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Protests over cloned animals in food chain
An animal welfare group on Friday delivered a petition of 7,000 names calling on the government to prevent products from cloned animals entering the food chain.The petition, delivered by activists wearing “cloned” masks of Prime Minister David Cameron, was hastily organised after news emerged this week that meat from offspring of a cloned cow had entered the food chain.
Written by Compassion for World Farming, the petition called for more openness about food production and expressed concern about the welfare of cloned animals.
“David Cameron, we believe, is the man to bring forward the aspirations of the British public and ban cloned food,” the group’s chief executive Philip Lymberytold AFP.
full article: BREITBART
Solar Market Forecasted to Grow to $78 Billion By 2015
Spain’s solar industry may be about to fall apart, but the same can’t be said for the U.S. solar market, which is expected to balloon from $9.8 billion today to $78.1 billion by 2015. During the same time period, solar investments will jump from $22.4 billion to $61.1 billion, according to a new report from Environmental Leader Insights.
The report lists some other encouraging statistics for the industry: global solar generation will increase from 17.0 billion kilowatt hours in 2010 to 95.0 billion kw/hour in 2015, and U.S. solar generation will increase from 4.4 billion kilowatt hours in 2010 to 15.3 billion kW/hour in 2015. And despite Spain’s imminent loss of solar subsidies, European countries still have some good news to look forward to–market parity for solar is expected in parts of Spain by 2012 and in Germany by 2015.
Not everything is looking up. The German solar market could drop by 57% thanks to reductions in subsidies. That lack of subsidies may also affect the world market. But overall, we’re encouraged by EL Insights’ research–as long as the smart grid can keep pace with solar growth. If it doesn’t, we might end up with a power grid that can’t handle all the solar energy being tossed its way.
Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers, Worked With Wikileaks Informant
Chet Uber, the director of Fort Pierce, Fl.-based Project Vigilant, says that he personally asked Lamo to meet with federal authorities to out the source of a video published by Wikileaks showing a U.S. Apache helicopter killing several civilians and two journalists in a suburb of Baghdad, a clip that Wikileaks labeled “Collateral Murder.” Lamo, who Uber said worked as an “adversary characterization” analyst for Project Vigilant, had struck up an online friendship with Bradley Manning, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst who currently faces criminal charges for releasing the classified video.
Google Teams Up With CIA, Invests in Analytics Firm
BY ADDY DUGDALE
Describing its analytics as “the ultimate tool for open-source intelligence,” Recorded Future markets itself towards corporations and brands, but it’s also got one very large foot in the counter-terrorism field–which is what makes it so attractive to In-Q-Tel. The firm’s CEO is an ex Swedish Army Ranger who holds a PhD in Computer Science, and he says that what sets Recorded Future apart from other analytics firms is “you can actually predict the curve, in many cases.”
As well as the “business intelligence” side to the firm, there’s a real feeling of Minority Report, here. It sounds like the kind of tool that will be used to predict crimes and terrorist activity as well. Analytics are already being used by the Memphis Police Department, whoseOperation Blue CRUSH uses predictive analytics by IBM.
FULL ARTICLE: http://www.fastcompany.com/1675552/google-gets-close-to-cia-with-investment-in-analytics-firm-recorded-future
Space Adventures: commercialized spaceflight.
Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
About this talk
Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, saysCameron Herold. At TEDxEdmonton, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — as kids and as adults.
About Cameron Herold
An entrepreneur since childhood, Cameron Herold wants parents and teachers to recognize — and foster — entrepreneurial talent in kids. Full bio and more links
