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Homeland Security Using Private Contractor Vans to Transport and Release Illegal Aliens Inside the U.S.
June 4th, 2016This gets a Florida tick because G4S has its U.S. headquarters in Jupiter. Via: Judicial Watch: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents, Border Patrol sources tell Judicial Watch. The government classifies them as […]
Former Zurich Insurance Boss Martin Senn Kills Himself
May 30th, 2016Via: Reuters: Former Zurich Insurance boss Martin Senn has committed suicide six months after leaving the company under a cloud, a tragedy that comes less than three years after Zurich’s finance chief took his own life. Senn, 59, shot himself at his family’s Alpine resort home in Klosters, Swiss newspaper Blick reported. He had quit […]
‘If you have pigs with partly human brains…’
May 18th, 2016Am I reading the news, or the new D&D Monster Manual? — Also, as my sons reminded me: Minecraft Zombie Pigman: Via: NPR: “If you have pigs with partly human brains you would have animals that might actually have consciousness like a human,” Newman says. “It might have human-type needs. We don’t really know.” That […]
Visitor Logs Show Google’s Unrivaled White House Access
May 18th, 2016Via: watchdog.org: A project examining White House visitor logs shows the Obama administration has extended an open door to Google. Johanna Shelton, Google’s director of public policy — in effect, the company’s top lobbyist — has visited White House officials 128 times since President Barack Obama took office in 2009. To put that in perspective, […]
Britain: “Training” Bomb Left at Stadium
May 16th, 2016Via: BBC: An “urgent” inquiry has been demanded after a dummy bomb used in a security exercise caused a Premier League match at Old Trafford to be postponed. The game between Manchester United and Bournemouth was called off after the item was discovered close to kick-off. A controlled explosion was carried out on the device, […]
Britain: Google Given Access to Healthcare Data of Up to 1.6 Million Patients
May 4th, 2016Via: Guardian: A company owned by Google has been given access to the healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients from three hospitals run by a major London NHS trust. DeepMind, the tech giant’s London-based company most famous for its innovative use of artificial intelligence, is being provided with the patient information as part […]
Charlie Keating IV, Grandson of Notorious Banker, Identified as Navy SEAL Killed by ISIS
May 4th, 2016Really? Via: NBC: The U.S. Navy SEAL killed by direct fire during an ISIS-led siege in Iraq was identified Tuesday as Charlie Keating IV, a Phoenix high school graduate — and grandson of the banker who came to symbolize America’s savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. “Our state and nation are in mourning today […]
Donald Trump Accuses Ted Cruz’s Father of Associating With Kennedy Assassin
May 3rd, 2016Eh?! Via: New York Times: Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly dabbled in conspiracy theories during his time on the campaign trail, accused Senator Ted Cruz’s father of associating with Lee Harvey Oswald not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Trump’s comments, in a Fox News interview, came in the wake of […]
SpaceX Undercut ULA Rocket Launch Pricing by 40 Percent
April 28th, 2016In other words, the Air Force can show they’re saving money *wink*, while funneling billions of dollars for black world R&D to the usual suspects via some other mechanism. Via: Reuters: The U.S. Air Force will save 40 percent by buying a GPS satellite launch from Elon Musk’s SpaceX compared with what United Launch Alliance […]
Foreign ‘Dirty Bomb’ Responders Will Start Training in Nevada
April 25th, 2016Via: Las Vegas Review Journal: In today’s world it could be called the University for Dirty Bomb Studies. Founded in 1998, it was a niche at what was then the Nevada Test Site for emergency responders to learn how to deal with disasters caused by weapons of mass destruction. Since then, about 180,000 firefighters, police […]
