Urgent! Strange report, USA'S VISA SERVICE IS EXPERIENCING SIGNIFICANT INTERRUPTIONS! SIGNS OF A WAR NEAR!

WORLD WAR 3

The global stage is set, the people are in place and the lights are on. The timing of a war is almost perfect. All wars are banker wars, and the collapse of the dollar being imminent is what shows the signs of World War 3 banning loudly on our doorsteps. Since the 24th of July the US visa service has been experiencing significant interruptions. This can be because of two things, the influx of illegal immigrants entering our country and the system can't handle it; or it is because their are visas that need to be canceled because World War 3 is near. This issue as stated below is not particular to any single country but the whole world! It is likely that the issue could be caused by the influx of illegals but not in this case, also as stated below the issue is because of backlogging. Please read below for more information.

Posted on Sunday Jul 27th at 5:00pm

WASHINGTON (Xinhua) - The US State Department's global database for issuing visas is still experiencing technical problems with the visa issuance system, according to a bulletin posted Saturday on its website.

"As of July 26, we are operating at a significantly reduced capacity and will be until we clear the document backlog. This issue is worldwide and is not specific to any particular country or visa category," the bulletin said.

"We are working urgently to correct the problem and expect the system to be fully operational again soon. We will continue to post updates to travel.state.gov as more information becomes available," it said.

US State Department's passport and visa issuance system has failed to run after a computer glitch, resulting in delays in visa and passport processing since July 24.

So far, it's still unknown when the system will return to normal operations and how many document requests were affected by the glitch. The Bureau of Consular Affairs processes millions of visa requests each year.

But the bureau continues to issue emergency passports at present.

Although the bureau has not identified the root cause of the malfunction, but it does not believe "malicious action," such as terrorism or sabotage, were responsible.

RAWSTORY: Facebook looking into solar-powered ‘atmospheric’ drones for wireless Internet

2127 OPINION: WHY IS FACEBOOK INTERESTED IN DRONES, LAST TIME I CHECKED IT WAS JUST SOCIAL MEDIA? FIRST AMAZON AND NOW FACEBOOK? SEEMS AS THOUGH THERE WILL BE NO WORK FORCE IN THE NEAR FUTURE! 

By Reuters

Topics: facebook ♦ Facebook Inc

 

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is in talks to buy drone maker Titan Aerospace for $60 million, according to media reports.

The high-flying drones would give Facebook, the world’s No.1 Internet social network, the ability to beam wireless Internet access to consumers in undeveloped parts of the world, according to the technology blog TechCrunch. TechCrunch first reported the deal late on Monday, citing an anonymous source.

The effort would help advance Facebook’s Internet.org effort, aimed at connecting billions of people who do not currently have Internet access in places such as Africa and Asia.

Facebook declined to comment.

Titan Chief Executive Vern Raburn declined to comment on whether Facebook was buying the company or a large order of its planes.

“I can’t comment one way or the other,” Raburn said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

Titan is developing a variety of solar-powered “atmospheric satellites,” according to the company’s website, with initial commercial operations slated for 2015. The drones, which fly at an altitude of 65,000 feet and can remain aloft for up to five years and have a 165-foot (50-metre) wingspan, slightly shorter than that of a Boeing 777.

“What we have is an airplane that’s solar-powered, so it doesn’t have any fuel and it can climb up to a very high altitude and just stay there. And at that altitude it can do a multiplicity of missions ranging from communications, data, optical, weather sensing,” Raburn said.

“Think of it as a Tesla Model S, with wings,” he said, referring to the electric car. Raburn, who was previously the CEO of Symantec Corp and the president of Microsoft Corp’s consumer products division, said that Titan has flown a scaled-down prototype of the plane.

Facebook is interested in having Titan build 11,000 of its Solara 60 model drones for its Internet.org project, according to the TechCrunch report.

Facebook is not the only Internet company working on bringing wireless Internet access to developing countries. Last year, Google Inc announced Project Loon, which aims to use solar-powered air balloons to beam the Internet to remote regions.

Providing wireless access could help Facebook ensure that its online social network is among the basic services used by people in developing economies as they start to use Internet-connected mobile phones in coming years.

Facebook, which has 1.2 billion monthly users, has partnered with numerous wireless providers in recent years to offer free or discounted access to the social network. But some, such as Vodafone, have balked at waiving their wireless data rates for Facebook.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic and Alwyn Scott; Editing by David Gregorio and Jonathan Oatis)