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Tuesday 17 February 2015

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Posted: 16 Feb 2015 02:20 PM PST
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A US scientist spoke to RT saying he is worried intelligence bodies could try to use the weather as a weapon. He called on the CIA to open up and be more transparent, and wants research to be conducted globally to limit the possibility of hostile use.
Professor Alan Robock is wary that US government agencies are interested in funding climate change research to see if new technologies could help to turn the weather into potential weapons.
He cited the example of putting a cloud in the stratosphere like those formed from volcanic eruptions, which could be used to try and tackle global warming. He said this would reflect sunlight and cool the Earth, while it would be very cheap and quick, but it would produce a lot of side effects.
One such problem with this technology is it could potentially block sunlight from reaching a certain country if carried out on a large scale. One just has to look back at the effects the eruption of Mount Krakatoa in 1883 had on the Earth’s weather patterns. The following four years were unusually cold, while heavy snowfalls were recorded around the globe.
“We can’t think of any way how you could control the climate in one part of the world without controlling the whole world. Putting clouds in the stratosphere would have a global effect and not a local effect. It is difficult to think how this could be weaponized, but maybe this is something they want to think about that,” he told RT.
The climate scientist from Rutgers University also mentioned that members of US intelligence services, who are interested to tap into his expertise on climate control, have approached him.
“A couple of years ago I got a call from a couple of guys who said they were working for the CIA,” he said. “They asked if some other country was trying to control our climate, would we know about it?”
Robock immediately thought the opposite, that the CIA were in fact asking him whether if the US was controlling someone else’s climate, would they know about it.
“I don’t know what motivates the CIA,” Robock said. “I guess they want to protect the United States.”
He also mentioned that the CIA was partially behind the funding of a report that was released last week by the US National Academy of Sciences. The intelligence body urged more research to be carried out into climate control so that if policy makers are ever tempted to take this further, they will have a much better idea about the risk and benefits.
However, Robock has also called on the CIA to be more transparent and open regarding their interest in climate control.
“I think this research should be out in the open and it has to be international so there won’t be any question that this technology will used for hostile purposes,” The Guardian reported the scientist as saying.
The use of the weather as a weapon is banned under the Environmental Modification Convention, which came into force in October 1978. However, certain world leaders have accused the US of breaking this protocol in the past.
The US’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) has also been criticized for playing a role in climate alteration. In 2010, the then president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said the facility was responsible for devastating floods in Pakistan. He gave this pronouncement from the rostrum at the UN General Assembly.
The same year the now-deceased Venezuelan leader Huge Chavez claimed that experiments at the HAARP facility triggered the powerful Haiti earthquake, which happened when the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates shifted alongside a previously unmapped fault.
The US armed forces have altered the weather before to help them militarily. During the 1960s, an operation named Project Storm Fury saw researchers apply various particles to a thunderstorm to try and make it less destructive.
Similar technologies were used during the Vietnam War, when particles were added to clouds along the Ho Chi Minh trail in a bid to increase rainfall along this section and make it difficult for Vietnamese forces to move weapons and troops, due to the paths becoming too muddy, spending $21 million on the project, the New York Times reports.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:32 PM PST
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Following the US invasion of Iraq, the CIA worked with US troops in 2005 and 2006 to quietly purchase and recover 1980s-era nerve-agent rockets from a clandestine Iraqi seller during the previously undisclosed Operation Avarice, according to a new report.
Operation Avarice led to the destruction of at least 400 Borak warheads, chemical weapons used by Saddam Hussein’s government that were reportedly manufactured domestically for Iraq’s war against Iran during the 1980s.
Pieces of the leftover cache acquired in 2005 and 2006 by the CIA are believed to have been those not accounted for by the United Nations following the 1991 Persian Gulf war, according to the New York Times.
The program was run out of the CIA’s Baghdad station with the aid of the US Army’s 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion as well as chemical-defense and explosive ordnance disposal troops, according to anonymous US officials that spoke to the Times.
Many of the 40-inch Borak rockets recovered were empty, others in poor shape or contained nonlethal material. Still others were found to have a higher level of sarin than was expected.
The amount of money paid to the secretive Iraqi Borak seller, the only person to offer the chemical munitions to the CIA, is unknown, as are his affiliations.
“Without speaking to any specific programs, it is fair to say that together with our coalition partners in Iraq, the U.S. military worked diligently to find and remove weapons that could be used against our troops and the Iraqi people,” said Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Times reported.
Lauding the program’s success, retired Army Lt. Gen. Richard P. Zahner, the highest-ranking American military intelligence officer in Iraq in 2005 and 2006, said Operation Avarice neutralized what could have become an arsenal used against the US and its allies.
“This was a timely and effective initiative by our national intelligence partners that negated the use of these unique munitions,” he said.
Yet the disclosure of the program again highlighted the US military’s secrecy regarding chemical weapons US troops were or could have been exposed to during the war.
It was revealed in October that American soldiers discovered more than 4,990 mostly degraded chemical munitions in Iraq, yet veterans are now grappling with the effects of chemical exposure that the military did not adequately share with troops or the public.
Veterans have claimed their medical care following this exposure has been substandard, partly because military doctors were unaware of the presence of chemical weapons in Iraq.
“If we were aware of these compounds, and as it became clear over the course of the war that our troops had been exposed to them, why wasn’t more done to protect the guys on the ground?” said Aaron Stein, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute.
“It speaks to the broader failure.” The US support for Iraq in its war against neighboring Iran is well documented.
“Reagan/Bush administrations permitted—and frequently encouraged—the flow of money, agricultural credits, dual-use technology, chemicals, and weapons to Iraq,” ABC’s Nightline reported in 1992.
In 1994, US Sen. Donald Riegle released a report — “U.S. Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual Use Exports to Iraq and their Possible Impact on the Health Consequences of the Gulf War” — that detailed how the US supplied biological research materials to Iraq.
“Records available from the supplier for the period from 1985 until the present show that during this time, pathogenic, toxigenic, and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application and licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Records prior to 1985 were not available, according to the supplier. These exported biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction.”
Operation Avarice began after the US military recovered a small collection of Borak warheads in 2005. The seller would occasionally notify the CIA when he had more for sale, officials said, meeting with American handlers of the program in Iraq’s southeast region to hand off the weapons.
The Boraks were disposed of afterwards, most by detonation, officials said. Some were taken to Camp Slayer, near Baghdad’s airport, for testing.
Sarin analysis of the warheads in 2005 found purity level as high as 13 percent, higher than expected. Borak sarin samples found in 2004 had yielded purity levels no more than 4 percent. One internal record from 2006 referenced “agent purity of up to 25 percent for recovered unitary sarin weapons.”
The relationship between the Borak seller and his American negotiators began to sour, NYT indicated, as the CIA and US troops increasingly pushed for more information on the cache.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:29 PM PST
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American history experts, take note: A new architectural survey of the Washington Monument has determined that the iconic obelisk is actually nearly 10 inches shorter than earlier measurements have indicated.
However, weathering isn’t to blame for any loss of height, and neither is the 2011 earthquake that forced the Washington, DC landmark to close its doors to tourists for years while repairs were being made. Rather, it’s the requirements for taking measurements in compliance with rules established by an international standards group that has suddenly reclassified the Washington Monument as being slightly shorter than what has long been reported.
According to the Council Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat – the global organization that has the official say when it comes to the world’s skyscrapers and other structures – an official measurement of the Washington Monument’s height must take into account the distance from the floor of the main entrance to the top of the tower.
On Monday, the National Geodetic Survey and the National Park Service said that new measurements indicate the monument is 554 feet and seven and 11/32 inches, as per the CTBUH’s standards – or nearly 10 inches shorter than the 555 feet and five and one eighths of an inch measurement that has appeared in almanacs and record books since the late nineteenth century.
Up until now, historians and tour guides have relied on a measurement taken by Lt. Col. Thomas Casey in 1884 to describe the structure. At the time, the monument was the tallest structure in the world – at least until the Eiffel Tower was erected five years later.
“The building didn’t change height because of anything; it is just where you start from,” Dru Smith, chief geodesist with the National Geodetic Survey, told the Associated Press this week.
Per the CTBUH standards, the monument must be measured from the “lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance” to the structure’s peak. Not everyone is embracing the new information, though.
“For our purposes we’ll still use the historic height rather than the architectural height, since they’re measured from different places,” National Park Service spokeswoman Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles told the AP.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:15 PM PST
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) unveiled preliminary guidelines on the use of small commercial drones in the country on Sunday. The draft regulation prohibits the use of unmanned aircrafts out of the sight of a pilot.
The proposed rules allow Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to fly during the day if they weigh up to 55 pounds (25 kg), stay below 500 feet (152 m) in the air, and fly less than 100 mph (160 km/h).
Other restrictions include: the drone must be in the pilot’s sight at all times, and must be operated by a person not younger than 17 years old, who has passed an aeronautics test.
Night flights are prohibited under the proposed regulations. “There is no acceptable technological substitute for direct human vision in small UAS operations at this time,” the FAA said.
FAA Administrator Michael Huerta said that they tried to remain “flexible” when compiling the guidelines. “We want to maintain today’s outstanding level of aviation safety without placing an undue regulatory burden on an emerging industry.”
Amazon is one of the companies that could potentially face the biggest obstacle with these new regulations, as the firm’s newly proposed ‘Prime Air’ drone delivery service relies on remote piloting.
“The FAA needs to begin and expeditiously complete the formal process to address the needs of our business, and ultimately our customers,” Amazon’s vice-president of global public policy, Paul Misener, told the Guardian. “Without approval of our testing in the United States, we will be forced to continue expanding our Prime Air R&D footprint abroad.”
The FAA’s draft regulations are not final and will go through a 60-day comment period, during which the public and businesses would be able share their thoughts on the rules. But, according to some reports, the whole process could take at least 18 months before the guidelines are finalized.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST
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In a move that could have ramifications for domestic anti-terrorism efforts, US House Speaker John Boehner said he would let funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapse on Feb. 27 in order to reverse Obama’s immigration reform actions.
House Republicans have passed a Homeland Security appropriations bill, but it is contingent upon defunding Obama’s 2012 and 2014 executive orders that negated the threat of deportation for an estimated five million undocumented immigrants seeking refuge in the United States.
In the Senate, Democrats have blocked the House funding bill three times, calling for “clean” DHS-funding legislation that would maintain Obama’s immigration orders. Obama, meanwhile, has threatened to veto the House measure.
“Senate Democrats are the ones standing in the way,” Speaker Boehner told Fox News on Sunday. “They’re the ones jeopardizing funding.”
Would he let the department’s funding expire? “Certainly,” Boehner answered. “The House has acted. We’ve done our job.” In the Senate, however, Republicans do not seem as headstrong about playing with DHS funding to defeat the immigration orders.
“The American people did not give us majority to have a fight between House and Senate Republicans,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press,’ in reference to last November’s midterm election. “They want things done. You cannot cut funding from the Department of Homeland Security. We need to sit down and work this thing out.”
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week that the Upper Chamber was “stuck” and that it was up to the House to make the next move.
Despite this supposedly critical juncture, Congress is taking this week off, meaning lawmakers will have Feb. 24-27 to settle on DHS funding before its expiration.
Funding expiration would affect some Department of Homeland Security (DHS) services, but not front-line airport or border security, according to reports.
The agency has designated around 85 percent of its workers, or about 200,000 people, as being ‘exempt’ from a forced furlough given they work in areas that are vital to security or are funded by sources unrelated to the congressionally-approved budget, Reuters reported.
For instance, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) travel screenings at airports would certainly continue, as would the Federal Air Marshal Service, Coast Guard patrols, and disaster relief execution.
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Posted: 15 Feb 2015 04:00 PM PST
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Large numbers of US teenagers are sleep-deprived, with girls, racial or ethnic minorities and students of lower socioeconomic status said to be particularly affected, according to the first major evaluation of sleep trends for American teens.
The study involved over 270,000 adolescents from the eighth, 10th and 12th grades asked in 1991-2012 surveys how often they got seven or more hours of sleep.
While nine hours is a standard recommended by the National Sleep Foundation, many teens are less likely to regularly get even seven or more hours of sleep nightly compared with their non-Hispanic counterparts and students of higher socioeconomic status. Inadequate sleep is meanwhile associated with a wide range of health problems including mental health issues and weight gain, to name a few.
The largest decrease in the percentage getting seven hours of sleep nightly was for kids aged 15, with 72 percent reporting regularly getting seven-plus hours of sleep per night back in 1991 versus 63 percent in 2012, a study by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health has found.
Racial and ethnic minorities and those whose parents had little formal education responded that they were less likely to regularly receive seven or more hours of sleep. However, they were more likely to report getting adequate sleep, suggesting a mismatch between actual sleep and illusions of adequate sleep.
“This finding implies that minority and low socioeconomic status adolescents are less accurately judging the adequacy of the sleep they are getting,” assistant professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health and lead author, Katherine W. Keyes, explained.
While reasons for the decreases in hours of sleep are unknown, factors that might have contributed include “increased Internet and social media use and pressures due to the heightened competitiveness of the college admissions process,” Dr. Keyes noted, adding that declines in self-reported adolescent sleep across the last two decades are “concerning.” Among key factors to blame, according to Dr. Keyes, is increasing use of social media, smartphones and other electronic devices teens get hooked on. Other research has suggested that early school start times also play a role with some pushing for later times for teens.
The researchers say that improving teens’ understanding of how much sleep they really need, and the negative effects of not getting enough, could help change things for the better.
Findings from “The Great Sleep Recession: Changes in Sleep Duration Among US Adolescents, 1991-2012″ are published online in Pediatrics.
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