"Unobtrusive. Pervasive. Lethal."

M.A.V. is short for Micro Air Vehicle, or the next generation of unmanned arial vehicles, also known as Drones, but small as birds and possible to use in new ways.

Unmanned aircraft have proved their prowess against al Qaeda. Now they’re poised to take off on the home front. Possible missions: patrolling borders, tracking perps, dusting crops. And maybe watching us all?

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/unmanned-flight/horgan-text

US Air Force Research Laboratory video animation of a flapping-wing micro air vehicle (MAV). AFRL's goal is to develop a bird-sized MAV by 2015 and an insect-sized MAV by 2030. The bird-sized MAV would be air-deployed from a larger UAV so search for weapons of mass destruction, operating semi-autonomously for up to a week.

http://youtu.be/_5YkQ9w3PJ4

Skiffergas ritar om världskartan - Shale gas exploration re-draws the world geopolitical map

US and European shale gas exploration will re-draw the worldwide energy distribution map and change the geopolitical financial and power balances.

The biggest winners are shale gas producers and perhaps the climate as well.

The next winners are energy hungry industries that will see a decline in cost.

The losers are regions that depend on oil exports, but the biggest loosers of them all will be the countries that have spent the last 50 years pumping oil but not invested their money into a reformed and stable society. The arabic spring revolutions and the collapse of Syria is just the beginning in the middle east region. 

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