Archive for September, 2017
Chaos and Hackers Stalk Investors on Cryptocurrency Exchanges
September 29th, 2017Cryptocurrency exchanges have always been a nightmare. I’ve never left any Bitcoins or cash in an exchange for any longer than it took to trade them. Then I’d immediately pull my money out. I always try to keep my overnight balance as close to zero as possible on Bitcoin exchanges. I just assume the thing […]
Mystery Surrounds Metal Towers Popping Up In Tunnels & Bridges
September 27th, 2017Nuke detectors is the obvious guess. But if not that, then what? Via: CBS: Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they’ll start appearing at bridges, too. But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can’t say why they’re being used or what’s in them, CBS2’s Dave […]
First Look at Shell’s New Electric Car Charging Stations Being Deployed at Its Gas Stations
September 27th, 2017Via: Electrek: Earlier this year, oil giant Shell announced that they would start deploying electric car charging stations in Britain and the Netherlands. Today, we get our first look at the custom charging stations that they are deploying and they look just like gas pumps.
Tesla Powerwall 2 Installations Finally Start to Accelerate
September 27th, 2017Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand. — As someone in the industry, it was immediately clear to me, from the moment the Powerwall 2 was announced, that it had no competition: As far as I can tell, this authoritatively blows away all other residential energy storage options… This is a bit disturbing […]
CIA: The Organized Crime Branch of the U.S. Government
September 27th, 2017Via: Counterpunch: Lars Schall: 70 years ago, on September 18, 1947, the National Security Act created the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA. Douglas, you refer to the CIA as “the organized crime branch of the U.S. government.” Why so? Douglas Valentine: Everything the CIA does is illegal, which is why the government provides it with an […]
2015: Vaccines, Retroviruses, DNA, and the Discovery that Destroyed Judy Mikovits’ Career
September 27th, 2017Via: Organic Lifestyle Magazine: Judy Mikovits, PhD is a biochemist and molecular biologist with more than 33 years of experience. Internationally known, a veritable “rock star” of the scientific world, she served as the director of the lab of Antiviral Drug Mechanisms at the National Cancer Institute before directing the Cancer Biology program at EpiGenX […]
U.S. Provides Military Aid to 3/4 of World’s Dictatorships
September 27th, 2017Via: Mint Press: Rich Whitney, an attorney and writer, sought to compare Freedom House’s rating system of political rights for 2015 to the U.S. government’s provision of military assistance – military training, military aid and weapons sales – to foreign nations that same year. Whitney’s stated goal was to determine whether the U.S. government actually […]
Japanese Banks Are Planning to Launch J-Coin, a Digital Currency Meant to Kill Off Cash
September 27th, 2017Via: MIT Technology Review: Japan’s central bank is backing a scheme that could see the the cash-dependent country move toward a digital currency built on blockchain technology. The J Coin, as it’s to be called, is under development by a group of Japanese banks with the blessing of financial regulators. According to the Financial Times […]
Too Many Drug Victims to Autopsy
September 27th, 2017Via: Daily Mail: The number of people dying from opioid overdoses is skyrocketing so quickly that medical examiners’ offices across the country cannot autopsy them all. These offices are being forced to neglect suspected opioid overdose victims by giving them a watered-down version of an autopsy that provides a minimal amount of information on their […]
Dyson Launching “Expensive” Electric Vehicle in 2020
September 27th, 2017Via: Guardian: British inventor Sir James Dyson has announced plans to build an electric car that will be “radically different” from current models and go on sale in 2020. The billionaire who revolutionised the vacuum cleaner said 400 engineers in Wiltshire had been working since 2015 on the £2.5bn project. No prototype has yet been […]
