Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Marine at Heart of Camp Pendleton Stolen Files Case Dies
July 22nd, 2010Via: AP: A Marine Corps colonel accused of leaking classified information to an anti-terrorism unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has died. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department says Larry J. Richards was suffering brain, kidney and liver problems when he died Saturday at his home in Lake Arrowhead. He was 52. Richards […]
Houston Oil Executive a Possible Target in Bombing
July 12th, 2010Via: RawStory: A seemingly anonymous gift left on the front porch of a Houston home owned by an oil company executive has the city’s affluent population of oil profiteers on edge this weekend, after that package exploded and seriously injured a 62-year-old woman. Neighbors of the victim told an ABC News affiliate in Houston that […]
Hundreds of Federal Agents Fall Victim to Ponzi Scheme
July 11th, 2010Via: AOL News: FBI agents are supposed to unearth scams, not become victims of them. This time is different. Some 300 retired and current federal agents — representing the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — collectively invested tens of millions of dollars of retirement money in what turned out to […]
Relief Payments Get Slashed if Fishermen Refuse to Work for BP
July 8th, 2010That’s life in a company town. Via: Raw Story: Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong. According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how […]
“Kill TV” in the “Death Star”
June 26th, 2010Via: New Zealand Herald: They called it the “Death Star” because according to one source who worked inside it, “you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate” somebody. On the walls were television screens, known by the special forces boys as “Kill TV”, where footage from image-intensifier cameras of the enemy being blown […]
The Runaway General
June 26th, 2010This is a decent article, but I’m not sure what to take away from it. I was reading the article mainly to see what all the fuss was about; the dramatic summoning of McChrystal to the White House, the resignation, the media obsessed with talk of insubordination, etc. The comments that were critical of the […]
American Man On Mission to Hunt Down Osama Bin Laden Arrested in Northern Pakistan
June 16th, 2010I couldn’t help thinking about Jake and Elwood as I read through this one. Via: BBC: An American man who claimed to be on a mission to hunt down Osama Bin Laden has been arrested in northern Pakistan, police say. They said that Gary Brooks Faulkner, 52, was detained in the mountains of Chitral district […]
Body in Ottawa River Is Likely Missing Nuclear Scientist
June 16th, 2010Via: CBC: The body pulled from the Ottawa River last week is almost certain to be that of the Chalk River scientist who went missing in January, according to a friend of the scientist. Lachlan Cranswick, 41, vanished five months ago in a case that confounded police and the community and yielded few clues to […]
Israel’s Leader Capital Markets CEO “Commits Suicide”
June 14th, 2010Via: Reuters: The chief executive of Leader Capital Markets, one of Israel’s top investment banks, has committed suicide, a company spokeswoman said on Sunday. Danny Barak, 48, jumped from his office on the 17th floor of one of Tel Aviv’s most prominent office towers on Friday, the spokeswoman said. Barak, who is survived by his […]
Daniel Ellsberg: WikiLeaks Founder’s Life Is In Danger
June 12th, 2010All states use their embassies and consulates to run intelligence operations. The U.S. Government is likely concerned that some of these activities, that are happening under official cover, could be compromised. Public exposure would represent a gigantic pain in the ass for the U.S. because of the Kabuki theater act that’s mandated to follow such […]
