Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Delhi Pollution: The Road to Hell
November 6th, 2016Via: 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 […]
FBI Clears Clinton – Again
November 6th, 2016Shocker. 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.
‘White House Readies to Fight Election Day Cyber Mayhem’
November 3rd, 2016Oh 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 […]
Repeat: Consider Increasing Readiness
October 31st, 2016I’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. […]
U.S. Presidential Election: Consider Increasing Readiness
October 28th, 2016Say 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 […]
Memory of Mankind Project Burying Microscopic Engravings Containing Human Knowledge in an Austrian Salt Mine
October 24th, 2016Via: 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
October 24th, 2016Via: 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. […]
AT&T Announces Purchase of Time Warner for Nearly $86 Billion
October 22nd, 2016E-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 […]
Tesla: Self-Driving Car Navigates Around Palo Alto, Drives Through Intersections, Finds Parking Spot
October 20th, 2016“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 […]
NYC Democratic Election Commissioner, “They Bus People Around to Vote”
October 13th, 2016Via: Project Veritas:
