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Death Chip Drones kill innocent Pakistanis by Tom Burghardt |
 What Pentagon theorists describe
as a "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA) leverages information
technology to facilitate (so they allege) command decision-making
processes and mission effectiveness, i.e. the waging of aggressive wars
of conquest. It is assumed that U.S. technological preeminence,
referred to euphemistically by Airforce Magazine as "compressing the
kill chain," will assure American military hegemony well into the 21st
century.
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FCC says Congress didn't provide funds for public safety airwaves.
All five members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took some heat Tuesday over the lackluster response to the public safety D-block spectrum auction, but the commissioners placed some of the blame on Congress and its failure to allocate adequate funding for the project.
"Congress has not yet passed any law that would require funding to go to the public safety networks," FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said during a House Energy and Commerce Internet and Telecom subcommittee hearing on the 700-MHz auction.
The preferable option would be to fund and build a public safety network with federal dollars, but without that option, a public-private partnership was the only alternative, Martin said.
"Congress has some responsibility too," said Democratic Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.
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Science & Technology 
I ADMIRE Prof. John
Mearsheimer. His rigorous logic. His lucid presentation. His rare moral
courage.
