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Rob Palmer: Intelligence, The Old Grey Lady, and the UFO
Details various US government documents of suspicious provenance relating to UFO-crash retrievals. 1  |
John Hawkins: The Age of Synthetic Biology: Start the War Games! Book Review: Biodefense in the Age of Synthetic Biology (2018) by National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Framework for dealing perceived bioweapon attacks. Scientists explain the processes of assessment and mediation involved. A moratorium on dangerous biological weapons research, in place since 2014, was lifted by the Trump Administration. Here's the scientific explanation for the need for synbio. 1 |
 Psychology Today: What Makes Conspiracy Theorists Tick? Regardless of the scenario, one of the cornerstones of conspiracy is mistrust of authority and a strong feeling that on a mass scale, one is being deceived, tricked. What is presented as real is not real. What others believe is real is Kool-aid—and I know the truth, we know the truth. Paranoia and grandiosity are the hallmarks of TV and movie depictions of conspiracy theorists, usually out to save them... 16 |
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Shahmeer Baloch: 7 Most Important Cyber Security Tips for an Internet User
Are you an average internet user who spends majority of their time working on internet? Here are the 7 most important cyber security tip for an average internet user. 1 |
David Balaban: Securing Remote Workers Amid the Pandemic
Here are insights into the vectors of cybercrime targeting remote workers and the ways to prevent these raids from affecting your organization. 1 |
 Dr. David Leffler: Thirty Years From Now ... What will war and terrorism look like in 30 years? Perhaps if we wake up to the Power of the Mind, via TM and Invincible Defense Technology (IDT), war and terrorism could become obsolete due to the absence of enemies. An excellent piece of speculative fiction (and a fun read), written and meticulously researched by Dr. David Leffler, Exec. Director of CAMS, an organization dedicated to implementing IDT in militaries worldwide. 2 |
 Kayla Matthews: What You Need to Know About CHIP, the $9 Computer CHIP is a $9 computer processor with 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of storage. 3 |
 Alfredo Lopez: Barbie the Spy! Has the police state invaded our childrens' play rooms? The ubiquitous Barbie doll is now an information-gathering device. 2 |
 Gareth Webley: Are we watching our critical networks closely enough ? Increasing world events are a prime window of opportunity for cybercriminals and thieves of Intellectual Property. Obama signs Executive Order for additional consumer safeguards ... is it enough ? 1 |
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Joe Shea: *Here Comes the World-Changer
At the End of This Tunnel Is a Light as Bright as 50,000 Suns. 4 |
Michael Geist - Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware on Your Computer
The deadline for comments on Industry Canada's draft anti-spam regulations passed earlier this week with a group of 13 industry associations - including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and the Entertainment Software Association of Canada - submitting a lengthy document that, if adopted, would gut much of the law. The groups adopt radica... |
 Timothy McGettigan: Sapient Apes Ascendant: The Costs and Benefits of Human Agency Having succeeded in asserting unprecedented mastery over the planet, can super-adaptable apes draw upon their intellectual agility in an entirely new way in order to evolve from ruthless, insensitive combatants into judicious stewards of their own and their planet's better interests? 1 |
 Iraq: Crimes against Humanity. The Babies Will Haunt Us The more common defects on the rise in Fallujah General Hospital: Gastroschisis (babies born with their intestine protruding outside their small bellies), Hydrocephalus (babies born with "water on the brain, abnormal brain swelling), Encephalocele ( neural tube defect in which babies are born with sac-like protrusions from their heads), Macrocephaly (babies with abnormally large heads), spina bifida (backbone and spinal canal ... 2 |
New homemade device lets crooks crack many hotel locks
Some insiders are calling it a security crisis at hotels nationwide: A breach, leaving you more vulnerable.
When you lock your hotel door, you assume you're safe and your stuff is safe. Don't be so sure: Thieves have invented a small, simple device that can unlock hotel doors at some of the most popular chains. Some hotels have known about this security problem for months -- so why hasn't it been fixed? Jim Stickley is a secu... 1 |
 Joan Brunwasser: Dr. Robert Langer Juggles Technology, Business & Mentoring at MIT Lab "There may be many times when you try to invent something, that people tell you that it's impossible, that it will never work. But I think that is very rarely true. I think if you really believe in yourself, if you are persistent and work hard, there is very little that is truly impossible." 4 |
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Ritt Goldstein: Sandy, Toxic Mold, and (at last) a theory potentially explaining 'Sick Building Syndrome' For the last several decades, researchers have puzzled over the physical mechanisms for what's often termed 'Sick Building Syndrome'. With Superstorm Sandy leaving toxic mold problems of epidemic proportions in its wake, it seems well past time that this article's information be brought to light. 3 |
 Tim McGettigan: Time Surfers: Problem-Solving as the Path to a Better, Brighter, but Unpredictable Future Essentially, the future is a process. The fact that the earth has been revolving around the sun for eons is a fairly strong indicator that it will continue doing so in the future. One of the most unpredictable instigators of temporal change is the often improbable impact that human agents have upon the structure of unfolding events. 9 |
 Sustainable Prosperity: Millions Made Insecure by Land Grabbing As food prices soar and countries feel increasing pressure, governments are buying or leasing large swaths of land for agricultural purposes, a practice known as "land grabbing." 1 |
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Vanishing Forests, Disappearing Clouds: O2 and O3 depletion + criminally-counterproductive remediation When Al Gore was still a Senator he pointed out that there are six times as many chlorine molecules in the air today as there were 40 years ago. It is not just the proliferation of chlorine that's causing problems, it is also the simultaneous, wanton depletion of oxygen on this planet by fossil fuel burning and the destruction of our forests. On December 11, 1974, a Du Pont official told a Congressional Committee that h... 2 |
Chris Lamb: Who Needs a Democracy When You Have iVotronic Voting Machines?
On June 8, 2010, Alvin Greene, who had no campaign staff, no headquarters, no website, and was facing charges for showing online pornography to a college student, defeated an established politician in the South Carolina Democratic Senate primary. Greene's victory exposed serious flaws in the state's iVotronic voting machines. Two years later, voters in the state use those same voting machines. 4 |
Puberty Before Age 10 - A New "Normal'?
animal studies show that the exposure to some environmental chemicals can cause bodies to mature early. Of particular concern are endocrine-disrupters, like "xeno-estrogens" or estrogen mimics. These compounds behave like steroid hormones and can alter puberty timing. For obvious ethical reasons, scientists cannot perform controlled studies proving the direct impact of these chemicals on children, so researchers instead look f... |
 Soren Seelow, Le Monde: Monsanto, a half-century of health scandals PCBs, Agent Orange, dioxin, GMO, Aspartame, growth hormones, herbicides (Lasso and Roundup) ... a number of products that have made the fortune of Monsanto, have been marred by health scandals and trials sometimes leading to their prohibition. Nothing has so far hindered the irresistible rise of this former chemical giant who converted back to biogenetics and has mastered the art of lobbying - a multinational multi-recidivist. 10 |
Steve Corrick: A Green Power House Rises in Cellulose Valley: How the Flathead Valley is Helping Fund Its Own New Energy Economy Renewable energy is not only about new sources for electricity. Algae Aqua-Culture Technology of Columbia Falls, Montana is developing an organic carbon (TM) plant to convert excess wood and agricultural biomass into organic fertilizer and soil amendment. Their Green Power House (TM) is off-grid, fossil-fuel-free, carbon negative, and produces fertilizer, food, fuel, fresh water and farmland twelve months a year. 1 |
Burl Hall: Eat, Drink and Be Merry
For true indendence from Wall Street, we must reclaim the growing, production and processing of our food. Where does that all begin? With the seeds. 1 |
 Sayer Ji: How Poisoning Has Become The New Standard Of Care - Declaring Chemical Warfare Against Alzheimer's Alzheimer drugs have profound adverse effects which are not unlike those associated with the chemical class it is part of -- namely acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, which include venom, chemical weapons and pesticides. |
Joan Brunwasser: Diane Wilson, Accidental Activist and Eco-Outlaw This wasn't only an environmental fight. it was a gender and class fight.Going the regular route - working inside 'the box' was not going to work on the Texas Gulf Coast.If I acted like a well-behaved little citizen, asking permission and speaking nicely to my elected officials and playing the regular game in town, my bays and the fish and the dolphins and the shrimp and the pelicans and the fishermen were gonna get creamed. 9 | |
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Dahr Jamail: BP anniversary: Toxicity, suffering and death The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster has caused the biggest chemical poisoning crisis in US history, experts say. |
Joan Brunwasser: Argonne Lab's Head of Vulnerability Assessment Team Disses Election Security If we can have about 15 seconds of access to most security devices (and presumably most voting machines),we can hijack them.This can occur at the factory, in transit, on the loading dock, in storage, while sitting around in the school hallways, etc. Thus, a cradle to grave, secure chain of custody is vital for any security device or voting machine.A chain of custody is a process,not a piece of paper bureaucrats scribble on. 7 |
 Your Tax Dollars at Work: Writing Computer Viruses In 2009, HBGary had partnered with the Advanced Information Systems group of defense contractor General Dynamics to work on a project euphemistically known as "Task B." The team had a simple mission: slip a piece of stealth software onto a target laptop without the owner's knowledge. |
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