Archive for September, 2019
Amazon’s Dystopian Plan To Be Anywhere And Everywhere
September 30th, 2019Via: The Week: When most tech companies host a launch event, it is to unveil one or two major products. Not Amazon. For the past couple of years at its launch events, the company has bombarded tech watchers with a torrent of new products. And so it wasn’t all that surprising when it announced a […]
Artificial Blood Developed for Patients of Any Blood Type
September 30th, 2019Via: Asahi Shimbun: Japanese researchers said they have developed artificial blood that can be transfused into patients regardless of their blood type and can vastly improve the chances for survival of seriously injured people. The artificial blood created by a team of scientists primarily from the National Defense Medical College has proved effective in experiments […]
Twitter Executive for Middle East Is British Army ‘Psyops’ Soldier
September 30th, 2019Via: Middle East Eye: The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army’s psychological warfare unit, Middle East Eye has established. Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social media company’s UK office six years ago, has for several years also served with the 77th Brigade, […]
China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon
September 30th, 2019Via: IEEE: The team behind a pioneering biological experiment sent to the lunar far side has released an image showing two green leaves grown on the moon. The experiment began shortly after China’s Chang’e-4 spacecraft made the first ever landing on the far side of the moon, on 3 January this year. Cotton, arabidopsis and […]
China Quietly Doubles Troop Levels in Hong Kong
September 30th, 2019Via: Reuters: Three of the envoys said the contingent of Chinese military personnel in Hong Kong had more than doubled in size since the protests began. They estimated the number of military personnel is now between 10,000 and 12,000, up from 3,000 to 5,000 in the months before the reinforcement. As a result, the envoys […]
China: Fugitive On Run for 17 Years Found Living in Cave by Drone
September 30th, 2019Via: BBC: Chinese police have arrested a fugitive who’d been on the run for 17 years, after they used drones to spot his cave hideout. The 63-year old, named Song Jiang by the police, had been jailed for trafficking women and children but escaped from a prison camp in 2002. He had been living in […]
Consumers Increasingly Using Buy-Now-Pay-Later Services for Shoes, Sweaters, Makeup
September 30th, 2019Via: Wall Street Journal: Gone are the days when special financing plans were mostly reserved for big-ticket purchases like TVs and refrigerators. Now, sweaters, makeup or other everyday items can be paid for in installments with loans or other payment plans offered at checkout with thousands of merchants in the U.S., including Walmart Inc., Urban […]
Pod People
September 30th, 2019Via: Paul Watson: Related: L.A. Coliving: PodShare
Whistle-Blower: Prince Andrew Was Regular Visitor to Jeffrey Epstein’s £7 Million Paris Apartment
September 30th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: A whistle-blower has told police in France that Prince Andrew had been a regular visitor to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s £7million apartment in Paris. Detectives in the French city are now probing reports that the Queen’s son was often at the property. It comes as the apartment was raided last week, with […]
Trump Tweets Civil War Warning Over Impeachment
September 29th, 2019Via: Donald Trump – Twitter: ….If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019
