Archive for the 'Elite' Category
A Contraceptive Implant with Remote Control
July 14th, 2014Date check: Nope, it’s not April Fool’s Day. Just make sure the firewall on your birth control chip is up to date… Via: MIT Technology Review: A startup has developed a contraceptive chip that could be deactivated and reactivated using a wireless remote. … Developed by MicroCHIPS of Lexington, Massachusetts, the device will begin pre-clinical […]
“How the CIA Partnered With Amazon and Changed Intelligence”
July 13th, 2014Via: DefenseOne: The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community.
Banks Dreading Computer Hacks Call for Cyber War Council
July 13th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Wall Street’s biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger financial panic by temporarily wiping out account balances, according to an internal document. The proposal by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, known as Sifma, calls for a committee of executives and […]
The Military Is Already Using Facebook to Track Your Mood
July 2nd, 2014Via: Defense One: Critics have targeted a recent study on how emotions spread on the popular social network site Facebook, complaining that some 600,000 Facebook users did not know that they were taking part in an experiment. Somewhat more disturbing, the researchers deliberately manipulated users’ feelings to measure an effect called emotional contagion. Though Cornell […]
Billionaire: When The Pitchforks Come Out, There Won’t Be Time to Board Our Gulfstream Jets for New Zealand
June 27th, 2014There’s another take on this over at Daily Ticker. In short: Wealthy People Should “Chill Out” Because Docile, Bewildered Americans Will Just Keep Watching TV: The rich ought to chill out. While the masses may envy their wealth, there’s no evidence of a revolution brewing, or even a well-behaved civil disturbance. Americans are clearly dismayed […]
Obama Asks Congress for $500 Million for Rebels
June 26th, 2014The ink is hardly dry on this one: Militants in Iraq Take Over Four Cities, Make Off with Arms Cache and Nearly Half a Billion Dollars. So they are backing the good terrorists and the bad terrorists. The amount needed for the good terrorists is interesting, wouldn’t you say? The bad terrorists make off with […]
Jimmy Savile NHS Abuse Victims Aged Five to 75
June 26th, 2014Via: BBC: Ex-BBC DJ Jimmy Savile sexually assaulted victims aged five to 75 in NHS hospitals over decades of unrestricted access, investigators say. He abused patients in their beds, in corridors and offices, reviews into his conduct on NHS premises found. The reports cover 28 hospitals including Leeds General Infirmary and Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. Health […]
Pennsylvania Ordered Its Health Workers to Never Discuss Fracking
June 25th, 2014Via: Grist: In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents. That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact Pennsylvania, which interviewed two retired state health department workers. The former workers say they were ordered to not return the phone calls […]
WikiLeaks Publishes Secret Draft Text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex
June 21st, 2014Via: WikiLeaks: Today, WikiLeaks released the secret draft text for the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Financial Services Annex, which covers 50 countries and 68.2%1 of world trade in services. The US and the EU are the main proponents of the agreement, and the authors of most joint changes, which also covers cross-border data flow. […]
Thousands of Illegal Immigrants Being Housed in FEMA Facilities and Military Bases; Hundreds of Unaccompanied Children Arriving in U.S. Daily
June 20th, 2014Is the U.S. on the way to becoming a failed state? Losing control of borders is one of the primary characteristics of failed states. See the Wikipedia page for failed states and compare the following criteria to what’s happening in the U.S. right now: Mounting Demographic Pressures [Yes] Massive Movement of Refugees or Internally Displaced […]
