3 Victims & 3 Shooters Dead After “Terrorist” Attack On FSB HQ In Moscow
December 19th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge:
RT reports that three gunmen entered the lobby at FSB headquarters in Moscow and opened fire, killing three security guards. All three of the shooters have now been neutralized in what officials are calling a terrorist attack.
Robot Can Make 300 Pizzas an Hour
December 19th, 2019Via: Fox 5 NY:
A robot will be serving food to thousands of guests at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Seattle-based Picnic says its automated food assembly system will produce up to 300 12-inch customized pizzas an hour on the CES show floor.
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The company ran a test pilot with the robot at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park baseball stadium in October.
The robot is initially focused on the production of high-volume, customizable pizzas. But the company says it could be used for many types of food, whether it uses a bun, bowl, tortilla or plate.
The machine uses deep learning AI technology to continually learn as it functions.
Open Thread: Donald Trump Impeached on Two Charges
December 18th, 2019My guess: This is noise, which I’ve mostly ignored.
The people involved with this, on all sides, are so corrupt that I physically can’t stand trying to pretend to be interested one way or the other. As the public facing bipartisan goon squad tries to out ratfuck each other, the Military Industrial Complex quietly swallows another another trillion dollars.
Why isn’t there ceaseless outrage in the media about this?
*crickets* *blank stares* “Conspiracy theorist!”
Yep, so, back to the Trump impeachment circus. Enjoy the show!
Via: DailyMail:
Donald Trump became the third president in American history to be impeached on Wednesday on a largely party line vote, setting up a formal trial next year in the Senate.
The impeachment vote capped off a three month investigation into the president’s actions in regard to the Ukraine. The vote came at the end of a day long partisan debate on the House floor with Republicans charging Democrats with wanting to over turn the last presidential election and Democrats arguing the president tried to use a foreign power to help him win re-election.
Surveillance Footage Outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s Cell During Suicide Attempt Is Missing
December 18th, 2019Maybe prison officials handed the data over to NASA for safekeeping.
Via: New York Daily News:
Surveillance footage of the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell at the troubled Metropolitan Correctional Center during his suicide attempt has gone missing, prosecutors revealed Wednesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Swergold admitted nobody can find the footage of the outside of the cell the multimillionaire perv shared with accused quadruple murderer Nick Tartaglione during a hearing in White Plains District Court. Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor cop, faces the death penalty for the alleged murders in a drug deal gone bad.
Bruce Barket, an attorney for Tartaglione, confirmed the stunning revelation that the footage was not preserved. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office declined comment.
Afghanistan War – The Crime of the Century
December 17th, 2019Via: Ron Paul:
“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.
What we learned in what is rightly being called the “Pentagon Papers” of our time, is that hundreds of US Administration officials – including three US Presidents – knowingly lied to the American people about the Afghanistan war for years. This wasn’t just a matter of omitting some unflattering facts. This was about bald-faced lying about a war they knew was a disaster from almost day one.
Remember President Bush’s Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld? Remember how supremely confident he was at those press conferences, acting like the master of the universe? Here’s what he told the Pentagon’s special inspector general who compiled these thousands of interviews on Afghanistan: “I have no visibility into who the bad guys are.”
It is not only members of the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations who are guilty of this massive fraud. Falsely selling the Afghanistan war as a great success was a bipartisan activity on Capitol Hill. In the dozens of hearings I attended in the House International Relations Committee, I do not recall a single “expert” witness called who told us the truth. Instead, both Republican and Democrat-controlled Congresses called a steady stream of neocon war cheerleaders to lie to us about how wonderfully the war was going. Victory was just around the corner, they all promised. Just a few more massive appropriations and we’d be celebrating the end of the war.
NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Research Aircraft Cleared for Final Assembly
December 16th, 2019For some of the black world context, definitely see: Lockheed Martin SR-72.
Via: NASA:
NASA’s first large scale, piloted X-plane in more than three decades is cleared for final assembly and integration of its systems following a major project review by senior managers held Thursday at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
The management review, known as Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D), was the last programmatic hurdle for the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft to clear before officials meet again in late 2020 to approve the airplane’s first flight in 2021.
New Zealand: Meridian, Contact Accused of $60m Power Market Abuse
December 16th, 2019Imagine my shock.
Via: New Zealand Herald:
Contact Energy and Meridian Energy have been accused of extracting more than $60 million from consumers by over-charging for their electricity while spilling water from their South Island dams.
Haast Energy Trading has complained to the Electricity Authority that the two firms have breached the good conduct provisions of the industry’s code by manipulating their offers to hold prices higher than they would be, given the volume of water being spilled in recent weeks.
Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology
December 16th, 2019Update: Is Starlink Going to Drop The American Culture Bomb on China?
If you’re like me, you’ve been wondering: What is Starlink’s actual purpose?
I didn’t entirely believe the prosaic narrative about better rural broadband Internet and a funding source for Elon Musk’s Mars aspirations, etc. Well, it might be about those things at some level, but the massive scale of the project and the rapid approval by the U.S. Government made me think that there had to be some sort of national security element in play.
Back in October, we learned that SpaceX has been working with the U.S. Air Force on a program called Global Lightning:
Shotwell said many of the Starlink features are being tested by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under a program called Global Lightning. SpaceX in December 2018 received a $28 million contract to test over the next three years different ways in which the military might use Starlink broadband services. So far, SpaceX has demonstrated data throughput of 610 megabits per second in flight to the cockpit of a U.S. military C-12 twin-engine turboprop aircraft.
Maybe we’re getting warm, but there has to be more to it.
Flash forward to a recent talk given by Retired Air Force General Steven Kwast at Hillsdale College called, “The Urgent Need for a U.S. Space Force.”
Kwast made a statement that made me think that Starlink could be used to launch The American Culture Bomb at China:
“We could bring secure, trusted data to every human being on planet Earth, underpinned by American values and the American Constitution.”
Wow!
Listen to the General Kwast talk, read The American Culture Bomb and U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators and tell me that Starlink is just about rural broadband.
Contemporary American culture is the most powerful in history, and the most destructive of competitor cultures. While some other cultures, such as those of East Asia, appear strong enough to survive the onslaught by adaptive behaviors, most are not. The genius, the secret weapon, of American culture is the essence that the elites despise: ours is the first genuine people’s culture. It stresses comfort and convenience–ease–and it generates pleasure for the masses.
Is China strong enough to survive the American Culture Bomb?
I don’t know, but if the Chinese government is worried about the Black Hand now, what happens when, “Secure, trusted data… underpinned by American values and the American Constitution,” is pouring from the sky at gigabit speeds?
Via: The Drive:
Kwast claims China is already building a “Navy in space” complete with the space-based equivalents of “battleships and destroyers” which are “able to maneuver and kill and communicate with dominance, and we [the United States] are not.”
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“The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I’ve had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour.”
Deepest Point On Land Found In Antarctica
December 15th, 2019Via: BBC:
The deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier.
This ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only in the ocean are the valleys deeper still.
Army’s Secret Flights Over Washington DC Now an ‘Enduring’ Mission
December 13th, 2019Flying ten UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, mostly at night???
Via: Bloomberg:
The U.S. Army has made permanent a classified aviation mission over Washington and disclosed that it’s aimed at responding to a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The mysterious operation — which generated complaints from local residents for excess noise at night — was mentioned in a Pentagon request to Congress in July asking for approval to shift fiscal 2019 funds to different purposes.
