Archive for February, 2012
Animal Rights Group Says Drone Shot Down
February 18th, 2012Via: The Times and Democrat: A remote-controlled aircraft owned by an animal rights group was reportedly shot down near Broxton Bridge Plantation Sunday. Steve Hindi, president of SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness), said his group was preparing to launch its Mikrokopter drone to video what he called a live pigeon shoot on Sunday when […]
Man Lives In Well Stocked But Unoccupied Cabins in Utah, Eats Food, Steals Guns, Camping Equipment
February 17th, 2012Via: AP: He’s eluded authorities for more than five years, a mountain man who roams the wilderness of southern Utah, breaking into remote cabins in winter, living in luxury off hot food, alcohol and coffee before stealing provisions and vanishing into the woods. In this undated photo provided by the Iron County Sheriff’s Office in […]
Record $6 Trillion of Fake U.S. Bonds Seized in Mafia Probe
February 17th, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said they seized a record $6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds, an amount that’s almost half of the U.S.’s public debt. The bonds were found hidden in makeshift compartments of three safety deposit boxes in Zurich, the prosecutors from the southern city of Potenza said in an e-mailed […]
CBO: Longest Period of High Unemployment Since Great Depression
February 17th, 2012Via: U.S. News: After three years with unemployment topping 8 percent, the U.S. has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression, the Congressional Budget Office noted in a report issued today. And, despite some recent good news on the economic front, the CBO is still predicting that unemployment will remain above […]
Lawmaker Demands DHS Cease Monitoring of Blogs, Social Media
February 17th, 2012This social media monitoring program is an absurd limited hangout. Where’s the outrage over things like MAIN CORE and Room 641A? Via: Wired: Rep. Jackie Speier (D-California) said Thursday she wants the Department of Homeland Security to cease its social-media and news-monitoring operation. Speaking at a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing, the California lawmaker said she […]
‘As soon as we get them buying diapers from us, they’re going to start buying everything else too.’
February 17th, 2012Via: New York Times: Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do […]
Members of UK Parliament Recommend Censoring Online ‘Extremism’
February 17th, 2012Via: Electronic Frontier Foundation: In a report published last week, members of the United Kingdom Parliament concluded that the Internet plays a major role in the radicalization of terrorists and called on the government to pressure Internet Service Providers in Britain and abroad to censor online speech. The Roots of Violent Radicalisation places the Internet […]
Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms
February 17th, 2012There’s a fair amount of freak-out occurring over this, but as far as I can tell, this is an art project that attempts to draw attention to the ghastly nature of current industrial poultry production methods. Oh yeah, I had an, “Oh shit,” moment when I checked out the pictures of the growth pods (which […]
India: Government Will Track Positions of All Mobile Phone Users
February 16th, 2012Via: The Indian Express: The government is looking to track all mobile phone users. As per amendments made to operators’ licences, beginning May 31, operators would have to provide the Department of Telecommunications real-time details of users’ locations in latitudes and longitudes. Documents obtained by The Indian Express show that details shall initially be provided […]
Egregious Vote Fraud in Maine
February 16th, 2012Update: Busted—Maine GOP Allegedly Recounting Caucus Votes Via: Politico: The Maine Republican Party, under fire from Ron Paul supporters for its mishandling of the state’s recent caucuses, is now re-canvassing counties and municipalities to recount vote totals. POLITICO obtained an email from the State Republican Party asking local chairmen to send them the vote totals […]
