Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Pat Tillman’s Father To Army Investigator: ‘Fuck You… And Yours’
August 13th, 2010Via: Huffington Post: “You are a General,” Tillman’s father writes Jones after being presented with a briefing book of his findings. “There is no way a man like you, with your intelligence, education, military, experience, responsibilities (primarily for difficult situations), and rank… believes the conclusions reached in the March 31, 2005 Briefing Book. But your […]
Plane Carrying Former Senator Ted Stevens Crashes in Alaska
August 10th, 2010Update: Ted Stevens Killed In Plane Crash Via: CBS News: Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in U.S. history who lost his seat after a corruption conviction that was later dismissed, was killed Tuesday in a small plane crash in Alaska. He was 86. A family friend said Stevens was among five people killed in […]
Matt Simmons Dead “Of An Apparent Heart Attack”
August 9th, 2010Update: Reader Email F writes: You probably want to avoid wild speculation but do you have any possible insights into this, assuming it’s not “natural causes” or an accident? All along, I never really knew what to make of Matt Simmons. I didn’t post the Bloomberg video below because (no offense intended to family and […]
Mexico: Prison Official Sent Inmates to Conduct Birthday Party Massacre
July 27th, 2010Via: Christian Science Monitor: A prison director is suspected of arming inmates and sending them on the July 18 Mexico birthday party massacre that killed 17. To some, Mexico’s drug war seems ‘the script of a science fiction movie.’ When gunmen burst into a private birthday party on July 18 and opened fired on guests, […]
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 […]
