Archive for May, 2012
Maryland: Accused Murderer Ate Portions of Victim’s Heart and Brain
May 31st, 2012[???] Via: CBS News: A Morgan State University student who lived in the same home as a missing Joppatowne man now feared dead was charged with first-degree murder after parts of a human body were found inside the house and in a nearby dumpster. Now the suspect has admitted to eating portions of the man’s […]
Money Flies Out of Spain
May 31st, 2012Via: Reuters: Spaniards alarmed by the dire state of their banks are squirreling money abroad at the fastest rate since records began, figures showed on Thursday, and the credit ratings of eight regions were cut. Spain is the next country in the firing line of the euro zone’s debt crisis, with spendthrift regions and shaky […]
Torture: The Memo Bush Tried to Destroy
May 31st, 2012Via: Salon: In February of 2006, Philip Zelikow, counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, authored a memo opposing the Bush administration’s torture practices (though he employed the infamous obfuscation of “enhanced interrogation techniques”). The White House tried to collect and destroy all copies of the memo, but one survived in the State Department’s bowels […]
‘The Last Days of Cash’
May 31st, 2012IEEE: A Special Report on the Future of Money – The Last Days of Cash – How E-Money Technology is Plugging Us into the Digital Economy
Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised; Logs Keystrokes, Phones Home to Server in U.S.
May 31st, 2012Via: Security Week: Simurgh, a privacy tool used in Iran and Syria to bypass Internet censorship and governmental monitoring, is being circulated with a backdoor. The compromised version has been offered on P2P networks and via web searches. Research conducted by CitizenLab.org has shown that malicious version isn’t available form the original software source, only […]
Paleo Diet Blogger vs. North Carolina
May 31st, 2012Via: Institute for Justice: Can the government throw you in jail for offering advice on the Internet about what food people should buy at the grocery store? That is exactly the claim made by the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. In December 2011, diabetic blogger Steve Cooksey started a Dear Abby-style advice column on his […]
Alabama: More Than 20,000 People Applied for 877 Job Openings at Automobile Factory
May 31st, 2012Via: CNBC: It should not come as a surprise with unemployment over 8% that good paying jobs in manufacturing are harder than ever to land. At the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama more than 20,000 people have applied for one of the 877 job openings.
Depleted Uranium: Kids of ‘The Iraqi Hiroshima’
May 31st, 2012Update: Pentagon Shills Don’t Want You To See This Post Thanks for letting me know that this hits a nerve. I’ll make sure that everyone sees it. Again. —End Update— Via: Vice: I had been to Fallujah before, but I didn’t have any access to the hospital then. The last time I went, I did. […]
Spain’s Former Prime Minister: ‘We’re In a Situation of Total Emergency’
May 31st, 2012Via: Telegraph: Spain is in a state of ‘total emergency’, the country’s former prime minister has warned, with Madrid facing punitive borrowing costs and the prospect of needing a Greek-style bail-out. Felipe González, the country’s elder statesman, said: “We’re in a situation of total emergency, the worst crisis we have ever lived through.” Global financial […]
Volvo’s Self-Drive ‘Convoy’ Hits the Spanish Motorway
May 30th, 2012What could possibly go wrong? Avi Rubin – All Your Devices Can Be Hacked: Via: BBC: A convoy of self-driven cars has completed a 200km (125-mile) journey on a Spanish motorway, in the first public test of such vehicles. The cars were wirelessly linked to each other and “mimicked” a lead vehicle, driven by a […]
