Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Biology: “Something That Can Be Digitally Manipulated”
October 2nd, 2019It’s easy to laugh at the barking insanity of these monsters, but at the same time, you probably know someone who spent their hard earned money to buy a “smart speaker” surveillance platform for their home. Via: CNBC: Brain inserts and carbon-absorbing bacteria aren’t just the fantasies of Silicon Valley’s richest executives, they’re also a […]
FAA Allows UPS to Expand Drone Deliveries in U.S.
October 2nd, 2019Via: CBS: UPS won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will allow the company to expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, before UPS — or other operators who are testing drones — can fill the sky […]
Pentagon Official Fired After He Mentioned Billions of Dollars in Waste and Fraud
October 2nd, 2019Via: Yahoo News: Assad’s aggressive approach to contract negotiations, however, paid off. The Pentagon credited the career civil servant with bringing down the costs of the Apache helicopter, the C-17 transport plane and the F/A-18 fighter, saving taxpayers more than half a billion dollars. And that wasn’t all: A former senior Pentagon official said Assad […]
Amazon’s Dystopian Plan To Be Anywhere And Everywhere
September 30th, 2019Via: The Week: When most tech companies host a launch event, it is to unveil one or two major products. Not Amazon. For the past couple of years at its launch events, the company has bombarded tech watchers with a torrent of new products. And so it wasn’t all that surprising when it announced a […]
Consumers Increasingly Using Buy-Now-Pay-Later Services for Shoes, Sweaters, Makeup
September 30th, 2019Via: Wall Street Journal: Gone are the days when special financing plans were mostly reserved for big-ticket purchases like TVs and refrigerators. Now, sweaters, makeup or other everyday items can be paid for in installments with loans or other payment plans offered at checkout with thousands of merchants in the U.S., including Walmart Inc., Urban […]
Pod People
September 30th, 2019Via: Paul Watson: Related: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
Auto Workers Fear for Jobs with Rise of Electric Vehicles
September 28th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: The milkman went missing thanks to the rise of refrigerators. Switchboard operators were done in by the dawn of direct dialing. And in the car industry, auto workers are deathly afraid the engine assembler will give way to battery builders. Dread over the prospect that plug-in cars — which have fewer parts and […]
9/11 Bombshell: CNBC Anchor Says Building 7 a ‘Controlled Implosion’
September 25th, 2019Via: Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: On the 18th anniversary of 9/11, CNBC senior analyst and former anchor Ron Insana went on Bernie and Sid In the Morning on New York’s 77 WABC Radio to share his haunting experience of that horrible day. Approximately eight minutes into the interview, Insana made a statement regarding […]
How Afghan Opium Poppy Farming Has Grown
September 22nd, 2019Mission accomplished. Many articles on Cryptogon about this. One of my favorites: Afghanistan: Planned British Covert Operation Included Training in “Farming and Irrigation Techniques” for Taliban Fighters Via: BBC: The US has spent $1.5m (£1.15m) a day since 2001 fighting the opium war in Afghanistan.
Sacramento McDonald’s Tries to Drive Homeless Away with Siren
September 22nd, 2019Via: CBS Sacramento: A Sacramento McDonald’s is going to extremes to curb outside loitering. It’s playing a loud, strange sound on speakers outside the restaurant. The property at 30th and K streets appears to be a popular homeless hangout site. The siren is intended to annoy and reduce the number of people standing around the […]
