Pentagon Wants Silicon Valley’s Help on A.I. - The New York Times
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The military and intelligence communities have long played a big role in the technology industry and had close ties with many of Silicon Valley’s early tech giants. David Packard, Hewlett-Packard’s co-founder, even served as the deputy secretary of defense under President Richard M. Nixon.
Obama, Cheney and Snowden’s revelations - World Socialist Web Site
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Obama, Cheney and Snowden’s revelations
19 June 2013
It was in November 1973 that President Richard M. Nixon, ensnared in the deepening Watergate scandal, uttered the phrase for which he will always be remembered: “I am not a crook.”
Nearly 40 years later, President Barack Obama used a Monday night television interview to give his own variation on the same theme, insisting to the American public that he is not Dick Cheney.
Jamesburg Earth Station Can Be Yours for $3 Million - NYTimes.com
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In its glory days, this sprawling bunkerlike redoubt on Comsat Road played an essential role in national life. Built in 1968 by the Communications Satellite Corporation, the Jamesburg Earth Station and nearly a dozen others like it helped bring the first televised images of Neil Armstrong on the moon and President Richard M. Nixon in Beijing into America’s living rooms.
He had planned to make the earth station his weekend home, and he tweaked the dish’s position from a right angle to a position parallel to the ground so that it looks like it is levitating by the structure.
He hoped to transform the operations center into a living room and master bedroom separated by a circular fire pit, and hired R. Wayne Johnson, a local architect and engineer, to reimagine the place as a home. [..] But Mr. Bullis abandoned his plans for the station and decided to sell when his youngest son, Adam, died of leukemia at age 23.
Paul Saffo, who forecasts technology trends in Silicon Valley, said that he hoped the buyer would appreciate the earth station’s history and that it would be perfect for an amateur astronomer. “It’s in the danger zone,” he said. “Someone is going to have to be really crazy and really rich to buy it.”
