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From “Endless War and the Culture of Unrestrained Power” by Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com

Citing the Pentagon’s most recent assessment of global threats, the Post notes that in contrast to prior decades — when “the military and the American public viewed war as an aberration and peace as the norm” (a dubious perception) — it is now clear, pursuant to official doctrine, that “America’s wars are unending and any talk of peace is quixotic or naive,” all as part of “America’s embrace of endless war in the 10 years since Sept. 11, 2001.”

Source: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/06/war/index.html

S&P downgraded the United States government’s AAA rating [PDF], and rightly so.  Although S&P recommends increasing the debt ceiling, the solution is less government spending.   The debt ceiling is only part of the problem, though.  The other half is the debasing of the Dollar by the actions of the Federal Reserve.  In order to keep interest rates low, the Fed needs to increase the money supply, but putting more money into circulation devalues the Dollar.  This might seem like a great tactic to devalue the debt we owe to China (who hold 4.5T in Treasury Bonds), but it will kill the currency and collapse the economy via hyperinflation.   Read the rest of this entry »

I filed a new bug with Netbeans.

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Filed a bug with Sonar Plugin for Jenkins:

Need a means to set “Project Links” (CI, Issue tracker, Scm) for non-Maven projects

Sonar projects have a “Project Links” section on their configuration page. The links are: Home, Continuous integration, Issue tracker, Sources, and Developer connection. I believe that these are set using POM configuration elements like <url>, <ciManagement>, <issueManagement> and <scm>, etc. For non-Maven projects, there doesn’t appear to be a way to set these in the plug-in section for Jenkins jobs.

View issue here: Need a means to set “Project Links” (CI, Issue tracker, Scm) for non-Maven projects

I was (am) in the middle of playing around with Jenkins CI, and I had the need to resolve source code dependencies of supporting libraries.  Currently, my Netbeans based projects don’t use Maven or Ivy (or Gradle), so I have to resolve those dependencies manual.  The first step, however, is getting the libraries on the Jenkins server so I can register them with Jenkins.

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