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Walmart Raises Suspicions After Closing 5 Stores In Same Day For “Plumbing” Problems
April 20th, 2015Via: Consumerist: There are thousands of Walmarts in the U.S., so the fact that five of them were temporarily shut down all on the same day, all for the same reason, and all for the same estimated amount of time, may be statistically insignificant. But some workers and city officials are raising questions about what’s […]
Shooting Incident at NSA
March 30th, 2015Update: “Two cross-dressing men…” This one gets a Cryptogon WTF Gold Star. Via: Guardian: Two cross-dressing men who were shot at by National Security Agency police when they disobeyed orders at a heavily guarded gate had just stolen a car from a man who picked them up for a motel “party”, police said Tuesday. One […]
DEA Agents had Cartel-Funded ‘Sex Parties’ in Colombia
March 26th, 2015Via: Fusion: Agents working abroad for the Drug Enforcement Administration allegedly attended and participated in drug cartel-funded “sex parties,” according to a new report released Thursday by the Department of Justice’s inspector general. “We were particularly troubled by multiple allegations involving several DEA special agents participating in ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes while working in an […]
Peak… Sand?
March 26th, 2015Via: Wired: Apart from water and air, humble sand is the natural resource most consumed by human beings. People use more than 40 billion tons of sand and gravel every year. There’s so much demand that riverbeds and beaches around the world are being stripped bare. (Desert sand generally doesn’t work for construction; shaped by […]
Germanwings Crash
March 24th, 2015Officials: Co-Pilot Deliberately Crashed Flight 9525 Via: USA Today: The co-pilot of the Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps deliberately worked to destroy the plane while passengers shrieked in terror and the pilot pounded on the cockpit door, a French prosecutor said at a news conference Thursday in Marseille. “This was voluntary, this […]
Royal Family Member Was Investigated as Part of Paedophile Ring Before Cover-Up, Ex-Cop Says
March 24th, 2015Via: Independent: A member of the Royal family was claimed to be part of a suspected paedophile ring under investigation by police in the late 1980s, a former police officer has said. The former Metropolitan Police officer says he was told by a detective sergeant that the investigation into the ring, which was also claimed […]
Egypt Unveils Plans to Build New Capital East of Cairo [???]
March 14th, 2015Via: BBC: The Egyptian government has announced plans to build a new capital to the east of the present one, Cairo. Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the project would cost $45bn (£30bn) and take five to seven years to complete. He said the aim was to ease congestion and overpopulation in Cairo over the next […]
“CDC Seeks More Clues to Bioterror Lab Accident”
March 10th, 2015Via: USA Today: Federal health investigators are back at the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Louisiana this week seeking the source of the lab accident that has somehow exposed at least seven monkeys to a deadly bioterror bacteria. State officials, meanwhile, are planning to test wildlife and domestic animals in the surrounding area for […]
“Lab Mishap” Infects Macaques with “Potential Bioterror Bacteria”
March 4th, 2015See: Dr. Mary’s Monkey by Edward T. Haslam Via: USA Today: Tests indicate a fifth monkey had been exposed to deadly bacteria that was somehow released from a high-security lab at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near New Orleans, according to an e-mail circulated among federal and state investigators. The monkey, like the others […]
Report of Shots Fired Near NSA Headquarters, Building Damaged
March 3rd, 2015Via: NBC: U.S. Park Police are investigating a report of shots fired near the National Security Agency’s headquarters Tuesday evening. A spokesperson for the police said the NSA is investigating damage to one of its buildings that appeared to be from gunshots.
