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Via:
KENS5: For those of you following along on the Congolese migrant influx
in San Antonio, this is what made air on Thursday. A lengthier write-up
including the struggles Catholic Charities is facing can be found here:
https://t.co/MRIGBQuntl@KENS5 #kens5eyewitness
pic.twitter.com/nJeC215LQv — Jaleesa Irizarry (@JaleesaReports) June 6,
2019 Roughly 350 migrants from the Congo are expected […]
Via:
The Rutherford Institute: The government now has at its disposal
technological arsenals so sophisticated and invasive as to render any
constitutional protections null and void. Spearheaded by the NSA, which
has shown itself to care little to nothing for constitutional limits or
privacy, the “security/industrial complex”—a marriage of government,
military and corporate interests aimed […]
I
doubt it, due to the hassles related to producing and storing hydrogen
and the near total lack of hydrogen refueling infrastructure. Toyota’s
deranged pursuit hydrogen, despite all the obstacles, has caused it to
look like a chicken running around with its head cut off as the industry
pivots to battery electric. Toyota has been […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: After freezing the bank accounts of 26 individuals and
entities amid a probe into human trafficking, Mexico has refused to name
the account owners – some of which appear to have originated in the US,
UK, African nations and Central America, according to Breitbart.
Via:
ZeroHedge: Gulf of Tonkin 2.0? Regardless of whether Iran is
responsible for damage to vessels in the Sea of Oman, Bloomberg’s Julian
Lee explains, it will still get the blame – and suffer the fallout.
Via:
Reuters: Attacks on two oil tankers on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman
left one ablaze and both adrift, shipping firms said, driving oil prices
up 4% over worries about Middle East supplies. The Front Altair was on
fire in waters between Gulf Arab states and Iran after an explosion that
a source blamed […]
Jun 10
Via:
BuzzFeed: A US Customs and Border Protection subcontractor suffered a
data breach that exposed the photos of tens of thousands of travelers
coming in and out of the United States, the agency revealed Monday, in
what it described as a “malicious cyber-attack.” The database of
identifying traveler photos and license plate images had been […]
Via:
Natural News: In response to a coordinated, heavily-funded smear
campaign against Natural News and myself, the Health Ranger, Facebook
has now permanently banned Natural News from posting content. The
channel name that has been banned is Facebook.com/healthranger, which
was our primary channel reaching over 2.5 million people. This is on top
of the permanent […]
The
largest regional daily newspaper in Southern California discusses the
“success” of “safe parking” and entire families living in vehicles. Via:
Los Angeles Times: Lot operators also would be required offer on-site
case management and other services. And all of it must be done for less
than $30 per car, per night — and ideally, […]
Via:
Bloomberg: United Technologies Corp. agreed to buy Raytheon Co. in an
all-stock deal, forming an aerospace and defense giant with $74 billion
in sales in one of the industry’s biggest transactions ever. The new
entity will be called Raytheon Technologies Corp. when the deal closes
in the first half of 2020, after United Technologies […]
With
socialism like this, who needs EMP weapons? Via: Reuters: At the
once-busy beach resort of Patanemo, tourism has evaporated over the last
two years as Venezuela’s economic crisis has deepened and deteriorating
cellphone service left visitors too afraid of robbery to brave the
isolated roads. Gone are the vendors who once walked the sands […]
Jun 09
Via:
Reuters: Hong Kong was plunged into a fresh political crisis on Sunday
night after more than half a million people took to the streets to
thwart a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent
to mainland China to face trial. Organizers said the turnout outstripped
a demonstration in 2003 when 500,000 […]
Also:
Commerce Department (Former NASA) Official Killed in Apparent
Murder-Suicide: An official for the U.S. Commerce Department died on
Friday in what a preliminary investigation said was a murder-suicide
involving her husband, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department reported
on Friday. According to police, officers conducted a welfare check at
the couple’s home in Northwest D.C. […]
Via:
Twitter: I've collected files on corruption in governments. For the
first time, I'm naming names and specifics. I'll begin with a corrupt
CIA agent and two Bahamian officials. Coming today. If I'm arrested or
disappear, 31+ terrabytes of incriminating data will be released to the
press. — John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 9, 2019
Mmm
hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Amazon’s patent application for an always-on
feature for Alexa, its popular voice-activated personal assistant, has
raised a lot of concern. “If you’re already freaked out by the privacy
implications of smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo,” says Gizmodo, “we
have some bad news.” A headline in ScienceAlert is even more direct:
“Newly […]
Document
link: Imgur If it was anyone else besides Richard Dolan, I wouldn’t
post this here without much more vetting. But it’s Richard Dolan. So, if
this turns out to be fake, let’s get it over with. Via: Richard Dolan:
Jun 08
Via:
Edinburgh Live: The two reactors at Hunterston B nuclear power plant
near Ardrossan are 43 years old – the oldest in Europe. They’re already
well beyond their operating lifetimes, which have twice been extended by
EDF Energy, and they’re scheduled to close down for good in 2023.
However, there’s a serious safety fault in […]
Jun 07
Via:
TechDirt: To go to school is to be surveilled, on campus and off. The
average school hosts a number of cameras, and the average school
administration is always looking for more ways to keep tabs on students,
even after they’ve gone home. The move towards pervasive surveillance
of off-campus activities is generally justified with […]
Via: Ben Garrison:
Via:
Smithsonian Magazine: Microplastics are everywhere in our environment:
oceans, soils, the air, the bodies of animals. It’s hardly surprising,
then, that the tiny fragments have also been found in humans. But a new
study is shining troubling light on the quantity of microplastics
Americans are consuming each year—as many as 121,000 particles, per a
[…]
“Please
note that the density of these satellites is significantly higher in
the days after launch (as seen here) and also that the satellites will
diminish in brightness as they reach their final orbital altitude.” I
would have added: Please note that this is from 25 of the first batch of
60 satellites of a […]
Via:
The Drive: More than two years after The War Zone was first to report
on a mysterious bullet-shaped aircraft appearing at the Southern
California Logistics Airport near Victorville, a refined version of the
plane has conducted taxi tests and looks to be getting close to its
first flight. Even though much about its design […]
Via:
Independent: Nasa will allow tourists to live inside the International
Space Station. The space agency plans to open the floating lab up to
private astronauts as well as commercial companies, it said. That could
include film crews, for instance, who could be allowed to make ads or
whole films in space. The first space […]
Jun 06
Via:
Electrek: Toyota and Subaru, which is partly owned by the latter, have
announced that they are partnering to develop a new electric platform in
order to launch a couple of all-electric SUVs under each brand. The two
Japanese automakers have been increasingly collaborating over the past
decade, including on some hybrid vehicle projects. Both […]
Via:
Electrek: General Electric’s profitability collapse over the past few
years can be largely attributed to the company’s inability to judge the
accelerating pace of the global energy transition away from fossil fuels
and toward renewables, a new study claims. The analysis comes from the
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), which
says […]
Via:
Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend billions of dollars building a
network of thousands of satellites to provide broadband internet
service, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos said. The Project Kuiper
initiative, disclosed earlier this year, is the type of big bet the
company needs to keep making as its massive scale renders smaller
endeavors […]
As
usual, never hold your breath waiting for disruptive battery technology
to transition from the lab to a product that you can buy. But this is a
weird one… Via: IEEE: Is there such a thing as a battery whose capacity
to store energy increases with age? One respected team of researchers
say they have […]
Via:
Stanford: In television and film, actors often flub small bits of
otherwise flawless performances. Other times they leave out a critical
word. For editors, the only solution so far is to accept the flaws or
fix them with expensive reshoots. Imagine, however, if that editor could
modify video using a text transcript. Much like […]
Via:
Bloomberg: “To make it economically feasible, the iceberg will have to
be big,” Sloane says. Ideally, it would measure about 1,000 meters
(3,281 feet) long, 500 meters wide, and 250 meters deep, and weigh 125
million tons. “That would supply about 20% of Cape Town’s water needs
for a year.” Sloane has already assembled […]
Via:
USA Today: Within a matter of months, your future Amazon orders could
be delivered by a self-driving drone. Officials with the online shopping
giant unveiled the latest Prime Air drone design Wednesday at Amazon’s
re:MARS Conference (Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space) in
Las Vegas. “We’ve been hard at work building fully electric drones […]
Via:
Washington Examiner: The federal agency tasked with overseeing security
at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing
migrants who have been released from federal custody onto flights
despite not having required documents, according to several Department
of Homeland Security officials. For the past six months, the
Transportation Security Administration has allowed […]
In
other news: Maybe Africa Really Will Be the New China. Via: Reuters:
The U.S. Department of Defense has held talks with Malawi’s Mkango
Resources Ltd and other rare earth miners across the globe about their
supplies of strategic minerals, part of a plan to find diversified
reserves outside of China, a department official said […]
Jun 05
Via:
Cnet: While residential neighborhoods aren’t usually lined with
security cameras, the smart doorbell’s popularity has essentially
created private surveillance networks powered by Amazon and promoted by
police departments. Police departments across the country, from major
cities like Houston to towns with fewer than 30,000 people, have offered
free or discounted Ring doorbells to citizens, […]
A
$20 million fine isn’t even a slap on the wrist for Carnival. On
revenue of $18.8 billion, I wonder, in which column on their spreadsheet
this will go? Chicken Feed? Pocket Lint? F-U-We’ll-Do-It-Again? Via:
NPR: The cruise line giant Carnival Corporation and its Princess
subsidiary have agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $20 […]
Via:
ABC: Australian Federal Police officers have left the ABC’s Sydney
headquarters more than eight hours after a raid began over a series of
2017 stories known as the Afghan Files. The stories, by ABC
investigative journalists Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, revealed allegations
of unlawful killings and misconduct by Australian special forces in
Afghanistan […]
Jun 04
I
hope Catherine Austin Fitts investigates California’s spending on the
homeless situation. Something is obviously very wrong. Who is winding up
with the billions of dollars? Via: KTLA: The number of homeless people
counted across Los Angeles County jumped 12% over the past year to
nearly 59,000, with more young and old residents and families […]
Just
a few days ago, someone was asking me how to sign into the AirBNB app
on her iPhone without using Google or Facebook credentials. I thought
that there would be an option to enter her email and password, but there
wasn’t. That app forces users to supply either Google or Facebook
credentials. I don’t […]
Jun 03
Via:
Reuters: Three decades after China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy
protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, increased
government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators’
original goals further away than ever. In April 1989, weeks before
Chinese leaders ordered a military assault to clear the protesters from
central Beijing, tens of thousands of […]
Via:
Quartz: Katharine Abraham, an economics professor at the University of
Maryland, was chatting with her hairdresser one night about retirement
plans. The economist said she plans to continue working because she
wants to and has no plans for retiring. The hairdresser agreed but for
different reasons: She needs the money. Both scenarios are contributing
[…]
Jun 02
Via:
OilPrice: US-led forces have blown up three oil tankers in Syria as the
United States increases its pressure on Syria by thwarting the oil
trade between the PKK/YPG and the Assad regime, according to local
sources quoted by several media sources. The strike was carried about by
coalition planes, which hit three oil tankers, […]
Via:
The Intercept: There is no discernible evidence that he ever worked for
a government UFO program, much less led one. Yes, AATIP existed, and it
“did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial
phenomena,” Pentagon spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told me. However,
he added: “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the
AATIP program […]
Jun 01
Via:
The Hill: The net worth of the average 18- to 35-year-old has plummeted
34 percent since 1996, according to new study from accounting group
Deloitte. Despite stereotypes that millennials overspend on
entertainment and dining out, the Deloitte study found that the
generation is paying more for education, food, transportation and other
basic needs, while […]
If
you don’t believe in the Devil, you might after watching this. Via:
Daily Mail: Televangelist Kenneth Copeland has appeared in a bizarre
interview where he defends using three private jets to travel the world
after previously claiming he didn’t want to fly commercial with
‘demons’. The 82-year-old’s chat with Inside Edition features him
angrily […]
May 31
Via:
AFP: The US Department of Justice is preparing an antitrust
investigation of Internet titan Google, the Wall Street Journal reported
on Friday. The Journal cited unnamed sources close to the matter as
saying the department would look into Google practices related to web
search and other businesses. Justice department officials share
antitrust oversight with […]
Via:
Guardian: Julian Assange is showing all the symptoms associated with
prolonged exposure to psychological torture and should not be extradited
to the US, according to a senior UN expert who visited him in prison.
Nils Melzer, UN’s special rapporteur on torture, is expected to make his
appeal to the UK government on Friday. It […]
Via:
Reuters: President Donald Trump, incensed by a surge of illegal
immigrants across the southern border, vowed on Thursday to impose a
tariff on all goods coming from Mexico, starting at 5% and ratcheting
higher until the flow of people ceases. … Higher tariffs will start at
5% on June 10 and increase monthly until […]
May 29
Via:
9to5Google: Back in January, Google announced a proposed change to
Chrome’s extensions system, called Manifest V3, that would stop current
ad blockers from working efficiently. In a response to the overwhelming
negative feedback, Google is standing firm on Chrome’s ad blocking
changes, sharing that current ad blocking capabilities will be
restricted to enterprise users.
It’s
as if California fought a war with some external enemy and lost.
Except, most Californians didn’t notice. And now… Via: AP: The
California Assembly voted Tuesday to extend the state’s Medicaid program
to eligible adults who are in the country illegally. Democratic Gov.
Gavin Newsom wants to spend about $98 million a year to […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: The bond market is telling us, that the markets… and the
economy… are both in very serious trouble. The difference between the
yield on the 3-month Treasury and the 10-year Treasury (called the yield
curve) is inverted. What this means is that yield on the 10-Year
Treasury is LOWER than the yield on […]
Via:
Bloomberg: Beijing is gearing up to use its dominance of rare earths to
hit back in its deepening trade war with Washington. A flurry of
Chinese media reports on Wednesday, including an editorial in the
flagship newspaper of the Communist Party, raised the prospect of
Beijing cutting exports of the commodities that are critical […]
May 28
Via:
Los Angeles Times: Researchers have found high levels of radiation in
giant clams near the Central Pacific site where the United States
entombed waste from nuclear testing almost four decades ago, raising
concerns the contamination is spreading from the dump site’s tainted
groundwater into the ocean and the food chain. The findings from the […]
May 27
Via:
NPR: American soil. Those are two words that are commonly used to stir
up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can’t be be taken for
granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held
by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades,
which is raising alarm […]
Well,
it’s not just me. Via: Forbes: SpaceX had kept the logistics of each
satellite under wraps prior to the launch, but following the launch it
was revealed that each satellite had a relatively large solar panel,
perfect for not only gathering but reflecting sunlight back to Earth.
This means anyone looking up at the […]
May 26
My
best guess is that this Pentagon/CIA/To the Stars operation is a
limited hangout, but to what end, I have no idea. A limited hangout is:
“Spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the
clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and
they can no longer rely on a phony […]
Via:
CleanTechnica: EVs are the future, and Tesla is the undisputed market
leader, especially in the US, but also globally. If you’re an automaker
on the wrong side of this trend, it must be terrifying!
May 25
My
children and I like to look at the stars on most clear nights. There is
no ambient light pollution where we are so the views are breathtaking.
I’ll have to tell them to try to remember the sky as it is now, because
it will soon be crisscrossed by thousands of satellites. Ironically,
we’ve […]
Via:
USA Today: Automation has made planes safer and more efficient, but the
crashes of two Boeing 737 Max jets is leading some to wonder if there
is a dangerous flip side. While advanced autopilots and computers are
now considered an integral part of any modern jetliner, many pilots
worry that the systems are detracting […]
“Individual
users won’t be identified in the research, according to the Navy.” Via:
Bloomberg: The U.S. military plans to analyze 350 billion social-media
posts from around the world to help it track how popular movements
evolve. A tender for the project, based at the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, California, calls for screening messages from […]
I
only included the first two responses with this screenshot. At the
link, you can keep scrolling down until your mouse wheel falls off if
you want to see more. Via: @USArmy:
Via: Lauren Southern:
May 24
Mmm
hmm. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national
emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from
Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of
weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The Trump
administration informed congressional committees that it will go ahead
[…]
Via:
Wired: A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America –
and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to
popularise 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralised.
There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The people
behind it reckon that this means they can’t be stopped by governments.
[…]
Via:
CBS: Merck made a “hit list” of doctors who criticized Vioxx, according
to testimony in a Vioxx class action case in Australia. The list,
emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors’ names with the
labels “neutralise,” “neutralised” or “discredit” next to them.
Via:
CNBC: American have an average of $6,506 in credit card debt, according
to a new Experian report out this week. But which expenses are adding
to that balance the most? A full 23% of Americans say that paying for
basic necessities such as rent, utilities and food contributes the most
to their credit card […]
Via:
Reuters: SpaceX, the private rocket company of high-tech entrepreneur
Elon Musk, launched the first batch of 60 small satellites into
low-Earth orbit on Thursday for Musk’s new Starlink internet service. A
Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellites blasted off from Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station at about 10:30 p.m. local time (0230 GMT Friday), […]
May 23
Wow!
Via: New Scientist: Please stand in front of Walklake for your
examination. This health checking robot takes just 3 seconds to diagnose
a variety of ailments in children, including conjunctivitis, and hand,
foot and mouth disease. Over 2000 preschools in China, with children
aged between 2 and 6, are using Walklake every morning to […]
Via:
Independent: Beginning in 1977, 4,000 US servicemen began collecting an
estimated 73,000 cubic meters of tainted surface soil across the
islands, according to the Marshall Islands’ government. The material was
then transported to Runit Island, where a 328-foot crater remained from
a May 1958 test explosion. For three years, the American military
dumped the […]
Via:
Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges
against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he
unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with
and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining
access to classified information. The superseding indictment comes a
little more than a month after the […]
This
strikes an interesting balance. It’s right on the line between cringe
inducing and hilarious. Via: Bloomberg: Amazon.com Inc. is developing a
voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions. The
wrist-worn gadget is described as a health and wellness product in
internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s a collaboration between
Lab126, the hardware development […]
Ford
conveniently doesn’t show you the robot retrieving the package from the
vehicle. As a former FedEx driver who worked with delivery trucks piled
top to bottom with packages for years, I chortle deeply and
satisfyingly at this one. Assume that the self driving issue is somehow
sorted out, which isn’t going to happen anytime […]
May 21
Must
see video. Via: NBC Los Angeles: Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage
left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to
clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year’s
record number of flea-borne typhus cases.
In
yesterday’s post, I mentioned how intercity freight is the low hanging
fruit of the self driving world. Here we go… Via: Reuters: The U.S.
Postal Service on Tuesday started a two-week test transporting mail
across three Southwestern states using self-driving trucks, a step
forward in the effort to commercialize autonomous vehicle technology for
hauling […]
May 20
A
friend of mine is an AI researcher. I know that “AI researcher” is a
nebulous term, but let it suffice to say that he is highly qualified in
this area. Back in April, I asked him what he thought about Tesla’s big
self driving dog and pony show. In short, I asked him: Is […]
May 19
Via:
Wired: Civil liberties activists trying to inspire alarm about the
authoritarian potential of facial recognition technology often point to
China, where some police departments use systems that can spot suspects
who show their faces in public. A report from Georgetown researchers on
Thursday suggests Americans should also focus their concern closer to
home. The […]
May 17
Flashback
2012: CHAMP – Lights Out Via: Daily Mail: The U.S. Air Force has
deployed at least 20 missiles that could zap the military electronics of
North Korea or Iran with high-power microwaves, rendering their
military capabilities virtually useless without causing any fatalities,
DailyMail.com has learned
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