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Californians Tainted by ‘Roundup’ Herbicide Chemical
In
other news, Pesticide-Covered Food May Be Linked to Infertility. Via:
Health Day: Levels of the herbicide Roundup in human urine have
increased dramatically among California residents in the past two
decades, a new study reports. Roundup (glyphosate) is used to protect
genetically modified corn and soy crops from weeds and also is used on
[…]
Nothing to Hide
Via:
Vimeo: NOTHING TO HIDE (Oct. 2016) is an independent documentary
dealing with surveillance and its acceptance by the general public
through the “I have nothing to hide” argument.
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X: Owen’s First PC Build
This
is totally off topic, but I felt like sharing the build in case it
helps someone out. — My oldest son, Owen, is turning ten in November and
I planned a new computer build for the occasion. He has been using my
ancient, 2008-era Dell Vostro 410 and it’s not up to the job […]
Oct 31
Eight Dead in Truck Attack on Manhattan Bike Path; Suspect Arrested
Update:
Feds Interviewed Accused NYC Truck Attacker in 2015 About Possible
Terror Ties You might have noticed that I included this post in
COINTELPRO from the start. Via: ABC: Sayfullo Saipov, who has been
charged with killing eight people in a vehicle attack on the West Side
of Manhattan on Tuesday, was interviewed in 2015 […]
Cobalt, Ontario
Via:
Bloomberg: Ironically, Cobalt, Ontario—population 1,100—was built on
silver. Remnants of a boom that transformed the town more than a century
ago are everywhere. A mine headframe still protrudes from the roof of
the bookstore, which was previously a grocery. The butcher used to toss
unwanted bones down an abandoned 350-foot shaft in the middle […]
Oct 30
Robots to Work in 50 Wal-Marts
Via:
Arkansas Online: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. customers in a few Arkansas
stores will soon cross paths with robots roaming the aisles. The
Bentonville company said it will begin using autonomous devices in about
50 stores next month that are programmed to scan store shelves and
identify things like out-of-stock items or products incorrectly priced
or […]
Oct 29
DOJ: Billionaire Pharma Owner Fueled the Opioid Epidemic with Bribery Scheme
Via:
Ars Technica: The billionaire founder and majority owner of Insys
Therapeutics was arrested Thursday on racketeering and fraud charges for
an alleged nationwide scheme to push an extremely potent opioid drug
containing fentanyl onto patients. According to the Department of
Justice, John Kapoor, 74, of Phoenix, Arizona, used bribes, kickbacks,
and other fraudulent practices […]
Oct 28
Unistellar eVscope
I’ve
been following their progress for several months leading up to this
Kickstarter campaign. If you’re any sort of astronomy nerd, you’ll want
to check this out. I think it would be so much fun for me and my kids to
get a tasking request from SETI Institute and go out to set up the […]
Oct 27
Madrid Seizes Control Of Catalonia After Independence Declaration
Via:
AFP: Spain was plunged into crisis Friday as Madrid seized power from
independence-seeking Catalonia, the first curtailment of regional
autonomy since the brutal dictatorship of Francisco Franco. After
regional lawmakers voted to declare a Catalan “republic”, Spanish Prime
Minister Mariano Rajoy moved swiftly to dissolve the rebel government
and parliament, and called December 21 […]
DoD Plans Solar-Storm-Based National Blackout Drill During Antifa Protests In November
Via:
ZeroHedge: According to The National Association for Amateur Radio
(ARRL), elements of the US Department of Defense (DOD) will simulate a
“communications interoperability” training exercise across the United
States on November 04-06. The announcement released on October 24 has
not been widely distributed to the media, because the drill is
simulating a total grid […]
Alphabet’s Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit
Via:
Bloomberg: The self-driving cars Google designed are going to the snow —
and the seat of the car industry. Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, the vehicle
arm of Google’s parent, announced on Thursday that it will start testing
its autonomous Chrysler minivans on roads in the greater Detroit area.
Michigan will be the sixth state where […]
Trump Releases Some JFK Files, Blocks Others Under Pressure
It’s
all just a scam to reinforce the official narrative. If there ever was
anything incriminating on paper, it would have been disappeared decades
ago. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the
unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of
President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the […]
Oct 25
U.S. Widens Surveillance to Include ‘Homegrown Violent Extremists’
Mmm
hmm. Via: Reuters: The U.S. government has broadened an interpretation
of which citizens can be subject to physical or digital surveillance to
include “homegrown violent extremists,” according to official documents
seen by Reuters. The change last year to a Department of Defense manual
on procedures governing its intelligence activities was made possible by
a […]
Former FDA Commissioner Charged in RICO Lawsuit
Via:
AHRP: A Federal Lawsuit charges Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with conspiracy,
racketeering & colluding to conceal deadly drug dangers – under the
federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law (RICO) law.
The amended RICO lawsuit was filed on April 11, 2016 in the U.S.
District Court […]
Oct 23
Tech Firms Seek Washington’s Prized Asset: Top-Secret Clearances
Via:
Bloomberg: In doing so, companies such as Facebook Inc. are competing
with defense contractors, financial firms and the U.S. government
itself. Security clearances are a rare and valued commodity, whether at a
bank trying to prevent hackers from stealing credit-card data and
emptying accounts or at a manufacturer building parts for a stealth
fighter […]
‘Why ProtonMail Is More Secure Than Gmail’
Disclosure:
I have no relationship with ProtonMail, besides being a user of the
service. — While I wouldn’t assume that ProtonMail is as secure as they
claim it to be, what is very clear is that far less of your personal
information is going to leak from ProtonMail than it would from Gmail,
which essentially […]
China Is Creating a Database of Its Citizens’ Voices to Boost its Surveillance Capability
In
other news, Google Home Capable of Voice Printing Multiple Users. Via:
Time: The Chinese government has collected tens of thousands of “voice
pattern” samples from targeted citizens and is inputting them into a
national voice biometric database, according to a Human Rights Watch
report published Monday. The idea is that an automated system, thought
[…]
China Speeds Ahead of U.S. as Quantum Computing Race Escalates
Via:
McClatchy: U.S. and other Western scientists voice awe, and even alarm,
at China’s quickening advances and spending on quantum communications
and computing, revolutionary technologies that could give a huge
military and commercial advantage to the nation that conquers them. The
concerns echo — although to a lesser degree — the shock in the West […]
Americans Are Retiring Later, Dying Sooner and Sicker In-Between
Via:
Bloomberg: The U.S. retirement age is rising, as the government pushes
it higher and workers stay in careers longer. But lifespans aren’t
necessarily extending to offer equal time on the beach. Data released
last week suggest Americans’ health is declining and millions of
middle-age workers face the prospect of shorter, and less active,
retirements […]
U.S. Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers Back on 24-Hour Alert
Via:
Defense One: The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed
bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold
War ended in 1991. That means the long-dormant concrete pads at the ends
of this base’s 11,000-foot runway — dubbed the “Christmas tree” for
their angular markings — could once […]
Oct 22
Boom Has 76 Pre Orders for Future Supersonic Passenger Jets
Via:
TechCrunch: Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator
jet, the working prototype aircraft it’s creating to prove out its tech
before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger
aircraft. The new design was revealed Tuesday at the Paris Air Show,
along with new business milestones: Boom has orders for 76 […]
Insect Ecosystem Collapse
Via:
Guardian: They are multitudinous almost beyond our imagining. They
thrive in soil, water, and air; they have triumphed for hundreds of
millions of years in every continent bar Antarctica, in every habitat
but the ocean. And it is their success – staggering, unparalleled and
seemingly endless – which makes all the more alarming the […]
Oct 21
Trump Says He’ll Allow Release of Kennedy Assassination Files
My
guess is that anything released will support the official narrative,
but… Maybe not. Via: AFP: US President Donald Trump said Saturday he
will allow long blocked secret files on the assassination of John F
Kennedy to be opened to the public for the first time. The November 22,
1963 assassination — an epochal event […]
Air Force Recalling Retired Pilots
Via:
USA Today: President Trump signed an executive order Friday allowing
the Air Force to recall as many as 1,000 retired pilots to active duty
to address a shortage in combat fliers, the White House and Pentagon
announced. By law, only 25 retired officers can be brought back to serve
in any one branch. Trump’s […]
Global Pollution Is the World’s Biggest Killer and a Threat to Survival of Mankind, Study Finds
Via:
USA Today: Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and
premature death in the world, accounting for three times more deaths in
2015 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, according to a
sweeping global study published Friday in The Lancet medical journal.
The report by the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health blames […]
Oct 19
Catalonia Crisis: Spain Moves to Suspend Autonomy
Via:
BBC: Spain is to start suspending Catalonia’s autonomy from Saturday,
as the region’s leader threatens to declare independence. The government
said ministers would meet to activate Article 155 of the constitution,
allowing it to take over running of the region. Catalonia’s leader said
the region’s parliament would vote on independence if Spain continued
“repression”. […]
Oct 18
Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due to Contaminated Cells
Via:
Science Alert: Researchers warn that large parts of biomedical science
could be invalid due to a cascading history of flawed data in a systemic
failure going back decades. A new investigation reveals more than
30,000 published scientific studies could be compromised by their use of
misidentified cell lines, owing to so-called immortal cells
contaminating […]
UK Spies Using Social Media Data for Mass Surveillance
Via:
TechCrunch: Privacy rights group Privacy International says it has
obtained evidence for the first time that UK spy agencies are collecting
social media information on potentially millions of people. It has also
obtained letters it says show the intelligence agencies’ oversight body
had not been informed that UK intelligence agencies had shared bulk
databases […]
Inside a Secretive Group Where Women Are Branded
There
are some similarities here to the well known accounts of trauma based
mind control. Via: New York Times: Last March, five women gathered in a
home near here to enter a secret sisterhood they were told was created
to empower women. To gain admission, they were required to give their
recruiter — or “master,” […]
LAPD Becomes Nation’s Largest Police Department to Test Drones
Via:
Los Angeles Times: After months of often-heated debate, a civilian
oversight panel Tuesday signed off on a yearlong test of drones by the
Los Angeles Police Department, which will become the largest police
department in the nation to deploy the controversial technology. The
Police Commission’s 3-1 vote prompted jeers, cursing and a small protest
[…]
Oct 17
Leaked ICE Guide Offers Unprecedented View of Agency’s Asset Forfeiture Tactics
Via:
The Intercept: AN INTERNAL HANDBOOK obtained by The Intercept provides a
rare view into the extensive asset seizure operations of ICE’s Homeland
Security Investigations, an office that trains its agents to
meticulously appraise the value of property before taking it. HSI’s
71-page “Asset Forfeiture Handbook,” dated June 30, 2010, underscores
the role seizures play […]
FBI Uncovered Russian Bribery Plot Before Obama Administration Approved Controversial Nuclear Deal with Moscow
Update:
Senate Judiciary Opens Probe Into Obama-Era Russian Nuclear Bribery
Case — Via: The Hill: Before the Obama administration approved a
controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of
American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian
nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks,
extortion and money laundering […]
Oct 16
Where in the World is Jesus Campos?
Private
security is in front of his house. A reporter named Laura Loomer
managed to get what amounted to a “no comment” from someone inside the
Campos home. Leave comments on: Las Vegas: Worst Mass Shooting in U.S.
History Via: Los Angeles Times: The story seemed straightforward: The
unarmed security guard approached Stephen Paddock’s room […]
Malta Car Bomb Kills Panama Papers Journalist
Via:
Guardian: The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into
corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home.
Daphne Caruana Galizia died on Monday afternoon when her car, a Peugeot
108, was destroyed by a powerful explosive device which blew the vehicle
into several pieces and threw the […]
WPA2 Cracked
Via:
KRACK Attacks: We discovered serious weaknesses in WPA2, a protocol
that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks. An attacker within
range of a victim can exploit these weaknesses using key reinstallation
attacks (KRACKs). Concretely, attackers can use this novel attack
technique to read information that was previously assumed to be safely
encrypted. This can […]
To The Stars Academy Financials
While
I just scoffed at the offering and moved on, these guys looked into it a
bit further. Via: UFO Seekers: Related: Tom Delonge Asking for People
to Invest in His UFO PSYOP
Oct 12
The USA Liberty Act
A
double round o’ Freedom Fries for everyone! Via: Register: The US
Senate Judiciary Committee has unveiled its answer to a controversial
spying program run by the NSA and used by the FBI to fish for crime
leads. Unsurprisingly, the proposed legislation [PDF] reauthorizes
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – which
[…]
LG to Open Europe’s Biggest Car Battery Factory; Output 100,000 EV Packs Per Year
Via:
Reuters: South Korea’s LG Chem will open Europe’s largest lithium-ion
battery factory in Poland next year as the region’s auto industry gears
up to mass produce electric cars. … LG Chem plans to spend 5.9 billion
zlotys ($1.63 billion) on the factory near the southwestern city of
Wroclaw, according to Polish state industry agency […]
Scientists Can Read a Bird’s Brain and Predict Its Next Song
Via:
MIT Technology Review: “We decode realistic synthetic birdsong directly
from neural activity,” the scientists announced in a new report
published on the website bioRxiv. The team, which includes Argentinian
birdsong expert Ezequiel Arneodo, calls the system the first prototype
of “a decoder of complex, natural communication signals from neural
activity.” A similar approach could […]
Self-Flying Planes May Arrive Sooner Than You Think
Via:
NBC: “What the industry is telling me is that they would like to remove
one of the pilots fairly soon, and re-design the cockpit around a
single pilot,” says Stephen Rice, a professor at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida. That would involve at
least a modest cockpit redesign, so that a single […]
Will Automation Put an End to the American Trucker?
Via:
Guardian: Finn Murphy, author of The Long Haul, the story of his life
as a long-distance truck driver, says the days of the truck driver as we
know him are coming to an end. Trucking is a $700bn industry, in which a
third of costs go to compensating drivers, and, he says, if the […]
Oct 11
Tom Delonge Asking for People to Invest in His UFO PSYOP
The
U.S. Government has funneled trillions of dollars into black world
research and projects over decades, but Tom Delonge and his CIA friends
are now asking for money to, “Bring transformative science and
engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to
apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity.” Your what […]
Google’s Home Mini Needed a Software Patch to Stop Some of Them from Recording Everything
Mmm
hmm. Via: The Verge: Categorize this under “one of the worst possible
PR nightmares for a Google smart speaker.” According to Artem
Russakovskii at Android Police, the Google Home Mini he was reviewing
was randomly and near-constantly recording sounds in his home and
transmitting them to Google. The company acknowledged the problem and is
[…]
Oct 10
Fentanyl Maker Donates Big to Campaign Opposing Pot Legalization
Via:
U.S. News and World Report: An embattled pharmaceutical company that
sells the powerful painkiller fentanyl has donated $500,000 toward
defeating a ballot initiative that would make recreational use of
marijuana legal under Arizona law. It’s hard to imagine a more sinister
donor than Insys Therapeutics Inc. in the eyes of pot legalization
proponents, who […]
GM to Buy Sensor-Tech Firm Strobe to Speed Up Self-Driving Car Push
Via:
Reuters: No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Monday
it would buy Strobe Inc, which uses LIDAR technology to help
self-driving cars identify objects at a distance, to speed up
development of autonomous vehicles and slash sensor costs. LIDAR is one
of the major sensor technologies used in autonomous, or self-driving […]
Oct 09
Forensic Acoustic Proof of SECOND Shooter in the Las Vegas Massacre
Main
post: Las Vegas: Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History Via: Mike Adams/
Health Ranger: In essence, because of the differences in the speed of
sound vs. the speed of the bullets from a known cartridge (.223
Remington, in this case), the time lag between the last bullet hitting
the pavement and the last audible […]
Oct 08
Robotic Farm Completes 1st Fully Autonomous Harvest
Via:
LiveScience: It’s harvest season in many parts of the world, but on one
farm in the United Kingdom, robots — not humans — are doing all the
heavy lifting. At Hands Free Hectare, an experimental farm run by
researchers from Harper Adams University, in the village of Edgmond in
the U.K., about 5 tons […]
Ted Heath Would Have Been Questioned Over Abuse Claims, Police Say
Shoulda,
coulda, woulda. Via: Guardian: A police report has said there was
reason to suspect that Sir Edward Heath, Britain’s seventh postwar prime
minister, carried out a string of sex attacks over a span of decades.
The report concludes that the allegations, including the rape of a male
child sex worker aged 11 and sexual […]
Oct 06
Our Minds Can Be Hijacked: The Tech Insiders Who Fear a Smartphone Dystopia
Via:
Guardian: There is growing concern that as well as addicting users,
technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial
attention”, severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and possibly
lowering IQ. One recent study showed that the mere presence of
smartphones damages cognitive capacity – even when the device is turned
off. “Everyone is distracted,” Rosenstein […]
In Meeting with Military, Trump Talks of ‘Calm Before the Storm’
Oh
that’s just great. Via: Reuters: After discussing Iran and North Korea
with U.S. military leaders on Thursday, President Donald Trump posed for
a photo with them before dinner and declared the moment “the calm
before the storm.” “You guys know what this represents?” Trump said
after journalists gathered in the White House state dining […]
Oct 05
U.S. Department Of Defense Contractor Shares Name With Company That Bought Paddock’S Plane In 2013
Update:
Volant, LLC, Volant Associates, LLC, Volant Associates? Look at the
domain contact. Hmm. If they’re different organizations, this is a
spectacular coincidence. Whois volant-associates.com: — Well, well,
well. FlightAware: Are Volant LLC and Volant Associates, both in the
CIA’s backyard, completely different organizations, as some are sure to
say? Maybe. But I think they’re […]
Fukushima Operator Can Restart Reactors at World’s Biggest Nuclear Power Plant
Via:
Guardian: The operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power plant has been given initial approval to restart reactors at
another atomic facility, marking the first step towards the firm’s
return to nuclear power generation more than six years after the March
2011 triple meltdown. Japan’s nuclear regulator on Wednesday approved an
application from […]
Oct 04
Solar Power Grew Faster Than Any Other Source of Fuel for the First Time in 2016
Disclosure:
I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — Via: Bloomberg: Solar
power grew faster than any other source of fuel for the first time in
2016, the International Energy Agency said in a report suggesting the
technology will dominate renewables in the years ahead. The institution
established after the first major oil crisis […]
‘Australia Presses for More Facial Recognition in Terror Fight’
Via:
New York Times: The Australian government wants to strengthen its
counterterrorism efforts by making use of a fundamental part of all
Australian citizens: their faces. On Thursday, at a national security
meeting in Canberra, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to
pressure states and territories to hand over the driver’s license photos
of every […]
Zucktown, USA
Via: The Baffler: Facebook, Amazon, and Google are reviving the ill-fated “company towns” of the Gilded Age.
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