Archive for the 'Assassination' Category
Guatemala to Expose Army Torture Files
February 26th, 2008Somehow, the Reuters article below doesn’t mention the CIA even once… As usual, the reader needs to look elsewhere for the basic, contextual facts: Jennifer K. Harbury Knows American Torture Starts at the Top, and It Has for Decades: …my husband had indeed been captured alive, had been held for two and a half years […]
New Evidence Challenges Official Story of RFK Shooting
February 25th, 2008Via: Guardian: The official record states that senator Robert F Kennedy, like his brother before him, was killed by a crazed lone gunman. But the assassination of a man who seemed to embody so much hope for a bitterly divided country embroiled in an unpopular war still troubles this nation. Little about the official explanation […]
Austrian UN Employee Dies in Fall from 19th Floor
February 18th, 2008Via: New York Daily News: A 44-year-old Austrian woman who worked for the United Nations plunged from the 19th floor of the iconic Secretariat building Sunday in an apparent suicide leap, police said. Maria DiBiase, who worked with the Austrian Consulate, was discovered in the complex’s rear courtyard by horrified UN staffers about 8 a.m., […]
Dead Georgian Billionaire
February 14th, 2008Any guesses about what’s really going on here? I have absolutely no idea. For example, what is the nature of the relationship between mobsters from the former Soviet Union and British elites? Via: Times Online: He feared death would come through a sabotaged flight or a bloodbath of his bodyguards but it was in a […]
Disgraced and Vilified, Indonesia’s Ex-Dictator Suharto Dies Aged 86
January 28th, 2008I’m surprised Suharto’s likeness hasn’t already been added to Mt. Rushmore. Via: The Canadian Free Press: Former Indonesian president Suharto, a Cold War ally of the United States whose brutal military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing political opponents, died Sunday. He was 86. Although he oversaw some of the worst bloodshed of the […]
Reader Email: Did My Gold Analysis Spot Informed Buying Before Bhutto Assassination?
December 30th, 2007JJ writes: I was stunned to see the news that Benazir Bhutto was killed within hours of your recent analysis on gold. As you said, gold did in fact rise further in the aftermath of that tragic event. You wrote, “I find it interesting that some players see the need to take long positions right […]
Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
December 27th, 2007UPDATE #7: U.S. Special Forces Standing By to “Seize or Disable” Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Via: The Herald: US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. The troops, […]
Possible Assassination of Alternative Energy Researcher
December 6th, 2007Via: PESN: On Nov. 11, inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy technology, M. DeGeus was found slumped in his car, totally unresponsive, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte Douglass International Airport in North Carolina. He was taken to the hospital and died a short time later. The autopsy suggested heart failure, so […]
Facing Jail, Banker Leaps to Death
November 4th, 2007What is it about Colorado and big time swindlers who don’t seem to be able to live long enough to show up to court for sentencing? Remember Kenny Boy: Kenneth Lay, the founder of Enron Corp. who ascended to the pinnacle of American business only to tumble into disgrace, died of a heart attack on […]
NYC’s ‘Realtor to the Stars’ Found Murdered
November 1st, 2007Fuggetaboutit. Via: CBS News: CBS 2 News has learned that Linda Stein, the former manager of the Ramones and “realtor to the stars,” was found dead, lying in a pool of blood in her multi-million-dollar Fifth Ave. apartment on Manhattans’ Upper East Side. Police confirm she suffered blunt impact trauma to the head and neck. […]
