U.S. And China Are The Top Two Leaders in Military Spending Around The World…
April 29, 2019
The United States, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France led the world in military spending, accounting for 60% of the total expenditure in 2018... The U.S. spent $649 billion in 2018; China, which came in second on the list, spent $250 billion...Together, the U.S. and China make up half the world's military spending, expending as much as the rest of the world combined... "The spending boom is driven, above all, by the contest between America and China for primacy in Asia,"
Information About Every Voter in New York City Is Now Very Public…
April 29, 2019
With just a few clicks, anyone can find out your party affiliation and home address. The Board of Elections has published the city's 4.6 millions voters online with nobody really noticing. Although this information was always kind of public, they just made it so easy, a caveman can do it.
Car crash interrupts Cory Booker campaign event…
April 29, 2019
The New Yorker: Author Shares Experience of Living In A Cult Within an Isolated Commune…
April 29, 2019
Let me elaborate. I was born into a family of a hundred adults and sixty children in 1968, and spent the first eleven years of my life among them. The Lyman Family, as it was called, referred to itself in the plural as “the communities.” It was an insular existence. I had no contact with anybody outside the Family...
Security beefed up in Tokyo as emperor prepares to abdicate…
April 29, 2019
Divers scoured moats around the Imperial Palace and police dogs sniffed in bushes on Monday as authorities ramped up security for the start of Japan’s new “Reiwa” imperial era.
Canadian soybeans, peas and pork face new delays at China’s ports…
April 29, 2019
- Are increasing diplomatic tensions behind tighter inspections and cancelled orders?
- Farmers switch to other crops in bid to beat barriers
Socialists set to reign in Spain, but not without support…
April 29, 2019
The center-left Socialist party won re-election in Sunday’s ballot, collecting nearly 29% of votes, and will try to form a government. It would be one of only a handful of socialist governments in the European Union.
But with only 123 seats in the 350-seat Congress of Deputies, Spain’s parliament, it needs to negotiate the support of smaller rival parties to pass legislation.
China targets nuclear fusion power generation by 2040…
April 29, 2019
China aims to complete and start generating power from an experimental nuclear fusion reactor by around 2040, a senior scientist involved in the project said, as it works to develop and commercialize a game-changing source of clean energy.
There is money to be made in exporting power. If they get to fusion mass scale first, they can relax about the declining manufacturing and coal business.
Fighter Jets Dispatched to Plane Violating DC Airspace…
April 29, 2019
The aircraft was not communicating with air traffic control when it entered the special flight rules area, NORAD says.
Two F-16 fighter jets were dispatched. Before the suspicious aircraft was intercepted, its pilot regained communication with air traffic controllers and diverted to the nearest airport, NORAD said.
As measles returns, Indiegogo joins other tech platforms in banning Anti-Vaccine campaigns…
April 29, 2019
Facebook said they would remove anti-vaxx ads and recommendations from users, while Instagram said it would do the same for hashtags and searches. YouTube also made a pledge to stop anyone monetizing from anti-vaxx content. Also Amazon will be removing books promoting an connections made between vaccines and autism, including anti-vaccine documentaries like Vaxxed. Even GoFundMe started banning 'anti-vaxxers' from campaigns.
Album of The Day: Tycho – Dive…
April 29, 2019
We've had this in our collection for many years. Many centipedes will love this. Enjoy this beautiful Monday.
US warships sail through Taiwan Strait, China acts shocked…
April 29, 2019
The voyage risks further raising tensions with China but will likely be viewed by Taiwan as a sign of support from the Trump administration amid growing friction between Taipei and Beijing, Reuters noted... In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China had paid close attention to the sailing and had expressed concern to the United States...
Group of Lawmakers Introduce Package of Bills to Trim Pennsylvania’s 153,000 Regulations…
April 29, 2019
The nation’s economy is booming, but Pennsylvania is still struggling due to a regulatory environment that "has been holding us back from achieving our full potential," said state Sen. Kristin Phillips-Hill... The state’s 153,000 regulations, some which have been on the books for decades, are the equivalent of "extreme hoarding," said state Rep. Kate Klunk, R-York...
Crazy Bernie Tries to Activate His Organizing Army With an App…
April 29, 2019
Crazy Bernie - yes, the guy that combs his hair with a balloon - is depending on a new app that will connect volunteers and voters in a massive mobilization effort.
Turkey’s Erdogan Says His Country will not surrender to economic terrorism from foreign powers’…
April 29, 2019
President Erdogan says he's vowing to confront "those who are plotting against our people". Lot's of play in that part of the world with Turkey looking to extract natural gas from the illegally occupied parts of Cyprus, to buying weapons from Russia, to purchasing black market oil from terrorists in Syria/Iraq - it's not looking good for them at the moment. Not to mention their currency is slowly collapsing.
Yanis Varoufakis is running in the EU elections trying to shake things up in Brussels with his leftist DiEM25 alliance…
April 29, 2019
"As a staunch European, I protest against what the European institutions are doing. They're creating discontent, and that produces political monsters like Matteo Salvini and the Lega in Italy, the AfD in Germany, or Golden Dawn in Greece."... DiEM25 is calling for radical changes... in Germany, of all places, that Yanis Varoufakis is campaigning for a new Europe. He and his comrades want it to be more democratic than it has been in the past...
Floods in Indonesia kill 29, dozen missing…
April 29, 2019
On Monday, Indonesia's disaster agency confirmed 29 deaths and said at least 13 more people were missing after days of pounding storms on the island of Sumatra.
Some 12,000 others have been evacuated from water-logged Bengkulu province with hundreds of buildings, bridges and roads damaged.Scammers Hack GoDaddy Accounts To Send Spam For Shady Products…
April 29, 2019
GoDaddy shut down over 15,000 websites that hackers used to email spam and redirect people to products like miracle weight loss drugs and brain enhancement pills.
FCC approves SpaceX’s plans to fly internet-beaming satellites in a lower orbit…
April 29, 2019
Let's see what laws the telecom companies will try to push through if this actually ends up being significant competition for them.
DARPA is Eyeing a High-Tech Contact Lens Straight Out of ‘Mission Impossible’…
April 29, 2019
Researchers at leading French engineering IMT Atlantique in mid-April announced “the first autonomous contact lens incorporating a flexible micro-battery,” a lightweight lens capable of not only providing augmented vision assistance to users but relaying visual information wirelessly...