Archive for November, 2011
Not The Onion: Catholic Church Sells Pornographic Novels in Germany
November 5th, 2011Via: New Zealand Herald: Germany’s biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels with titles such as Sluts Boarding School and Lawyer’s Whore with the full assent of the country’s leading bishops. The revelations made in the publishing-industry newsletter Buchreport concern Weltbild, a company with […]
Israel: Did Heads of Mossad and Shin Bet Leak Plans for Attack on Iran?
November 4th, 2011Via: Guardian: Israel’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into alleged leaks of plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, it has been reported. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida, the main suspects are the former heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, respectively Israel’s foreign and domestic intelligence agencies. Netanyahu is said to believe […]
“Flaking”: What NYPD Calls Planting Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quotas
November 4th, 2011Via: New York Post: A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas. The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens […]
Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
November 4th, 2011Via: Japan Times / Kyodo: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has […]
SWAT Team Kills Marine Veteran at Home
November 4th, 2011Via: Courthouse News Service: A widow says a regional SWAT team killed her husband, a Marine veteran, in a botched raid not even aimed at him, riddling their house with 72 bullets while she and their 4-year-old son were in it. Vanessa Guerena says police refused to allow paramedics to help her husband, 26-year-old Jose […]
Apple to Require Sandboxing in Mac App Store Apps in March 2012
November 4th, 2011The iOSification of OSX is now fully underway. How long will it be before every executable on the platform requires Apple’s blessing? —Post About Apple OS X Lion Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said […]
Greek PM Scraps Bailout Referendum
November 3rd, 2011Via: MSNBC: Two officials close to the Greek prime minister say he has scrapped his plan to hold a referendum on the latest European debt deal for Greece after the main opposition leader said he would back it. The two officials said George Papandreou made the comments during an emergency Cabinet meeting Thursday. One also […]
Hotel Guests Recruited with Homeland Security TV Spots
November 3rd, 2011Via: USA Today: The Department of Homeland Security is recruiting hotel guests to join the fight against terrorism. Starting today, the welcome screens on 1.2 million hotel television sets in Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Holiday Inn and other hotels in the USA will show a short public service announcement from DHS. The 15-second spot encourages viewers […]
Big Picture Gallery: Thailand Flood Reaches Bangkok
November 3rd, 2011Via: Boston Globe: Flood waters inundating Thailand north of Bangkok since July have made the journey south and reached the capital. The disaster is responsible for 400 deaths in Thailand and neighboring Cambodia and Vietnam. Thailand is the world’s biggest rice exporter, but the floods have wiped out over a quarter of the country’s crop. […]
System D: The Shadow Superpower
November 3rd, 2011Via: Foreign Policy: Forget China: the $10 trillion global black market is the world’s fastest growing economy — and its future. … You probably have never heard of System D. Neither had I until I started visiting street markets and unlicensed bazaars around the globe. System D is a slang phrase pirated from French-speaking Africa […]
