Archive for March, 2020
Markets Gap Down, Trading Temporarily Halted
March 9th, 2020Update: Bounce Off Session Lows After Restart, Dow 30, SP500 and NAS All Down 6% — Where’s PPT? Via: CNBC: Stocks tumbled on Monday as investors braced for the economic fallout from the spreading coronavirus, while a shocking all-out oil price war added to the anxiety. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tanked more than 1,800 […]
U.S. Navy Robot Submarine Would Be Able to Kill Without Human Control
March 9th, 2020Via: New Scientist: The US Navy is quietly developing armed robot submarines controlled by onboard artificial intelligence. The vessels could potentially kill without explicit human control. The Office of Naval Research is carrying out the project, known as CLAWS, which it describes in budget documents as an autonomous undersea weapon system for clandestine use. CLAWS […]
Gates-Funded Program Will Soon Offer Home-Testing Kits for New Coronavirus
March 8th, 2020Gates and coronavirus over here. Gates and coronavirus over there. Gates and coronavirus everywhere. See: Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg The initiative grew out of the Seattle Flu Study, a 2-year-old research project based at the University of Washington to track the spread of infectious diseases like influenza. Funded with $20 million from Bill […]
OIL DOWN 31%, S&P 500 LIMIT DOWN 5%
March 8th, 2020Holy shit. Via: Yahoo Finance: The world’s faltering effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak hammered stocks and crude oil on Sunday, as new cases surfacing across the U.S. amplified fears of a global downturn. Brent crude (BZ=F) prices collapsed, falling by as much as 31% on Sunday evening in what was the largest single-day drop […]
Global Air Traffic Set For Worst Year On Record
March 8th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Covid-19 has become a significant headache for the global air travel industry, according to a new report from Jefferies. In fact, it is about to become the biggest shock for airlines on record as global air traffic is expected to dive 8.9% this year as the global viral pandemic paralyzes transportation routes across […]
OIL DOWN OVER 7%
March 6th, 2020Update: Oil Closes Down 9.43% — Russia refuses to cut output. Via: Reuters: OPEC’s plans for deep and prolonged oil cuts were derailed on Friday as non-OPEC Russia refused to support the move arguing that it was too early to predict the impact of a coronavirus outbreak on global energy demand, sources told Reuters.
Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg
March 6th, 2020Dr. Frank Plummer, a scientist who received $8.3 million in grant money from the Gates Foundation, and was the director of Canada’s National Microbiology Lab when it received coronavirus samples, died in Kenya weeks after the official start of the 2019 coronavirus outbreak… Which happened weeks after a Gates Foundation simulation of a coronavirus outbreak. […]
Through Apps, Not Warrants, ‘Locate X’ Allows Federal Law Enforcement to Track Phones
March 6th, 2020Via: Protocol: U.S. law enforcement agencies signed millions of dollars worth of contracts with a Virginia company after it rolled out a powerful tool that uses data from popular mobile apps to track the movement of people’s cell phones, according to federal contracting records and six people familiar with the software. The product, called Locate […]
Did ISS Live-Feed Accidentally Capture “Top Secret” Hypersonic Vehicle Test?
March 5th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Scott C. Waring, the founder of UFO Sightings Daily, claims he has come across a strange video recorded from the International Space Station’s (ISS) NASA Space Cam that shows the moment an unidentified flying object rockets into orbit.
“Super Puke” – U.S. Stocks Crash As Credit Markets & Yields Collapse
March 5th, 2020*chortle* Via: ZeroHedge: ‘just one waffer-thin mint’…
