Robots are increasingly taking over more soldier duties in Iraq and Afghanistan, with predictions that as much as 30 percent of the U.S. Army will be robotic by 2020. WUSTL computer scientists who work on robots say the machines still need the human touch Go to Full Article

In the summer of 2002, the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment (ONA) published an 85-page monograph called "Military Advantage in History". Unusual for an office that is headed by Andrew Marshall, the Pentagon's "futurist in chief," the study looks back to the past—way back. It examines four...

Alright, now there is no denying how serious inflation is....I mean, even fake food is rising in prices!!! -- KM *** McDonald's Corp. is testing modifications to its popular $1 double cheeseburger, and higher prices for the sandwich, as it prepares to change its Dollar Menu by next...

A blockbuster new book from investigative journalist Ron Suskind adds another revelation to the growing canon demonstrating the lengths to which President Bush and members of his administration lied, misled and deceived the American people to pursue its invasion of Iraq Go to Full Article |...

Nice article showing how major wall street brokerage firms get you to buy crap they know sucks (like GM stocks). -- KM *** Karen De Coster and Eric Englund on the end of General Motors and so much else. Go to Full Article

Remember these are roads you paid for already. Now they are being sold. Expect to get tolled. -- KM *** Cash-strapped U.S. state and city governments are likely to sell or lease more highways, bridges, airports and other assets to investors desperate for stable returns after being...

The Department of Homeland Security more popularly known as the Department of Homeland Enslavement has now come out and stated that they have the authority to confiscate people’s personal property including laptops, electronic devices and even paperwork at the border without any probable...

First amendment no longer exists in the new America Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, August 4, 2008 http://www.infowars.net/pictures/august2008/040808Sticker.jpg In the new America an endorsement of Congressman Ron Paul now gives the police probable cause to pull you over,...

Vikas Bajaj IHT August 4, 2008 NEW YORK: The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is building with alarming speed. After two years of upward spiraling defaults, the problems with mortgages made to people with...

The FBI removed computer records from the C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday Go to Full Article | via BLN

The windfall of cash from Washington in June got eaten up by the worst inflation in 27 years, Commerce Department data showed Monday Go to Full Article | via BLN

This guy is my new hero. We need more people like this. Especially in NYC! -- KM *** He calls himself "Jimmy Justice," a self-styled "cop-arazzi," armed only with a video camera as he prowls the streets of New York looking for law enforcement officers who are breaking the law. His...

This guy was "suicided" and setup to be the patsy for the post-9/11 anthrax attacks -- attacks that got virtually no coverage once it was reported that the anthrax originated from a military lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland (not from a cave in Afghanistan, believe it or not). -- KM *** ...

It is hugely important to defend freedom on the Internet. This is the last place where we can say the Truth and do wtf we want. Business people in particular should note that unnecessary/corrupt regulatory requirements distort the free market and work to kill the dream of the open economy (free...

The real story here is that celebrity gossip/media has become such a part of American culture that it is interwoven with politics in the media without a second thought. This might not be such a problem if the government wasn't totally corrupt, and if the media wasn't owned by the same handful of...