Author: A Reader
Just days after Amazon published a scathing letter slamming President Trump for not allowing the American multinational tech company to get the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which instead was awarded to Microsoft, Amazon’s board has just appointed former NSA head and retired general of the US Army Keith B. Alexander as a director. Continue reading “NSA Chief Who Oversaw Sweeping Domestic Phone Surveillance Joins Amazon Board As Director”
Singularity Hub – by Jason Dorrier
A famous image of inventor Nikola Tesla shows him casually sitting on a chair, legs crossed, taking notes—oblivious to the profusion of artificial lightning rending the air meters away. By then, Tesla and raw electricity were like an old married couple.
The experiments, conducted in Colorado, led to one of Tesla’s most audacious proposals: To power the world without wires. He made headlines with plans for a “world wireless system,” and won funding from JP Morgan to build the first of several huge transmission towers. Continue reading “New Zealand Is About to Test Long-Range Wireless Power Transmission”
I recently described how a swarm of drones flew in a restricted area at Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant on two successive nights last September. A new cache of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) reveals how 24 nuclear sites suffered at least 57 drone incursions from 2015 to 2019 – and Palo Verde itself was overflown again in December, despite new security measures. Continue reading “Dozens More Mystery Drone Incursions Over U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Revealed”
Whether it’s an invisible Aston Martin or an exploding pen, whenever James Bond needs a high-tech edge, he heads right for Q and his secretive MI6 lab. In the real world, American agents often rely on a less clandestine, but far better-funded group. Armed with 8,000 employees and an annual budget of between $1 billion and $2 billion of taxpayers’ money, Mitre Corp., a government-linked Skunk Works, has been making bleeding-edge breakthroughs for U.S. agencies for more than six decades. With its HQ housed in four towers atop a hill in McLean, Virginia, Mitre’s research centers employ some of the nation’s leading computer scientists and engineers to build digital tools for America’s top military, security and intelligence organizations. Continue reading “Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub – Collecting Fingerprints From Facebook, Hacking Smartwatches And Fighting Covid-19”
Spanish Fort police say a man who fired up to 50 rounds at the Bass Pro Shops in Spanish Fort Saturday had eight firearms and was wearing body armor at the time he was taken into custody.
Spanish Fort Police Chief John Barber said Robert Smith, 38, of Grove Hill, was the man who fired the shots Saturday at around 12:30 p.m. A woman was also taken into custody at the time but it is not believed she was assisting the man. Continue reading “Spanish Fort shooting suspect had multiple guns, body armor”
Publice Servents At Work Fighting COVID-19 – Rules, Regulations and Tyranny For Thee… But Not For Me
At the height of the government’s coronavirus lies and lockdowns, 30-year veteran physician, Dr. Ann Bukacek, stood at the podium of Liberty Fellowship and exposed the gross exaggeration of corona death certificates that were being encouraged by the CDC as a way of manipulating public perception regarding the nature and extent of the virus. She used the CDC’s own statements to prove her assertions. Continue reading “CDC Vindicates Dr. Bukacek, Indicts Itself”
Townhall.com, August 29: “According to The New York Times, potentially 90 percent of those who have tested positive for COVID-19 have such insignificant amounts of the virus present in their bodies that such individuals do not need to isolate nor are they candidates for contact tracing. Leading public health experts are now concerned that overtesting is responsible for misdiagnosing a huge number of people with harmless amounts of the virus in their systems.” Continue reading “The whole scam just fell apart: COVID test, overwhelming number of false positives”
The Department of Justice will is preparing to slap Google with an antitrust case over the next several weeks, according to the New York Times – which insists, based on five sources, that Attorney General Bill Barr “overruled career lawyers who said they needed more time to build a strong case against one of the world’s wealthiest, most formidable technology companies.” Continue reading “DOJ To File Antitrust Charges Against Google Within Weeks: Report”
LACEY, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.
The man, Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, was killed as a federal task force attempted to apprehend him near Lacey, Washington, about 120 miles (193 kilometers) north of Portland. Reinoehl was the prime suspect in the killing of 39-year-old Aaron “Jay” Danielson, who was shot in the chest Saturday night, a senior Justice Department official told The Associated Press. Continue reading “Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect at arrest”
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.
What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found. Continue reading “Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.”