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Defense Systems – by Kevin McCaney

Navy researchers have achieved a breakthrough in autonomous technology, developing a “swarming” system that employs multiple unmanned boats working together to escort ships, patrol harbors or confront adversaries.

Developed by the Office of Naval Research, the Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing, or CARACaS, system can, for the cost of several thousand dollars, turn just about any boat into an unmanned vessel, according to Rear Adm. Matthew L. Klunder, chief of Naval Research.     Continue reading “Navy puts autonomous ‘swarmboats’ into action”

Bloomberg – by Josh Eidelson

Dave Anthony, former writer and director for the megahit video game franchise Call of Duty, wants the U.S. government to explore stationing soldiers in schools.

“The threat now, the invasion, comes from within,” Anthony said Wednesday at a forum hosted by the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington where he is a fellow in international security. Anthony said the soldiers could operate like air marshals on commercial flights. “Imagine the concept of something like a ‘school marshal,’” he said. “Now these guys are U.S. soldiers who are in plainclothes, whose job and part of their responsibility is to protect schools.”   Continue reading “Call of Duty Director Says U.S. Should Station Soldiers in Schools”

Newsday

TRENTON, N.J. – A New Jersey child who tested positive for a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country has died, although it’s not clear what role the virus played in the child’s death, state health officials said Friday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told New Jersey health officials that a Mercer County child tested positive for enterovirus 68 and died last week, the state Department of Health said in a news release.   Continue reading “NJ child with enterovirus 68 dies, officials say”

Proactive Investors Australia

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), the world’s biggest energy company which has operations in Nigeria and Liberia, fluctuated between gains and losses after saying some of its oil and gas activities in West Africa have been disrupted by the Ebola outbreak, including plans to drill offshore Liberia, the country worst affected by the spread of the disease.

Shares were up 0.4 percent at $93.70 at 2:30 p.m. in New York.

“We had some drilling plans for some blocks offshore West Africa in Liberia,” the company’s chief executive officer, Rex Tillerson, told a news conference yesterday.  “We are having to look at when it would be prudent to resume operations there because you do have to have shore-based support.”   Continue reading “Exxon Mobil says Ebola disrupts drilling offshore Liberia”

Bloomberg – by Lorraine Woellert

The U.S. jobless rate declined to a six-year low of 5.9 percent in September and employers in the U.S. added more workers than projected, signs of more vigor in the labor market that will help sustain faster economic growth.

The 248,000 gain in payrolls followed a 180,000 August increase that was bigger than previously estimated, the Labor Department reported in Washington. The median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey called for a 215,000 advance. The unemployment rate fell to the lowest level since July 2008 from 6.1 percent.   Continue reading “Jobless Rate in U.S. Falls to 5.9%, Lowest Since July 2008”

Who What Why – by James Henry

The Boston Marathon bombing is much more important than has been acknowledged, principally because it is the major domestic national security event since 9-11 and has played a major role in expanding the power of the security state. For that reason, WhoWhatWhy is continuing to investigate troubling aspects of this story and the establishment media treatment of it. So even as it slips from the headlines, we will be exploring new elements of the story regularly as the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev approaches.    Continue reading “Boston Update: FBI War On Marathon Bombing Witnesses Continues”

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Before It’s News – by Look up…Wake up

I have discovered, quite by accident, that both France and Germany are CENSORING videos that have to do with the Ebola agenda (Bill Gates, patents, depopulation etc…) or stories exposing the elites plans and other subjects they do not want you to see!

I use a VPN service (Witopia) which permits me to exchange my computer’s IP address for one from a list of dozens of foreign countries, so it appears that I am surfing or doing my banking from that country.   Continue reading “France and Germany CENSORING Videos on Ebola and Elite plans!”

Reuters

Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of the holders of some 83 million households and small business accounts were exposed when computer systems at JPMorgan Chase & Co were recently compromised by hackers, making it one of the biggest data breaches in history.

The bank revealed the scope of the previously disclosed breach on Thursday, saying that there was no evidence that account numbers, passwords, user IDs, birth dates or Social Security numbers had been stolen.   Continue reading “JPMorgan hack exposed data of 83 mln, among biggest breaches in history”

CNN – by Laura Smith-Spark, Chelsea J. Carter and Gul Tuysuz

Gaziantep, Turkey (CNN) — Turkish lawmakers voted Thursday to authorize military force against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, joining a growing international coalition against the Islamist militants as they continued to capture territory just south of Turkey’s border.

The Turkish Parliament voted 298-98 to not only to let the country’s military leave its borders to battle ISIS but to eliminate threats coming from any terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria, starting Saturday.   Continue reading “Turkish lawmakers OK military action against ISIS”

Bloomberg – by Lynn Doan and Dan Murtaugh

U.S. oil exports are set to surpass a record held since 1957 as traders find ways around a four-decade ban on supplies leaving the country.

The U.S. sent 401,000 barrels a day abroad in July, 54,000 shy of the record set in March 1957, according to data compiled by the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department’s statistical unit. While Canada accounted for 93 percent of the shipments, Italy, Singapore and Switzerland also took oil from U.S. ports. Coupled with Alaskan supplies bound for Asia, total U.S. exports will reach 1 million barrels a day by the middle of 2015, according to Citigroup Inc. (C:US)   Continue reading “Rising U.S. Crude Exports Move Closer to 1957 Record”

RT

Washington harshly criticized Israel’s decision to move forward with new settlements in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, adding that the plan could alienate Tel Aviv from “even its closest allies.”

US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the development – which calls for more than 2,600 new homes in a highly contested area of east Jerusalem – would make world nations “question Israel’s ultimate commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement” with Palestinians.   Continue reading “US warns Israel against building new settlements in E. Jerusalem”

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BATR – by James Hall

Seldom does the enormous bond market turn on the fate of a single trader. Well, the news that Bill Gross was leaving Pimco under suspicious circumstances did not go unnoticed. The WSJ writes:

“The yield on the 10-year benchmark Treasury note was hovering around 2.506% immediately before the disclosure that Mr. Gross was leaving the hundreds-of-billions of dollars in Treasurys and other debt he oversaw at Pimco to go to rival firm Janus Capital Group Inc.   Continue reading “How stable is the Bond Market?”

Military Times – by Andrew Tilghman with Gina Harkins, David Larter, Stephen Losey, Hope Hodge Seck, Michelle Tan and Jeff Schogol

As the tide of war rises again in the Middle East, the military’s rank and file are mostly opposed to expanding the new mission in Iraq and Syria to include sending a large number of U.S. ground troops into combat, according to a Military Times survey of active-duty members.

On the surface, troops appear to support President Obama’s repeated vows not to let the U.S. military get “dragged into another ground war” in Iraq. Yet at the same time, the views of many service members are shaped by a deep ambivalence about this commander in chief and questions about his ability to lead the nation through a major war, according to the survey and interviews.   Continue reading “Poll: 70% of troops say no more boots on the ground in Iraq”

Fox News Latino

ACAPULCO, MEXICO (AP) –  Authorities were searching Monday for 57 students reported missing after weekend violence left at least six people dead and 25 wounded in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.

Twenty-two police officers from the city of Iguala were detained in connection with the incidents, Guerrero state prosecutor Inaky Blanco said. He said they denied responsibility but several had been identified by students.   Continue reading “Student protests in central Mexico leave 57 missing, 6 dead and 22 cops arrested”

Haaretz – by Barak Ravid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped into the UN headquarters in New York on Monday and found it nearly empty. This year, as last year, Netanyahu had arrived after the party had ended. The leaders of the larger countries had addressed the General Assembly last week and left, and Netanyahu found himself speaking to the foreign ministers of Liechtenstein, Iceland and Bahrain.   Continue reading “Netanyahu’s empty UN speech with cheering section”