#department of defence

[eretzyisrael]

[nwaonyeke]

Senior State Accountant

Organization: Department of Defense Salary: R26 795 pm Closing Date: 04 November 2022 Location: Pretoria Reference Number: CFO 22/8/2 Requirements: Grade 12 certificate plus a three year Bachelors Degree/National Diploma in Finance/Accounting/Internal Audit. Minimum of three years relevant experience on a post level 7 or equivalent or Grade 12 Certificate with Finance/Accounting related…

[dougielombax]

No!

Firefighters should not go around starting fires!

Otherwise it’d make the name of their profession a bit of an oxymoron.

Wouldn’t it?!

[spidergwen-real-notclickbait]

ABORTION INDUSTRY?? sign me up, i wanna invest i wanna buy coins i wanna buy cryptofetuses bitcoin fetuses lets make the stocks go up babyyyyyy!!!

call me lockheed martin the way i’m funding the abortion industrial complex

[renlyslittlerose]

Working in a military museum with hazardous materials everywhere really changes your perspective on 'immediate danger' and 'meh it's fine'

My office is right next to the quarantine room that is notorious for setting the Geiger counters off. There are some guys standing outside my office right now having a chat and I heard one guy go "Wait, isn't this the room that always makes the Geiger counters scream?" And then he just pauses and goes: "Huh. Neat." And the continues on with his regular conversation.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"COMMISSION OPENS HEARING ON INTERNED COMMUNISTS," Toronto Star. September 29, 1942. Page 3. ---- Secretary of the Communist party in Canada (LEFT), and 12 other leaders met in the law office of J. L. Cohen (RIGHT) yesterday and notified R.C.M.P. that they would surrender themselves in a group, as all have been sought for two and a half years under Defence of Canada Regulations. The head of the Communist party in Canada issued this statement: "I and my associates have decided, in the interest of national unity, to appear voluntarily before the authorities so as to appeal against the internment orders which now prevent us from giving our full energy to strengthening the country's war effort." Their cases will appear before a board of appeal in Toronto Tuesday.

"TIM BUCK SEEKS FREEDOM AS TRIBUNAL SITS IN JAIL," Toronto Star. September 29, 1942. Page 3. ---- Party Secretary and 14 Others Are Heard in Appeal Arguments === COHEN IS COUNSEL --- The special board of appeal set up to hear the case of Tim Buck, general secretary of the Communist party, and 15 other Communist leaders began sittings in Toronto Jail today. Hearings are being held in a large room where once persons were kept who couldn't pay their debts.

Years ago when it was illegal not to pay a debt, persons owing money were taken to Don jail under a warrant and were confined to the room, where the hearing was held today They had to supply their own bedding and provide their meals while they "paid off their debt."

J. L. Cohen, counsel for the men held on internment orders after their surrender last Friday, said the case of Tim Buck would be heard first. The Communist secretary, although represented at the hearing by Mr. Cohen, was expected to address the commission personally and present arguments in favor of his immediate release.

The commission consists of Judge Donald Miller of Hull, Que, Prof. Charles Cochran University of Toronto and A. S. Simpson, Winnipeg labor leader.

Mr. Cohen said he had no idea how long the hearings would last and that it depended on how wide would be their scope. Such hearings were long at one time, but recently, when he argued the cases of the Hull internees, seven were held in one day and the men's release expedited.

In Good Spirits Scheduled to start the hearing at 10 a.m.. the commissioners were late in arriving and when they got there learned that their official court reporter was ill and would not be able to attend. Mr. Cohen offered the services of his secretary if no substitute could be arranged.

As the commission arrived, Tim Buck and his associates were exercising in the jail yard. All were reported in good spirits.

Hearings will be private. Detective Dan Mann of the Toronto police special branch: Corp G.. Archer and Constables Hogg and Spriggs of the R.C.M.P., will attend. Arrangements were being made for the commission to eat a special meal in jail.

One of the commissioners said: "The minister of justice asks that there be the least possible publicity."

Mr. Cohen arrived at the jail 20 minutes before the hearing was scheduled to begin and interviewed Mr. Buck.

In the past, hearings of this type were held in a city hall courtroom, but it was reported they were ordered held in the jail by the justice department, which it is said, wanted to avoid any demonstration by public appearances of the arrested men. There was no one outside the jail as the hearings started.

[thestuffedalligator]

A couple years ago I was on a road trip and at one point we drove by what was obviously an overgrown golf course. Wild uncut grasses growing out of the fairway, weeds sprouting from cracks in the crumbling parking lot, a club house with outdated signage left to moulder and decay.

And as a lifelong golf hater my first thought was “LMAO get wrecked,” followed by “Actually it’s kind of weird they totally abandoned it. I’ve never seen an abandoned golf course, what’s the deal with that.”

So I looked into it.

The golf course was on Enoch Cree Nation west of Edmonton in Alberta.

It was closed in 2014 because unexploded WWII munitions were found on the golf course.

Unexploded WWII munitions were found on the golf course because during WWII the Canadian government ran bomb exercises on Enoch Cree Nation and dropped up to 100,000 live rounds on the nation.

The golf course was built because residents were told that only harmless practice rounds were used during the exercises, and the Department of National Defence declared the land safe for use.

But then in 2011 an independent contractor found evidence of live, heavy-action explosives on the golf course.

In 2020 the nation and the federal government agreed to a settlement of $91 million for loss of income of the golf course and for land cleanup. Not a day goes by I don’t think about this.

[that-starlight-prince]

I feel like one of the most egregious examples of changing the language we use to describe exactly the same thing for what seem to me to be a mix of ideological and marketing reasons is the way Ministries or Departments of War in countries all over the world en masse changed their names after World War II to Ministries/Departments of Defence.

[defencestar]

Drone deal with India holds significant potential for cooperation: US

US-India Drone Deal: The US State Department expressed optimism about the proposed drone deal with India, emphasising its ‘significant potential’ to advance strategic technology cooperation. The deal was announced during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit last year, marking substantial growth in the US-India defence partnership over the past decade. Matthew Miller, a spokesperson for the US…

[frankensteincest]

so excited that an idea I bluffed through on my research proposal is actually real and actionable. the epic highs and lows of half-assing one’s dissertation.

[hozier-self-titled]

The highlight of my day is going to a yr 8 geography lesson my life is so exciting 😭

[hakunonon]

solved the quartz shop problem btw. turned out i just needed to log in to my play account. simplest solution is the most likely and all that.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) will host trial sessions for Israeli arms technology used to kill Palestinians and maintain apartheid and occupation during a three-week “sandbox” event in Alberta next month.

From May 27 to June 21, DND is giving a select group of military suppliers the chance to test products that are designed to counter aerial drones, with direct assistance from Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) staff and experts. Among those selected is a company called “Twenty20 Insight Inc.,” which is testing the “Smash Hopper counter-drone weapon station.”

The “Smash Hopper” is a remote control weapon system developed and manufactured by Israeli arms company “Smart Shooter,” whose technology is deployed by the Israeli military in fortifications that are used to suppress Palestinian dissent in the occupied West Bank, as well as in military hardware currently being used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

As reported by AP News in November 2022, Smart Shooter developed remote control turrets deployed by Israel that fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank.

Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, told AP: “This system will only [...] further grave Israeli human rights abuse and further the Israeli army’s abuses and the Israeli government’s crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians.” [...]

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“Federal Plans to Aid the Jobless,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 28, 1932. Page 7. ---- Dominion Opens 28 Camps to Level Landing Fields --- (Special to The Whig -Standard) OTTAWA — Relief plans by the federal authorities to meet unemployment thla this coming season now shape up as follows: 

Twenty-six camps along the route of the future Trans-Canada airway are being opened up by the department of national defence for the purpose of clearing and leveling landing fields. 

Temporary camps are being established under the department of the interior in the national parks at which brush clearing and road building will be carried on.

A relief settlement scheme along the lines of "back to the land” — sometimes known as the "600 scheme” — is in effect in eight provinces. Up to October 14, 943 settlers with 2187 dependent had been established on land in the different provinces. 

The placing of men to work on farms, by which the farmer will receive $5 a month from the government and the man receives a similar amount, will be in effect exactly as last year when 9,500 took advantage of the scheme. This year the number is expected to be larger. 

Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have in operation work camps for the single unemployed men, toward the financing of which the federal government pays half. The work to be done is mainly roadwork. 

Some public works are being completed, the cessation of which would have been detrimental. This will give employment to men up to the end of the year though in decreasing numbers. 

For those who do not come within any of the above schemes, the federal government will continue the direct relief contribution of last winter. The organised municipalities are contributing one-third, the province one-third and the federal government one -third. In unorganized districts, province and the federal government share fifty-fifty. 

In the provincial road camps, the men are paid from $5 to $7.50 month and are given their board and housing, with acme provision either by the municipality or other agency in most cases for clothing.