government – Page 20

Analysis, Big Problems, government, Report

The U.S. government’s secret rulebook for labeling you a terrorist

July 25, 2014

The guidelines state that “the general policy of the U.S. Government is to neither confirm nor deny an individual’s watchlist status.

There has been a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system and it has been quietly approved by the Obama administration. It authorizes a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.

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Analysis, Globalism, government, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

The story behind Japan’s drone boom

July 23, 2014

The U.S. Air Force has deployed two of its most advanced long-distance surveillance drones to Japan.

Japan has been the world’s playground for design innovation for decades. But now it may become ground zero for the future of something far more hostile: military drones.

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Analysis, Business, government, Latest Trend, Money Talk

Job growth is faster in states that raised minimum wage

July 22, 2014

The 13 states that raised their minimum wages on Jan. 1 have added jobs at a faster pace than those that did not.

The Department of Labor released new data that suggests that raising the minimum wage in some states might have spurred job growth, contrary to what critics said would happen.

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Business, government, Great Videos, Science & Technology News, Space

FAA approves proposed SpaceX launch site in Texas

July 16, 2014

Proposed launch site for SpaceX.

A “Record of Decision” giving approval for a SpaceX Texas Launch Site in Cameron County, Texas has been published by the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) office of Commercial Space Transportation. (Video)

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Alternative Transportation, government, Science & Technology News

Helsinki’s ambitious ride-share project wants to end the need for car ownership

July 16, 2014

Streets of Helsinki

The government of Helsinki, Finland will pilot an ambitious project to end the need for car ownership through a combination of taxis, ride-sharing apps, carpooling, and traditional public transit.

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Analysis, government, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Online storage isn’t protected by the Fourth Amendment

July 15, 2014

Content stored online simply do not have the same Fourth Amendment protections as physical data.

A judge in New York, a couple months ago, ruled that US search warrants applied to digital information even if they were stored overseas. The decision came about as part of an effort to dig up a Microsoft user’s account information stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland.

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Analysis, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Education, government

Department of Education shuts down for-profit Corinthian Colleges

July 14, 2014

Federal regulations are designed to make sure that colleges that don’t offer a good value to students, don’t get student aid money.

Corinthian Colleges will put 85 of its U.S. campuses up for sale and close the remaining dozen under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education. The for-profit college chain operates campuses under the names Heald, Everest and WyoTech. It has more than 70,000 students across North America. It’s the largest-ever college, by enrollment, to be shut down in this way.

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government, Science & Technology News, Weapons

South Korea launches its 5th 1,800 ton 214-class submarine

July 11, 2014

The submarine was named after famous independence fighter Yun Bong-gil (1908-1932).

South Korea has launched its fifth 1,800-ton-class attack submarine last week as part of efforts to boost its underwater warfare capabilities against North Korean submarines, the Navy said.The 214-class submarine, named after famous independence fighter Yun Bong-gil (1908-1932) and manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., will be delivered to the Navy in late 2015 and commissioned the next year, a Navy officer said.

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Analysis, Business, government, Science & Technology News, Space

If we fund Elon Musk instead of NASA, we can send humans back to space

June 30, 2014

Elon Musk

Elon Musk, the wealthy and polarizing founder of PayPal, Tesla and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), is on a hot streak when it comes to spaceflight. He’s raiding revenue streams from Nasa and the US military to fund a private manned space program. His main weapon: low prices, with SpaceX offering satellite launches at about one-fifth the price of competitors at just over $60m a pop.

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Disrupting Government – Why Countries Will Soon Have to Compete for their Citizens

June 27, 2014

Futurist Thomas Frey: In 2002, Roger Ver was honing his entrepreneurial skills by selling products on eBay. It was in the aftermath of the Twin Towers disaster when one of his products called “Pest Control Report 2000” hit the radar of Homeland Security and he was charged and convicted of selling 14 pounds of explosives without a license.

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Analysis, government, Internet, Music, Science & Technology News

Big Brother is watching your streaming music

June 16, 2014

Music consumers migrated to streaming music services that live in the cloud in accelerating numbers.

How does the surveillance state consolidate control? By living in “the cloud” — where all our pertinent data is stored on computer servers operated by the likes of Google and Amazon and Microsoft — becomes too seductive to avoid and too cheap not to afford.

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Top 5 arguments against net neutrality

May 20, 2014

Members of Avaaz, a global advocacy group.

When the news hit Reddit that the Federal Communications Commissions’ plans to consider paid priority on the Internet, the question wasn’t so much whether the move was a good idea, it was “How do I best tell my elected representative that this is a horrible idea?”

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