20 December - Cryptogon

Boeing’s Starliner Enters Wrong Orbit, Won’t Dock with ISS

Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices

Google Goes Offline After Fibre Cables Cut

BBC:

Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey on Thursday.
The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly unusual thing to happen.

Pig Ebola: Chinese Banks Offer Pork to Reward Customers for Opening New Accounts

Warrant Not Always Needed for ‘Inadvertent’ NSA Surveillance of Americans

Vampire Squid May Admit Guilt, Pay $2 Billion Fine in Corruption Scandal

  Reuters: Goldman Sachs Group Inc is in talks with the U.S. government and a state regulator to possibly pay up to $2 billion and admit guilt to resolve investigations into its role in the 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal

3 Victims & 3 Shooters Dead After “Terrorist” Attack On FSB HQ In Moscow

Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas an Hour

Fox 5 NY:

A robot will be serving food to thousands of guests at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Seattle-based Picnic says its automated food assembly system will produce up to 300 12-inch customized pizzas an hour on the CES show floor.

Open Thread: Donald Trump Impeached on Two Charges

  setting up a formal trial next year in the Senate.
This is noise, which I’ve mostly ignored. The people involved with this, on all sides, are so corrupt that I physically can’t stand trying to pretend to be interested one way or the other. As the public facing bipartisan goon squad tries to out ratfuck each other, the Military Industrial Complex quietly swallows another another trillion dollars.

Surveillance Footage Outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell During Suicide Attempt Is Missing

Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century

December 17th, 2019 Via: Ron Paul:
“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.
Falsely selling the Afghanistan war as a great success was a bipartisan activity on Capitol Hill. In the dozens of hearings I attended in the House International Relations Committee, I do not recall a single “expert” witness called who told us the truth. Instead, both Republican and Democrat-controlled Congresses called a steady stream of neocon war cheerleaders to lie to us about how wonderfully the war was going.

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly

December 16th, 2019 For some of the black world context, definitely see: Lockheed Martin SR-72.
Via: NASA:
NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major project review by senior managers held Thursday at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The management review, known as Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D), was the last programmatic hurdle for the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft to clear before officials meet again in late 2020 to approve the airplane’s first flight in 2021.

New Zealand: Meridian, Contact Accused of $60m Power Market Abuse

December 16th, 2019 Imagine my shock.
Via: New Zealand Herald:
Contact Energy and Meridian Energy have been accused of extracting more than $60 million from consumers by over-charging for their electricity while spilling water from their South Island dams.

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators 

Army’s Secret Flights Over Washington DC Now an ‘Enduring’ Mission

December 13th, 2019 Flying ten UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, mostly at night???
Via: Bloomberg:

How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online

December 13th, 2019 Via: Wall Street Journal:
 the steps some executives and public figures are taking to influence what comes up on the world’s top search engine. It also illustrates that despite Google’s promises to police misinformation, sites can still masquerade as news outlets and avoid Google’s detection.

Queensland School Runs Out of Water as Commercial Bottlers Harvest Local Supplies

December 13th, 2019 Via: Guardian:
The Tamborine Mountain state school has run out of water, even as water miners in the Gold Coast hinterland are sending millions of litres to commercial bottling operations.
Trucks sent by the Queensland government carrying emergency supplies to the school, including Mount Tamborine bottled water, have been passing trucks heading in the opposite direction taking local water to bottling plants for beverage giants such as Coca-Cola.

The World’s First 3D-Printed Neighborhood Now Has Its First Houses

December 13th, 2019 Via: FastCompany:

Fed Will Flood Market With Gargantuan $500 Billion In Liquidity To Avoid Year-End Repo Crisis

December 13th, 2019 Via: ZeroHedge:
In other words, instead of QE4 the Fed will flood the repo market with a firehose of liquidity.

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