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Via:
Miami Herald: Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol
police after receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a
state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s handling of
accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient work release program,
the Miami Herald has learned. Book, a vocal advocate for child sexual
[…]
Someone
using the alias Rusty Shackleford is flying a camera drone over
Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James Island. Here are all of the
videos (expect these to be deleted at any moment because they are on
YouTube). You’ve probably seen the widely circulated video of the
strange temple structure: I went looking through the […]
Mmm
hmm. Via: Venture Beat: As 5G networks continue to expand in cities and
countries across the globe, key researchers have already started to lay
the foundation for 6G deployments roughly a decade from now. This time,
they say, the key selling point won’t be faster phones or wireless home
internet service, but rather a […]
Put
a few F-35s on it. She’ll be right. Via: Bloomberg: Only two of 11
elevators needed to lift munitions to the deck of the U.S. Navy’s new
$13 billion aircraft carrier have been installed, according to a Navy
veteran who serves on a key House committee. “I don’t see an end in
sight right […]
Jul 29
Via:
New Scientist: The source of a gigantic, mysterious leak of radioactive
material that swept across Europe in 2017 has been traced to a Russian
nuclear facility, which appears to have been preparing materials for
experiments in Italy. The leak released up to 100 times the amount of
radiation into the atmosphere that the Fukushima […]
You’ve
got unshakable, bipartisan control of a ship of fools. Enjoy the 2020
election circus! Via: Bloomberg: The Treasury Department is expected to
hold its quarterly note and bond sales at record levels for the third
straight time as Washington’s latest budget deal shows that the U.S.’s
debt binge will continue. President Donald Trump once […]
Rats.
Rats. Rats. In other news: Trump and Clinton Associate, Jeffrey
Epstein, Purchased Child Sex Slave, Bragged About It Back to our
regularly scheduled programming… Rats. Rats. Rats. Or was it, Storm Area
51? Jeffrey who? Via: Paul Watson:
Big
guns. Via: Tesla: Less than two years ago, Tesla built and installed
the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Hornsdale, South Australia,
using Tesla Powerpack batteries. Since then, the facility saved nearly
$40 million in its first year alone and helped to stabilize and balance
the region’s unreliable grid. Battery storage is transforming the global
[…]
Via:
CBS: Capital One said a hacker got access to the personal information
of over 100 million individuals applying for credit. The McLean,
Virginia-based bank said Monday it found out about the vulnerability in
its system July 19 and immediately sought help from law enforcement to
catch the perpetrator. The FBI has arrested the person, […]
Via:
Guardian: Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical
information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part
of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri
voice assistant, the Guardian has learned. Although Apple does not
explicitly disclose it in its consumer-facing privacy documentation, a
small proportion of Siri recordings are […]
Jul 28
Via:
AFP: Russian police arrested nearly 1,400 people as they gathered in
Moscow at the weekend to demand free and fair elections, a monitor said
Sunday, the biggest such crackdown in years. About 3,500 people took
part in the unauthorised protest on Saturday according to official
figures, after authorities blocked prominent opposition candidates from
taking […]
Jul 26
Via:
Japan Times: Eagle-eyed viewers have spotted a curious discrepancy in
the first trailer for “Top Gun: Maverick,” the sequel to the beloved
’80s classic “Top Gun,” which Paramount debuted Thursday — the patches
on the iconic leather jacket worn by star Tom Cruise no longer bear the
Taiwanese and Japanese flags. One possible reason […]
LET ME SHOW YOU ITS FEATURES! Via: JoergSprave: Related: FairTube
Jul 25
You couldn’t make it up. Via: Truthstream Media – YouTube:
Via:
DailyBeast: Days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest on sex-trafficking
charges in New York, Bill Clinton distanced himself from the high-flying
financier and convicted sex offender. The former president owned up to
just six encounters with Epstein, starting in 2002: four flights on the
billionaire’s private jet, a single trip to his Harlem office, and one
[…]
Jul 24
It’s
hard to know how much of the Iran situation is simply noise. The
problem is that we can go from noise to a genuine crisis in the blink of
an eye due to the tight geography of the Strait of Hormuz. How many
warships can be packed in there before confusion or a false […]
I’m
astonished that he’s still alive. Maybe he has something on a dead
man’s switch that his CIA/Mossad handlers are worried about??? For me,
the biggest mystery of the Epstein situation at this point is: Why is he
still alive? Via: New York Post: Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
was found in his cell on Tuesday […]
Ouch.
Shit. Not good. Via: Electrek: Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that JB
Straubel, Tesla co-founder and longtime Chief Technology Officer, is
leaving his executive role and moving to an advisory role. Musk made the
announcement during the conference call following Tesla’s release of
its Q2 2019 financial results. The CEO confirmed that Straubel is […]
Wow. That’s a good deal. Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 128 GB WiFi Tablet Black (2019)
Via:
AFP: China issued a stark reminder Wednesday that its army could be
deployed in Hong Kong if city authorities requested support in
maintaining “public order” after weeks of sometimes violent protests.
Hong Kong has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history after
millions of demonstrators took to the streets — and sporadic […]
Via:
Los Angeles Times: In the late 1990s, I represented workers at Area 51
who were suffering from health issues and trying to find out what toxic
substances they had been exposed to on the base. The case ultimately led
to the government acknowledging the existence of the site, where highly
classified research into next-generation […]
Via:
Chicago Tribune: Chicago police have for years compiled profiles on
every citizen who spoke at public meetings of the city’s police
disciplinary panel, a process that included running criminal background
checks and internet searches on activists, a police union official and
even relatives of an innocent woman killed in a high-profile police
shooting, the […]
Via: Ron Paul:
Via:
Los Angeles Times: In 2016, California implemented one of the strictest
immunization laws in the country, requiring that all children be up to
date on their vaccinations to attend school unless a doctor says
otherwise. The law, however, does not apply to children who are
home-schooled, a loophole that parents seem to be increasingly […]
Jul 23
There
isn’t much information yet. It’s playing out on Twitter:
@officialmcafee: (3/4) If John misses his next check-in, events will be
set into motion that I cannot prevent once they have begun. John has
secreted data with individuals across the world. I know neither their
identities or locations. They will release their payloads if John […]
Via:
Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday told the Pentagon to
find better ways to procure a rare earth magnet used in specialty
motors, warning that the nation’s defense would suffer without adequate
stockpiles. Attention is growing on rare earths, an obscure grouping of
17 minerals used to build weapons, consumer electronics and a […]
Jul 22
Via:
Bloomberg: The Pentagon has revealed a few details about a secret Army
mission that has Black Hawk helicopters flying missions over the
Washington, D.C., area backed by active-duty and reserve soldiers. The
mysterious classified operation was disclosed when the Army asked
Congress for approval to shift funds to provide an extra $1.55 million
for […]
Jul 21
Well,
the rats are running the city and the state, so… Via: KTLA: Los
Angeles’ rodent problem has gotten so far out of control that some
experts are asking the governor to declare an emergency. With an
increasing homeless population comes an influx of rats and mice,
particularly in downtown L.A. Rats are known to […]
Blowback:
America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War by
Christopher Simpson Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi
Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 by Linda Hunt Operation
Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists
to America by Annie Jacobsen Via: Daily Mail: Amid the jubilation half a
[…]
Via:
Reuters: Hong Kong police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in running
clashes with protesters late on Sunday amid chaotic scenes as anger over
an extradition bill morphs into a fresh front against what many see as a
broader erosion of freedoms by Beijing. Thousands of protesters
descended on China’s representative office in the […]
Via:
Forbes: Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers
have successfully targeted FSB—Russia’s Federal Security Service. The
hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor,
exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social
media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest […]
Hint:
Deutsche Bank was buying the worst of the toxic waste that Lehman was
generating before the last financial crisis. I wonder how much of that
stuff is still burning a hole in Deutsche Bank… Via: Economic Collapse
Blog: Could it be possible that we are on the verge of the next “Lehman
Brothers moment”? […]
Jul 20
Via:
CBS: About a third of New York City’s subway lines were suspended for
more than an hour during Friday’s hot evening commute, and the head of
the city’s Transit Authority acknowledged that the agency “did not know
exactly where our trains were.” A computer system failure that resulted
in the snafu stranded some passengers […]
—
“$21 Trillion Dollars Is Missing from the U.S. Government” Via: The
Drive: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is building a new, more capable
test reactor as it continues to move ahead with its ambitious Compact
Fusion Reactor program, or CFR. Despite slower than expected progress,
the company remains confident the project can produce practical results,
[…]
Jul 19
Via:
AFP: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday they had seized a
British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for breaking
“international maritime rules” as tensions mount in the highly sensitive
waterway. Britain however said Iran had seized two ships in the Gulf,
with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warning of “serious consequences” if
the issue was […]
Jul 18
Via: In It for the Money:
Jul 17
A
true AI success story! Via: PetaPixel: Amazon discounted a wide range
of camera gear for Prime Day this week, but some photographers scored
what may be the best deals of their lives. Thanks to a pricing error,
many people were able to purchase high-end camera gear bundles, some
worth over $5,000, for just around […]
Via:
Independent: US lawmakers have voted to demand the Pentagon discloses
whether it conducted experiments to “weaponise” disease-carrying ticks –
and whether any such insects were let loose outside the lab. A bill
passed in the House of Representatives requires the Defence Department’s
inspector general to investigate whether biological warfare tests
involving the tiny arachnids […]
Jul 16
Update:
Elon Musk Says Neuralink Microchip Allowed a Monkey to ‘Control’
Computer with Brain Via: Fox: Elon Musk showed off some of what his
neurotechnology company, Neuralink, has been developing Tuesday, and
casually mentioned that the technology had been used “to control a
computer with its brain.” “Just FYI,” he added. … Musk and other […]
Update:
Iran says it has seized foreign oil tanker and crew in the Persian Gulf
— Via: Guardian: Tracking data showing an oil tanker that was heading
towards Iranian waters and stopped transmitting its location on Saturday
night has raised concerns about the status of the vessel amid
heightened tensions between Iran and the US. […]
Via:
The Verge: The majority of goods sold on Amazon are not sold by Amazon
itself, but by more than 2 million merchants who use the company’s
platform as their storefront and infrastructure. Some of these sellers
make their own products, while others practice arbitrage, buying and
reselling wares from other retailers. Amazon has made […]
Via:
Reason: An Arizona cop acquitted of murder in 2017 for killing a man
crawling on his knees, begging for his life, in a hotel hallway, was
temporarily rehired by the city he worked for so that he could claim a
disability pension and file for a medical retirement that will pay him
more than […]
Via:
Reason: A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday for
planting drugs and falsely arresting at least 10 people, including one
case where Reason obtained body camera footage showing him lying about
the results of roadside field test. The Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) announced yesterday that, following a months-long
investigation, former Jackson […]
Jul 14
Via:
New York Magazine: Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to
prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm
Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the
local gossip about his neighbor. “I’m hearing about the parties, hearing
about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president […]
This
amounts to he-said-she-said, but I’ve assumed that Epstein was state
sponsored from the start. Via: Daily Beast: Epstein’s name, I was told,
had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the
former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a
non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for […]
Jul 13
I
like the picture at ZeroHedge of a morbidly obese person ordering slop
at the drive-thru. Wow. Via: ZeroHedge: License plate recognition could
be the new big thing at American drive-thrus, according to FT. Chains
are now looking to deploy cameras that recognize license plates and help
identify customers, personalizing digital menus and speeding up […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: Researchers in Norway have discovered radiation levels in
excess of 100,000 times normal next to a Soviet-era nuclear submarine
which sank in the Arctic 30 years ago – a reading which is higher than
those taken 12 years ago, according to Norwegian news outlet TV2. The
Kosomolets went down in the Barents Sea […]
Cryptogon
always supplies you with the most pleasant reading for the weekend.
Via: CommonDreams: Nothing significant has been done to improve safety
at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded
by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four
Fukushima reactors have already exploded. Had Friday’s 7.1 […]
CBS
New York Livestream — Update: ConEd Restoring Power, No Cause of Outage
Given — Via: CBSNY: A large power outage has struck Midtown, Times
Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan. CBS2 began
to hear reports that that all restaurants had gone dark in Hell’s
Kitchen around 7 p.m. Saturday evening. There […]
Via:
Guardian: Partial sight has been restored to six blind people via an
implant that transmits video images directly to the brain. Some vision
was made possible – with the participants’ eyes bypassed – by a video
camera attached to glasses which sent footage to electrodes implanted in
the visual cortex of the brain. University […]
Jul 12
If
the electricity from solar plus storage is, “Cheaper than any power
generated with fossil fuel,” why aren’t these systems shooting up like
weeds? The availability of batteries is the bottleneck. We’ve heard
about Tesla’s rumored 1GWh energy storage system and things like the
800MWh system below. This is a drop in the bucket, in […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: Jeffrey Epstein’s attorneys have informed Judge Richard M.
Berman that their client wants out of his 100 sqft holding cell at the
Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan he’s been in
since his arrest last Saturday at Teterboro airport. Instead, the
registered sex-offender and self-admitted pedophile would agree to house
arrest at […]
Via:
Independent: The body of an American scientist has been found in a
bunker used by the Nazis during the Second World War on the Greek island
of Crete. Suzanne Eaton died as a result of a “criminal act”, says
Antonis Papadomanolakis, a state coroner who examined her body. A
post-mortem concluded the molecular biologist […]
Jul 11
Via:
Nature: Machines have raised the stakes once again. A superhuman
poker-playing bot called Pluribus has beaten top human professionals at
six-player no-limit Texas hold’em poker, the most popular variant of the
game. It is the first time that an artificial-intelligence (AI) program
has beaten elite human players at a game with more than two […]
Jul 10
Definitely
see, Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars.
A friend of mine, who happens to be involved with AI research,
completely dismissed Musk’s claims that Tesla is anywhere near to having
a full self driving capability. And now… Via: ZeroHedge: Several key
members of Tesla’s Autopilot team have left the company together […]
“Is
there a ball somewhere? Throw the ball… kick the ball.” Via: Global
News: It seems like some parents have forgotten what parenting was like
before smartphones and tablets. According to a recent article in the New
York Times, some parents in the U.S. are hiring screen-free parenting
coaches to help them raise phone-free children. […]
Via:
Los Angeles Times: L.A. has struggled to stymie the growing number of
obstructions that residents and business owners are creating to target
homeless people. There are now about 59,000 people without homes in L.A.
County. Within the city of Los Angeles, the population soared 16% this
year to more than 36,000 — the majority […]
Fascinating.
Via: ZeroHedge: Today we learn that the vessel, the MSC Gayane, is
owned by JP Morgan, and has been seized by US authorities according to
the Wall Street Journal. The Gayane is the world’s second-largest
container ship – operated by Switzerland-based Mediterranean Shipping
Co, MSC.
Jul 09
Via:
Reuters: H. Ross Perot, the feisty Texas technology billionaire who
rattled U.S. politics with two independent presidential campaigns in the
1990s that struck a chord with disgruntled voters, died on Tuesday at
the age of 89, his family said.
Jul 08
Via:
Reason: Once again, responding to a horrendous crime by inflicting
knee-jerk, authoritarian restrictions on innocent people proves to be an
ineffective means of convincing people to obey. Specifically, New
Zealand’s government—which also stepped up censorship and domestic
surveillance after bloody attacks on two Christchurch mosques earlier
this year—is running into stiff resistance to new […
Via:
Bloomberg: Deutsche Bank AG unveiled a radical overhaul that will see
the lender exit its equities business, post a 2.8 billion-euro ($3.1
billion) second-quarter loss and cut the workforce by a fifth to reverse
a slide in profitability.
Jul 06
Via: ZDNet: A step by step guide to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) support in the Firefox browser.
Via:
LiveScience: Skywatcher and satellite tracker Ralf Vandebergh of the
Netherlands recently caught a rare glimpse of the U.S. Air Force’s
secretive X-37B space plane. Vandebergh said he’d been hunting for the
robotic spacecraft for months and finally managed to track it down in
May. But it took a bit longer to get photos of […]
Via:
Bloomberg: U.S. prosecutors have arrested fund manager Jeffrey Epstein
and charged him with sex trafficking of minors, according to a person
familiar with the matter. Epstein, who had been previously accused of
molesting young girls, is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court
on Monday, according to the person, who declined to comment publicly […]
Jul 04
The
first part. Any prosaic explanations for this? Do any of the many
physicists, engineers, video experts reading want to take a stab at
calculating the acceleration of this thing? The second part is probably
some de-orbiting satellite or space junk. Via: Thirdphaseofmoon:
This
story will disappear quickly. Via: AFP: Italian police have arrested 18
people including a mayor, doctors and social workers for allegedly
brainwashing vulnerable children into thinking their parents had abused
them so they could then be sold to foster parents. Police in the
northern city of Reggio Emilia made the arrests after an investigation
[…]
I’m
think I’ve posted this before, but just in case… Via: Reddit: More:
Inside the Pope’s Reptilian Audience Hall in Vatican City
Via:
TechSpot: With growing concerns over online privacy and securing
personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to
Google products.
Jul 03
Via:
Slashdot: At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee,
physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel
universe. She calls it an “oscillation” that would lead her to “mirror
matter,” but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of
experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this […]
I
wouldn’t believe that anything can actually be deleted from that thing.
Via: IAfrikan: Amazon has confirmed that it keeps transcripts of users’
Alexa voice recordings indefinitely on its servers. The company also
keeps Alexa voice recordings indefinitely. According to Amazon,
customers customers do have an option to delete both the transcripts and
voice recordings.
Jul 02
Via:
BBC: A fire aboard a Russian navy research submersible has killed 14
crew members, the Russian defence ministry says. The crew was poisoned
by fumes as the vessel was taking measurements in Russian territorial
waters on Monday. The ministry gave no details about the type of vessel.
But Russian media reports say it was […]
Via:
National Post: Some Alzheimer’s researchers are proposing the creation
of human-monkey chimeras — part-human beings with entire portions of the
brain entirely human derived.
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