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Californians Tainted by ‘Roundup’ Herbicide Chemical
In other news, Pesticide-Covered Food May Be Linked to Infertility. Via: Health Day: Levels of the herbicide Roundup in human urine have increased dramatically among California residents in the past two decades, a new study reports. Roundup (glyphosate) is used to protect genetically modified corn and soy crops from weeds and also is used on […]
Nothing to Hide
Via: Vimeo: NOTHING TO HIDE (Oct. 2016) is an independent documentary dealing with surveillance and its acceptance by the general public through the “I have nothing to hide” argument.
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X: Owen’s First PC Build
This is totally off topic, but I felt like sharing the build in case it helps someone out. — My oldest son, Owen, is turning ten in November and I planned a new computer build for the occasion. He has been using my ancient, 2008-era Dell Vostro 410 and it’s not up to the job […]

Oct 31

Eight Dead in Truck Attack on Manhattan Bike Path; Suspect Arrested
Update: Feds Interviewed Accused NYC Truck Attacker in 2015 About Possible Terror Ties You might have noticed that I included this post in COINTELPRO from the start. Via: ABC: Sayfullo Saipov, who has been charged with killing eight people in a vehicle attack on the West Side of Manhattan on Tuesday, was interviewed in 2015 […]
Cobalt, Ontario
Via: Bloomberg: Ironically, Cobalt, Ontario—population 1,100—was built on silver. Remnants of a boom that transformed the town more than a century ago are everywhere. A mine headframe still protrudes from the roof of the bookstore, which was previously a grocery. The butcher used to toss unwanted bones down an abandoned 350-foot shaft in the middle […]

Oct 30

Robots to Work in 50 Wal-Marts
Via: Arkansas Online: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. customers in a few Arkansas stores will soon cross paths with robots roaming the aisles. The Bentonville company said it will begin using autonomous devices in about 50 stores next month that are programmed to scan store shelves and identify things like out-of-stock items or products incorrectly priced or […]

Oct 29

DOJ: Billionaire Pharma Owner Fueled the Opioid Epidemic with Bribery Scheme
Via: Ars Technica: The billionaire founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics was arrested Thursday on racketeering and fraud charges for an alleged nationwide scheme to push an extremely potent opioid drug containing fentanyl onto patients. According to the Department of Justice, John Kapoor, 74, of Phoenix, Arizona, used bribes, kickbacks, and other fraudulent practices […]

Oct 28

Unistellar eVscope
I’ve been following their progress for several months leading up to this Kickstarter campaign. If you’re any sort of astronomy nerd, you’ll want to check this out. I think it would be so much fun for me and my kids to get a tasking request from SETI Institute and go out to set up the […]

Oct 27

Madrid Seizes Control Of Catalonia After Independence Declaration
Via: AFP: Spain was plunged into crisis Friday as Madrid seized power from independence-seeking Catalonia, the first curtailment of regional autonomy since the brutal dictatorship of Francisco Franco. After regional lawmakers voted to declare a Catalan “republic”, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy moved swiftly to dissolve the rebel government and parliament, and called December 21 […]
DoD Plans Solar-Storm-Based National Blackout Drill During Antifa Protests In November
Via: ZeroHedge: According to The National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will simulate a “communications interoperability” training exercise across the United States on November 04-06. The announcement released on October 24 has not been widely distributed to the media, because the drill is simulating a total grid […]
Alphabet’s Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit
Via: Bloomberg: The self-driving cars Google designed are going to the snow — and the seat of the car industry. Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, the vehicle arm of Google’s parent, announced on Thursday that it will start testing its autonomous Chrysler minivans on roads in the greater Detroit area. Michigan will be the sixth state where […]
Trump Releases Some JFK Files, Blocks Others Under Pressure
It’s all just a scam to reinforce the official narrative. If there ever was anything incriminating on paper, it would have been disappeared decades ago. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the […]

Oct 25

U.S. Widens Surveillance to Include ‘Homegrown Violent Extremists’
Mmm hmm. Via: Reuters: The U.S. government has broadened an interpretation of which citizens can be subject to physical or digital surveillance to include “homegrown violent extremists,” according to official documents seen by Reuters. The change last year to a Department of Defense manual on procedures governing its intelligence activities was made possible by a […]
Former FDA Commissioner Charged in RICO Lawsuit
Via: AHRP: A Federal Lawsuit charges Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with conspiracy, racketeering & colluding to conceal deadly drug dangers – under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law (RICO) law. The amended RICO lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2016 in the U.S. District Court […]

Oct 23

Tech Firms Seek Washington’s Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances
Via: Bloomberg: In doing so, companies such as Facebook Inc. are competing with defense contractors, financial firms and the U.S. government itself. Security clearances are a rare and valued commodity, whether at a bank trying to prevent hackers from stealing credit-card data and emptying accounts or at a manufacturer building parts for a stealth fighter […]
‘Why ProtonMail Is More Secure Than Gmail’
Disclosure: I have no relationship with ProtonMail, besides being a user of the service. — While I wouldn’t assume that ProtonMail is as secure as they claim it to be, what is very clear is that far less of your personal information is going to leak from ProtonMail than it would from Gmail, which essentially […]
China Is Creating a Database of Its Citizens’ Voices to Boost its Surveillance Capability
In other news, Google Home Capable of Voice Printing Multiple Users. Via: Time: The Chinese government has collected tens of thousands of “voice pattern” samples from targeted citizens and is inputting them into a national voice biometric database, according to a Human Rights Watch report published Monday. The idea is that an automated system, thought […]
China Speeds Ahead of U.S. as Quantum Computing Race Escalates
Via: McClatchy: U.S. and other Western scientists voice awe, and even alarm, at China’s quickening advances and spending on quantum communications and computing, revolutionary technologies that could give a huge military and commercial advantage to the nation that conquers them. The concerns echo — although to a lesser degree — the shock in the West […]
Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between
Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. retirement age is rising, as the government pushes it higher and workers stay in careers longer. But lifespans aren’t necessarily extending to offer equal time on the beach. Data released last week suggest Americans’ health is declining and millions of middle-age workers face the prospect of shorter, and less active, retirements […]
U.S. Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert
Via: Defense One: The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991. That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends of this base’s 11,000-foot runway — dubbed the “Christmas tree” for their angular markings — could once […]

Oct 22

Boom Has 76 Pre Orders for Future Supersonic Passenger Jets
Via: TechCrunch: Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it’s creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft. The new design was revealed Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, along with new business milestones: Boom has orders for 76 […]
Insect Ecosystem Collapse
Via: Guardian: They are multitudinous almost beyond our imagining. They thrive in soil, water, and air; they have triumphed for hundreds of millions of years in every continent bar Antarctica, in every habitat but the ocean. And it is their success – staggering, unparalleled and seemingly endless – which makes all the more alarming the […]

Oct 21

Trump Says He’ll Allow Release of Kennedy Assassination Files
My guess is that anything released will support the official narrative, but… Maybe not. Via: AFP: US President Donald Trump said Saturday he will allow long blocked secret files on the assassination of John F Kennedy to be opened to the public for the first time. The November 22, 1963 assassination — an epochal event […]
Air Force Recalling Retired Pilots
Via: USA Today: President Trump signed an executive order Friday allowing the Air Force to recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to active duty to address a shortage in combat fliers, the White House and Pentagon announced. By law, only 25 retired officers can be brought back to serve in any one branch. Trump’s […]
Global Pollution Is the World’s Biggest Killer and a Threat to Survival of Mankind, Study Finds
Via: USA Today: Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world, accounting for three times more deaths in 2015 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, according to a sweeping global study published Friday in The Lancet medical journal. The report by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health blames […]

Oct 19

Catalonia Crisis: Spain Moves to Suspend Autonomy
Via: BBC: Spain is to start suspending Catalonia’s autonomy from Saturday, as the region’s leader threatens to declare independence. The government said ministers would meet to activate Article 155 of the constitution, allowing it to take over running of the region. Catalonia’s leader said the region’s parliament would vote on independence if Spain continued “repression”. […]

Oct 18

Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due to Contaminated Cells
Via: Science Alert: Researchers warn that large parts of biomedical science could be invalid due to a cascading history of flawed data in a systemic failure going back decades. A new investigation reveals more than 30,000 published scientific studies could be compromised by their use of misidentified cell lines, owing to so-called immortal cells contaminating […]
UK Spies Using Social Media Data for Mass Surveillance
Via: TechCrunch: Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting social media information on potentially millions of people. It has also obtained letters it says show the intelligence agencies’ oversight body had not been informed that UK intelligence agencies had shared bulk databases […]
Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded
There are some similarities here to the well known accounts of trauma based mind control. Via: New York Times: Last March, five women gathered in a home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created to empower women. To gain admission, they were required to give their recruiter — or “master,” […]
LAPD Becomes Nation’s Largest Police Department to Test Drones
Via: Los Angeles Times: After months of often-heated debate, a civilian oversight panel Tuesday signed off on a yearlong test of drones by the Los Angeles Police Department, which will become the largest police department in the nation to deploy the controversial technology. The Police Commission’s 3-1 vote prompted jeers, cursing and a small protest […]

Oct 17

Leaked ICE Guide Offers Unprecedented View of Agency’s Asset Forfeiture Tactics
Via: The Intercept: AN INTERNAL HANDBOOK obtained by The Intercept provides a rare view into the extensive asset seizure operations of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, an office that trains its agents to meticulously appraise the value of property before taking it. HSI’s 71-page “Asset Forfeiture Handbook,” dated June 30, 2010, underscores the role seizures play […]
FBI Uncovered Russian Bribery Plot Before Obama Administration Approved Controversial Nuclear Deal with Moscow
Update: Senate Judiciary Opens Probe Into Obama-Era Russian Nuclear Bribery Case — Via: The Hill: Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering […]

Oct 16

Where in the World is Jesus Campos?
Private security is in front of his house. A reporter named Laura Loomer managed to get what amounted to a “no comment” from someone inside the Campos home. Leave comments on: Las Vegas: Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History Via: Los Angeles Times: The story seemed straightforward: The unarmed security guard approached Stephen Paddock’s room […]
Malta Car Bomb Kills Panama Papers Journalist
Via: Guardian: The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home. Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car, a Peugeot 108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the vehicle into several pieces and threw the […]
WPA2 Cracked
Via: KRACK Attacks: We discovered serious weaknesses in WPA2, a protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. An attacker within range of a victim can exploit these weaknesses using key reinstallation attacks (KRACKs). Concretely, attackers can use this novel attack technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely encrypted. This can […]
To The Stars Academy Financials
While I just scoffed at the offering and moved on, these guys looked into it a bit further. Via: UFO Seekers: Related: Tom Delonge Asking for People to Invest in His UFO PSYOP

Oct 12

The USA Liberty Act
A double round o’ Freedom Fries for everyone! Via: Register: The US Senate Judiciary Committee has unveiled its answer to a controversial spying program run by the NSA and used by the FBI to fish for crime leads. Unsurprisingly, the proposed legislation [PDF] reauthorizes Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – which […]
LG to Open Europe’s Biggest Car Battery Factory; Output 100,000 EV Packs Per Year
Via: Reuters: South Korea’s LG Chem will open Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery factory in Poland next year as the region’s auto industry gears up to mass produce electric cars. … LG Chem plans to spend 5.9 billion zlotys ($1.63 billion) on the factory near the southwestern city of Wroclaw, according to Polish state industry agency […]
Scientists Can Read a Bird’s Brain and Predict Its Next Song
Via: MIT Technology Review: “We decode realistic synthetic birdsong directly from neural activity,” the scientists announced in a new report published on the website bioRxiv. The team, which includes Argentinian birdsong expert Ezequiel Arneodo, calls the system the first prototype of “a decoder of complex, natural communication signals from neural activity.” A similar approach could […]
Self-Flying Planes May Arrive Sooner Than You Think
Via: NBC: “What the industry is telling me is that they would like to remove one of the pilots fairly soon, and re-design the cockpit around a single pilot,” says Stephen Rice, a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. That would involve at least a modest cockpit redesign, so that a single […]
Will Automation Put an End to the American Trucker?
Via: Guardian: Finn Murphy, author of The Long Haul, the story of his life as a long-distance truck driver, says the days of the truck driver as we know him are coming to an end. Trucking is a $700bn industry, in which a third of costs go to compensating drivers, and, he says, if the […]

Oct 11

Tom Delonge Asking for People to Invest in His UFO PSYOP
The U.S. Government has funneled trillions of dollars into black world research and projects over decades, but Tom Delonge and his CIA friends are now asking for money to, “Bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity.” Your what […]
Google’s Home Mini Needed a Software Patch to Stop Some of Them from Recording Everything
Mmm hmm. Via: The Verge: Categorize this under “one of the worst possible PR nightmares for a Google smart speaker.” According to Artem Russakovskii at Android Police, the Google Home Mini he was reviewing was randomly and near-constantly recording sounds in his home and transmitting them to Google. The company acknowledged the problem and is […]

Oct 10

Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot Legalization
Via: U.S. News and World Report: An embattled pharmaceutical company that sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl has donated $500,000 toward defeating a ballot initiative that would make recreational use of marijuana legal under Arizona law. It’s hard to imagine a more sinister donor than Insys Therapeutics Inc. in the eyes of pot legalization proponents, who […]
GM to Buy Sensor-Tech Firm Strobe to Speed Up Self-Driving Car Push
Via: Reuters: No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Monday it would buy Strobe Inc, which uses LIDAR technology to help self-driving cars identify objects at a distance, to speed up development of autonomous vehicles and slash sensor costs. LIDAR is one of the major sensor technologies used in autonomous, or self-driving […]

Oct 09

Forensic Acoustic Proof of SECOND Shooter in the Las Vegas Massacre
Main post: Las Vegas: Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History Via: Mike Adams/ Health Ranger: In essence, because of the differences in the speed of sound vs. the speed of the bullets from a known cartridge (.223 Remington, in this case), the time lag between the last bullet hitting the pavement and the last audible […]

Oct 08

Robotic Farm Completes 1st Fully Autonomous Harvest
Via: LiveScience: It’s harvest season in many parts of the world, but on one farm in the United Kingdom, robots — not humans — are doing all the heavy lifting. At Hands Free Hectare, an experimental farm run by researchers from Harper Adams University, in the village of Edgmond in the U.K., about 5 tons […]
Ted Heath Would Have Been Questioned Over Abuse Claims, Police Say
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. Via: Guardian: A police report has said there was reason to suspect that Sir Edward Heath, Britain’s seventh postwar prime minister, carried out a string of sex attacks over a span of decades. The report concludes that the allegations, including the rape of a male child sex worker aged 11 and sexual […]

Oct 06

Our Minds Can Be Hijacked: The Tech Insiders Who Fear a Smartphone Dystopia
Via: Guardian: There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention”, severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and possibly lowering IQ. One recent study showed that the mere presence of smartphones damages cognitive capacity – even when the device is turned off. “Everyone is distracted,” Rosenstein […]
In Meeting with Military, Trump Talks of ‘Calm Before the Storm’
Oh that’s just great. Via: Reuters: After discussing Iran and North Korea with U.S. military leaders on Thursday, President Donald Trump posed for a photo with them before dinner and declared the moment “the calm before the storm.” “You guys know what this represents?” Trump said after journalists gathered in the White House state dining […]

Oct 05

U.S. Department Of Defense Contractor Shares Name With Company That Bought Paddock’S Plane In 2013
Update: Volant, LLC, Volant Associates, LLC, Volant Associates? Look at the domain contact. Hmm. If they’re different organizations, this is a spectacular coincidence. Whois volant-associates.com: — Well, well, well. FlightAware: Are Volant LLC and Volant Associates, both in the CIA’s backyard, completely different organizations, as some are sure to say? Maybe. But I think they’re […]
Fukushima Operator Can Restart Reactors at World’s Biggest Nuclear Power Plant
Via: Guardian: The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been given initial approval to restart reactors at another atomic facility, marking the first step towards the firm’s return to nuclear power generation more than six years after the March 2011 triple meltdown. Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved an application from […]

Oct 04

Solar Power Grew Faster Than Any Other Source of Fuel for the First Time in 2016
Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Bloomberg: Solar power grew faster than any other source of fuel for the first time in 2016, the International Energy Agency said in a report suggesting the technology will dominate renewables in the years ahead. The institution established after the first major oil crisis […]
‘Australia Presses for More Facial Recognition in Terror Fight’
Via: New York Times: The Australian government wants to strengthen its counterterrorism efforts by making use of a fundamental part of all Australian citizens: their faces. On Thursday, at a national security meeting in Canberra, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to pressure states and territories to hand over the driver’s license photos of every […]
Zucktown, USA
Via: The Baffler: Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age.

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