Archive for April, 2014
Liechtenstein Banker Shot Dead in Reported Investment Feud
April 7th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: A Liechtenstein banker was shot dead after a feud involving an investment fund, and police said they believe the alleged killer later committed suicide. The 48-year-old man was shot in the underground garage of a financial institution in Balzers at 7:30 a.m. local time, the Liechtenstein police said on their website today. Neither […]
Ex-ABN Banker Schmittmann, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home
April 6th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: Former ABN Amro Group NV Netherlands Chief Executive Officer Jan Peter Schmittmann, his wife and a daughter were found dead at their home yesterday after a possible “family tragedy,” Dutch police said. “The bodies of a father and mother and their daughter were found at the property” in the town of Laren, 32 […]
U.S. Navy $100 Million Program to Develop New Autonomous Aircraft
April 6th, 2014Via: Wall Street Journal: Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder has positioned himself to become the Jeff Bezos of the Pentagon. Much as the Amazon.com Inc. founder envisions mini-drones that deliver small packages across America, Adm. Klunder, the Navy’s research chief, wants to create innovative unmanned helicopters able to perform tasks now carried out by humans: resupplying […]
CIA Official Dies in Apparent Suicide
April 5th, 2014I thought that we would have the name by now, but they are not releasing it. Via: Washington Free Beacon: A senior CIA official has died in an apparent suicide this week from injuries sustained after jumping off a building in northern Virginia, according to sources close to the CIA. CIA spokesman Christopher White confirmed […]
Catherine Austin Fitts: The UFO Economy
April 5th, 2014Via: Dark Journalist: Related: Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World by Trevor Paglen
$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department
April 5th, 2014Via: Fiscal Times: The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors. In a special “management alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over […]
Japan Orders Military to Strike Any New North Korea Missile Launches
April 5th, 2014Via: Reuters: Japan has ordered a destroyer in the Sea of Japan to strike any ballistic missiles that may be launched by North Korea in the coming weeks after Pyongyang fired a Rodong medium-range missile over the sea, a government source said on Saturday.
Amazon Dash
April 4th, 2014I, for one, find grocery lists so odious that I need a wi-fi enabled barcode scanner with voice recognition to make sure my whims are catered to immediately. Can we just cut to the chase and order coffin-sized pods full of lukewarm nutrient agar and neural interfaces? Via: Amazon:
The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket
April 4th, 2014Via: Firstlook: This week, the Associated Press exposed a secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development to create “a Twitter-like Cuban communications network” run through “secret shell companies” in order to create the false appearance of being a privately owned operation. Unbeknownst to the service’s Cuban users was the fact that “American […]
The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves
April 4th, 2014Via: Bloomberg: The rallying cry of the Occupy Movement was that the richest 1 percent of Americans is getting richer while the rest of us struggle to get by. That’s not quite right, though. The bottom nine-tenths of the 1 Percent club have about the same slice of the national wealth pie that they had […]
