Archive for June, 2014
Black Sites: Secret Prisons, Drone Bases, Surveillance Stations, Offices Where Extraordinary Rendition Is Planned
June 15th, 2014Via: Independent: Trevor Paglen takes pictures of the places that the American and British governments don’t want you to know even exist.
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Iran Sends Troops Into Iraq to Aid Fight Against Isis Militants
June 15th, 2014Via: Guardian: Iran has sent 2,000 advance troops to Iraq in the past 48 hours to help tackle a jihadist insurgency, a senior Iraqi official has told the Guardian. The confirmation comes as the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, said Iran was ready to support Iraq from the mortal threat fast spreading through the country, while […]
Richard Rockefeller Dies in Plane Crash
June 14th, 2014Via: Poughkeepsie Journal: Richard Rockefeller, the son of banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, was killed Friday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in a neighborhood near the Westchester County Airport shortly after takeoff.
Russia Sent Tanks to Separatists in Ukraine, U.S. Says
June 13th, 2014Via: New York Times: The State Department confirmed on Friday that Russia had sent tanks and other heavy weapons to separatists in Ukraine. A column of three T-64 tanks, several BM-21 “Grad” multiple rocket launchers, and other military vehicles crossed the border near the Ukrainian town of Snizhne, State Department officials said. Reports and images […]
Pentagon Preparing for Mass Civil Breakdown
June 13th, 2014That part of the focus here is protest movements isn’t news. I read, Low Intensity Operations: Subversion, Insurgency and Peacekeeping by Frank Kitson when I was in college back in the early 1990s and the book was a couple of decades old even then. Summary: Start gathering information on people involved in protest movements before […]
Why Online Tracking Is Getting Creepier
June 13th, 2014Via: Pro Publica: The marketers that follow you around the web are getting nosier. Currently, many companies track where users go on the Web—often through cookies—in order to display customized ads. That’s why if you look at a pair of shoes on one site, ads for those shoes may follow you around the Web. But […]
1961: Two Nuclear Bombs Nearly Detonated in North Carolina
June 12th, 2014Via: CNN: On a January night in 1961, a U.S. Air Force bomber broke in half while flying over eastern North Carolina. From the belly of the B-52 fell two bombs — two nuclear bombs that hit the ground near the city of Goldsboro. A disaster worse than the devastation wrought in Hiroshima and Nagasaki […]
Tesla Allows Rivals to Use Its Intellectual Property to Develop Electric Vehicles
June 12th, 2014Via: Tesla Motors: Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology. Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. […]
American Scientists Recreate Deadly Spanish Flu Virus
June 12th, 2014Via: Independent: The extinct influenza virus that caused the worst flu pandemic in history has been recreated from fragments of avian flu found in wild ducks in a controversial experiment to show how easy it would be for the deadly flu strain to reemerge today. Scientists said the study involved infecting laboratory ferrets with close […]
