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Submission + - Homeland Security Exercise Targets "Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny" (infowars.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Leaked Homeland Security documents obtained by Infowars reveal details of a joint DHS/FEMA national exercise set to take place this week, one of the components of which revolves around an effort to counter online dissent by a group called “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny,” which is disgruntled at the imposition of martial law after an earthquake in Alaska.

As we have exhaustively documented on numerous occasions, federal authorities and particularly the Department of Homeland Security have been involved in producing a deluge of literature which portrays liberty lovers and small government advocates as extremist radicals.

The document also mentions the threat posed by "disgruntled military and Department of Defense civilians," which ties into the talking point, repeatedly promoted by the DHS and other federal agencies, that returning veterans pose a major domestic terror threat.

The Capstone Exercise 2014 document makes it clear that a key part of the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA's preparation for the aftermath of major catastrophic incidents in the United States is centered around combating online dissent which will be sparked as a result of federal authorities and military assets instituting martial law, or what the document refers to as "Defense Support to Civil Authorities".

This is particularly chilling given reports that emerged in 2006 concerning a nationwide FEMA program under which Pastors and other religious representatives were trained to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in preparation for a declaration of martial law, property and firearm seizures, and forced relocation.

Submission + - APS about to Reject Global Warming 'Consensus'? (breitbart.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Will the American Physical Society be the first major scientific institution to reject the global warming "consensus"?

The APS has appointed three of the world's most well known climate skeptics to its public affairs panel, almost guaranteeing that the organization will change its position from supporting the consensus to a more skeptical approach. Note also that this is the same organization that had one important scientist and a Nobel prize winner resign in disgust three years ago because of its insistence that the evidence of human-caused global warming was "incontrovertible."

Submission + - Navy database tracks civilians' parking tickets, fender-benders (washingtonexaminer.com) 1

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: A parking ticket, traffic citation or involvement in a minor fender-bender are enough to get a person's name and other personal information logged into a massive, obscure federal database run by the U.S. military.

The Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LinX, has already amassed 506.3 million law enforcement records ranging from criminal histories and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred.

Submission + - Facebook Software Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do (technologyreview.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Facebook has developed a face-recognition system that works almost as well as the human brain:

Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time. New software developed by researchers at Facebook can score 97.25 percent on the same challenge, regardless of variations in lighting or whether the person in the picture is directly facing the camera.

Human brains are optimized for facial recognition, which makes this even more impressive.

This kind of technology will change video surveillance. Right now, it's general, and identifying people is largely a forensic activity. This will make cameras part of an automated process for identifying people.

Comment They were wrong then and he is wrong now (Score 1) 1

by schwit1 (#46520047) Attached to: The Air Force Isn't Ready to Replace the A-10

"It cannot survive or operate effectively where there are more advanced aircraft or air defenses"

This same statement has been made for 30 years about the A10 and the warthog has always proven them wrong. The bottom line is that Hagel is a political hack, not a military strategist. The F35 has about as much relevance as the AH64 Comanche. UAVs are the future, not manned aircraft.

Submission + - Obama transparency getting worse... (ap.org)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The government's own figures from 99 federal agencies covering six years show that halfway through its second term, the administration has made few meaningful improvements in the way it releases records. In category after category — except for reducing numbers of old requests and a slight increase in how often it waived copying fees — the government's efforts to be more open about its activities last year were their worst since President Barack Obama took office.

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