Archive for May, 2012
Las Cruces Threatens to Cut Off Utilities for Residents with Unpaid Red-Light Camera Tickets
May 8th, 2012How long until this is linked to other databases? Unpaid property taxes, unlicensed pets, overdue library books, or who knows what else??? —Britain: CCTV at Petrol Stations Will Prevent Uninsured Cars from Being Fueled Via: ABC News: Residents of Las Cruces, New Mexico with outstanding red-light-camera traffic tickets are in danger of having their utilities […]
Commandos Now Play Digital Brain Games as War Prep
May 8th, 2012Via: Danger Room: U.S. special operations forces carry out some the military’s toughest, most high-stakes missions. To pull them off, the commandos need speed, agility and swift perception skills akin to those of top-tier professional athletes. That might explain why the military’s latest commando training program will rely on a virtual-reality system already employed by […]
U.S. Companies Selling Drones to Undisclosed Foreign Governments
May 8th, 2012Via: The American Independent: A Texas-based defense contractor is selling drones overseas to foreign governments for use in combating narcotics trafficking and terrorism. Which countries are buying them and exactly how they are being used, however, is largely unknown. This uncertainty has led to calls from human rights activists for greater transparency and accountability for […]
France and Greece Want to Print the Confetti
May 8th, 2012I like the picture of Merkel in the story below. She’s doing a good *pffft* Via: Guardian: Europe’s 30-month effort to save the euro by slashing spending and debt levels risks turning into a crisis of political legitimacy after EU leaders’ strategies collided spectacularly with the wishes of voters in Greece and France. The impasse […]
Fullerton: Video of Kelly Thomas Beating Death Released
May 8th, 2012Via: pixq: The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers. The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of […]
U.S. Army Wants Magic 8 Ball Watching Over All of Its Computer Users
May 8th, 2012Via: Army Times: In the wake of the biggest dump of classified information in the history of the Army, the brass is searching for ways to watch what every soldier is doing on his or her Army computer. The Army wants to look at keystrokes, downloads and Web searches on computers that soldiers use. Maj. […]
JPMorgan Chase Whistleblower: ‘Essentially Suicide’ to Stand Up to Bank
May 8th, 2012Via: Huffington Post: When Linda Almonte alerted her boss at JPMorgan Chase about potential fraud in a major deal she was helping to close, she expected him to applaud her great catch. Instead, he fired her. “We went down fast,” said Almonte, 41, about her family. She had been making $100,000 a year as a […]
Made in China: Capsules Containing Powdered Babies
May 8th, 2012Update: China to Open Inquiry After South Korea Seizes Powdered Human Flesh in Capsules Via: AP: An investigation will be launched into allegations that drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies were being manufactured in China. The official Xinhua News Agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying an investigation in August found no […]
Americans: Too Broke to Go Bankrupt
May 7th, 2012Via: CNN: This year, hundreds of thousands of Americans are expected to be too broke to file for bankruptcy. The average cost to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, the most common form of consumer bankruptcy, is more than $1,500, according to recent research submitted to the National Bureau of Economic Research. As a result, […]
MIT Professor Has Been Running LENR Device Outputting Excess Heat That’s 14X Input Power Since January
May 7th, 2012Update: Cryptogon Requesting Responses from Qualified Individuals to NANOR Device and Data University faculty in Physics or Electrical Engineering departments are invited to submit comments on the Jet Energy Inc. NANOR device and data presented by Dr. Peter Hagelstein of MIT at the “Atom Unexplored” conference in Torino Italy. The slides are here: Demonstration of […]
