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NSA Utah ‘Data Center’: Biggest-ever domestic spying lab?
The biggest-ever data complex, to be completed in Utah in 2013, may take American citizens into a completely new reality where their emails, phone calls, online shopping lists and virtually entire lives will be
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The ‘radio’ that can send messages THROUGH the Earth (and which could help us get in touch with ET on distant worlds)
A new communication technology that could send a message directly THROUGH the Earth - or another planet - was shown off for the first time this week. Scientists coded a message into beam of 'neutrinos'
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Twenty US soldiers involved in Kandahar killings
An Afghan committee says that up to 20 US soldiers have been involved in the Sunday killing of at least 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar Province
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‘Startram’ magnetic space train could deliver four million people a year into orbit by 2032, say designers
A proposed 'space train' could make travel beyond Earth's atmosphere far cheaper - and allow four million people a year to travel to space in just 20 years time. Startram - designed by by one
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US soldier on SEAL team shoots dead nine sleeping Afghan children before burning their bodies in deadly rampage that killed 16
Sixteen innocent Afghan civilians - including nine children and three women - were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a 'mental breakdown' early this morning
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Machine dated at 400 million years found in Russia
In the remote Kamchatka peninsula (map below), 200 km from Tigil, University of St. Petersburg archaeologists discovered a strange fossil. The authenticity of the find has been certified. According archaeologist Yuri Golubev, occurs that,
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DARPA: Cyborg Chetah Runs 28 MPH in Test
DARPA’s robotic chetah has broken new land speed records for a robot, running on a treadmill at a lighting fast speed of 28 mph
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Engineers use LEDs and a camera to create an ‘invisible’ Mercedes (but they might need to work on the wheels)
Everyone from Harry Potter to Frodo Baggins has already got an invisibility cloak. But scientists have now figured out how to make an entire car disappear. Using optical camouflage technology boffins at Mercedes Benz created the
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U.S. military pulls the plug on spy blimp project after spending over $140 million
The military has called off their “Blue Devil Block 2” program after spending more than $140 million of taxpayer money, meaning even more wasted money like the airborne laser program I recently reported on
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New smartphone app ushers in the digital age of citizen spying
The West Virginia Department of Homeland Security released an app for mobile phones they have called the “Suspicious Activity Reporting” application
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Turning the tables on Big Brother: Now internet users can watch who is spying on them in blow against Google’s new snooping policy
Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, has unveiled a new add-on for the popular web browser that gives web users an instant view of which companies are 'watching' them as they browse
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America, Not NATO, Is Officially Anti-Muslim
There is evidence that American soldiers who burned copies of Quran in Afghanistan didn’t do it by mistake. This suggests that hate toward Islam and Muslims is part of undeclared US policy.
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Torture, Riots, Burnt Korans: One Afghan Jail’s Dark History
When the U.S. military overhauled its huge detention center at Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Field in 2009, it swore the prison wouldn’t be an embarrassment for Washington anymore. But the burning of the Koran at
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How to delete your Google browsing history in three simple steps . . . before it’s too late to hide your secrets
There is just a week to go until Google controversially changes its privacy policy to allow it to gather, store and use personal information about its users
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Documents show DHS lied to Congress about Big Brother policies
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has been leading a valiant effort to reveal the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Big Brother policies which include spying on Americans’ activity on social networks, especially people
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NATO Soldiers Don’t Want To Work With Americans
If you are a coalition soldier in Afghanistan, your most urgent threat to life is no longer Afghan insurgents but reckless Americans who have turned Afghanistan more dangerous since they invaded and occupied it
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White House apologizes for soldiers burning Quran in Afghanistan as 2,000 angry protestors surround military base
The White House is apologizing for US soldiers burning of Muslim holy books in a pile of garbage at an American military base in Afghanistan. Press secretary Jay Carney said it was a 'deeply unfortunate
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