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Secrecy News: January 12, 2018

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Secrecy News : January 12, 2018 View this email in your browser SECRECY NEWS From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2018, Issue No. 4 January 12, 2018 Secrecy News Blog:   https://fas.org/blogs/ secrecy/ **     ARMY SKETCHES FUTURE CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS **     MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING, AND MORE FROM CRS ARMY SKETCHES FUTURE CYBERSPACE OPERATIONS The U.S. Army this week published an overview of future military cyberspace operations. See  The U.S. Army Concept for Cyberspace and Electronic Warfare Operations 2025-2040 , TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8-6, 9 January 2018. The new Army publication is intended to promote development of cyber capabilities, to foster integration with other military functions, to shape recruitment, and to guide technology development and acquisition. It addresses defense against cyber threats as well as offensive cyber activities. Proliferation of cyber threats is eroding the benefits of US superiority in conventional military p

Daily Natural Hazards imagery from NASA Earth Observatory

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 day. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------ -- TEMPERATURE EXTREMES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- COLD SNAP IN THE NORTHEAST Blasts of Arctic air spilled into the Midwest and Northeast in December 2017 and January 2018.     * It's Cold—And Hot—in North America (Image from Jan 2, 2018; Posted Jan 3, 2018)          https://earthobservatory.nasa. gov/NaturalHazards/view.php? id=91517&src=nha -- UNIQUE IMAGERY (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- NEW YEAR'S NIGHT Skies were clear as the northeast U.S. rang in the New Year.     * New Year's Night (Image from Jan 1, 2018; Posted Jan 2, 2018)          https://earthobservatory.nasa. gov/NaturalHazards/view.php? id=91513&src=nha MESOVORTEX OVER LAKE MICHIGAN As 2017 came to a close, satellites acquired imagery of a mesovortex forming over Lake Michigan.     * A Mesovortex Over Lake Michigan (Image from Dec 31, 2017;

Weekly Horoscopes beginning: Sunday, 24 December 2017

------------ ----------- ---------- --------- -------- ------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - If you`re born within cusp period (16 to 26 of any month); you`re advised to read horoscopes of both signs covered by that period. You`re in the border; you may have influences from houses within those signs. Outlines are longer versions; consists of every possible detail of everyday and based on three parts of each sign: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Decan; that is, any of three divisions of 10° within a sign of the zodiac. Even if you know or don`t know your Decan; I recommend, please read all three Decan. ------------ ----------- ---------- --------- -------- ------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - Aries Personal theme: I am!! Fire & cardinal sign:  March 21  --  April 19 Your horoscope for this week: Ordinarily you`d be annoyed when events or, possibly, certain well-meaning individuals take over decisions that really are yours to make. Yet with benevolent Jupiter and your ruler Mars accenting these situat

Phantoms and Monsters: Pulse of the Paranormal

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How 'Evil' is the Supernatural? Posted: 02 Jan 2018 12:49 PM PST I recently received the following narrative: Hi Lon, My name is Andrew. I'm 38, live in Illinois, and have mostly lived my whole life in the midwest. The one thing that might set me apart from most people is my religious upbringing. My father is a pastor, my mother's family being the reason he ever turned toward faith in the first place. We've had 3 pastors in our family, most of my extended family attends church regularly--very much a 'Bible Belt' kind of upbringing... except many of us have had experiences. These aren't precisely ET/UFO experiences (although a close family friend once worked security at Wright-Patterson and said he had seen 'Them'). Our experiences (and of those people around us who have also experienced things) are very much of a spiritual nature. My mother has seen at least one 'ghost'. One of her sisters almost died from a truck running a