Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
President Romney Can Thank Obama for His Permanent Robotic Death List
October 25th, 2012Via: Wired: It’s a good thing that Mitt Romney endorsed President Obama’s counterterrorism agenda. Should he win the election in two weeks, Romney will inherit an institutionalized, bureaucratic machine for using lethal robots to target and kill suspected terrorists and their allies. Killing Osama bin Laden was a one-time event; this “Disposition Matrix” is Barack […]
Lebanon’s Top Intelligence Official Assassinated
October 20th, 2012Via: CNN: Al-Hassan and at least two others died in a massive explosion Friday in the typically peaceful and cosmopolitan Ashrafiyeh district of East Beirut that he called home.
Reverse-Engineered Pacemaker Transmitter Enables ‘Anonymous Assassination’
October 18th, 2012Via: SC Magazine: IOActive researcher Barnaby Jack has reverse-engineered a pacemaker transmitter to make it possible to deliver deadly electric shocks to pacemakers within 30 feet and rewrite their firmware. The effect of the wireless attacks could not be overstated — in a speech at the BreakPoint security conference in Melbourne today, Jack said such […]
Belgium: Exxon-Mobil Manager Shot Dead
October 16th, 2012BBC, Finally: British Oil Executive Shot Dead in Belgium Reader A noticed this. Via: BBC: A senior British oil executive has been shot dead in a suburb of the Belgian capital Brussels, it has emerged. Father-of-three Nicholas Mockford, 60, who worked for Exxon Mobil, was attacked as he left a restaurant with his wife nearly […]
Robert McKeon
September 29th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Robert McKeon, the founder of private-equity firm Veritas Capital and a former chairman of Wasserstein Perella Management Partners, died Sept. 10 at his home in Darien, Connecticut. The cause of death was suicide, according to the office of Connecticut’s chief medical examiner. Darien police in an e-mail confirmed McKeon’s death and said the […]
Virginia: Family Killed, Husband and Wife Both Had Direct Links to Black World Contractors
September 28th, 2012Update: ‘He said he wanted to expose something at work’ Where did Albert Peterson work after he left Northrop Grumman? Update/Answer: BAE Cryptogon reader Alma Verdad found his Linkedin page which indicates that he was a, “Senior Subcontracts Administrator at BAE Systems Information Technology.” Via: Daily Mail: Mr Peterson, also mentioned pressures at work that […]
Honduras: Human Rights Lawyer Murdered, Had Helped Prepare Motions Declaring Proposed Private Cities Unconstitutional
September 27th, 2012Via: AP: A prominent Honduran human rights lawyer gunned down after a weekend wedding had long complained about death threats, including in documents filed last year seeking protection from a powerful billionaire landowner. Antonio Trejo Cabrera, 41, who died early Sunday after being ambushed by gunmen, was a lawyer for three peasant cooperatives in the […]
Living Under Drones
September 26th, 2012Via: Guardian: The CIA’s programme of “targeted” drone killings in Pakistan’s tribal heartlands is politically counterproductive, kills large numbers of civilians and undermines respect for international law, according to a report by US academics. More: Living Under Drones
Offshore Wind Energy Could Power Entire U.S. East Coast
September 15th, 2012Most JFK assassination literature doesn’t mention the Passamaquoddy tidal power project: Each day, over a million kilowatts of power surge in and out of the Passamaquoddy Bay. Man needs only to exercise his engineering ingenuity to convert the ocean’s surge into a great national asset. That’s JFK from July 16th, 1963, four months before the […]
U.S. State Department Had 48 Hours Notice That Attacks Were Coming
September 14th, 2012I have absolutely no idea what this thing is about. Via: Independent: The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal. American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been […]
