Archive for March, 2021
Lobbyist in $60 Million Ohio Bribery Probe Found Dead in Florida
March 17th, 2021Update: USA Today: Unlimited Dark Money Available Clark, who founded Columbus lobbying firm Grant Street Consultants, was accused last year of playing a key role in a $61 million scheme to elect Larry Householder to the House Speaker post and pass a bailout for two Ohio nuclear plants. Clark pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing. […]
Company Offering Realtime Tracking Information For “Specific Cars In Nearly Any Country On Earth”
March 17th, 2021Mobile phone tracking: Check License plate tracking: Check Vehicle telematics tracking: Check Via: Vice: A surveillance contractor that has previously sold services to the U.S. military is advertising a product that it says can locate the real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth. It says it does this by using data […]
“Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos”
March 17th, 2021“Growing these sort-of humans…” Via: NPR: For decades, science has been trying to unlock the mysteries of how a single cell becomes a fully formed human being and what goes wrong to cause genetic diseases, miscarriages and infertility. Now, scientists have created living entities in their labs that resemble human embryos; the results of two […]
A Defensive Computing Checklist
March 17th, 2021For those who didn’t get enough from Who Controls Your Computer? (And How to make sure it’s you). This is more hilarious than anything else: defensivecomputingchecklist.com
U.S. “COVID Relief” Was Enough To Give Every Taxpayer $41,870
March 17th, 2021Via: Foundation for Economic Education: The sheer immensity of this spending is hard to grasp. For context, $6 trillion is more than one-fourth of what the US economy produces in an entire year, according to Fox Business. The COVID spending blowout is at least eight times bigger than the (inflation-adjusted) price tag of President Franklin […]
Britain Increasing Size of Nuclear Arsenal
March 17th, 2021Via: Barrons: Britain unveiled plans Tuesday to pivot its strategic focus towards Asia, counter Russian threats and bolster its nuclear stockpile, in one of the biggest overhauls of security, defence and foreign policy since the Cold War era. The conclusions of the government’s so-called Integrated Review, crafted over the past year as London recalibrates its […]
VW Orders $14 Billion Worth of Battery Cells from Northvolt’s Gigafactory
March 16th, 2021Via: Electrek: Volkswagen Group confirmed that it placed a new order for $14 billion worth of battery cells from Northvolt’s Swedish gigafactory, and it is taking a bigger stake in the battery manufacturer. Northvolt is a battery startup founded by two former Tesla executives who worked on Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada with Panasonic.
Homesteading
March 16th, 2021It’s not a new message, but it’s one that’s worth repeating, for those who might be receptive to it. I received an email from someone asking me how I saw “it” coming so long ago. The answer is that there have always been people who viewed the status quo as toxic and unbearable. For me, […]
The Woke Mob Wants YOU! (Recruitment Video)
March 16th, 2021Via: Awaken with JP:
The Sovietization of the American Press
March 16th, 2021Via: National Post: The old con of the Manufacturing Consent era of media was a phony show of bipartisanship. Legitimate opinion was depicted as a spectrum stretching all the way from “moderate” Democrats (often depicted as more correct on social issues) to “moderate” Republicans (whose views on the economy or war were often depicted as […]
