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Auckland's new Rail Tunnels pass final test

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Emergency crews have completed their very last practice drill inside Auckland’s City Rail Link, just weeks before the underground train tunnels open to the public.

The exercise, held near Te Waihorotiu Station, tested how firefighters, police, ambulance staff and rail workers would handle a fire on a train deep underground. Some of the tunnels sit more than 40 metres below the city, so working safely down there takes careful planning.

Barbara Malthusian Hubbard: From Limits to Growth to UN Agenda 2030

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For decades, New Age guru Barbara Marx Hubbard preached a futurist gospel of “conscious evolution” guided by “love and light.” Yet, at the same time, in stark contrast, Hubbard also touted Malthusian population control. If Hubbard called for the human population to be culled, then how could she have genuinely floated her dreams of conscious evolution sincerely upon the “self-actualization” mantras of the Human Potential Movement or the “co-creation” ethos of her New Age homilies?

Criminal case paused for LA model accused of dating app theft after attorney questions competency

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

L.A. influencer Adva Lavie, also known as Mia Ventura, is accused of stealing from people she met through dating apps.

LA influencer’s dating app theft case halted over competency concerns

The criminal case against a former OnlyFans model is on hold after her attorney declared doubt over her mental competency. Adva Lavie cried, limped and yelled in Wednesday’s hearing.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) – The criminal case against influencer and former OnlyFans model Adva Lavie, also known as Mia Ventura, was suspended on Wednesday after her defense attorney declared doubt over her mental competency, prompting a halt to all proceedings until the court determines whether she can stand trial.

Darktrace and Cybereason: The Intelligence Front Companies Seeking to Subjugate the World with the A.I. Singularity

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We have all been dreaming, a dream where you can float or glide across your dreamscape effortlessly. This leads to the feeling of trepidation, as though you have the ability to let go, and if you do let go, you’ll either soar or fall.

We’re now at a point in history where either the coming events will be studied for thousands of years, or it will be remembered as the point where we lost our humanity completely. Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) technology has entered a new phase over the past several years, where instead of the A.I. algorithms learning from humans, they are now teaching themselves, changing their own algorithms as they learn. We are on the cusp of letting go of control entirely, so early on, because of a few small companies who have quietly been given free reign under the guise of “protecting” our digital lives, all within a tech sector that is moving so fast that we can no longer see what’s just around the bend.

Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In a searing investigation into the once lauded biotech start-up Theranos, Nick Bilton discovers that its precocious founder defied medical experts—even her own chief scientist—about the veracity of its now discredited blood-testing technology. She built a corporation based on secrecy in the hope that she could still pull it off. Then, it all fell apart.

From UNESCO Study 11 to UNESCO 2050: Project BEST and the Forty-Year Plan to Reimagine Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I recently visited former Senior Policy Advisor to the US Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, who gave me access to her archive of files that she collected from the US Department of Education. After digging through a collection of files collated by Lawrence P. Grayson, who was the Advisor for Mathematics, Science and Technology at America’s National Institute of Education (NIE), I discovered that the Department of Ed’s Project BEST (Basic Education Skills through Technology), which Iserbyt leaked in 1981, was actually the USA’s domestic version of an international technology initiative spearheaded by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Technocracy: The Operating System For The New International Rules-Based Order

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In this article, we will explore the true nature of the international rules-based order (IRBO) and examine the forces that shape it. We will consider if the narratives we are commonly fed stack up.

It is widely accepted that the IRBO is undergoing disruptive change. That transformation is often reported as an eastward shift in the balance of power between nation states.

It is said that this new, emerging international order will be founded upon a global multipolar system of sovereign states and international law. This new system allegedly stands in opposition to the fading, western “rules-based” model.

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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In my latest book, The Technocratic Dark State, I explore the influence of a powerful collective of Silicon Valley oligarchs. These oligarchs, as we shall see, have captured and now effectively control the second Trump administration. They like to go by many names: accelerationists, neoreactionaries, technocrats, the Tech-Bros, TechnoKings, CEO dictators, and more besides. We can now add “Praxians” into the mix. Though, personally, I prefer “Neonerds.”

The Praxians are part of a global oligarch network that is exploiting public-private partnership — stakeholder capitalism — to imprison humanity in their digital panopticon. The primarily US-based Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy — the Praxians — extends beyond what many call the PayPal Mafia. In addition to Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, and other formative PayPal Mafiosi, the cast of characters propping up the current US administration, who evidently share Praxian goals, includes the likes of Mark Andreessen, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and others.

This Russian Family Lived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness for 40 Years, Unaware of World War II or the Moon Landing

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Agafia Lykova was born while her family was living alone in the wilderness. She is the only surviving member of the family. Sputnik via AP

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of straggly pine and birch forests scattered with sleeping bears and hungry wolves; steep-sided mountains; white-water rivers that pour in torrents through the valleys; thousands of miles of icy bogs. This forest is one of the last and greatest of Earth’s wildernesses. It stretches from Russia’s Arctic regions to as far south as Mongolia, and east from the Urals to the Pacific: millions of square miles of sparsely populated nothingness.

UniBLEed: Unauthenticated Root RCE on Any Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Within Bluetooth Range

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Root on a $20,000 humanoid robot, via a cloud API that decrypts any G1’s AES key from any free Unitree account without checking ownership. One BLE characteristic that accepts writes without pairing. A heredoc injection that hijacks WiFi. A path traversal in the robot’s AI chatbot knowledge base that leaks the binary’s load address. And a 1050-byte BSS buffer overflow that corrupts the event loop into calling system() as root. Below is the complete technical breakdown of a $6,700 bounty and the two CVEs it produced: CVE-2026-76639 / CVE-2026-76640.

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US - UK Intel Agencies Declare Cyber War on Independent Media

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

In just the past week, the national-security states of the United States and United Kingdom have discreetly let it be known that the cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 “war on terror” are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting “vaccine hesitancy” and information related to Covid-19 that runs counter to their state narratives.

A new cyber offensive was launched on Monday by the UK’s signal intelligence agency, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), which seeks to target websites that publish content deemed to be “propaganda” that raises concerns regarding state-sponsored Covid-19 vaccine development and the multi-national pharmaceutical corporations involved.