This week Unit 3 of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility set itself on fire when the mirrors sent collected sunlight to a portion of the tower incapable of handling the thermal energy. Environmentalists have accused the plant of being a "mega-trap" slaughtering wildlife and releasing carbon emissions when it routinely incinerates birds. With Unit 2 down for maintenance only Unit 1 is producing electricity at this time.
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Bayer Bidding For Monsanto
With Monsanto's long term prospects as an independent concern looking bleak, far better diversified German chemical giant Bayer made an unsolicited 46 Billion United States dollar bid to acquire Monsanto in an effort to diversify further. With Monsanto's value dropping as its enforceable patent portfolio shrinks Bayer would be acquiring a steady revenue stream and the means by which to continue Monsanto's business, but in a way that might leverage Bayer's own sizeable patent portfolio for synergy in those backwater markets that still recognize the fiat patent system. As Bayer already pirated the genes from a bacteria that breaks down its new herbicide "Liberty"1 that would present a far more marketable continuation of Monsanto's "Roundup Ready"(TM)(R) brand than the present, momentarily independent Monsanto's move to add Dicamba resistance.
Glufosinate has no pre-emergent action. Unlike Dicamba it is purely a post-emergent herbicide which creates the interesting question of just how many herbicide resistant traits is Bayer willing to throw into a single crop at a time, and how will they pace the market releases to keep their patent extortion funds rolling in? Sorry for your loss.
Less ambiguously known as Glufosinate ↩
Monsanto Embargoes Argentina From Getting Dicamba Resistant Soybeans
Monsanto has embargoed Argentina from receiving new soybean technologies marketed by the company after the Argentine government insisted it had the sole right to demand the inspection of exports leaving the country (archived). Monsanto has been pressuring export and shipping companies to conduct inspections in an effort to enforce a perverse form of royalty payment on crops that happen to contain genes that Monsanto markets. As the world's leading exporter of soybean meal for livestock feed Argentina presents a perfect environment for Monsanto to extort royalties from farmers whose crops happen to acquire genes marketed by Monsanto This occurs through natural plant reproduction as pollen containing genes Monsanto claims title to travels beyond the borders of Monsanto customer's fields and mixes company with other people's soybeans. Continue reading
Transmayos Throw Wrench In Hussein Bahamas' Bathroom Brouha
Last week much of the American media's news pipelines were constipated by the announcement that President Hussein Bahamas (WOT: nonperson) intended to make the etiquette of bathroom selection a Federal matter with strict rules enforced by the criminal gang in Washington DC. The crux of the move by Hussein Bahamas is to ensure schools are compelled to force students to use bathrooms that correspond with the student's outward gender expression. Hussein Bahamas' announcement however regressively adhered to a male/female gender binary ignoring the increase in individuals who have transitioned into the mayogender (archived). Continue reading
Hussein Bahamas "Justice" Department To Jail US Citizen Indefinitely Without Charges
Former Philadelphia police sergeant Francis Rawls has been held at the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center for seven months without any charges being filed, and lawyers from the Hussein Bahamas "Justice" department are seeking to have him continue to be held until either he surrenders encryption keys or Mr. Rawls body ceases to continue sustaining his life. Prosecutors have no evidence that Rawls committed any crime, but they insist they would have an abundance of evidence if only Mr. Rawls would just incriminate himself by disclosing the means to decrypt this volume. The 5th amendment to the United States consitution normally constrains prosecutors and courts from compelling defendants to incriminate themselves, but the last supreme court Justice died in February and lesser appellate court judges who could intervene are too busy refereeing sportsball.
Bitcoin Fork "Core" Plans To "Open Up" Contribution Process
The "Core" fork of the reference Bitcoin client plans to open up their development process in order to solicit changes from parties uninterested in technology. The move is supposedly inspired by the ClassicCoin coup attempt as developers of the "Core" client prepare their own "CoreCoin" coup attempt. As other hostile social engineers did before, they will attempt to move value from actual Bitcoin to their altcoin by fraudulently misrepresenting their effort as some sort of "natural evolution" or enhancement of Bitcoin.
Unlike the ClassicCoin team this different merry brand of fraudsters will lean on their history of conning the mining cartel1 into enforcing various option "soft forks" unrelated to the actual Bitcoin protocol as a sort of magical token of legitimacy. Nevertheless their claims of "stewardship" over Bitcoin have still less basis in fact than the Australian Fraudster Hoaxtoshi's claims of having created Bitcoin.
The "CoreCoin" team has not yet publically made any content containing statements on what they will bring to the table actually justifying the grave move to hard fork Bitcoin deferring to their need, like Gavin did, to do it so people know it can be done.
The fact that the CoreCoin developers and leaders of the major mining pools have gathered together and entered into contracts together is prima facie evidence that "Yes Virginia, there is a mining cartel." ↩
Philadelphia Occupation Force Disguises Surveillance Van As Google Surveillance Van
Reports are emerging that "law enforcement" agency loyal to the criminal gang in Washington DC tasked with maintaining Federal occupation of Philadelphia operates a surveillance van disguised as a Google suveillance van. This surveillance van disguised as a different surveillance van is outfitted with an automated mass scanning license plate reader.
Incidents Of Ischemic Brain Damage Increase Among Younger Adults In United States
The American Heart Associated is noting that there has been a sharp increase in the number of American between 25 and 44 suffering ischemic strokes, while the hospitalizations among the elderly for these injuries are falling.1 These trends are concurrent with the rise in movements promoting Obeastiality and Transmayogenderism in the American political left.2 While younger persons suffering from ischemic brain injuries tends to recover their mobility faster than the aged, the contemporary average mobility of young American adults doesn't enjoy a much higher baseline than the elderly due to the embrace of Obeastiality by the young.
Ransomware Industry Tightening Product Quality
Proofpoint brings us news that the makers of the CryptXXX ransomware have patched a vulnerability in their product which allowed various antivirus companies to produce "decryptor" products which would recover user files without payment. Numerous ransomware producers have seen their revenue suffer as antivirus companies produced software that exploited vulnerabilities in their ransomware to circumvent payment. If other ransomware ventures follow the example of CryptXXX in improving their own products, the industry as a whole could see substantial growth over the next year.
What Is Preet Bharara Afraid Of?
