After decades of secrecy, the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) will now publish its entire record of UFO sightings above British territory, in an unprecedented move which is sure to spark even more conspiracy theories. The RAF closed down its ‘UFO desk’ in 2009 after 50 years of reports in which no serious threat was identified. Records from this RAF unit were traditionally sent to the National Archives, where they were kept as classified documents. Now, however, the most recent reports will be placed in an online archive on a dedicated gov.uk page, according to a Freedom of Information request…
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Despite reassurances from public health officials that Americans don’t currently need to wear face masks as a precaution against coronavirus, many drug stores are selling out. Why it matters: While it’s not clear how much protection the masks offer, manufacturers are seeing a spike in demand, and the potential spread of the virus in the U.S. is being monitored closely — and spooking out a lot of people. Where it stands: There are severe shortages of surgical face masks in China, where people are being encouraged to wear them. While there have only been a handful of confirmed cases of…
Fear that the impact of militarised artificial intelligence (AI) on war and international relations could be more deadly than the nuclear arms race is both an exaggeration and an underestimation of the threat this represents. It is inevitable that the increasing use of AI for military purposes raises the spectre of a Terminator-esque future where computers and autonomous armies of robots conduct wars with little human control or oversight. It might make good headlines and movies. It will also sell books. But this scenario is an exaggeration. It is based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of what AI is and that…
Legends of Chamberlain Heights Predicts The Death Of Kobe Bryant’s By Helicopter Back In 2016. Predictive Programming ? As I posted yest, there was also a twitter user who claimed the same thing in 2012. So is this just a coincidence or is some trying to tell us something? Now I provide some information I haven’t seen too many people talking about; Who owned his Helicopter before? Kobe Bryant’s helicopter was previously owned by the State of Illinois The Sikorsky-76 helicopter that crashed Sunday, killing basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others was previously owned by the State of…
Worries over the continued spread of the coronavirus have hit financial markets, with stocks from Wall Street to Tokyo declining. The three main US indexes closed down more than 1.5%, while London’s FTSE 100 index ended almost 2.3% lower. Firms with significant sales in China were among the hardest hit. The coronavirus has killed 81 people in China with almost 3,000 confirmed ill, while at least 44 cases have been confirmed abroad. The outbreak has coincided with the Chinese New Year, when travel and spending typically spikes. Many Asian stock markets were closed on Monday for the holiday, but concerns…
The Guardian has learned the true identity of the leader and founder of the US-based neo-Nazi terror network the Base, which was recently the target of raids by the FBI after an investigation into domestic terrorism uncovered their plans to start a race war. Members of the group stand accused of federal hate crimes, murder plots and firearms offenses, and have harbored international fugitives in recent months. The Base’s leader previously operated under the aliases “Norman Spear” and “Roman Wolf”. Members of the network do not know his true identity due to the group’s culture of internal secrecy. But the…
China says 106 people have died from the new coronavirus and the cases of newly infected have almost doubled. The number of total confirmed cases in China rose to 4,515 as of 27 January, up from 2,835 a day earlier. The country has meanwhile further tightened travel restrictions to try and curb the spread of the virus. The city of Wuhan, thought to be the epicentre of it, is already in effective lockdown as is much of surrounding Hubei province. The coronavirus causes severe acute respiratory infection and there is no specific cure or vaccine. Most of the deaths have…
More than a dozen teams in the US National Football League have had their social media accounts hacked. The teams included the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs, who will compete in the Super Bowl Championship on 2 February. The hacking group OurMine took responsibility for the attack, which said it was to show internet security was “still low” and had to be improved. The NFL did not respond to a request for comment about the attack. The Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for 15 teams were compromised. Twitter confirmed the accounts were hacked by a third-party platform. “As…
The US military has acknowledged the loss of a Bombardier/Northrop Grumman E-11A plane in central Afghanistan. They added that they have not found any “indication” that the aircraft was downed. The aircraft crashed in Ghazni city area on Monday. An investigation into the incident is underway and the military will provide further information when its available, a spokesman for the US force in Afghanistan, Col. Sonny Leggett has tweeted. The official also dismissed Taliban claims that another aircraft had crashed in the country, describing them as “false.” Earlier in the day, the Taliban said that a military helicopter went down…
US investigators are working to determine the causes of the helicopter crash that killed basketball star Kobe Bryant in California on Sunday. All nine people on board the helicopter died, including Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter, Gianna. Investigators are expected to focus on the weather conditions, which were foggy, and on any mechanical failures that may have occurred. Bryant was considered to be one of the greatest players in the game’s history. He was a five-time NBA champion for his only team, the Los Angeles Lakers, and a double Olympic gold medallist. He retired in April 2016. Tributes from fans, fellow basketball…
Police involvement in a private landlord’s facial recognition trial has led a regulator to call for government intervention. BBC Radio 4’s File on 4 has learned that South Yorkshire Police shared three photos of serious offenders and one of a vulnerable missing person with Sheffield’s Meadowhall shopping centre. It follows similar controversial tie-ups in Manchester and London. Meadowhall owner British Land said the 2018 test only lasted four weeks. It added that it had “no plans” to use facial recognition at its sites, and that all personal data gathered during the trial was “immediately deleted”. South Yorkshire Police disclosed last…
The death toll from the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak in China has reached 80 with hundreds of new infections detected. Meanwhile, US public health officials have confirmed new cases of the coronavirus in Los Angeles and Arizona. With 24 new death reported in Hubei Province – the epicenter of the outbreak – the overall death toll from the novel coronavirus in China now stands at 80, with nearly 2,800 confirmed cases countrywide. China has also come forward with news that the virus can spread before any symptoms show. The country’s health minister Ma Xiaowei confirmed the bad news on Sunday, which has panicked…
Mask-wearing soldiers have been deployed to locked-down Wuhan, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus which is sweeping the world from China. Footage showed troops unloading supplies from the back of a jet in the city of 11million people to help contain the virus which has so far killed 56 in China, with more than 2,000 cases worldwide. China’s health minister Ma Xiaowei said the country was entering a ‘crucial stage’ as ‘it seems like the ability of the virus to spread is getting stronger.’ Wuhan is building two makeshift hospitals with around 1,000 beds each to handle the influx of patients. Supplies being…
Below is a real tweet, posted by @dotNoso on Twitter back on Nov 13, 2012! Could be a coincidence but whatever still interesting to say the least.
The deadly new coronavirus has started spreading across China and beyond and has infected hundreds of people. The outbreak has already started to take a toll on the nation’s economy right ahead of the Chinese New Year. As the death toll and the number of confirmed cases is rapidly rising, China has put on lockdown cities in Hubei province, including Wuhan, from where the outbreak is believed to have originated. The virus is set to disrupt the plans for thousands of Chinese right before one of the biggest national holidays — the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — that…
Televangelist Paula White has brought some odd attention to the White House after a video of her sermon about “satanic pregnancies” went viral, sparking trending hashtags like ‘#satanicpregnancies’ and ‘#rosemarysbaby’ on Twitter. White, who is an adviser to the Faith and Opportunity Initiative at the Office of Public Liaison, can be seen giving a fiery, if somewhat disturbing sermon in a video posted by the group Right Wing Watch on Twitter. “We command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now,” the Florida preacher told her congregation. “We declare that anything that’s been conceived in wombs, that it’ll miscarry. It will…
Brazil produced more than 1 billion barrels last year, the first time it has breached the 1-billion-barrel mark, Reuters reports, citing the country’s oil regulator, ANP. The daily average stood at 3.106 million bpd, up 7.78 percent on 2018, ANP also said. More than half of the total oil production Brazil recorded in 2019 came from the prolific presalt zone off its coast. The contribution of the presalt zone stood at 633.98 million barrels, which was an annual improvement of 21.56 percent. Brazil’s crude oil production topped 3 million barrels per day for the first time ever in November 2019, the ANP…
A commemorative 50p coin marking the UK’s departure from the EU has been unveiled by Chancellor Sajid Javid. The coins bear the inscription “Peace, prosperity and friendship with all nations” and the date of 31 January. Mr Javid had first ordered production of the coins in advance of the UK’s original 31 October departure date. But the Brexit delay meant about a million coins had to be melted down and the metal put aside until a new exit date was confirmed. About three million Brexit coins will enter circulation around the UK from Friday, with a further seven million to…