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DARPA developing sensors to track you by your heartbeat

November 19, 2011

The government wants to track you by your heartbeat.

You may be hiding on the other side of the wall but the U.S. military can see you breathing, they can even see your heartbeat racing. But you may be surprised if you think you can run farther away or hide in a crowd. The Defense Department’s sensors will find you. The Pentagon is looking to tweak their life-form finder that can spot your heartbeat no matter where you are.

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Congress makes pizza a vegetable on school lunch menus

November 19, 2011

Pizza a vegetable in schools.

The fight against childhood obesity has been dealt a blow. The U.S. House of Representatuves passed a bill that abandons proposals that threatened to end the reign of pizza and French fries on federally funded school lunch menus.

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U.S. military unveils hypersonic weapon that travels 5 times the speed of sound

November 18, 2011

U.S. military unveils a hypersonic flying missile that can strike a target anywhere in the world in just 30 minutes.

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Bailout for Federal Housing Authority inevitable

November 13, 2011

FHA bailout looming.

With the government’s explicit guarantee of mortgages a bailout appears to be inevitable for the Federal Housing Authority. This should not be surprising news to anyone who follows the mortgage market closely, but a new study by Wharton finance professor Joseph Gyourko makes this conclusion clearer. As a bailout for the FHA looms, Congress will likely become enraged again — on behalf of the taxpayers they represent. What impact would an FHA bailout have on the housing finance policy debate?

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Denver ‘very stong candidate’ for new satellite patent office

November 12, 2011

Denver, Colorado

Under a bill signed by President Barack Obama in September, Denver is a “very strong candidate” for a new satellite patent office. John Bryson, the newly confirmed secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, announced the news Wednesday during a Colorado visit.

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Launched Today: The story of ‘Broke’ puts the real crony capitalism on notice

November 9, 2011

The video is released today, and it does not disappoint.

Succinctly but effectively, Annie Leonard tells the story of how our tax dollars are being misappropriated to prop up an ailing, energy intensive, resource hungry and ultimately counterproductive “dinosaur economy”. And she then goes on to make the case of how we could do things better…

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Arrests of illegal immigrants at Arizona border fell 40%

November 8, 2011

Border fence in Arizona.

Border Patrol in the Tuscon Sector of Arizona have arrested 40% fewer illegal immigrants than last year. That is a significant drop that indicates illegal immigration has slowed considerably in Arizona.

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Thrive – The Movie

November 4, 2011

THRIVE is an unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what’s REALLY going on in our world by following the money upstream — uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future…

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Escalating national debt nears size of entire U.S. economy

October 30, 2011

The gross national debt will reach 100% of the economy in November 2011.

A reprieve won this week for the Obama administrationfrom some particularly scary economic news that had been projected to occur around Halloween.

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Would you use dollar coins if it saved the Government $5.6 billion?

October 26, 2011

Coins can save $.

The recently-assembled super-committee tasked with saving the US from financial disaster by year’s end wants to trade dollar bills for dollar…coins? Wait, don’t we already have some of those that nobody uses?

This controversial plan has been floated before but has met with a tepid response from most Americans and strong lobbying efforts from both paper and mining industries (and the states in which those industries reside). However, a recent study by the Government Accountability Office found that the coin’s longer lifetime—4.2 years vs. 22 months for bills—would translate into a $5.6 billion savings over the course of 30 years…

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World Bedbugs Registry Database map

October 18, 2011

Bedbugs are a growing problem.

A bedbug is a wingless insect with a flat reddish body that infests dwellings and bedding and feeds on human blood. The common human bedbug of temperate regions, Cimex lectularis, is largely nocturnal, spending the day in crevices in walls and furniture and in bedding. Its bite causes irritation in many individuals, but it is not known to transmit diseases…

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Promise of 5 million green jobs falls short

October 11, 2011

The program was supposed to train 125,000 workers, but only 53,000 have been “trained” so far.

The story of the green jobs subisdy gets more embarrassing by the day. President Obama promised three years ago that by the end of the decade America would have five million green jobs, but so far some $90 billion in government spending has delivered very few.

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