Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
CFTC Whistleblower Injured in London Hit-and-Run
March 28th, 2010Via: GATA: London metals trader Andrew Maguire, who warned an investigator for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in advance about a gold and silver market manipulation to be undertaken by traders for JPMorgan Chase in February and whose whistleblowing was publicized by GATA at Thursday’s CFTC hearing on metals futures trading — http://www.gata.org/node/8466 — […]
March 23: This Day in History
March 24th, 2010Here’s an interesting coincidence: March 23, 1933: Germany: The Enabling Act Via: Wikipedia: The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was passed by Germany’s Reichstag and signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step, after the Reichstag Fire Decree, through which Chancellor Adolf Hitler legally obtained plenary powers and […]
Guns in Two Mass Shootings Came from Memphis Police and Court System
March 14th, 2010Via: AP: Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both guns were once seized in criminal cases in Memphis. The officials described how […]
John Patrick Bedell: Welcome to the Conspiracy Theorist Lone Nut Era
March 5th, 2010Update: Guns in Two Mass Shootings Came from Memphis Police and Court System Via: AP: Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn. Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both […]
Britain: Manchester’s Central Library Moving Many Books to Deep Underground Salt Mines
February 26th, 2010Is the seed vault full? Via: Manchester Evening News: ONE million books from Manchester’s Central Library – including valuable volumes dating back to the 15th century – are to be put into temporarily storage with many going deep underground in the Cheshire salt mines. Works from the city’s reference library will be stored in the […]
Bloom Energy Fuel Cell
February 23rd, 2010Who’s on Bloom Energy’s board? Colin Powell. Via: CBS: Watch CBS News Videos Online In the world of energy, the Holy Grail is a power source that’s inexpensive and clean, with no emissions. Well over 100 start-ups in Silicon Valley are working on it, and one of them, Bloom Energy, is about to make public […]
FBI Closes Anthrax Case, Gives More Details About Scientist Labeled a Killer
February 20th, 2010This case had always ended with a question mark. Now, add a couple of exclamation points. Via: Seattle Times: More than eight years after anthrax-laced letters killed five people and terrorized the country, the FBI on Friday closed its investigation, adding new details to its case that the 2001 attacks had been carried out by […]
U.S. CITIZEN CRASHES PLANE INTO BUILDING IN APPARENT SUICIDE ATTACK ON IRS
February 18th, 2010UPDATE: Original Tenant of Building Allegedly Attacked by Joe Stack was Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation just happened to be Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Director […]
Three Tesla Motors Employees Killed in Plane Crash
February 18th, 2010Update: Tesla Plane-Crash Victims Identified Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Musk said the victims were plane owner and pilot Doug Bourn, 56, a senior electrical engineer from Santa Clara; Brian Finn, a 42-year-old senior interactive electronics manager from East Palo Alto; and electrical engineer Andrew Ingram, who lived in Palo Alto and turned 31 on Monday. […]
Flashback 2002: Bush Given Plans for Worldwide War Against Al-Qaida Two Days Before 9/11
February 14th, 2010Via: MSNBC: President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. The document, a formal National Security Presidential Directive, amounted to a “game […]
