Washington State Supreme Court denies early release of the Green River Serial Killer to help stem spread of coronavirus BY ONLY 5-4 votes. He confessed to murdering at least 49 women…
April 24, 2020
Courts narrowly avoid to release one of the most prolific serial killers in history back onto the streets for safety reasons, but will lock up normal citizens for not social distancing.
Mike Pompeo Claims US May Never Restore Funding to WHO, Could Replace With New Int’l Body…
April 24, 2020
The news comes after Pompeo urged in an interview a "structural fix of the WHO", stating: "Even more than that, it may be the case that the United States can never return to underwriting, having U.S. taxpayer dollars go to the WHO."
Hypersonics: DoD Wants ‘Hundreds of Weapons’ ASAP…
April 24, 2020
“We want to deliver hypersonics at scale,” said R&D director Mark Lewis, from air-breathing cruise missiles to rocket-boosted gliders that fly through space.
US District Judge Roger Benitez shoots down California law mandating background checks for ammunition buyers, citing ‘grave injury’ to 2nd Amendment…
April 24, 2020
“The experiment has been tried. The casualties have been counted. California’s new ammunition background check law misfires and the Second Amendment rights of California citizens have been gravely injured,” Benitez wrote in the opinion.
Biden predicts Trump will try to postpone US election…
April 24, 2020
"Mark my words, I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held," Biden said during an online fundraiser Thursday.
The Los Angeles police will end a controversial program that aimed to use AI to predict where crimes would occur…
April 24, 2020
Pred-Pol software — developed by a UCLA professor in conjunction with the LAPD — was designed to predict in real time where and when crimes were likely to occur over the next 12 hours.
Elon Musk says Starlink internet private beta to begin in roughly three months, public beta in six…
April 24, 2020
The initial beta test will apply to those located in “high latitudes,” Musk added. To date, SpaceX has said that Starlink service will initially be made available to customers in Canada and in the northern United States in 2020, with additional service expansion to follow to other parts of the world throughout 2021.
Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process…
April 24, 2020
The change will allow consumers to see who's running an ad and which country they're located in when they click "Why this ad?" on a placement.
Ex-British spy Christopher Steele testified in court that his emails and documents related to his infamous dossier have been “wiped” clean…
April 24, 2020
According to the report from Daily Caller: "Steele said that a Hushmail account he used in late December 2016 was 'wiped' clean. He also said that communications with Fusion GPS on his company's computer network were scrubbed on Jan. 5, 2017."
Non-citizen US troops sue Pentagon over slowed naturalization process…
April 24, 2020
Non-citizens who serve in the military are eligible for expedited citizenship under the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act. In order to qualify for the expedited process, troops must get a certification from the Pentagon that they have served honorably.
Troops used to be able to get that certification a day after starting service. But in 2017, the Pentagon changed the process...
Federal court approves Facebook settlement with FTC over Cambridge Analytica…
April 24, 2020
"This agreement has already brought fundamental changes to our company and advances in how we protect people's privacy beyond anything we've done before," wrote Michel Protti, Facebook's chief privacy officer for product, in a blog post. "Most of all, it brings a new level of accountability and ensures that privacy is everyone's responsibility at Facebook."
Sunlight destroys coronavirus quickly, say US scientists…
Scientists have known for decades that broad-spectrum UVC light, which has a wavelength of between 200 to 400 nanometers (nm), is highly effective at killing bacteria and viruses by destroying the molecular bonds that hold their DNA together...
April 24, 2020
"Our most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have on killing the virus, both surfaces and in the air," he said. "We've seen a similar effect with both temperature and humidity as well, where increasing the temperature and humidity or both is generally less favorable to the virus."
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When the virus was aerosolized -- meaning suspended in the air -- the half-life was one hour when the temperature was 70 to 75 degrees with 20 percent humidity. In the presence of sunlight, this dropped to just one and a half minutes. Bryan concluded that summer-like conditions "will create an environment (where) transmission can be decreased."...Anonymous Hacks Bill Gates Foundation, WHO and Wuhan Lab. Releases Email Addresses and Passwords…
April 24, 2020
Something about this "hack" seems very off in regards to the timing and just the entire "LEAK" as a whole. Be Careful when diving into these emails and trying to access them. Just like the fake Wikileaks dumps that happened a few days ago, users reported back that opening the PDF's "phoned home" to places like Virginia (hint hint), Washington, and more.
Judge Dismisses Twitter’s Lawsuit Over Its Rights to Publish Information About Government Surveillance Orders…
April 24, 2020
On Friday... the judge in this case ruled that it would allow the government’s state-secrets claim and would not require the government to turn over the classified declarations to Twitter’s counsel. And, based on that secret evidence that Twitter’s attorneys were never allowed to access, the judge held that the government’s purported national security concerns were sufficient to justify its censorship of Twitters draft transparency report. Disturbingly, the judge provided next-to-no justification for either of these decisions...
Instagram no longer allows people without an account to view photos and videos on computers…
April 24, 2020
Many small businesses and professionals use Instagram as their only point of contact with customers, a fact that makes this change troublesome for those who, for whatever reason, do not have and do not intend to have an account there.