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US plans to ‘fight the net’ revealed

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

By Adam Brookes
BBC Pentagon correspondent

A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military’s plans for “information operations”…Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military’s psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans….It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system….The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

Smokers who stop ‘on a whim’ more likely to succeed

Friday, January 27th, 2006

By Celia Hall, Medical Editor / Telegraph

People who stop smoking “on a whim” are more likely to kick the habit in the longer term than those who plan to do it, researchers say today.