[The US military] is working with Harris Corp. to adapt ESPN’s technique of tagging key moments in National Football League videotape to the war zone. Just as a sportscaster can call up a series of archived quarterback blitzes as soon as a player is sacked on the field, an analyst in Afghanistan can retrieve the last month’s worth of bombings in a particular stretch of road with the push of a button, officials said.
••• Does this mean ESPN will earn a royalty every time an IED hits a Humvee?
“I was offered a softer sentence and a shorter prison term if I told them everything I knew about my contacts in Russia and other countries.”
••• Viktor Bout says he turned down a plea deal. Of course, he would say that.
“With that much cash flowing around in duffel bags, it became too much of a temptation…”
••• The $5 billion slush fund that built a water park in Baghdad.
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Great lords on either side had followings known as “affinities”, comprising people on formal retainers…(foreign mercenaries were there, too).
••• Voluntary military service, part I.
In understanding how this relative lack of attention [to war casualties] is possible, it’s worth noting that the American dead tend to come disproportionately from easy-to-ignore tough-luck regions of the country…
••• Voluntary military service, part II.
“We’re focused on…positioning ourselves for growth in international military markets,” Boeing defense spokesman Daniel Beck said.
••• How Boeing defies an economic downturn, part I.
This leak might be seen as rather embarrassing since most small businesses cannot count on top State Department officials spending their time pushing their product. These businesses have to pay for their own marketing.
••• How Boeing defies an economic downturn, part II. (you heard it here first.)
The cables make clear that both Boeing and the government set limits on their [overseas marketing] efforts, turning away requests in Turkey and Tanzania to hire “agents” who charge steep commissions — or as some called them, bribes — to gain access to top officials.
••• How Boeing defies an economic downturn, part II(b).
[Office of Market Surveillance chief Joseph J. Cella III] said the investigation ultimately revealed no trading that the SEC thought was done with foreknowledge of 9/11. In addition, Cella said there are no question marks out there where the SEC could not get sufficient information, such as trading by an offshore company, whose owners could not be identified. To the contrary, all suspicious trades were checked out, and the SEC satisfied itself that the traders had no advance knowledge of 9/11.
••• Via Cryptome (pdf), the 9/11 Commission summary of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation that found no evidence of any traders profiting from foreknowledge of the attacks, by short-selling the stocks of “industries harmed by the attacks (such as airlines, travel industry, or WTC tenants) and [buying stock in] those who might benefit from the attacks (such as defense contractors or security companies).”