Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Violent Criminal on Federal Payroll as Informant
May 14th, 2012Via: Seattle Times: Despite a history of abusing women and violent behavior in prison, Joshua Allan Jackson managed to become a federal informant, trigger a citywide Seattle police alert and hold a 18-year-old woman as his sexual prisoner. … For all of this, the 34-year-old Jackson would be just another habitual criminal except for one […]
California: Large Search for FBI Agent Who Worked in ‘National Security Affairs’
May 13th, 2012Update: Body of Missing FBI Agent Found in Burbank Obviously, temperature and humidity will affect this, but if the hikers smelled the corpse, what does that say about when Ivens died? Via: KABC: The body of missing FBI agent Stephen Ivens has been found in a wooded area in Burbank, police confirmed on Tuesday. Authorities […]
British Military to Have Sonic Weapon at Olympics
May 13th, 2012Via: Reuters: Britain’s military will be armed with a sonic device that can be used as a high-volume loudspeaker or a non-lethal weapon to disperse crowds at this summer’s Olympic Games in London, the defence ministry said on Friday. The equipment, which can project a piercing sound over hundreds of metres causing physical pain, has […]
Texas Legislature: Video of Vote Fraud
May 13th, 2012Via: KEYE Austin Repost on YouTube:
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam
May 13th, 2012Via: Wired: The U.S. military taught its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists, according to documents obtained by Danger Room. Among the options considered for that conflict: using the lessons of “Hiroshima” to wipe out whole cities at once, targeting […]
Chinese Physicists Teleport Photons Over 100 Kilometers
May 12th, 2012Via: MIT Technology Review: So these guys clearly have their eye on the possibility of satellite-based quantum cryptography which would provide ultra secure communications around the world. That’s in stark contrast to the few kilometres that are possible with commercial quantum cryptography gear. Of course, data rates are likely to be slow and the rapidly […]
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
May 11th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill. Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in […]
Spy School Teaches the Basics of Intelligence Gathering to Kids, Teens
May 11th, 2012Lesson #1: Try not to crash jets with tons of cocaine on board. Mmmkay? Via: Tampa Bay Online: Spy School — a Tampa Bay History Center program specially designed for teens — will instruct youngsters about surveillance, information gathering and disguise. Agents and experts will teach children ages 12 to 18, offering tips on how […]
Microsoft Bans Firefox on ARM-Based Windows
May 10th, 2012Via: Cnet: Raising the specter of last-generation browser battles, Mozilla launches a publicity campaign to seek a place for browsers besides IE on Windows devices using ARM chips. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Microsoft muscles aside other browsers and cements the dominance of Internet Explorer. The browser market, deprived of competition, stagnates. […]
Military Training in the Middle of Miami Jolts Residents Out of Bed
May 10th, 2012Via: Miami Herald: No, there was no smell of napalm in the morning. But there was the thunderous whump whump of low-flying helicopters, and even the jarring blast of explosions at the abandoned Grand Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove early Tuesday during a military training exercise that jolted many unsuspecting residents from their beds. … […]
