REMEMBER LAST WEEKS POSTING - about how your local and state POLICE DEPARTMENTS - always having to go begging for funds - SOMEHOW has $$$ to purchase used MILITARY EQUIPMENT - INCLUDING PERSONNEL CARRIERS MOUNTED WITH MACHINE GUNS? What could that all be about you wondered... It was mentioned that unless Canada was prepping to invade it seemed awfully ODD - and that perhaps the police were gearing up to meet YOU in the streets? Well, heres this from last THURSDAY... A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies. The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term warfighter-relevant insights for senior officials and decision makers in the defense policy community, and to inform policy implemented by combatant commands. Launched in 2008 – the year of the global banking crisis – the DoD Minerva Research Initiative partners with universities to improve DoDs basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US. Minerva-funded social scientists tied to Pentagon counterinsurgency operations are involved in the study of emotions in stoking or quelling ideologically driven movements, he said, including how to counteract grassroots movements.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:26:20 +0000