North and South Korea Reportedly Set to Announce Official End to War
April 17th, 2018Via: Reuters:
North and South Korea are in talks to announce a permanent end to the officially declared military conflict between the two countries, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed South Korean official.
Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation.
These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database
April 17th, 2018Via: Fortune:
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between “surveillance and what we do.” “The difference is extremely clear,” a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. “On Facebook, you have control over your information… the information we collect you can choose to have us not collect.”
But not a single member of the committee pushed the billionaire CEO about surveillance companies who exploit the data on Facebook for profit. Forbes has uncovered one case that might shock them: over the last five years a secretive surveillance company founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer has been quietly building a massive facial recognition database consisting of faces acquired from the giant social network, YouTube and countless other websites. Privacy activists are suitably alarmed.
That database forms the core of a facial recognition service called Face-Int, now owned by Israeli vendor Verint after it snapped up the product’s creator, little-known surveillance company Terrogence, in 2017. Both Verint and Terrogence have long been vendors for the U.S. government, providing bleeding-edge spy tech to the NSA, the U.S. Navy and countless other intelligence and security agencies.
Plutonium Dust Released from Closed Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site
April 16th, 2018Via: Los Angeles Times:
As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a desert plateau above the Columbia River.
The releases at the Department of Energy cleanup site spewed unknown amounts of plutonium dust into the environment, coated private automobiles with the toxic heavy metal and dispensed lifetime internal radioactive doses to 42 workers.
The contamination events went on for nearly 12 months, getting progressively worse before the project was halted in mid-December. Now, state health and environmental regulators, Energy Department officials and federal safety investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong and who is responsible.
Tesla Battery Degradation Less Than 10% After 160,000 Miles
April 15th, 2018Via: Electrek:
Battery degradation is one of the biggest concerns for electric car owners and potential buyers, but data from Tesla battery packs have been very reassuring so far.
Now the latest data shows less than 10% degradation of the energy capacity after over 160,000 miles on Tesla’s battery packs.
A group of Tesla owners on the Dutch-Belgium Tesla Forum are gathering data from over 350 Tesla vehicles across the world and frequently updating it in a public Google file.
We have previously reported on the data, but they have since added many more vehicles and those vehicles have been driving a lot more – completing more battery cycles.
The data clearly shows that for the first 50,000 miles (100,000 km), most Tesla battery packs will lose about 5% of their capacity, but after the 50,000-mile mark, the capacity levels off and it looks like it could be difficult to make a pack degrade by another 5%.
The trend line currently suggests that the average battery pack could cycle through over 300,000 km (186,000) before coming close to 90% capacity.
Art Bell Dead at Age 72—Days After Supporting a Friend’s Plan to Drive Into Area 51
April 14th, 2018Art Bell has been in poor health for decades and he was a heavy smoker, so I can’t say that his death comes as much of a surprise.
But…
Just before he died, Art was supporting radio host Heather Wade in her plan to drive into Area 51 as an act of civil disobedience. Initially, I chuckled at this plan, knowing that the camo dudes would simply be waiting at the entrances to detain Wade within seconds of her crossing the line. The fact that Wade’s “Area 51 Invasion” was going to be hyped for weeks in advance led me to believe that it was all just a publicity stunt for her radio show.
Curiously or not, within days of supporting Wade’s plan, Art Bell died.
Hmm.
Art Bell, dead on Friday the 13th, after endorsing a friend’s half cocked plan to drive into Area 51…
(It’s pretty much perfect, if you ever listed to Art at all over the years.)
Below are some of Art’s last Facebook posts, just in case:
Art Bell
March 30 at 9:27pm
INVASION of Nevada Area 51
All I can say is WOW! Heather Wade has just announced she intends to Invade Area 51 here (close by) in our part of Nevada. It is actually just over the mountains to our North and West.
Here is what I think: She is serious and make no mistake she will do it for better or worse. I have known about this for just a few days and have given it some thought, she has documents that have led her believe Aliens or artifacts are present at that base and wants to prove it.
My guess is she will be Arrested and she understands that. if it happens I have told her I will fill in if necessary, after all what could go wrong? Perhaps I will have to Bail her out!
All I know for sure is she is a truly determined Woman and no amount of talking is going to change her mind. I truthfully say the same thought has crossed my mind over the Years but the thought of Arrest or worst case getting shot always stopped me.
She has Cajones
Art
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Art Bell
April 2 at 4:06pm
In addition to the Guest listed below Heather says she has more on the Area 51 Invasion tonight which is NOT some kind of April fool joke.
Art
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Art Bell
April 2 at 10:35pm
LATEST ON AREA 51 INVASION
Heather has made a wise decision in my opinion, she will indeed enter Area 51 as she stated she will do, but alone. She is inviting a crowd for a intention experiment to join her in trying to manifest craft, but she alone will enter the restricted area and is prepared she says to accept the consequences. She is doing something I would not do, she sure has guts. Even those of you who decide not to go can help in this wild experiment. I am very proud of her work and determination.
Art Bell
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Art Bell
April 6 at 10:10am
INTO DANGER: ART BELL RESPONDS
Heather Wade announced that she was going to go to Area 51 this coming June.. People have been responding fast and furious, with some stating she is in danger of being arrested–or even killed!
Talk show legend and original MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT host Art Bell is responding in kind to people on Facebook..
What Heather is doing is a brave act. For all my life people have talked Disclosure and talked and talked. I have no illusion that she will get to any Alien anything but at least she feels the need to do something, anything to move beyond talk and raise the stakes in trying to get to the truth. If we have been visited (and I believe we have) we have a right to know. It seems to me we have a moral right to know, will it change people’s basic faith? Not any more than the Pope suddenly being quoted as saying “There is no Hell”. We have a right to know, she is right and if a act of Civil Disobedience helps I am all for it.
On acts of civil disobedience..
Not much has ever happened in America until people have engaged in some act that ended up with jail or a sore head
On whether he would join..
I completely understand what she is doing and why, if I was younger I would join. I guess if you really want change you have to do more then ask
When asked about the famed pilot who called into his show while flying directly into Area 51 in the 1990s,
They don’t know when she is coming, like I have said I have no illusions that she will meet any Aliens or even get close, I think it just makes the point that talking won’t get it done, I feel we have a right to know and have always hoped it would be before I go…
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Via: KNPR:
Paranormal radio show host Art Bell has died. He was 72.
The Nye County Sheriff’s office Bell died in his Pahrump home yesterday.
An autopsy is scheduled in coming days to determine the cause of death.
Bell was the founder and original owner for Pahrump station KNYE. His nationally-syndicated program, “Coast to Coast AM,” was aired on about 500 stations in North America in the 1990s.
Satire: 1990s Phil Hendrie Parody of Art Bell Encouraging Unauthorized Entry to Area 51
AI Creates a 3D Model of a Person from Just a Few Seconds of Video
April 14th, 2018Via: Science:
Transporting yourself into a video game, body and all, just got easier. Artificial intelligence has been used to create 3D models of people’s bodies for virtual reality avatars, surveillance, visualizing fashion, or movies. But it typically requires special camera equipment to detect depth or to view someone from multiple angles. A new algorithm creates 3D models using standard video footage from one angle.
China Is Nationalizing Its Tech Sector
April 14th, 2018Via: Bloomberg:
As Bloomberg News reported this week, a key stumbling block in trade negotiations between China and the U.S. has been Beijing’s extensive support for its technology firms. But if President Donald Trump’s administration thinks that will change any time soon, it hasn’t been paying attention: Far from reducing support for the tech sector, China is on the verge of nationalizing it.
Donald Trump Claims ‘Mission Accomplished’
April 14th, 2018
Via: Independent:
Donald Trump has claimed “mission accomplished” over the raids on Syria – echoing the ill-fated words of George W Bush fifteen years earlier when he spoke about Iraq.
Speaking hours after US, UK and French forces hit three targets in Syria they said were associated with the production, storage and use of chemical weapons, Mr Trump thanked the three militaries for their involvement.
“A perfectly executed strike last night,” he said on Twitter.
China Sending Plants, Insects to the Moon
April 13th, 2018Via: Quartz:
Almost half a century ago, the first human landed on the moon, marking “a giant leap for mankind.” This year, China is sending seeds of plants and insects there.
Seeds of potatoes and arabidopsis—a small flowering plant belonging to the mustard family—along with silkworm cocoons, will hitch a ride with the Chang’e-4 lander and rover on China’s first probe to the far side of the moon in December. China hopes to create a “mini lunar biosphere” as part of its research for building a lunar base and even the possibility of long-term residence on the moon.
The plants and insects, contained in an 18-cm-tall (7 inches) bucket-like tin with air, water, and soil, will create an ecological system. A tube inside the tin will direct natural light from the moon for photosynthesis, and the plants will then emit oxygen which feeds the silkworms once they hatch. The insects will then create carbon dioxide and waste, which in turn aids the plants’ growth, according to scientists at Chongqing University who are leading the project. The team hopes to live broadcast (link in Chinese) the progress of the organisms.
The team said that they chose the potato because it could become a major food source for space travel, while the relatively short growth period of arabidopsis makes it convenient for observation.
U.S., BRITAIN AND FRANCE ATTACK SYRIA
April 13th, 2018Former Head Of British Armed Forces In Iraq Tells Truth About Syria, Is Cut Off By Sky News:
While every politician in the world and their mainstream media lackeys are chomping at the bit to “unleash hell” on Assad and Syria, there are some that are willing to question the “Assad chemically attacked his own people and needs to be punished” narrative.
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Here’s A List Of The Times Trump Warned Against Getting Involved In Syria
Via: Reuters:
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered precision strikes targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons capabilities after a poison gas attack that killed at least 60 people last week.
Trump said a combined operation with France and Britain was under way and that they were prepared to sustain the response until Syria stopped its use of chemical weapons.
“A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,” Trump said in a televised address from the White House.
“These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead,” Trump said referring to Assad and his role in the chemical weapons attacks.
