Tag: arrest

  • #MediaMemes: Adele, Amy, Abel & Arrested Aggregation

    #MediaMemes: Adele, Amy, Abel & Arrested Aggregation

    Grammys to feature first-ever dance music and electronica trainwreck performance featuring Foo Fighters & DeadMau5 // Coroner Investigating Amy Winehouse’s Death Resigns // ‘HuffPo’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine; Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine // Denzel plays a, get this, corrupt CIA agent in ‘Safe House’

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  • Miramonte Scandal: Entire School Staff Replaced After Second Arrest In Growing Child Abuse Probe

    Update on #MarkBerndt from ap: School officials in Los Angeles will remove the entire staff of the elementary school where investigators are looking into two separate cases of alleged child abuse.

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  • 2/2 Defcon: Mind Reading, Brain Living

    2/2 Defcon: Mind Reading, Brain Living

    Scientists trial ‘mind reading’ computer // Window Installed Into a Live Brain // What Will Facebook Do With $10 Billion? // Google changes its privacy policy: Another reminder to use offshore email // FBI spyware not Skype responsible for spilling MegaUpload secrets // Police arrest 5 as hacking scandal spreads to Sun tabloid // NASA…

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  • Former California Teacher Arrested on Child Abuse Charges

    Former California Teacher Arrested on Child Abuse Charges

    A former elementary school teacher who taught in a South Los Angeles school for 30 years was arrested Monday on charges of inflicting bizarre abuse rituals on at least 23 young girls and boys, including blindfolding them, binding their mouths with masking tape, and placing cockroaches on their faces and mouths before photographing them.

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  • 1/26 Defcon: Mega-Man, Bigger Brother

    1/26 Defcon: Mega-Man, Bigger Brother

    Mega-man: Bizarre rise & sudden downfall of Kim Dotcom // What is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? // Say NO to ACTA // Big Brother Google Just Got Bigger // Legality of Mobile Phone Tracking Still Unclear Despite Supreme Court GPS Decision // Newt Gingrich wants to make the moon the 51st state // Why crimes…

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  • 1/19 Defcon: Megatakedown, Koobfaced & More

    1/19 Defcon: Megatakedown, Koobfaced & More

    Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives // Anonymous Takes Down DoJ, UMG in Retaliation // Judge Orders Search of ‘News of the World’ Computers // Online Protest Against Obama’s Drone War Flops // Zappos Hacked, Tells 24m Customers to Change Passwords // US to Launch Space Arms-Control Initiative

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  • latest hacking scandal arrest suggests focus on cover-up

    from nytimes.com: Scotland Yard’s arrest of a former personal assistant to Rebekah Brooks, a former chief executive of the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, appears to reflect the investigators’ intensifying focus on the possibility of a cover-up by executives, editors and others of the extent of illegal phone hacking and other criminal…

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  • Sandusky Cuffed On New Sex Abuse Charges

    Sandusky Cuffed On New Sex Abuse Charges

    Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has been arrested on new sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers. Authorities say Sandusky was arrested and arraigned Wednesday.

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  • 12/1 newspurge: if we make it through december

    12/1 newspurge: if we make it through december

    biowars/envirohealth: extreme weather records in 2011, ‘bare-knuckle’ years ahead* oklahoma continues string of recent mild earthquakes* santa ana winds rattle nerves in california* ‘national level exercise’ disaster drill derailed by disasters* delegates say it’s too early to give up on cop17* US settles suit from widow of 1st anthrax victim* white powdery substance in inmate’s…

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  • new world next week – nov24

    new world next week – nov24

    new world next week: episode092 – climategate 2.0, lone wolves, food stamp thanksgiving Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: Fresh Round of Leaked Emails Called Climategate…

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  • geopolitiks: ‘world pressure mounts’ as cairo clashes continue

    geopolitiks: ‘world pressure mounts’ as cairo clashes continue

    from cbs/ap: International criticism of Egypt’s military rulers mounted Wednesday as police clashed for a fifth day with protesters demanding the generals relinquish power immediately. A rights group raised the death toll for the wave of violence to at least 38. At least 2,000 protesters have been wounded, mostly from gas inhalation or injuries caused…

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  • nypd says fbi declined to pursue ‘lone wolf’ nyc bomb plot

    nypd says fbi declined to pursue ‘lone wolf’ nyc bomb plot

    from ap: U.S. authorities declined to pursue a case against an “al-Qaida sympathizer” accused of plotting to bomb police stations and post offices in the New York area because they believed he was mentally unstable and incapable of pulling it off, two law enforcement officials said Monday. New York Police Department investigators sought to get…

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  • US preparing more sanctions against iran over saudi murder plot

    US preparing more sanctions against iran over saudi murder plot

    will US exploit dubious terror case to attack iran? from kurt nimmo: On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced it had uncovered a plot by Iran to enlist a member of a Mexican drug cartel to kill Saudi Arabia’s envoy in Washington, D.C. The FBI and the DEA uncovered the plot, according to officials. The FBI…

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  • new world next week – sep29

    new world next week – sep29

    new world next week: episode085 – remote-controlled plane plot, qaeda vs. conspiracists, activist (re)post Welcome back to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week: Story #1: Mass. Musician Accused of DC…

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  • 9/29 defcon: cookies, retention & a heavenly palace

    facebook tracks you even after logging out* australian tech expert discovers faCIAbook cookies* facebook to form its own political action committee* after outcry, onstar backing down on vehicle data collection* ‘retention periods of major cellular service providers’: secret memo reveals verizon stores your data the longest* state dept employee faces firing for posting wikileaks link*…

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