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841  Other / Off-topic / Viral in USA Spider Tie Concrete House on: June 29, 2017, 10:57:13 PM
Viral in USA
Spider Tie Concrete House






Viral in USA Spider Tie Concrete House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZAsdh1adiA



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842  Other / Politics & Society / The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans on: June 26, 2017, 09:24:42 PM
The Shocking Doomsday Maps Of The World And The Billionaire Escape Plans





When I wrote my first article on billionaire bunkers years ago, I never would have imagined how quickly our world was changing. Our lives are in a constant state of flux, the political situation aside, our earth is rapidly changing. Between the increase of bizarre weather patterns hitting the earth, and recent major volcanic activity, now more than ever our focus is on our planet's future.

In the early 1980's, spiritual visionaries and futurists provided clues to our changing planet. Often dismissed as crazy prophets, their thoughts for a new world were quickly ignored and laughed at. Gordon-Michael Scallion was a futurist, teacher of consciousness studies and metaphysics and a spiritual visionary. In the 80's he claims to have had a spiritual awakening that helped him create very detailed maps of the future world, all stemming from a cataclysmic pole shift.  The result, while not based on any science, nonetheless provides a vivid and compelling picture of an Earth ravaged by flooding.

Scallion believed that a pole shift would stem from global warming, nuclear activity, and the misuse of technology. Another theorist and psychic Edgar Cayce predicted a 16 to 20-degree shift, while Scallion predicted a 20-45 degree shift. Cayce predicted that when both Mt. Etna volcano in Italy and Mt. Pelee in Martinique erupt together, there will be approximately 90 days to evacuate the west coast before the massive flood claims the coastline.

But the most compelling argument is that an asteroid or comet collision with Earth could cause the entire planet to shift its axis of rotation.

According to a NASA report, "Many doomsday theorists have tried to take this natural geological occurrence and suggest it could lead to Earth's destruction. But would there be any dramatic effects? The answer, from the geologic and fossil records we have from hundreds of past magnetic polarity reversals, seems to be 'no.' There is nothing in the millions of years of geologic record to suggest that any of the doomsday scenarios connected to a pole reversal should be taken seriously."

I recently spent the day at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena where the NEOWISE Mission has become the official asteroid hunter. According to Amy Mainzer (JPL, NEOWISE principal investigator), the mission has discovered 250 new objects including 72 near-Earth objects and four new comets. They have the task of documenting potentially hazardous near-Earth objects.

NASA has even created an Asteroid watch website with detailed listings of discovered objects as well as a detailed Impact risk chart which lists the year 2020 as the earliest increased activity risk.

During the Obama administration, plans were developed for NASA to launch a robotic probe in 2021 toward a near-Earth asteroid; the current target is a 1,300-foot-wide (400 m) rock called 2008 EV5. According to John Holdren, then director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, "After it arrives at the asteroid, the spacecraft will pluck a boulder off its surface and then fly along with the space rock for a while, investigating the potential of a deflection strategy known as the "enhanced gravity tractor." The probe will then head back toward Earth, eventually placing the boulder in orbit around the moon. Astronauts aboard NASA's Orion space capsule will visit the rock in the mid-2020s.

While smaller asteroids can do great damage on a local scale, experts think that space rocks must be at least 0.6 miles wide to threaten human civilization. NASA scientists estimate that they have found at least 90 percent of these enormous, near-Earth asteroids, and none of them pose a threat for the future.

I spoke with Professor Donald L. Turcotte, an expert in planetary geology at the University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Science Department, he tells me that the predictions of earthquakes causing a planetary shift and coastal flooding is for the most part nonsense. However, he did say it is far more likely an asteroid hit would cause a polar shift. This could ultimately lead to cataclysmic change and a map similar to Scallion's original vision.

With all of this knowledge of future mapping, do the world's financial leaders know something we don't? Consider how many of the richest families have been grabbing up massive amounts of farmland around the world. All property is far away from coastal areas, and in locations conducive to self-survival, farming and coal mining.


Read more and click the links at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/06/no_author/doomsday-maps/.


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843  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin in Perspective: Bill Gates Worth More, Gold 200 Times More on: June 22, 2017, 08:43:03 PM
Bitcoin in Perspective: Bill Gates Worth More, Gold 200 Times More





An interesting article on HowMuch puts the Bitcoin phenomenon into proper perspective.

Google founder Larry Page's net worth beats bitcoin's entire market cap. Microsoft founder Bill Gates's net worth is double Bitcoin.

Please consider The Bitcoin Economy, in Perspective.

Last year, Bitcoin became more stable than gold, and earlier this year, the price of a Bitcoin surpassed that of an ounce of gold for the first time. Currently, all the bitcoin in the world is worth $41 billion. If that amount is hard to grasp, just think of it as one Larry Page – because $41 billion also happens to be the net worth of the guy who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin.

Bill Gates, the richest man in the world is worth $86 billion, or the net worth of Larry Page and Bitcoin combined – with enough change to buy the L.A. Lakers, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Chicago Cubs and the Solomon Islands (not a sports team, but an entire country).

Money, of course, is fiduciary, which means it only has as much value as the trust we place in it. The same goes for gold: it derives its value solely from its rarity, combined with its desirability. The current world supply of mined gold is around 171,300 metric tonnes, which could be molded into a cube with sides of about 68 feet (20.7m). Its total value? Currently around $8.2 trillion. Or about 200 times the total value of Bitcoin.


Read more at https://mishtalk.com/2017/06/22/bitcoin-in-perspective-bill-gates-worth-more-gold-200-times-more/.


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844  Other / Off-topic / Good Luck Getting Out Of That Subprime Auto Loan When Used Car Prices Crash on: June 20, 2017, 05:54:34 PM
Good Luck Getting Out Of That Subprime Auto Loan When Used Car Prices Crash





We've written frequently in recent months about the coming subprime auto crisis which will very likely be prompted by a wave of off-lease vehicles that will flood the market with used inventory over the coming years.  In fact, Morgan Stanley recently predicted that the surge in used inventory could result in as much as a 50% crash in used car prices over the next couple of years which would, in turn, put further pressure on the new car market which has already resorted to record incentive spending to maintain volumes.

Here are just a couple of our most recent notes on the topic:

Signs Of An Auto Bubble: Soaring Delinquencies In These 266 Subprime ABS Deals Can't Be Good

New Warning Signs Emerge For Subprime Auto Securitizations

Auto Lending Update - Someone Please Explain How This Is Not A Bubble

Of course, while pretty much anyone has been able to purchase that brand new BMW of their dreams over the past 5 years...courtesy of a surge in subprime lending volumes....



...getting out of those loans once used car prices crash and millions of Americans are left with massive negative equity balances won't be quite so easy...just ask Yvette Harris who is still making payments on her 1997 Mitsubishi nearly a decade after her car was repossessed.  Per the New York Times:

More than a decade after Yvette Harris's 1997 Mitsubishi was repossessed, she is still paying off her car loan.

She has no choice. Her auto lender took her to court and won the right to seize a portion of her income to cover her debt. The lender has so far been able to garnish $4,133 from her paychecks — a drain that at one point forced Ms. Harris, a single mother who lives in the Bronx, to go on public assistance to support her two sons.

"How am I still paying for a car I don't have?" she asked.

For millions of Americans like Ms. Harris who have shaky credit and had to turn to subprime auto loans with high interest rates and hefty fees to buy a car, there is no getting out.

Many of these auto loans, it turns out, have a habit of haunting people long after their cars have been repossessed.

And while the aggregate subprime auto credit balances are no where near the trillions in debt that was extended to subprime mortgage borrowers leading up to the great recession, for many low-income Americans the fallout could actually be worse because they can't simply walk away.


Read more and click the links at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-19/good-luck-getting-out-subprime-auto-loan-when-used-car-prices-crash.


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845  Other / Politics & Society / Several states set to collapse under crushing weight of bankrupt pensions: ... on: June 20, 2017, 05:49:27 PM
Several states set to collapse under crushing weight of bankrupt pensions: Will...





For years Natural News founder/editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has been warning Americans that many of the nation's public sector pensions are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars and are on a course to collapse.

In 2013, Adams warned police officers, firefighters, teachers and others who work for government entities that unless funding mechanisms and payout schedules changed, their pensions would be gone in a few years. Referencing the city of Detroit's bankruptcy, Adams wrote of the larger problem in municipalities all over America:

Across the country, city governments have all spent the pension funds instead of saving them. Almost no large city has the funds necessary to pay its obligations to retirees. Pension financial planning strategies are tragic nightmares of broken promises, dishonest politicians and delusional workers (who still somehow believe they're going to get paid).

A year-and-a-half later, in December 2014, Adams noted that underfunded pensions were set to take a new economic hit, as Congress considered legislation that would allow local governments to arbitrarily cut the benefits of retirees, many of whom were on fixed incomes. Citing a Washington Post story detailing the plan, Adams wrote:

This is precisely what I've long warned Natural News readers was coming. And this is merely the very beginning of the true destruction of the financial collapse headed our way. When the next market crash arrives, billions of dollars in retirement funds will be destroyed virtually overnight, and pension funds nationwide will be wiped out.

He followed up that warning with a prediction two years later that came true: The city of Dallas would have to freeze pension benefits lest the fund go completely broke, suspending withdrawals from the fire and police pension systems to prevent insolvency.

Now, it seems, even entire states are about to be consumed by broke pension funds: Illinois could be the first. (RELATED: Leftist-run cities on the brink of financial collapse thanks to massive debt)

The Land of Lincoln has been wrestling with underfunded pensions and over-promised benefits now for years, but in recent months the situation has gotten so bad that Illinois could be the first U.S. state to declare bankruptcy.

Political stalemate — the Legislature is dominated by Democrats and the governor, Bruce Rauner, is a Republican who won office, in large part, on a promise of reforming benefits and stopping the bleeding — is not helping. There is no agreement from either branch on how best to move forward, and neither side appears willing to give in.

"We're like a banana republic. We can't manage our money," said Rauner, as reported by CBS News, after the legislature failed to pass a full 2017 budget earlier this month.

Moody's Investor Service, a ratings agency, downgraded Illinois' general obligation bonds earlier this month to the lowest rating, referencing the state's growing pile of unpaid bills and skyrocketing pension debt. The state has the lowest credit rating in the entire country; low credit ratings make borrowing money even more expensive because riskier bets mean higher interest rates.

"Legislative gridlock has sidetracked efforts not only to address pension needs but also achieve fiscal balance, allowing a backlog of bills to approach $15 billion, or about 40 percent of the state's operating budget," Moody's noted in an analysis.


Read more and click the links at http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-19-states-set-to-collapse-under-crushing-weight-of-bankrupt-pensions-will-illinois-become-the-first.html.


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846  Other / Off-topic / It's so hot in Phoenix, they can't fly planes on: June 20, 2017, 05:44:03 PM
It's so hot in Phoenix, they can't fly planes





PHOENIX — The extreme heat forecast for Phoenix on Tuesday has caused the cancellation of 20 American Airlines flights out of Sky Harbor International Airport.

According to a statement from American Airlines, the American Eagle regional flights use the Bombardier CRJ aircraft, which has a maximum operating temperature of 118 degrees. Tuesday's forecast for Phoenix included a high of 120 degrees, and the flights that are affected were to take off between 3 and 6 p.m. MT.


How people are keeping cool in Phoenix's high heat
Video
http://azc.cc/2sLEaWY



Read more and watch the video at https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/nation-now/2017/06/19/its-so-hot-phoenix-they-cant-fly-planes/410766001/.


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847  Other / Politics & Society / Sick NJ Democrat Tells Friends It's Time To #Hunt Republicans After Shooting on: June 19, 2017, 08:28:54 PM
Sick NJ Democrat Tells Friends It's Time To #Hunt Republicans After Shooting





If you think that it's only the "fringe" liberals who were happy to hear of the attempted GOP massacre in Arlington, Virginia on Wednesday, you'd be wrong.

In the hours after the attack, we saw social media exulting in the attack with thousands of liberals making comments that range from saying that the GOP "deserves" the violence, to happiness that someone "finally" did something. I'm not kidding – read here, here, here, and here.

There has also been an uptick in threats made toward Republican leaders across the country. (See here, here, and here.)


Read more and click the links at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/06/18/sick-nj-democrat-tells-friends-its-time-to-huntrepublicans-after-shooting/.


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848  Other / Politics & Society / Illinois State Official: "We Are In Massive Crisis Mode, This Is Not A False ... on: June 19, 2017, 05:16:05 PM
Illinois State Official: "We Are In Massive Crisis Mode, This Is Not A False Alarm"





In a last ditch attempt to resolve the ongoing budget impasse and prevent a potential crisis, which may culminate with an eventual default by the distressed state, yesterday the WSJ reported that Illinois Gov. Rauner ordered lawmakers to return for a special session this week, but the two sides still seem far apart. Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner ordered the special session starting Monday, as the backlog of unpaid bills reaches $15.1 billion.

"Everyone needs to get serious and get to work," he said in a video announcing the session that his office posted on Facebook.

As reported previously, the state Transportation Department said it would stop roadwork by July 1 if Illinois entered its third consecutive fiscal year without a budget - the longest such stretch of any US state - while the Powerball lottery said it may be forced to dump Illinois over its lack of budget. For now, state workers have continued to receive pay because of court orders...


Read more at http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-17/illinois-state-official-we-are-massive-crisis-mode-not-false-alarm.


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849  Other / Politics & Society / Senate Bill to Force Citizens to Register Cash Not in a Bank, Violators Get ... on: June 19, 2017, 05:11:48 PM
Senate Bill to Force Citizens to Register Cash Not in a Bank, Violators Get 10 Years in Prison





Under the guise of combating money laundering, Senate Bill 1241, "Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Counterfeiting Act of 2017," ramps up regulation of digital currency and other autocratic financial controls in an attempt to ensure none of your assets can escape one of the State's most nefarious, despised powers: civil asset forfeiture.

All of this under the farcically broad umbrella of fighting terrorism.

Civil forfeiture grants the government robbery writ large: your cash, property, and assets can be stolen completely sans due process, your guilt — frequently pertaining to drug 'crimes' — matters not.

A court verdict of not guilty doesn't even guarantee the return of State-thefted property.

In fact, the government can seize virtually whatever it wants if it so much as suspects some of your assets might have been acquired through or used in the commission of even lesser crimes.

For some time, a war on cash has been brewing behind the closed doors of government, and — although officials prefer to claim counterfeiting, terrorism, and money laundering as the impetus for asset tracking — in actuality, physical currency facilitates black market and untaxed transactions, and, most imperatively to the U.S., cannot be thefted under civil asset forfeiture laws as easily as money exchanged digitally.


Read more at http://www.dcclothesline.com/2017/06/18/senate-bill-to-force-citizens-to-register-cash-not-in-a-bank-violators-get-10-years-in-prison/.


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850  Other / Off-topic / Dr. Tim Ball Crushes Climate Change: The Biggest Deception in History on: June 19, 2017, 01:26:41 AM
Dr. Tim Ball Crushes Climate Change: The Biggest Deception in History





President Trump was correct to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. He could have explained that the science was premeditated and deliberately orchestrated to demonize CO2 for a political agenda. Wisely, he simply explained that it was a bad deal for the United States because it gave a competitive economic edge to other nations, especially China. A majority of Americans think he was wrong, but more would disagree if he got lost in the complexities of the science. I speak from experience having taught a Science credit course for 25 years for the student population that mirrors society with 80 percent of them being Arts students. Promoters of what is called anthropogenic global warming (AGW) knew most people do not understand the science and exploited it.


Read more and click the links at https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2017/06/15/dr-tim-ball-crushes-climate-change-the-biggest-deception-in-history/.


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851  Other / Politics & Society / Protesters Interrupt 'Trump Assassination' Play in Central Park on: June 17, 2017, 09:44:47 PM
Protesters Interrupt 'Trump Assassination' Play in Central Park





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Protesters interrupted Friday night's 'Julius Caesar' play in Central Park which depicts President Trump being assassinated. Laura Loomer stormed the stage to denounce the normalization of violence against Conservatives the play is promoting. Jack Posobiec got the video and also gave the audience a piece of his mind. Media analyst Mark Dice has the story. Copyright © 2017 - Subscribe now for more videos every day! http://bit.ly/1QHJwaK

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Protesters Interrupt 'Trump Assassination' Play in Central Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r32aKKNJAkw



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852  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / The Motherboard Bitcoin and Ethereum Primer on: June 17, 2017, 09:34:16 PM
A load of links to a lot of reasoning and understanding...

The Motherboard Bitcoin and Ethereum Primer






Your entry portal to the world of cryptocurrency...

Many programmers, investors, companies and lay people are convinced that these blockchain-based currencies have the potential to change the world in myriad different ways.

This primer features just some of Motherboard's coverage of bitcoin and ethereum over the last few years to help you get up to speed on the rapidly evolving world of cryptocurrencies. Although Motherboard has also covered other altcoins like Monero, Zcash, Auroracoin and Dogecoin, this primer is focused on articles related to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Additionally, we've written on these topics too many times to count, so we're just serving you up the hits.

If you know all about bitcoin and are looking to learn about Ethereum, check out our beginner's guide.

BITCOIN

Why Satoshi Nakamoto Matters (2016)
Sataoshi Nakamoto is the name at the top of the infamous 2009 whitepaper that introduced bitcoin to the world. Nobody knows whether Nakamoto is an individual or a collective, or his intentions.

Life Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine (2015)
This Motherboard documentary takes you inside an underground bitcoin mine in rural China. After its release, bitcoin quickly succumbed to economies of scale, meaning that the only profitable way to mine the currency is by running massive mining operations where electricity is cheap—like China. Far from the pristine server centers of Palo Alto, this dingy Chinese mine is nevertheless reaping millions in bitcoin.

Bitcoin Isn't the Criminal Safe Haven People Think It Is (2013)
It's no secret that bitcoin fuels online dark net markets. But it's not as anonymous as most people think.

Unless Everyone Using Bitcoin Makes This Radical Change, the Currency Will Die (2015)
This piece marks the beginning of Motherboard's coverage of the "block size debate," now referred to as a "civil war" without a clear end in sight. We've written about the events, issues, and drama in this debate countless times.

The Dream of Buying a Coffee With Bitcoin is Dying, If Not Already Dead (2016)
The block size debate continues. Many bitcoin proponents see the cryptocurrency as the future of financial transactions, which will allow you to buy everything from drugs to your Starbucks coffee. But delays in implementing a block size change have put this vision in jeopardy.

Bitcoiners Are Plotting Their Independence Day (2017)
Two years after we first wrote about the block size debate, the bitcoin network has become choked with transactions and it can take hours or even days for a bitcoin to make it through the network. This has fueled the "civil war" raging over the future of bitcoin. Is it almost at its end?

Bitcoin is Worth $2000. What? (2017)
A high-level explanation of what drives bitcoin's economy and price.

Bitcoin is Unsustainable (2015)
Why the energy cost of a single bitcoin transaction uses as much energy as the daily energy requirement of 1.5 American homes.

Colorado Hemp Farmers Are Turning to Bitcoin for Their Banking Woes (2016)
A concrete look at what bitcoin can offer under-banked industries.

I Visit Libraries to Sell Bitcoins to Random People From the Internet (2015)
Bitcoin is a digital currency, but the system is made up of real people. Did you know bitcoins can even be sold offline?

Is Going Offline a Solution to Bitcoin's Hacking Problem?
A primer on storing bitcoins offline, and how that can address some serious security problems that cost people real money.

Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin's 'Halving'
Does what it says on the tin. This piece explains a key aspect of what makes bitcoin's economy tick.

Check out the rest of Motherboard's bitcoin coverage


ETHEREUM

Ethereum's Boy King Is Thinking About Giving Up the Mantle (2017)
Motherboard's profile of Vitalik Buterin, the 23-year-old who invented ethereum at 19 and is now facing something of an existential crisis.

The First Version of the Programming Language and Cryptocurrency Ethereum Is Out (2015)
A look back at ethereum on the day it went live.

The Biggest Hacker Whodunnit of the Summer (2016)
An in-depth look at the infamous DAO hack, which saw an anonymous hacker steal $55 million from the ethereum network,and showed the risks associated with the smart contracts that are also ethereum's biggest selling point.

Why Ethereum Succeeded Where Bitcoin Failed (2016)
Why the hardfork following the DAO hack speaks to ethereum's ability to make quick, effective decisions.

Ethereum Hard Fork Spawned a Shaky Rebellion (2016)
Inside the split between Ethereum Core and Ethereum Classic as a result of the DAO hack.

Ethereum is DDoS-ing Itself (2017)
The wave of ethereum ICOs has exposed one of the network's biggest barriers to scalability.

An Idiot's Guide to Building an Ethereum Mining Rig (2017)
At the core of the ethereum network are the miners solving cryptographic hash functions to earn Ether. Here is an idiot's guide to learning how to get started in mining.

Smart Contracts Sound Boring, But They're More Disruptive than Bitcoin (2015)
At the heart of the ethereum network is the smart contract. What is it, and why do people think smart contracts will change the world?

Bitcoin's First Felon Wants to Use Ethereum to Buy Up Michigan's Waste Industry (2017)
How a felon arrested for ties to the Silk Road plans to use ether to buy up Michigan's mom-and-pop waste management industry. A look at one of the more out-there ideas about how ethereum can work in the real world.

Cryptocurrency Mining is Fueling a GPU Shortage (2017)
Can't find a graphics card anywhere? Blame the miners.

The National Bank of Canada Has Joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (2017)
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance is a consortium of Fortune 500 companies and national actors looking to leverage the ethereum blockchain in their respective industries. One of the latest members is the National Bank of Canada. But why didn't they opt for Bitcoin?

Bitcoiners are Freaking Out Over 'The Flippening' (2017)
Ethereum is poised to become the world's number one cryptocurrency.


In the original article, each of the above points is linked to an explanation about Bitcoin or Ethereum. Read more and click the links at https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-motherboard-bitcoin-and-ethereum-primer.


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853  Other / Politics & Society / Government Wants To Study Frogs On Private Property, Response It Got Back Is ... on: June 17, 2017, 06:37:42 PM
Government Wants To Study Frogs On Private Property,
Response It Got Back Is Priceless












Read more at http://settingrecordstraight.blogspot.com/2016/06/goverment-wants-to-study-frogs-on.html.


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854  Other / Politics & Society / White gunman shoots House Majority leader Steve Scalise and at least four others on: June 14, 2017, 04:17:44 PM
White gunman shoots House Majority leader Steve Scalise and at least four others





*White, 'middle-aged' gunman opened fire on the group of politicians at around 6.30am on Wednesday

*Four people were shot including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise

*Two of Scalise's security detail and a congressional staffer were also shot 

*The gunman asked the group if they were Republicans or Democrats before opening fire

*Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks used his belt as a tourniquet to stop the congressional staffer's bleeding

*The gunman was eventually shot by Capitol Police who exchanged fire

*President Trump said he was monitoring the situation 'closely'
 

Five people including the House Majority Whip Steve Scalise were shot at a GOP baseball practice on Wednesday morning.

The gunman opened fire from the third base dugout at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, as the group practiced batting at around 6.30am.

He fired between 50 and 100 rounds before being shot by Capitol Police who were accompanying Scalise. The shooter is now in custody and being treated at a local hospital.

A congressional staffer and two Capitol Police officers were shot. Senator Rand Paul, who was at the scene but was not injured, said it was a 'killing field'.


Read more and watch the video at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4603404/Steve-Scalise-aides-SHOT-baseball-practice.html.


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855  Other / Politics & Society / INTRODUCING: THE PRIVACY PHONE on: June 11, 2017, 08:55:55 PM
INTRODUCING: THE PRIVACY PHONE





All phones feature a built-in privacy control center giving users full control of access and functions of their phone.

Version 1 of the Privacy Phone gives our users enormous power over his or her privacy.

Bank of switches allowing physical disconnection the battery, WiFi, Bluetooth and geolocation, the camera and the microphone, and more

Resistant to Stingray or any other IMSI catcher device

Web search anonymizer to prevent searches from triggering an avalanche of ads

Developed in the United States, designed in Denmark, and assembled in Europe

Version 2 coming in 2018.


Read more at https://www.mgtci.com/.


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856  Other / Politics & Society / Pop Goes The Car Bubble . . . And It May Not Be a Bad Thing on: June 11, 2017, 08:51:17 PM
Pop Goes The Car Bubble . . . And It May Not Be a Bad Thing





The seven-year loan.

"Free" money (zero or very low interest).

Give-away leases.

The car industry is riding a bubble that's proportionately as large as the housing bubble of a decade ago. And it is going to pop. For the same reason that a wave has to crest and wash ashore, once set in motion.

Signs of trouble abound. They build them – but no one comes. Not without inducements that amount to giveaways.

For several years now the car manufacturers have been resorting to truly desperate measures to prop up new car "sales" – in air quotes because it's a dubious proposition to describe as a "sale" a transaction that involves exchanging the item for  a sum insufficient to cover the cost of its manufacture, plus a profit sufficient to make the exercise worthwhile.

Yet that is exactly what is going on.


Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/06/eric-peters/pop-goes-car-bubble/.


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857  Other / Off-topic / Adam West, TV's 'Batman,' Dies at 88 on: June 11, 2017, 08:43:39 PM
Adam West, TV's 'Batman,' Dies at 88





"Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans' lives. He was and always will be our hero," his family said in a statement.

West became known to a new generation of TV fans through his recurring voice role on Fox's "Family Guy" as Mayor Adam West, the horribly corrupt, inept and vain leader of Quahog, Rhode Island. West was a regular on the show from 2000 through its most recent season. West in recent years did a wide range of voice-over work, on such shows as Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken" and Disney Channel's "Jake and the Neverland Pirates."

But it was his role as the Caped Crusader in the 1966-68 ABC series "Batman" that defined West's career.

With its "Wham! Pow!" onscreen exclamations, flamboyant villains and cheeky tone, "Batman" became a surprise hit with its premiere on ABC in 1966, a virtual symbol of '60s kitsch. The half-hour action comedy was such a hit that it aired twice a week on ABC at its peak. But within two seasons, the show's popularity slumped as quickly as it soared.


Read more at http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/adam-west-dead-dies-batman-1202461532/.


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858  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Bitcoin "end game" a mathematical certainty even as Japanese and Korean noobs... on: June 06, 2017, 04:38:38 PM
Bitcoin "end game" a mathematical certainty even as Japanese and Korean noobs ...





A quick mathematical analysis of Bitcoin and the world of crypto-currencies: After plunging nearly 30% last week in a severe correction, Bitcoin has since surged back to the $2800 range, this time riding a wave of optimism from Bitcoin noobs in Japan and South Korea who have become irrationally convinced that Bitcoin is a replacement for their retirement savings (see Reuters report, below). Now, even kindergarten teachers are throwing money at Bitcoin, believing they've discovered a magical source of unlimited wealth (yep, they really believe it's all different this time).

Little do they know they are going to lose nearly everything when the Bitcoin end game rears its ugly head, as has already been mathematically programmed into the system. How's that, exactly?

For starters, due to increased volume, Bitcoin transactional costs have now skyrocketed from roughly $16 per transaction to $23.30 per transaction in just the past week or so, according to Blockchain.info. This is a transactional cost increase of over 30% in just a few days, and it demonstrates the stress of the increasing volume of transactions on the distributed blockchain ledger. It is yet more mathematical evidence that selling Bitcoin and exiting the market in a time of high trading volume will be increasingly expensive and difficult, with long delays on transactions that could require days or even weeks to be confirmed.

Bitcoin mining will collapse in the next few years, and the blockchain will follow

Bitcoin will approach its "end game" in the next decade when all Bitcoin mining permanently ceases due to the mathematical limit of 21 million Bitcoins in circulation. (The mining algorithm allows no more than 21 million coins to exist.) In the last 24 hours, 1,850 Bitcoins were successfully mined. This is equivalent to approximately 675,000 Bitcoins in a year, accounting for parallel increases in computational difficulty and enhancements in ASIC mining rigs that carry out hashing calculations more efficiently.

As Bitcoins are limited to a grand total of 21 million Bitcoins, and given that nearly 16.4 million Bitcoins are already mined, this means that if the current mining computational infrastructure keeps pace with the increasing mathematical difficulty for achieving Bitcoin rewards, all Bitcoins will be mined out in about seven years (by roughly 2024). (There are difficulty adjustments in the Bitcoin algorithm, so it might take longer, but Bitcoin mining is approaching an end point in the very near future.)


Read more at http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-05-bitcoin-end-game-japanese-korean-kindergarten-teachers-magical-source-endless-wealth.html.


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859  Other / Off-topic / Egyptian Mummy DNA Scanned on: June 05, 2017, 11:38:09 AM
Egyptian Mummy DNA Scanned





Genetic analysis reveals a close relationship with Middle Easterners, not central Africans.

Traci Watson30 May 2017

The tombs of ancient Egypt have yielded golden collars and ivory bracelets, but another treasure — human DNA — has proved elusive. Now, scientists have captured sweeping genomic information from Egyptian mummies. It reveals that mummies were closely related to ancient Middle Easterners, hinting that northern Africans might have different genetic roots from people south of the Sahara desert.

The study, published on 30 May in Nature Communications1, includes data from 90 mummies buried between 1380 bc, during Egypt's New Kingdom, and ad 425, in the Roman era. The findings show that the mummies' closest kin were ancient farmers from a region that includes present-day Israel and Jordan. Modern Egyptians, by contrast, have inherited more of their DNA from central Africans. …


Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/06/no_author/ancient-egyptians-werent-african/.


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860  Other / Off-topic / The REAL SCIENCE behind carbon dioxide: Plants use CO2 to create CBD, THC, ... on: June 03, 2017, 10:07:47 AM
The REAL SCIENCE behind carbon dioxide:
Plants use CO2 to create CBD, THC, curcumin and all medicinal molecules






The key accomplishment of the climate change cult (so far) has been to convince gullible environmentalists that carbon dioxide is a “pollutant” that’s somehow bad for the planet, even when CO2 is the “greening” molecule for all plant life.

Carbon dioxide is the essential molecule for all plant life, and without it, the entire web of life on our planet would instantly collapse. Yet misinformed environmentalists have been exhaustively convinced that carbon dioxide is somehow a “death” molecule for the planet, when exactly the opposite is true: The planet would die without it… and humans would have no vegetables, no fruits, no herbs and no cannabis at all if it wasn’t for carbon dioxide.


Read more at http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-02-carbon-dioxide-real-science-co2-cbd-thc-curcumin-nutrients.html.


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