Masonic Lodge Branch Reportedly BUSTED by Police in Sicily, Italy…
March 22, 2019
Numerous local politicians, officials and even police officers turned out to be connected to the lodge's illegal activities, which included corruption, bribery, drug trafficking, embezzlement, and interfering with the work of the judicial system.
Pompeo welcomes trilateral cooperation…
March 22, 2019
The governments of Cyprus, the US, Israel and Greece on Wednesday agreed to increase regional cooperation, support energy independence and security, and to “defend against external malign influences” in the Eastern Mediterranean and the broader Middle East.
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“The leaders agreed to increase regional cooperation; to support energy independence and security; and to defend against external malign influences in the Eastern Mediterranean and the broader Middle East,” the declaration said.The Cyprian president Anastasiades met with Pompeo on the side to try and secure US support for the rights of Cyprus to exploit its exclusive economic zone (EEZ) as a warning to Turkey. Basically Cyprus wants to drill for the massive amounts of recently-discovered oil offshore and they can't because of Turkey's illegal occupation of the north. It's complicated, but it seems Pompeo and the other's are sending a message after Turkey tried to buy weapons from Russia rather than the U.S. This gives more reason for the U.S. to align with Greece when it comes to the Cyprus issue.
Myspace loses all content uploaded before 2016…
March 22, 2019
The company is blaming a faulty server migration for the mass deletion, which appears to have happened more than a year ago, when the first reports appeared of users unable to access older content. The company has confirmed to online archivists that music has been lost permanently, dashing hopes that a backup could be used to permanently protect the collection for future generations.
Microsoft has helped build the first device that automatically encodes digital information into DNA and back to bits again…
March 22, 2019
Microsoft has been working toward a photocopier-size device that would replace data centers by storing files, movies, and documents in DNA strands, which can pack in information at mind-boggling density.
According to Microsoft, all the information stored in a warehouse-size data center would fit into a set of Yahztee dice, were it written in DNA.
Multi-Agency Seaport Operation Nets more than Half-Ton of Cocaine…
March 22, 2019
Inside one of the containers offloaded from the MSC Desiree, authorities discovered 13 large black duffel bags containing a combined 450 bricks of a white powdery substance. A sampling of that substance tested positive for cocaine.
The cocaine weighed 537.6 kilograms, or 1,185 pounds, three ounces, and has a street value approximately $38 million.
UPS eyes in-home health services with U.S. vaccine project…
March 22, 2019
The world’s largest package delivery firm is preparing to test a U.S. service that dispatches nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes, Reuters has learned, as the company and its healthcare clients work to fend off cost pressures and competitive threats from Amazon.com.
UPS did not disclose which vaccines it would be using in the project, but drug and vaccine maker Merck & Co told Reuters it is looking at partnering with the company for the initiative.
Clinton, in newly revealed emails, discussed classified foreign policy matters, secretive ‘private’ comms channel with Israel…
March 22, 2019
A newly unearthed batch of heavily redacted, classified emails from Hillary Clinton's personal email server revealed that the former secretary of state discussed establishing a "private, 100% off-the-record" back channel to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that one of her top aides warned her that she was in "danger" of being "savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and among the phalanx of neoconservative media" as a result of political machinations by "Bibi and the Jewish leadership."
Political spending by Abrams’ nonprofit could pose problems…
March 22, 2019
It’s a dramatic rise often fueled by the promotional spending of Fair Fight Action, a nonprofit she founded to advance voting rights. The organization has paid for advertisements featuring Abrams and some of her travel and organized national watch parties when she delivered the Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union.
But spending by Fair Fight Action, which is staffed by former Abrams campaign aides, could prompt questions about whether the nonprofit is inappropriately supporting her political ambitions. Although there is no proof of any illegal activity, some of the organization’s expenditures could pose a problem if Abrams follows through with her pledge to run for office again.
Chinese electric buses making biggest dent in worldwide oil demand…
March 22, 2019
Electric vehicles have displaced about 3 percent of total oil consumption growth since 2011, a larger share than ever before. And so far, more than three-quarters of that oil displacement has come from electric buses, Bloomberg reports.
The report estimates that “for every 1,000 electric buses on the road, 500 barrels of diesel are displaced each day.” The same number of battery-powered electric vehicles only displaces 15 barrels of oil a day, by comparison.
Most of this is occurring in China...
DoD Orders New Drone To Simulate Warfare With Russian And Chinese Stealth Jets …
March 22, 2019
The 5GAT is a fighter-size drone that is designed to train U.S. Armed Forces in how to counter Chinese or Russian fifth-generation fighter jets. The Pentagon is studying whether follow-on production versions of the drone can be used for air-to-air and ground-to-air weapons evaluation, pilot training, and ground forces training, reported FlightGlobal.
Owner of QMap.pub responds to increase in traffic…
March 22, 2019
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High-fructose corn syrup enhances intestinal tumor growth in mice…
March 22, 2019
A 30-million page library is heading to the moon to help preserve human civilization…
March 22, 2019
The Lunar Library, as the archive is known, constitutes a “civilization backup” to help ensure that our distant descendants never lose humanity's collective wisdom, according to Nova Spivack, co-founder of Arch Mission Foundation, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit behind the project. The foundation is building a space-based archive designed to survive for 6 billion years or more — a million times longer than the oldest written records in existence today.
A library on the moon! Just imagine how useful that will be to future generations.
Judicial Watch Uncovers More Classified Emails in Hillary Clinton’s Unsecure Email System…
March 22, 2019
Judicial Watch today announced it received 756 pages of newly uncovered emails that were among the materials former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to delete or destroy, several of which were classified and were transmitted over her unsecure, non-“state.gov” email system.
FDA Says Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Found in Some Medtronic Devices…
March 22, 2019
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday said cybersecurity vulnerabilities were identified in Medtronic Plc's implantable cardiac devices, clinic programmers, and home monitors.
But, the FDA recommended the usage of the devices and said the medical device maker was developing updates to further mitigate those vulnerabilities. The health regulator added it was not aware of any reports of patients being harmed.
A solar storm hits Earth this week, pushing northern lights south…
March 22, 2019
Smacking us right in the magnetosphere, it could make the aurora visible to millions more people than normal.
After a prolonged quiet period, the sun let off an explosion Wednesday when a new sunspot fired a small solar flare lasting over an hour.
The high-energy blast caused disruptions for some radio operators in Europe and Africa, but it was accompanied by a slower-moving, massive cloud of charged particles known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) that will deliver Earth a glancing blow this weekend.
VICE Triggered: American Muslims contemplate taking up arms in self-defense…
March 22, 2019
Notice the over-dramatic music and narrative. That will make Democrat heads explode. The more legal Americans armed, the better. Every American should be able to protect themselves no matter race, creed, or ethnicity.
GM to announce $300 million investment in Orion EV/AV plant…
March 22, 2019
General Motors Co will announce on Friday plans to invest $300 million in a suburban Detroit plant that builds electric and self-driving vehicles for Chevrolet and the automaker’s self-driving Cruise unit, two people familiar with the plans said on Thursday.
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GM executives also will formally endorse a revised North American free trade deal known as USMCA, the sources said.25 States Are at Risk of Serious Flooding This Spring…
March 22, 2019
Nearly two-thirds of the lower 48 states will have an elevated risk of some flooding from now until May, and 25 states could experience “major or moderate flooding,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“The flooding this year could be worse than anything we’ve seen in recent years, even worse than the historic floods of 1993 and 2011,” said Mary C. Erickson, deputy director of the National Weather Service, in a conference call with reporters. The major flooding this month in Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa and elsewhere is “a preview of what we expect throughout the rest of the spring,” she said.
Kremlin accuses U.S. of stoking tensions by flying bombers near its borders…
March 22, 2019
The Kremlin on Thursday complained that flights by U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers across the Baltic Sea near Russia’s borders were creating tensions in the region, but Washington said they were needed to deter potential adversaries.