Archive for November, 2016
Los Angeles: Unclaimed Dead To Be Buried In Mass Grave
November 30th, 2016I thought this would be one for the Collapse category, but it doesn’t really fit because the practice is standard operating procedure: The county has interred unclaimed remains every year since 1896. Via: Los Angeles Daily News: Many were homeless. Most are now nameless. A few came from families hopeless of having enough money to […]
A Radioactive Berry-Picking Boom Outside Chernobyl
November 30th, 2016Via: CNBC: While many rural towns across Eastern Europe face economic struggle, the Ukrainian region of Polesia, 200 miles east of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site, has become something of a boomtown for foragers seeking mushrooms and berries — nearly all of which are contaminated with radiation. … The berry picking brings in money for […]
Oil Prices Surge 7% After OPEC Output Cut
November 30th, 2016Update: OPEC Agrees to Cut Production in Drive to End Record Glut — Via: Reuters: Oil prices jumped as much as 8 percent on Wednesday to a five-week high as some of the world’s largest oil producers gathered in Vienna to try to agree to a production cut that could be bigger than expected. An […]
Trump’s Pick for Treasury Secretary: Former CIO at Goldman Sachs, Helped Start George Soros Investment Fund
November 30th, 2016L.A. Times background from a couple of weeks ago: Mnuchin, chief executive of New York-based hedge fund Dune Capital Management, spent 17 years early in his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and eventually chief information officer, before leaving in 2002. He then started an investment fund with billionaire investor George Soros, […]
5 Major Automakers Join Forces to Deploy 400 Ultra-Fast Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles in Europe
November 29th, 2016Via: Electrek: BMW, Daimler’s Mercedes, Ford, and Volkswagen’s Audi and Porsche announced today that they are creating a joint-venture with the goal of a “quick build-up of a sizable number of stations in order to enable long-range travel for battery electric vehicle drivers.” The new venture is similar to the Ultra E project announced earlier […]
Microsoft Chatbot Censors Topics for Chinese Regime
November 29th, 2016Via: CNN: “If you like me, why would you talk like this to me?” Ask Microsoft’s Chinese chatbot Xiaoice about Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and that’s how she responds. She also skirts around highly sensitive topics like the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests, Chinese President Xi Jinping or even President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump’s Jesuit/Catholic Transition Team
November 29th, 2016Something? Nothing? Coincidence? Reddit Research Credit: RB
DAIMLER TO INVEST $11 BILLION IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES
November 27th, 2016Via: Reuters: Luxury carmaker Daimler is planning to invest up to 10 billion euros ($11 billion) in developing electric vehicles, its research and development head told a German daily. German firms are investing heavily in electric cars, once shunned for their high cost and limited operating range but now benefiting from recent advances in battery […]
Aspartame and Metabolic Syndrome
November 27th, 2016Via: Deutsche Welle: In the end, there were hardly any noticeable differences between the two groups of mice that were fed a normal diet. But among the groups that received a high-fat diet, the mice that drank the sweetener solution became considerably heavier than those who drank plain water. However, the blood sugar level was […]
Appeal to Use Cryptogon Amazon Links for Your Christmas Shopping
November 26th, 2016Update: Cash Contributions Thank you! GB AU$120 JM €15 DT $30 NM €300 [!!!] KL $5 (Monthly) KW $20 (Monthly) DJC NZ$30 Wow, thank you all again very much. — You may have noticed that I’ve stopped mentioning earnings. In short, I’ve been making only about 30% of the minimum monthly goal of $1000/month for […]
