Archive for July, 2012
Portrait of a Drone Killer: ‘I Have a Duty, and I Execute My Duty’
July 31st, 2012Via: Lew Rockwell Blog: One wonders if drone pilot Col. D. Scott Brenton listens to Louis Armstrong in the suburban Air National Guard Base in Syracuse from which he murders people 7,000 miles away. “I see mothers with children, I see fathers with children, I see fathers with mothers, I see kids playing soccer,” Brenton […]
Tate Modern Death Fall Man Was Senior HSBC Banker
July 31st, 2012Via: Telegraph: A man who plunged 100ft to his death at the Tate Modern art gallery in London was a senior bank manager with HSBC. Michael Foreman, 48, fell from a fifth-floor balcony in the members’ bar area of the gallery on the South Bank last Tuesday evening. The banker, who lived in Grays, Essex, […]
Cheney to Skip Republican Convention
July 31st, 2012Via: ABC News: Dick Cheney has plans for the end of August, but those plans don’t include going to the Republican convention in Tampa. In fact, while his party gathers to formally nominate Mitt Romney for President, Cheney will be out of the country. He tells me he is going fishing – in Canada. “I’ve […]
600 Million Without Power in India After 3 Power Grids Fail
July 31st, 2012Via: AP: India’s energy crisis cascaded over half the country Tuesday when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving 620 million people without government-supplied electricity in one of the world’s biggest-ever blackouts. Hundreds of trains stalled across the country and traffic lights went out, causing widespread traffic jams in New Delhi. Electric crematoria stopped operating, […]
Magic Kingdom: Anaheim Riot Police Block Protesters from Disneyland
July 31st, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: Nine people were arrested Sunday during protests over recent fatal officer-involved shootings in Anaheim. The protest took a dramatic turn when the crowd began marching en masse on Harbor Boulevard, saying they were headed to Disneyland. But police in riot gear corralled them, and many returned to police headquarters. The demonstration […]
CopBlock Founder Faces Three Felony Counts of Wiretapping
July 31st, 2012People are tracked, traced, groped, x-rayed, etc. but recording the filth results in this. Via: CopBlock Press Release: According to court documents, Adam “Ademo” Mueller, journalist and co-host of nationally syndicated radio talk show Free Talk Live, has been indicted on three counts of felony wiretapping. The charges are a result of a vlog Mueller […]
Company Finds Facebook Advertising Results in Clickthroughs That Are 80% Bots
July 31st, 2012This is some incredibly timely news for me. I just started running an ad campaign on Facebook for my wife’s business two days ago. Just a tiny test, $5 budget per day. I looked at the Google Analytics data for the site to reconcile what Facebook was charging me vs. what was showing up on […]
‘CIA considers Israel its No. 1 counterintelligence threat in the agency’s Near East Division’
July 29th, 2012In case you haven’t been paying attention for the last few decades… Via: AP: Despite inarguable ties between the U.S. and its closest ally in the Middle East and despite statements from U.S. politicians trumpeting the friendship, U.S. national security officials consider Israel to be, at times, a frustrating ally and a genuine counterintelligence threat. […]
Disgraced Former Penn State University President Now Working for U.S. Government in National Security Role
July 29th, 2012Echos of the Franklin imbroglio. Via: Washington Post: Graham Spanier might have been ousted from his post at the helm of Penn State over the sex-abuse scandal that engulfed the university, but it seems he’s found a backup employer: the American taxpayer. Only a disgraced public figure would consider joining the much-maligned ranks of the […]
Power Out
July 29th, 2012Update: Power Is On Again — We’re getting slammed by a storm and the power is out again. I’ve just trained myself to routinely put my Fenix PD32 in my pocket when it rains hard out here. haha. Anyway, you know the story: If there are no updates, it means the electricity is still out.
