Archive for January, 2011
Car Theft by Antenna
January 9th, 2011Via: MIT Technology Review: Car thieves of the future might be able to get into a car and drive away without forced entry and without needing a physical key, according to new research that will be presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium next month in San Diego, California. The researchers successfully attacked […]
Arizona: U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot in the Head
January 8th, 2011And Now… ‘Dangerous Loners Hard to Catch Before They Act’ Wow. I’m not sure if this incident was purpose built as PSYOP, but it is definitely being used in that manner. Via: AP: The gunman accused of trying to assassinate Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, Jared Lee Loughner, was not on any […]
Decapitated Bodies of 15 Young Men Found in Acapulco
January 8th, 2011Via: BBC: The decapitated bodies of 15 young men have been found in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco. Police said they were discovered near a shopping centre and were all aged between 15 and 25. They were dumped there by drug cartel members fighting over the control of the drugs business in the city. […]
How the U.S. Let al-Qaida Get Its Hands On an Iraqi Weapons Factory
January 8th, 2011This piece makes absolutely perfect sense, as long as you know that al-Qaida is run by CIA, and that one of the main objectives in any U.S. led war is to keep it going for as long as possible. My guess is that this operation was a top to bottom CIA production, maybe using some […]
White House Calls for ‘Trusted’ Internet Identities for Americans
January 8th, 2011At this point, with things as far gone as they are, this hardly should come as a surprise to anyone. Compared to what’s already in place, this hardly rates as sinister. They’re saying that it’s not a national ID card and it’s voluntary, etc. So, here are some guesses as to what voluntary will mean: […]
Recovery: Food Stamps Used by Record 43.2 Million in October
January 8th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 43.2 million in October as the jobless rate stayed near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases jumped 15 percent from a year earlier and increased 0.7 percent from September, the U.S. Department […]
Request for Comments on ‘Recommended Links’: A Plugin Under Development for WordPress
January 8th, 2011WordPress site operators desperately need a social news capability that is tightly integrated with WordPress. Nathaniel, over at Golden Apple Design, created a Reddit clone, in the form of a WordPress plugin called, ‘Recommended Links’ for his own site, enjoylifeunschooling.com (which I recommend in and of itself). Nathaniel is thinking about developing Recommended Links for […]
Ex-CIA Officer Indicted for Revealing that ‘Flawed’ Intelligence Operation May Have Helped Iran Gain Nuclear Technology
January 7th, 2011Via: New York Times: The former officer, Jeffrey Alexander Sterling, who worked at the C.I.A. from 1993 until he was fired in 2002, was arrested Thursday in St. Louis. He was indicted Dec. 22 on charges that he disclosed restricted information to a journalist about a clandestine program intended to impede the progress of unnamed […]
Banks Lose Pivotal Massachusetts Foreclosure Case
January 7th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: US Bancorp and Wells Fargo & Co. lost a foreclosure case in Massachusetts’s highest court that will guide lower courts in that state and may influence others in the clash between bank practices and state real estate law. The ruling drove down bank stocks. The state Supreme Judicial Court today upheld a judge’s […]
Child Porn Probe Leads to FBI Headquarters
January 7th, 2011Via: The Smoking Gun: The government’s pursuit of suspects trafficking in child pornography recently led federal agents to a familiar address–the FBI’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, where a bureau official is the subject of an ongoing criminal probe, The Smoking Gun has learned. The investigation by the Department of Justice’s inspector general is focusing on FBI […]
