Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
A Clock That Can Run for 10,000 Years Is Being Built Inside a Mountain Owned by Jeff Bezos
August 17th, 2011I’ll note a few bullet points about this 10,000 year clock project that stood out for me. This is not an exhaustive list and I’m sure that people who know more about these topics will uncover other interesting features. First, does anybody know about rituals that involve time and a participant wearing a blue hooded […]
‘More Than 20 Navy SEALS From the Unit that Killed Osama bin Laden’ Die in Helicopter Crash
August 6th, 2011Via: MSNBC: A NATO helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Saturday killing 31 U.S. special-forces troops, including more than 20 Navy SEALS from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, and 7 Afghan commandos. It was the deadliest single combat incident for American troops in 10 years of war, according to an American official. The operators […]
Naser Jason Abdo
July 29th, 2011Via: ABC News: A U.S. serviceman is in custody after he allegedly admitted he was planning an attack on his fellow servicemen at the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas, the same base where 13 people were killed in a 2009 terror attack. U.S. officials told ABC News an AWOL soldier, identified by the […]
Israeli Killed in Christchurch Earthquake Was Carrying Five Passports
July 20th, 2011American and British Intelligence Agencies Have Offices in Auckland? Via: Dominion Post: Thomas also said American and British intelligence agencies the CIA and MI6 had offices based in Auckland and held high-level meetings with New Zealand spy bosses in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. The agencies wanted to know what had sparked a Secret […]
News of the World Phone-Hacking Whistleblower Found Dead
July 18th, 2011Via: Guardian: Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned. Hoare, who worked on the Sun and the News of the World with Coulson before being dismissed […]
Billionaire’s Son and Girlfriend Die Within Days of Each Other; Girlfriend’s Bound and Naked Body Found Hanging from Mansion’s Balcony
July 18th, 2011Update: Death of Rebecca Zahau Officially Declared a Suicide Via: Los Angeles Times: Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of pharmaceutical executive Jonah Shacknai who committed suicide at his Coronado mansion, was distraught over injuries his son suffered in her care and that is apparently why she decided to hang herself, authorities said Friday. Zahau’s nude body […]
Native Americans Now Living in Deadly FEMA Trailers; Thousands Already Distributed, More Requested
July 7th, 2011Via: Seattle Times / AP: Wanda Tiger and her husband needed a new home after a long-term house-sitting arrangement came to an end. But for members of their American Indian tribe in rural Oklahoma, affordable housing options were few. Then tribal leaders learned of an impossibly attractive offer: Mobile homes that had never been occupied […]
Mysterious Deaths of Two Staten Island Marines
July 4th, 2011Via: SI Live: New Brighton natives Duane Robert Liburd Jr. and Hamson R. Daniels McPherson never knew each other. But the two young men wound up in the same place a half-world away — as U.S. Marines stationed on the Japanese island of Okinawa. And in a tragic coincidence, Liburd, 22, and Daniels McPherson, 21, […]
$6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq
June 15th, 2011I don’t know how many times I’ve posted this one, but CNN has just aired a new piece about it, and, yep, the cash is still missing. Maybe it went to the same place as the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001. Via: CNN:
Blackwater Hires Former AIG Regulatory Compliance Chief
June 13th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Via: Wired: Nothing says, “We’re through with scandal!” quite like hiring a former executive from one of the country’s leading economic bloodsuckers. Blackwater — sorry, Xe Services — really wants to turn the PR page from the bad old days of Nisour Square, when the infamous private […]
