Archive for January, 2014
Britain: ‘Pedophile Network at the Heart of Government’
January 15th, 2014Via: Express: A FORMER female MP was involved in a paedophile network at the heart of government, police have been told. She is alleged to have forced a boy in care to perform a “vile” sex act at one of a series of drug-fuelled parties in Westminster in the Eighties where boys and girls as […]
Recovery: JCPenny to Cut 2,000 Jobs, Close 33 Stores
January 15th, 2014Via: Business Insider: JCPenney is cutting 2,000 jobs and closing 33 stores as the battered department store seeks to revive revenue growth, the company announced Wednesday. The move will save about $65 million annually beginning in 2014, the company said. JCPenney, which has about 1,100 stores, has struggled to turn a profit since former CEO […]
‘Chasing the Dream of Half-Price Gasoline from Natural Gas’
January 15th, 2014Frack that. Via: MIT Technology Review: At a pilot plant in Menlo Park, California, a technician pours white pellets into a steel tube and then taps it with a wrench to make sure they settle together. He closes the tube, and oxygen and methane—the main ingredient of natural gas—flow in. Seconds later, water and ethylene, […]
Law Enforcement Agencies Use of Drones Increasing
January 14th, 2014Via: Washington Post: Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, newly released records show, a harbinger of what is expected to become the commonplace use of unmanned aircraft by police. Customs and Border Protection, which has the largest U.S. drone fleet of its kind outside the […]
NSA Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
January 14th, 2014Via: New York Times: The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to computer networks, the N.S.A. has […]
DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
January 14th, 2014Via: Business Insider: An investigation by El Universal has found that between 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an agreement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organisation to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs in exchange for information on rival cartels. Sinaloa, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, supplies 80% of the […]
Ex-Cops Acquitted in Beating Death of Homeless Man in California
January 13th, 2014Via: CNN: A jury has acquitted two former Fullerton, California, police officers on trial in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill and homeless man. The verdict was read in a Santa Ana courtroom Monday afternoon. Eight women and four men began deliberating the case on Thursday. The beating of Thomas in a […]
Big Money Behind War: The Military-Industrial Complex
January 13th, 2014Via: Al Jazeera: In January 1961, US President Dwight D Eisenhower used his farewell address to warn the nation of what he viewed as one of its greatest threats: the military-industrial complex composed of military contractors and lobbyists perpetuating war. Eisenhower warned that “an immense military establishment and a large arms industry” had emerged as […]
Decade After Decade: Security on SCADA Systems Is Crap
January 13th, 2014Via: IT News: Over 60,000 exposed control systems found online. Researchers have found vulnerabilities in industrial control systems that they say grant full control of systems running energy, chemical and transportation systems. The vulnerabilities were discovered by Russian researchers who over the last year probed popular and high-end ICS and supervisory control and data acquisition […]
New Google Venture: California Life Company
January 13th, 2014Via: CNN: Calico — or the California Life Company — has been set up to research subjects related to aging and its associated diseases. Announcing Calico at a media briefing, Google said that the new and independent company will largely focus on age-attendant conditions such as Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease.
