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26 Barges Break Loose and Float Down Ohio River
April 13th, 2024Via: NBC: Twenty-six barges loaded mostly with dry cargo broke loose from a Pittsburgh marina late Friday night and floated uncontrollably down the Ohio River, causing extensive damage to neighboring docks according to officials. The barges, which broke away from a vessel at mile marker one, have all been accounted for, but caused a substantial […]
Iran Seizes Cargo Ship in Strait of Hormuz After Threats to Close Waterway
April 13th, 2024Months ago, I called these low probability scenarios: 1) If the Strait of Hormuz somehow winds up closed/blocked. 2) If Saudi Aramco’s deep water port at Ras Tanura somehow winds up closed/destroyed. And now… Via: Reuters: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, days after Tehran said […]
18 Wheeler Truck ‘Intentionally’ Plows Into Texas Department Of Safety Building
April 12th, 2024Update: License Application Was Denied — Via: ZeroHedge: The Texas Department of Public Safety reports on X that a large tractor-trailer crashed into one of its buildings in the city of Brenham, located in east-central Texas in Washington County. … Local media outlet 12NewsNow said, “Washington County Sheriff’s Office believes this may have been intentional.”
Israel Lets AI Decide Who Dies in Gaza
April 12th, 2024Via: The Libertarian Institute: The Israeli military has employed yet another AI-based system to select bombing targets in the Gaza Strip, an investigation by +972 Magazine has revealed. The new system has generated sweeping kill lists condemning tens of thousands of Palestinians, part of the IDF’s growing dependence on AI to plan lethal strikes. Citing […]
Crime-Ridden San Francisco Seeks To Allow Lawsuits Against Grocery Stores Fleeing The City As Mass Corporate Exodus Continues
April 12th, 2024Via: Benzinga: San Francisco has long been feared to be falling into a doom loop, a situation where taxpayers leaving the crime-ridden city results in lower tax revenues leading to cuts in services and rising taxes, making it even less desirable to live in. It can be especially devastating when a community’s essential businesses, such […]
U.S. ‘Considering’ Dropping Prosecution Of Assange, Biden Says
April 11th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Wednesday saw a rare and unexpected positive development in the Julian Assange extradition case. President Joe Biden has affirmed the US is “considering” dropping its prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder. Currently, Assange is awaiting a final ruling from the UK high court over his possible extradition to the US, coming at the end […]
Udio: AI Creates Music from Text Prompts
April 10th, 2024Via: Udio: Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music in your favorite styles with intuitive and powerful text-prompting. 1/11 pic.twitter.com/al5uYAsU5k — udio (@udiomusic) April 10, 2024
Wells Fargo Thinks Costco Is Selling Up To $200 Million In Gold Bars Per Month
April 10th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge: Last December, wholesale retailer Costco announced that they had sold over $100 million worth of gold in Q3 2023. “You’ve probably read about the fact that we’re selling one-ounce gold bars. We sold over $100 million of gold during the quarter,” sad CFO Richard Galenti. Now, Wells Fargo estimates that Costco “may now […]
Cash-Strapped Argentines Queue for Eye Scans
April 9th, 2024Via: AFP: Argentines eyeing a financial boost are lining up by the thousands to have their irises scanned in exchange for a few crypto tokens as part of an online biometrics project under scrutiny in several countries. … For volunteering their data, initial participants receive 10 tokens each of Worldcoin’s own cryptocurrency, the WLD. In […]
Secretive Experiment to Shoot Aerosols Into the Sky Over San Francisco to Increase Cloud Cover
April 8th, 2024Via: Modernity News: A secretive project conducted from the deck of an aircraft carrier in the San Francisco Bay will shoot trillions of aerosol particles into the sky to increase cloud cover in the name of preventing global warming, and details have been held back to “avoid (a) public backlash.” The experiment is being dubbed […]
