Thursday, March 31, 2016

The return of exorcism

The return of exorcism | AdelaideNow: "EXORCISM. It’s back. From the courtrooms of South Africa to the cornfields of heartland America, the battle for your soul has taken a decidedly physical turn."




Russia’s Secret Weapon of the ISIS War

Russia’s Secret Weapon of the ISIS War - The Daily Beast: "The Mi-28 can fly as fast as 200 miles per hour. Its cockpit armor is thick enough to deflect heavy machine gun fire. Able to spot and strike targets from miles away, the Mi-28 combines the qualities of an aerial spy and a flying tank."

The government is working to ban self care, as regulations on self defense and natural healing become insane

The government is working to ban self care, as regulations on self defense and natural healing become insane - NaturalNews.com: "For decades, governments in the West – supposed democracies, all – have been working to steadily deprive citizens of some basic rights, including self-defense and the ability to choose their own kind of medical treatment. As we move further into the 21st century, this trend does not appear to be reversing anytime soon."

Study links periodic mass extinctions to "Planet X"

Study links periodic mass extinctions to "Planet X": "
According to research published by a faculty member of the University of Arkansas Department of Mathematical Sciences, Daniel Whitmire, periodic mass extinctions on Earth, as indicated in the global fossil record, could be linked to a suspected ninth planet."

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Big Brother Rising: US Turns Into Full-Blown 'Surveillance State'

Big Brother Rising: US Turns Into Full-Blown 'Surveillance State': "The recent revelation that the NSA has plans to share intercepted private communications with other domestic intelligence agencies has caused a massive backlash, with many viewing the shift as “unconstitutional.” Two experts join Radio Sputnik’s Brian Becker to discuss if the policy is just a “giant fishing expedition for law enforcement.”"

Sunday, March 27, 2016

You might actually like the US military's latest plan to control your mind

You might actually like the US military's latest plan to control your mind | TechRadar: "The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a new project that involves stimulating certain nerves in the the neck and brain to speed up how quickly a person learns."

Top Jihadist Claims Brussels, Paris Are Terror Rehearsals for ‘Big’ Attack Inside U.S.

EXCLUSIVE - Top Jihadist Claims Brussels, Paris Are Terror Rehearsals for ‘Big’ Attack Inside U.S. - Breitbart: "TEL AVIV – The deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels last week and in Paris last November are dress rehearsals for a coming “big” attack inside the United States, a leading Islamic State-allied militant claimed in an exclusive interview."

Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome—and it might wake up

Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome—and it might wake up | Ars Technica: "In the current era of microbiome research, we humans are already having to come to grips with the fact that ‘I’ is actually ‘we’. Instead of our bodies constituting a single life-form, we are each composed of complex and diverse ecosystems of microbes that have a profound influence on our existence."

It's Not Just Times Square—Altars to Baal Will Be Built Around the Wolrd

It's Not Just Times Square—Altars to Baal Will Be Built Around the Wolrd — Charisma News: "The reproductions of the 50-foot arch that stood at the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria, that will be erected in New York City and London next month will only be the first of many."

Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions were even bigger than we thought

Yellowstone supervolcano eruptions were even bigger than we thought - CSMonitor.com: "Yellowstone's geysers and hotpots are 'just the latest in a protracted history of numerous catastrophic super-eruptions that have burned a track along the Snake River eastwards from Oregon to Yellowstone,' says UK geologist."

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form Yet, Not Sure What It Is

Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form Yet, Not Sure What It Is - Bloomberg Business: "As the gene-manipulation industry grows, a breakthrough reveals how little we know about DNA."

Microsoft silences its new A.I. bot Tay, after Twitter users teach it racism

Microsoft silences its new A.I. bot Tay, after Twitter users teach it racism [Updated] | TechCrunch: "Microsoft’s newly launched A.I.-powered bot called Tay, which was responding to tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik, has already been shut down due to concerns with its inability to recognize when it was making offensive or racist statements. Of course, the bot wasn’t coded to be racist, but it “learns” from those it interacts with. And naturally, given that this is the Internet, one of the first things online users taught Tay was how to be racist, and how to spout back ill-informed or inflammatory political opinions."

What is a superflare? Researchers explain 'devastating consequences' of an eruption from the Sun

What is a superflare? Researchers explain 'devastating consequences' of an eruption from the Sun - Mirror Online: "An international research team has published a study discussing the possibility and consequences of a 'superflare' erupting from our parent star"

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Blasphemous Blockbuster Film Claims Jesus Was a Mutant

Blasphemous Blockbuster Film Claims Jesus Was a Mutant — Charisma News: ""I've been called many things over many lifetimes," says the titular character known as Apocalypse. "Ra, Krishna, Yahweh."  


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The fictional story follows the omnipotent En Sabah Nur, later known as Apocalypse, who terrorizes the globe for centuries with his four horsemen."

New weapons systems may breach international law

New weapons systems may breach international law | News | The Guardian: "He warns that “invisibility cloaks” and other future advances in military camouflage techniques could violate the Geneva conventions in Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict"

Do Not Believe What You See: New Technology Alters Facial Expressions

Do Not Believe What You See: New Technology Alters Facial Expressions in Real-Time: "Did you know that every political leader on stage and on live television, could be totally generated by a computer? Through the use of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), real-time facial expressions can be manipulated by anyone. Companies across the globe are rushing to get their hands on this technology because no longer does an individual have to read a script in front of a camera, or use a teleprompter. It can all be done by a computer generated image, without the person even being in front of the camera."

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Homo sapiens' sex with extinct species was no one-night stand

Homo sapiens' sex with extinct species was no one-night stand - Yahoo News: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Our species, Homo sapiens, has a more adventurous sexual history than previously realized, and all that bed-hopping long ago has left an indelible mark on the human genome."

China Wants to Make ‘Minority Report’ a Reality

China Wants to Make ‘Minority Report’ a Reality - The Daily Beast: "Beijing is working on data-collection efforts that will help them identify subversives—before they strike."

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Scientists closer to CLONING T-Rex after discovering remains of pregnant dinosaur

Scientists closer to CLONING T-Rex after discovering remains of pregnant dinosaur | Science | News | Daily Express: "SCIENTISTS are one step closer to cloning dinosaurs after the discovering the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was pregnant when it died."

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

NHS to harvest babies' organs in proposals to mums pregnant with damaged babies

NHS to harvest babies' organs in proposals to mums pregnant with damaged babies | Daily Mail Online: "Women whose babies develop fatal defects in the early stages of pregnancy will be given advice on going ahead with the birth so the NHS can harvest their organs"

Japan Develops 9 Dollar Sensor That Can Detect Viruses In Minutes Making Prevention of Symptoms Possible

Japan Develops 9 Dollar Sensor That Can Detect Viruses In Minutes Making Prevention of Symptoms Possible: "Japanese electronics giant Toshiba in collaboration with Osaka University has developed a sensor that detects infectious viruses in minutes compared to existing technologies that take eight hours."

A mysterious cluster of killer bacterial infections is sweeping a US state in an outbreak that has experts baffled: Disease is resistant to most antibiotics

The Big Wobble : A mysterious cluster of killer bacterial infections is sweeping a US state in an outbreak that has experts baffled: Disease is resistant to most antibiotics: "A mysterious cluster of killer bacterial infections is sweeping a US state in an outbreak that has experts baffled.
It's thought the rare bloodstream disease known as elizabethkingia anophelis has killed 18 and infected 48 people in Wisconsin since November."

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Media mogul Dmitry Itskov plans to live forever by uploading his personality to a robot

Media mogul Dmitry Itskov plans to live forever by uploading his personality to a robot: "Money can buy you immortality, according to the Russian internet multi-millionaire who is ploughing a fortune into a project to create a human that never dies."

North Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb

North Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb - The Washington Post: "SEOUL — North Korea claimed Sunday that it could wipe out Manhattan by sending a hydrogen bomb on a ballistic missile to the heart of New York City, the latest in a string of brazen threats."

Doomsday Weapon: Russia’s New Missile Shocks and Dazzles US, China

Doomsday Weapon: Russia’s New Missile Shocks and Dazzles US, China: "In a Chinese television program aired earlier this month a local defense expert hailed the unique characteristics of the Russian ICBM and the fear it had instilled in the hearts of foreign militaries"

Report Warns that Autonomous Weapons in Action Could be Rendered Uncontrollable

Top Stories - Report Warns that Autonomous Weapons in Action Could be Rendered Uncontrollable - AllGov - News: "A new report written by a former Pentagon official who helped establish United States policy on autonomous weapons argues that such weapons could be uncontrollable in real-world environments where they are subject to design failure as well as hacking, spoofing and manipulation by adversaries."

New Magnetic Chips Offer Computing With One Million Times Less Energy

New Magnetic Chips Offer Computing With One Million Times Less Energy: "Scientists have shown that computing using magnetic chips can reduce power consumption to one millionth of the amount of energy used by transistors in modern computers."

Ankara bombing leaves 34 dead and 125 injured in blast

Ankara bombing leaves 34 dead and 125 injured in blast | Daily Mail Online: "A huge explosion has hit the Turkish capital of Ankara killing 34 people and wounding at least 125 others."

Ivory Coast shooting witness tells how Al Qaeda terrorists singled out victims

Ivory Coast shooting witness tells how Al Qaeda terrorists singled out victims | Daily Mail Online: "Suspected al Qaeda gunmen who stormed a popular tourist resort in the Ivory Coast killing at least 16 people reportedly were targeting a U.S. delegation led by the assistant commerce secretary."

Mass Exorcism Needed: Mexico Swept by Wave of Satanic Killings

Mass Exorcism Needed: Mexico Swept by Wave of Satanic Killings: "Mexico is being swept by a wave of satanic ritual killings with exorcists saying there is an unprecedented demand for their services."

Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot

Fukushima's ground zero: No place for man or robot: "The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima's nuclear reactors have “died”; a subterranean "ice wall" around the crippled plant meant to stop groundwater from becoming contaminated has yet to be finished. And authorities still don’t how to dispose of highly radioactive water stored in an ever mounting number of tanks around the site."

Why The System Is Set For Tyranny: The High-Tech Collectivist State

Why The System Is Set For Tyranny: The High-Tech Collectivist State | Truthstream Media: "The metaphor of society run by the levers of the machine, and the “system” that operates government and industry became much more literal in the post-war age of cybernetics."

Veil of secrecy lifted on Pentagon office planning ‘Avatar’ fighters and drone swarms

Veil of secrecy lifted on Pentagon office planning ‘Avatar’ fighters and drone swarms - The Washington Post: "High over Alaska last summer, the Pentagon experimented with new, secret prototypes: Micro-drones that can be launched from the flare dispensers of moving F-16s and F/A-18 fighter jets. Canisters containing the tiny aircraft descended from the jets on parachutes before breaking open, allowing wings on each drone to swing out and catch the wind. Inch-wide propellers on the back provided propulsion as they found one another and created a swarm."

The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain"

The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain" - Scientific American: "Intelligence project aims to reverse engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans"

FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphone says Apple

FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones, says Apple | Technology | The Guardian: "Eddy Cue warns precedent set by San Bernardino case could lead to company being forced to turn users’ smartphones into surveillance devices"

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Google Deepmind artificial intelligence beats world's best Go player Lee Sedol in landmark game

Google Deepmind artificial intelligence beats world's best Go player Lee Sedol in landmark game | News | Lifestyle | The Independent: "Go depends mostly on intuition, since it is so complex — and the victory shows that computers are well on their way to learning the powers that we thought belonged only to humans"

Miami’s oceanfront nuclear power plant is leaking

Miami’s oceanfront nuclear power plant is leaking | Fusion: "What is arguably America’s least-well-placed nuclear power plant is leaking radiation into the sea."

Iran fires 2 missiles marked with 'Israel must be wiped out'

Iran fires 2 missiles marked with 'Israel must be wiped out' - Yahoo Finance: "Iran reportedly test-fired two ballistic missiles Wednesday with the phrase "Israel must be wiped out" written in Hebrew on them, a show of force by the Islamic Republic as U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Israel."

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

The Crime You Have Not Yet Committed

The Crime You Have Not Yet Committed - Bloomberg View: "Computers are getting pretty good at predicting the future. In many cases they do it better than people. That’s why Amazon uses them to figure out what you’re likely to buy, how Netflix knows what you might want to watch, the way meteorologists come up with accurate 10-day forecasts."

Exploring American Monsters: New Mexico - GIANTS

Exploring American Monsters: New Mexico | Mysterious Universe: "The New York Times printed in 1902 the story of ancient giant human skeletons discovered in Guadalupe, New Mexico. This sent “antiquarians and archaeologists” on an expedition to learn more about these enormous peoples due to “the excitement that exists … where an old burial ground has been discovered that has yielded skeletons of enormous size,” according to the article."

Computers will overtake us when they learn to love, says futurist Ray Kurzweil

Computers will overtake us when they learn to love, says futurist Ray Kurzweil - Mar. 8, 2016: "Ray Kurzweil, the celebrated American inventor who keeps predicting the future with scary accuracy, says computers will match -- and possibly beat -- human intelligence by 2029."

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Thursday, March 3, 2016

North Korean leader wants nukes ready to fly

North Korean leader wants nukes ready to fly: "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered nuclear weapons to be readied for use, the state-controlled Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday."

Scientists develop mini Death Star to protect us from asteroids

Scientists develop mini Death Star to protect us from asteroids - Telegraph: "American researchers believe laser beam could be used to deflect space rocks on collision course with planet Earth"

Star Wars Death Star

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution| Rolling Stone

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Pt. 1 | Rolling Stone: "We may be on the verge of creating a new life form, one that could mark not only an evolutionary breakthrough, but a potential threat to our survival as a species."

So It Begins: American Police Start Pushing to Weaponize Domestic Drones

So It Begins: American Police Start Pushing to Weaponize Domestic Drones: "Police are now voicing their concerns about domestic drone use — specifically, they want the option to be able to employ weaponized drones in the future, should the need arise."

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America's Little Fukushima: Nuclear Plant Leaking 'Uncontrollable' Amounts of Radioactive Waste Into Drinking Water of 23 Million New Yorkers

America's Little Fukushima: Nuclear Plant Leaking 'Uncontrollable' Amounts of Radioactive Waste Into Drinking Water of 23 Million New Yorkers: "An investigation recently called upon by New York governor Andrew Cuomo after the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant reported nuclear material leaking into the areas groundwater reveals a staggering 80% increase in contamination over previous samples. Reported as a "disaster waiting to happen" experts suggest the immediate deactivation of the facility located just 25 miles north of New York City to halt the further contamination of 23 million people's water."

Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine

Zoom to Mars in 6 weeks with new Russian nuclear-fission engine — RT News: "A nuclear power propulsion system could propel a spacecraft to Mars in just over a month, a huge step forward from the current 18 months required. Russia might test a nuclear engine as early as 2018, the head of the Rosatom nuclear corporation revealed."

Beetle mania! Bug invasion of 'biblical proportions' prompts 'end of the world' fears

Beetle mania! Bug invasion of 'biblical proportions' prompts 'end of the world' fears - Mirror Online: "A beetle invasion of biblical proportions has hit beaches in Argentinian seaside resorts - causing some to suggest it could mean the end of the world."