Cara

“Our space agencies won’t be able to push out farther into space, to a destination like Mars, until we can learn more about how to strengthen the weakest links in the chain that make space flight possible: the human body and mind… [V]ery little is known about what occurs after month six. The symptoms may get precipitously worse in the ninth…[Read more]

” I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like a very old man getting out of a recliner… I make it to my bedroom without incident and close the door behind me. Every part of my body hurts. All my joints and all of my muscles are protesting the crushing pressure of gravity. I’m also nauseated, though I haven’t thrown up……[Read more]

“Contrary to recurring rumors that the fire was created from excess money creation, the FDNY said that a generator on the roof of the building caused the fire in a chimney, although the severity of the damage to the building is not known.”
Electromagnetic pulses can set heavy duty electrical equipment on fire. See for instance the Carrington…[Read more]

I think perhaps they were “removed”. I see one of the stories was an investigation into ties between Clinton Foundation and Guatemalan sex trafficking – an investigation being done by the poster. I hope the poster is alive and has not been suicided.

Having worked in the tech sector for about 15 years, I can see why people might become unstable:
– constant, incomplete, shifting projects;
– many “products” not really products but just marketing wrap around “happy” accidents of success;
– no real, substantive communication between “sales”, ” engineering” and “finance”;
– “god” complex of…[Read more]

More commentary on the deleterious effects of the current incarnations of technology
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/interrogation/2017/10/why_it_s_time_to_panic_about_the_power_of_big_technology.html

How interesting… it seems someone is trying (has been trying since at least 2010) to get a movie/TV series made that is set in and possibly tells some stories about this South American area, the “Triple Frontier” – and they are dogged with problems…. someone doesn’t want said movie/TV series made?
http://screenrant.com/triple-frontier-ben-affleck-exit/

This is from 2002 but might still be relevant. Re the financing of Hezbollah:
“Although much attention has focused on the flow of Iranian aid to Hezbollah, estimated at $60-100 million per year, the group has also relied extensively on funding from the Shi’ite Lebanese Diaspora in West Africa, the United States and, most importantly, the so-called…[Read more]

My goodness! Had a really odd thought while watching this: “these guys look like some of the movies representations of aliens”. I wonder if that was in purpose?

Linksys is owned by Cisco. I used to work with a technology “partner” (read: exploited subcontractor) of Cisco’s. Heard a few strange things about John Chambers (exec chairman and former CEO) during that time. Watch him on some videos done by Cisco: he is very unsettling