Administration officials said more than $20 billion would be invested in port security, including domestic cargo-crane production, over the next five years. The money, tapped from the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in 2021, would support a U.S. subsidiary of Mitsui, a Japanese company, to produce the cranes, which officials said would be the first time in 30 years that they would be built domestically.

According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in the United States.

Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations

September 19, 2022September 20, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

The move came after a report on fake US military-linked accounts that were promoting pro-Western narratives on Facebook and Twitter
Pentagon Opens Review Of Its Clandestine Psychological Operations

With the rise of Russia and China as strategic competitors, military commanders have wanted to fight back, including online. And Congress supported that. Frustrated with perceived legal obstacles to the Defense Department’s ability to conduct clandestine activities in cyberspace, Congress in late 2019 passed a law affirming that the military could conduct operations in the “information environment” to defend the United States and to push back against foreign disinformation aimed at undermining its interests. The measure, known as Section 1631*, allows the military to carry out clandestine psychologic operations without crossing what the CIA has claimed as its covert authority, alleviating some of the friction that had hindered such operations previously.

*The Law of Military Cyber Operations and the New NDAA

South Korea’s new president playing dangerous game with Pyongyang

July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The resumption of full-scale joint military exercises between the US and South Korea will increase tensions on the Korean Peninsula. After South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol came to power on March 22, pressure on North Korea increased, and in reaction, Pyongyang may react harshly to the strengthening of military ties between Seoul and Washington.
South Korea’s new president playing dangerous game with Pyongyang

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