From Darkness To Light
August 27th, 2019Via: Ty Schmitt:
From Darkness To Light is an 8k Time-Lapse film shot by storm chaser Ty Schmitt. All the clips in the film were captured on the Great Plains during the 2019 spring storm season. Ty traveled over 30,000 miles in 3 months chasing Mother Nature’s most intense moments.
Experimental U.S. Air Force Space Plane Breaks Previous Record for Orbital Spaceflight
August 26th, 2019Via: Space.com:
The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane just broke its spaceflight-duration record.
At 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 GMT) today (Aug. 26), the robotic X-37B sailed past the program mark of 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes, which was set by the previous mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 4 (OTV-4).
The current mission, OTV-5, began on Sept. 7, 2017, with a liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It’s unclear what the space plane is doing up there now, or what it has done on past flights; X-37B missions are classified, and the Air Force therefore tends to speak of the vehicle and its activities in general terms.
“The primary objectives of the X-37B are twofold; reusable spacecraft technologies for America’s future in space and operating experiments which can be returned to, and examined, on Earth,” Air Force officials wrote in the X-37B fact sheet.
Biden: “I’m Not Going Nuts”
August 26th, 2019I wonder if we’re going to see something similar to Clinton’s van scene with this asshole…
Via: ZeroHedge:
While the anti-Trump media has pivoted back to the whole ‘Trump is crazy’ / 25th Amendment impeachment fantasy revived by GOP challengers Bill Weld and Joe Walsh, former Vice President Joe Biden’s stumbling senior moments have gotten so bad that he’s now swearing he’s sane.
Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, Ehud Barak and Woody Allen All Associated with Epstein After He Did Time for Pedophilia
August 26th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge:
The list of people caught associating with Jeffrey Epstein after he did time for pedophilia keeps growing. From Bill Gates to Prince Andrew to Ehud Barak – the list of famous names associated with Epstein now includes filmmaker and accused pedophile Woody Allen, who was seen exiting the financier’s Manhattan townhouse after a December, 2010 party in honor of another accused pedophile, Prince Andrew.
Errors in Cellphone Location Evidence Force Denmark to Review 10,000 Verdicts
August 26th, 2019Via: The Verge:
Errors in cellphone location data have prompted authorities in Denmark to review 10,700 court cases to see if flawed evidence lead to incorrect convictions. The New York Times reports that the issues date back in 2012, and consist of two bugs. The first relates to how raw data from phone companies is converted into evidence by Danish police, and the second is a bug that could result in cellphones being linked to the wrong cellphone towers. Cases where errant data was a deciding factor in the conviction could end up being retried.
Silicon Valley Firms Building Chinese-Style Social Credit Systems
August 26th, 2019Via: Fast Company:
Many Westerners are disturbed by what they read about China’s social credit system. But such systems, it turns out, are not unique to China. A parallel system is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies.
Trump on U.S.-China Trade War: ‘I Could Declare a National Emergency’
August 25th, 2019Via: CNBC:
President Donald Trump said Sunday he could declare the escalating U.S.-China trade war as a national emergency if he wanted to.
“In many ways this is an emergency,” Trump said at the G-7 leaders meeting of the ongoing trade battle between the world’s top two economies.
“I could declare a national emergency, I think when they steal and take out and intellectual property theft anywhere from $300 billion to $500 billion a year and when we have a total lost of almost a trillion dollars a year for many years,” Trump said, adding that he had no plan right now to call for a national emergency.
Vitamin D Deficiency in Middle Childhood Is Related to Behavior Problems in Adolescence
August 25th, 2019Via: PsychCentral:
Vitamin D deficiency in childhood may be associated with a greater risk for aggressive behavior and anxious and depressive moods in adolescence, according to a new University of Michigan (U-M) study of schoolchildren in Bogotá, Colombia.
The findings, published in the Journal of Nutrition, show that children with blood vitamin D levels suggestive of deficiency were almost twice as likely to develop externalizing behavior problems — aggressive and rule-breaking behaviors — as reported by their parents, compared with children who had higher levels of the vitamin.
Also, low levels of the protein that transports vitamin D in blood were related to more self-reported aggressive behavior and anxious/depressed symptoms. The associations were independent of child, parental and household characteristics.
“Children who have vitamin D deficiency during their elementary school years appear to have higher scores on tests that measure behavior problems when they reach adolescence,” said Dr. Eduardo Villamor, professor of epidemiology at the U-M School of Public Health and senior author of the study.
Villamor notes that vitamin D deficiency has been linked to other mental health problems in adulthood, including depression and schizophrenia, and some studies have focused on the effect of vitamin D status during pregnancy and childhood. However, few studies have extended into adolescence, the stage when behavior problems may first appear and become serious conditions.
Oil Down Nearly 2%
August 25th, 2019Via: Reuters:
Oil prices fell on Monday, pushing U.S. crude to its lowest in more than two weeks, as a ratcheting up of tensions in the U.S.-China war knocked confidence in the global economy.
Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement
August 25th, 2019Via: ammo.com:
The current state of civil asset forfeiture in the United States is one of almost naked tyranny.
