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Source: SA Current
Surrounded by barbwire fencing, the anonymous yet massive building on West Military Drive near San Antonio’s Loop 410 freeway looms mysteriously with no identifying signs of any kind. Surveillance is tight, with security cameras surrounding the under-construction building. Readers are advised not to take any photos unless you care to be detained for at least a 45-minute interrogation by the National Security Agency, as this reporter was.
There’s a strangely blurry line during such an interrogation. After viewing the five photos I’d taken of the NSA’s new Texas Cryptology Center, the NSA officer asked if I would delete them. When I asked if he was ordering me to do so, he said no; he was asking as a personal favor. I declined and was eventually released.
America’s top spy agency has taken over the former Sony microchip plant and is transforming it into a new data-mining headquarters — oddly positioned directly across the street from a 24-hour Walmart — where billions of electronic communications will be sifted in the agency’s mission to identify terrorist threats.
“No longer able to store all the intercepted phone calls and e-mail in its secret city, the agency has now built a new data warehouse in San Antonio, Texas,” writes author James Bamford in the Shadow Factory, his third book about the NSA. “Costing, with renovations, upwards of $130 million, the 470,000-square-foot facility will be almost the size of the Alamodome. Considering how much data can now be squeezed onto a small flash drive, the new NSA building may eventually be able to hold all the information in the world.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Source: Telegraph
Genetically-modified crops could be grown by the Government in secret locations in an attempt to prevent trials being attacked by saboteurs, it has been reported.
Trials could also be conducted away from the public in the Government’s Porton Down military research site in Salisbury, Wiltshire, it is claimed.
There are currently no GM food trials underway in the country and the more than 50 that have been conducted since 2000 have been affected by vandalism. Opponents of GM benefit from current rules, which dictate that all trials must be disclosed on a Government website.
However, a review of security arrangements for trials has been ordered by Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary and Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary.
The Independent reported that ministers are preparing to scrap the disclosure rule.
A Government source told the newspaper: “We need to review the security arrangements. The rules are a charter for people who want to stop the experiments. A lot of information has to be put in the public domain and that makes it very easy for people to trash them.”
Mr Benn said: “We need to see if GM foods have a contribution to make, and we won’t know the answer about their environmental impact unless we run controlled experiments. It’s important to go with the science.”
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We are already well on the way towards a Global One World Government, courtesy of a fabricated financial crisis. Likewise, we are also on our way towards a global, One World Religion. Sound familiar?
Source: breitbart.com
A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions.
The Charter for Compassion project on the Internet at www.charterforcompassion.org springs from a “wish” granted this year to religious scholar Karen Armstrong at a premier Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in California.
“Tedizens” include Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin along with other Internet icons as well as celebrities such as Forest Whittaker and Cameron Diaz.
Wishes granted at TED envision ways to better the world and come with a promise that Tedizens will lend their clout and capabilities to making them come true.
Armstrong’s wish is to combine universal principles of respect and compassion into a charter based on a “golden rule” she believes is at the core of every major religion.
The Golden Rule essentially calls on people to do unto others as they would have done unto them.
“The chief task of our time is to build a global society where people of all persuasions can live together in peace and harmony,” Armstrong said.
“If we do not achieve this, it seems unlikely that we will have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.”
Charter for Compassion invites people from “all faiths, nationalities, languages and backgrounds” to help draft statements of principles and actions that should be taken.
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Source: Dataquest
Professor Kevin Warwick from the University of Reading in the UK is a scientist that not only houses a chip in his skin but also a lot of nerve, pluck, arteries of gushing ideas, veins of maverick thoughts and much more.
In August 1998 he got a surgically implanted silicon chip transponder in his forearm and then in March 2002 was ready for another one. This time it was a hundred electrode array into the median nerve fibers of the left arm. Professor Kevin Warwick, born in Coventry, UK got his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and a research post at Imperial College, London and subsequently held positions at the Oxford, Newcastle, and Warwick universities before being offered the Chair at Reading. His research interests include robotics and cybernetics in particular apart from areas like artificial intelligence, control, and biomedical engineering. His list of laurels includes higher doctorates (DScs) by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, The Future of Health Technology Award from MIT USA, the IEE Achievement Medal, a place etched in 1999 and 2002 Guiness Book of Records, and so on.
Its not surprising that Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame calls him Britains leading prophet of the robot Age. In this exclusive interview with CyberMedia News, Kevin talks without mincing any words or chips, on various issues around the realm of cybernetics, cyborgs, human vs machines, words vs signals, ethics, evolution, and science. Excerpts
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Source: The Register
US war-tech behemoth Northrop Grumman announced yesterday that it had achieved another milestone in its battlefield raygun programme - ahead of schedule. Company blaster cannon execs believe that the first tests at combat power - 100 kilowatts - will take place as planned by the end of this year.
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Yesterday’s milestone, following the first successful test of a “chain” in March, was the combination of two chains to produce a single beam of 30kW. Northrop blaster chiefs believe it will now be a doddle to hook up a further six and put out a proper arse-kicking beam using electrical power.
“Our march towards providing compact, electrically powered, operationally scalable and affordable laser weapons for U.S. military services continues to produce world-leading results,” said Dan Wildt, Northrop directed energy veep.
“We’ve achieved all of our major milestones ahead of schedule,” added JHPSSL boss Jay Marmo. “We have proven all aspects of our scalable design for 100kW.”
The first application for battle lasers will probably be that of burning down incoming bombardment rockets, mortar bombs and the like. Military bases and perimeters in warzones (and some Israeli towns) are typically subject to constant harassing fire of this type, and a proper working defence would be very useful.
Static or semi-static use of this sort could be a good fit for the JHPSSL. Though the company describes the laser weapon itself as “compact” and “portable”, it admits that electro-optical efficiency will be in the 20 per cent area - it was “greater than 19 percent” in this most recent test.
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