Archive for March, 2018
Story of Why David Icke Met an ‘Anti-Terrorism Officer’ and a Council ‘Anti-Extremist Co-Ordinator’
March 18th, 2018Via: David Icke:
50 Million Facebook Profiles Harvested for Cambridge Analytica in Major Data Breach
March 17th, 2018Via: Guardian: The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box. A […]
At My Lai: The Photographer Who Captured the Massacre
March 17th, 2018Via: Foto: Ron Haeberle was a combat photographer in Vietnam when he and the Army unit he was riding with — Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment — landed near the hamlet of My Lai on the morning of March 16, 1968. Villagers weren’t alarmed; American GIs had visited the region near the central […]
China to Bar People with Bad ‘Social Credit’ from Planes, Trains
March 16th, 2018Via: Reuters: China said it will begin applying its so-called social credit system to flights and trains and stop people who have committed misdeeds from taking such transport for up to a year. People who would be put on the restricted lists included those found to have committed acts like spreading false information about terrorism […]
An Expert on Presidential Pardons Emailed Reporter His Life’s Work, Then Killed Himself and His Two Sons [???]
March 15th, 2018Why was the detective concerned with debunking “conspiracy theories” related to this? Via: Columbia Journalism Review: I started getting a flood of emails from P.S. Ruckman Jr., a political science professor who taught at Northern Illinois University and Rock Valley College. In 10 emails containing 65 spreadsheets, he was sending his entire data set of […]
Cost of Healthcare in the U.S. vs. Outcomes
March 15th, 2018Your what hurts? Via: JAMA: In 2016, the US spent 17.8% of its gross domestic product on health care, and spending in the other countries ranged from 9.6% (Australia) to 12.4% (Switzerland). … Life expectancy in the US was the lowest of the 11 countries at 78.8 years (range for other countries, 80.7-83.9 years; mean […]
World’s Highest Capacity Grid Battery Might Be Built in Colorado
March 14th, 2018300 MWh. 😯 Via: Electrek: After breaking a few energy storage records with its battery system projects in Australia, Tesla looks to come back to the US to build a new world’s largest Powerpack battery system in Colorado. … In South Australia, Tesla’s 100MW/ 129MWh Powerpack project is known as “the most powerful battery system […]
‘Oxytocin-Enforced Norm Compliance Reduces Xenophobic Outgroup Rejection’
March 14th, 2018Via: Jon Rappoport: I really hope you understand this. It is not a fantasy. It isn’t science fiction. It isn’t satire. It is Brave New World, but not the Huxley novel. It’s happening now. It’s a published study that appears on the website of the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the […]
Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Space, and Now He Has Different DNA Than His Identical Twin Brother
March 14th, 2018
Update: This Story Is Bullshit Via: LiveScience: So what really happened to Mark and Scott Kelly? It turns out that big changes in the expression of Scott Kelly’s genes occurred while he was in space, and 7 percent of those changes persisted after he returned to Earth, lead author Susan Bailey, a researcher at Colorado […]
YouTube Will Add Information from Wikipedia to Videos About Conspiracies
March 14th, 2018Via: The Verge: YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories to provide alternative viewpoints on controversial subjects, its CEO said today. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said that these text boxes, which the company is calling “information cues,” would begin appearing on conspiracy-related videos within the next couple of weeks. Wojcicki, […]
