SCI-TECH

Trump Launches New US Space Command, With Vintage ‘Netscape-style’ Website

There’s something eerily awkward about the roll-out of this latest venture by the US federal government. It’s as if Washington is claiming imminent domain over outer space. Equally as awkward is the 1990s looking, Netscape-style website accompanying the roll-out of this new program.

“Earth to Washington…”

CONFIRMED: YouTube Censors ‘Anti-Protest’ Channels in Bid to Bolster New ‘Color Revolution’ in Hong Kong, China

The irony is almost too much to bear now. 
This week, Silicon Valley giant YouTube has taken a string out of China’s bow by deplatforming some 210 channels for posting content criticizing the recent Hong Kong protests, claiming that channels were somehow “sowing political discord” on behalf of the Chinese government.

Trump’s EPA Greenlights ‘Emergency’ Bee-killing Pesticide Over 13.9 Million Acres

Q: Where are the campaigners from Extinction Rebellion, where are the Climatists?
A: When it comes to actual, tangible threats to the environment, they are becoming increasingly difficult to locate.
Here, we see no activists gluing themselves to chemical trucks, and no street theater activists dressed in bumble bee costumes posting their exploits on Instagram. Nothing…

US State Dept Defunds Twitter-Trolling ‘Iran Disinformation Project’

The U.S. State Department quietly announced over the weekend the defunding of a social media trolling project that targeted outspoken critics of the Trump administration’s foreign policy on Iran.
The Twitter account, @IranDisinfo, is run by the Iran Disinformation Project under the auspices of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), and “exposes and counters the nefarious influence of one of the world’s few remaining totalitarian regimes.”