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Insurgents hack U.S. drones for under $26

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S.

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CIA cuts ties with Blackwater

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.

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Students protest tuition

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — About 70 students avoided arrest early Sunday morning when they surrendered the administration building they had occupied for nearly four days at the University of California-Santa Cruz, according to a school spokesman. Angry students took over Kerr Hall after the University of California's regents board approved a 32 percent increase in tuition Thursday

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Feds stop two more alleged bomb plots

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

CHICAGO – A man who idolized American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and a Jordanian national who frequented extremist Web sites have been charged in unrelated cases after attempting to detonate what they thought were bombs outside an Illinois courthouse and a Texas skyscraper, federal officials said.

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Study: Your brain thinks money is a drug

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

If you've ever thought of money as a drug, you may be more right than you know. New research shows that counting money — just handling the bills — can make things less painful. The experiments were conducted by a colleague of Vohs' in China.

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CIA missile strike reportedly kills Taliban chief

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistan's Taliban chief, who has led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations, has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, Taliban commanders and Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. But one Pakistani official said no intelligence agent had actually seen Baitullah Mehsud's body

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House lays groundwork for CIA probe

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WASHINGTON – The House Intelligence Committee has asked the CIA to provide documents about the now-canceled program to target al-Qaida leaders, U.S. congressional officials said Tuesday

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A national high-speed rail network up and running by 2030 – Yes we can

Posted on July 13, 2009 by | Leave a comment

President Obama strongly supports high-speed rail, environmentalists are behind it (well, at least some of them) and the Federal Railroad Administration is already reaching out to other countries that have had success with it. High-speed rail looks like it’s going to happen.

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Two shot dead’ by Chinese police

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Breaking News Two Muslim Uighurs have been shot dead by police in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang province, state media said. The violence comes after Chinese officials said calm had been restored to the city after at least 180 people were killed in rioting last week.

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