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China’s Newest And Deadly Warship Has Entered The South China Sea

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Robert Johnson Jeff Head via PLA Type 054A warship As five other countries claim ownership of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and its supposed billions in oil and gas deposits, China’s backing its claim by sending the newest warship it has to the region.  The Taiwan-owned China Times reports the Liuzhou Type 054A warship entered the South China Sea Fleet of China’s PLA Navy, making it the sixth 054 warship in the…

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A Few Actual Harms To Be Concerned About From Today’s Government Spying Law

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN “Other than the vague threat of an Orwellian dystopia, as a society we don’t really know why surveillance is bad,” writes Washington University Law Professor, Neil Richards [PDF]. Today, the United State Senate reauthorized a controversial Obama-supported surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA), which permits intelligence agencies to monitor international communications, sometimes without a warrant and little court oversight. Civil libertarians are up…

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The 8 Craziest Job Openings in the Military-Industrial Complex

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As reported on Wired. BY NOAH SHACHTMAN AND ROBERT BECKHUSEN Top-secret janitor. Pollster to the spies. Classified comic book artist. Any organization sufficiently large is bound to have the odd job opening within it. But few organizations are as freakin’ colossal as the U.S. military intelligence industrial complex, with an estimated 4.9 million Americans holding security clearances today. Which means there are thousands of unconventional positions to fill at any given moment. Here are some of the wilder military…

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Senate votes to let the NSA keep spying on you without a warrant until 2017

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As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson The US Senate has voted to approve the FAA Sunsets Extension Act of 2012, which will authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans for counter-terrorism purposes for another five years. The bill extends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act of 2008, which granted retroactive immunity for wiretaps and email monitoring under the Bush Administration and created a framework for future warrant-free surveillance as long as one party is…

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Pentagon Preps Stealth Strike Force to Counter China

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As reported on Wired. BY DAVID AXE F-22s and a B-2 fly over Guam in 2009. Photo: Air Force   The U.S. military has begun a staged, five-year process that will see each of its three main stealth warplane types deployed to bases near China. When the deployments are complete in 2017, Air Force F-22s and B-2s and Marine Corps F-35s could all be within striking range of America’s biggest economic rival at the same time. With Beijing now…

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Data.gov Moving to an Open Source Platform

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As reported on Mashable. by Joseph Marks The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during aweb discussion Wednesday.The governments of India and Ghana have already launched beta versions of their data catalogues on the open source platform, said Jeanne Holm who heads the Data.gov team. Government developers from the U.S. and India built the OGPL jointly. They posted it…

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Army Says This General Sexually Abused an Officer, Then Threatened Her Career

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As reported on Wired. BY SPENCER ACKERMAN Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair, shown here in Afghanistan in 2011, stands accused of forcible sodomy, conduct unbecoming an officer, and other charges. Photo: DVIDSHUB   An Army general isn’t just accused of sexually assaulting a female subordinate. According to newly released military documents, the one-star general ”threaten[ed] to use his rank, position, and authority to damage or ruin [the captain’s] military career if she ended their sexual relationship.” And he disobeyed…

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‘Female Barack Obama’ Could Be The Next Supreme Court Justice

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Aleksi Tzatzev California Attorney General’s Office California Attorney General Kamala Harris Which Supreme Court justice will step down next?  Most experts believe it will be 79-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Clinton appointee and the court’s oldest member, according to Bloomberg Law. The most likely candidate to replace her is California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who’s dubbed “the female Barack Obama,” SCOTUSBlog’s Tom Goldstein told Bloomberg. Like Obama, Harris, 48, is a rising political star, who wrote…

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Pentagon Sets Out to Create the Ultimate Wireless Network

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As reported on Mashable. by Pete Pachal 3G? Pathetically slow. WiMax? Not good enough. LTE? Still lacking. The U.S. military has looked at all current wireless standards as well as the ones on the drawing board (such as LTE-Advanced) and apparently concluded that they’re all not up to the challenge of supporting troops in the years to come. So it’s taking the matter into its own hands.DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is setting out to create an…

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GOP Lawmaker: ‘I Wish To God’ The Sandy Hook Principal Had An Assault Rifle

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Brett LoGiurato Fox News Rep. Louie Gohmert, a Republican from Texas, said Sunday that he wished Dawn Hochsprung, the principal of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, had been armed on Friday with an M-4 assault rifle to counter Adam Lanza, the alleged shooter who killed 20 children and seven other adults. “I wish to God she had an M-4 in her office locked up — so when she heard gunfire, she pulls…

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