Activism

DARPA is looking to model just about every aspect of human health, biology, and physiology to advance military medicine with its proposed Multiscale Reasoning for Human Physiology program. On Monday, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) put out a request for information (RFI) for its planned Multiscale Reasoning For Human Physiology program. For the military and operational medicine applications, DARPA is…

In the summer of 2019, Chennai reached ‘Day Zero’. As the city’s reservoirs shrank to 0.1% of their capacity, the crisis exposed a brutal hierarchy. While millions queued for hours at street corners for government tankers, the city’s luxury hotels continued to operate, fuelled by a fleet of private water tankers siphoning groundwater from surrounding…

The White House has now released a series of declassified election-integrity documents that the administration says expose what it describes as the largest compromise of American voter data in history. The release followed President Trump’s heated nationally televised address Thursday night, where he argued that China systematically acquired sensitive voter information during the 2020 election cycle and…

For most of the last 30 years, gold miners were the worst-run businesses in the market.  PreciousMetals They diluted shareholders relentlessly. They overpaid for acquisitions at the top of every cycle. And they somehow managed to lose money even when gold was trading at record highs. Generalist investors learned to avoid the sector entirely. Frankly,…

In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships with the Israeli defence technology sector. In Part 2, Davis considered global events through the lens of State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and noted how civil-military fusion and hybrid war, combined with SCADs,…

Lindsey Graham is dead. At least that’s one good thing. No matter what else happens today, they can’t take that away from us. Reading by Tim Foley: The only positive thing about the Iran war heating up again is that Lindsey Graham won’t be around to enjoy it. The bloodthirsty South Carolina senator breathed his last on…

Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit. Ripple came close to shutting down rather than fighting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Chief Executive Brad Garlinghouse said, describing a decision he and co-founder Chris Larsen…

“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”Thomas Jefferson What exactly were Americans celebrating this Fourth of July? Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a…

Let’s begin with what we know with the proviso that much in this case has been shielded from public view.  Andrea Shaw (23, of Payette, Idaho) has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder by suffocation in the deaths of her 18-month-old fraternal twins, Dallas and Tyson Shaw. She is in prison now and…

Ten years ago, if you wanted solar power that actually did something — not a trickle charger for a gate opener, real usable power — you were looking at several thousand dollars minimum, and half of it went to lead-acid batteries that died in five years. That world is gone. Panel prices collapsed, lithium batteries…