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Smile! Air Force Wants to Track You Forever With a Single Camera Click

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Police State, Science & Technology  /  No Comments

Wired Don’t bother with the iris scanner or the fingerprinting machine. Leave the satellite-enabled locators and tell-tale scents back on the base, military manhunters. If an Air Force plan works out as planned, all you’ll need to track your prey is a single camera, snapping a few seconds of footage from far, far away. Huntsville, [...]

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You Need To Be Watching What’s Developing In Spain Right Now

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Economy  /  No Comments

Business Insider The inflation problem in Spain in real prices Protests have been raging in Spain since Sunday, May 15. The one we’ve been seeing pictures of is in Madrid, in the famous Puerta del Sol. But there were protests in 60 different locations on Sunday, and they’re still raging in different parts of the [...]

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Beastly Drone Sub Is ‘Underwater Predator’

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Wired Ross Lindman gently pats the black hull of his intimidating 25-foot aquatic robot. Then he gestures to the bomblets strapped to either side of it. “This,” says the Columbia Group vice president, “is an underwater Predator.” Lindman isn’t kidding. On one side of the Proteus, the Columbia Group’s experimental submarine, are two 220-pound bomblets. [...]

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Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Police State, Politics  /  No Comments

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also deleting search [...]

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Iran accused of September 11 role

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Conspiracy, World  /  No Comments

The Sydney Morning Herald Two defectors from Iran’s intelligence service have testified that Iranian officials knew in advance about the attacks of September 11, 2001, says a US court filing that seeks damages for Iran’s ”direct support for, and sponsorship of, the most deadly act of terrorism in American history”. One of the defectors also [...]

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What If 200 Million People Go Missing Tomorrow?

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Environment  /  No Comments

Live Science According Christian tradition, the rapture is the day when believers will ascend to heaven and be rewarded with everlasting life. According to the predictions of Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping, May 21 will be the day of the rapture, when God calls believers to heaven to live in everlasting paradise. By Camping’s estimation, [...]

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How Darpa’s Tiny Robotic Hummingbird Hovers and Films

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PopSci By beating its wings back and forth, the UAV creates lift by deflecting air downward, creating an area of high pressure directly below the wings and low pressure above. In 2006, Darpa, the Department of Defense’s R&D arm, commissioned AeroVironment, a company specializing in remote aircraft, to create an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) small [...]

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Japan’s 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Surprising Findings About Energy Distribution Over Fault Slip and Stress Accumulation

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Environment, In Other News, Science & Technology  /  No Comments

Science Daily When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense regional geodetic network (allowing measurements of earth movement to be gathered from GPS satellite data), globally distributed broadband seismographic networks, and open-ocean tsunami [...]

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Japan tells tourists says ‘it’s safe’ to come back

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Environment, In Other News  /  No Comments

Terra Daily Japanese business leaders launched a campaign Thursday to woo tourists back to Japan after the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that sent foreigners fleeing the country. “I would like to say: Japan is safe,” said Atsutoshi Nishida, the chairman of Toshiba, told a high-powered gathering of travel and tourism executives and officials [...]

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The Battery Man

By   /  May 20, 2011  /  Health, Science & Technology  /  No Comments

Meet Slavisa Pajkic a.k.a.The Battery Man from Pozarevac, Serbia

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn bailed over sex assault allegations

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M&G Online The former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been bailed by a New York court as he faces trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a maid in a Manhattan hotel. Judge Michael Obus set bail terms of $1-million in cash as well as $5-million in an insurance bond set against the international politician’s properties in [...]

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Netanyahu faces tense meeting with Obama, who is accused of ‘betraying Israel’

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Al Arabiya President Barack Obama’s endorsement of a longstanding Palestinian demand on the borders of their future state sets the stage for what could be a tense meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday as Republicans accused the US president of betraying Israel. Mr. Netanyahu, who has had strained relations with the US [...]

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