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Inside the bad-ass world of military research
Few science teams can match the flash and audacity of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Last week DARPA showed off 9 future projects that tackle building blazing, secure networks, longer-flying unmanned aircraft, faster vaccine delivery, and more. read … Continue reading
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Forbes: Audit the Federal Reserve, by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)
The Federal Reserve’s recent and unprecedented actions in the realm of monetary policy have provoked a backlash among the American people. Trillions of dollars worth of loans and guarantees have been provided to Wall Street firms, while Main Street Americans … Continue reading
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1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell
from The Guardian In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book. “The circumstances surrounding the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four make a haunting narrative that helps to explain the … Continue reading
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G20 police ‘used undercover men to incite crowds’
from The Guardian An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds. Brake has produced a draft report of his … Continue reading
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Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs
Those behind the Zeus botnet recently decided to press the big red button, bluescreening 100,000 computers around the globe. Security experts aren’t sure why yet, although they have some ideas. read more | digg story
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Earth’s Magnetic Field Hisses Due to Distant “Chorus”
from National Geographic Thousands of miles above Earth, a cosmic chorus is filling the heavens with a mysterious, low frequency “hiss.” That’s the conclusion of scientists studying data from a set of NASA probes designed to monitor substorms — dramatic … Continue reading
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Researchers hijack botnet, score 56,000 passwords in an hour
The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind … Continue reading
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Colossal spy airships get $400,000,000 reality check
From NetworkWorld.com US scientists this week got the go-ahead to build a roughly 1/3-scale model of a stratospheric airship that if completed in-scale will house a floating 15-story radar system capable of detecting and tracking everything from missiles to people … Continue reading
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Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion in Lending
The Federal Reserve refused a request by Bloomberg News to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency loans from U.S. taxpayers and the assets the central bank is accepting as collateral. read more | digg story
New surveillance program will turn military satellites on US
An appropriations bill signed by President Bush last week allows the controversial National Applications Office to begin operating a stringently limited version of a program that would turn military spy satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, … Continue reading
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House ignores Bush, rejects $700B bailout bill
The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry. read more | digg story
Anthrax Scientist Kills Himself
From the Washington Post A top U.S. biodefense researcher has apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. … Continue reading
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