The Marine Corps’ latest, and most expensive, fighter jet has completed more than 80 successful missions as part of its first operational testing at sea. The jet being tested is the F-35B joint strike fighter, […]
Month: May 2015
Even The Queen Wants To Spy On You
The UK Parliament was back in session after a conservative win and was, as is tradition, opened by the Queen. Her Majesty, like other billionaires, mega-corporations and government deadweights, wants to spy on you. In […]
First Mass Produced Car Using Google’s Android On Sale Today
Just under a year after Google announced it was adapting its popular mobile phone operating system Android to act as a car operating system, the first vehicle using the software has gone on sale. The […]
SpaceX Now Certified To Launch Military Satellites
After a lengthy dispute between Elon Musk and the U.S. Air Force, SpaceX has finally been certified for military space missions, wedging its way into what had been a tightly held monopoly by a Lockheed […]
Former Senator Who Advocated For Pipelines Loses Seat, Immediately Joins Pipeline Lobby Firm
The revolving door between Washington and lobbyists continues to resemble the criminal ‘expert networks’ used by large hedge funds like SAC Capital to get an edge in the stock market. Instead of getting an edge […]
World Soccer Body FIFA Raided, Execs Arrested In Massive Corruption Probe
FIFA, the powerful yet deeply troubled governing body for soccer, was indicted in two probes led by U.S. and Swiss authorities. Acting on a U.S. led indictment by the Justice Department, Swiss police arrested several […]
Rich Chinese Man Caught Smuggling Illegal Shark Into Backyard. Twice.
China is known to be the world’s number one environmental abuser, from its factories to illegal fisheries to its love of endangered species for quack medicine. A new story emerged late Tuesday documenting just how […]
New Australian Law To Strip Nationality From Dual Citizen Terror Suspects
Australia plans to pass a tough new law within weeks that gives the government the authority to strip citizenship from dual nationals suspected of terrorism even if they are not convicted of a crime, the […]
Lawmakers Probe Loss Of Thousands Of Airport Security Badges
Reports surfaced late Thursday of stunning lapses in the nation’s airport protection program prompting Washington lawmakers to demand an accounting of how many airport security badges have been lost or stolen around the country. An […]
IRS Hacked, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Identities Potentially Stolen
It’s not just American businesses under attack from cyber-criminals, but government agencies too. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen admitted Tuesday that thieves managed to steal information on more than 100,000 taxpayers from the agency, though he […]
Monsanto, Syngenta Literally Above The Law, Get Patents For Everyday Plants Despite Not Being Patentable
Last month the European Patent Office’s Enlarged Board of Appeal, under the influence of big agribusinesses Monsanto and Syngenta, decided that naturally occurring plants, previously not patentable, should become patentable in Europe so that Monstano […]
Reports Indicate Apple Ready To Fight Google With Its Own Search Engine
Apple is notoriously tight-lipped. Nobody ever really knows what the company is going to announce until it actually does. Apple stuck to this trend when it recently announced the launch of “Applebot”, a web crawling […]
Defense Department, Boeing, Confirm Fearsome New Weapon That Fries All Electronic Devices
The U.S. Air Force confirmed last week rumors circulating for years that it’s developed a cutting edge electromagnetic pulse weapon that will permanently fry all electronic devices with pinpoint accuracy. Boeing, along with Lockheed Martin […]
Snapchat Is Officially The World’s Fastest Growing Social Network
Snapchat is one of the few big social networks not owned by Facebook but that doesn’t make it small. Despite being fairly new the company is making waves in the battle for young eyeballs, according […]
Move Over Electric Vehicles, Honda Introducing Mass Produced Fuel Cell Cars By 2020
The cost of driving is about to get much, much, cheaper. As electric vehicles, by Tesla, Nissan and GM, continue to flood the market, Japanese car giant Honda is going to enter the green vehicle […]
California Is Giving Free Solar Panels To The Poor
In order to offset carbon emissions in excess of state quotas, big polluters are paying to install rooftop solar panels on the houses of the poor. It’s not charity, but public policy known as ‘cap […]
Over 3.2 Billion People Are Now Using The Internet
A new UN report shows that in 2015 nearly half of the global population will be using the internet. The survery, conducted by The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a United Nations body, estimates that 3.2 […]
Twitter’s Blockbuster Live Streaming App Periscope Hits Android Phones Today
Middle of the road social network Twitter announced today that after successfully launching on iPhone and seeing over a million downloads in 10 days, streaming app Periscope is now available on Android. The app is […]
Should The West Rescue Africa’s Animals? Mozambique Loses Half Its Elephants To Poachers
While Africans decry western attempts to help manage their rich set of endangered animals, the latest stats out of Mozambique suggest aggressive western intervention is necessary before the animals are extinct. The U.S. based Wildlife […]
Thousands Of Man Sized Jellyfish Swarm British Coast
Britain is seeing an invasion of massive, man-sized jellyfish off its coast this week that weigh up to 100 pounds each. Yet nobody knows why. The slimy creatures have tentacles up to six feet long, […]
Latest Amazon Disclosure Shows Just How Little Tax Big Tech Companies Actually Pay
While main street Americans pay record tax levels on personal income, property and via sales taxes, big tech companies with armies of lawyers and tax accountants continue to cheat the system, according to the latest […]
Baltimore Bloodbath Continues As City Sees Most Violent Holiday Weekend In 15 Years
While the riots and debris may have been cleared in Baltimore, the city continues to be plagued by violent crime. Over the memorial day weekend alone more than two dozen shootings occurred, causing an already […]
Iran Launches Anti-ISIS Cartoon Drawing Competition
Freedom of speech supporters aren’t the only ones hosting cartoon drawing contests to draw attention to the lunacy of radical Islam as Iran this week launched an anti-ISIS cartoon competition, inviting submissions from around the […]
Report Finds That India Will Run Out Of Water By 2025
Despite investment in the water sector expected to be $13 billion in the next few years alone, India is set to become a water-scarce country by 2025 due to demand-supply mis-match, according to a new […]
Venezuela Quickly Ditching Its Own Currency In Favor Of U.S. Dollars
Venezuela looks to be going the way of Ecuador at the turn of the century as an increasing number of items are now only available for purchase in U.S. dollars and not the inflation-ridden Venezuelan […]
Launch Failures Isn’t Only Problem At Russian Space Program: Agency Lost $1.8 Billion Last Year Due To Corruption
The the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, is currently the only way for astronauts to come and go from the international space station. It’s also seen 2 launch failures in the past 60 days, exposing serious […]
Volcano Eruption On Pristine Galapagos Islands Threatens Rare Pink Iguanas
Sometimes nature, without any interference from humans, can destroy itself. That’s exactly what could be happening in Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, as a volcano perched atop one of the remote islands erupted in the early hours […]
Chinese Hackers Can Track Subway Riders Through Their Phones
Just because there’s no signal in underground subway tunnels doesn’t mean hackers can’t track you as you ride the rails. New research shows that clever hackers can track the movements of millions of subway riders […]
Sudan Confiscates Newspapers That Report Sexual Assaults
Sudan’s brutal crackdown on freedom of speech continued this weekend as government forces confiscated issues of 10 major newspapers on Sunday, because they carried stories reporting of sexual assaults on children in the country, newspaper […]
EU To Fight Insane British Plan To Censor The Internet
British PM David Cameron fancies himself just the man to “clean up the internet”. Such rhetoric, which pulls on parental heartstrings, seems to have worked for his last election campaign where he suggested that access […]