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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
