Border Patrol Monitoring Drivers, Looking for “Suspicious Travel Patterns”
November 20th, 2025Via: CBS News:
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
The Border Patrol’s predictive intelligence program has resulted in people being stopped, searched and in some cases arrested. A network of cameras scans and records vehicle license plate information, and an algorithm flags vehicles deemed suspicious based on where they came from, where they were going and which route they took. Federal agents in turn may then flag local law enforcement.
Suddenly, drivers find themselves pulled over – often for reasons cited such as speeding, no turn signals or even a dangling air freshener blocking the view. They are then aggressively questioned and searched, with no inkling that the roads they drove put them on law enforcement’s radar.
Infant Vaccine Intensity Strongly Predicts Autism Rates Worldwide
November 19th, 2025Via: Focal Points:
A new cross-national study from Italy’s National Research Council, spanning multiple developed countries across three continents, has identified a remarkably strong association between early-life vaccine intensity and autism prevalence. The number of vaccine types and doses administered before 12 months showed exceptionally high correlations with national autism rates.
A 1% increase in vaccine types before age one corresponded to a 0.47% increase in autism prevalence.
The correlation is enormous — r = 0.87 for vaccine types and r = 0.79 for vaccine doses. In regression models, vaccine intensity alone explained 81% of the variance in autism prevalence across nations.
This is not an isolated signal. It directly corroborates earlier U.S. state-level data from DeLong (2011) — and aligns with the 107 positive-association studies catalogued in the McCullough Foundation’s Landmark Autism Report.
“Potentially Transformative” Rare Earth Elements Discovery in Alaska
November 19th, 2025Keyword: Potentially
Via: Discovery Alert:
Recent geological investigations at Graphite One’s Graphite Creek facility in Alaska have revealed a potentially transformative development for North American critical minerals energy security. In November 2024, the company confirmed the presence of five permanent-magnet rare earth elements within garnet-bearing rocks at the same location designated for graphite extraction in their February 2025 Feasibility Study. This Graphite One rare earth elements discovery positions Alaska’s Seward Peninsula as a potential source of two Defense Production Act Title III materials in a single mining operation.
The identified elements include neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, and samarium, each critical to permanent magnet manufacturing and defense applications. Furthermore, this development reflects broader mining industry trends towards dual-commodity operations that maximise resource utilisation from single deposits.
However, industry analysts emphasise that confirming elemental presence differs significantly from proving commercial viability. No resource estimates, metallurgical recovery data, or economic assessments for the rare earth component have been disclosed, leaving key questions about extraction feasibility unanswered.
More: New Arctic discovery could deal massive blow to Chinese dominance of rare earth minerals
Senate Unanimously Approves Bill to Force Release of Epstein Files
November 18th, 2025*yawn*
The Epstein files are like UFO disclosure, JFK, 9/11 etc. At maximum, only carefully managed limited hangouts will be released.
There is no way that the full extent of the Epstein situation will ever come out.
Via: The Hill:
The Senate agreed by unanimous consent Tuesday to approve a House-passed bill to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records and documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sending the bill to President Trump’s desk for a signature.
The swift Senate action ends the protracted battle in Congress over the files, which caused months of turmoil in the House and gave Democrats political ammo to accuse Republicans of protecting rich and powerful people who participated in Epstein’s illicit activities.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday evening received unanimous consent to approve the Epstein Files Transparency Act upon receipt of the legislation from the House, only hours after the lower chamber voted 427-1 to approve it.
Related: “National Security” Blocks Epstein Files Release
Apple’s Quiet Path to Identity Control
November 18th, 2025Via: The Highwire:
Apple’s new Digital ID feature has arrived. And in true Apple fashion, it is dressed in the language of ease and convenience. Scan your passport into your iPhone or Apple Watch. Move through TSA with a quick tap. In other words, no wallet, no cards, and no friction. If you listen to Apple, it is a much-needed quiet upgrade to today’s modern life. But, beneath the surface, the pattern is all too familiar and increasingly global. Much of the world is already living inside digital identification enslavement systems that began in the same way, professing to be voluntary, limited, and wrapped neatly in claims of convenience.
Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment Boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
November 18th, 2025Via: BBC:
Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC.
Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationality” in the current AI boom.
It comes amid fears in Silicon Valley and beyond of a bubble as the value of AI tech companies has soared in recent months and companies spend big on the burgeoning industry.
Asked whether Google would be immune to the impact of the AI bubble bursting, Mr Pichai said the tech giant could weather that potential storm, but also issued a warning.
“I think no company is going to be immune, including us,” he said.
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Anduril Unveils Omen Hybrid-Electric Vertical Takeoff And Landing Drone
November 18th, 2025Via: The War Zone:
Anduril has unveiled Omen, a new tail-sitting vertical takeoff and landing drone with a hybrid-electric propulsion system. The design, which the company is now developing in cooperation with EDGE Group in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is intended to be modular and adaptable to a wide array of military and non-military missions. Omen is being presented as a particularly disruptive effort, with outsized range and capabilities for its size and weight, positioning it to compete against larger uncrewed and crewed aircraft.
Project Prometheus: Jeff Bezos Launching $6.2 Billion AI Startup He Will Co-Lead
November 17th, 2025Haha no way ?
Copy ? https://t.co/TG8UMrWwQr
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2025
Via: Forbes:
Jeff Bezos is set to serve as the co-CEO of Project Prometheus—a new artificial intelligence startup he is partially funding—the New York Times reported on Monday, the billionaire’s first significant executive role since he stepped down as Amazon’s CEO in 2021.
Britain: Government ‘Withholding Data that May Link Covid Jab to Excess Deaths’
November 16th, 2025
Via: Telegraph:
UKHSA argued that releasing figures would lead to ‘distress or anger’ of bereaved relatives if connection were discovered.
Labor Demographer Issues Warning: College-Educated Oversupply Is Here
November 16th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
Goldman analysts led by Evan Tylenda published a note on emerging labor-market risks and how companies are adapting to aging demographics and shrinking labor pools.
One section stood out in particular: the widening mismatch between an oversupply of college-educated workers and a deepening shortage of talent for non-degree, hands-on jobs.
Tylenda and others on the team spoke with labor demographer Ron Hetrick, who outlined how the U.S. labor market is entering a structural slowdown driven by aging demographics, a falling birth rate, and weakening participation among older workers.
Hetrick outlined that baby boomers once supplied 65 million workers, but only 25 million remain, and no younger generation is large enough to replace them.
He noted that BLS data show the workforce adding just 5.9 million workers by 2034, with nearly half of that coming from workers aged +65, even as participation among those +55 continues to decline.
Here’s where things get spicy: This demographic squeeze is creating a skills imbalance: an oversupply of college-educated workers and a shortage of vocational and lower-skilled labor for non-degree jobs.
Related: U.S. ‘In Trouble’ – Ford CEO Can’t Find 5,000 Mechanics For $120k Jobs
