Archive for March, 2015
Britain: Investigation Into Claims Metropolitan Police Covered Up Child Sex Offenses Because of Involvement of Police Officers and MPs
March 16th, 2015Via: BBC: The police watchdog is investigating alleged corruption in the Metropolitan Police, including claims it covered up child sex offences because of the involvement of police officers and MPs. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating 14 referrals relating to child sex offences from the 1970s to the 2000s. It said the claims were […]
“3D Printer” for Small Molecules
March 16th, 2015Via: HHMI News: Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have simplified the chemical synthesis of small molecules, eliminating a major bottleneck that limits the exploration of a class of compounds offering tremendous potential for medicine and technology. Scientists led by Martin Burke, an HHMI early career scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used a […]
U.S. Post Offices Have Installed Hidden Spy Cameras to Film Customers
March 16th, 2015Via: Gizmodo: While the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is typically tasked with looking into mailbox vandalism and mail fraud, an investigation in Denver reveals that they’re also installing hidden cameras at post offices and spying on Americans. This postal surveillance program sounds shady as hell. FOX31 Denver found one camera disguised as a utility box […]
This Microscope Can See Down to Individual Atoms
March 16th, 2015Via: Vice: As our devices get ever smaller, so do the materials we use to make them. And that means you have to get really close to see them. Really close. A new electron microscope unveiled at the UK’s national SuperST?EM facility images objects at an unprecedented resolution, right down to the individual atoms. SuperSTEM […]
Putin Puts Troops on Full Alert in Snap Western Russia Drills
March 16th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops placed on full combat readiness in snap drills in western Russia, as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned the country was facing new threats to its security. Some 38,000 troops, 41 warships, 15 submarines and 110 aircraft are involved in the exercises, Shoigu said on Monday, according to […]
Flashback: “Oil Industry Helps Solve Radioactive Waste Problem”
March 16th, 2015Via: Truthstream Media: Truthstream uncovered several published newspaper accounts from the Spring of 1964 concerning a then-newly disclosed plan to dump nuclear waste produced by the atomic energy industry into hydraulic fracturing (fracking) wells using a cement slurry technique developed by Halliburton & Co. The top two fracking companies in the nation at the time […]
IBM LOOKING AT ADOPTING BITCOIN TECHNOLOGY FOR MAJOR CURRENCIES
March 16th, 2015😯 Via: Reuters: International Business Machines Corp is considering adopting the underlying technology behind bitcoin, known as the “blockchain,” to create a digital cash and payment system for major currencies, according to a person familiar with the matter. The objective is to allow people to transfer cash or make payments instantaneously using this technology without […]
France to Keep 10,000 Troops on Streets
March 16th, 2015Via: Russia Today: As the threat of attacks by Islamist extremists remains high in France, President Francois Hollande has decided to continue the deployment of 10,000 troops on the streets across the country. “The threat of terrorist attack against our country remains high. The head of state has decided to maintain the level of the […]
Egypt Unveils Plans to Build New Capital East of Cairo [???]
March 14th, 2015Via: BBC: The Egyptian government has announced plans to build a new capital to the east of the present one, Cairo. Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the project would cost $45bn (£30bn) and take five to seven years to complete. He said the aim was to ease congestion and overpopulation in Cairo over the next […]
Cyclone Pam
March 14th, 2015Cyclone Pam is coming through, so we’re almost certainly going to have our power cut. Hopefully, the transceiver that provides Internet access to our valley won’t be damaged. Our ISP just emailed and they’re saying that this storm is definitely packing winds strong enough to damage their transceivers. The worst of it for us will […]
