Food and Agricultural Complex.
Financial Complex. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A Voice Only You Can Hear: DARPA's Sonic Projector. National Security Agency. Biometrics. Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Rapid DNA Identity Testing. Companies unveil key component at leading forensics science meeting Charlottesville, Va. and Bethesda, Md. – March 6, 2012 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and ZyGEM Corp.
Ltd. announced plans to release a version of their rapid DNA analysis platform that is designed to simplify and speed DNA analysis for human identity testing. Pre-production units of the platform will be released this summer to select customers in the forensic, homeland security and intelligence communities. The companies recently unveiled a compact cartridge device that is a key component of the rapid DNA analysis platform during the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS).
Ways of Thinking About a National ID Card. Homeland Security. Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' An internal U.S.
Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama " Person of Interest ," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Blackberry would close UK service if ordered. Can the government detain you over Facebook posts? Tiffany Madison WASHINGTON, August 22, 2012 — Brandon J.
Raub, a 26-year-old pro-liberty activist, former U.S. Fake social media friends to promote propaganda. It's recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda.
It could also be used as surveillance to find public opinions with points of view the powers-that-be didn't like. The Fed Wants to Be Your Facebook Friend. The Fed also states the "Social Listening Platform" to "Handle crisis situations, "Continuously monitor conversations," "Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers," and that the software "be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.
" The Fed is requesting that all information is provided in real-time and that "sentiment analysis" be a central feature of the developed software. BRICS. Not to be confused with BRIC.
BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.[4] The grouping was originally known as "BRIC" before the inclusion of South Africa in 2010. The BRICS members are all developing or newly industrialised countries, but they are distinguished by their large, fast-growing economies and significant influence on regional and global affairs; all five are G-20 members.[5] Since 2010, the BRICS nations have met annually at formal summits.
UNASUR. Away from the U.S. Conventions, a New World Order Takes Shape. The U.S. has almost ground to a halt with the pageantry and pomp of its party conventions, spectacles that, while theatrical, carry with them a particular hubris about the stature and pre-eminence of the world’s oldest democracy.
The election is, as it’s often described, an exercise in selecting the “leader of the free world.” But as the rest of the planet hums along, paying little notice to what went on in Tampa and Charlotte, that sobriquet has never felt more hollow. For a snapshot of what actually shapes the global order, look no further than India, that other “exceptional” democracy, and its past week of rather unsurprising, unexciting geopoliticking.
In New Delhi, Indian and Chinese defense officials met this week in a bid to reinvigorate ties and restart joint military exercises, which have not taken place since 2008. Can the Brics create a new world order? Today's one-day annual summit of the so-called Brics countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – has received scant attention in the west.
BRICS flay West over IMF reform, monetary policy. U.S. Oil Imports by Country of Origin. 680,000 wells hold waste across US. Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica This class 2 brine disposal well in western Louisiana, near the Texas border, is among the 680,000 waste and injection wells across the U.S.
By Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation's geology as an invisible dumping ground. No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil. But until recently, scientists and environmental officials have assumed that deep layers of rock beneath the earth would safely entomb the waste for millenia. There are growing signs they were mistaken. In 2010, contaminants from such a well bubbled up in a west Los Angeles dog park.