Stillness in the Storm

An Agent for Consciousness Evolution

News

Google’s File on You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s – Here’s How to View It

By 1 Comment

(Jake Anderson) With all the attention paid to Facebook in recent weeks over ‘data breaches’ and privacy violations (even though what happened with Cambridge Analytica is part of their standard business model), it’s easy to forget that there are four other Big Tech corporations collecting just as much — if not more — of our personal info. Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are all central players in “surveillance capitalism” and prey on our data. New reports suggest that Google may actually harvest ten times as much as Facebook.

Entire Florida Police Dept Busted Laundering Tens of Millions for International Drug Cartels

By 1 Comment

(Justin Gardner) The village of Bal Harbour, population 2,513, may have a tiny footprint on the northern tip of Miami Beach, but its police department had grand aspirations of going after international drug traffickers, and making a few million dollars while they were at it.

How The World Will Collectively Stop Elite Level Child Sex Trafficking & Ritualistic Abuse

By Leave a Comment

(Richard Enos) On this occasion of my 100th article for Collective Evolution since I started back in April, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank my readers for their emails of inquiry, commentary, encouragement and appreciation. Although it’s getting difficult, I still try to respond personally to each one, because I have gained a lot of insight and inspiration from them. As well, I believe that the work of community-building, which is a mandate of Collective Evolution that I strongly believe in, occurs mainly as a result of the quality of our one-on-one interactions with each other.

Report Finds The Average Person Swallows The Plastic Equivalent Of A Credit Card Every Week

By Leave a Comment

(Mayukh Saha) We consume plastic every day. And that quantity is growing as each day we let our planet get inundated in a plastic tide. The thick bed of plastic floating on the sea; the beasts and birds choking to death on plastic; it all used to be a part of the dining table conversation. And then suddenly we find that it is a part of our diet. We are surrounded by plastic and almost all of the food that the modern man consumes is either packed in plastic or has plastic mixed in it, in some form of the other.

Astronomers Just Found an Absolutely Gargantuan Black Hole The Mass of 40 Billion Suns

By 2 Comments

(Michelle Star) Black holes can get pretty big, but there’s a special class that is the biggest of the big, absolute yawning monster black holes. And astronomers seem to have identified an absolute specimen, clocking in at 40 billion times the mass of the Sun.

Minority Report: FBI Trying to Build Social Media “Pre-Crime” Tracking Tool to Arrest People Before They Carry Out Crimes

By Leave a Comment

(JD Heyes) At a time when the FBI’s reputation is at one of the lowest points in history thanks to the involvement of former ranking members in “Spygate,” the plot to overthrow POTUS Donald Trump, the bureau is shopping for technology that allows it to monitor social media in real time, allegedly to spot potential criminal activity.