9/11 suspects will face military tribunals instead of civil trials An earlier program for a trial in New York City foundered amid widespread opposition to a civilian court trial, particularly in New York. Read much more on The Post-Standard Objections raised to 9/11 burial plans A group of 9/11 victims’ family members members are up [...] Read more »
DARPA Creates Interactive 3-D Holographic Map Table
A 2D Representation of UPSD's 3D Image. Source: DARPA
Popular Science reports via DARPA:
Read more »Long gone are the days of pushing plastic armies around hand-drawn maps. Today’s military planners deserve technology of the future, and that means nothing less than 3-D holograms will do. Luckily, we have DARPA, ever-ready to step in with a solution. The Urban Photonic Sandtable Display (UPSD) allows up to 20 participants to simultaneously view and manipulate the 360-degree, 3-D image on the table, without having to wear 3-D glasses.
The display can be expanded to as large as six feet, and has a visual depth of up to 12 inches. UPSD is also interactive – battle planners can freeze, rotate and zoom in on the images. They can also print out two-dimensional representations of the 3-D data (seen above) that troops can carry with them on their missions.
Zebra Imaging won the contract to create the technology for UPSD, and…
The £650m Apology: Forget our Ailing Education System, That’s What Britain’s Giving to Pakistani Schools to Make Amends for the Past
David Cameron vowed to hand hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money plus vital military secrets to Pakistan yesterday to make amends for offending the Muslim nation last year. The Prime Minister pledged to invest £650million in Pakistan... Read more »
US to Continue Arming Yemeni Government Despite Massacring of Protesters
The US has acknowledged that it has no plans to suspend its military assistance to Yemen despite the wave of anti-regime protests in the country. "As far as I know, it has not been," Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said in response to a quest... Read more »
UN, France Attack Gbagbo Residence
French and UN helicopters have attacked Ivory Coast's presidential palace in the main city of Abidjan where incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo has been holed up. The copters targeted Gbagbo's residence and military barracks in Abidjan hours after fo... Read more »
‘Bahrain Leaves No Room for Dialogue’
The Bahraini government kills protesters, refuses international mediation, and receives military support from US and Arab states in their effort to stop the call for democracy. President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab believes S... Read more »
Soldier Claims Authorities Training To Intern Americans Who Refuse Swine Flu Shot
Soldier Claims Authorities Training To Intern Americans Who Refuse Swine Flu Shot Prison Planet.com Thursday, September 17, 2009 In the video below, a soldier claims she has trained with California police to set-up checkpoints and force vaccinations... Read more »
Thousands Call for Civilian Rule in Egypt
Tens of thousands of Egyptian protesters have once again taken to the streets, demanding the transfer of power from military to a civilian government. Thousands of protesters and activists http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgathered in Cairo's Liberat... Read more »
Are Women Developing Immunity to the Sexual Harassment ‘Virus’?
ScienceDaily reports:
Read more »Sexual harassment may have become so commonplace for women that they have built up resistance to harassing behavior they consider merely “bothersome,” suggests a provocative new study by Michigan State University researchers.This effect, said lead investigator Isis Settles, may be similar to the way people build up immunity to infection following exposure to a virus.
“When women view sexual harassment as bothersome, it doesn’t seem to be associated with distress,” said Settles, associate professor of psychology. “In some ways this suggests that sexual harassment is such a widespread problem that women have figured out ways to deal with it so it doesn’t interfere with their psychological well-being.”
For the study, which appears in the research journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, the researchers examined surveys of more than 6,000 women and men serving in all five branches of the U.S. military.
Sexual harassment was a problem for both sexes, the study found. More…
Suburban Sprawl: A Government Tactic Against Nuclear Annihilation And Natural Disaster
In the aftermath of last month’s devastation, Japanese leaders have called on urban planners to make Japan decentralized and lower density so as to be less vulnerable. It wouldn’t be the first time that sprawl has been employed as a strategy against societal annihilation; during the Cold War, American planners pushed for suburbanization as a defense against nuclear disaster. BLDGBLOG enlightens:
Read more »At the height of the Cold War, the sprawling, decentralized suburban landscape of the United States was seen by many military planners as a form of spatial self-defense. As historian David Krugler explains in This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War, “urban dispersal” was viewed as a defensive military tactic, one that would greatly increase the nation’s chance of survival in the event of nuclear attack.
Specially formatted residential landscapes such as “cluster cities” were thus proposed, “each with a maximum population of 50,000.” These smaller satellite cities…
