The 352-event earthquake storm that hit Southern California last week failed to cause appropriate concern due to the magnitude 7.1-magnitude monster that killed 295 in Mexico City.
Author: Chriss W. Street
Vanity Fair Claims Peter Thiel to Chair U.S. Intelligence Board
Silicon Valley was sent into a dither this week after Vanity Fair indicated that legendary venture capitalist and Trump supporter Peter Thiel is about to become Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB).
California Wonders if North Korea Will Strike — and When
U.S. public health and first responders in California and throughout the West Coast have begun preparing for the impact of a potential nuclear war after North Korea fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) over Japan last week in the anniversary of America’s triumphant Inchon Landing in the Korean War.
Collusion: Jerry Brown Going to Russia Conference Hosted by Putin
California Governor Jerry Brown is flying to Vladivostok Sunday for an economic cooperation conference hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin, where the governor plans to promote decarbonizing investments.
Diesel Giant Cummins Beats Tesla with First Electric Big Rig
Dominant diesel engine manufacturer Cummins just beat Tesla by unveiling the AEOS Urban Hauler Tractor as the first all-electric big rig. With Congress set to vote on September 6 to approve the national deployment of autonomous vehicles on September 6, Cummins Inc. and Roush Clean Tech introduced their AEOS all-electric heavy-duty commercial tractor. The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation Committee put the deployment of autonomous (self-driving) vehicles on the fast-track in July by unanimously approving a bill that would give qualified manufacturers exemptions from auto safety standards to deploy up to 25,000 autonomous vehicles immediately, and up to 100,000 over three years. The bill nationalizes self-driving regulations by pre-empting the current jumble of state rules. Breitbart News reported in April that the “Tesla Semi” all-electric big-rig tractor, which expected to debut in September, would be the first existential threat to International Longshore and Warehouse Union members that make up to $1,200 a day by slowing down the loading and unloading of cargoes at the 27 West Coast ports that stretch from San Diego to Alaska. But Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk presented his Master Plan to provide autonomous class 7 and class 8 big-rig tractors that could run on electric power while
California Tries to Leverage Hurricane Harvey to Fund $20 Billion Flood Control
California hopes to leverage the attention on Hurricane Harvey flooding to convince the federal government to fund some of the $20 billion needed to repair the dilapidated Central Valley flood control infrastructure.
Amazon Declares Price War, Slashes Whole Foods Grocery Prices 40%
Whole Foods Market slashed prices by an average of about 40 percent as its new owner, Amazon, declared an industry price war.