Bush Promotes His Plan for Missile Defense System

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Yahoo! News - Bush Plugs Missile Defense
System Plan

Yahoo! News - Bush Plugs Missile Defense
System Plan 08/18/2004 10:40 AM
Bush Backs Satellite-Guided Missile Defense .. once again pimps

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Australia Joins U.S. Missile Defense
System

Australia Joins U.S. Missile Defense
System 12/04/2003 01:16 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 4 2003 0:38AM ET

Bush Promotes Wetlands Plan to Counter
Kerry's Attack

Bush Promotes Wetlands Plan to Counter
Kerry's Attack 04/24/2004 09:19 PM
President Bush made a highly lucrative visit on Friday to the state that made him president, coupling a promotion of his environmental policies with two fund-raisers.

Defense Tech: FAITH-BASED MISSILE
DEFENSE

Defense Tech: FAITH-BASED MISSILE
DEFENSE 08/18/2004 10:50 PM
Defense Tech: FAITH-BASED MISSILE DEFENSE .. not work

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Cisco promotes self-defense

Cisco promotes self-defense 06/18/2004 02:35 PM
ZDNet Jun 18 2004 7:01PM GMT

Wizdom Announces Award of Phase II DoD
SBIR to Research Methods to Increase
Production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs):
Focal Plane Arrays Produced by Rockwell
Scientific are Crucial to Nation’s
Missile Defense System

Wizdom Announces Award of Phase II DoD
SBIR to Research Methods to Increase
Production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs):
Focal Plane Arrays Produced by Rockwell
Scientific are Crucial to Nation’s
Missile Defense System 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Wizdom Systems, Inc., a leading consulting and engineering services company has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research grant from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to research process and control methods that will significantly increase the yield in the production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPA), devices crucial to the successful deployment of the nations missile defense system. The project is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory; Space Vehicles Directorate. Wizdom is teamed with Rockwell Science Center RSC of Thousand Oaks, California, which is the end producer of the FPAs. This grant marks Wizdom’s tenth SBIR awarded by the Federal Government. [PRWEB Oct 29, 2004]

Indefensible missile defense

Indefensible missile defense 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
In the world of research and development, as in the world of entrepreneurial capitalism, there's this notion of a "proof of concept." A proof of concept is a small-scale test or prototype demonstration that takes some new idea and subjects it to some stress-testing by reality -- not a full dose but enough to show that the idea might be worth pursuing. Prove the concept, and maybe you'll risk fully funding the idea. Can't prove the concept? Give up. Move on to something else.

For two decades now, ever since Ronald Reagan unveiled his "Star Wars" vision, a faction of the defense-industrial complex has been trying to produce a proof of concept for missile defense -- to show that we can, with some level of reliability, defend the U.S. by shooting down hostile incoming missiles.

This week, they failed, again.

As proofs of concept go, this was not a cheap one -- the single test cost $85 million. We've spent $80 billion to date on this program, and President Bush wants to spend another $50 billion in the next few years.

But the real issue is not cost but methodology: The whole point of the proof of concept approach is that, if you can't prove the concept, you pull the plug while you're still in the R&D phase. The Bush administration is instead ignoring the simple reality of the results of its experiments and barreling forward.

I guess it's just being consistent: If you don't accept simple budgetary arithmetic and you don't accept the results of weapons inspections in Iraq and you don't accept the overwhelming scientific consensus on global warming, why should you break the pattern and accept the data from your missile-defense experiments? After all, that might be inching uncomfortably close to the "reality-based community." (See Fred Kaplan in Slate for a more detailed argument: "We can't even count on the rocket getting out of its launch silo, much less the millions of minute operations that must follow. President Bush fielded a half-dozen antimissile missiles and called them 'operational.' But they're a ruse.")

What we have here, aside from a massive and repeated technical failure, is a proof of concept for our government's new, proof-of-concept-free approach to spending our money. If we can get away with this reality-denial, the Bush administration's logic goes, let's keep doing it on a bigger and bigger scale! And indeed that's what's unfolding as the comic opera known as the Bush economic plan plays its overture to Act Two.

Let's see, we had enough money to support Social Security until we cut taxes repeatedly and manufactured a crisis, which is now being used to justify a ridiculous privatization scheme. But we still have enough money to pour into the black hole of missile defense.

I hate to be cynical, and certainly a lot of this is being driven by stupid blind ideology, but there is a common thread here: There's profit to be made by parking billions of Social Security money on Wall Street. And there's money to be made in missile defense.

Hey, maybe some of that money will be kicked back in 2008, when it's time to find and fund another Republican to keep this con game going!

Missile Defense: Ready, Set, Go?

Missile Defense: Ready, Set, Go? 04/26/2004 04:53 AM
A new General Accounting Office report says U.S. missile defense systems are being deployed before they're fully tested. The military says it's meeting an administration timeline, even though the tech is still being developed.

Missile Defense Is A Cult

Missile Defense Is A Cult 12/19/2004 03:10 PM
Up here in Canada we’re coming under political pressure from President Bush to sign up for the U.S. Missile Defense program, we’ve got all this territory up North where they’d like to situate the launchers. Rather than just saying “Get lost!”, our Mr. Martin is (wisely I think) playing it cool and fuzzifying. It’s good not to irritate the U.S. when you don’t have to, but there’s absolutely no need for Canada to assist the dwindling but influential band of cultists who believe that Missile Defense is anything but a defense-contractor boondoggle. It was bogus back when Reagan launched it and it’s still bogus. But don’t take my word for it, check out what the American Institute of Physics has to say. Mind you, it’s less dangerous now than it was in Reagan’s day, when there was a nonzero probability that “Star Wars” might have provoked some paranoid Russians who were sufficiently stupid to believe that it might work to launch a first strike while they still had a chance. (Lauren has told me of how she, like every other underfunded Physics Ph.D. in the Eighties, noticed how dressing research up as missile-defense-related was a good way to tap into the gushing SDI money pipeline). Now, it’s just an extremely profitable waste of money. We all know that religious cults are distinguished by believing in things that are obviously not true, usually combined with substantial cash flows in the direction of those running the cult. Missile defense is an obvious example.

Congress Weighs Money for Missile
Defense (AP)

Congress Weighs Money for Missile
Defense (AP) 04/04/2005 02:37 AM
AP - Congress is weighing how much to invest in the fledgling ballistic missile defense system, which has suffered setbacks and whose cost could easily top the $150 billion partial price tag the Bush administration has estimated.

Russia Tests Missile That Could Evade
U.S. Defense (Los Angeles Times)

Russia Tests Missile That Could Evade
U.S. Defense (Los Angeles Times) 02/19/2004 06:41 AM
Los Angeles Times - MOSCOW — After two days of high-profile military exercises, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin said Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a new strategic missile system, a development that analysts said could allow nuclear warheads to avoid U.S. defenses.

MEMtronics Receives Missile Defense
Agency Contract for Tunable Filter
Development

MEMtronics Receives Missile Defense
Agency Contract for Tunable Filter
Development 03/22/2005 04:27 PM
MEMtronics Corporation today announced it has received a research contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) entitled “MEMS Tunable Transmit Filters for MKV Applications.” [PRWEB Mar 20, 2005]

Bush Promotes Job Creation at Pa. School
(AP)

Bush Promotes Job Creation at Pa. School
(AP) 02/12/2004 12:43 PM
AP - Creating jobs for unemployed Americans on U.S. soil is a top priority, President Bush said Thursday as debate simmered in Washington over his economic adviser's description of the loss of U.S. jobs to overseas companies as "just a new way of doing international trade."

Bush promotes Patriot Act in Hershey,
Pa.

Bush promotes Patriot Act in Hershey,
Pa. 04/19/2004 04:22 PM

Bush Promotes Environment in Florida
(AP)

Bush Promotes Environment in Florida
(AP) 04/23/2004 12:16 PM
AP - President Bush said Friday he is a committed conservationist who will safeguard the nation's natural treasures, rejecting widespread criticism that his administration has harmed the environment.

Microsoft security spend more than Star
Wars missile system

Microsoft security spend more than Star
Wars missile system 05/27/2004 04:27 AM

Microsoft security spend greater than
the Star Wars missile system

Microsoft security spend greater than
the Star Wars missile system 05/27/2004 03:41 PM
Microsoft has spent more on securing its software than was spent on the Star Wars missile project, the company's head of security has told conference guests. An unfortunate analogy for Iain Mulholland to use since the project was a complete failure and little more than the private obsession of a few top American ego-maniacs. But, despite - and because of - this Herculean effort, viruses and worms are going to get worse. They will become more complex, more vicious and more dangerous because the days of quick and easy exploits have come to an end, thanks to the software giant's efforts. According to one expert anyway.

Kerry unveils U.S. defense plan in TV ad

Kerry unveils U.S. defense plan in TV ad 06/01/2004 03:20 PM

article: Alleged Trojan horse in Israeli
Anti-Ballistic Missile System

article: Alleged Trojan horse in Israeli
Anti-Ballistic Missile System 02/18/2004 02:42 PM
Gadi Evron (Feb 18 2004)

"Healthcare. Will America pull itself
out of third world status under Bush
plan or Kerry plan?"

"Healthcare. Will America pull itself
out of third world status under Bush
plan or Kerry plan?" 07/18/2004 03:42 AM

Defense Dpt. Denies Rumsfeld OK'd
Interrogation Plan

Defense Dpt. Denies Rumsfeld OK'd
Interrogation Plan 05/16/2004 09:23 AM
Reuters via Wired News May 16 2004 1:46PM GMT

National Virus Defense System

National Virus Defense System 04/27/2004 03:29 AM

Got up at 2pm after 14 hours of sleep to make up for 30 hours of demo preparation.  I feel rested but it's the kind of restful feeling one gets lying on the asphalt and lookup at the blue sky after getting hit by a truck.  I never been in such an accident but I was in a head-on motocycle collision when I was young and found myself in a slow-mo flying through the air scene.I think the middle and the end part of an accident is a very tranquile place to be.  No pain, no fear, just watching things happen.  Weird.

One of the first news item I read was this Wired piece on the national missile defense system which prompted me to wonder if we'll ever have a national virus defense system along with virus tax levied against companies whose vulnerabilities are used by virus found at the 'wall'.  E-commerce tax is not popular among netizens, but I think taxing to improve the Net and to encourage better software and services might find more favorable support among netizens.

ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense
System

ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense
System 07/10/2004 03:16 PM

Bush, Defense Advisers Map Out Policy
(AP)

Bush, Defense Advisers Map Out Policy
(AP) 08/23/2004 08:39 AM
AP - President Bush is mapping out defense strategy with his top defense advisers as U.S. deaths in Iraq inch toward 1,000 and the election campaign focuses intently on he and Democrat John Kerry's credentials for keeping the nation safe.

Defense Department Launches Site For
National Security Personnel System
(NSPS)

Defense Department Launches Site For
National Security Personnel System
(NSPS) 06/30/2004 02:45 PM
The Defense Department has launched a new Web site to educate civilian employees about the new National Security Personnel System (NSPS) that will introduce sweeping changes in the way the department hires, pays, promotes, disciplines and fires civilian employees.

CNN.com - Source: Bush unhappy with
defense chief - May 5, 2004

CNN.com - Source: Bush unhappy with
defense chief - May 5, 2004 05/06/2004 01:39 AM
Claim: President Bush Told Secretary Of Defense Donald Rumsfeld On Wednesday That He Was "Not Satisfied" At The Way He Received Information About Charges That Iraqi Prisoners Had Been Abused By U.S. Soldiers At Abu Ghraib Prison

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A Plan To Fix The Patent System

A Plan To Fix The Patent System 07/12/2004 04:24 AM
The more people look at our existing patent system, the more screwed up they realize it is. Now, two economists are coming out with a new book that not only discusses how bad our patent system is, but also proposes a way to fix it (thanks to John for submitting the link). The book is called < i>Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It and sounds quite interesting. Their proposal, it appears, is just to make the patent process much more open, allowing outsiders to contest a patent much more easily. The plan is to actually have most patent applications reviewed less carefully, while letting anyone point out problems with specific patents that would require a more serious review by patent examiners. The system would also make it easier to contest a patent that had already been approved. Of course, the risk with such a system is that they're basically outsourcing the patent review process to, well, anyone with enough time to watch over the patent process. Though, this could create a new breed of patent researchers whose only job is to review the patents being reviewed to see if they can or should be contested. As an aside, the article notes that in the nineteenth century the Netherlands outlawed patents, after they realized they were simply granting too many patents, causing too many problems. What the article leaves out is that during this time in the Netherlands and in Switzerland (which similarly, did not have patents during that period) innovati on and business thrived, helping both economies grow, while opening opportunities for some new businesses. For more info on how successful those nations were in making use of the lack of patents to help their industrial growth, see < i>Industrialization without national patents: the Netherlands, 1869-1912; Switzerland, 1850-1907.

Plan a Great Client Login System

Plan a Great Client Login System 01/14/2003 12:14 AM
WebmasterBase Jan 13 2003 11:37PM ET

The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » Reagan defense
sec. confirms legal analysis Bush was
AWOL

The Blue Lemur - Progressive Politics
and Media News » Reagan defense
sec. confirms legal analysis Bush was
AWOL 08/01/2004 03:33 AM
former DoD Secretary: Bush was AWOL and should have been called to active duty .. Reagan defense sec. confirms legal analysisBush was AWOL .. AWOL

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Comcast, TiVo plan system to put fresh
ads into recorded programs

Comcast, TiVo plan system to put fresh
ads into recorded programs 04/05/2005 07:50 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 5 2005 11:21PM GMT

Bush Soc. Sec. Plan to Allow Tax
Diversion (AP)

Bush Soc. Sec. Plan to Allow Tax
Diversion (AP) 01/04/2005 08:21 PM
AP - The Bush administration is focusing on a Social Security proposal that would allow younger workers to invest nearly two-thirds of their payroll taxes in private accounts, with contributions limited to about $1,000 to $1,300 a year, an administration official said Tuesday.

Few Takers For Bush Climate Plan

Few Takers For Bush Climate Plan 01/01/2004 09:50 PM
CBS News Jan 1 2004 9:07PM ET

AP: Bush Administration to Revise OT
Plan (AP)

AP: Bush Administration to Revise OT
Plan (AP) 04/19/2004 09:53 PM
AP - Retreating under pressure, the Bush administration intends to revise a proposed overtime regulation to preserve eligibility for most white-collar workers making up to $100,000 a year as well as for police, firefighters and other first responders, Republican officials said Monday.

Bush OKs First National Counterintel
Plan (AP)

Bush OKs First National Counterintel
Plan (AP) 03/28/2005 10:53 PM
AP - President Bush has approved the nation's first counterintelligence strategy, directing the intelligence agencies to go on the offensive — together — against foreign and terrorist threats.

Bush to Lay Out Sovereignty Plan for
Iraq (AP)

Bush to Lay Out Sovereignty Plan for
Iraq (AP) 05/24/2004 01:20 AM
AP - Deflecting political discord over the war in Iraq, President Bush is seeking to reassure voters that hundreds of Americans have not died in vain, and tell the world that he has a blueprint to create a democratic nation.

Bush May Accept a Settlement Plan

Bush May Accept a Settlement Plan 04/13/2004 09:08 PM
President Bush is planning to recognize Israel's right to retain some settlements in the West Bank as part of any peace accord with the Palestinians.

Bush Praises New Retirement Plan (AP)

Bush Praises New Retirement Plan (AP) 03/31/2005 05:00 PM
AP - The retirement savings plan that federal employees enjoy and President Bush cites as a model for his individual investment accounts differs in a key regard from what he proposes: Bush would carve the new accounts out of the Social Security taxes workers now pay.

Bush: Terrorists May Plan More Attacks
(AP)

Bush: Terrorists May Plan More Attacks
(AP) 09/23/2004 09:42 PM
AP - Denying he has painted too rosy a picture about Iraq, President Bush said Thursday he would consider sending more troops if asked, but Iraq's interim leader firmly said they weren't needed. With violence spreading, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld suggested parts of Iraq might have to be excluded from elections in January.

Some Lawmakers Question Bush Intel Plan
(AP)

Some Lawmakers Question Bush Intel Plan
(AP) 08/03/2004 07:24 AM
AP - President Bush is urging the creation of a national intelligence director, but some lawmakers wonder whether the post he's proposed will have enough power to get the nation's 15 sometimes turf-conscious spy agencies working in concert.
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