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Nikkei 225 Down 12.4% Monday, Worst Two Day Decline Ever
August 4th, 2024Via: ABC:
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index plunged 12.4% on Monday, resuming sell-offs that are shaking world markets as investors fret over the state of the U.S. economy.
The Nikkei closed down 4,451.28 points at 31,458.42. The market’s broader TOPIX index fell 12.8% as selling picked up in the afternoon.
Could AI Robots with Lasers Make Herbicides – and Farm Workers – Obsolete?
August 4th, 2024Via: Los Angeles Times:
The smell of burnt vegetation wafted through a lettuce field here one recent summer morning as nearly 200 farmers, academics and engineers gathered to witness the future of automated agriculture.
Thirteen hulking machines with names like “Weed Spider” and “Mantis” crawled through rows of romaine. One used artificial intelligence cameras to scan the crops and spray them with herbicides. Another zapped weeds with lasers. Yet another deployed robotic arms to cultivate and pick through the foliage.
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The massive machine uses deep-learning AI models to scan fields and identify weeds in real time before vaporizing them with more than 30 high-powered lasers, all while protecting the crop. The company says it reduces farming costs, increases yields and improves soil health while avoiding the need for chemical herbicides.
“This is the future,” Mahoney said as the LaserWeeder moved through the lettuce, leaving small wisps of smoke in its wake.
Cold War: FBI Ran Operation That Sold Sabotaged Electronics to Soviets
August 4th, 2024Was the purpose of the operation described below actually meant to thwart the Soviet Union?
It was probably the opposite.
Even if some of the equipment didn’t work properly, much could still be gleaned from having it in hand.
The USSR was a disaster and would have collapsed decades earlier if it wasn’t for assistance from Western countries.
See: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Antony C Sutton
Via: Politico:
“We were in a position to guarantee that the technology, even though it would be illegal to export, it could safely find its way to the end user in Eastern Europe, whether it was East German or Bulgarian — you never knew exactly who’s loading dock was going to end up on,” recalled Ed Appel, a former senior FBI official. Appel helped run Intering from Washington, where he then oversaw Bulgarian and East German operations for the bureau.
Five Countries to Test European Vaccination Card
August 3rd, 2024Via: Children’s Health Defense:
Belgium, Germany, Greece, Latvia and Portugal will test the new vaccination card in a variety of formats, including printed cards, mailed copies and digital versions for smartphones. Critics called it a “direct threat to freedom.”
Warren Buffett Raises Berkshire Cash Level to Record $277 Billion After Slashing Stock Holdings
August 3rd, 2024He has been selling for, “Seven quarters straight.” He knows something big is coming down.
Via: CNBC:
Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile swelled to a record $276.9 billion last quarter as Warren Buffett sold big chunks in stock holdings including Apple.
The Omaha-based conglomerate’s cash hoard jumped significantly higher from the previous record of $189 billion, set in the first quarter of 2024. The increase came after the Oracle of Omaha sold nearly half of his stake in Tim Cook-led tech giant in the second quarter.
Berkshire has been a seller of stocks for seven quarters straight, but that selling accelerated in the last period with Buffett shedding more than $75 billion in equities in the second quarter. That brings the total of stocks sold in the first half of 2024 to more than $90 billion. The selling by Buffett has continued in the third quarter in some areas with Berkshire trimming its second biggest stake, Bank of America, for 12 consecutive days, filing this week showed.
The Patsy Profile: Assassination Deep Events
August 3rd, 2024Via: Dark Journalist:
Riots in Britain: “Enough Is Enough”
August 3rd, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
Riots have broken out across the UK amid ‘anti-immigration’ protests linked to the far right with officers firing tear gas into crowds and battling thugs as they are pelted with bricks and rocks.
Simmering tensions in the wake of the Southport stabbings have erupted into protests around the country, with mayhem breaking out in Leeds, Stoke and Liverpool, where multiple officers have been injured tackling the disorder.
Children of Freed Sleeper Agents Learned They Were Russians on the Flight, Kremlin Says
August 2nd, 2024Via: Reuters:
A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they were Russians only after the flight took off, the Kremlin said on Friday.
“Before that, they didn’t know that they were Russian and that they had anything to do with our country,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“And you probably saw that when the children came down the plane’s steps that they don’t speak Russian and that Putin greeted them in Spanish. He said ‘buenas noches’.”
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Among those released were the so-called “illegal” sleeper agents – the Dultsevs, a husband and wife convicted by a court in Slovenia of pretending to be Argentinians in order to spy, who were flown back to Russia with their two children.
Peskov said that while the couple were being held in jail they were given only restricted access to their children, and feared they could lose their parental rights.
“The children asked their parents yesterday who it was that was meeting them (in Moscow). They didn’t even know who Putin was. This is how the ‘illegals’ work. They make such sacrifices out of dedication to their work,” Peskov said.
Ukraine War: First Successful One Way Drone Attack On In-Flight Helicopter
August 2nd, 2024Via: The Warzone:
This morning, a Russian Mi-8AMTSh Hip helicopter crashed near Donetsk City. Russian sources report it was downed by a Ukrainian one-way attack drone.
“Yesterday we wrote about the enemy’s attempts to operate drones against our army aviation,” wrote the Voivode Broadcasts Telegram channel, which first reported the incident. “Unfortunately… today they succeeded.”
The helicopter was hit “at the moment of takeoff,” Voivode Broadcasts wrote.
More: A Two-Pound Ukrainian Drone Just Shot Down A 12-Ton Russian Helicopter
Related: Long-Range Kamikaze Drones Offer ‘Cheap’ Strike Opportunities For U.S., Allies
