Iran says U.S. cyber attacks fail, hints at possible talks…
June 24, 2019
In the latest comment from Tehran, an adviser to President Hassan Rouhani repeated a longstanding demand that Washington lift sanctions in line with the deal... adviser, Hesameddin Ashena tweeted a rare suggestion that Iran could be willing to discuss new concessions, if Washington were willing to put new incentives on the table that go beyond those in the deal. “If they want something beyond the JCPOA, they should offer something beyond the JCPOA; with international guarantees.”...
Iran tensions: Russia says it will counter ‘illegal’ US sanctions on Tehran…
June 24, 2019
Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov has not revealed what steps Russia would take in response to the measures taken by Donald Trump aimed at stopping the country from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Mr Ryabkov has said sanctions would increase tensions and that Washington should instead be seeking dialogue with Tehran, according to Russian news agencies.
Seek dialogue? While many news outlets are fear-mongering, the real news is that Iran has said it is willing to renegotiate. Which is exactly what's happening...
Oregon GOP trolls Democrats with ‘siege’ of Capitol Building while ditching vote on divisive bill…
June 24, 2019
The Oregon GOP official Twitter account has been mocking Democrats as Republican senators avoided a legislative session in order to sabotage a climate bill. Police were ordered to bring in rebel lawmakers amid protests.
While the state police are searching for senators at the request of the governor, the official GOP Twitter account has been provoking a heated online row...
Heavily armed militia lays siege to Oregon's Capitol as Senate Democrats cower in fear. #orpol #orleg #capkillsjobs #hb2020 #Oregon11 #orcot pic.twitter.com/XQHCEb3D59
— Oregon GOP (@Oregon_GOP) June 23, 2019
The tweet came out after the Oregon State Senate closed on Saturday, citing a “possible militia threat.” Several local militia groups, including the Oregon Three Percenters, who were involved in an armed takeover of a wildlife refuge in 2016, pledged their support to local lawmakers.
7.5-magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia…
June 24, 2019
The quake hit at a depth of 220 km. The US-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said it would not trigger tsunami and there were no immediate reports of major damage or casualties...
Arabs are becoming increasingly irreligious – BBC survey of over 25,000 Arabs finds a decrease in religiosity in 10 of the 11 countries surveyed…
June 24, 2019
Google’s Quantum Processor May Achieve Quantum Supremacy in Months…
June 24, 2019
In a new report in Quanta Magazine by Kevin Hartnett, Hartmut Neven, the director of Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, reveals that the growth in power with each new improvement to Google's best quantum processor is unlike anything found in nature. It's growing at not just an exponential rate, like in Moore's Law, but at a doubly-exponential rate, meaning we may be mere months away from the beginning of the practical quantum computing era.
Google's Hartmut Neven is Telling Us to Get Ready...
Report: Trump Admin Considering Ordering All US 5G Gear Be Made Outside of China…
June 24, 2019
A White House executive order last month to restrict some foreign-made networking gear and services due to cybersecurity concerns started a 150-day review of the U.S. telecommunications supply chain. As part of that review, U.S. officials are asking telecom-equipment manufacturers whether they can make and develop U.S.-bound hardware, which includes cellular-tower electronics as well as routers and switches, and software outside of China, the people said.
The conversations are in early and informal stages, they said. The executive order calls for a list of proposed rules and regulations by the 150-day deadline, in October; so, any proposals may take months or years to adopt...
Newly Released Docs Raise Questions About Omar’s Marriage History. Top Minnesota paper could neither confirm or deny claims Omar married her brother…
June 24, 2019
The documents also reveal how Omar's campaign worked to keep the story of her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi out of the press, the Minnesota Star Tribune reports. The Star Tribune found little information about Elmi in public records and could neither confirm nor rebut the claim that he is Omar's brother...
Omar did not make her tax or immigration records available for the report...
Trump is willing to talk to Iran, top U.S. adviser says…
June 24, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to talk to Iran about a deal that would lift American sanctions but Tehran would need to curtain its nuclear and missile program, as well as its support for proxies, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.
U.S. Special Representative on Iran Brian Hook told reporters that Iran could “come to the table or watch its economy crumble,” but declined to give more details about fresh U.S. sanctions expected later on Monday...
A new wind farm is coming to southeast New Mexico, and the project will bring turbines and transmission lines to key counties…
June 24, 2019
EDF Renewables says the energy generated will be delivered to Tucson, Arizona, and the system will have a capacity of about 247 megawatts.
ANTIFA plans an “all out assault” on conservative figures during a free speech rally on July 6th. According to Tim Pool, the last time Tucker Carlson was doxxed, Twitter did nothing about it and Antifa showed up at his home address. They’ve planted posters around D.C with the figure’s personal info…
June 24, 2019
China says will not allow Hong Kong issue to be discussed at G20 summit…
June 24, 2019
Millions of people demonstrated on the streets of Hong Kong this month against a bill that would allow people to be extradited to the mainland to face trial in courts controlled by the Communist Party.
It triggered the most violent protests in decades... “What I can tell you for sure is that G20 will not discuss the Hong Kong issue. We will not allow G20 to discuss the Hong Kong issue,” Zhang said, when asked whether Trump and Xi would discuss Hong Kong at the G20.
“Hong Kong is China’s special administrative region. Hong Kong matters are purely an internal affair due China. No foreign country has a right to interfere,” Zhang said...
PTSD is linked to inflammatory processes, suggests a new study, which found that PTSD symptoms were associated with higher levels of inflammation biomarkers, and genetic differences between people with PTSD and those who don’t were 98% attributed to intrusion symptoms (nightmares, flashbacks)…
June 24, 2019
Bill Gates and Big Oil back this company that’s trying to solve ‘climate change’ by sucking CO2 out of the air…
June 24, 2019
It's called Carbon Engineering, and it uses a combination of giant fans and complex chemical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the air in a procedure known as Direct Air Capture.
Direct Air Capture isn't new, but Carbon Engineering says its technology has advanced enough for it to finally make financial sense...
Minnesota cop awarded $585,000 after colleagues snooped on her DMV data – Jury this week found Minneapolis police officers abused license database access…
June 24, 2019
“I was a trooper for a long time and it was a common practice for troopers to run someone’s name through the [Massachusetts criminal record] system for reasons besides law enforcement,” Michael Szymanski, a former state trooper who was disciplined for abusing a police database, told CommonWealth Magazine in May. “I can’t tell you how many times I saw troopers run their next-door neighbor through [the system], run their old girlfriends’ names, or run someone who they’re having a dispute with.”
The problem goes beyond DMV and criminal records databases. Law enforcement officials have also been caught abusing technology that allows them to monitor the location of people’s cellphones...