Archive for March, 2013
Serbian Man Has Lived in a Grave for 15 Years: ‘I am More Afraid of the Living than of the Dead’
March 4th, 2013Via: Daily Mail: A homeless man has told how he began sleeping with the dead when he moved into a cemetery 15 years ago. Bratislav Stojanovic, 43, has shared the burial plot with the ashes of a a family who died out more than 100 years ago in Nis, Serbia. But after giving the grave […]
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning’s Statement for the Providence Inquiry
March 4th, 2013Via: alexaobrien.com: The statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at the providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O’Brien at the Article […]
Cryptogon Reader Sent $90
March 4th, 2013Thanks very much to AF for sending $90 at the end of February, and making the month’s wide earnings miss a bit less wide.
Hipster Job Market: 22-22-22
March 3rd, 2013Via: New York Times: Ms. McIntyre is just one 20-something — a population historically exploitable as cheap labor — learning that long hours and low pay go hand in hand in the creative class. The recession has been no friend to entry-level positions, where hundreds of applicants vie for unpaid internships at which they are […]
Americans Renouncing Citizenship to Become British Increases 3X Over Last Five Years
March 3rd, 2013Sounds like out-of-the-pan-and-into-the-fire to me, but to each his own. Via: Telegraph: London-based American lawyers, who specialise in tax and immigration, report a threefold increase over the last five years in the number of American citizens who are giving up their citizenship – a process known as “renunciation”.
DHS Using Customized Versions of Predator Drones
March 3rd, 2013Via: Cnet: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show. The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department’s unmanned […]
Spending: With Sequestration and Without Sequestration
March 2nd, 2013HC asks: “I was curious why you’re not covering the whole sequestration flap that’s saturating the media right now.” The reason why I haven’t been is because it’s a trivial event, either way. Soviet America is so far gone, so dependent on insane state expenditures, that the propaganda outlets lose their mind at the prospect […]
U.S. Navy Will Run Drone Missions 24/7 Out of Point Mugu
March 2nd, 2013Via: Gizmodo: I talked to the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, which had plenty to say about the upcoming drone playground, which is just one of “several bases throughout the world” the Navy wants. Each will host Tritons, with Point Mugu boasting four, conducting around five missions every single day. That’s over 1,800 takeoffs or landings […]
Florida Man Feared Dead After Sinkhole Swallows Him
March 2nd, 2013Via: Reuters: A Florida man was missing and feared dead on Friday after a sinkhole suddenly opened up under the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, police and fire officials said. Rescuers responded to a 911 call late on Thursday after the family of Jeff Bush, 36, reported hearing a loud crash in the house […]
Mayor Bloomberg On National Debt: ‘People Do Seem Willing To Lend Us An Infinite Amount Of Money’
March 2nd, 2013What could possibly go wrong? Via: Politicker: Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default. “We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. […]
