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Britain: Large Drone Repeatedly Flown Over Gatwick Airport, Thousands of Travelers Stranded, Army Deployed
December 20th, 2018The French Air Force has trained eagles to attack drones: In a battle between ancient arts and modern technology, France’s army is teaching birds of prey to bring down remote-controlled drones when they enter no-go urban airspace. Four golden eagles are getting military training for combat against battery-charged drones that just about anybody can buy […]
Trump to Withdraw Troops from Syria [???]
December 20th, 2018A few days ago, it was: U.S. Troops to Occupy Third of Syria, “Perhaps Indefinitely.” So, is it good news that the Trump actually wants to get U.S. troops out of Syria? Yes. But it’s more complicated than that. He also has to stop the CIA from running/training/supplying ISIS. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump […]
Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Doorbell Cameras
December 14th, 2018Via: ACLU: Recently, a patent application from Amazon became public that would pair face surveillance — like Rekognition, the product that the company is aggressively marketing to police and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with Ring, a doorbell camera company that Amazon bought earlier this year. While the details are sketchy, the application describes a […]
Harvard’s $39B Endowment Is Reportedly Buying Up California’s Vineyards—and Their Water Rights
December 13th, 2018Via: Fortune: Harvard University’s endowment is reportedly buying up vineyards in California’s wine country, along with the water rights belonging to those properties. Instead of making the land purchases in its own name, Harvard is using a wholly owned subsidiary—named Brodiaea after the scientific name for the cluster lily—to buy vineyards. Harvard created Brodiaea in […]
Old Coal Mines Can be ‘Perfect’ Underground Food Farms
December 3rd, 2018Via: BBC: Abandoned coal mines across the UK could be brought back to life as huge underground farms, according to academics. Mine shafts and tunnels are seen as “the perfect environment” for growing food such as vegetables and herbs. The initiative is seen as a way of providing large-scale crop production for a growing global […]
U.S. Navy Admiral Scott Stearney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
December 2nd, 2018Via: CBS: Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, who oversaw U.S. naval forces in the Middle East, was found dead Saturday in his residence in Bahrain, officials said. Defense officials told CBS News they are calling it an “apparent suicide.” Stearney was the commander of the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet. Rear Adm. Paul Schlise, the deputy […]
Strange Seismic Waves That Rippled Around World Leave Scientists Bewildered
November 29th, 2018Via: Independent: Just before 9.30am on Sunday 11 November, a series of unusual seismic pulses rippled around the world almost undetected. The waves rang for over 20 minutes, emanating about 15 miles off the shores of Mayotte – a tiny island in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Africa. From here, they reverberated across Africa, […]
Gender X [???]
November 29th, 2018Dark Journalist: X Series I don’t watch any TV. Is this what TV is like now? Via: Hedgehog:
Former Federal Prosecutor Behind Jeffrey Epstein Deal Is Now Trump’s Secretary of Labor
November 28th, 2018Via: Miami Herald: Facing a 53-page federal indictment, Epstein could have ended up in federal prison for the rest of his life. But on the morning of the breakfast meeting, a deal was struck — an extraordinary plea agreement that would conceal the full extent of Epstein’s crimes and the number of people involved. Not […]
World’s First Gene-Edited Babies Created in China, Claims Scientist
November 26th, 2018Via: Guardian: A scientist in China claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies, in a potentially ground-breaking and controversial medical first. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. This kind of gene editing is banned in most countries as the technology is still experimental and DNA changes […]
