Via: wired.com
The annual cost of $6 billion going to training the Afghan army has test to produce any Afghan army battalion that can work independently.
Out of 180 – 2 can work alone but need US maintenance, logistics and medical systems.
Via: arstechnica.com
Via a FIOA request, who keeps your text messages for five or seven years?
Room 641A keeps it all 
News on a report by the NRC about Fukushima.
Containment – vents
Reactor – the rods moving up, not down.
Explosion – the shockwave
Severe Accident Mitigation Analysis – the cost of clean up.
Also see www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/safety/recipe-for-disaster.html
Via: carlbernstein.com
A history of the CIA and its links with the press for cover and what Senator Frank Church found.
Via: zerohedge.com
News on the ”Social Listening Platform” and the desire to continuously monitor conversations on social media outlets and then reach out to key bloggers and influencers.
Via: madcowprod.com
From Generalissimo Francisco de Miranda military air base, Venezuelan law enforcement, a twin-engine King Air and … no perp.
Via: thestar.com
Follow the “Canadian” officials as they try to “work” on Canadian copyright law and new Canadian customs seizure powers.
and the Unit 3 image cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi082411/daiichi082411.htm