Archive for July, 2019
Road-Tripping with the Amazon Nomads
July 15th, 2019Via: The Verge: The majority of goods sold on Amazon are not sold by Amazon itself, but by more than 2 million merchants who use the company’s platform as their storefront and infrastructure. Some of these sellers make their own products, while others practice arbitrage, buying and reselling wares from other retailers. Amazon has made […]
This Cop Is Getting $2,500 a Month Because Killing an Unarmed Man in a Hotel Hallway Gave Him PTSD
July 15th, 2019Via: Reason: An Arizona cop acquitted of murder in 2017 for killing a man crawling on his knees, begging for his life, in a hotel hallway, was temporarily rehired by the city he worked for so that he could claim a disability pension and file for a medical retirement that will pay him more than […]
Florida Sheriff Deputy Arrested After Planting Drugs on Innocent People
July 15th, 2019Via: Reason: A former Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday for planting drugs and falsely arresting at least 10 people, including one case where Reason obtained body camera footage showing him lying about the results of roadside field test. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) announced yesterday that, following a months-long investigation, former Jackson […]
Real Hedge-Fund Managers Think Epstein’s Actual Business Was Blackmail
July 14th, 2019Via: New York Magazine: Long before Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to prostitution charges in Florida more than a decade ago, his fellow Palm Beach resident and hedge-fund manager Douglas Kass was intrigued by the local gossip about his neighbor. “I’m hearing about the parties, hearing about a guy who’s throwing money around,” says Kass, president […]
Claim: Acosta Told Trump Transition Team, “Epstein Belonged to Intelligence,” Leave It Alone
July 14th, 2019This amounts to he-said-she-said, but I’ve assumed that Epstein was state sponsored from the start. Via: Daily Beast: Epstein’s name, I was told, had been raised by the Trump transition team when Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami who’d infamously cut Epstein a non-prosecution plea deal back in 2007, was being interviewed for […]
U.S. Fast-Food Drive-Thrus Will Soon Use License Plate And Facial Recognition Technology
July 13th, 2019I like the picture at ZeroHedge of a morbidly obese person ordering slop at the drive-thru. Wow. Via: ZeroHedge: License plate recognition could be the new big thing at American drive-thrus, according to FT. Chains are now looking to deploy cameras that recognize license plates and help identify customers, personalizing digital menus and speeding up […]
Decades Old Russian Nuclear Sub Wreck Leaking Radiation 100,000 Times Higher Than Normal
July 13th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: Researchers in Norway have discovered radiation levels in excess of 100,000 times normal next to a Soviet-era nuclear submarine which sank in the Arctic 30 years ago – a reading which is higher than those taken 12 years ago, according to Norwegian news outlet TV2. The Kosomolets went down in the Barents Sea […]
Diablo Canyon Nightmare Scenario: The Quake to Make Los Angeles a Radioactive Dead Zone
July 13th, 2019Cryptogon always supplies you with the most pleasant reading for the weekend. Via: CommonDreams: Nothing significant has been done to improve safety at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four Fukushima reactors have already exploded. Had Friday’s 7.1 […]
New York: Massive Power Outage In Midtown, Times Square, Other Sections Of Manhattan, Thousands Affected
July 13th, 2019CBS New York Livestream — Update: ConEd Restoring Power, No Cause of Outage Given — Via: CBSNY: A large power outage has struck Midtown, Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan. CBS2 began to hear reports that that all restaurants had gone dark in Hell’s Kitchen around 7 p.m. Saturday evening. There […]
Brain Implant Restores Partial Vision to Blind People
July 13th, 2019Via: Guardian: Partial sight has been restored to six blind people via an implant that transmits video images directly to the brain. Some vision was made possible – with the participants’ eyes bypassed – by a video camera attached to glasses which sent footage to electrodes implanted in the visual cortex of the brain. University […]
