"the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet"

While the US remains committed to hunting down al-Qaeda operatives, it is now taking the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones.

Democraticunderground.com picked up on this story stating that the US wants to take control of the Earth s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America. According to the Sunday Herlad, the Pentagon also wants to target a broader set of select foreign media and audiences, with $161m set aside to help place pro-US articles in overseas media.

So while the FBI agents are still squatting around using smoke signals and postcards to communicate, as their budget does not allow for individual e-mail accounts (read this post), the Pentagon plans to intersect the electronic media and use it for its filthy pro-US-we-are-so-great-and-democratic-humane propaganda. But what more to expect, this is not surprising news!