Archive for May, 2018
Arizona Planning for Exodus of Californians to State in Event of Major Quake
May 21st, 2018Via: NBC: Government agencies, businesses and other organizations in Arizona plan to participate in an exercise to practice how the state would respond to a migration of 400,000 people following a catastrophic earthquake in Southern California. The Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs says participants in the National Mass Care Exercise in the coming […]
New Zealand: Northlanders Living in Cars as Housing Crisis Hits Hard
May 21st, 2018We had a couple with five children turn up to Playcentre. They’re living in tents. They fled Wellington with a plan to build some sort of shack on a small piece of land that they bought a couple of valleys over from us. Until that happens: Tents. Both mum and dad had been in the […]
Saildrones
May 20th, 2018Via: Bloomberg: Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.
Drinking Baking Soda Could be an Inexpensive, Safe Way to Combat Autoimmune Disease
May 20th, 2018Warning: Nothing that appears on Cryptogon should be viewed as medical advice. — Thanks to the Cryptogon reader who told me about taking sodium bicarbonate after my kidney stone disaster! Via: Agusta University: A daily dose of baking soda may help reduce the destructive inflammation of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say. They have […]
China Reportedly Holding Thousands of Muslims in Internment Camps
May 18th, 2018Via: AP: Since last spring, Chinese authorities in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang have ensnared tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Muslim Chinese — and even foreign citizens — in mass internment camps. This detention campaign has swept across Xinjiang, a territory half the area of India, leading to what a U.S. commission on […]
Recovery: 51 Million U.S. Households Can’t Afford Basics
May 18th, 2018Via: United Way: There are 50.8 million U.S. households that can’t afford a basic monthly budget including housing, food, child care, health care, transportation and a cell phone, according to new data released by the United Way ALICE Project. This calculation includes the 16.1 million households in poverty as well as another 34.7 million families […]
Google: Behavioral Sequencing
May 18th, 2018Via: The Verge: Google has built a multibillion-dollar business out of knowing everything about its users. Now, a video produced within Google and obtained by The Verge offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling look at how some at the company envision using that information in the future. The video was made in late 2016 by […]
U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low
May 17th, 2018Via: LiveScience: The number of babies being born in the United States continues to fall, with the birth rate reaching a new record low in 2017, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, about 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S., which is 2 percent lower […]
U.S. Cell Carriers Are Selling Access to Real-Time Phone Location Data
May 17th, 2018Via: zdnet: Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you’ve probably never heard about before. In case you missed it, a senator last week sent a letter demanding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) investigate why Securus, a prison technology company, can track any […]
DIA Report on Warp Drive, Extra Dimensions, Anti-Gravity
May 16th, 2018This seems to be associated with the Tom DeLonge/To the Stars PSYOP. At best, this is a limited hangout. Via: The Drive: The modern understanding of the Pentagon’s relationship with unexplained flying phenomena has become remarkably more pointed in the last six months since the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program was uncovered. Its disclosure came […]
