1 day ago by myvisausa

Even as health care reform twists in the wind, immigration policy looms as the next big political debate, and Hispanics and Jews are moving to the forefront in a burgeoning political alliance. The next three months are seen as critical in the fight for immigration reform, but the weakening of the De ...

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1 day ago by welshboi

50 women incarcerated in Yarl’s Wood detention centre have been on hunger strike since Friday(5th Feb) in protest at the disgusting manner in which they and their children are being treated by the British government. The detention centre holds 405 women and children who are guilty of no crime other ...

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4 days ago by Bill Smith

by Jim Kouri, Worth Reading: While telling the American people that national security is a priority in his administration, President Barack Obama submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security. The proposed budget cuts include a reduction in Border Patrol agents and a cu ...

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11 days ago by airbagtales

London Heathrow to Toronto Not flying into the US this week was of course a joyous occasion: no extra security, no reduced hand baggage allowances, no full body pat-downs, no quick crotch-pats, and no having to reef my dress above my waist to be checked for explosive underwear. Yes, it was truly a s ...

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12 days ago by feinmotoriker

ich erinnere mich noch an den alten Affen – nichts ist unmöööglich….. via

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13 days ago by neoconopticon

Two interesting articles examining the development and implementation of combat robots of various sorts were published this month. In “ The age of the killer robot is no longer a sci-fi fantasy” ( Independent), Johann Hari considers the growing army of 12,000 robots used by the USA in some 33,000 mi ...

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22 days ago by backtoparis

It is a surreal thing and an enormous exercise in trust and love to ask your friends to pack all your belongings and ship them to you in a country that you don’t even have residency in. I mean, I am beyond what I used to call grateful and now don’t know what to call it. I feel like my hands have bee ...

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23 days ago by Bill Smith

The Born Again Americans: What do these photos have in common? The top photo depicts the absolutely out of control invasion of the Asian Carp, a predatory species that is threatening our Great Lakes and the $7,000,000,000.00 per year fishing and recreational industries in the Great Lakes... The seco ...

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25 days ago by Iliya Talman

The Tel Aviv stock exchange is launching new indexes during the first quarter of this current year. The incoming indexes will be biomed, energy and communication. Specifically, the biomed sector becomes a promising and crucial sector for the Israeli market; represented by 38 companies in the TASE. E ...

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29 days ago by neoconopticon

From New Scientist, 6 January 2010, by Paul Mark A MIGRANT makes a furtive dash across an unwalled rural section of a national border, only to be confronted by a tracked robot that looks like a tiny combat tank – with a gimballed camera for an eye. As he passes the bug-eyed droid, it follows him and ...

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