Archive for June, 2020
Almost 46 Million Americans Have Now Filed For Unemployment Claims Since Lockdowns Began
June 19th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: Despite the hope-restoring nonfarm payrolls “recovery” and the over-hyped bounce in retail sales (ignoring the lack of ‘V’ in industrial production), in the last week 1.508million more Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time (notably worse than the 1.29mm expected). That brings the thirteen-week total to 45.7million, dramatically more than at […]
Air Force Investigates Military Planes that Monitored Minneapolis, D.C. Protests
June 19th, 2020Via: Star Tribune: The Air Force inspector general is investigating whether the military improperly used a little-known reconnaissance plane to monitor protests in Washington and Minneapolis this month, the Air Force said on Thursday. The inquiry was apparently prompted by lawmakers who expressed concerns to Pentagon officials that the use of military surveillance airplanes may […]
Cern Poised to Back Plan for €20bn Successor to Large Hadron Collider
June 19th, 2020Via: Guardian: As the largest scientific instrument on the planet enters its twilight years, Cern scientists have been facing the question of what next after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Following extensive debate, they appear to have landed on an answer: go bigger or go home. Cern’s council is expected to announce its backing on […]
SpaceX Hiring Staff to, “Design and Build an Operational Offshore Rocket Launch Facility” Sized for Starship and Super Heavy
June 19th, 2020Via: Teslarati: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company is going to build multiple massive “floating spaceports” to enable Starship launches to Mars and the Moon, as well as point-to-point travel around the Earth. First confirmed in job listings and later backed up by Musk himself, the goal of the nascent program is “to […]
Director of AI at Tesla on Self Driving Progress: We’re Hiring
June 19th, 2020A year and a bit after an AI researcher buddy of mine said, in essence, “no way” would Tesla’s full self driving thing happen anytime soon, how much closer is Tesla to making it a reality? Remember, back in April 2019, Elon Musk said that robotaxis were coming in 2020: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said […]
Speculation About Tesla Battery Day
June 19th, 2020Musk keeps delaying Battery Day, so I went looking for speculation about what might be announced. Via: Now You Know:
Trump Says Roswell Is a Very Interesting Place, Won’t Talk About What He Knows
June 19th, 2020What could possibly be the reason for this? Via: New York Post: President Donald Trump says he’s heard some interesting things about Roswell, but he’s not sharing even with his eldest child. Trump made the comments Thursday in a Father’s Day-themed interview with his son Don Trump Jr., hosted by the president’s reelection campaign. Don […]
Raz Simone Hands Out Firearms in CHAZ
June 18th, 2020Is this a COINTEL program, top to bottom? Via: Vigilance Media:
Feds Close to Spending More Than on Revolutionary, Civil War, WWI, II Combined
June 18th, 2020Via: CNS News: A coalition of conservative leaders sent a letter to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warning that the congressional spending in the coronavirus must stop because it’s getting very close to $10 trillion, which is more than the government spent fighting the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and World […]
Massive Spying on Users of Google’s Chrome Through Extensions
June 18th, 2020Via: Reuters: A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry’s failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions. … Most of the free extensions purported to […]
