US airspace and approves deployment of 30,000 by 2020. It also requires the FAA to rush a plan to have as many in the air as possible within 9 months. These drones have been used for spy and assassination missions worldwide.According to an article in Wikipedia U.S. Air Force (USAF) Chief of Staff General T. Michael Moseley said, “We’ve moved from using UAVs primarily in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance roles before Operation Iraqi Freedom, to a true hunter-killer role with the Reaper.”
In a report by NewScientist one drone manufactured by Lockheed Martin, one of the contractors used by the census bureau, the RQ-170 Sentinel craft, may have been brought down in Iran by jamming it’s GPS signal.
Tying this altogether it seems as though the government has implemented the UN plan to GPS mark all residences and this will make it possible to send in drones instead of personel when the government choses thereby removing the human element from the situation. You cannot reason with a drone and it cannot make a judgement that it may be operating on faulty intel. Also, there is the potential for the enemies of this country to crash these drones because of the GPS vulnerability.
Meet up Message boards.com/U.S. Census Bureau and Drones
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The U.S. Census Bureau has awarded a contract of more than $500 million to the Lockheed Martin Corporation, headquartered in Bethesda, Md., for the 2010 Census Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS).
The DRIS contract will include developing an option for filing census questionnaire responses via the Internet.
The contract also includes systems, facilities and staffing to capture and standardize census data via paper census forms, telephone and the Internet.
Lockheed Martin will team with IBM, Computer Sciences Corporation, Pearson Government Solutions and several other companies to perform the six-year contract.
The DRIS contract is a cost-plus, award-fee contract with firm fixed-price elements.
Insitu Integrator Drone
Source- Defence Update.com
Insitu unveiled at AUVSI its latest unmanned aerial system designated 'Integrator'. The new vehicle extends the company's Insight family of vehicles (which includes the ScanEagle) with the ability to carry out longer missions with larger payloads. Following a modular design, the Integrator decouples the payload from the airframe to ease payload integration. Additional internal payload options for Integrator include a wide range of intelligence, communications and expandable capabilities and options. The Integrator has an empty weight of 55 lbs (25 kg), loaded with full payload of 25 lbs (11.3kg) fuel and payload the maximum takeoff weight of 130 lbs (59 kg). It is powered by reciprocating piston engine developing eight horsepowers, and runs on heavy fuel or auto gas. The vehicle is designed for a cruising speed of 55 knots and maximum speed is 90 kt. Service ceiling is 20,000 ft.
The new vehicle will utilize a larger 10x10 inch (25x25 cm) box shaped fuselage, couples with 16 ft (4.8 meter) span swept wing. Unlike the clean blended wing design of the ScanEagle, Integrator has more control surfaces, with booms carrying a vertical tail and horizontal stabilizer coupled to each wing. Unlike most UAV designs, Integrator is not using the classical H design used by most UAVs, as the two tails are not connected by a common horizontal stabilizer.
The wing roots are strengthened to carry external payload options, including all existing Scaneagle payloads, EO and IR turrets and communications. In its baseline configuration the Integrator carries an electro-optical stabilized payload including visual and long-wave InfraRed (LWIR) sensor and Mid-Range InfraRed (MWIR) cameras with optional infrared marker and laser rangefinder. The platform can sustain communications link over 55 nautical miles with extended beyond-line-of-sight mission radius of up to 550 nm. Launch and recovery are performed autonomously using pneumatic catapult launcher and patented 'wingtip snag', enabling safe and reliable recovery without the need for infrastructure, over rough or mountainous land, as well as at sea. Integrator will be interoperable with Insight platforms and ScanEagle, using common ground system components. The avionic suite is based on Athena Guidestar system, utilizing differential GPS navigation.
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Cyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un) covering the Hidden Pentagon
Cyborgs, Software Spies and Shadow Wars: Our 5 Years (Un)covering the Hidden Pentagon
By Noah Shachtman Email Author February 21, 2012 | 2:46 pm | Categories: Blog Bidness
Source- Wired.com
I’d like to pretend there was some master plan, that the site you see before you crept out of our skulls fully formed. But the truth is, when Sharon Weinberger and I launched Danger Room five years ago this week, we were just winging it. We wanted to write about the things we thought were cool: the Pentagon’s super-soldier project; China’s cyborg pigeons; the Navy’s puke rays and lightning guns. So we did.
Sure, we had a few explicit goals. Most of them were quickly abandoned. We slowed down the cracked-out pace. We stopped covering martial arts and quit posting music videos just for the fuck of it.
But a few things stuck. We looked on the costs and the politics and the strategies that came with the latest gear; the internet already had plenty of stroke sites for military hardware. We never accepted the idea that a “blog” couldn’t have original reporting. We maintained a sense of the absurd, to keep the steady stream of killer robots and shady defense contractors and Third World invasions from turning into a crushing gloom. And, without ever explicitly giving ourselves a direction, we kept returning to the parts of the defense world that were largely obscured from the public view: the remote labs, the secret experiments, the mercenaries, the manhunters, the idea factories, the psychological operators, the rapping terrorists, the special forces raising tribal armies.
Over time, we called it the Hidden Pentagon, or the Defense Underground. A world where people earnestly try to build flying cars, collect terrorists’ scents, turn soldiers into yogis and twist Twitter accounts into honeypots. A place where it’s perfectly rational to dispatch social scientists on combat missions, transform the airwaves into weapons, and launch Shadow Wars around the globe. A reality in which militants are killed by the the push of a button two continents away, entire towns are under constant surveillance, the most disruptive spies are software, and we’re not even allowed to read the laws that are supposed to keep us safe.
To keep it all from getting too phantasmagoric, we tried to maintain Danger Room as a voice of reason in a world gone nuts. When Washington panicked over cyberwars that weren’t or Korean missiles that couldn’t, we told D.C. to chill. When the military swooned over networked tanks or stealth destroyers or ICBMs that targeted terrorists (if they didn’t start World War III), we did our best to slap some sense into them. When policy-makers wallowed in fear of another 9/11, we told them to grow up and refuse to be terrorized.
We also made sure to see the world’s conflict zones through our own eyes: dropping howitzers over Afghanistan, coming under fire in Helmand province, surviving a bomb attack in Logar, outrunning militants on the streets of Chad, exploring Gadhafi’s bunkers in Libya, witnessing drone strikes in Israel, festering in our own stink in Iraq.
Along the way, we picked the brains of the military brass — from the head of Darpa (on our very first day) to the Defense Secretary to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the commander of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. We even got ourselves a full-time reporter working out of the Pentagon.
Finally — and, really, this should have been item number one — we broke news wherever and whenever we could: The rules that effectively killed frontline blogging; the seemingly shady deals done by top Pentagon officials; the previously unknown commando force eyeing Iran; the computer virus that infected the cockpits of the U.S. drone fleet.
Occasionally, that news even made a difference. Spencer Ackerman’s series on government Islamophobia prompted the White House to order a review of all counterterror training materials. A few weeks after this blog got started, Sharon and I posted an internal memo showing that the Marine Corps had slow-rolled urgent requests for armored vehicles in Iraq. It didn’t take long for the Secretary of Defense to order thousands of the vehicles built, giving hundreds of thousands of troops better protection against improvised bombs.
Not bad, for a bunch of reporters just riffing. Not bad, for a little website without a plan.
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