Romanian Man Charged in $1.5 Million ATM Skimming Scam
• Kim Zetter via WIRED.comA Romanian man has been arrested in a $1.5 million card-skimming operation that targeted 40 ATMs belonging to HSBC branches in New York.
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The USAF's X-37B Secret Space Plane Appears to Be Tracking China's New Space Station
• ClayDillow via PopSci.comHere at PopSci we don’t like to spread rumors. And that’s how I generally like to start off a post wherein I intend to propagate some kind of hearsay rooted mostly in speculation. Hearsay like this: America’s X-37B spaceplane
National-Security Assassination of Americans in 1973
• www.fff.org/blogA Chilean judge has indicted a retired U.S. Naval officer, Capt. Ray E. Davis, in the murder of two American citizens in Chile during the U.S.-supported Pinochet coup in 1973.
Prosecutor seeks death for Egypt's Mubarak
• ReutersThe prosecution in the case against Hosni Mubarak on Thursday demanded the death sentence for the former Egyptian president and other defendants including his two sons and the former interior minister.
Man of the Year Nominee
Written By:January 5, 2012 Man of the Year Nominee Obama has been another status quo big spending bigger government politician. And so have the plurality of elected Senators and House members. Will the voters in 2012 vote for the status quo or
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Obama to unveil leaner U.S. military strategy
• The RawStory.comPresident Barack Obama will visit the Pentagon on Thursday to unveil a revised US military strategy designed to reflect a more frugal era and a greater focus on potential threats from China, officials said.
Record $736k paid for single tuna fish in Japan
• The RawStory.comA deep-pocketed restaurateur shelled out nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for a single tuna, the most ever paid for the fish, at Japan’s Tsukiji fish market on Thursday.
A Rethought Calendar Makes Each Year Identical to the One Before
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comAs the calendar turns over to a new year, a couple of researchers over at Johns Hopkins University are rethinking the way we tick off the days during our annual trip around the sun.
New York firebombing raises alarm over spread of Islamophobia
• The RawStory.comNew York police arrested a man Tuesday over the firebombing of a mosque, but some say the incident reflects much deeper tensions faced by Muslim New Yorkers — and that police are partly to blame.
North Korea holds mass rally in support of new leader
• The RawStory.comMore than 100,000 North Koreans rallied in support of new leader Kim Jong-Un on Tuesday, state media reported, days after he was proclaimed the “great successor” to his father.
U.S. charges Swiss bankers for hiding $1.2 billion
• The RawStory.comThree Swiss bankers were indicted in the United States Tuesday, accused of hiding $1.2 billion in assets of US clients seeking to avoid declaring their full wealth to tax authorities.
Pakistan Taliban commanders ‘at each other’s throats’
• The RawStory.comAl Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani militants have held a series of meetings aimed at containing what could soon be open warfare between the two most powerful Pakistani Taliban leaders, militant sources have said.
Taiwan mulls armed guards on ships against pirates
• The RawStory.comTaiwan is considering a plan to place armed guards on board local ships that sail in pirate-infested waters, especially off Somalia, officials and media said Tuesday.
SEIZE THE CHANCE TO END THE CRAZINESS IN NORTH KOREA
• www.ericmargolis.comWhat next for the Hermit Kingdom? Kim 3 – Kim Jong-un - has successfully made the transition. The 1.1-million armed forces, the Party, and security organs remain the power behind his leadership.
Dream of Universal Currency Just Won’t Die
• David Wolman via WIRED.comThe euro zone maelstrom refuses to end. Thanks to the debt crisis, some Greek officials are contemplating dumping the common currency for the drachma. Meanwhile, Italy and Spain teeter.
Human Sacrifice in India Claims Seven-Year-Old Victim
• www.jonathanturley.orgLalita Tati, 7, became the latest victim of tribal sacrifice — murdered in order to offer up her liver to the gods to improve crop growth.
New China food safety scandal widens to oil, peanuts
• The RawStory.comChinese authorities in a southern boomtown have detected a cancer-causing toxin in peanuts and cooking oil that was only recently discovered in milk, in the nation’s latest food safety scandal.
Argentina ex-intel chief dies in New Year shooting
• The RawStory.comArgentina’s former spy chief, who recently took up a post as a provincial governor, was killed in a New Year’s Day shooting at his country house in Patagonia, authorities said Sunday.
Two NASA probes go into lunar orbit
• The RawStory.comThe second of two NASA lunar probes on a mission to study the Moon’s inner core went into orbit as planned, the US space agency said.
Eat Your Leaders: North Korea calls for "human shields" to protect new leader
• ReutersNorth Korea called on its people to rally behind new leader Kim Jong-un and protect him as "human shields" while working to solve the "burning issue" of food shortages by upholding the policies of his late father, Kim Jong-il.
Britain plagued by baffling epidemic of metal theft
• Muriel Kane via The RawStory.comGreat Britain has recently been hit by a wave of metal thieves who appear to spare nothing in their path. Manhole covers, lead from church roofs, electric cables, even memorial statues and plaques with the names of war dead are vanishing
Iran to test-fire missles in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday
• The RawStory.comTehran said it will test-fire missiles in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, a move likely to stoke tensions with Washington already running high over Iran’s threats to close the strategic oil waterway if sanctions are enforced.
Britain hopes hosting Olympics will fix its ailing economy
• The RawStory.comBritain will not reduce the London Games to an “austerity Olympics”, but instead try to use the event to kick-start the flagging economy in 2012, the minister responsible said Saturday.
Hungary poised to widen rift with west
• www.ft.comHungary is poised to drive another wedge into a rift with the European Union and international lenders when its parliament on Friday passes a controversial law limiting the independence of the country’s central bank.
U.S. sends ‘strong message’ with Saudi fighter deal
• The RawStory.comThe United States announced Thursday the signing of a $30 billion arms deal to provide Saudi Arabia with 84 new fighter jets, a move it said sent a “strong message” to the Gulf region.
U.S. aircraft carrier spotted in Iran wargames zone
• The RawStory.comA US aircraft carrier entered a zone near the Strait of Hormuz being used by the Iranian navy for wargames, an Iranian official said Thursday amid rising tensions over the key oil-transit channel.
Egypt police raid NGOs in foreign funds probe
• The RawStory.comEgyptian police raided more than a dozen offices belonging to local and foreign rights groups on Thursday, as part of an investigation into alleged illicit foreign funding, an official statement said.
U.S. to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia: White House
• The RawStory.comWhite House spokesman Josh Earnest said the government to government deal included production of 84 new aircraft and upgrades to 70 existing aircraft as well as munitions, spare parts, training, maintenance and logistics.
Russian nuclear submarine catches fire at dockyard
• The RawStory.comA navy spokesman said all the weapons had been removed from the Yekaterinburg nuclear submarine, which launched a ballistic missile from the Barents Sea as recently as July, before repair work started, Interfax news agency reported.
US Sends Aircraft Carrier Through Strait Of Hormuz During Iran Wargames
• www.prisonplanet.comGovernment debated provoking war by creating false flag attack at sea
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