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PayPal Cuts Service to Alleged WikiLeaks Whistle-blower Bradley Manning Support Effort - WE WON!!!

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The Pentagon is the one that had the merriest of Christmases

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No Justice: Nancy Grace Has Another Show

Conor Knighton puts Nancy Grace's new show "Swift Justice" on trial... more

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'Hiccup girl' may use Tourette's defense

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How U.S. Cyber Command want to control the internet

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10 Famous Defense Attorneys

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H.S. Geeks being used by Military - Young worker bees for DARPA.

Darpa’s got ambitious goals when it comes to revolutionizing the outmoded, expensive process of defense manufacturing. The Pentagon’s blue-sky research arm wants fast-tracked timelines and widespread collaboration, all facilitated by web 2.0. And they’re looking to assemble an army of teenaged brains to help them do it.

The agency’s putting $10 million into a new program, Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach, or Mentor, that aims to “develop and motivate a next generation cadre of system designers and manufacturing innovators.”

Darpa’s looking for legions of high school students with a firm grasp on tools like Facebook and Twitter, who can work in teams “within a single high school and across multiple high schools” to design and develop “cyber-electro-mechanical systems” like go-carts, robots and even unmanned aircraft. Social networks, the agency hopes, can facilitate collaboration as well as inter-group competitions.

Mentor is only the latest Darpa program hoping to transform today’s youth into tomorrow’s Pentagon hot shots. Earlier this year, the agency requested proposals that would boost the number of teens pursuing bona fide geekdom. That program was catalyzed by concerns over the country’s “ability to compete in the increasingly internationalized stage.” This time around, Darpa’s looking for the brawniest brains worldwide, noting that “substantial participation by foreign high schools is essential to leveraging best-of-kind talent.”

But teens won’t just be handed cash money and flung into the development biz. Darpa’s looking for non-profits, academic institutions and businesses to develop proposals, and then spearhead participation from schools and provide them with the necessary manufacturing equipment. And Darpa’s thinking big: the agency wants 1,000 schools involved by the program’s fourth year.

And lest ambitious adolescent geeks think they’ll make a killing from their programs, designs or unmanned amphibious go-carts, Darpa’s making one thing very clear: you work for us.

“DARPA desires to receive complete, fully functional algorithms, source code, documentation, binaries, and test use cases,” the agency solicitation reads. “[And] Unlimited Rights to all deliverables… to enable their industry-wide promulgation in the course of and subsequent to this program.”Darpa’s got ambitious goals when it comes to revolutionizing the outmoded,... more

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Top 50 Criminal Defense Blogs

The article has gathered the top 50 criminal defense blogs. Written by public... more

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Bad flash drive caused worst U.S. military breach, not Russian + Video documentary: Cyber War: Sabotaging the System

A malware-laden flash drive inserted in a laptop at a U.S. military base in the Middle... more

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International Burn a Quran day Report

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US, Russia to carry out first-ever joint air manoeuvres

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Top-Secret America Spiraling Out of Control‎

A hidden world, growing beyond control The top-secret world the government created... more

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Illegals rob elderly citizen, citizen fires gun, prosecutors charge the citizen--and not the illegals

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You Can't Take the Army Out of the Boy: Scenes From Vanguard

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CIS 2010 Global Security Forum

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Dr. Dore Gold: U.S. should support Israel's right to defensible borders

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Bloomberg Comes to Bp’s Defense | Socyberty

As BP's image becomes more tarnished each day the oil well spills into the gulf,... more

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Commission outlines $1 trillion in defense budget cuts | Raw Story

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Commission outlines $1 trillion in defense budget cuts

A bipartisan commission of defense experts has released a plan that would reduce the... more

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In Defiance of His City’s History, Washington Post Blogger Defends Rand Paul on Race « SpeakEasy

Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat, famously immersed himself in a tub of hot water over his opposition to portions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — the portions that prohibit private owners of establishments from discrimination on the basis of race and other distinguishing factors. (Walking back from comments he made in his interview with Rachel Maddow on Wednesday night, Paul now says he would have voted for the bill if it came before him.)

In a media environment where Paul is finding few friends outside the right-wing blogosphere, one mainstream blogger is defending the candidate against charges of racism: David Weigel of the Washington Post.

Weigel’s defense of Rand Paul is particularly troubling, appearing, as it did yesterday, on the Web site of the major newspaper of a city that, until the 1964 act passed, was segregated. Weigel is no right-wing guest columnist; he’s on the Post payroll as its point-man on all things right-wing.

I know Weigel, and think he’s an excellent reporter. And, actually, I rather like him. But his defense of Paul denies the evidence laid by the history of Weigel’s own adopted hometown.

Paul’s argument as Weigel, who leans libertarian himself, describes it is this:

Paul believes, as many conservatives believe, that the government should ban bias in all of its institutions but cannot intervene in the policies of private businesses. Those businesses, as Paul argues, take a risk by maintaining, in this example, racist policies. Patrons can decide whether or not to give them their money, or whether or not to make a fuss about their policies. That, not government regulation and intervention, is how bias should be eliminated in the private sector. And in this belief Paul is joined by some conservatives who resent that liberals seek government intervention for every unequal outcome.

Rand Paul’s biggest mistake, Weigel asserts, is that he told the truth about what he believes. “So is Rand Paul a racist?” Weigel asks. “No, and it’s irritating to watch his out-of-context quotes — this and a comment about how golf was no longer for elitists because Tiger Woods plays golf — splashed on the Web to make that point.”Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat, famously... more

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