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New MoD Strategic Report Extends Vision to 2040

In 2006, the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense published the DCDC Strategic Trends 2007-2036 report, outlining possible scenarios for technology, society and world politics. Among other issues, the 2006 report accurately envisioned a "revolutionary middle class" that would revolt against economic hardship and burdens of debt, and described a future population implanted with brain chips. A new report from the MoD titled Global Strategic Trends - Out to 2040 was published in February of this year, and extends the Ministry's strategic vision to 2040.

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		"The Singularity world will be characterized by a global, networked, technocratic civilization... Nation-states will be weakened in favor of regional alignments, global organizations, and large, powerful networks... -- The Futurist, The Singularity's Impact on Business Leaders: A Scenario, March-April 2010 edition

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The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative - Professor Salvör Gissurardóttir

New MoD Strategic Report Extends Vision to 2040

MEP: Euro will collapse, 'Pig States' to bring EU down EU finance ministers are about to thrash out how they can help debt-stricken Greece. Not all are convinced, saying prospects of a deal look bleak

Head of IMF Proposes New Reserve Currency IMF's Strauss-Kahn suggests IMF may one day provide global reserve asset

Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty The European Union has shown its righteous wrath by stripping Greece of its vote at a crucial meeting next month, the worst humiliation ever suffered by an EU member state

Parents Angry Over CCTV In School Toilets Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school's toilets.

Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins: 60pc rise in electronic bugs as council snoopers plan pay-as-you-throw tax More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents.

Arizona: The Surveillance State For years Arizona has been known as the “sunset state,” but lately some residents simply call it the “surveillance state.”

‘Covert’ surveillance cameras coming to Chicago Blue-light surveillance cameras in Chicago's high-crime neighborhoods will someday be augmented by "covert" cameras that "fit inside of a match box" and keep the bad guys guessing, Police Supt. Jody Weis said.

Feds push for tracking cell phones Whether state and federal police have been paying attention to Hollywood, or whether it was the other way around, cell phone tracking has become a regular feature in criminal investigations.

US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health.

US 'used plague bomb' in Korea War It is a crime the US has always denied - dropping germ bombs on North Korea

PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama One year into its promise of greater government transparency, the Obama administration is more often citing exceptions to the nation's open records law to withhold federal records even as the number of requests for information decline

In Bizarre, Soviet-Style Move, White House Threatens to Veto Intelligence Budget Unless FBI’s Anthrax Frame Up Is Accepted In a bizarre, Soviet-style move, the White House has threatened to veto the intelligence budget unless everyone accepts the FBI frame up of Dr. Bruce Ivins.

Hundreds Of Americans File Complaints Over Naked Body Scanners Rising wave of anger in response to virtual strip-search contradicts media spin

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest 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.

Activists Teach London Police A Lesson About Stop And Search Terror Laws A group of British activists turned a potentially confrontational run in with London Metropolitan police into an educational experience recently, producing a viral youtube video entitled “How To Escape A Terror Stop”.

CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.

"Patriot act for the internet" - Leaked ACTA draft reveals plans for internet clampdown ISPs must snoop on subscribers or face being sued by content owners

'Minority Report' digital billboard 'watches consumers shop' 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.

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella Never before had the CDC successfully mined the mountain of data that supermarket chains compile.

Big power from tiny wires New discovery shows carbon nanotubes can produce powerful waves that could be harnessed for new energy systems

Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy? The Technocrats have resurfaced, and they do not intend to fail a second time. Whether or not they succeed this time will depend upon the intended servants of Technocracy, the citizens of the world.

The Digital Dictatorship It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom

MEP: Euro will collapse, 'Pig States' to bring EU down
EU finance ministers are about to thrash out how they can help debt-stricken Greece. Not all are convinced, saying prospects of a deal look bleak

Head of IMF Proposes New Reserve Currency
IMF's Strauss-Kahn suggests IMF may one day provide global reserve asset

Greece loses EU voting power in blow to sovereignty
The European Union has shown its righteous wrath by stripping Greece of its vote at a crucial meeting next month, the worst humiliation ever suffered by an EU member state

Parents Angry Over CCTV In School Toilets
Outraged parents have hit out at a school in Birmingham after pupils discovered CCTV cameras in the school's toilets.

Spy chips hidden in 2.5 MILLION dustbins: 60pc rise in electronic bugs as council snoopers plan pay-as-you-throw tax
More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents.

Arizona: The Surveillance State
For years Arizona has been known as the “sunset state,” but lately some residents simply call it the “surveillance state.”

‘Covert’ surveillance cameras coming to Chicago
Blue-light surveillance cameras in Chicago's high-crime neighborhoods will someday be augmented by "covert" cameras that "fit inside of a match box" and keep the bad guys guessing, Police Supt. Jody Weis said.

Feds push for tracking cell phones
Whether state and federal police have been paying attention to Hollywood, or whether it was the other way around, cell phone tracking has become a regular feature in criminal investigations.

US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules
At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health.

US 'used plague bomb' in Korea War
It is a crime the US has always denied - dropping germ bombs on North Korea

PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama
One year into its promise of greater government transparency, the Obama administration is more often citing exceptions to the nation's open records law to withhold federal records even as the number of requests for information decline

In Bizarre, Soviet-Style Move, White House Threatens to Veto Intelligence Budget Unless FBI’s Anthrax Frame Up Is Accepted
In a bizarre, Soviet-style move, the White House has threatened to veto the intelligence budget unless everyone accepts the FBI frame up of Dr. Bruce Ivins.

Hundreds Of Americans File Complaints Over Naked Body Scanners
Rising wave of anger in response to virtual strip-search contradicts media spin

Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
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.

Activists Teach London Police A Lesson About Stop And Search Terror Laws
A group of British activists turned a potentially confrontational run in with London Metropolitan police into an educational experience recently, producing a viral youtube video entitled “How To Escape A Terror Stop”.

CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights
majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.

"Patriot act for the internet" - Leaked ACTA draft reveals plans for internet clampdown
ISPs must snoop on subscribers or face being sued by content owners

'Minority Report' digital billboard 'watches consumers shop'
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.

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella
Never before had the CDC successfully mined the mountain of data that supermarket chains compile.

Big power from tiny wires
New discovery shows carbon nanotubes can produce powerful waves that could be harnessed for new energy systems

Smart Grid: The Implementation of Technocracy?
The Technocrats have resurfaced, and they do not intend to fail a second time. Whether or not they succeed this time will depend upon the intended servants of Technocracy, the citizens of the world.

The Digital Dictatorship
It's fashionable to hold up the Internet as the road to democracy and liberty in countries like Iran, but it can also be a very effective tool for quashing freedom