by Wayne Madsen Global Research May 21, 2010 In an exclusive for Oilprice.com, the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has learned from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sources that U.S. Navy submarines deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast have detected what amounts... »
Archive for May 22nd, 2010
Police kill gun-wielding woman who refused to answer Census questions…
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Y.C. woman killed by police pointed gun at officers By Rob Young Appeal-Democrat.com May 21, 2010 A 67-year-old Yuba City woman was shot and killed by officers when she pointed a shotgun at them and refused to put it down, Yuba City police said Friday. Victoria Helen Roger-Vasselin was pronounced dead late Thursday at... »
Stealth IRS changes mean millions of new tax forms
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
By Neil deMause CNNMoney.com May 21, 2010 The massive expansion of requirements for businesses to file 1099 tax forms that was hidden in the 2,409-page health reform bill took many by surprise when it came to light last month. But it’s just one piece of a years-long legislative stealth campaign to create ways for... »
The day we have been fearing is upon us, Louisiana governor admits
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
Jacqui Goddard TimesOnlineUK May 21, 2010 Heavy oil was seeping into Louisiana’s marshlands yesterday as BP’s own technology contradicted the company’s weeks-long estimate of the scale of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. One month after the explosion that triggered the leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the British oil company revealed that a pipeline that... »
HIIDE Portable Biometric Device Scans Iris, Fingers And Face
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
By Ben Coxworth Gizmag.com It’s billed as “the most powerful tool ever developed for biometric identification,” and it could well be. L-1 Identity Solutions’ HIIDE is a rugged, portable device that can establish and then verify peoples’ identities using three separate biometrics – iris, fingerprint and facial recognition. It must be pretty impressive, as... »
Darpa Wants Code to Spot ‘Anomalous Behavior’ on the Job
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
By Noah Shachtman Wired.com May 20, 2010 Can software catch a cyberspy’s tricky intentions, before he’s started to help the other side? The way-out researchers at Darpa think so. They’re planning a new program, “Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination” or SMITE, that’s supposed to “dynamically forecast” when a mole is about to strike. Also,... »