Barack Obama’s ‘Black Widow

The NSA’s colossal Cray supercomputer, code-named the ‘Black Widow,’ scans millions of domestic and international phone calls and e-mails every hour. . . . The Black Widow, performing hundreds of trillions of calculations per second, searches through and reassembles key words and patterns, across many languages.’
Barack Obama will be in charge of the biggest domestic [...]

Republicans Bring Socialism to Millionaires and Screw the Rest of Us

Let the record show that it was George W. Bush, the rich Texas Republican, who brought socialism to America, so don’t blame it on that African-American Chicago Democrat community organizer who made it into the White House. The government takeover of the banking and automobile industries not only happened on President Bush’s watch, it was [...]

How Having Less Will Make Us Happier

The pursuit of happiness.” It’s so American that it’s in our Declaration of Independence, where it’s listed alongside life and liberty as an inalienable right.
But how successful have we been in that pursuit? And now that the global finance system is imploding, how likely is it that we’ll be happy in the coming months and [...]

Nanotechnology ‘Culture War’ Possible, Says Yale Study

Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in collaboration with the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. The report is published online in the journal [...]

Us Army Conquering The Virtual World Too?

 
ORLANDO, FLORIDA — The U.S. Army has scores of bases scattered all across the world. Soon, it’ll  and soon be occupying virtual territory in a bid to win recruits.
“Over the next thirty to forty-five days you might, if you’re one of them Second Life avatar dudes, that likes to go populate islands within Second Life, [...]

Why Are We Shocked By Obama’s Centrism?(He Is Pimping)

With the president-elect having touted his opposition to the Iraq War, some are bothered “that Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views,” as the Los Angeles Times reports.
Others recall Obama insisting that “change doesn’t come from Washington, change comes to Washington,” and say they [...]

Is There Truth in Obama’s Advertising?

Let’s begin with the elections. The word that the rolls off of everyone’s tongue is historic. Historic election. And I agree with it. It was a historic election. To have a black family in the white house is a momentous achievement. In fact, it’s historic in a broader sense. The two Democratic candidates were an [...]

At least 82 killed as gunmen rampage in India city

MUMBAI, India – Teams of gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India’s financial capital, killing at least 82 people, taking Westerners hostage and leaving parts of the city under siege Thursday, police said. A group of suspected Muslim militants claimed responsibility.
Police and gunmen were [...]

Is Dubai In Trouble?

DUBAI - The seaside emirate of Dubai shifted into crisis mode this week as its breakneck building boom stalled, its lending bonanza evaporated and the government pondered wider steps to rescue banks.
Dubai — self-styled bling capital of the Middle East, nightclub hotspot for the teetotalling Gulf and home to the world’s tallest building and biggest [...]

Somalia: Behind the Piracy

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