Former FBI agent suggests Kirstjen Nielsen may have written the infamous anonymous New York Times op-ed…
April 9, 2019
While citing his FBI experience, Campbell observed that both Nielsen's resignation letter and the Times op-ed make heavy use of commas and em dashes, also pointing to a few other instances of similar choices.
As a trained investigator, I’m just going to go on record now saying that anonymous NYT op-ed was LOADED with commas and em dashes.
And so is this resignation letter. https://t.co/6KM1huiO0i https://t.co/GTdYRzumSd
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) April 7, 2019
This tweet is a few days old, but it seems it hasn't gotten much traction. This deserves to be spread.
Meanwhile, in Europe, Italy Prepares to Swing Even Further Right: Julius Caesar Mussolini Running for Political Office…
April 9, 2019
Caio Giulio Cesare Mussolini (aka Julius Caesar Mussolini) will run for office as a candidate of the Brothers of Italy. The party previously campaigned alongside the far-right League party, the junior party in government with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement.
The 50-year-old former navy submariner told The Times of London that he would make his political debut campaigning on a hard-line anti-European Union platform, partially defending his great-grandfather’s deeply controversial legacy.
"I share their ideas about retaking sovereignty, protecting our country and the family,” Caio Mussolini said, talking of the Brothers of Italy Party. “Why spend €100 on a migrant, then peanuts on pensioners?”
Law enforcement agencies apparently want to know more about what’s happening on 8chan…
April 9, 2019
According to the site’s March 2o19 “Transparency Report,” released Friday, the image board had “received and complied with” 12 requests from the U.S. government and or U.S law enforcement agencies over the course of the month. The site also received two requests from foreign authorities, which it says it ignored.
‘Exodus’ Spyware Posed As A Legit iOS App
April 9, 2019
Attackers were able to slip the Android app directly into Google Play, but they either couldn't get it into Apple's App Store or didn't try. Instead they used Apple’s Developer Enterprise Program—a platform that institutions can use to distribute their own apps in-house—to spread their spyware in a legitimate-looking way...
Once installed, Exodus could access photos, videos, device IDs, audio recordings, and contacts on target devices, while also potentially tracking a victim's location and listening to their conversations through the iPhone or iPad's microphone. Both the Android and iOS versions of Exodus have now been blocked. Apple declined to comment.
China wants to ban cryptocurrency mining farms ‘completely’…
April 9, 2019
China is home to some of the world's largest cryptocurrency mining farms ― data centres hosting the mining rigs ― thanks to cheap electricity in the country's coal-rich Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia regions. In recent months, Chinese miners are known to have deployed machines in the southern Yunnan and Sichuan provinces to take advantage of the even cheaper hydropower available there during the rainy season.
If the new rules are enacted, Chinese miners will have to give up their bases in Yunnan and Sichuan and move operations to foreign countries, said Michael Zhong, an analyst with Beijing-based cryptocurrency research firm TokenInsight.
Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes…
April 9, 2019
Strange saga of Amartya Sen and the Rothschilds…
April 9, 2019
A few months ago, it was determined that Rothschild Bank AG and one of its subsidiaries may have violated money laundering rules in the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB corruption case in Malaysia. This background of Rothschild Bank is combined with the fact that mergers and acquisitions, especially those spanning multiple international jurisdictions, readily lend themselves to allegations of being vehicles for money laundering through arbitrary valuation of the firm being acquired. As a definitive conclusion cannot be reached without a comprehensive inquiry, there is a need to investigate NM Rothschild activities in India and determine whether the unusually high rate of scams among their clientele is a coincidence...
Their evil knows no bounds.
Research team expands quantum network with successful long-distance entanglement experiment…
April 9, 2019
"In quantum mechanics, the physical properties of entangled particles remain associated, even when separated by vast distances. Thus, when measurements are performed on one side, it also affects the other," said Kerstin Kleese van Dam, director of Brookhaven Lab's Computational Science Initiative (CSI). "To date, this work has been successfully demonstrated with entangled photons separated by approximately 11 miles. This is one of the largest quantum entanglement distribution networks in the world, and the longest-distance entanglement experiment in the United States."
Western Union Teams Up With Blockchain Startup To Aid Money Remittances In The Philippines…
April 9, 2019
The crypto startup noted that the service will aim to offer quick and convenient access to remittances both in urban and remote underserved areas. The platform went on to add that by linking with Western Union’s digital and retail networks; this will enable customers to receive payments from all nations and territories around the globe.
Cory Booker introduces Senate bill on slavery reparations…
April 9, 2019
The senator from New Jersey said Monday that “this bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country. It will bring together the best minds to study the issue and propose solutions that will finally begin to right the economic scales of past harms and make sure we are a country where all dignity and humanity is affirmed.”
Barack who? Iowa propelled Obama to the White House – now, no one speaks his name…
April 9, 2019
In three events in Iowa this weekend, the party's 2020 presidential front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders, 77, did not mention him a single time. At the other end of the generational spectrum, Beto O'Rourke, 46, did not name-check Obama either. Both candidates espoused policies far to the left of Obama, who when he was elected was viewed as in the party's progressive wing...
Way TO GO, Florida!! – ACLU warns ‘immigrants and people of color,’ against travel in Florida. Because of a new anti-illegal immigrant bill…
April 9, 2019
BREAKING: We and partners have issued a travel advisory urging immigrants and people of color to use extreme caution when traveling in Florida.
The state is on the verge of passing a draconian anti-immigrant bill which will endanger our communities.
— ACLU (@ACLU) April 8, 2019
WARNING: You may experience extreme levels of prosperity, security and overall awesomeness if you travel to Florida.
That's an anti ILLEGAL immigrant bill. It's got ZERO to do with color or race. The ACLU is a joke.
Sheriff Scott Israel Was Suspended – He’s Trying To Become Police Chief Somewhere Else…
April 9, 2019
...even while he fights to get reinstated, a commissioner from one county over is pushing hard for him to become police chief of Opa-locka.
According to a report from the Miami Herald, Opa-locka Commissioner Alvin Burke has been lobbying for Israel...Students at George Washington University have voted to urge the removal of the Colonials name from the university’s athletic teams…
April 9, 2019
A petition that led to the vote said, "The use of 'Colonials,' no matter how innocent the intention, is received as extremely offensive by not only affiliates of the university, but the nation and world at large. The historically, negatively charged figure of Colonials has too deep a connection to colonization and glorifies the act of systemic oppression. Alternative nickname recommendations are 'Hippos' or 'Riverhorses.'"
Ancient shipwreck to be made accessible to divers in Greece…
April 9, 2019
Divers will be able to tour certain shipwrecks and non-divers will experience the sites through virtual reality in information centers on land.
The first of these sites is the Peristera shipwreck, named for the uninhabited Greek island opposite Alonissos where it was discovered in the early 1990s. The cargo ship was laden with thousands of amphoras, or vases, probably containing wine, when it sank in the late 5th century B.C...
UK government proposes sweeping new regulations of online content. Companies could face fines if they fail to take down content quickly…
April 9, 2019
The British government is considering sweeping new laws to regulate problematic content online, ranging from terrorist propaganda to fake news. A new proposal unveiled on Monday would impose a new "duty of care" on websites hosting user-submitted content. Under the plan, a new UK agency would develop codes of practice outlining how sites should deal with various types of harmful content.
Researchers report that they’ve isolated and grown a species of soil bacteria that lives on methane, the potent greenhouse gas that is second in importance only to carbon dioxide…
April 9, 2019
That bacterium is Methylocapsa gorgona, which lives in soil all over the Earth. Because it can live on methane present in extremely low concentrations, the feisty microbe can pull the gas out of the atmosphere and consume it, even when it’s not near a major source.
More of this.
8 ways Blockchain will change the World…
April 9, 2019
While Bitcoin has received the lion’s share of attention since its conception, recently the Blockchain — the distributed public database used to record Bitcoin transactions — has just begun entering the spotlight for enabling some important capabilities outside of Bitcoin.
- 1. Distributed Cloud Storage
- 2. Unbreakable Contracts
- 3. The End of Patents
- 4. Encrypted Personal Profiles on the Blockchain
- 5. Decentralized Personal Banking with no borders
- 7. Electronic Voting
- 8. InterGalactic Credits to replace Earth money (Finally)
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Wave of police suicides in France sparks alarm…
April 9, 2019
The number of police suicides in France this year has risen to 25, after two officers were confirmed dead over the weekend after apparently taking their own lives... If proven true, that would mean there has been an average of one police suicide every four days since January. The statistic is high in comparison with previous years, and has worried ALTERNATIVE Police CFDT and other unions...
Japan Prime Minister Abe to visit U.S., Canada, France, Italy, Belgium and Slovakia on pre-G20 tour…
April 9, 2019
Abe said the trip was intended to “affirm close co-operation for success in the G20 summit in Osaka”, which will be held June 28 and 29. Trump is also expected to visit Japan in May to become the first foreign head of state to meet Japan’s new emperor, Naruhito, who will be enthroned on May 1.