The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Iranian Military Reports Mystery US Ship With Chemicals Onboard in Persian Gulf
Iranian Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Bolfazl Shekarchi reported Sunday that a US cargo vessel with chemicals onboard escorted by a warship had entered the Persian Gulf.
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June 29, 2018
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Swarm: Inside Ethereum's Push to Create a Decentralized Internet
The Lead Developer of the Swarm team, Viktor Trón, has announced the immediate release and deployment to the public testnet of Ethereum’s Swarm client v0.3, which represents the third proof-of-concept (POC3) installment of this tool.
Decentralized Technologies like Ethereum, Swarm, and Whisper, which Trón calls “The Holy Trinity”, will revolutionize how we share information, who owns it, and who can profit from it. However, there is still a lot to accomplish before this is possible.
Continue reading “Penguin: Swarm – Ethereum's 3rd Shot at Decentalized Internet”
“The Obama IRS scandal is bipartisan – McCain and Democrats who wanted to regulate political speech lost at the Supreme Court, so they sought to use the IRS to harass innocent Americans,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama IRS scandal is not over – as Judicial Watch continues to uncover smoking gun documents that raise questions about how the Obama administration weaponized the IRS, the FEC, FBI, and DOJ to target the First Amendment rights of Americans.”
Facebook and Google use ‘dark patterns' around privacy settings, report says
Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an “unethical” way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council.
It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of “dark patterns”, including intrusive default settings and misleading wording.
The firms gave users “an illusion of control”, its report suggested.
Continue reading “#GoogleGestapo: Facebook & Google Obscure & Manipulate Privacy Settings”
Amazon: Information and Its Pharma Play
Amazon sells quite a few health related products. One I found interesting is Amazon’s hydrogen peroxide. That’s an interesting chemical, and I wondered who has order a higher concentration version. I assumed that Amazon could answer that question, among others; for example, who bought certain books describing the use of the compound.
I thought about Amazon’s health products when I read “Amazon to Buy Online Pharmacy PillPack, Jumping Into the Drug Business.” I think the deal is an interesting one, but my view is different. Hey, I live in rural Kentucky, one of the states associated with opioid abuse.
