US Begins Dropping 'Cyberbombs' On ISIS (nytimes.com)

In what appears to be a significant shift in its tactic to battle against the terrorist organization, the U.S. has begun launching cyberattacks against ISIS (non-paywall link).

 

 The New York Times reports that the Department of Defense's Cyber Command unit is mounting cyberattacks against the terrorist organization.

The Cyber Command unit aims to stop the organization from spreading its message.

The Times reports:

The goal of the new campaign is to disrupt the ability of the Islamic State to spread its message, attract new adherents, circulate orders from commanders and carry out day-to-day functions, like paying its fighters. 

A benefit of the administration's exceedingly rare public discussion of the campaign, officials said, is

to rattle the Islamic State's commanders, who have begun to realize that sophisticated hacking efforts are manipulating their data.

 Potential recruits may also be deterred if they come to worry about the security of their communications with the militant group.

 "We are dropping cyberbombs," Robert O. Work, deputy secretary of defense said.

 "We have never done that before."

A Nice Place For Your Dollar To Rest

Traditionally, Goldman Sachs has functioned like a run-of-the-mill investment bank with minimums to open an account in the range of $10 million, and returns not guaranteed.

 Goldman is opening its doors to the masses today with the launch of GS Bank, an FDIC-insured, internet-based savings bank.

 Anyone with an internet connection and a dollar can join, as that is what each account's minimum balance must be. 

GS Bank's interest rates give customers an annual yield of 1.05 percent, a rate that trumps the average U.S. saving's bank yield of .06 percent APY. 

GS Bank was a result of Goldman's acquisition of GE Capital Bank, the online retail bank previously run by General Electric's capital arm. 

The move is to diversify revenue streams and strengthen liquidity. GS Bank currently has total deposits of around $114 billion.

In other news from the multinational banking firm, Goldman Sachs believes virtual-reality and augmented-reality "will be the next generation computing platform" worth $80 billion by 2025.

Another almost as nice place for your dollar.

The Term "Global Warming" Was Never Heard In The 1970's The Powers That Be Were Pushing "The Coming Ice Age" Back Then.

Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial society have driven a huge growth in trees and other plants. 

A new study says that if the extra green leaves prompted by rising CO2 levels were laid in a carpet, it would cover twice the continental USA.

 Climate skeptics argue the findings show that the extra CO2 is actually benefiting the planet. 

But the researchers (Spin Doctors) say the fertilization effect diminishes over time. 

They warn the positives of CO2 are likely to be outweighed by the negatives. 

The lead author, Professor Ranga Myneni from Boston University (Chief Spinner‘obfuscation index’ Master ) , told BBC News the extra tree growth would not compensate for global warming, rising sea levels, melting glaciers, ocean acidification, the loss of Arctic sea ice, and the prediction of more severe tropical storms. 

The new study is published in the journal Nature Climate Change by a team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries.

  A new study has also shown that ever since Americans first heard the term global warming in the 1970's (A Lie, link to "Coming Ice Age" 70's spin), the weather has actually improved for most people living in the U.S.

The study published in the journal Nature found that 80% of the U.S. population lives in counties experiencing more pleasant weather than they did four decades ago.

Climate Scientist Admits To Lying, Leaking Documents

 German professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert confirmed what other previously reported, NASA fiddled with global warming data to push global warming.

Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims

 A leaked copy of a UN report on global warming says that scientist’s claims that global warming was going to destroy us were drastically wrong.

The Daily Mail reports that in 2007 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that the planet’s temperature was going to rise 0.2 Celsius every decade, a claim that governments and scientists all across the world have relied on to make their own determinations.
 
But now the new report says that the climate only warmed at .12 C per decades since 1951, a rate far, far below what everyone was told.

The new report also notes that scientists had to admit that their forecasts were wildly out of sync with the truth.

Zombies On Cell Phones Accommodated

It's finally happened -- the smartphone zombies are here. 

The German city of Augsburg installed traffic lights in the sidewalks so smartphone users don't have to look up. 

 Apparently people are so addicted to their smartphones they can't be bothered to look up at traffic signals, so embedding them in the ground they don't have to.

  According to the Washington Post report, the city spokeswoman Stephanie Lermen thinks the money used to install the lights is well spent.

 A recent survey conducted in several European cities including Berlin, found that almost 20 percent of pedestrians were distracted by their smartphones.

 Of course, younger people are at higher risk as they're willing to risk their safety to look at their Facebook profiles or WhatsApp messages, the survey found.

The problem may be even worse in the U.S: 

A survey by the University of Washington found that 1 in 3 Americans is busy texting or working on a smartphone at dangerous road crossings.

City officials say installing the traffic lights is justified:

The idea is to install such traffic lights came after a 15-year-old girl was killed by a tram.

According to police reports, she was distracted by her smartphone as she crossed the tracks.

You won't hear this in the news media.

A tree is identified by its fruit. Figs are never gathered from thornbushes, and grapes are not picked from bramble bushes.
Luke 6:44

In Norway, recent statistics revealed that 100 per cent of violent street-rapes committed in the capital city of Oslo were committed by “non-western” immigrants. 

 It’s a similar story in Denmark, where the majority of rapes are committed by immigrants, usually Muslim.

In England, it’s been rape after rape – tens of thousands of young British girls are brutalised, tortured, beaten and raped by organised gangs comprised almost exclusively of Muslims. 

 And now we have Germany.  

When Chancellor Merkel threw open the doors of her country to hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and Africa, she opened the door to the rape of German women.