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Scientists’ Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines in California and Elsewhere...

The reports said the investigators had created situations for each system “in which these weaknesses could be exploited to affect the correct recording, reporting and tallying of votes.”

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...liberators?

"I want America to go out," he said. "Today, tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but out. I wish the American people didn't invade Iraq and hopefully it will be over soon."

-- Younis Mahmoud
Captain - Iraq Asia Cup Champion Soccer Team


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Bush and Turkey to secretly fight against Kurds

WASHINGTON -- The morass in Iraq and deepening difficulties in Afghanistan have not deterred the Bush administration from taking on a dangerous and questionable new secret operation. At a high level, U.S. officials are working with their Turkish counterparts...

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Ward Churchill's Original Essay and Statement

Now that The University of Colorado Board of Regents has voted to fire Ward Churchill (see story here) those who would be informed should read his actual "Truth to Power" essay that ignited the affair. Claiming that his outspoken resistance to indefensible actions by the Power Elite was not the reason, you be the judge. This is operation of the virtual "Ministry of Truth" at it's best!





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Power Of Induction - the best version of the MIT wireless energy experiment

The WiTricity story itself is nothing new, we all voted for it, but this guy at ScienceNews did a terrific write-up on the history of the efforts and how it came to pass now. Or maybe it isn't that terrific to you. That's why you get to vote.

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...now, wireless power transmission!

"Recharging your laptop computer -- and also your cell phone and a variety of other gadgets -- might one day be doable the same convenient way many people now surf the Web: wirelessly."

Research Paper


"The device that Soljačić and his collaborators put together had a disarming simplicity. On one side of the room, hanging from the ceiling, was a ring-shaped electrical circuit, about half a meter across, plugged into the wall. Hanging adjacent to the circuit, but with no physical connection to it, was a slightly larger copper coil looking like an oversize mattress spring. A few meters away hung a similar system with an ordinary light bulb attached to the circuit. When the physicists sent power through the first circuit, the bulb lit up."

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more flame fanning...

White House Homeland Security Adviser Frances Townsend

... President Bush's White House counterterrorism adviser said Wednesday that U.S. officials believe al-Qaida wants to launch "a mass casualty, spectacular event" in the United States but don't think it can do so. ...


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...american foreign policy explained!

Here, in a cartoon originally published in 1952 we see it all laid out clearly...












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...dodgy deals...

"Bin Laden and most of the 9/11 team came from Saudi Arabia. In response we keep invading other countries by mistake."

--- Craig Murray,
former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan

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...hope for our planet...

Read the remarkable blog of William Kamkwamba in Malawi. He is showing us all the way forward, innovate with whatever you have...

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...democracy requires an awake, aware and informed citizenry....

Please take a look at these videos... you really need to weigh these points of view... no matter what you consider to be the truth... You need all sides to the story in order to come to your own conclusions...

democracy
noun ( pl. -cies)
a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives : capitalism and democracy are ascendant in the third world.
• a state governed in such a way : a multiparty democracy.
• control of an organization or group by the majority of its members : the intended extension of industrial democracy.
• the practice or principles of social equality : demands for greater democracy.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from French démocratie, via late Latin from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos ‘the people’ + -kratia ‘power, rule.’


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