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Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home
April 6th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home yesterday after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said. “The bodies of a father and mother and their daughter were found at the property” in the town of Laren, 32 […]
Du Pont Family Heir Convicted of Raping Daughter Sentenced to… (Wait for It) Probation – Also Accused of Abusing Son
April 1st, 2014Is the judge in on it? Compromised in some way? From The News Journal: A Superior Court judge who sentenced a wealthy du Pont heir to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter noted in her order that he “will not fare well” in prison and needed treatment instead of time behind bars, court records show. […]
Attempt to Deposit Fake Bonds in Vatican Bank
March 31st, 2014Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Vatican police have apprehended a US man and a Dutch man trying to deposit billions of euros and US dollars in fake bonds in the Vatican bank. The men were stopped by the police when they approached one of the guarded gates at the Vatican and asked to be let through […]
1 in 68 U.S. Children Has Autism
March 28th, 2014Via: CNN: One in 68 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a 30% increase from 1 in 88 two years ago, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This newest estimate is based on the CDC’s evaluation of health and educational records of all 8-year-old […]
Sinkhole of Bureaucracy
March 24th, 2014Via: Washington Post: The trucks full of paperwork come every day, turning off a country road north of Pittsburgh and descending through a gateway into the earth. Underground, they stop at a metal door decorated with an American flag. Behind the door, a room opens up as big as a supermarket, full of five-drawer file […]
Malaysia Airlines Pilot Filmed Being Trained in Boeing 777-200 a Month Before Flight Disappeared
March 18th, 2014This is definitely Coincidence Gold. Via: New York Post: A month before he was a co-pilot in a bizarre plane disappearance, Malaysia Airlines pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid was happy to finally be getting his chance to fly a Boeing 777-200. CNN aviation expert Richard Quest had coincidentally filmed a training session for the 27-year-old co-pilot […]
Could MH370 Have Been ‘Swapped’ Mid-Air?
March 18th, 2014Via: Yahoo!7 News: Could the aircraft have been ‘swapped’ mid-air? Generally air traffic radars use something called a “Squawk” code – this is 4 digits, say ‘1234’ – that is then used to transmit information to the ground radar of the aircraft’s position and other relevant detail. This is very easily disabled – it is […]
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Flew for About Four Hours Past Last Confirmed Location
March 13th, 2014Update: Plane’s Communications System Was Pinging Inmarsat Satellite So both the engines and communications systems were pinging two different companies’ satellites. Via: New York Times: David Coiley, a vice president of Inmarsat, a British satellite telecommunications provider, said the missing plane had been equipped with an Inmarsat signaling system that sends out a “keep-alive message” […]
Department of Homeland Security Conducting Drug Raids?
March 12th, 2014Via: Gothamist: A number of East Williamsburg and Bushwick residents were surprised by a combined federal and NYPD raid on Devoe Street early Sunday morning. Some were disturbed by a loud, low-flying helicopter, while others were simply stopped from going home because the street was blocked off. Witnesses spotted a big Department of Homeland Security […]
New H5N8 Avian Influenza Penetrated Biosecurity Defenses at Korea’s Premier Poultry Research Center
March 5th, 2014Via: Science: A new, deadly H5N8 strain of avian influenza penetrated the biosecurity defenses of a National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) campus near Seoul, prompting authorities to cull all of the facility’s 11,000 hens and 5000 ducks. The devastating loss could set back poultry experiments at the NIAS lab for 2 years. “It will […]
