Report: Ilhan Omar Is UNDER INVESTIGATION For Misusing Campaign Contributions…
April 1, 2019
The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board is investigating Omar after Minnesota GOP State Rep. Steve Drazkowski filed two complaints alleging she spent nearly $6,000 in campaign funds for personal use while she served in the Minnesota legislature, reported WJLA. Some of the improper expenditures include payments to Omar’s divorce attorney and spending on travel to Boston and Estonia.
Nxivm member admits to enslaving woman in a locked room for 2 years…
April 1, 2019
“I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York,” said Lauren Salzman to Brooklyn federal court Judge Nicholas Garaufis last week.
Salzman told the judge she held the woman hostage between March 2010 and April 2012 “and threatened to deport Jane Doe 4 back to Mexico if she did not complete labor requested by myself and others,” court transcripts said.
A new quantum engine packs more power than its standard counterparts…
April 1, 2019
The device harnesses the weird physics of very small objects to produce more power than a standard, or classical, engine under the same conditions, scientists report in the March 22 Physical Review Letters... In the new study, the quantum engine works not by igniting gasoline, but by using a laser to cause an electron within a tiny defect of a diamond crystal to jump between energy levels. And instead of moving pistons, the quantum machine outputs its power in electromagnetic waves...
MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing – The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and could provide a significant boost in aircraft production, flight, and maintenance efficiency, the researchers say…
April 1, 2019
Microsoft, T-Mobile and many more companies Join Together to Form the Cascadia Blockchain Council for Startups…
April 1, 2019
Technology giants and blockchain entrepreneurs have banded together in the Pacific Northwest Area to create their own organization. Called the Cascadia Blockchain Council, the organization’s goal is to promote venture-capital investment in the blockchain space. It also hopes to make the Pacific Northwest Area a hub for blockchain innovators and investors in the short-term future.
Some big-name companies are part of the 20 founding members. They include Microsoft and T-Mobile, along with various other blockchain startups like Bittrex. Well-known organizations and governmental bodies are also associated with the council — including the Washington State Department of Commerce and the University of Washington....
Senate re-introduces bill to help advanced nuclear technology…
April 1, 2019
Last week, a bipartisan group of 15 US senators re-introduced a bill to instate the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA), which would offer incentives and set federal goals for advanced nuclear energy... Advanced nuclear reactors are next-generation technology that improve upon the large light-water reactors that are in use today... On Thursday, Microsoft mogul Bill Gates tweeted his support for the bill. Gates is currently the chairman for an advanced nuclear reactor company called Terrapower, which is developing a traveling wave reactor that uses depleted uranium as fuel (depleted uranium is a by-product of uranium enrichment).
Watch President Trump Participate in the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration…
April 1, 2019
Sarah Palin: ‘I was kind of surprised to be publicly disinvited’ to McCain’s funeral…
April 1, 2019
Palin, who is also a former Republican governor of Alaska, said in addition to her, there were “good people in our campaign back in 2008 who were very, very loyal to Sen. McCain” who were not invited, saying McCain’s family “didn’t have to embarrass me and embarrass others.”
US halts F-35 equipment shipments to Turkey over Ankara’s plans to buy Russian S-400s…
April 1, 2019
US President Donald Trump signed a bill last year blocking the transfer of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, but the F-35 Joint Program Office said it would execute the transfer according to existing plans. Four US Senators introduced another bipartisan bill last week to prohibit the transfer until Ankara agrees to abandon the S-400 deal.
Mexican President Wants to ‘Bring Order’ to Central American Migration to US…
Nielsen to require more asylum seekers to remain in Mexico...
April 1, 2019
Mexico will help to regulate the flow of Central American migrants passing through its territory to the United States, but the root causes behind the phenomenon must be tackled, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.
Speaking after U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the U.S. southern border if Mexico did not halt illegal immigration immediately, Lopez Obrador said he would not have a confrontation with the United States.
"I prefer love and peace," Lopez Obrador told reporters at his regular morning news conference.
Trump at 51% approval on Rasmussen and trending up. Obama this time in 2011 was at 45%. Hussein BTFO…
April 1, 2019
If the polls say 50%, know that it's probably 60% or higher based on the fact that every single polling done on Trump has been drastically inaccurate since before his election.
Microsoft Is Building an All-In-One DNA Data Storage Device…
April 1, 2019
First, software converts digital data into the four DNA bases—the letters A, T, C, and G—that make up the individual building blocks of the genetic code. The device then adds the required chemicals to a synthesizer to build the snippet of DNA and then stores it in a special vessel. When it’s time to read the data back out again, microfluidic pumps push the sample into a sequencer, where the genetic code is read before the software converts it back into 1s and 0s...
DeepMind has made a prototype product that can diagnose eye diseases. After scanning the retina, the images are then analyzed by DeepMind’s algorithms, before they return a detailed diagnosis and an “urgency score.” It all takes roughly 30 seconds…
April 1, 2019
Dubstep music by Skrillex was found to protect against mosquito bites in a new study, with its mix of very high and very low frequencies. Such music, which appears to delay host attack, reduce blood feeding, and disrupt mating, may provide new avenues for music-based personal protective measures…
April 1, 2019
REPORT: Former NSA spies hacked BBC host, Al Jazeera chairman for UAE…
April 1, 2019
A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host, the chairman of Al Jazeera and other prominent Arab media figures during a tense 2017 confrontation pitting the UAE and its allies against the Gulf state of Qatar.
The American operatives worked for Project Raven, a secret Emirati intelligence program that spied on dissidents, militants and political opponents of the UAE monarchy. A Reuters investigation in January revealed Project Raven’s existence and inner workings, including the fact that it surveilled a British activist and several unnamed U.S. journalists...
In what is apparently not an April Fools’ joke, meat substitute manufacturer Impossible Foods and Burger King are launching an Impossible Whopper…
April 1, 2019
Burger King is launching the Impossible Whopper in stores in the St. Louis area with plans for a broader rollout later — and not as part of some elaborate April Fools’ Day prank.
Burger King isn’t the first fast food chain to bring an Impossible burger to market. That’d be White Castle, which is selling Impossible sliders at stores in the Northeast.
Facebook plans to curate ‘high quality’ news for its users from ‘trusted outlets’…
April 1, 2019
In his ongoing quest to satisfy the political censorship demands of Western governments, Zuckerberg told German publishing house Axel Springer that he is considering the introduction of a dedicated news section for the social media platform, which would potentially use humans to curate the news from “broadly trusted” outlets. Zuckerberg said Facebook might also start paying news publishers to include their articles in this dedicated news section in an effort to reward “high-quality, trustworthy content.”
With social media censorship already at worryingly high levels, who will decide which outlets are “broadly trusted” and which are untrustworthy? What qualifies one outlet as more “trusted” than another? Will Zuckerberg make the criteria public?
Joe Biden Getting Hit Hard: Connecticut woman says then-Vice President Joe Biden touched her inappropriately at a Greenwich fundraiser in 2009…
April 1, 2019
"It wasn't sexual, but he did grab me by the head," Amy Lappos told The Courant Monday. "He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth."
Study Blames White American’s Diet For Climate Change…
April 1, 2019
The study, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, said white people contributed the most to greenhouse gas emissions, at 680 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent annually, but added that the Black demographic had the highest contribution to land impacts related to food.
Supreme Court won’t toss Planned Parenthood lawsuit against anti-abortion group that secretly taped them…
April 1, 2019
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress' request to throw out a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood alleging that the group broke the law by secretly taping its employees discussing reimbursement for fetal tissue.
The Center for Medical Progress argued that the Planned Parenthood lawsuits interfered with the organization's right to free speech and that it violated a law in California meant to protect citizen journalists. Because the Supreme Court will not take up the case, the ruling from the 9th Circuit permitting the lawsuit to proceed remains in place.