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Job losses send disability claims soaring - The Elkhart Project- msnbc.comWith an aching shoulder and sore hip, Michael Spratt figured he’d have to apply for disability benefits someday. He just didn’t think that day would come so soon. The 57-year-old was laid off from his job unloading chemicals from tanker trucks at the Rollie Williams Paint Spot in Elkhart, Ind., ...
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Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated) | Danger Room | Wired.comTapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electronic interception, multiple military sources tell Danger Room. That means militants have the ability ...
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Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical modelWhen bombs and bullets left 37 dead during Friday prayers at a mosque in Pakistan, earlier this month, the insurgency was using the element of surprise. Unpredictability is the hallmark of modern insurgent attacks such as this one. However, the likelihood of such events, their timing and ...
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Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones - WSJ.comWASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed ...
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Jeffrey Sachs: A Better Strategy for AfghanistanWe will spend around $100 billion in 2010 on the military approach compared with just $2 billion or so on economic development in Afghanistan, a 50-to-1 ratio. If we raised the development budget to even $10 billion, and deployed it thoughtfully and consistently, the benefits for the Afghan ...
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Robert J. Elisberg: What It Takes to Make a Republican MadRepublicans weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney lied America into a war against a nation that didn't attack us and didn't have any Weapons of Mass Destruction. They weren't mad when George Bush and Dick Cheney pulled troops out of Afghanistan that was harboring the actual terrorists ...
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Mike Papantonio: GOP Purity Test Echoes Berlin in 1933The last time we saw a political party demand ideological purity was Berlin 1933. It did not end well. One GOP candidate who obviously felt foolish endorsing this new political purity was Dede Scozzafava. She was the Republican that tea partiers forced out of the race in the 23rd Congressional ...
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The Phrase That’s Screwing Up the Afghan Air War | Danger Room | Wired.comThe rules of the new Afghanistan air war appear to be pretty straight-ahead. If a commander on the ground declares that his troops are “in contact” — coming under fire — then drones and fighter jets and attack helicopters will immediately streak to his location. Otherwise, the commander’s chance ...
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The scariest thing Gen. McChrystal told Congress about Afghanistan. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate MagazineAt an otherwise uneventful hearing before the House Armed Services Committee this morning, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said something that should confirm and heighten most people's apprehensions about the war's escalation. McChrystal noted that he has accumulated ...
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Suicide attackers kill 35 at Pakistan mosque - Yahoo! NewsMilitants stormed a mosque frequented by Pakistani army officials, killing at least 35 worshippers during Friday prayers as they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said. The strike was part of a wave of by Islamist insurgents that has killed more than 400 ...
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