Archive for May, 2020
Lockdown Suicide Data Reveal Predictable Tragedy
May 26th, 2020Via: American Institute for Economic Research: On March 28, the American Institute for Economic Research ran a terrifying article that didn’t receive the attention it deserved, even though the research behind it was impeccable and detailed. It was Drugs, Suicide, and Crime: Empirical Estimates of the Human Toll of the Shutdown. On suicide in particular, […]
How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns
May 26th, 2020Via: Real Clear Politics: In the face of a novel virus threat, China clamped down on its citizens. Academics used faulty information to build faulty models. Leaders relied on these faulty models. Dissenting views were suppressed. The media flamed fears and the world panicked. That is the story of what may eventually be known as […]
Scared Americans Desperate to Travel Are Buying Up ‘Covid Campers’
May 26th, 2020All mainstream media are pushing the “second wave” scenario. Via: Bloomberg: Cooped-up Americans desperate to get out after months of lockdowns are dreaming of doing something—anything—that resembles a vacation. But a majority of them worry a second wave of the coronavirus is coming, and think politicians have pushed too fast to reopen. Unsurprisingly, when it […]
Taxpayers Are on the Hook for 98 Percent of the Fed’s $6.98 Trillion Balance Sheet
May 26th, 2020Via: Wall Street on Parade: In other words, an institution controlled by five unelected people, with the insane power to create money out of thin air by pushing an electronic button, have put taxpayers (and the next generation) on the hook for $6.85 trillion. Related: How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino
Precomputed Contact Chaining: Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
May 26th, 2020Via: Wired: If anyone could become an intelligence target, Mainway should try to get a head start on everyone. … The NSA had built a live, ever-updating social graph of the US.
Hong Kong Protests Resume
May 24th, 2020Via: Reuters: Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of people who rallied on Sunday to protest against Beijing’s plan to impose national security laws on the city.
Meet Bill Gates
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Hertz Files for U.S. Bankruptcy Protection as Car Rentals Evaporate in Pandemic
May 23rd, 2020Via: Reuters: The more than a century old car rental firm Hertz Global Holdings Inc filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday after its business was decimated during the coronavirus pandemic and talks with creditors failed to result in much needed relief.
USS Portland Fires Laser Weapon, Downs Drone in First At-Sea Test
May 22nd, 2020Via: U.S. Naval Institute: Amphibious ship USS Portland (LPD-27) shot down a drone with a laser weapon during a first-of-its-kind at-sea test of the Navy’s high-energy laser weapon system. The Navy is currently developing and testing a portfolio of laser weapons, some of which are more powerful but only suited for ships with greater power-generation […]
Washington Post Claims Trump Administration Considering Nuclear Weapon Test
May 22nd, 2020Washington Post + Anonymous “Officials” = [???] Via: The Hill: Members of the Trump administration have explored conducting the first U.S. nuclear test since 1992 in a move that would mark a reversal from a decades-long freeze on such tests. A senior administration official and two former officials familiar with the deliberations told The Washington […]
