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Scientists Say Mysterious ‘Oumuamua’ Object Could Be An Alien Spacecraft (#GotBitcoin)

Harvard researchers raise the possibility that it's a probe sent by extraterrestrials.  Scientists Say Mysterious 'Oumuamua' Object Could Be An Alien Spacecraft (#GotBitcoin) Maybe it's an alien spacecraft. Scientists have been puzzling over Oumuamua ever since the mysterious space object was observed tumbling past the sun in late 2017. Given…

These Companies Are Succeeding Despite Amazon Or A Slowing Economy (#GotBitcoin)

These Companies Are Succeeding Despite Amazon Or A Slowing Economy (#GotBitcoin) Not Being On Amazon Is A Selling Point For These E-Commerce Players Retail Upstarts Tap Into Wariness Of E-Commerce Giant’s Dominance; ‘Shop Boroughs, Not Bezo$’ On a Wednesday afternoon earlier this year, workers at an industrial center raced back…

NRA Loses Midterm Muscle After Cash Crunch From Big Bet On Trump (#GotBitcoin?)

 The National Rifle Association, facing a cash crunch after pouring money into Donald Trump’s presidential bid, cut spending for the midterm elections that threaten the Republican hold on Congress. NRA Loses Midterm Muscle After Cash Crunch From Big Bet On Trump. After devoting record sums to help elect President Trump…

On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score (#GotBitcoin?)

Retailers, wireless carriers and others crunch data to determine what shoppers are worth for the long term—and how well to treat them. Two people call customer service at the same time to complain about the same thing. One waits a few seconds before a representative gets on the line. The…

China Supersizes Detention Camps In Xinjiang Despite International Criticism (#GotBitcoin)

Satellite Imagery Shows Footprint Of 28 Internment Centers Has Increased Significantly Since 2016: Report. China Supersizes Detention Camps In Xinjiang Despite International Criticism (#GotBitcoin) Chinese authorities aggressively expanded the scale of internment camps in Xinjiang this year, according to a new study, even as China’s program of mass detentions of…

Americans Find Consequences Of Having Been Arrested (Charges Dropped or Not) Can Last a Lifetime (#GotBitcoin?)

America Has A Rap Sheet Even If Charges Were Dropped, A Lingering Arrest Record Can Ruin Chances of A Job Over the past 20 years, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. As a result, the FBI currently has 77.7…

Chinese Firms Snap Up U.S. Sites To Process Scrap (#GotBitcoin?)

Pellet, box makers buy and build plants to reconfigure waste too dirty for export to China. Chinese Firms Snap Up U.S. Sites To Process Scrap (#GotBitcoin?) Chinese companies are setting up shop in the U.S. to obtain the scrap paper and plastic their government has deemed too dirty to import.…

There Have Been 47,220 Gun Incidents In The U.S. In 2018 And Only 3.1% Involve The Defensive Use of Weapons (#GotBitcoin?)

As rich, advanced and accomplished as the country might be, the U.S. has somehow not been up to the task of coping with the plague of gun violence. There Have Been 47,220 Gun Incidents In The U.S. In 2018 And Only 3.1% Involve The Defensive Use of Weapons  But as the…

Mobile Justice App. (#GotBitcoin?)

Cell phones are making it easier for the public to document arrests and other police actions, as seen in the police shooting of Walter Scott in South Carolina, and the arrest of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Mobile Justice App.   [caption id="attachment_4628" align="alignnone" width="960"] American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma spokesperson…

SpotCrime.com Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc

SpotCrime.com is a Baltimore-based company founded in October 2007 and privately owned by ReportSee, Inc. SpotCrime.com Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc It provides nationwide crime information about arrests, arsons, assaults, burglaries, robberies, shootings, thefts and vandalisms, on a Google map. SpotCrime will…

World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places (#GotBitcoin)

These places have all the visual splendor and historic appeal of the world’s most famous monuments. World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places. World Travelers Explore Frontier Tourism And Newly-Discovered Places (#GotBitcoin)Forget Machu Picchu: Eight Newly Accessible Wonders of the World: Newly-Discovered Places 1. The African Country of Gabon2.…

What A Recession Could Mean for Women’s Unemployment (#GotBitcoin?)

How would female job hunters fare in the next recession? Likely better than men, if history is any indication. What A Recession Could Mean for Women’s Unemployment While the unemployment rate for women has moved in tandem with that of men since the 1980s, there is one notable exception—during recessions. When…