MooPig GWOT Department :: "WTF?"

Writing is a daily exercise. If I don't write for a few days I find I get squirrel-y. Also, writing regularly in a blog I get real adept at writing a short-short, but as soon as I miss a few days, I get raspy on the short-short.

I have written 3517 blog posts, 251 of them are unpublished drafts. They are the orphans. Here is one of those drafts that talks about GWOT, the Global War on Terrorism.

The Worldwide Network of US Military Bases | Global Research: "Twenty years later, US strategists, in an attempt to justify their military interventions in different parts of the World, have conceptualized the greatest fraud in US history, namely “the Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT). The latter, using a fabricated pretext  constitutes a global war against all those who oppose US hegemony. A modern form of slavery, instrumented through militarization and the “free market” has unfolded. Major elements of the conquest and world domination strategy by the US refer to:

1) the control of the world economy and its financial markets,

2) the taking over of all natural resources (primary resources and nonrenewable sources of energy). The latter constitute the cornerstone of US power through the activities of its multinational corporations."
'via Blog this'



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http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/12/moopig-good-questions-department-keep.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/12/moopig-budget-department-how-many-us.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2013/12/moopig-evolving-budget-department.html

MooPig Tech Coroner :: "Internet Out; OUTERNET In"

Forget about the Internet; Seek Ye the "OUTERNET"
mashed articles by Pat Darnell | Feb 19, 2014 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] "Cubesat ..."

I heart this:

"...By leveraging data-casting technology over a low-cost satellite constellation, Outernet is able to bypass censorship, ensure privacy, and offer a universally-accessible information service at no cost to global citizens. It's the modern version of shortwave radio, or BitTorrent from space. (LINK) ..."

" ... WHAT PROBLEM IS OUTERNET SOLVING? There are more computing devices in the world than people, yet only 60% of the global population has access to the wealth of knowledge found on the Internet. The price of smartphones and tablets is dropping year after year, but the price of data in many parts of the world continues to be unaffordable for the majority of global citizens. In some places, such as rural areas and remote regions, cell towers and Internet cables simply don't exist. The primary objective of the Outernet is to bridge the global information divide..."

New York company says it can beam free OUTERNET Wi-fi to every person on Earth | Mail Online: "You might think you have to pay through the nose at the moment to access the Internet. But one ambitious organisation called the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) is planning to turn the age of online computing on its head by giving free web access to every person on Earth. Known as Outernet, MDIF plans to launch hundreds of satellites into orbit by 2015. And they say the project could provide unrestricted Internet access to countries where their web access is censored, including China and North Korea."

'via Blog this'

CONCLUSION
" ... Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. — Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ..."

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552177/Forget-Internet-soon-OUTERNET-Company-plans-beam-free-wi-fi-person-Earth-space.html
http://www.educateinspirechange.org/2014/02/forget-internet-soon-will-free-outernet-everyone-earth.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/introducing-outernet-free-worldwide-wi-fi-access-beamed-space-1556016
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/02/17/ambitious-outernet-could-bring-unfettered-internet-access-worldwide-via-mini-satellites
http://www.mdif.org/outernet-providing-information-to-the-world-from-outer-space/
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/outernet-wants-to-free-the-internet-by-sending-it-to-space
https://www.outernet.is/
http://www.itproportal.com/2014/02/05/introducing-outernet-free-wi-fi-beamed-to-everywhere-on-earth-from-space/

MooPig Budget Department :: "How many US Overseas Military Bases are There"

Trillion Dollars? It's "Penta-gone"
Mashed articles by Pat Darnell  |  Dec 1, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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Op-Ed: How many bases does U.S. have globally and what is their cost?: "David Vine who teaches at American University in Washington D.C. who has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian, attempted to find out himself the cost of the more than 1,000 U.S. military bases outside of the United States and is currently completing a book on the subject."

'via Blog this'

MooPig Budget Department has been looking around for models to fashion its department around. The editors found this bit of malaise surrounding the US Military Budget. It is totally f**ked up, SNAFU, murky dismal. The military is our number one embezzler of taxpayer money. YIKES!

Safe to say, MooPig Budget Department won't be copying the Pentagon's creative accounting; or will we? If they can get away with it, hey, ....

" ... The Pentagon must each year produce an "Overseas Cost Summary" that calculates the total price on overseas military activities. This includes costs of construction, repairs and maintenance. There are about one million U.S. military and Defence Department personnel and families abroad. This calculation for the 2012 fiscal year ending September 30 documented $22.1 billion in spending. But that is only part of the story.

Congress conveniently ordered the Pentagon not to include the more than $118 billion spent in 2012 on wars in Afghanistan and other places throughout the globe. Even if you added this amount in, it does not come close to economist's Anita Danc's estimate of about $250 billion. Even without including war spending, Danc's estimate comes to about $ 140 billion, not even close to the Pentagon figures. (Ken Hanly. Dec 16, 2012. LINK) ... "

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http://digitaljournal.com/article/339184
http://youtu.be/7ZLT6Q4AWxM
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/20121213122226666895.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1nd0z8/eli5_why_dont_other_countries_have_military_bases/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-worldwide-network-of-us-military-bases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deployments
http://youtu.be/fjOG_huEY70
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/14249/malaise-over-syria

MooPig Good Questions Department :: "Keep those Hard Questions Coming In"

Questions with No Answers
Collected by Pat Darnell  |  Nov 30, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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God love me, I ask a lot of questions. MooPig Good Questions Department is not the first link to making a list of good questions. There are about 260,000 hits on Google for "tough questions to answer." I can't count how many times people have gotten away from me by saying just that: "That's a good question..." and walking away; their strategic retreat.

For instance referenced below are some sites that ask a lot of good questions. But some questions still cannot be answered by searching the Internet, which after all, is a detailed compendium of 12,000 years of human written history ... right? The real key to asking good questions is when you turn a statement into a query.

Here is our first ever set of good questions:

• If there are 1077 overseas US military bases, why is it so hard to find out how much is spent on maintaining all our bases?
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• When I am so tired why do I feel sick to my stomach, and unable to talk?
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• Why do ferrets shit and piss always in the corners?
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• When you have a tumor in your head do you bleed from your ear?
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• Why hasn't the Federal Reserve Bank ever been audited?
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• Why do workers embezzle money from their employers?
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• Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
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• Why is it not possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
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• Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
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• Why does my husband sneak off and eat all my ice cream?
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• If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
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• Is reaching our highest potential directly related to our willingness to act in the face of imperfection?
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• Why does Nature hate a vacuum?
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• Why can't a man or woman serve two masters?
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• Could a war breakout over a typo?
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• Why is a grudge a heavy thing to carry?
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• Does the Pope really have a catholic case for shitting in the woods?
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• And, why do I love to hear my wife singing while she makes the coffee?
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http://www.marcandangel.com/2009/07/13/50-questions-that-will-free-your-mind/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070320143829AADnJR9
http://www.josh.org/resources/study-research/answers-to-skeptics-questions/
http://www.businessinsider.com/30-smart-answers-to-tough-interview-questions-2013-8
http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2010/04/15/the-longest-sentence-ever-written/
http://www.ask.com/question/what-is-the-longest-sentence-in-literature
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq7q4ipW41AE9hk9UrkzQk3sy6IX?qid=20060907180003AAdCvDY
http://askducky.dowacter.com/2013/04/05/longest-question-ever/
http://www.businessinsider.com/30-smart-answers-to-tough-interview-questions-2013-8

NASA Talk :: "New Era of Space Telescopes"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | June 20, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the green light to the Euclid mission to explore the 'dark' side of the Universe.

Euclid telescope to probe dark universe

The cost to Esa of building, launching and operating Euclid is expected to be just over 600m euros (£480m; $760m). Member states will provide Euclid's visible wavelength camera and a near-infrared camera/spectrometer, and its ground and data-handling elements, taking the likely cost of the whole endeavour beyond 800m euros.

The US has been offered, and will accept, a junior role in the mission valued at around 5%. The American space agency (Nasa) will pay for this by picking up the tab for the infrared detectors needed on Euclid. A memorandum of understanding to this effect will be signed between the agencies in due course.

Here's the PR:

" ... Euclid is optimised to answer one of the most important questions in modern cosmology: why is the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate, rather than slowing down due to the gravitational attraction of all the matter in it?

Although the discovery of this cosmic acceleration in 1998 was rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2011, scientists are yet to discover what causes it.

The term ‘dark energy’ is often used to signify this mysterious force, but by using Euclid to study its effects on the galaxies and clusters of galaxies across the Universe, astronomers hope to come much closer to understanding its true nature and influence.

“Euclid addresses the cosmology-themed questions of ESA’s Cosmic Vision and it’s fantastic that we are moving forward into the next stage of development – we’re one step closer to learning more about the Universe’s darkest secrets,” said René Laureijs, ESA’s Euclid project scientist. (20 June 2012. By Sofia Mitra-Thakur) ... "

Galaxies, for example, could not hold their shape were it not for the presence of some additional "scaffolding". This is presumed to be dark matter - whatever that is.

Although this material cannot be seen directly, the telescope can plot its distribution by looking for the subtle way its mass distorts the light coming from distant galaxies. Hubble famously did this for a tiny patch on the sky - just two square degrees.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18503703
http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2012/jun/euclid-telescope.cfm

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