Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Doctors Will Launch Court Fight if Dr. David Kelly Inquest Demand Turned Down
June 7th, 2011Apologies for the Daily Mail link. Via: Daily Mail: A group of doctors is preparing to mount a legal challenge if the Attorney General this week refuses an inquest into the death of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly. Dominic Grieve, who has spent nine months considering the case for a new inquiry, is expected to […]
Nickname for CIA’s Bin Laden Team: ‘The Manson Family’
June 3rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: Terrorist hunter Michael Scheuer tells Duncan Gardham and Iain Hollingshead how he was repeatedly ordered not to stop the al-Qaeda chief. There are not many sane people who can say with confidence that, had a president of America only listened to them, they could have saved $1.3 trillion and many hundreds of thousands […]
‘A Trader, an F.B.I. Witness, and Then a Suicide’
June 3rd, 2011Suuuuure. Via: New York Times: In a Manhattan courtroom last week, federal prosecutors played for a jury a secretly recorded telephone conversation between two Wall Street traders exchanging stock tips. Two days later, one of those traders, Ephraim G. Karpel, hanged himself in his Fifth Avenue office, according to a law enforcement official. Mr. Karpel […]
Amazon Rainforest Activist, and His Wife, Shot Dead
May 26th, 2011Via: Guardian: Six months after predicting his own murder, a leading rainforest defender has reportedly been gunned down in the Brazilian Amazon. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo, are said to have been killed in an ambush near their home in Nova Ipixuna, in Pará state, about 37 miles […]
The Death of Catherine Hurd in Manhattan
May 23rd, 2011Via: Telegraph: Lord Hurd’s daughter-in-law has been found dead after apparently committing suicide by jumping from the roof of her home in New York. Catherine Hurd, a mother of five, fell the four storeys from the top of the rented townhouse in Manhattan where she lived with the former foreign secretary’s son Thomas, a British […]
Russia: Putin to Run for President Again
May 23rd, 2011Ah, yes, Democracy in action! *wink* Will we get to see more absurd Putin propaganda? Missing from that gallery are some of my favorites: Vladimir Putin Helps to Tackle Russia’s Summer Wildfires, and: Via: The Australian: RUSSIAN Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has decided to run for the presidency next year, raising the possibility of a […]
Muammar Gaddafi’s Son, Grandsons Killed in NATO Assassination Attempt
May 1st, 2011Via: Guardian: A Nato air strike in Tripoli has killed the youngest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan government spokesman has said. Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, 29, was killed along with three of Muammar Gaddafi’s grandsons, according to reports. The Libyan leader was in the building at the time of the strike, but was […]
U.S. Air Force Wants Miniature Drone to Covertly Drop Tracking Dust Onto People
April 28th, 2011Via: Wired: Here’s how the U.S. Air Force wants to hunt the next generation of its enemies: A tiny drone sneaks up to a suspect, paints him with an unnoticed powder or goo that allows American forces to follow him everywhere he goes — until they train a missile on him. On Tuesday, the Air […]
JFK Directives Regarding Sensitive UFO Information Ten Days Before Assassination
April 19th, 2011Even as complex as the JFK assassination milieu is, over about 25 years of personal interest and investigation into the event, I never thought it would go there. Click through for the source documents. Via: AOL News: Do you like a good UFO detective story? Well, here’s one for you. And it’s ongoing, so we […]
A Murder Foretold
April 1st, 2011Via: The New Yorker: Rodrigo Rosenberg knew that he was about to die. It wasn’t because he was approaching old age—he was only forty-eight. Nor had he been diagnosed with a fatal illness; an avid bike rider, he was in perfect health. Rather, Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, was certain that he […]
