Streamlining Efforts: All Future Posts Will Be On Blacklistednews.Com

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:53:41 -0400

I have decided to post all my further articles and commentary on Blacklistednews.Com. The older articles will be on here for everyone. Doug Owen and I have radio shows on a couple of networks and we are streamlining our efforts.

Bob Barr A Poor Representative Of Liberty

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:27:09 -0400

The Libertarian Party recently nominated former Republican Congressman Bob Barr as their presidential nominee. This nomination represents a compromise of the principles that the Libertarian Party used to stand for.

Surveillance software revenue to quadruple by 2013

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:14:41 -0400

In a new study that has potentially Orwellian implications, ABI Research projects that revenue for video surveillance software will quadruple over the next five years.

Rupturing The Nanotech Rapture

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:11:32 -0400

How to usher humanity into an era of transhumanist bliss: first, end scarcity. Second, eradicate death. Third, eliminate the bungled mechanisms that introduce imperfections into the human body. The vehicle for accomplishing all three? Molecular nanotechnology—in essence, the reduction of all material things to the status of software.

New Drug Helps People Grow Super-Brains

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:09:21 -0400

BrainCells, a new company based in San Diego, is testing several drugs that will give you a super-powerful, enhanced memory (and maybe other cognitive properties too) by growing more neurons in your head.

NORTHCOM In Position To Manage MIlitary During Terrorist Attack

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:05:31 -0400

Northern Command will stand up new units to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive — CBRNE — attacks. Currently, if such an attack proved more than local emergency crews could handle, governors could call in National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.

Dogs of War: Back to Africa

MichaelVail — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:58:10 -0400

Where does the future lie for the private military industry? Those who watch the industry closely have noted it tends to migrate periodically. In the beginning, mirroring human evolution, the industry emerged in Africa.

FDIC: U.S. banks' Q1 profit down 46%

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:27:49 -0400

A new look at the banking sector shows huge losses in the first quarter of 2008. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which insures bank deposits up to $100,000, reported that U.S. financial institutions earned $19.3 billion in the quarter, down 46 percent from $35.6 billion in the first quarter of 2007.

Virtual Schools See Strong Growth

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:25:21 -0400

Half of courses in Grades 9 to 12 will be delivered online by 2019, predicts a new report.

FBI Citizens' Academy tours DC headquarters

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:22:19 -0400

About a dozen people from the Knoxville FBI Citizens' Academy took a road trip to the nation's capital last week, a trip that took them to some of the country's most secure places. The city filled with national landmarks is a tourist's treasure, a first time for academy members like Susan Cohen.

Raytheon's Pain Ray: Coming to a Protest Near You?

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:18:06 -0400

Coming soon, from the folks who brought you the microwave -- Raytheon! After more than ten years in the making and at a cost of over 40 million dollars, 'Silent Guardian', or Active Denial System, (ADS, in it's formal mood), is almost ready for public release!

DARPA Developing "Fracture Putty" to Heal and Support Shattered Bones

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:56:35 -0400

DARPA, the military's premier R&D team has been given the task of producing "a dynamic putty-like material" that can be packed in around shattered bone to help support a patient's body during the healing process.

Shadow Government: Who Deals with Agencies at Booz Allen?

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:51:20 -0400

At Booz Allen Hamilton’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia, the firm’s vice presidents specializing in intelligence oversee two types of contract: offer two types of services: training executives and supplying critical systems to the agencies. Virtually all of the latter call on its services: NSA, DIA, CIA, FBI, NRO, and NGA (see graph). Even IARPA, the newly- established R&D unit of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), relies of the firm’s technology assessments.

US bank failures loom

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:17:59 -0400

Earlier this year, the FDIC began trying to lure roughly 25 retirees like Holloway back to prepare for an increase in bank failures. It’s also hiring about 75 new staff.

‘Made in China’ Price Tag: Thousands of U.S. jobs

MichaelVail — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:15:29 -0400

Researchers report that up to 100,000 U.S. jobs are being lost to China every year.