The Russian government will guide the large Express–AM4 telecommunications satellite, which was launched into a useless orbit in August, into a controlled atmospheric descent starting March 20 so that any surviving pieces will land in the Pacific Ocean, a senior official from Russia’s state-owned satellite telecommunications operator said March 15.

A new feature story in this month’s Wired blows the lid off plans for a massive new National Security Agency data center in Utah that represents the resurrection of a program that Congress killed in 2003, known as “Total Information Awareness,” targeting literally all electronic communications all over the world — including those made by American citizens.

American voters oppose U.S. military involvement in Syria, where the government has killed an estimated 7,500 people as it tries to end a year-long uprising. In addition, a majority thinks there should be a national debate before the U.S. intervenes in hot-spots around the world.

A new Fox News Poll is showing overwhelming opposition among American voters to a potential US invasion of Syria, with fully 78 percent of respondees rejecting the idea of sending ground troops to intervene in the nation’s civil war.

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And if all that wasn’t enough, Greenert disclosed that he and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will soon ask themselves if the Navy needs to rotate more aircraft carriers to the Gulf. That decision, so important that it’s Panetta’s to make, will come in the next few months.

Keine gewählte sogenannte Regierung im kapitalistischen Diktaturumfeld, kann es sich erlauben, eine Politik zu betreiben, die Kapitalinteressen substantiell widerspricht. Sie wollen es ja auch gar nicht. Von daher ist das Risiko einer Systemänderung gar nicht vorhanden. Wirtschaftsverbände fordern Reformen, (noch so ein positiv besetzter Begriff), und jede Bundesregierung folgt dieser verklausulierten Aufforderung zum sozialen Kahlschlag. Sonst wird sie ganz schnell ausgetauscht. Positiv ist was Kapitaleignern nutzt und Verurteilungen müssen sie, selbst bei kriminellen Vergehen, auch nicht befürchten. Das garantiert lange Regierungszeiten an den Selbstbedienungsanlagen üppig gefüllter Fresströge.

The first telecom satellite of Azerbaijan Azerspace is based on the advanced Star-2 Bus platform of Orbital Science Corp., Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov said in an interview, published in the official press on Saturday.

Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour party, in his Westminster office, which is believed to have been subject to a break-in.

Sony‘s vision of the future: Power outlets that supply electricity only to authenticated devices.

Früher musste es eine Felony sein, eine Straftat mit Mindesthaftstrafe, aber jetzt nehmen sie auch die DNA zu den Akten, wenn man nur eine kleine Ordnungswidrigkeit begeht wie z.B. Schwarzfahren in der U-Bahn.

A person at Goldman Sachs Group Inc, who has not been identified or charged in a broad U.S. insider-trading probe, was caught on a wiretap leaking secrets about Intel Corp and Apple Inc, a lawyer for former Goldman board member Rajat Gupta said in court on Friday.