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Who You Gonna Call? Doesn’t Matter, Big Brother Will Listen

April 27, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Phone Call Metadata Betrays Sensitive Info – Study

Identities of cannabis grower, woman seeking an abortion and MS sufferer inferred in study that confirms danger of widespread access to metadata

from: The Guardian

 

Warnings that phone call “metadata” can betray detailed information about your life has been confirmed by research at Stanford University. Researchers there successfully identified a cannabis cultivator, multiple sclerosis sufferer and a visitor to an abortion clinic using nothing more than the timing and destination of their phone calls.

Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler, the researchers behind the finding, used data gleaned from 546 volunteers to assess the extent to which information about who they had called and when revealed personally sensitive information.

Big Brother doesn’t need to know what was said, only who you’re talking to – Editor

 

Read the rest of this Guardian story HERE 

Category: Conspiracy Boogie, Eyeballin' the One World Order / Tags: , , , ,

Are You Higher Than a 4th Grader?

April 26, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

4th grader sells pot in northern Colorado

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — School officials in northern Colorado are asking parents to take care with their newly legal recreational marijuana, after fourth graders were caught dealing the drug on an elementary school campus.

John Gates, director of safety for Weld County School District 6, said Wednesday that the students involved, three 10-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl at Greeley’s Monfort Elementary School, faced tough discipline but not suspension or expulsion. He would not elaborate on their punishment.

Read the rest of this AP story HERE

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A Little Hidden History: Rick Osmon on “Expanded Perspectives”

April 15, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

A Little Hidden History: Rick Osmon on “Expanded Perspectives”

 

A recent podcast about hidden history and some hypothesis regarding precolumbian transatlantic commerce and colonization. Rick Osmon appeared on “Expanded Perspectives” to discuss his research into who might have left behind various ancient works in North America (and a few other places). Also, why is such research so controversial?

Is there a deeply rooted and concerted effort to suppress some evidence of ancient colonization from the Old World in North America? Is the US following suit of previous regimes to hide something that would impact the “legal status” of US sovereignty? Some of the sites were ideal terrain for military emplacements and were described as such by 18th and 19th antiquarians, but today’s crop of anthropologists and archaeologists totally ignore the militant aspects in favor of “ceremonial” descriptions. Is there some secret they simply can’t afford to let loose?

Category: True Hidden History / Tags: , , , ,

The Truth About Alaskan Glaciers

April 10, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Featured image: Landsat GlacierBay 01aug99.jpg, Wikimedia Commons, freely licensed media file

The Alaskan glaciers are retreating, so it must all be our fault.

Right? Well, maybe not.

Dr Bruce Molnia works with the US Geological Survey and has spent the last 40 years studying glaciers in Alaska. In 2008 he published “Glaciers of Alaska”, a hugely comprehensive and impressive volume which attempts to map and measure every single glacier in Alaska. This work forms Chapter 8 in the USGS publication “Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World”. Molnia’s main task was to put on record the current size and extent of these glaciers, rather than to analyse past changes to them.

“…we are making comparative judgments about the extent of today’s glaciers, that use as the “norm” the period when they were at or near their maximum for probably a millenium or more. Can this be sensible science?”

Read the rest of this story HERE

Category: Conspiracy Boogie / Tags: , ,

A Bionic Kangaroo?

April 9, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Birds do it, Too

Recovering, storing and releasing energy based on a natural model

 

Its jumping mechanism enables the kangaroo to increase its speed
without using more energy in doing so. With every bounce it can
store energy from the landing phase and use it again for the next
jump. The Achilles tendon assumes an important function here,
which is why it is particularly pronounced on the natural kangaroo.

Read the full company paper HERE

Video from Electronic Products

Category: Advanced Science and Such / Tags: , , , ,

Mexico confirms confrontation with Border Patrol agents

April 7, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Mexico confirms confrontation with Border Patrol agents

Image: Wikipedia Commons; File:US Navy 090317-N-5253T-016 Two men scale the border fence into Mexico a few hundred yards away from where Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalions (NMCB) 133 and NMCB-14 are building a 1,500 foot-long concrete-lined dr.

 

U.S. officials characterized the incident as one of the most serious incursions in recent years. 

BY RICHARD A. SERRANO AND TRACY WILKINSON

April 1, 2014, 11:52 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Two heavily armed, camouflaged Mexican soldiers crossed 50 yards inside Arizona in January and drew their guns against U.S. Border Patrol agents who confronted them in a tense standoff, according to documents obtained by The Times/Tribune Washington Bureau.

U.S. officials said it was one of nearly two dozen border incursions by Mexican soldiers into southern Arizona in the last four years.

Read the rest of this LA Times story HERE 

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Wake up in a Body Bag?

April 4, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Family claims grandmother was frozen alive in hospital morgue

Will this be the new norm?

LOS ANGELES (KCBS/CNN) – It’s a case that sounds like the plot of a horror movie. A family claims a woman was prematurely declared dead at a hospital, and woke up in a body bag, only to die in a freezer where her body was stored.

Now her outraged and grieving family has received the go ahead to proceed with its lawsuit.

14 News, WFIE, Evansville, Henderson, Owensboro

Read the rest of the print story HERE

Category: It's a Strange World After All / Tags: ,

Robots Replacing Humans

March 26, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Just when I was thinking of doing a “Robot Roundup” post encapsulating some of the wide variety of the stories we’ve covered in that area of regard, I ran across this presentation. Although it’s not exactly an in-depth treatment. it hits most of the high robotics spots we’ve covered over the past few months

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How to Become an Astronaut and Local Hero: Ron McNair

March 23, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

How to Become an Astronaut and Local Hero: Ron McNair

Well step 1 is to be naturally hard working. Step 2 is to complete your education (all the way, despite any perceived and / or real slights by society). Step 3  is to work hard. Step 4 is die on the job doing what you love. A PhD from MIT helps – a lot!
Dr. McNair was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 51-L. Dr. McNair died on January 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, also taking the lives of the spacecraft commander, Mr. F.R. Scobee, the pilot, Commander M.J. Smith (USN), mission specialists, Lieutenant Colonel E.S. Onizuka (USAF), and Dr. J.A. Resnik, and two civilian payload specialists, Mr. G.B. Jarvis and Mrs. S. C. McAuliffe.

Category: True Hidden History / Tags: ,

Star in a Jar: 13 Year Old Achieves Fusion Reaction in School Lab

March 20, 2014 / rickosmon / No comments

Star in a Jar: 13 Year Old Achieves Fusion Reaction in School Lab

 

To Jamie Edwards, a 13 year old student from Penwortham, England, setting the record of being the youngest person to build a nuclear fusion reactor was more important than video games or girls. That last part will probably change within a couple years, but his enthusiasm for science is very real and, for now, he’s a record holder.

Of course, that also means he’s on the radar: Will he be a NASA scientist delving into the workings of the solar system or will he be kept under constant CIA surveillance lest his brain power fall under the control of some nefarious terrorist organization, like, say Disney World?

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