Archive for March, 2011
Ex-FBI Informant, Claimed to Have Met Mohamed Atta, Involved in Police Shooting and Chase
March 5th, 2011Via: El Paso Times: The man who allegedly tried to run down an El Paso police officer on Thursday reportedly infiltrated terror cells for the FBI and had claimed on a national television interview that the 9/11 terror attacks could have been prevented. Elie Assaad, 38, was arrested near the University of Texas at El […]
Homeland Security Looked Into Covert Body Scans
March 5th, 2011Via: USA Today: The Homeland Security Department paid contractors millions of dollars to develop and study surveillance systems that could covertly track pedestrians and check under people’s clothing with airport-style body scanners as they enter train stations, bus depots or major events, newly released documents show. Two contracts the department signed in 2005 and 2006 […]
With a Heavy Heart… The Dervaes Family’s Apparent Descent Into Madness
March 5th, 2011Path to Freedom inspired me to change my life. Early last decade, it was a candle in a dark room for me, so to speak. I can’t make similar statements about too many other things. Over the years, I’ve read their sites, sent them traffic with links from my sites, made several cash contributions to […]
50 Billion Planets Just in Milky Way Galaxy
March 5th, 2011Via: Space.com: Our galaxy could be home to a whopping 50 billion planets, say scientists working on NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope. While Kepler hasn’t found nearly that many planets — to date it’s counted 1,235 candidate planets — that cosmic tally is researchers’ best guess, extrapolated from preliminary data. The Kepler spacecraft, which launched in […]
$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget
March 4th, 2011Via: Alternet: If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year. … A country with a gross domestic product of $1.2 trillion would have the 15th largest economy in the world, ranking between Canada and Indonesia, […]
Strange NRO Mission Patches
March 4th, 2011I’ve seen a lot of weird military patches, but I think that this one might take the cake. It’s related to the NRO satellite that was launched back in January, USA-224, also known as NRO Launch 49 (NRO L-49). The Latin means something like, “First Heavy from the West,” or “First Heavy from the Sunset.” […]
Orange County: Pack of Snarling Imbeciles Released from Their Kennels, Given American Flags
March 4th, 2011To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one […]
Computer Expert Says U.S. and Israel Behind Stuxnet Worm
March 4th, 2011For your news-not-news file folder. Via: AFP: A German computer security expert said Thursday he believes the United States and Israel’s Mossad unleashed the malicious Stuxnet worm on Iran’s nuclear program. “My opinion is that the Mossad is involved,” Ralph Langner said while discussing his in-depth Stuxnet analysis at a prestigious TED conference in the […]
Is Apple Going to Turn Mac OS Into a Tamperproof Vending Machine?
March 4th, 2011Via: Engadget: Apple’s not saying that it beats other tablets on the market. It’s saying “we do one thing, and these guys do something else altogether.” They’re not competition — they’re not even playing the same game! That’s not to say Apple has given up on PCs, and in fact, the company’s laptop sales are […]
ATF Let Hundreds of U.S. Weapons Fall into Hands of Suspected Mexican Gunrunners
March 4th, 2011Keep in mind, there just happens to be a whistleblower in this particular case. Via: Center for Public Integrity: Hoping to score a major prosecution of Mexican drug lords, federal prosecutors and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives permitted hundreds of guns to be purchased and retained by suspected straw buyers with the […]
