Archive for February, 2011
U.S. Helicopters, Colombian Money Laundering
February 28th, 2011Via: Colombia Reports: To get a sense of just how interconnected the formal and illicit dimensions of international political economy are, take a peek at this brief cable from the U.S. Embassy in Bogota published by WikiLeaks Sunday. The cable details then-Ambassador William Woods’ hunt for two missing helicopters that had originally been sold to […]
U.S. REPOSITIONING FORCES AROUND LIBYA
February 28th, 2011Via: Reuters: The U.S. military is repositioning naval and air forces around Libya, a Pentagon official said on Monday, as international demands intensify for an end to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s four-decade rule. “We have planners working and various contingency plans and I think it’s safe to say as part of that we’re repositioning forces […]
Get Ready to Shake Out Missouri
February 28th, 2011Anything to do with: Is It Strange That FEMA Wants to Buy 140 Million Packaged Meals with a Shelf Life Only 36 Months for a Specific Disaster Scenario? Research Credit: HongPong
Egypt Bans Individuals from Taking Gold Out of Country
February 28th, 2011Thinking about trying to flee from point A to point B with gold after the shit hits the fan? Via: Reuters: Egypt on Sunday banned the export of gold for the next four months, a measure bankers said seemed aimed at preventing businessmen and former government officials who acquired capital illegally from transferring it abroad. […]
Kenyan Official, Investigating Congo Gold Smuggling Case, Shot and Killed
February 28th, 2011Via: Reuters: A senior Kenyan official has been shot dead while investigating gold smuggling from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenyan police said on Monday. Eric Kiraithe, a police spokesman, said the man was an official at Kenya’s Revenue Authority. “We have not arrested any suspects involved in gold smuggling but we have identified […]
Seymour Hersh and The Knights of Malta: A Look at the Aftermath
February 28th, 2011Definitely interesting. Via: WhoWhatWhy: It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank. It […]
Boston Dynamics Gets Military Contract to Build Running Quadruped and Humanoid/Biped Robots
February 28th, 2011Via: Wired: Boston Dynamics, the military engineering firm best known for its four-legged BigDog robot, has been awarded two contracts by DARPA to develop a pair of new robots: an agile humanoid called ATLAS and a speedy, animal-inspired quadruped called CHEETAH. ATLAS looks like a headless Terminator, with a torso, two legs and two arms, […]
Libya: Thanks to U.S. Pressure, Libyan Mercenaries Won’t Be Prosecuted for War Crimes
February 28th, 2011The U.S. couldn’t possibly be held accountable for the atrocities that its mercenaries have carried out (and continue to carry out). Oh, no, no, no. Via: Telegraph: African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend’s UN resolution […]
Britain: Network Equipment Theft Cuts Mobile Phone and Internet Services to Several Hundred Thousand Vodafone Customers
February 28th, 2011Via: BBC: Vodafone’s mobile network has been disrupted following a break-in at its exchange centre in Basingstoke. The company said that several hundred thousand customers had lost voice, text and internet access. Burglars hit the facility in the early hours of Monday morning, stealing computer equipment and network hardware. Most of the users affected were […]
China: Police Preventing Protests from Starting
February 28th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: A Bloomberg News journalist was assaulted yesterday in Beijing while covering the deployment of police in response to online calls for protests in the Chinese capital. At least five men in plain clothes, who appeared to be security personnel, punched and kicked the reporter at Beijing’s Wangfujing shopping street at 2:45 p.m. local […]
