November 2006
Broken Moral Contract
Peter Tinley, lead tactical planner for Australia's SAS special forces in the US has spoken out against the Howard governments intentions in helping to invade and occupy Iraq. He made a stunning admission:
"When I pressed them (US intelligence) for more specific imagery or information regarding locations or likely locations of WMD they confessed, off the record, that there had not been any tangible sighting of any WMD or WMD enabling equipment for some years,"
Broken Moral Contract
Peter Tinley, lead tactical planner for Australia's SAS special forces in the US has spoken out against the Howard governments intentions in helping to invade and occupy Iraq. He made a stunning admission:"When I pressed them (US intelligence) for more specific imagery or information regarding locations or likely locations of WMD they confessed, off the record, that there had not been any tangible sighting of any WMD or WMD enabling equipment for some years,"As news.com.au reports (a Murdoch company, no less!):He said the Government had broken a moral contract with its defence force in sending it to an "immoral war".(Shout out to Brett for the heads-up)
Geekcorps Can TV
Geekcorps Can TV
The Geekcorps is a volunteer project to transfer technical knowledge into the third world, typically Africa. Courtesy of Jordan, they've updated the old trick of building unidirectional WiFi antennae out of Pringles cans into a method of supplying local video broadcasting, dubbed the CanTV. The key thing to note is this is bidirectional media, it's straightforward to turn receivers into transmitters, so we don't just saturate the third world with first world images, we provide a base to shoehorn development and narrow the digital divide. Go geekcorps.