Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Florida: First Person Killed in a Tesla Car in Self-Drive Mode Was a Former Navy SEAL
June 30th, 2016Nexu’s Owner: Owner and founder: Joshua D. Brown I started Nexu Innovations with two things in mind: to make a difference and to have fun. When I look at the world around me I see what it could be. I focus on what could be done to make this world a better place. I then […]
Hedge Fund Manager Charged With Insider Trading Is Found Dead
June 24th, 2016Via: New York Times: A high-flying hedge fund manager at Visium Asset Management, who was charged last week with insider trading, has died, apparently the victim of a suicide. The manager, Sanjay Valvani, was discovered on Monday by his wife in their brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, a New York police official said. Mr. Valvani was […]
British Man Tried to Grab Cop’s Gun at Trump Rally, Claimed He Wanted to Kill Trump
June 21st, 2016Via: Daily Mail: A British man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas told authorities he tried to grab a police officer’s gun and wanted to shoot the billionaire Republican presidential candidate. Protester Michael Steven Sandford, who appeared in court on Monday, even went to a gun range on Friday so he could […]
British MP Murdered
June 16th, 2016Fascinating: Poll Reveals 10-Point Swing Towards Brexit With A Week To Go And then… Cue lone nut. I’ll be very surprised if the Brexit is allowed to happen. My guess is that anything and everything would be done to prevent it. Via: Guardian: The grieving husband of Jo Cox, the Labour MP shot and stabbed […]
Former Zurich Insurance Boss Martin Senn Kills Himself
May 30th, 2016Via: Reuters: Former Zurich Insurance boss Martin Senn has committed suicide six months after leaving the company under a cloud, a tragedy that comes less than three years after Zurich’s finance chief took his own life. Senn, 59, shot himself at his family’s Alpine resort home in Klosters, Swiss newspaper Blick reported. He had quit […]
Stanford Quantifies the Privacy-Stripping Power of Metadata
May 17th, 2016Via: Tech Crunch: More proof, if proof were needed, of the privacy-stripping power of metadata. A multi-year crowdsourced study, conducted by Stanford scientists and published this week, underlines how much information can be inferred from basic phone logs cross-referenced with other public datasets. (Reminder: the former director of the NSA and the CIA, General Michael […]
Pentagon Wants AI to Read Social Media and Draw Up Lists of People for Lethal Autonomous Robots to Kill
May 16th, 2016Via: Medium: “LARs [lethal autonomous robots] have the unique potential to operate at a tempo faster than humans can possibly achieve and to lethally strike even when communications links have been severed. Autonomous targeting technology will likely proliferate to nations and groups around the world. To prevent being surpassed by rivals, the United States should […]
Donald Trump Accuses Ted Cruz’s Father of Associating With Kennedy Assassin
May 3rd, 2016Eh?! Via: New York Times: Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly dabbled in conspiracy theories during his time on the campaign trail, accused Senator Ted Cruz’s father of associating with Lee Harvey Oswald not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Trump’s comments, in a Fox News interview, came in the wake of […]
Deaths of People Related to Flint Water Crisis
April 25th, 2016Flint Water Plant Continues to Reel with Sudden Death of Foreman Via: Mlive: Already reeling from the news of criminal charges against one of its workers in the wake of the Flint water crisis, city workers are now dealing with the sudden death of a foreman at the plant. Water Treatment Plant Foreman Matthew McFarland, […]
Paul Le Roux, International Criminal… Creator of TrueCrypt
March 29th, 2016TrueCrypt is actually just a tiny pimple on the larger story of Paul Le Roux. But if you thought the situation surrounding the genesis of such a program would be weird, you have no idea: “The Mastermind” is a story about a new kind of internet-enabled cartel and its machinations, from murder in the Philippines, […]
