Archive for August, 2012
Pics of New Mexican President with Sinaloa Cartel Lieutenant
August 13th, 2012Via: Mad Cow Productions: He hasn’t even taken office yet, but Mexico’s new President Enrique Peña Nieto has already got some ‘splainin’ to do. Mexico City newspapers today reported the discovery of pictures of the not-yet-inaugarated new President in which he appears chummy with a man arrested yesterday in Madrid and charged with importing 337 […]
South Pacific: 7500sq Miles of Pumice from Underwater Volcano; ‘The Wierdest Thing I’ve Seen in 18 Years at Sea’
August 13th, 2012Via: Scoop: An area of floating pumice 250 nautical miles in length and 30 nautical miles wide was spotted in the South Pacific ocean yesterday by a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Orion. The RNZAF Orion, which was on Maritime patrol from Samoa to New Zealand, relayed the information to HMNZS CANTERBURY and last […]
Federal Government’s Financial Burden Grows By $10 Million A Minute
August 12th, 2012Via: U.S. News and World Report: Former U.S. comptroller general David Walker is sounding the alarm on the federal government’s “financial sinkhole,” which he says is growing deeper by about $10 million every minute. By “sinkhole,” Walker is not just referring to debt, but the government’s total liabilities, unfunded social insurance promises, and other federal […]
White House Pulls Down TSA Petition
August 12th, 2012Via: EPIC: At approximately 11:30 am EDT, the White House removed a petition about the TSA airport screening procedures from the White House “We the People” website. About 22,500 of the 25,000 signatures necessary for a response from the Administration were obtained when the White House unexpectedly cut short the time period for the petition. […]
Unravelling TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System
August 11th, 2012Via: Public Intelligence: Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor have shed light on a global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock Exchange to the White House. The emails, which were released yesterday by WikiLeaks, provide information on the extent […]
AntiLeaks Group Claim Responsibility for WikiLeaks Attacks
August 11th, 2012Operational Mirror as of 12 August 01:30 NZ time. Via: Register: The WikiLeaks website has been under a major DDoS attack over the last few days and a group calling itself AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility. “We are young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with […]
U.S. Banks Told to Make Plans for Preventing Collapse
August 11th, 2012In other words, during a liquidity crisis, make sure that online banking and ATMs are not accessible due to technical difficulties. Via: Reuters: U.S. regulators directed five of the country’s biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious problems, emphasizing […]
Trapwire
August 10th, 2012Via: Privatepaste 1, 2: From: Justin Ferguson Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {6221} Domain Awareness System To: tscm-l2006@googlegroups.com Cc: michael.maness@abraxasapps.com, dan.botsch@abraxasapps.com, jeff.nielsen@abraxasapps.com I’m not entirely sure how this is new so to speak, they’ve had this capability for years from the ‘trapwire’ system (trapwire.com formerly abraxas applications– a subdivision […]
U.S. Not Seeking Goldman Charges
August 10th, 2012Shocker. Via: Wall Street Journal: After a yearlong investigation, the Justice Department said Thursday that it won’t bring charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or any of its employees for financial fraud related to the mortgage crisis. In a statement, the Justice Department said “the burden of proof” couldn’t be met to prosecute Goldman criminally […]
Demand for Water Outstrips Supply
August 9th, 2012Via: Nature: Almost one-quarter of the world’s population lives in regions where groundwater is being used up faster than it can be replenished, concludes a comprehensive global analysis of groundwater depletion, published this week in Nature1. Across the world, human civilizations depend largely on tapping vast reservoirs of water that have been stored for up […]
