Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Cardinal Dies One Day After Judge Said He Could Be Called to Testify in Child Sex-Abuse and Endangerment Trial of Three Current and Former Priests
February 11th, 2012Via: Philadelphia Enquirer: Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman asked the county coroner to examine the body of Cardinal Anthony J. Bevilacqua last week because the timing of the 88-year-old prelate’s death struck her as “peculiar,” she said Friday. Ferman acknowledged that she enlisted county Coroner Walter I. Hofman because the cardinal died one […]
Federal Prosecutor to Take 5th Amendment in Fast and Furious Probe
January 20th, 2012Via: Politico: A senior federal prosecutor in Arizona intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than testify before a House committee next week looking into the Justice Department’s handling of the Fast and Furious gunrunning investigation, the prosecutor’s attorney told Congress in a letter on Thursday. On Wednesday, House Government Reform and Oversight Committee […]
Genetics Researcher Killed in Texas
January 20th, 2012Flag for those maintaining lists of dead scientists. Via: ABC News: A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home. … Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, was driving through her Houston townhouse complex around midnight on Monday when she was shot […]
Andrea Rossi Claims E-Cat Prototypes Submitted for UL Approval
January 19th, 2012Many of you are interested in Andrea Rossi and the E-cat technology. You’re submitting several stories and wondering what I think about all of this. Here’s what I think: I put about equal odds on one of these three outcomes: 1. Andrea Rossi is the real deal and I’ll soon be able to buy an […]
Iran Car Explosion Kills Nuclear Scientist in Tehran
January 11th, 2012Via: BBC: A university lecturer and nuclear scientist has been killed in a car explosion in north Tehran, reports say. Iranian media sources named the casualty as Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, an academic who also worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility. The blast happened after a motorcyclist stuck an apparent bomb to the car, said Iran’s […]
Polish Prosecutor Shoots Himself After News Conference
January 9th, 2012[???] Update: Comments from Przybyl Via: Reuters: Speaking to state news agency PAP from his hospital bed on Tuesday, Przybyl said he had wanted to protect the honour and the future of military prosecutors. He said he had faced many threats related to past investigations aimed at intimidating him, and was finally driven to attempt […]
Civilian Contractors in the Kill Chain
January 1st, 2012The absurdity is reaching Strangelovian proportions: “Our No. 1 manning problem in the Air Force is manning our unmanned platforms,” said Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, Air Force vice chief of staff. Via: Los Angeles Times: After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised […]
The History of MIT’s Blatant Suppression of Cold Fusion
December 30th, 2011Every citizen who is concerned about the future of clean energy generation and the future of our environment should read this report. Every MIT student, every MIT graduate, and every financial contributor to MIT should read it. Judge for yourself where the facts lead. —Dr. Eugene F. Mallove, MIT and Cold Fusion: A Special Report […]
Russia: Founder of Newspaper That Investigated Government Corruption Shot Dead
December 16th, 2011Via: Guardian: The founder of a newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead outside the newspaper’s office in Russia’s North Caucasus region, police say. A gunman shot Gadzhimurat Kamalov as he was leaving the offices of the newspaper Chernovik in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan province, shortly before midnight on Thursday, the regional […]
Deutsche Bank CEO Target of Suspected Letter Bomb
December 8th, 2011I don’t know how, or even if, this fits in at all, but remember this little tidbit from my 2006 piece about the Wall Street Chop Shop: I handled some issues for the secondary marketing department, even, would you believe, for the person who pulled the trigger on these paper dumps at the end of […]
