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U.S. to spend $100 million on Afghan bases
UPI.com The Pentagon says it plans to spend $100 million on air base expansions in Afghanistan with construction efforts continuing into at least 2011. Despite growing disaffection with the war and President Obama’s pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. troops in July 2011, many of the projected installations have extended completion deadlines, The Washington Post reported [...]
1992 John Holdren Publication Reaffirms Devotion to Population Control through “Global Effort”
Jurriaan Maessen | InfoWars.com Yet another writing has surfaced authored by current science czar John P. Holdren, detailing his enduring vision of a depopulated planet and the global efforts that should be made to accomplish it. Although described in detail in Ecoscience and other publications from the 70s, this new find proves once again and [...]
The facial recognition software that will put a name to every photograph in the internet
Daily Mail.co.uk A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet. Face.com has produced technology that can identify individuals on social networking sites and online galleries by comparing their image against a known picture of them. It means detailed profiles of individuals can be [...]
Cleveland Rolls Out $2.5 Million Worth Of RFID Trash Bins
Chris Matyszczyk | CNet.com I know that the Green Goosesteppers mean well. I know that they are saving the world from itself and preserving it for those who currently need to chew gum and smoke pot simultaneously in order to pass from one hour to the next. However, I am a little concerned that, as [...]
RFID Bracelet Brings Facebook To The Real World
Naresh Kumar | GHSK.com Visitors at the Coca Cola Village Amusement Park in Israel got a taste of Facebook in the real world when they were handed RFID-enabled Facebook bracelets. These bracelets allowed people to login into their Facebook accounts and then “like” the various attractions and recreational activities in the amusement park that would [...]
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Who Lost Iraq and Why It Matters: The Case for Offshore Balancing
Christopher Layne | World Policy Institue.com FALL 2007– Even as the George W. Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are locked in a bitter fight about the future direction of Iraq, a potentially more portentous debate about who lost Iraq and why is gathering force. Its impetus comes, ironically, from the very architects of the [...]
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U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know It: Laurence Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotilkoff | Bloomberg.com Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. But this is the good news. It means [...]
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US Announces Second Fake End to Iraq War
Jason Ditz | Anti War.com Illustration by AzRainMan It was another of those great TV moments. Embedded reports filming as the “last” brigade of American troops in Iraq cross the border into Kuwait bringing over seven years of unhappy conflict to its final, conclusive end. America was, at last, at peace. But like so many [...]
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BP oil spill: Obama administration’s scientists admit alarm over chemicals
Suzanne Goldenberg | Guardian.co.uk The Obama administration is facing internal dissent from its scientists for approving the use of huge quantities of chemical dispersants to tackle the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Guardian has learned. The US Environmental Protection Agency has come under attack in Congress and from independent scientists for allowing BP to spray [...]
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What collapsing empire looks like
Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military [...]
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Big Brother: Obama Demands Access to Internet Records, in Secret, and Without Court Review
Tom Burghardt| Global Research.ca The Obama administration is seeking authority from Congress that would compel internet service providers (ISPs) to turn over records of an individual’s internet activity for use in secretive FBI probes. In another instance where Americans are urged to trust their political minders, The Washington Post reported last month that “the administration [...]