[Surveillance-Studies-l] Fwd: The Pentagon's Battle Bugs

[Nils Zurawski]

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>Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:52:02 +0200
>Reply-To: Eric Toepfer <toepfer at ZTG.TU-BERLIN.DE>
>Sender: Research and teaching on surveillance <SURVEILLANCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>From: Eric Toepfer <toepfer at ZTG.TU-BERLIN.DE>
>Organization: Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft
>Subject: The Pentagon's Battle Bugs
>To: SURVEILLANCE at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>
>this might be interest for those list members 
>who are interested in the military dimension of 
>surveillance.
>eric
>
>+++ 
>
>Tomgram: Nick Turse, The Pentagon's Battle Bugs
>
>We at Tomdispatch love anniversaries. So how 
>could we have forgotten DARPA's for so many 
>months? This very year, the Pentagon's research 
>outfit, the Defense Advanced Research Projects 
>Agency (DARPA), turns 50 old. Happy birthday, 
>DARPA! You were born as a response to the Soviet 
>Union's launching of the first earth-girdling 
>satellite, Sputnik, which gave Americans a 
>mighty shock. To prevent another "technological 
>surprise" by the Soviets -- or anybody else, any 
>time, ever -- the agency has grown into the 
>Pentagon's good right arm, always there to reach 
>into the future and grab another wild idea for 
>weaponization. Each year, DARPA now 
><http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=277648>spends 
>about $3 billion on a two-fold mission: "to 
>prevent technological surprise for us and to 
>create technological surprise for our 
>adversaries."
>
>Next month, the agency will 
><http://www.darpa.mil/DARPA50thevent/index.html>celebrate 
>its anniversary with a conference that aims to 
>"reflect on [its] challenges and 
>accomplishmentsŠ over the past 50 years and to 
>consider the Agency's goals for the next 50 
>years." What a super idea! Think of that. The 
>next 50! If only Tomdispatch is still around -- 
>my brain well preserved and renewed (thanks to 
>some nifty cutting-edge science from the TD 
>Advanced Research Projects Lab) -- to see War 
>2058 arrive and blow out those 100-year 
>anniversary candles on the planet.
>
>In the meantime, the future is now and Pentagon 
>expert Nick Turse is at work -- see below -- on 
>the latest developments in DARPA's plans to help 
>an 
><http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/77744/>overstretched 
>military by reaching into the insect kingdom for 
>its newest well weaponized recruits. The first 
>larval Marines, perhaps. Ten-HUT! Unlike 
>Americans at present, they should simply swarm 
>to the recruiting offices.
>
>It's a strange (not to say hair-raising) subject 
>for a journalist who has lately been covering 
>the 
><http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174788/nick_turse_the_air_war_in_iraq_uncovered>air 
>war in Iraq and elsewhere for Tomdispatch. But 
>the Pentagon's urge to weaponize the wild 
>kingdom is a topic Turse has long been familiar 
>with and that he deals with powerfully in his 
>remarkable new book, 
><http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805078967/ref=nosim/?tag=nationbooks08-20>The 
>Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday 
>Lives. It is -- believe me -- the single most 
>powerful look yet at all the subtle and 
>complicated ways American lives have been 
>militarized during the last decades. (For a 
>short video discussion I had with Turse, click 
><http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/turse_video>here.)
>
>Oh, and here's a suggestion for DARPA from a New 
>Yorker. When you're recruiting those bugs, don't 
>forget the roaches in my kitchen. They've been 
>idle too long. Tom
>
>Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
>
>A Futuristic Nightmare That Just Might Come True
>By Nick Turse
>
>Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. 
>It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out 
>of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it 
>could be a reality, if a current Pentagon 
>project comes to fruition.
>
><http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174912/nick_turse_the_pentagon_s_battle_bugs>Click 
>here to read more of this dispatch.
>
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