Unconventional Oil and Gas Industry Created 1.7 Million Jobs This Year
The U.S. oil and natural-gas rush is hacking away at unemployment, manufacturing a total of 1.7 million jobs this year, according to a study released...
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UN Seeking Global Internet Surveillance for Terror, Propaganda
The United Nations and a broad coalition of its totalitarian-minded member governments are increasingly demanding that a global regulatory regime be imposed over...
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Ethanol Mandates Plague Developing Countries With Rising Food Prices
The expanding use of ethanol in U.S. oil production, prompted by government mandates that require the use of biofuel in gasoline, is escalating...
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Chinese Billionaire to Buy Failing U.S. Car Battery Maker
A financially strapped Massachusetts-based firm that manufactures batteries for electric cars, which reaped some $240 million in federal stimulus money, is being rescued...
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DARPA Tests Drones That Refuel While Airborne
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center reported on October 8 that they are moving...
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3-D Printing Technology Soon to Allow Printing Guns at Home
3-D printing technology is developing so fast that individuals will soon be able to download free software from the internet and print their...
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Chinese Telecom Threat Used to Push Cybersecurity Bill
A congressional investigation highlighting national security threats posed by two Communist China-based telecommunications equipment companies, Huawei and ZTE, is being seized upon by...
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SpaceX Capsule Set to Dock With Space Station
A private U.S. company — SpaceX — has sent the first of 12 resupply missions to the International Space Station. ...
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California Gas Prices Reach All-Time High of $4.67 Per Gallon
Gasoline prices in California have escalated to record highs, spiking 50 cents a gallon in a week and prompting Governor Jerry Brown to...
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New Strands of the Global Web of Surveillance
Can you imagine a world where the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency, the FBI, Interpol, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the...
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Ignorance Deadlier Than Radiation in Japan
The earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011 continue to claim lives more than a year and a half later, not...
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Sketches of Secret Gov’t Surveillance Technology Discovered
In July The New American reported an announcement posted on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) website seeking “trailblazers” willing to “take...
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TrapWire Training Courses Reveal Possible Purpose for its Creation
TrapWire is a massive and technologically advanced surveillance system that has the capacity to keep nearly the entire U.S. population under the watchful...
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FCC Chairman Defends “Net Neutrality” Regulations
Nullifying his former position that Internet providers should have the freedom to pursue new and innovative business models, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman...
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State-Owned Chinese Oil Giant to Purchase Canadian Oil Company
Shareholders of Canadian oil firm Nexen voted Thursday to favor a $15.1-billion takeover that would place the company into the hands of the...
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