Iranians sending images to a U.S.-based activist over an anti-headscarf campaign could face up to 10 years in prison…
July 29, 2019
The activist, Masih Alinejad, founded the "White Wednesdays" campaign in Iran to encourage women to post photographs of themselves without headscarves online as a way of opposing the compulsory hijab. The semi-official Fars news agency on Monday quoted the head of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, as saying that "those who film themselves or others while removing the hijab and send photos to this woman ... will be sentenced to between one and 10 years in prison." The Islamic headscarf is mandatory in public for all women in Iran. Those who violate the rule are usually sentenced to two months in prison or less, and fined around $25.
We've been following Masih for a while, she has been an inspiration to many women.
GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea…
July 29, 2019
Over the weekend, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote on Twitter that like any other “company that does business in the US,” GitHub is required to comply with the U.S. export law. The confirmation comes months after work collaboration service Slack, too, enforced similar restrictions on its platform... As part of the push, Friedman said GitHub has enforced new restrictions to prevent users in sanctioned countries from accessing private repositories and GitHub Marketplace, as well as maintaining private paid organization accounts. A selection of GitHub services such as access to public repositories will remain available to everyone, the company said in a statement on its website.
Poll: Nearly half of Americans remain unmoved on impeachment post-Mueller testimony…
July 29, 2019
The ABC/Ipsos poll found 47 percent of Americans who had read, saw or heard about Mueller's testimony saying the former FBI chief's appearance in Congress made no difference to their support or opposition to impeachment. Twenty-seven percent of that group said the testimony made them more likely to support impeachment, while 26 percent said it made them less likely to.
Awan Plea Deal is Not the End Of The Awans, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and the DNC Server…
July 28, 2019
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 8442b9 No.7234526 📁
Jul 28 2019 18:53:47 (EST)
The SWAMP runs deep.
DNC server(s) hold many answers.
SCARAMUCCI MODEL.
DNI & NSA
[AWAN]
[DWS]
[D_Congress]
House of Cards.
You didn't think the plea deal was the end did you?
QWant to know more about the Awan plea-deal that Q is talking about? Please reference our post called: AWAN TO KNOW – The PleaAnd since we're on the subject of the Awans, please make sure to see our report called: MYSTERY PAKISTANIS - Who Are The Awans. This should give you a nice introduction to who these mysterious IT brothers are, their connections to Hezbollah, the Deep State, what they've done, whom they conspired with, and much more. Of course we couldn't of done this without the work of Luke Roziak from the Daily Caller. Nobody has done more in regards to the investigations into the Awan situation than he has. What we did was go through most of his investigations and compiled enough data to create a simplified background into these IT contractors. Give it a whirl and make sure you share it.
Firefox browser could soon receive a TOR mode add-on that would significantly enhance privacy by connecting to the TOR network…
July 28, 2019
Their proposal was to develop a browser add-on that would enable this Tor mode in Firefox, as this approach could give the two organizations enough time to plan on the engineering work that is needed for this new feature.
The extension wouldn’t be installed by default in Firefox, so users would have to download it manually from Mozilla’s website in order to enable the Tor mode.
“It would allow users to experience what an eventual full integration with Tor could look like. It could also help gauge interest by counting downloads, etc,” the Tor team explains...
Scientists have created a robotic lens that is controlled by small eye movements, including double blinks to zoom in and out…
July 28, 2019
Researchers from the University of California San Diego harnessed this natural charge to control the lens. They measured the electrical potential of the eye – called the “electro-oculographic signal” – and then made lenses that would respond to that activity.
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It is controlled using five electrodes surrounding the eye which act like muscles. When the polymer becomes more convex the lens effectively zooms in. Scientists hope one day this could help create a prosthetic eye or a camera that can be controlled using eyes alone...France wants to arm satellites with guns and lasers by 2030 Just after it announced that it was creating its own Space Command…
July 28, 2019
Minister Florence Parly announced that the country would be reallocating €700 million from the military budget for space defense, with more than €4.3 billion to be spent by 2025. That money would go towards upgrading France’s network of Syracuse military communications satellites, which are operated by the French Navy. The military wants the next generation of satellites to come with cameras to identify adversaries, with a followup generation equipped with submachine guns and lasers to attack and disable other satellites.
The Ministry of Defense also says that it wants to be able to launch swarms of nano satellites into orbit that could protect strategic objects, and have the ability to launch satellites quickly to replace ones that have been lost...
John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes
July 28, 2019
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 1a0564 No.7231226 Jul 28 2019 14:11:59 (EST)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-ratcliffe-ag-william-barr-will-deliver-justice-to-any-obama-officials-who-committed-crimes
While Congress is away….
The month of AUGUST is traditionally a really HOT month.
Nature is unpredictable.
QKnife crime is so bad in the UK that kids as young as 10 are being stabbed…
July 28, 2019
Hospital admissions for all injuries caused by an assault with a knife have risen by almost a third since 2012. But young people are at the front lines of the UK's knife crime epidemic.
There has been a 55 per cent increase in the number of people between the ages of 10 and 19 going to hospital with knife wounds in the past seven years.
Physicists have developed a “quantum microphone” so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound, called phonons. The device could eventually lead to smaller, more efficient quantum computers that operate by manipulating sound rather than light…
July 28, 2019
Anon asks: "Can someone explain phonons? I thought sound was vibrations of a medium."
Phonons are the quantized ‘waves’ of atomic motion, or vibrations, in a crystalline solid. In the low frequency, low wave-vector limit, they ARE sound waves. This is why a phonon is not technically a particle, but is called a pseudo-particle. Hope that helps!
Police believe second person involved in California festival shooting…
July 29, 2019
Police believe a second person was involved in a mass shooting at a California festival and a manhunt is on, Gilroy California Police Chief Scot Smithee said late on Sunday. A second person, “was involved in some way, we just don’t know in what way,” Smithee said. “We have no idea of a motive,” he also said.
Indian Asylum Seekers On Hunger Strike Forced To Hydrate At US Detention Centre…
July 29, 2019
Three Indian nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. have been forced to receive IV drips at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas as they approach their third week of a hunger strike, according to their attorney. The U.S. Department of Justice filed orders with federal judges last week that relate to non-consensual hydration or feeding for four men, according to a court official. Linda Corchado, the lawyer for three of the four men named in the court orders, said the fourth man is also Indian and is represented by another attorney. It’s unclear if that man was also forced to accept an IV.
Seoul returns 3 North Koreans who crossed sea border in boat…
July 29, 2019
Seoul’s Unification Ministry said in a statement it decided to let the North Koreans return home in line with their wishes. It said the North Koreans were to sail across the sea border back to North Korea aboard the same boat later Monday. Fishing boats drift across the Koreas’ eastern sea border in both directions. South Korea typically returns North Korean fishermen unless they are suspected of espionage.
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting; Multiple Victims Reported…
Update: Four people including gunman killed - 15 people injured, some of them hurt in the crush of bystanders trying to flee...
July 28, 2019
yo somebody was shooting at the gilroy garlic festival. be safe pic.twitter.com/B39ZIYe8wr
— niah ㊝ (@wavyia) July 29, 2019
Gilroy Garlic Festival Mass Shooting:
- Reports of 11 people injured after shooting at a food festival near San Jose, California
- Witness says multiple injured and at least 15-20 shots heard
- Some attendees may still be hiding
Live updates here: https://t.co/J38HCIx5K1— Porter Medium (@PorterMedium) July 29, 2019
Microsoft Bets $1 Billion On The Holy Grail Of Artificial Intelligence…
July 28, 2019
Perhaps one of the most important recent deals is a $1 billion investment in OpenAI. The goal is to build a next-generation AI platform that is not only powerful but ethical and trustworthy.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI is one of the few companies — along with Google’s DeepMind — that is focused on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which is really the Holy Grail of the AI world. According to a blog post from the company: “AGI will be a system capable of mastering a field of study to the world-expert level, and mastering more fields than any one human — like a tool which combines the skills of Curie, Turing, and Bach. An AGI working on a problem would be able to see connections across disciplines that no human could...
Walmart and Nordstrom are building stores that don’t sell anything…
July 28, 2019
The two retailers are creating small hubs in big cities and dense suburban areas for shoppers to retrieve their online grocery and clothing orders. These new locations give them access to shoppers who want their stuff in a hurry without schlepping out to regular big-box stores or waiting around for home delivery.
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Walmart and Nordstrom’s innovations are the latest examples of how retailers are attempting to create distinctive services to fight off Amazon.
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Pickup appeals to shoppers who want to grab their stuff and go without waiting in checkout lines or interacting with sales workers on the floor, analysts say. Picking up orders from stores can also be faster than home delivery...Coats out as national intel director…
July 28, 2019
....be leaving office on August 15th. I would like to thank Dan for his great service to our Country. The Acting Director will be named shortly.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2019
Yellow Vest Movement Marches into Week 37 as Western Media Continues To Ignore…
July 28, 2019
No end in sight. Western media has given up even talking about #YellowVest protests anymore. Let them eat cake. #Act37 #ActeXXXVII #GiletsJaunes pic.twitter.com/TFVlDzetI7
— ECM (@EuropasHellwach) July 28, 2019
live #manifestation #giletsjaune #Paris #act37 van TaoualitAmar #Acte37 #giletsjaunes #yelowVest protest https://t.co/o9SNmpXQA9
— Richard Grune (@0406Guno) July 27, 2019
EN DIRECT sur #Periscope : #manifestation #giletsjaune #Paris #act37 https://t.co/ddMGNoV5gk
— Amar Taoualit (@TaoualitAmar) July 27, 2019
Vatican mystery: Exhumed bones ‘too old’ to be missing teen girl…
July 28, 2019
Two sets of bones were found after the tombs of two 19th-century German princesses were opened in the cemetery of the Pontifical Teutonic College after the family of Ms Orlandi received a tip-off.
They were discovered under a stone slab, but according to a Vatican spokesman an expert has rejected Ms Orlandi's family's request to send the 70 bones for laboratory testing because they were "very ancient".
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Italian media immediately speculated the remains could belong to Ms Orlandi or another girl who went missing at around the same time. But forensic tests showed the bones long predated their disappearances.PAPA D Heads to Greece and Back With Unmarked Bills For Durham…
July 28, 2019
BREAKING NEWS: @GeorgePapa19 just told me he is going back to #Greece to retrieve the $10-k that was dropped in his lap as part of the #FBI's entrapment. It's in a safe in Greece. It's marked bills and the intel committees want to see it. @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness
— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo) July 28, 2019
He should bring it to a consulate first, then it can come to the US in a sealed diplomatic pouch customs can't touch.