Our enemies would be denied the geo-strategic leverage they currently enjoy, as indigenously produced energy sources derived from coal, biomass and garbage knock the pegs out from under the cartel's control of the commodity upon which our transportation sector heavily depends.
Some vans are run by militias largely composed of former police and firemen who control large swaths of the city's slums and run clandestine transportation and other services.
The spy program is a sophisticated rootkit designed to steal data from SCADA networks, the type of software that control energy utilities, transportation, and other vital systems.
As part of the White House's Operation Wreak Havoc response to the sequester spending cuts, the Department of Transportation warned last week that 149 control towers at small, regional airports will close down.
Robert Harrison, the deputy director of the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas, says intelligent systems that will help control congestion are already in place and will become much more prevalent as time passes.
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In our national ranking of 200 metropolitan regions for employer attractiveness, the four-county Syracuse region ranks in the bottom quintile. (See "map") Some of the factors indirectly affecting this ranking are beyond any city's control--such as climate and transportation grids--but one very big one is very much the province of politicians: taxes.
It has been weakened by increasing shipping and transportation costs, quality control issues and a surplus of available, skilled American workers.
Once they factor in rising shipping and transportation costs, the addition of increased quality control and the management of unreliable fulfillment dates, they may find that they're not actually saving any money.
"We're very discouraged and we still think that the Department of Transportation and FAA ought to scrub the budget harder to find savings that don't affect the control towers, " Dickerson said.
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