by admin on September 1, 2010
The US Census came out with its annual report, the “Consolidated Federal Funds Report for Fiscal Year 2009: State and Country Areas” on how much the federal government spends on the 307,006,550 citizens who lived in America at the end of 2009. The state that received the most money per person was Alaska– $20,351. The state which received the least per person was Nevada– only $7.148.
The total federal domestic spending in the government’s last fiscal year was $3.2 trillion. That was up 16% from the previous year, almost entirely because of the government’s stimulus package, set up to ameliorate the effects of the recession. This was the greatest increase since 1983 which also occurred at the end of a deep and long recession.
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by admin on August 28, 2010
The need for secrecy in business has led to a shadow industry known as industrial espionage. The practices of “spying” used to be physical. A spy would have to be near the product to describe or photograph it. Electronic surveillance replaced this in the second half of the 20th century and “bugs,” wire taps, and digital theft of documents became more popular.
Today, espionage is incredibly sophisticated. Chinese code hackers broke into Google servers at the end of last year. The ability of marketers to collect online data from people using the Internet has become highly sophisticated. Privacy today is often a matter of blocking systems that are complex enough to break though encryption walls. The wars between hacker and protector of digital data has become progressively more sophisticated. Obviously, the federal government has developed encryption to protect its information.
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