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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.
Jun 29
Safety?
I can’t find anything related to safety. Also, even if there were
claims about it being safe to consume, should we believe them? See:
Vaccines, aspartame, GM food, fluoride, etc. “The foodstuff was said to
mark a break with a thousand years of production…” Alright. How much
time and effort will be spent studying […]
Limited
Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying
Objects: At some level, there probably exists much more knowledge about
the nature of the objects in the videos than we are being told… I think
there’s at least better than even odds that an American is at the
controls (possibly by remote) of […]
Jun 28
Via:
Miami Herald: Thousands of assault-style weapons and explosives shipped
through the mail from South Florida to South America were seized this
week in a law enforcement crackdown on arms traffickers who rake in
millions on the black market while supplying criminal gangs, federal
authorities said Friday. A portion of the 5,300 firearms and components
[…]
pic.twitter.com/YMODD0Ffal
— John McAfee (@officialmcafee) June 28, 2019 Via: Cnet: As tech
companies double down on promises to better protect users’ privacy, the
US government may have other ideas. Senior Trump officials reportedly
met Wednesday to discuss asking Congress to pass legislation that would
stop tech companies from using encryption that law enforcement can’t
break, […]
Limited
Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying
Objects: While I’d like to know what they’re showing us, I am far more
interested in Why Now? and To What End? Via: MUFON Canada:
Jun 27
Via:
Science Daily: For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial
intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the
universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the
creators aren’t sure how it all works. The Deep Density Displacement
Model can accurately simulate how the cosmos would look if certain
parameters […]
It
could be handy for mounting on killer robots. Via: MIT Technology
Review: Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our
unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart.
Crucially, it can be done from a distance. It’s that last point that has
intrigued US Special Forces. … […]
Via:
Rob Donoghue: Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week.
The DRM'd books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. "The
books will stop working." I keep saying it and it sounds worse each
time. — Rob Donoghue (@rdonoghue) June 26, 2019
Via:
Natural News: The video platform Vimeo has banned Project Veritas and
Natural News on the same day, taking part in the criminal collusion
among tech giants who are systematically silencing independent
journalism that keeps exposing the criminality of the tech giants
themselves. Research Credit: Pookie
Via:
Bloomberg: Tests on Boeing Co.’s grounded 737 Max have revealed a new
safety risk unrelated to two fatal crashes that led to the grounding of
the aircraft, and U.S. regulators are ordering the company to make
additional design changes. The Federal Aviation Administration
discovered that data processing by a flight computer on the jetliner […]
Jun 26
Google
removed it from YouTube within hours. Then they got it removed from
Vimeo. BREAKING UPDATE: @Vimeo has BANNED our account days after
@YouTube PULLED our video. They keep citing "privacy violations." BEING
EMBARRASSED BY LEGITIMATE INVESTIGATE JOURNALISM is not a "privacy
violation." Video STILL ON BITCHUTE. DOWNLOAD + SHARE:
https://t.co/chDsGF0QCk pic.twitter.com/HSrcJjaZ4H — James O'Keefe
Via:
CBS: College debt was followed by chosen area of study (12%) as a top
regret for employees, though this varied greatly by major. Other regrets
include poor networking, school choice, too many degrees, time spent
completing education and academic underachievement. Most satisfied:
Those with science, technology, engineering and math majors, who are
typically more […]
Via:
MIT Technology Review: Every year, commercially available satellite
images are becoming sharper and taken more frequently. In 2008, there
were 150 Earth observation satellites in orbit; by now there are 768.
Satellite companies don’t offer 24-hour real-time surveillance, but if
the hype is to be believed, they’re getting close. Privacy advocates
warn that innovation […]
Via:
Reuters: General Electric Co said on Friday it plans to demolish a
large power plant it owns in California this year after only one-third
of its useful life because the plant is no longer economically viable in
a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive
electricity. Related: GE Bet on […]
Jun 25
Via:
Reuters: Apple Inc on Tuesday confirmed that it has acquired
self-driving shuttle firm Drive.ai. Technology news website The
Information reported earlier this month that the iPhone maker was
considering acquiring the firm as a move to bring aboard some of its
engineering talent to boost Apple’s own self-driving efforts.
Jun 24
Via:
Quartz: Thousands of years ago, glaciers covered much of the planet.
Oceans receded as water froze in massive sheets of ice blanketing the
North American continent. As the ice age ended, glaciers melted. Massive
river deltas flowed out across the continental shelf. The oceans rose,
and fresh water was trapped in sediments below the […]
Mmm
hmm. Via: AFP: Mexico has deployed nearly 15,000 soldiers and National
Guardsmen to its border with the United States, the army chief said
Monday — admitting they are detaining migrants who try to cross, after
the policy triggered backlash. Under pressure from US President Donald
Trump to slow the surge of Central Americans crossing […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: The lawsuit, filed by a plaintiff who goes by “Pilot X” in
court documents out of “fear of reprisal from Boeing and discrimination
from Boeing customers,” accuses the Chicago-based aviation giant of “an
unprecedented cover-up of the known design flaws of the MAX, which
predictably resulted in the crashes of two MAX aircraft […]
Via:
ZeroHedge: Today in “Amazon’s reasons to listen to everything that’s
going on inside your household” news, its being reported that products
like the Amazon Echo could one day be used to detect signs of cardiac
arrest, according to Bloomberg. The first signs of cardiac arrest are
usually irregular gasps of breath, and researchers at […]
Via:
MarketWatch: Hasbro announced Wednesday it will release a version of
the classic board game Monopoly designed for the digital age. But
financial experts argue the game’s new design could deprive children of
important financial lessons. In Hasbro’sclatest edition of Monopoly,
gone are the paper money and Community Chest cards. Instead, the board
game now […]
Update:
Google Removed the Video, Of Course Here’s a backup on Project Veritas.
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent "Trump
situation" in 2020 on Hidden Cam from Project Veritas on Vimeo. — Via:
Project Veritas:
Gallery
on Flickr Via: BBC: Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house
clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken
following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. They appear to have been taken by an
as yet unidentified construction worker who helped to clear up the
wreckage of the […]
Jun 23
Via:
ZeroHedge: A standoff between Republican and Democratic Oregon state
senators escalated on Friday after Governor Kate Brown (D) authorized
state police to track down Republican lawmakers who have stalled a vote
on carbon credit legislation by walking out and refusing to vote.
Via: The Corbett Report:
Jun 22
Via:
CBS: Nearly a decade after Bill Reynolds and Mark Sersansie first
learned about one of the most outrageous medical frauds in California
history, they met with some of the patients who say they are still
suffering from the devastating consequences of this scam. “After
surgery, it was nothing but pain-filled days,” said patient Derika […]
Via:
Capital Hill Seattle Blog: Quickly, an estimated 2,800 curies of
cesium-137 spread into the irradiator, the “chamber,” the loading dock
and a 100-feet radius around the loading dock, plus the first three
floors and one stair of the R&T building, resulting in “widespread
contamination.” The leak happened at 9.30 PM and was discovered during
[…]
Jun 21
Via:
The Intercept: For over 17 years, Moath al-Alwi has been held at
Guantánamo Bay without charge. A Yemeni citizen, al-Alwi is one of
Guantánamo’s “forever prisoners,” those whom the U.S. government has not
charged with a crime but is unwilling to release. On June 10, the
Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in […]
Jun 20
I’ll
Tweet, as they request, but I’ve been persona non grata at Google since
the mid 2000s. haha I don’t know what it’s going to take for people who
deal with controversial topics to understand that Google platforms are a
trap. They are out to screw you. Via: Thirdphaseofmoon:
Update:
Post Removed from Quora Thanks to Blacklisted News for Mirroring!
Mirror 2 Mirror 3 Mirror 4 Mirror 5 Via: Quora: So, these advanced
crafts do exist— there is no question about it.
Via:
MarketWatch: Gold prices shot to levels not seen since 2013 on
Thursday, as investors flocked to the metal after the U.S. Federal
Reserve left key interest rates unchanged but shifted away from its
“patient” stance on monetary policy. “Central banks everywhere are
preparing to cut rates and re-start [quantitative easing], opening up a
new […]
Via:
Reuters: Iran has shot down a U.S. drone which the elite Revolutionary
Guards said on Thursday was flying over southern Iran, raising fears
that a major military confrontation could erupt between Tehran and
Washington. Guards website Sepah News said the “spy” drone was brought
down over the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, which is […]
Jun 19
Via:
MarketWatch: U.S. farmers are millions of acres behind their usual pace
of corn planting this spring because of flooding, which may lead to a
supply shortage that lifts prices by year end past $5 a bushel to their
highest in more than five years. Corn planted in the 18 states that
account for the […]
Via:
Times: Amazon’s delivery drones could one day be fitted with an arsenal
of cameras and sensors to monitor customers’ homes in between
drop-offs. The retail giant has obtained a patent for a “surveillance as
a service” function for the drones, which could be fitted with
thermal-imaging cameras, surveying lasers and chemical sensors to detect
[…]
Via:
CNBC: A pharmacy warned the Food and Drug Administration that it found a
chemical believed to cause cancer in a widely used blood pressure
medication, according to a filing from the federal agency. Valisure, an
online pharmacy company licensed in 37 states, told the FDA last week
that high levels of dimethylformamide were found […]
Via:
Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department is looking to upgrade the
software it uses to analyze biometric data on hundreds of millions of
people around the globe, and it plans to store that information in
Amazon’s cloud. The agency’s Office of Biometric Identification
Management will replace its legacy biometric analysis platform, called
the Automated Biometric […]
Via:
Fox6: The Huntington Park Police Department is set to unveil “HP
RoboCop,” the latest tool in the force’s arsenal that will keep an
electronic eye on public areas, the city of Huntington Park announced in
a news release. The device is “an autonomous data machine that is meant
to serve outdoors,” that will use […]
Jun 18
Via:
CBS: Over $1 billion worth of cocaine was seized during a drug bust at
Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia on Tuesday, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office says. Federal sources confirmed to CBS3 that a bust
took place on a cargo ship that was docked at the port. … According to
the U.S. Attorney’s […]
This
is hilariously stupid. Via: ZeroHedge: It won’t, however, be a
cryptocurrency in the traditional sense. It won’t have a limited supply,
defined inflation rate or any commodity character whatsoever.
Proof-of-work? Phsaw! Every good Friedmanite knows that opportunity cost
in creating new monetary units is simply wasted capital! Only
mouth-breathing rubes stuck in the 19th […]
Jun 17
Via:
AFP: The researchers found two muscles around the eye were routinely
present and well formed in the domestic dogs, but not the wolves, and
only dogs produced high-intensity eyebrow movements as they gazed at the
human. “It makes the eye look larger, which is similar to human
infants,” Professor Anne Burrows of Duquesne University […]
Via:
Ars Technica: Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global
Positioning System technology has become widely adopted in the United
States and abroad. The concept of satellite-based navigation has become
so essential that other world powers, including China, Russia, the
European Union, India, and Japan, have all started building their own
regional or global systems. […]
Jun 16
I
began warning on Tom Delonge back in 2016. My current best guess
assessment of this To The Stars/CIA imbroglio is that it’s a high
profile limited hangout. See, Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy
Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects. Via: Dark Journalist:
In
other news: U.S. Ramps Up Online Attacks on Russian Power Grid, NYT
Says: The U.S. is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric
power grid in a warning to President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times
reported, citing current and former government officials. While the U.S.
has probed the Russian grid since at least […]
Via: Richard Dolan:
Jun 15
Via: Team BlackSheep:
Via:
Reuters: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday indefinitely delayed a
proposed law that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, in
a dramatic retreat after anger over the bill triggered the city’s
biggest and most violent street protests in decades. The extradition
bill, which would have covered Hong Kong’s seven million residents as
[…]
Jun 14
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 […]
Jun 13
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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