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Dozens Arrested, Police Cars Damaged in Second Night of Anti-Trump Protests in California
Soros, is that you? Via: Los Angeles Times: Dozens of demonstrators were arrested during a second day of protests in California on Thursday as demonstrators from the Bay Area to Los Angeles took to the streets forcefully denouncing President-elect Donald Trump. In Los Angeles, 29 people were arrested overnight for impeding traffic when hundreds of […]
Clinton & ISIS Funded by Same Money
Via: Russia Today:
‘Sources: U.S. Intel Warning of Possible al Qaeda Attacks in U.S. Monday’
Via: CBS: CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election. Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces that al Qaeda could be planning attacks in three states for Monday. It is believed New York, Texas and Virginia […]

Today

Dozens Arrested, Police Cars Damaged in Second Night of Anti-Trump Protests in California
Soros, is that you? Via: Los Angeles Times: Dozens of demonstrators were arrested during a second day of protests in California on Thursday as demonstrators from the Bay Area to Los Angeles took to the streets forcefully denouncing President-elect Donald Trump. In Los Angeles, 29 people were arrested overnight for impeding traffic when hundreds of […]

Yesterday

Trump Won: How Long Will the Media’s Infantile Tantrum Persist?
Have you ever seen anything like the media’s hysteria in the wake of the Trump victory? I didn’t want Clinton and I didn’t want Trump, but seeing that Washington Post shit the bed so spectacularly is, I have to admit, massively satisfying! I can’t ever recall experiencing schadenfreude to this extent.
Open Thread: President Elect Trump
Well, I got that totally wrong. I very honestly believed that Hillary Clinton was going to preside over the next phase of the collapse of the U.S. I struggle for words to express how badly I was dreading another Clinton regime. That bitch (and the scum around her) would have very definitely continued to implode […]

Nov 08

Tesla Buys Grohmann Engineering
Via: Tesla: After increasing our output target to 500,000 cars per year by 2018, we began searching for the best engineering talent in automated manufacturing systems. Today, we are excited to announce that Tesla has entered into an agreement to acquire Grohmann Engineering, a world-renowned engineering company in Prüm, Germany, which will become Tesla Grohmann […]
U.S. Military Successfully Tests Electrical Brain Stimulation to Enhance Staff Skills
Via: Guardian: US military scientists have used electrical brain stimulators to enhance mental skills of staff, in research that aims to boost the performance of air crews, drone operators and others in the armed forces’ most demanding roles. The successful tests of the devices pave the way for servicemen and women to be wired up […]

Nov 07

Toyota To Sell Battery Powered EVs by 2020 After Finally Realizing Fuel Cell Program Was a Disaster
Well, better to have just one lost decade than two lost decades. Good job, Toyota. Via: Electrek: The news comes as Toyota is having difficulties selling the Mirai, its hydrogen cars, in the US. Despite cutting the price on several occasions, with now a lease at only $350 (down from $500) in California, the Japanese […]

Nov 06

Delhi Pollution: The Road to Hell
Via: Quartz: New Delhi is ghastly right now. So much so that the government in the national capital has shut down 1,800 schools for the first time ever, forcing a million students to stay at home to avoid breathing in the deadly smog that continues to shroud the city. This comes a week after firecracker […]
Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Five Years
Via: Bloomberg: Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s second-biggest energy company by market value, thinks demand for oil could peak in as little as five years, a rare statement in an industry that commonly forecasts decades of growth. “We’ve long been of the opinion that demand will peak before supply,” Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry […]
FBI Clears Clinton – Again
Shocker. Via: BBC: The FBI says it has found no evidence of criminality in a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails, boosting her campaign two days before the election. FBI Director James Comey told Congress his agency’s review had found nothing to alter its original conclusion.
Clinton Directed Her Maid to Print Out Classified Materials
Via: New York Post: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government e-mails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washington, DC, e-mails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such material. In fact, Marina Santos […]

Nov 05

‘U.S. Govt. Hackers Ready to Hit Back If Russia Tries to Disrupt Election’
I thought “the terrorists” were going to attack. What a bunch of bullshit. Via: NBC: U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia’s electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin’s command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents […]
Clinton’s Charity Confirms Qatar’s $1 Million Gift While She Was at State Department
Clinton & ISIS Funded by Same Money: Via: Reuters: The Clinton Foundation has confirmed it accepted a $1 million gift from Qatar while Hillary Clinton was U.S. secretary of state without informing the State Department, even though she had promised to let the agency review new or significantly increased support from foreign governments. Qatari officials […]

Nov 04

‘Sources: U.S. Intel Warning of Possible al Qaeda Attacks in U.S. Monday’
Via: CBS: CBS News has learned about a potential terror threat for the day before the election. Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces that al Qaeda could be planning attacks in three states for Monday. It is believed New York, Texas and Virginia […]
Clinton & ISIS Funded by Same Money
Via: Russia Today:
Spirit Cooking: The Most Disturbing Podesta Email Yet? (Warning: Graphic Content)
Earlier tonight, I took a break to try to refresh myself to face the next news cycle. I chatted with my wife, played a few rounds of Titanfall, listened to an audiobook, made some green tea… Ahh. All good. And then… Via: We Are Change: In perhaps the most disturbing Wikileaks release to date, Tony […]

Nov 03

Clinton White House Data Stolen from National Archives
There’s just no end to it with these crooks. Via: Lifezette: A newly released email from the State Department shows that Hillary Clinton was informed in April 2009 of a massive theft of data pertaining to former President Bill Clinton’s White House records. On April 13, 2009, Clinton attorney Cheryl Mills informed newly sworn-in Secretary […]
‘White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem’
Oh sure, you mean like this: Via: NBC: The U.S. government believes hackers from Russia or elsewhere may try to undermine next week’s presidential election and is mounting an unprecedented effort to counter their cyber meddling, American officials told NBC News. The effort is being coordinated by the White House and the Department of Homeland […]
Hillary Clinton State Department Emails on Weiner’s Laptop
Via: CBS: The FBI has found emails related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state on the laptop belonging to the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner, according to a U.S. official. These emails, CBS News’ Andres Triay reports, are not duplicates of emails found on Secretary Clinton’s private server. At this point, […]
Time Cover: The End Is Near [???]
Via: Time: Screenshot of my browser:
UK/Brexit: High Court Rules Government Needs Parliament’s Approval to Trigger Article 50
Via: BBC: Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled. This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU – on its own. Theresa May says the referendum – and existing ministerial […]

Nov 02

Elon Musk Claims New 2170 Battery Is “Highest Energy Density Cell in the World… That Is Also the Cheapest”
Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Update: No, I Can’t Sell You a Tesla Powerwall 2 in NZ While I do sell solar power systems, including battery systems for on and off grid applications, I don’t have access to Tesla equipment. In NZ, Tesla was dealing exclusively through Vector, but Tesla […]
Former State Department Official Claims Elements of U.S. Intelligence Engaged in Counter Coup Against Clinton
Update: Pieczenik’s Website Remains Down, but He’s Still Posting to Twitter Twitter: Steve Pieczenik He just mentioned the Franklin coverup. My only guess is that Pieczenik and his group are letting the Clintons know that a nuclear option will be used against them unless they back down. #FranklinCoverup https://t.co/UsGmyJd58j this goes way back, sorry 2 […]
Weiner’s Laptop Might Contain All of Clinton’s “Deleted” Emails
Via: Market Ticker: If that examination shows that work product, or worse, classified information was sent and/or received and the evidence intentionally destroyed via the “Bleachbit” process then everyone involved is cooked. Remember, the claim was that the emails deleted were nothing more than yoga chat and similar; all “personal” content that the government had […]

Nov 01

Clinton’s Black Son Asks Monica Lewinsky for DNA Sample from the Blue Dress
Via: Inquisitor: Bill Clinton’s alleged love child, Danney Williams is asking Monica Lewinsky to allow him to conduct DNA testing on the famous blue dress to prove he is his biological father, Radar Online reports. Danney Lee Williams, Jr. is a 30-year-old construction worker that lives in Arkansas. He made the shocking claim that he […]
Australian Banker James Starkey Brutally Killed in South African Hotel Room
Via: Sydney Morning Herald: When work took him to South Africa, Australian banker James Starkey lived in an opulent apartment complex in Johannesburg that promised “tight, highly effective, and extremely efficient security controls”. But on October 8, a concerned colleague could not make contact with Mr Starkey. The colleague went to the Raphael Penthouse Suites […]

Oct 31

Repeat: Consider Increasing Readiness
I’ve heard from people who think I know something big is about to happen because I mentioned a possible “wildcard” scenario right before Clinton’s latest email situation emerged. Nope. Not only do I have no inside information, I’m not even sure that I would count the latest FBI/email thing as the wildcard event I mentioned. […]
Vote Fraud: Fraction Magic
The Black Box Voting researcher Bennie Smith found what amounts to an API that allows for centralized and precise manipulation of ballot counts. What you see here is the stuff of banana republics. It’s not sophisticated. It’s not subtle. Happy Black Box Voting! Via: Black Box Voting:

Oct 30

Hundreds of Children Unable to Move Their Arms or Legs, Dozens Paralyzed in the Past Few Months
Via: Los Angeles Times: In the years since [2012], hundreds of children across the country have shown up at hospitals unable to move their arms or legs. Dozens of kids have become paralyzed in the past few months alone. They suffer from a mysterious illness that continues to alarm and puzzle scientists. This kind of […]

Oct 29

2006 Audio Emerges of Hillary Clinton Proposing Rigging Palestine Election
Via: Observer: “I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”
New FBI Investigation Into Hillary Clinton Emails
Mmm hmm. Via: Independent: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into newly discovered emails linked to Hillary Clinton’s just 11 days before the presidential election, reigniting a massive controversy that has haunted the Clinton campaign for months. Three months after the investigation into Ms Clinton’s emails recommended no criminal charges be filed, FBI […]

Oct 28

‘Tesla Powerwall 2 Is a Game Changer in Home Energy Storage’
Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Yep. I’d agree with that. As far as I can tell, this authoritatively blows away all other residential energy storage options. 14 kWh capacity for $5,500, 5kW (7kW peak) inverter included, AC/DC charging options. It looks like hybrid, backup and off-grid modes will be available. […]
‘Spookier Than a Deranged-Looking Bozo’
Via: Bloomberg: Forget scary clowns. For finance professionals, Corporate America’s credit cycle and the U.S. economic outlook — not to mention Brexit-induced stresses and debt dynamics in Asia — are all spookier than a deranged-looking Bozo. With Halloween just around the corner, we asked top analysts around the world for charts about things that go […]
U.S. Presidential Election: Consider Increasing Readiness
Say that your Doom Condition scale runs from 5 to 1, with 5 representing ‘Situation Normal’ to 1 representing flaming zombies wandering the streets, etc. Even on the best of days, I keep my own DoomCon dial set to 4, because ‘Situation Normal’ looks pretty bad in many ways. With the way the markets are […]

Oct 27

Jury Acquits All 7 Leaders of Oregon Standoff
This whole thing must be a COINTEL operation. I don’t know whether any of these people are willing participants in such an operation (I suspect some of them are), but you can bet that .gov is interested in running detailed surveillance and social network analysis on all of them. Consider what can happen if you […]

Oct 26

About Half a Million Solar Panels Were Installed Every Day Around the World in 2015
Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — *grin* Via: IEA: The International Energy Agency said today that it was significantly increasing its five-year growth forecast for renewables thanks to strong policy support in key countries and sharp cost reductions. Renewables have surpassed coal last year to become the largest source of installed […]
Tesla Powerwall 2.0 Announcement on Friday
Via: Electrek: Tesla will unveil its next generation Powerwall, sometimes called ‘Powerwall 2.0‘, at an event on Friday. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hyping the product since August saying that “no other company has anything close to it.”
Danney Williams: YouTube Bans Bill Clinton’s Black Son
Here’s the link to the original video, BANISHED – The Untold Story of Danney Williams: This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated. Sorry about that. Mirror: More: danneywilliams.com
Obama’s Claim That He Didn’t Know About Clinton’s Email Server Is Bullshit
Via: ZeroHedge: we need to clean this up – he has emails from her – they do not say state.gov
“Central Moscow GPS Anomaly”
Via: AP: Joggers, taxi drivers, players of Pokemon Go and senior Russian officials are seeking an explanation of why mobile phone apps that use GPS are malfunctioning in central Moscow. A programmer for Russian internet firm Yandex, Grigory Bakunov, said Thursday his research showed a system for blocking GPS was located inside the Kremlin, the […]

Oct 25

The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’
Almost unnoticed outside of defense circles… I’ve been posting about this on here since 2002. 😐 Via: New York Times: Almost unnoticed outside defense circles, the Pentagon has put artificial intelligence at the center of its strategy to maintain the United States’ position as the world’s dominant military power. It is spending billions of dollars […]
Self Driving Truck Makes First Commercial Delivery
Via: New York Times: The futurists of Silicon Valley may not have seen this one coming: The first commercial delivery made by a self-driving truck was 2,000 cases of Budweiser beer. On Tuesday, Otto, the Uber-owned self-driving vehicle operation, announced the completion of its first commercial delivery, having delivered its beer load from Fort Collins, […]
Google Co-Founder’s Reported ‘Flying Car’ Spotted Hovering in Hollister
Via: Monteray Herald: In Hollister, population 40,000, the first rule about Zee.Aero is you don’t talk about Zee.Aero. Related: Airbus Wants to Build a Self-Flying Taxi Called Vahana

Oct 24

Memory of Mankind Project Burying Microscopic Engravings Containing Human Knowledge in an Austrian Salt Mine
Via: BBC: Kunze’s solution is the Memory of Mankind project, a collaboration between academics, universities, newspapers and libraries to create a modern version of those first ancient Sumerian tablets discovered in the desert. Their plan is to gather together the accumulated knowledge of our time and store it underground in the caverns carved out in […]
Obamacare Premiums to Soar 22% On Average
Via: CNN: Obamacare premiums are set to skyrocket an average of 22% for the benchmark silver plan in 2017, according to a government report released Monday. The price hike is the latest blow to Obamacare. Insurers are raising prices and downsizing their presence on the exchanges as they try to stem losses from sicker-than-anticipated customers. […]
China’s Plan to Organize Its Society Relies on ‘Big Data’ to Rate Everyone
Via: Washington Post: Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you a single score that measures how “trustworthy” you are. In this world, anything from defaulting on a loan to criticizing the ruling party, from running a red […]

Oct 23

Batteries May Trip ‘Death Spiral’ in $3.4 Trillion Credit Market
Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Bloomberg: Battery technologies starting to disrupt the electricity and automobile industries may also emerge as a trillion-dollar threat to credit markets, according to Fitch Ratings. A quarter of outstanding global corporate debt, or as much as $3.4 trillion, is linked to the utility- and […]
The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance
Via: The Intercept: It was a powerful piece of technology created for an important customer. The Medusa system, named after the mythical Greek monster with snakes instead of hair, had one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed. The technology was designed by Endace, a little-known New Zealand […]

Oct 22

AT&T Announces Purchase of Time Warner for Nearly $86 Billion
E-Corp! Via: BBC: The US telecoms giant AT&T has announced that it will buy entertainment group Time Warner for nearly $86bn (£70bn). The deal was agreed at a meeting of the two boards on Saturday but will still need to be approved by regulators. Correspondents say it is the biggest deal in the world this […]

Oct 21

Police Drones Zapping Suspects with Stun Guns: ‘The Public Is Going to Initially be Alarmed by This’
Via: Wall Street Journal: In a conference room away from the busy San Diego Convention Center floor where law-enforcement officials from around the world perused the latest police technology, a Taser employee showed some police leaders a drone, and discussed how different things could be attached to it, including a camera, a light and a […]
America, Land of Opportunity? Not for Young People
Via: McClatchy: The United States is supposed to be a land of opportunity where young people can expect their quality of life will be better than their parents’. But the U.S. isn’t even in the top 20 countries when it comes to opportunities for young people. The U.S. ranks 23 on a list of 183 […]
U.S. Warship Challenges China’s Claims in South China Sea
Via: Reuters: A U.S. navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, drawing a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area. The U.S. action was the latest attempt to counter what Washington sees as Beijing’s efforts to limit freedom of navigation in the strategic waters, U.S. officials […]
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Via: ProPublica: When Google bought the advertising network DoubleClick in 2007, Google founder Sergey Brin said that privacy would be the company’s “number one priority when we contemplate new kinds of advertising products.” And, for nearly a decade, Google did in fact keep DoubleClick’s massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names […]
DDoS on Dyn’s DNS Infrastructure Cripples Access to Popular Websites
Update: Someone on Twitter Claims “Just a Dry Run” [???] Via: CBC: Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids’ toys bring the internet to its knees? It’s beginning to look that way. On Friday, epic cyberattacks crippled a major internet firm, repeatedly disrupting the availability of popular websites across North America and Europe such […]
Nano-Spike Catalysts Convert Carbon Dioxide Directly Into Ethanol
Via: PhysOrg: In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their finding, which involves nanofabrication and catalysis science, was serendipitous. “We discovered somewhat by […]
Tesla: Self-Driving Car Navigates Around Palo Alto, Drives Through Intersections, Finds Parking Spot
“Google’s cars drive around like that,” you might say. Yep, but you can’t buy one of those, and Google is nowhere near having a car for sale. My guess is that Tesla’s practice of iterating their AI from cars that actual customers are driving is causing their lead over everyone else to keep widening. Watching […]

Oct 20

NSA Contractor’s Alleged Theft ‘Breathtaking’ in Scope
Via: Baltimore Sun: The alleged theft of classified documents by a former NSA contractor from Glen Burnie was “breathtaking” in its scope, federal authorities said in a court filing Thursday, including information produced over two decades that detailed some of the country’s most sensitive intelligence operations. … Authorities seized some 50,000 gigabytes of digital information […]
Watch DARPA’s Robot Copilot Fly a Cessna
Via: Popular Mechanics: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—DARPA, that is—is currently working on a robotic copilot called the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS). The project is designed to decrease the number of airmen needed to fly military missions as a method of reducing cost. Aurora Flight Sciences recently tested the robotic arm by […]
Microsoft Speech Recognition Achieves ‘Human Parity’
Via: Newsweek: A “historic” landmark in artificial intelligence research has been reached by Microsoft, which has announced a new speech recognition technology that it claims is the first to be on par with humans. Details of the software were published this week in a paper titled ‘Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition,’ authored by […]

Oct 19

All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Hardware Capable of Level 4 Autonomy
A validation period of unspecified length will be required before the fully autonomous features become available. Here’s a sentence in the press release that’s worth noting: Before activating the features enabled by the new hardware, we will further calibrate the system using millions of miles of real-world driving to ensure significant improvements to safety and […]
Oregon: Hallucinations Spread by Touch
Via: Science Alert: An emergency room in Oregon has been quarantined after five people started experiencing hallucinations that appear to have been spread via touch. The unidentified condition was first reported at around 3am last Wednesday, when a 54-year-old caregiver in North Bend Oregon phoned police complaining about seven or eight people trying to “take […]

Oct 18

UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for 17 Years, Court Rules
Via: Guardian: British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade, senior judges have ruled. The investigatory powers tribunal, which is the only court that hears complaints against MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, said the security services operated an illegal regime […]
Feds Walk Into A Building, Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones
Via: Forbes: In what’s believed to be an unprecedented attempt to bypass the security of Apple iPhones, or any smartphone that uses fingerprints to unlock, California’s top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices. FORBES found a court filing, dated May 9 2016, in which the Department of Justice sought […]
Half of American Adults Already In Facial Recognition Network
Via: Vocativ: Half of all American adults are already in some sort of facial recognition network accessible to law enforcement, according to a comprehensive new study. Conducted over a year and relying in part on Freedom of Information and public record requests to 106 law enforcement agencies, the study, conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center on […]

Oct 17

Bloomberg: Apple Rethinking Car Plans
Via: Bloomberg: Apple Inc. has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project. Hundreds of members of the car team, which comprises about 1,000 people, have been reassigned, let go, […]
Russia Today’s UK bank Accounts Closed Down
Via: Guardian: The UK bank accounts of Russian TV broadcaster Russia Today have been shut down, its editor-in-chief has said, in a move that the UK government appears to have been aware of. In a tweet in Russian Margarita Simonyan said that “all the accounts” had been closed in the UK. She said the decision […]
More Than 1 Million to Lose Obamacare Plans as Insurers Quit
Via: Bloomberg: A growing number of people in Obamacare are finding out their health insurance plans will disappear from the program next year, forcing them to find new coverage even as options shrink and prices rise. At least 1.4 million people in 32 states will lose the Obamacare plan they have now, according to state […]
The Most Revealing Emails from the #PodestaFiles, Separated By Category
Via: Vaskal: Introduction: John Podesta is Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign Chairman. Podesta previously served as Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton and Counselor to President Barack Obama. On October 7th, 2016, WikiLeaks publish thousands of emails belonging to Podesta’s private email archives. More emails were released in the days that followed. Below is […]

Oct 16

Max Spiers: British UFO Researcher Found Dead of “Natural Causes” Days After Telling Mother to Investigate If Anything Happens to Him
Update: Max Spiers Was Investigating an Alleged U.S. Army Pedophilia Ring Via: Daily Mail: A British man who traveled to Poland to give a lecture on conspiracy theories and was found dead in his Warsaw apartment was conducting an investigation into alleged pedophilia that took place in a US Army-run facility in San Francisco nearly […]

Oct 15

“Obama Administration Asks CIA to Prepare Revenge Cyber Attack Against Russia”
This is Dr. Strangelove level madness. Via: Independent: The White House is considering launching an unprecedented cyber attack against Russia in retaliation for their alleged interference in the US election, intelligence officials say. Current and former officials have said that the CIA has been asked to deliver options for “clandestine” cyber operations designed to “embarrass” […]
Inside the Secret Society of Wall Street’s Top In-House Lawyers
I’m sure no planning for future crimes happens at these meetings. 😉 Via: Bloomberg: It’s a Wall Street club that’s virtually unknown on Wall Street. It has no name or official membership list, and it meets only once a year, in locations such as Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne, Connecticut’s Litchfield County, and, this year, Versailles. The […]

Oct 14

Hyperloop One Raises $50 Million, Hires Former Uber CFO
Via: Bloomberg: Hyperloop Technologies Inc., a Los Angeles-based company building a futuristic transportation system, said it raised $50 million in convertible-debt financing and hired Uber Technologies Inc.’s former chief financial officer. DP World Group of Dubai, one of the world’s largest ports operators, led the funding round, with its chairman and chief executive officer Sultan […]

Oct 13

Podesta Emails: Tom Delonge / Open Thread
You might have noticed that I haven’t been posting much over the last few days. That’s because I’ve been tumbling down the the Wikileaks Podesta email dump rabbit hole. Weeks ago, I mentioned that I was working on a post related to PSYOP around the UFO issue: I’m preparing a post about a shill for […]
Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought
Via: NASA: The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories. Astronomers came to the surprising conclusion that there are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought. … In analyzing the data, a […]
“Scientists Plan to Create ‘Asgardia’ Nation State in Space”
Via: BBC: A group of scientists is launching what they say will be a new pacifist nation-state in space. Asgardia “will become a place in orbit which is truly ‘no man’s land’,” its website says. The new “nation” aims to launch its first satellite late next year and hopes to one day be recognised by […]
Pentagon Video Warns of “Unavoidable” Dystopian Future for World’s Biggest Cities
Via: The Intercept: The year is 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown. According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings […]

Oct 12

Tesla Dominates U.S. Luxury Car Market
Disruption: A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network, displacing established market leading firms, products and alliances. Via: Electrek: Tesla shocked the industry earlier this year when it confirmed having delivered 25,202 Model S sedans in the U.S. in 2015, […]
Shine Your Love – Tiki Taane – Greenpeace Stop the Solar Tax Petition Delivery
Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in NZ. — Here’s what the message to the electricity retailers and grid operators in NZ should be: You solar tax me, I disconnect from the grid. I signed the petition referenced in the video below, but the reality is that petitions typically don’t accomplish anything. How many petitions […]

Oct 11

Military Hydrogen-Powered Chevy Colorado ZH2
Nothing but WTF? on this one… Don’t look at me, I just work here. Via: Green Car Reports: Almost a year after it was first announced, General Motors and the U.S. Army will soon begin testing their jointly-developed hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle. Called the Chevrolet Colorado ZH2, it is based on a stretched version of the […]
Air Force’s X-37B Space Plane Mystery Mission Wings by 500 Days in Orbit
Via: Space: The latest secretive mission of the United States Air Force’s X-37B space plane has cruised beyond 500 days in Earth orbit since its launch last year. The U.S. military launched the robotic X-37B space plane on May 20, 2015, marking the fourth flight for the Air Force program. A United Launch Alliance Atlas […]
London Police Charge Man with Terrorism Over Use of Encryption
Via: ZDnet: A man has appeared in court in London on six counts of terrorism — one of which was related to researching and using encryption. Samata Ullah, 33, appeared in court last week charged under the Terrorism Act 2006. The Metropolitan Police said in a press release that Ullah was charged with one count […]