4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne)

The 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, NC, is the only active Army psychological operations unit. The 1,300-member unit constitutes 26 percent of all U.S. Army psychological operations units; the remaining 74 percent being filled by reservists. As of May 2006, the unit was slated to eventually grow to approximately 2,300 troops by the year 2011.
The mission of the 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) is to deploy anywhere in the world on short notice, and plan, develop, and conduct Civil Affairs and Psychological operations in support of Unified Commanders, coalition forces, or other government agencies as directed by the National Command Authority.
The 4th POG (A) personnel (soldiers and civilian) include regional experts and linguists who understand the political, cultural ethnic, and religious subtleties of the target audience. They also include functional experts in technical fields such as broadcast journalism radio operations, print, illustration, interrogation layout operations, and long-range tactical communications.

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for more info visit: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/4psyopgp.htm

US Commando SOLO II (airplane) used for PSYOP operations!

The aircraft fly a variety of missions. In Afghanistan, they're broadcasting music, news and information in the various languages of the country. These are radio broadcasts only.
The planes are part of the 193rd Special Operations Wing of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. They are based at Harrisburg International Airport, Pa.
Army specialists in the language and customs of the area prepare the broadcasts.
Ham radio operators can listen to the broadcast at 8700 kilohertz, said Air Force 1st Lt. Edward Shank, a spokesman for the squadron. The squadron has participated in operations in Panama, Bosnia, Kosovo and during the Gulf War. Their aircraft have been modified to not only handle radio, but television broadcasts. They can broadcast via tape or live. "If needed, we have the capability to take a speech by the President of the United States and beam it live via satellite to the aircraft, which then would broadcast it," Shank said.
The name "Commando Solo II" also has meaning. Commando refers to the special operations mission, and Solo refers to the fact that the aircraft can go it alone, Shank said.
The US military has also been conducting psychological operations (Psyops) such as leaflet drops and radio programme broadcasts through EC-130E ‘Commando Solo’ aircraft, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confirmed. Psyops are typically begun prior to offensive military operations to help ‘prepare’ the battlefield and generate support from local populations.

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for more info visit:http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44603

and : http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jdw/jdw011007_1_n.shtml

CYBERTERRORIST NETWORKS

It is important to map what a cyberterrorist network would look like. For this, it's useful to look at traditional hacker networks. It can be safely said that hackers, like terrorists, tend to work in asymmetric, non-hierarchical formation, which means that they do not have organizations like gangs and so forth. The concept of netwar (Arquilla & Ronfeldt 2001) might or might not be useful at explaining these new kinds of formations. Although the concept of netwar is at odds with traditional forms of organization, criminal networks tend to have the following types of members, which can be compared to the types of members found in a terrorist network, as follows:
Membership Roles/Components of Hacking/Terrorist Networks:

• Organizers -- core members who steer group
• Leadership -- charismatics who lead group
• Insulators -- members who protect the core
• Bodyguards -- members who protect leaders
• Communicators -- pass on directives
• Seconds in command -- pass on orders
• Guardians -- security enforcers
• Intelligence -- and counterintelligence agents
• Extenders -- recruiters of new members
• Financiers -- fund raisers & money launderer
• Monitors -- advisors about group weaknesses
• Logistics -- keepers of safe houses
• Members -- those who do the hacking
• Operations -- those who commit the terror
• Crossovers -- people with regular jobs
• Sleepers -- members living under deep cover

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for more info visit:http://www.apsu.edu/oconnort/3100/3100lect02d.htm

The Army's Robot Big Dog.......

this big army robots can always follow soldiers to battle and help them whrever duty calls.Click here to download an incredible video (WMV format) of the BigDog in action.

The amazing "BigDog" is a new type of military transport robot that can carry up to 120 pounds, walk up to 3.3 mph and climb inclines up to 45 degrees.And the robo-rover has eyes: It sports a stereo camera and laser scanner mounted where the head would go, if it had a head. Although these don't currently influence navigation, the next BigDog will use them to read the terrain ahead and spot obstacles. hani for more info:http://www.popsci.com/node/3409

ASIMO conducts an orchestra, and the humans obey!

first what is ASIMO......ASIMo is a humanoid robot created by Honda Motor Company. Standing at 130 centimeters (4 feet 3 inches) and weighing 54 kilograms (119 pounds), the robot resembles a small astronaut wearing a backpack and can walk or run on two feet at speeds up to 6 km/h (3.7 mph)[1]. ASIMO was created at Honda's Research & Development Wako Fundamental Technical Research Center in Japan.

Detroit, Michigan, United States. 13-May-2008. (Source: ABC News via The Associated Press) Honda’s ASIMO robot becomes a music machine as it picks up a baton to conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra through the opera tune “The Impossible Dream.” The performance was to highlight a $1M gift from Honda to the orchestra’s music education fund.

Practice really makes something better,in the first rehersal asimo conducts the orchestra with a very good way but there was a mistake when asimo slow the tempo.this was really a mistake but after training with the orchestra ASIMO was getting so musch better and the engineers dont have a big problem in removing the mistake of slowing the tempo........so can a humanoid robot be a very goood musician...... hani
for more info:www.cyberpunkreview.com

Who controls your data??

NO matter where you go,anytime you want you can always check and see your data......before the revolution of internet your data were not linked to each other in a way,but now after this new technologies and developpement of internet,anybody can check and see or hack your datas because you are putting your files in an illusion world.

Bruce Schneier sums up what people need to do in four words: TAKE BACK OUR DATA. He calls for data privacy laws to do the trick:
We need a comprehensive data privacy law. This law should protect all information about us, and not be limited merely to financial or health information. It should limit others’ ability to buy and sell our information without our knowledge and consent. It should allow us to see information about us held by others, and correct any inaccuracies we find. It should prevent the government from going after our information without judicial oversight. It should enforce data deletion, and limit data collection, where necessary. And we need more than token penalties for deliberate violations.

The MEDIA'S that PSYOP can make through.

For more infos visit: www.cryptome.org

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