Archive for September, 2013
Cryptogon Reader Contributes NZ$300
September 11th, 2013Wow! Thank you, DR.
UN Team Finds No Proof of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
September 11th, 2013Via: Sydney Morning Herald: United Nations investigators have listed a wide range of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria, but provided no conclusion on the issue of chemical weapons use. “On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or […]
NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data with Israel
September 11th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart […]
Best Times for the 1 Percent Since 1920s
September 11th, 2013Via: AP: The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top […]
Stealth Coating Based on Squid Skin Could Make Soldiers Invisible to Night Vision
September 11th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Most camouflage materials used to disguise soldiers and vehicles during the day show up easily when viewed through night vision goggles and infrared cameras. This is because leaves and other foliage reflect infrared light in a different way to other fabrics and materials. However, scientists at the University of California Irvine have created […]
Possible Slow Updates Due to Loss of Internet Access
September 10th, 2013Telecom NZ has been having problems on their mobile network for the last couple of days. As of now, they’re blaming it on the weather. In any event, if updates slow down, you’ll know why. On a happier note, there’s good news to report in terms of Internet access for us going forward. The long […]
Apple Taking Biometric ID Mainstream with New iPhone
September 10th, 2013Via: Engadget: Apple’s brand-new iPhone 5s isn’t dramatically different from last year’s model, but it has at least one major addition: a “Touch ID” sensor. Us human beings are calling it a fingerprint sensor, and it’s built into the phone’s main Home button below the screen. Apple’s Phil Schiller says, “It reads your fingerprint at […]
New Bird Flu ‘Has Unique Traits’
September 10th, 2013Keep in mind, work on weaponized H5N1 is also occurring at Erasmus University Medical Centre in The Netherlands: Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious And now Dr. Fouchier wants to do “gain of function” research on H7N9. Via: BBC: The new flu which has emerged in China […]
Ridgway Banks and the Nitinol Engine
September 10th, 20131980 CNN report by science editor Kevin Sanders: — The Individualist: The Individualist from Zoe Banks on Vimeo. Related: Proceedings of the NITINOL Heat Engine Conference, 26-27 September 1978, Silver Spring, Maryland — Mcdonnell Douglas Scale Up:
U.S. ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO SYRIA: ASSAD HAS ONE WEEK TO TURN OVER CHEMICAL WEAPONS
September 9th, 2013Update: Syria ‘Welcomes’ Proposal to Put Chemical Weapons Under International Control Via: CNN: Syria on Monday embraced a Russian proposal for Bashar al-Assad to put his nation’s chemical weapons under international control as part of an effort to head off a possible military strike from the United States over an alleged poison gas attack. Syrian […]
