Archive for May, 2015
Hundreds Gather in Arizona for Armed Anti-Muslim Protest
May 30th, 2015Armed two minutes hate. Via: Washington Post: About 250 mostly armed anti-Muslim demonstrators — many wearing T-shirts bearing a profanity-laced message denouncing Islam — faced-off against a crowd of roughly the same size defending the faith in front of a Phoenix mosque Friday night. Demonstrators yelled and taunted one another across a line of police […]
Mysterious Low-Flying Plane Over Twin Cities
May 30th, 2015Via: Star Tribune: Aviation buff John Zimmerman was at a weekly gathering of neighbors Friday night when he noticed something peculiar: a small plane circling a route overhead that didn’t make sense to him. It was dark, so a sightseeing flight didn’t make sense, and when Zimmerman pulled up more information on an aviation phone […]
Britain: Primary Pupils Asked to Complete Surveys About Radicalization
May 29th, 2015Via: Guardian: Parents of children as young as nine have reacted angrily after schools in an east London borough asked pupils to complete surveys designed to provide clues to possible radicalisation. Waltham Forest council has been piloting the scheme in five primary schools with large Muslim intakes. The questionnaire, circulated among year 6 pupils, asks […]
MIT Cheetah Robot Lands the Running Jump
May 29th, 2015Via: MIT:
Data Furnaces Arrive in Europe
May 28th, 2015Via: Ars Technica: Nerdalize is a small Dutch company that is trying to commercialise Microsoft’s data furnace idea. The first product is the eRadiator, which, given its size, probably contains two or three servers that pump out around 1000W of heat—probably just enough to heat a small room in winter. In an interview with the […]
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
May 28th, 2015Via: Washington Post: J. Dennis Hastert, the longest serving Republican speaker in the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million because of “past misconduct” against an unnamed individual from their hometown west of Chicago. Hastert, 73, who has […]
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)
May 28th, 2015Via: Nature: Technologies have reached a point at which the deployment of such systems is — practically if not legally — feasible within years, not decades. The stakes are high: LAWS have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. Autonomous weapons systems select and engage targets without human intervention; […]
Bill Gates Just Described His Biggest Fear — And It Could Kill 330 Million People In Less Than A Year
May 28th, 2015Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus H5N1 VIRAL-ENGINEERING DANGERS WILL NOT GO AWAY Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious Coalition of Leading Scientists Claim H5N1 Ferret Experiments Could Lead to Pandemic H5N1 Bird Flu Needs Just 5 Mutations to Spread Easily in People Britain: Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Plague with Genetic Material Taken […]
Russia Masses Heavy Firepower on Border with Ukraine
May 28th, 2015Check out the gallery. Via: Reuters: Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week. Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen […]
Anthrax: Pentagon Accidentally Sent Bioweapon To As Many As Nine States
May 28th, 2015Via: Guardian: The Pentagon has conceded it accidentally shipped samples of a live bioweapon across nine states and to a US air base in South Korea. In an extraordinary Wednesday admission, the Pentagon revealed what it called an “inadvertent transfer of samples containing live Bacillus anthracis,” or anthrax, took place at an unspecified time from […]
