political-research is a forum for independent and skeptical minds to discuss cutting-edge strategic topics in American and world politics, with an emphasis on big picture dot-connecting and the analysis of high-quality information that is often suppressed by the mainstream media.

Some topics of interest:

9/11 research, Armaggedonist psychology, artificial intelligence, biometrics, Christian Zionism, cloud computing, content analysis, DARPA, data mining, Disclosure Project, doomsday scenarios, exopolitics, false flag ops, Forbes billionaires, genetic engineering, global power elite analysis, global superintelligence, global warming, Google, grid computing, international organized crime, Israel lobby, lifestream aggregators, messianic ethnic cultism, mind amplification tools, nanotechnology, neoconservatism, nuclear terrorism, ontology development, peak oil, profiling, reality mining, recommender systems, robotics, search engines, secret societies, Semantic Web, SETI, Singularity, social network analysis, supercomputing, text mining, transhumanism, ubiquitous computing, Web science, Web 3.0

Most of the raw news for this group is now flowing through Sean McBride's Shared Items on Google Reader:

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/01640039269683291604

and FriendFeed:

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