Sunday, May 1, 2011

April 2011 stories of note...

The mystery of what has been going on in the Fukushima Daiichi reactors continues. A worst case scenario...

Arnie Gunderson: Unit 3 Explosion May Have Been Prompt Criticality in Fuel Pool

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But Qadaffi hangs in there...

Business Insider: QADDAFI'S LETTER TO OBAMA: "Our Dear Son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu Oumama"

In this missive, he reveals how socialism eventually fails...

Pravda: Message from Colonel Mu’ummar Qaddafi

"For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert... But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more..."

But it isn't as if this dissatisfaction didn't take some goading...

NYTimes: U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings

Land Destroyer: It's Official - "Arab Spring" Subversion is US Funded

and arming...

Guardian: Libyan rebels receiving anti-tank weapons from Qatar

Also known as the "Gutter"...

Eringer: Qatari Sex Beast

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If there's one thing we can't help but appreciate in autocratic dictatorships, it's the use of invective...

RIA Novosti: President Lukashenko says West trying 'to strangle' Belarus

"These are all links of one chain aimed to plant mistrust for the authorities and to strangle the country with a slipknot. They want to force us to be just like everybody else, like they are eventually. We are like a bone in their throat," he said.

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Another one for the Sovereigns of Porno: Albert II of Monaco again, but this time with an image, albeit blurred from a back-issue of Hustler...

Eringer: Used & Abused by Prince Albert of Monaco

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Archaeology of a scoop; or, how the news trickles up...

From CleanUpATF Forums:

Posted 22 December 2010 - 12:57 AM

Word is that curios George Gillett the Phoenix ASAC stepped on it again. Allegedly he has approved more than 500 AR-15 type rifles from Tucson and Phoenix cases to be �walked� to Mexico. Appears that ATF may be one of the largest suppliers of assault rifles to the Mexican cartels! One of these rifles is rumored to have been linked to the recent killing of a Border Patrol Officer in Nogales, AZ. Can anyone confirm this information?


...to Sipsey Street Irregulars: Border Patrol agent killed with ATF-smuggled AR? Some ATF agents seem to think so

...to CBS News: Documents point to ATF "gun running" since 2008

Next stop, congressional investigations: Investigators land in Arizona for "Gunwalker" probe

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CNet: Obama moves forward with Internet ID plan

...sure to make "networked authoritarianism" much simpler for the authoritarians...

Rebecca MacKinnon: Networked Authoritarianism in China and Beyond

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