World spending on defense for the first time in 15 years fell by $1.75 trillion in 2012, which marked a 0.5-percent reduction in comparison with 2011, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The share of the U.S. has fallen below the level of 40 percent for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia and China entered the top three of the countries that [...]
New York governor Andrew Cuomo is launching a $140 million ad campaign to lure businesses to the Empire State. The campaign, “New York State Open for Business,” is being funded with money drawn from federal disaster aid received in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and from the Power Authority and Energy Research and Development Authority, according to the New York Times.
Most of the money is being spent on television ads, many of which are being broadcast outside [...]
The New World Math is being applied to the GDP; and the results will have far reaching implications. The sheep are being laid to bed and tucked in.
This new form of mathematics isn’t just another hurdle to get shit back going again. Its the Crescendo of all mathematics where even the Porn industry
will be welcome into the Frey. Time are sure desperate in Washington DC as they have included both [...]
Obama Budgets $307 Billion For the African Internet, etc.
The “Alliance For An Affordable Internet” is a public-private partnership which intends to build a huge, expensive African Internet. Its headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, now dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Valley”.
Hillary Clinton alluded to this monstrous State Department project when she stepped down from her Secretary job on February 1, 2013. She said, “One billion more persons will have access to the Internet”. [...]
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites.
A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast amounts of information about people from websites including Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare.
Raytheon says it has not sold the software – named Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay [...]
from Fox Business, via Eduardo89rp:
Peter Schiff: The Real Fiscal Cliff Is Dollar Crisis! Buy Gold! Buy Silver! Own Real Things!!!
Obama Admin Looks To Control Americans’ $19.4 Trillion In Retirement Accounts
Remember that old phrase, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help”?
Well, it looks like we are hearing it again, at least on the issue of keeping Americans’ retirement funds safe.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing whether it should take on a [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8cI40VyO9ic
The technology exists, don’t doubt it.
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) was established 1958 in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik. DARPA reports directly to the Secretary of Defense; however, it operates independently of the rest of military research and development. Its basic principles are:
Small and flexible, with a flat organization structure
Autonomous organization
World-class scientists and engineers work with representatives from industry, universities and government labs
Project-based style; technical staff rotated [...]
Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst that will be foisted upon Americans for the first time on January 1, 2013.
Of the twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare, below are the five worst that will be foisted upon Americans for the first time on January 1, 2013:
The Obamacare Medical Device Tax – a $20 billion tax increase: Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo
A professional video and an absolute must see. It slams Romney and Obama.
GM gets a taxpayer bailout and now 70% of their cars are built outside the US.
Research and development is moving to China!
Cadillac sponsored a film about the founding of the Communist party…
Communist party buys GM plant in Michigan and is now the largest employer in town.
As usual folks, all you have to do is follow the money in [...]
Contacted list of world’s richest to offer immortality
Will personally oversee brain transplant into robot body
Entrepreneur claims to have 30 scientists working on project
Aims to ‘transplant’ human mind into robot body in 10 years
Claims ‘next stage’ of science is to create a ‘new human body’
‘This project is leading to immortality,’ says Dmitry Itskov
A Russian entrepreneur who heads a hi-tech research project called ‘Avatar’ has contacted billionaires to offer them immortality.
Itskov claims he [...]
Electric Power Research Institute calculated the annual cost to charge iPad is $1.36
Average cost of running refrigerator for year is $65.72
That coffee you’re drinking while gazing at your iPad? It cost more than all the electricity needed to run those games, emails, videos and news stories for a year.
The annual cost to charge an iPad is just $1.36, according to the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit research and development [...]
From WSJ:
Facebook’s first quarter of 2012 continued the social-network’s rapid revenue growth pattern. Yet profit slipped as the company’s soaring revenue came with soaring costs.
According to a newly updated initial public offering filing, revenue in the first three months of the year rose 45% to $1.06 billion in the quarter.
Advertising revenue was up 37% and payments and other fees rose 98%. Facebook credited the increased revenue as a result of [...]
Molly Bernhart Walker
fiercegovernmentit.com
February 22, 2012
Newly-introduced cybersecurity legislation would task the Homeland Security Department’s national cybersecurity and communications integration center with facilitating information sharing among public- and private-sector entities, rather than creating an industry-controlled, non-profit National Information Sharing Organization, as suggested by one proposal in the House.
Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Me.) introduced the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S. 2105) on Feb. 14. The proposed bill would also have [...]
From The Dividend Monk:
This is the third in a series of articles highlighting dividend companies that have large and durable economic advantages, or “moats,” that protect their business operations and allow years or decades of strong profitability. When looking for long-term investments, one typically wants to find a business that is performing well, not simply because management is on top of their game right now, but rather because the business [...]
An Iranian missile under construction, caught up in a mysterious blast in November, had a range of 6,000 miles, a senior Israeli official said Thursday in a speech outside Tel Aviv.
In this undated file photo, a Ghader missile is launched at the shore of sea of Oman during Iran’s navy drill. A missile under construction at an Iranian research-and-development facility, which was damaged by a mysterious explosion in [...]
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target.
Sandia has wide expertise at miniature technology, and the bullet works like a tiny guided missile.
The patented design doesn’t shoot straight. Instead of a spiral rotation, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself towards a laser directed point. It can make up to thirty corrections per second while in the air.
Jim Jones, [...]
Sandia Labs’ bullet doesn’t miss: krqe.com
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a bullet that guides itself to the target.
Sandia has wide expertise at miniature technology, and the bullet works like a tiny guided missile.
The patented design doesn’t shoot straight. Instead of a spiral rotation, the bullet twists and turns to guide itself towards a laser directed point. It can make up to thirty corrections [...]
Saw this in yesterday’s copy of the Wall Street Journal paper.
Here’s the on-line version. (Note: You may have to search the title in Google to avoid the pay wall.)
U.S.Loses High-Tech Jobs as R&D Shifts Toward Asia (January 18, 2012)
“The U.S. is rapidly losing high-technology jobs as American companies expand their research-and-development labs in China and elsewhere in Asia, the National Science Board said Tuesday.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424…
I think the bottome line is, you can get [...]
From Dividend Growth Investor:
…Some of the best companies to own in 2012 make great acquisitions that I plan to hold for several decades. I mostly sell only when one of these three events occurs. The one prediction I will make is that the following companies will boost their dividends in 2012, as they have previously done for years before.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) engages in the research and development, manufacture, and [...]
This afternoon, the U.S. Senate will be voting on an amendment to H.R. 2112, the Agriculture-Commerce-etc. appropriations bill for FY 2012. The amendment (#769) is being offered by Senator David Vitter (R-La.)
The amendment in question would allow Americans to purchase prescription medicines from Canada. On its face, this is a pro-free market amendment. Why should the government prevent people from buying goods or services from anywhere they want to, especially [...]
Amidst the bad news about its earnings, Sony said it’s developing a new PlayStation console. (Kiyoshi Ota – BLOOMBERG) It’d be an understatement to say Sony’s had a rough quarter and the news it had to report in its earnings call Thursday bore that out. But a small tidbit from the games unit report has piqued some interest about the next PlayStation.
Chief financial officer Masaru Kato said on the [...]
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