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One Per Cent: Hypersonic X-37 spaceplanes ‘could carry astronauts’

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureThe Boeing X-37B, the mysterious uncrewed spaceplane developed for the US Air Force, could be scaled up and modified to carry astronauts. That’s the tantalising possibility posited by a Boeing chief at Space 2011Show original

What caused the wealth gap?

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationProtesters are furious over America’s growing income disparity.– The U.S. is facing a structural crisis that goes beyond the bursting of the financial bubble. The remedies, therefore, must also go beyond what I regard as gimmickry of a stimulus package, or a temporary tax cut – or, for that matter, even less relevant permanent tax cuts. So…

Tell your friends: Bridges not Bombs

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation Check out this infographic that shows what we could have if we had NOT wasted $459 billion on the war in Afghanistan.Show original

Steve Jobs, BMW & eBay

Via Scoop.it – Creating the FutureThere have been so many articles posted on Steve Jobs in the past week, I really thought I wasn’t going to add one here on my blog.However, yesterday, John Lilly wrote a great piece on Steve JoJobs yesterday, and I realized I might have a story worth telling after all. I find myself fortunate, in…

As abuse mounted, DEA boosted painkiller supply

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationEx-official says anti-drug agency rubber-stamped Big Pharma’s requests to increase Oxycodone production… Its clear that Criminal/Corporate Drug Lords completely control the US Gov’t. From keeping Marijuanna illegal to Patents, protecting Drug pusher’s monopoly.Show original