5 Sept - Cryptogon

The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon

September 5th, 2019 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Via: Bloomberg: The moon is all the rage these days. China wants to send people there. So too does the United States and NASA. In fact, just about every country with a space program has some sort of lunar ambition that they hope will play […]

Island of 50,000 People in the Bahamas Is 70% Under Water

September 5th, 2019 Via: Bloomberg: An island in the Bahamas that’s home to 50,000 people is 70% under water after Hurricane Dorian battered it with record force for two days, according to the government. There are “still many outstanding rescue missions,” on the island of Grand Bahama, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Kevin Peter Turnquest said, in […]

NASA Satellite Spots Mysterious Green Light That Quickly Disappeared

September 5th, 2019 Via: Cnet: NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray observatory has spotted something a little weird. While imaging the Fireworks galaxy, NuSTAR spotted several mysterious bright sources of X-ray light, appearing as green and blue spots. Within days, the blobs had disappeared.

Strange Things Are Happening on Epstein Island: Drone Footage

September 5th, 2019 Via: Vigilant Citizen: Considering the fact that Little Saint James was the site of heinous crimes involving powerful people, one would expect the island to be treated like a crime scene that is completely closed off to non-investigators. That is not what is happening.

“Fussy Eater” Goes Blind and Deaf After Years of Eating Only Junk Food

September 4th, 2019 Via: Ars Technica: A British teenager has permanent vision loss, hearing loss, and weak bones after years of eating only select types of junk food. The teen’s doctors eventually diagnosed him with a relatively newly defined eating disorder called avoidant-restrictive food in-take disorder (ARFID). … The crack in the case came when he finally confessed […]

Biden’s Left Eye Fills with Blood During CNN Town Hall

September 4th, 2019 See: Subconjunctival Hemorrhage Via: CNN Mirrored by Washington Free Beacon:

Grand Bahama and Abaco Islands After Hurricane Dorian: ‘Total Devastation. Apocalyptic.’

September 4th, 2019 Via: USA Today: The death toll from Hurricane Dorian reached seven and was expected to climb in the Bahamas on Wednesday as rescue teams raced the clock to provide food, water, medicine and shelter to thousands left homeless by the devastating storm. The sun shone brightly over the beleaguered archipelago, revealing the overwhelming destruction across […]

Amazon Tests Whole Foods Payment System that Uses Hands as ID

September 4th, 2019 Via: New York Post: Forget the titanium Apple Card — Amazon’s latest payment method uses flesh and blood. The e-tailing giant’s engineers are quietly testing scanners that can identify an individual human hand as a way to ring up a store purchase, with the goal of rolling them out at its Whole Foods supermarket chain […]

America Needs a “Dead Hand”

September 4th, 2019 Related: “There’s no way a human can keep up, so you’ve got to delegate to machines.” Via: War on the Rocks: America’s nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) system comprises many component systems that were designed and fielded during the Cold War — a period when nuclear missiles were set to launch from deep within […]

Fire Did Not Cause 3rd Tower’s Collapse on 9/11, New Study Finds

September 3rd, 2019 Via: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction. Despite calls for the evidence to be preserved, New York City officials had […]

DARPA to Fight Fake News

September 3rd, 2019 From my ancient post on the American Culture Bomb: In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a […]

Welcome to a New Era of Machine-Driven Warfare

September 3rd, 2019 Via: The Atlantic: “There’s no way a human can keep up, so you’ve got to delegate to machines.”

Scammer Successfully Deepfaked CEO’s Voice To Fool Underling Into Transferring $243,000

September 3rd, 2019 I don’t entirely believe this one, but it’s interesting if true. When I’ve been in a position to spend tens of thousands of dollars of a company’s money, it never happened based on just a phone call with the CEO. But, hey, these kids today… Via: Gizmodo: The CEO of an energy firm based in […]

Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can’t Block

September 3rd, 2019 Via: Fortune: How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn’t use the internet. That’s exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are doing now, thanks to San Fransisco startup Bridgefy’s Bluetooth-based messaging app. The protesters can communicate with each other — and the public — using […]

“Turn Off The Noise” – Towers of Temple City

September 3rd, 2019 Via: Towers of Temple City:

Ford Is Bringing All-Electric F150 Pickup to Market ‘Before 2022’

September 3rd, 2019 The Oh Shit! moment seems to have finally arrived at Ford. I wonder from where they’re planning to get the batteries? Via: Electrek: Ford has already confirmed that it is finally making an all-electric version of its best-selling F150 pickup truck, but it wasn’t clear when it would be available until now. The automaker says […]

Epstein Associate, Jean-Luc Brunel, Disappears

September 2nd, 2019 Via: Daily Mail: A millionaire model agency boss who is thought to have key information about the Jeffrey Epstein scandal ‘has disappeared like a ghost without a trace’. Jean-Luc Brunel, 72, has vanished as police seek to ask the Frenchman ‘urgent’ questions about the paedophile. Investigators are making enquiries in Brazil, the US and Europe […]

Proposal to Use Tech Company Surveillance Platforms to Predict Mass Shooters

September 2nd, 2019 Via: Vanity Fair: Donald Trump is finally considering taking action to prevent mass shootings—not by enacting gun-control measures, but with a creepy proposal to somehow identify the “neurobehavioral signs” of “someone headed toward a violent explosive act.” According to the Washington Post, which first reported on the secret project under White House consideration Thursday, the […]

Chinese Government to Hong Kong Protestors: “The End Is Coming”

September 2nd, 2019 Via: CBS: On Monday an editorial in Chinese state media warned “the end is coming for those attempting to disrupt Hong Kong.” It didn’t give detail on any specific upcoming action, but it could be referring to a potential crackdown by Chinese troops, who have massed both inside Hong Kong territory, and just across the […]

America’s Wealth Hinges on Its Ability to Borrow Big – or Else

September 1st, 2019 Ponzi schemes. Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. economy is consistently ranked among the world’s strongest. But cut off its addiction to debt and exhaust its gold and currency reserves, and a very different picture would emerge. The nation’s health as measured by gross domestic product per capita would plunge into negative territory without its dependence on […]