Archive for January, 2015
Brazil Orders Rolling Blackouts as Electricity Demand Spikes in Record Heat
January 20th, 2015Via: Reuters: Rolling blackouts swept across parts of Brazil on Monday as the grid operator ordered select power cuts to avoid a larger crisis, drawing attention to a fragile electric system that is buckling under the strains of record-breaking heat and dryness. Grid operator ONS said it orchestrated 2,200 megawatts of controlled outages in eight […]
Prosecutor Who Accused Argentinian President of Iranian Bomb Cover-Up Found Dead
January 20th, 2015Via: Independent: An Argentinian prosecutor who accused the country’s president of orchestrating a cover-up of the investigation into a notorious bomb attack on a Jewish community centre has been found dead – hours before he was to testify at a closed-door hearing. Reports said that Alberto Nisman, 51, who had been examining the 1994 blast […]
New Police Radars Can ‘See’ Inside Homes
January 19th, 2015Via: USA Today: At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance. Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals […]
Majority of U.S. Public School Students Are in Poverty
January 19th, 2015Via: Washington Post: For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation. The Southern Education Foundation reports that 51 percent of students in pre-kindergarten through 12th […]
Project Blue Book Collection
January 19th, 2015Via: The Black Vault: This site was created by The Black Vault to house 129,491 pages, comprising of more than 10,000 cases of the Project Blue Book, Project Sign and Project Grudge files declassifed. Project Blue Book (along with Sign and Grudge) was the name that was given to the official investigation by the United […]
Body of Missing AIG Executive Found in Golf Course Pond
January 19th, 2015Via: Fox News: A body found floating in a pond on a golf course in California has been identified as the AIG executive who disappeared two weeks ago while attending a work conference in the area. The Riverside County Coroner’s Office confirmed that it was the body of Omar Meza on Friday, according to KESQ. […]
Man Who Was Making Film About American Dictatorship Found Dead in Home Along with Wife and Child
January 19th, 2015Via: Star Tribune: In the white rambler in the 1000 block of Ramsdell Drive in Apple Valley, a terrible sight awaited police: The bodies of a man, woman and child lying in the living room, the perpetrator and victims of an apparent murder-suicide. The bodies may have been there for up to four weeks before […]
Russia’s Net Outflows Hit Their Highest Level Ever
January 18th, 2015Via: Business Insider: Net outflows by companies and banks reached $151.5 billion in 2014, more than two times as much as in 2013, according to the Russian Central Bank . The last time the level of outflows was this high was during the global financial crisis in 2008, when it reached $133.6 billion. The fourth […]
Holder Limits Seized-Asset Sharing Process that Split Billions with Local, State Police
January 18th, 2015I’d like to believe that, sometimes, good news is just good news and not some setup for more body cavity searches and surveillance. This is Cryptogon, though, so if there is another shoe to drop, someone will post it pretty quick. My guess is that the states will just make up ways to keep the […]
Belgium: Troops Deployed on Streets
January 17th, 2015Domestic troop deployments now in France and Belgium. Via: Time: Belgium’s defense ministry said Saturday said that the country is deploying hundreds of troops to guard possible terrorism targets, including Jewish sites and diplomatic missions after deadly raids on an Islamist cell. As many as 300 military will be stationed at locations like the U.S. […]
