Archive for August, 2018
Robots Can Effectively Brainwash Children
August 22nd, 2018And now, children, we’ll learn how jet fuel can melt structural steel. Via: SHTFplan: “People often follow the opinions of others and we’ve known for a long time that it is hard to resist taking over views and opinions of people around us. We know this as conformity. But as robots will soon be found […]
The Stock Market’s Latest Sell Signal Has Happened Only 5 Other Times Since 1895
August 22nd, 2018Via: Marketwatch: The “Sound Advice Risk Indicator” … the brainchild of Gray Cardiff, editor of the Sound Advice newsletter, is derived from the ratio of the S&P 500 SPX to the median price of a new U.S. house. For the first time since the late 1990s, and for only the sixth time since 1895, this […]
U.S. Special Forces Soldier Charged with Smuggling 90 Pounds of Cocaine from Colombia to Florida
August 22nd, 2018Woopsee. Via: NBC: A decorated Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday for attempting to smuggle nearly 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia into the U.S. on a military airplane, according to two defense officials. Army Master Sgt. Daniel Gould, assigned to the 7th Special Forces Group, was arrested after Drug Enforcement Administration agents found 40 […]
San Francisco “Poop Patrollers” Make $185,000
August 22nd, 2018Via: ZeroHedge: We wish we could say this was a satire piece, but a new story in the San Francisco Chronicle reveals just how lucrative collecting shit actually is. It’s but the latest in a string of shocking revelations to hit headlines throughout the summer exposing how deep San Francisco’s crisis of vast amounts of […]
Image-Conscious China Appoints New Global Propaganda Czar
August 22nd, 2018Speaking of images, Chinese internment camps visible from space. Via: U.S. News/AP: China’s increasingly image-conscious government has appointed a trusted member of the ruling Communist Party to head up its international propaganda operation. Former top internet regulator Xu Lin will be in charge of efforts to portray China as a progressive force for good in […]
Front Hole?
August 22nd, 2018Via: Yahoo News: A new safe sex guide for the LGBTQIA community includes the term “front hole” as an alternative to “vagina.” The health website Healthline, along with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) and Advocates for Youth, has published the LGBTQIA Safe Sex Guide, which expands current safe sex terminology.
In Guilty Plea, Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen Says He Made Payments at Candidate’s Direction
August 21st, 2018Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty in New York on Tuesday to campaign finance violations and other charges, saying he made payments to influence the 2016 election at the direction of a candidate for federal office. The guilty pleas came in the same hour that a federal jury […]
Study Reveals Great Pyramid of Giza Can Focus Electromagnetic Energy
August 21st, 2018Book from 1998: The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt Paperback by Christopher Dunn. Via: PhysOrg: An international research group has applied methods of theoretical physics to investigate the electromagnetic response of the Great Pyramid to radio waves. Scientists predicted that under resonance conditions, the pyramid can concentrate electromagnetic energy in its internal chambers […]
Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere
August 21st, 2018Via: NPR: Plastic trash is littering the land and fouling rivers and oceans. But what we can see is only a small fraction of what’s out there. Since modern plastic was first mass-produced, 8 billion tons have been manufactured. And when it’s thrown away, it doesn’t just disappear. Much of it crumbles into small pieces. […]
South Africa Begins Seizing White-Owned Farms
August 20th, 2018Via: news.com.au: THE South African government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers. Local newspaper City Press reports two game farms in the northern province of Limpopo are the first to be targeted for unilateral seizure after negotiations with the owners to purchase the properties stalled. While the government says it intends […]