Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Sales of Gas Powered Cars Peaked in 2017
May 19th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Gas-powered vehicles will still comprise more than half of global auto sales for years to come, but the market has already peaked, according to BNEF. Worldwide, we will never buy as many traditional cars and trucks as we did in 2017.
U.S. Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
May 18th, 2020Via: Krebs on Security: A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service. A memo seen by KrebsOnSecurity that the Secret Service circulated […]
Google Bans Podcast App Because It Includes Podcasts That Mention Covid-19
May 18th, 2020Via: Reclaim the Net: One of the most popular podcast players on the Google Play store, Podcast Addict, has been suspended on the grounds that some of the podcasts it indexes reference the coronavirus but aren’t approved by government entities or public health organizations. According to the now-removed Google Play store listing for Podcast Addict, […]
Bill Gates and the Population Control Grid
May 17th, 2020Via: Corbett Report: The takeover of public health that we have documented in How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health and the remarkably brazen push to vaccinate everyone on the planet that we have documented in Bill Gates’ Plan to Vaccinate the World was not, at base, about money. The unimaginable wealth that Gates has accrued […]
The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing
May 14th, 2020I don’t know where I got this, but I want to put it on a T-shirt. Via: The Rutherford Institute: No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state. That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every […]
McConnell Patriot Act Expansion, “Would Explicitly Permit the FBI to Collect Records of Americans’ Internet Search and Browsing Histories Without a Warrant”
May 13th, 2020I could link to dozens or hundreds of posts. Talk about beating a dead horse… For decades. Anyway, here’s one from just a few years ago: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants …if you think that place is only used to store information gleaned from taps on foreigners, I’ve got a bridge to sell […]
X-37B Space Plane’s Microwave Power Beam Experiment
May 10th, 2020Via: The Drive: The X-37B’s upcoming mission is known as both Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6) and U.S. Space Force-7 (USSF-7). It will carry out missions that will assess the effects of cosmic radiation and other “space effects” on plant seeds and various material samples. According to a Space Force press release, which went out on […]
Tesla Sues California County in Virus Factory Closure fight, Threatens to Leave
May 10th, 2020Via: Reuters: Tesla Inc sued local authorities in California on Saturday as the electric carmaker pushed to re-open its factory there and Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened to move Tesla’s headquarters and future programs from the state to Texas or Nevada.
Pentagon Official: FCC Decision on 5G Threatens GPS, National Security
May 8th, 2020Via: The Hill: Pentagon officials on Wednesday criticized the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to allow Virginia-based satellite communications company Ligado to deploy a nationwide mobile network, saying that it could have adverse effects on GPS signals that are integral to the military’s operations. “GPS has also long been a critical technology that has […]
Homeland Security’s Biometrics Database Is on Its Way to the Amazon Cloud
May 7th, 2020Via: Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department is in the midst of migrating its central biometric database—used to store, manage and disseminate biometric data on U.S. citizens and foreign nationals—to the Amazon Web Services GovCloud, the first step in a major overhaul of the decades-old legacy system.
