Archive for the 'Outsourced' Category
The Sabbatical YouTube Channel
March 30th, 2021Sabbatical Tommy’s travel videos are fascinating. So far, besides English (he’s from New York), I’ve seen him speaking Spanish, Nahuatl, French, Chinese, Russian and Swahili. My eyes bugged out when he was translating Swahili into Chinese for the girl he hitched a ride with in Zanzibar. I wonder if he has a “day job” in […]
Boston Dynamics Stretch
March 29th, 2021Via: Boston Dynamics:
U.S. Military Ordered ‘Clandestine Burning’ of Toxic Chemicals in Poor Neighborhoods
March 26th, 2021Via: Common Dreams: New research conducted by environmental justice scholars at Vermont’s Bennington College reveals that between 2016 and 2020, the U.S. military oversaw the “clandestine burning” of more than 20 million pounds of Aqueous Fire Fighting Foam in low-income communities around the country—even though there is no evidence that incineration destroys the toxic “forever […]
Former CDC Director Says COVID ‘Escaped’ from Wuhan Lab, Contradicting Fauci
March 26th, 2021Via: Independent: The former head of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says Covid-19 “most likely” came from a laboratory in Wuhan where Chinese scientists were conducting research on coronaviruses. Robert Redfield, the CDC director in the Trump administration, said in a new interview with CNN on Friday that Covid-19 likely began spreading in […]
Arizona’s $24-Million Prison Management Software Is Keeping People Locked Up Past The End Of Their Sentences
February 25th, 2021In other news, NAACP lawsuit targets Arizona private prisons, accuses state of practicing slavery. And now… Via: TechDirt: The Arizona Department of Corrections is depriving inmates of freedom they’ve earned. Its $24 million tracking software isn’t doing what it’s supposed to when it comes to calculating time served credits. That’s according to whistleblowers who’ve been […]
60 Minutes: Chinese Government Is Trying to Collect Americans’ DNA
February 1st, 2021Via: CBS: For all the polarization that grips Washington, here’s a source of rare consensus: the emerging threat of China’s push to acquire our health care data, including the DNA of American citizens. U.S. officials tell us the communist regime’s aggressive collection of our most personal information presents a danger both to national security and […]
Boston Dynamics: Dancing Robots
December 30th, 2020Via: Boston Dynamics:
New Factories in Chinese Internment Camps
December 28th, 2020Via: BuzzFeed News: China has built more than 100 new facilities in Xinjiang where it can not only lock people up, but also force them to work in dedicated factory buildings right on site, BuzzFeed News can reveal based on government records, interviews, and hundreds of satellite images. In August, BuzzFeed News uncovered hundreds of […]
U.S. to Allow Small Drones to Fly Over People and at Night
December 28th, 2020Via: Reuters: Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries. The FAA said its long-awaited rules for the drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, will address security concerns […]
Trump Pardons Blackwater Mercenaries Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians in 2007
December 26th, 2020Via: Al Jazeera: It took a drawn-out and complicated legal process for four employees of a private United States security firm to be convicted in the September 2007 killings of 14 Iraqi citizens in Baghdad’s Nisour Square. US prosecutors said the heavily armed Blackwater contractors used sniper weapons, machine guns and grenade launchers to indiscriminately […]