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Published by Roger Snyder
Feb
27
Scientists to stop global warming with 100,000 square mile sun shade
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[I could not think of a comment. -RS] Scientists claim they can fight global warming by firing trillions of mirrors into space to deflect the sun’s rays forming a 100,000 square mile “sun shade”. According to astronomer Dr Roger Angel, at the University of Arizona, the trillions of mirrors would have to be fired one [...]
Feb
27
Pentagon to Allow Photos of Soldiers’ Coffins
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[From NY Times] By ELISABETH BUMILLER WASHINGTON — In a reversal of an 18-year-old military policy that critics said was hiding the ultimate cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the news media will now be allowed to photograph the coffins of America’s war dead as their bodies are returned to the United States, [...]
Feb
27
Firms defraud government but get new US contracts
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[From AP via Yahoo] By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Companies that defrauded the United States and jeopardized American lives received new government work despite rulings designed to stop them from receiving federal contracts, government investigators report. Payments went to a company whose president tried to sell nuclear bomb parts to North Korea, [...]
Feb
27
Senate votes to give DC citizens vote in Congress
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[From AP] By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer AP – Senate approves DC voting bill WASHINGTON(AP — The right to a vote in Congress denied the District of Columbia when it became the nation’s capital two centuries ago would be granted under legislation the Senate passed Thursday. Congress is “moving to right a centuries-old wrong,” said [...]
Feb
26
How Perverse Incentives Drive Bad Security Decisions, from WIRED Commentary by Bruce Schneier An employee of Whole Foods in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was fired in 2007 for apprehending a shoplifter. More specifically, he was fired for touching a customer, even though that customer had a backpack filled with stolen groceries and was running away [...]
