Further evidence has emerged revealing how the Pentagon is in the business of responding to blog posts critical of the U.S. government. Noah Shachtman, writing for Wired, posts an Air Force flowchart used for “counter-blogging” purposes.

“In a twelve-point plan, put together by the emerging technology division of the Air Force’s public affairs arm, airmen are given guidance on how to handle ‘trolls,’ ‘ragers’ — and even well-informed online writers, too. It’s all part of an Air Force push to ‘counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force,’ Captain David Faggard says,” Shachtman writes. CLICK ON HEADLINE TO VIEW FLOWCHART AND THE REST OF THE ARTICLE.

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Obama Moves to Counter China in Space With Pentagon-NASA Link

Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.

Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team.

read the rest of the article; http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g

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Israeli Tank Crews on Gaza Border Await Order to Move

Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Along the eastern border of the Gaza Strip in a chilly drizzle, scores of Israeli Merkava tanks rumbled through a muddy field, assembled into columns and waited.

Plumes of smoke were still visible in the sky as Israel’s Lockheed Martin Corp. F-16 warplanes flew sorties across the Hamas-ruled territory yesterday for a fifth day, bombing targets at will. The tank crews, shuffling in their muddy boots to keep warm in air suffused with diesel fuel, were certain they will soon be given the order by Defense Minister Ehud Barak to trample the border fence and enter Gaza.

read the rest of the article; http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ahPzTtMLnZpU

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