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‘Minority Report’ digital billboard ‘watches consumers shop’

(Telegraph)
Engineers have developed the billboard, similar to one used in the Tom Cruise blockbuster, that uses in built cameras to instantly identifies a shopper’s age and gender as they walk past.
The facial-recognition system, called the Next Generation Digital Signage Solution, then offers consumers a [...]

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest

(Wired)
Josh Gerstein over at Politico sent Threat Level his piece underscoring once again President Barack Obama is not the civil-liberties knight in shining armor many were expecting.
Gerstein posts a televised interview of Obama and John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted. The nation’s chief executive extols the virtues of mandatory [...]

Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books

(Washington’s Blog)
As William K. Black said a year ago, the government’s entire strategy now – as in the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are (“the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts”).
Paul Krugman and others pointed out that Geithner has been trying [...]

Why the U.S. can’t inflate its way out of debt

(CNN Money)
It’s dawning on people that getting a handle on burgeoning U.S. debt will be a long and hard process.
So if lawmakers can’t agree on a credible plan, some have suggested that the country could just “inflate its way” out of its fiscal ditch.The idea:
.Pursue policies that boost prices and wages and [...]

Americans Are Still 21 Percent Poorer Than Before The “Recession”

(AP)
American households saw their wealth increase at the end of last year, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios.
The Federal Reserve says household net worth rose 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter to $54.2 trillion. It marked the third straight quarter of gains. Net worth had risen 4.5 percent in the [...]

European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord

(Wired)
The European Parliament delivered a political blow to Hollywood and the Obama administration, voting Wednesday 663 to 13 in opposition to a proposed and secret intellectual property agreement being negotiated by the European Union, United States and a handful of others.
Wednesday’s developments concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting and Trade Agreement are substantial because [...]

Vladimir Putin forging ahead with vision of Eurasian empire

(Times Online)
The Soviet Union is gradually being rebuilt as Vladimir Putin eyes a return to the Kremlin. The man who declared the collapse of the Communist state to be the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” appears determined to forge a new empire.
The latest evidence emerged in a suggestion [...]

Tune in Now! Conference Continues March 13-15

By Mark Anderson, American Free Press deputy editor
ONTARIO, California — This American Free Press writer and host of RBN’s “When Worlds Collide” show will hit the air this evening to summarize the annual Health & Freedom conference taking place today, Saturday, March 13.
As this news bulletin was written, it [...]

Homeland Security Unveils Mobile Mind Screening Checkpoints

Homeland Security explains its partnership with an array of firms for a new screening checkpoint system.

Ron Paul Says Giving Fed More Power `Makes No Sense’

U.S. Representative Ron Paul, a Texas Republican, talks with Bloomberg’s Lori Rothman about the outlook for financial regulation and the Federal Reserve’s authority. Paul, a former Libertarian Party presidential candidate, also discusses prospects of a run for the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential nomination.

Thomas Jefferson Quote of the Day

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

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