Bomb Proofing Buildings
Popular Mechanics – I’ve been thinking about spraying in a bed liner for my Jeep, but I may wait for an IED resisting version –
Derived from Line-X’s bed liners, Paxcon can be sprayed on existing structures. It is designed to stop shock waves and fragmentation entirely, or to delay a building’s collapse until it can be evacuated. Paxcon is being applied to commercial and government buildings around the world.
Potentially Resigning Generals
Times – Not sure I believe this –
“There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would resign if Bush ordered an attack on Iran,” a source with close ties to British intelligence said. “There is simply no stomach for it in the Pentagon, and a lot of people question whether such an attack would be effective or even possible.”
Estonia E-Votes
CNet– This is cool because Estonia has embraced the global platform over its broken state platform (infrastructure is very much lacking)-
E-voting will be introduced for a parliamentary election on March 4, for the first time after it was used in more limited local elections in 2005. It is a fresh sign of Estonia’s strong embrace of technology since it quit the Soviet Union in 1991.
Ending South Korea Subsidization?
S&S –
South Korea will assume wartime control over its own military forces in April 2012, the Defense Department announced Friday.
The U.S. commander in South Korea has wartime control of both U.S. and South Korean troops in case of war, but the South Korean government has said it now wants wartime control over its own forces.
The South Korean government currently pays about 40 percent of the nonpersonnel costs associated with having U.S. troops in its country, but former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had insisted the two countries split the costs roughly equally.
Israel Looking For An Air Corridor
Telegraph – Continuing to slowly chip away at the upcoming EBO –
A senior Israeli defence official said negotiations were now underway between the two countries for the US-led coalition in Iraq to provide an “air corridor” in the event of the Israeli government deciding on unilateral military action to prevent Teheran developing nuclear weapons.