Archive for September, 2019
“Robot Priests Can Bless You, Advise You, and Even Perform Your Funeral”
September 22nd, 2019You head on down to your local Reverend Wayne’s Pearly Gates franchise, hoping for a pleasant sermon from a robot that looks like it stepped out of Ghost in the Shell, but you find that there have been… Upgrades. Here’s Geordie Rose talking about, “These things that we’re summoning into the world now.” Via: Vox: […]
Google Research Paper Claims ‘Quantum Supremacy’
September 21st, 2019The paper was posted publicly by mistake and then removed. Via: Fortune: In what may be a huge milestone in computing, Google says it has achieved “quantum supremacy,” an experimental demonstration of the superiority of a quantum computer over a traditional one. The claim, made in a new scientific paper, is the most serious indication […]
American “Economic Refugees” Are Increasingly Retiring Abroad
September 21st, 2019Via: CBS News: The number of retirees who draw Social Security outside the U.S. jumped 40%, to more than 413,000, between 2007 to 2017, according to the Social Security Administration. To be sure, that’s a fraction of the nation’s 42 million retirees. But it reflects the financial realities for a growing number of baby boomers […]
United States Sending Troops to Saudi Arabia
September 20th, 2019Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has squarely blamed on Iran. The Pentagon said the deployment would involve a moderate number of troops – not numbering thousands – and would […]
CHP Arrests Man Accused of Posing as Chinese Police Officer in Irvine
September 20th, 2019Are these simply nut jobs, or is the Chinese regime encouraging this to intimidate Chinese people living abroad? Via: KTLA: A man driving around Irvine in a mock Chinese police vehicle was arrested, and investigators are working to determine his motive, officials said Wednesday. Several people reported last Tuesday, Sept. 10, that an Asian man […]
Most Common Antidepressant Barely Helps Improve Depression Symptoms, ‘Shocking’ Trial Finds
September 20th, 2019Via: Telegraph: The most commonly prescribed antidepressant barely relieves symptoms of modern depression, a major study reveals. The largest independent investigation ever undertaken found patients taking sertraline experienced negligible improvements in mood. Published in the Lancet Psychiatry, the study comes amid mounting controversy over increased use of antidepressants by GPs in recent decades, with roughly […]
NY Fed to Pump $75 Billion Into Money Markets Daily Through Oct 10
September 20th, 2019Via: AFP: The New York Federal Reserve Bank said Friday it will inject billions into the US financial plumbing on a daily basis for the next three weeks in an effort to prevent a spike in short-term interest rates. The Fed will offer up to $75 billion a day in repurchase agreements — exchanging secure […]
How The Sabbatian-Frankist Death Cult Runs The World
September 20th, 2019Book: The Trigger: The Lie That Changed the World by David Icke Via: David Icke:
Plastic Apocalypse: Alarming Levels Of Plastic Found In Children
September 19th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: The study, conducted by the German Environment Ministry and the Robert Koch Institute, found an alarming 97% of blood and urine samples from 2,500 children tested between 2014 and 2017 had traces of microplastics. Der Spiegel, the German weekly magazine, published the findings over the weekend, which were part of a national study […]
Smart Faucets And Toilets Use Alexa To Listen To Your Conversations
September 19th, 2019haha Oh sure! Via: MassPrivatel: It is hard to imagine a more intrusive home surveillance device than a faucet or toilet that listens to everyone’s conversations, but that is just what Delta Faucet and Kohler have done. Delta Faucet’s “Voice IQ” takes advantage of where lots of people like to congregate and turns it into […]
