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Distinctive
brain patterns could become the latest subject of biometric scanning
after EU researchers successfully tested technology to verify
identities for security checks.
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Donald
Rumsfeld’s Tamiflu pushers (just as they were in 2006) are set to be
the big winners in the GSFS (great swine flu scare of 2009) lottery.
Shares of Swiss drug-maker Roche Holding had fallen sharply after their
latest cancer drug failure—but the GSFS came just in time to give their
falling stocks a boost—just as the great bird flu scare of 2006 did.
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Light
switches, TV remote controls and even house keys could become a thing
of the past thanks to brain-computer interface technology
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A
U.S. soldier opened fire on fellow troops Monday, killing five before
being taken into custody, the U.S. command said. NBC News reported that
the shooting took place at a “stress clinic” on the main base in
Baghdad.
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With
the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures
point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing
almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year.
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Can diseases be warded off by eating GMO corn? Scientists
are working to find out.
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Officers
in the town of Palm Bay are being sent aloft on motorised paragliders
to act as spies in the sky, in a first-of-its-kind mission codenamed
Operation Soar.
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CBS
Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting
any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
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For
now, the nation state endures. But these three typewritten pages are a
reminder that today’s drive towards a European federal state is
inexorably tangled up with the plans of the SS and German
industrialists for a Fourth Reich – an economic rather than military
imperium.
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Afghans
are furious about the bombing of two villages in Western Farah province
during a drawn-out battle last week, when homes full of civilians were
hit.
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Sir
Allen Stanford, the Texan financier and cricket promoter accused of a
$8 billion (£5.6 billion) bank fraud, is at the centre of allegations
that he worked as a US government informer, according to the BBC.
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A sinister bill working its way through the House may
eventually serve as a companion piece to the Department
of Homeland Security’s “Rightwing Extremist” report
that labels veterans and advocates of the Second Amendment as dangerous
terrorists — H.R. 2159, The Denying Firearms and Explosives to
Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, sponsored by Rep. Peter King of New
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The
release of the 2010 budget request has shed more light on some FBI
surveillance programs the bureau is currently developing and testing
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Wisconsin
police can attach GPS to cars to secretly track anybody’s movements
without obtaining search warrants, an appeals court ruled Thursday.
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An MP who was involved in last month's G20 protests in London
is to call for an investigation into whether the police used
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President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in addition to resistance and steadfastness,
Iran and Syria should look for creation of a new world order,
otherwise, new cruel regimes would be created.
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NASA's critics have long asked: Why does the space agency
need to design and build its own rockets and spacecraft?
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The
year is 2018 and North Korea has just crossed the DMZ, its Army
camouflaged among refugees forced across the border into South Korea.
It has nuclear weapons and has launched cyber attacks against the U.S.
and South Korea
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The
Venezuelan government on Friday started the process to nationalize 60
oil service contractors and place them under the control of the state
oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela.
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Sir,
Andy Xie’s suggestion that an Asian loss of faith in the US dollar
could soon lead to a dollar collapse overlooks two basic considerations
(“If China loses faith the dollar will collapse”, Comment, May 5).
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Dmitry
Medvedev, Russia’s president, has warned at a military parade in Red
Square that Moscow will teach foreign aggressors the “lessons” of the
Second World War.
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The
results will create a database, bringing the Sci-fi movie Gattaca to
reality, enabling us to weed out the bad genes and focus on a perfect
person.
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The
CIA has released a devastating document detailing the dates and
explicit details of secret Congressional briefings in which members of
Congress were told of the Bush administration’s torture techniques and
when they had been used.
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China
has given its clearest warning to date that emergency monetary stimulus
by Western governments risks setting off worldwide inflation and
undermining global bond markets.
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North
Korea has begun preparations for a second nuclear test at a site in the
north of the country, South Korean government sources have said,
raising the diplomatic stakes over stalled nuclear disarmament talks.
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