Archive for December, 2015
Zombies Appear in U.S. Oilfields as Crude Plumbs New Lows
December 10th, 2015Via: Reuters: Drained by a 17-month crude rout, some U.S. shale oil companies are merely hanging on for life as oil prices lurch further away from levels that allow them to profitably drill new wells and bring in enough cash to keep them in business. The slump has created dozens of oil and gas “zombies,” […]
Ford to Spend $4.5 Billion by 2020 on Electric Vehicles
December 10th, 2015Via: Detroit Free Press: Ford announced its largest five-year investment ever in electrified vehicles, with a pledge to spend $4.5 billion and introduce 13 new models by 2020, CEO Mark Fields announced today. Fields said 40% of nameplates globally will be electrified by the end of the decade, up from 13% now. They will be […]
Witness Describes San Bernardino Shooters as Three Tall White Men
December 10th, 2015Via: CBS: Sally Abdelmageed works at the Inland Regional Center and saw the attackers enter the building. Scott Pelley spoke with her by phone.
Will Your Driverless Car Kill You So Others May Live?
December 10th, 2015Via: Los Angeles Times: It’s 2025. You and your daughter are riding in a driverless car along the Pacific Coast Highway. The autonomous vehicle rounds a corner and detects a crosswalk full of children. It brakes, but your lane is unexpectedly full of sand from a recent rock slide. It can’t get traction. Your car […]
ISIS Armed with U.S. Weapons
December 9th, 2015Via: CNN: A new report from a prominent human rights group has found that ISIS has built a substantial arsenal, including U.S.-made weapons obtained from the Iraqi army and Syrian opposition groups. Amnesty International’s 44-page report, released late Monday, found that much of ISIS’ equipment and munitions comes from stockpiles captured from the U.S.-allied Iraqi […]
Australian Police Raid Sydney Home of Reported Bitcoin Creator
December 9th, 2015Via: Reuters: Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said. More than a dozen federal police officers entered a house registered on the electoral roll […]
Bank Records Show $28,500 Deposit to Syed Farook’s Account Two Weeks Before the Shooting
December 8th, 2015Via: Fox: A $28,500 deposit was made to Syed Farook’s bank account from WebBank.com on or about Nov.18, some two weeks before he and his wife Tashfeen Malik carried out the San Bernardino massacre, a source close to the investigation told Fox News Monday. Investigators are exploring whether the transaction was a loan taken out […]
American Satellite Started Transmitting 46 Years After Being Abandoned in 1967
December 8th, 2015Via: The Vintage News: An American satellite, abandoned in 1967 as a piece of Space Junk has begun transmitting again after 46 years. An Amateur Radio Astronomer in North Cornwall accidentally picked up the signal in 2013 and after cross checking with various lists, has identified it as LES1 built by the Massachusetts Institute of […]
A Missed Warning?
December 8th, 2015Via: Weekly Standard: Scanner traffic indicates law enforcement may have investigated San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook a week before the attack.
U.S. Drone Whistleblowers Have Their Bank Accounts Frozen
December 7th, 2015Via: Hang the Bankers: The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack. “My drone operators went public this week and now […]
