Month: March 2013
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FBI Admits Warrantless Cellphone Tapping
FBI investigators for at least five years have routinely used a sophisticated cellphone tracking tool that can pinpoint callers’ locations and listen to their conversations — all without getting a warrant for it, a federal court was told this week. The use of the “Stingray,” as the tool is called, “is a very common practice”…
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Chicago’s Felons with Guns Go Free
Do you know where Chicago ranks in terms of enforcement of the federal gun laws? Out of 90 jurisdictions in the country, they ranked 90th. Why doesn’t NBC News start with, “Shocking news on Chicago. Of all the jurisdictions in the country, Chicago’s dead last on enforcement of the federal gun laws?” Why doesn’t the…
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Lockheed Martin’s Desalination Graphene Filters
Lockheed has developed a special material that doesn’t need as much energy to drag water through the filter. Graphene is a substance made of pure carbon. Carbon atoms are arranged in a regular hexagonal or honeycomb pattern in a one-atom thick sheet. This special material is a film of a special structure of carbon, a…
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China Economy to Overtake U.S. by 2016
China’s economy expanded last year at 7.8pc – its slowest pace in more than a decade – and recent data has fuelled concerns that any rebound in the country’s growth is losing steam. However, the OECD was upbeat, predicting in a new survey of China’s prospects that the country’s economy could expand by 8.5pc this…
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Regular Guy Schools Politicians on Gun Control
“The Constitution does not guarantee public safety. It guarantees liberty.” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ledhyTAE2zo] This guy is famous and he don’t even know it.
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It’s Big Brother Day
Just plain too damn spooky for all this to hit in the same day. If you’re not weirded out… you should be Let’s start with the CIA keeping track of EVERYTHING you do. Discussing the goldmine of data that today’s technology has created, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Chief Technology Officer Ira “Gus” Hunt on Wednesday…
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Sugary Drinks Kill 25k per Year in the U.S. Alone
Consumption of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages may contribute to hundreds of thousands of deaths around the world, mainly due to Type 2 diabetes, a new study says. The results show sugar-sweetened beverage consumption is linked to 180,000 deaths a year worldwide, including 25,000 deaths a year in the United States, the researchers say. via…
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Black Leaders Oppose Gun Control
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RABZq5IoaQ] “There is a direct correlation between Gun Control and Black People Control.” “Black Codes to deny the Second Amendment to recently freed slaves.” “When they take our guns is when they will take our God. And that is when America will fight back.” Amen to that!! Not since Lincoln has a president so…
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Moody’s Downgrades Chicago’s Motor Fuel Debt
Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded to A3 from Aa3 the rating on the City of Chicago’s (IL) $181 million of outstanding rated motor fuel tax debt. The outlook has been revised to negative. via Moody’s. Surprises no one. Barely qualifies as news actually. The City’s broke. Unemployment (real unemployment, the U6 number) is out of…
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Conservative Black Chick Launches Super-PAC
The first blacks elected to Congress after the Civil War were Republicans. Rev. Hiram Rhodes Revels was the the first black Senator elected and his peer Joseph Hayne Rainey was the first black elected to the House of Representatives. I’m excited to see the creation of the Conservative Melting Pot PAC, which not only will…