It exploded in a flash nearly ten times as bright as anything we’ve ever seen before. For about one second the impact site was glowing like a fourth magnitude start. … Read More
Thailand – Projectiles hurled at Bangkok daily after cartoonist’s controversial post
Reporters Without Borders deplores an attack by four men who threw various projectiles at the security box outside the Bangkok headquarters of the Thai Rath daily newspaper on 11 May, causing minor damage and slightly injuring two security guards. The attack came a few days after one of the newspaper’s cartoonists, Somchai Katanyutanan, who uses the pen name of Chai Ratchawat, posted a controversial comment on his Facebook page about Thailand’s prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, former (…) … Read More
America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid
What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common? They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments. … Read More
Pat Robertson suggests security cameras are ‘the mark of the beast’
Television preacher and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson said Tuesday on “The 700 Club” that he believes plans to expand the use of security cameras in Boston in the wake of the marathon bombing are really the heralds of the coming apocalypse, brought about by…
Tsarnaev classmate Robel Phillipos released on bail
Robel Phillipos, 19, was released Monday on $100,000 bond and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet while under house arrest awaiting trial, WCVB News’ Kelley Tuthill reported from Boston, Massachusetts.Phillipos was charged last week with making false statements to investigators and faces up to eight years in prison and a fine of $250,000 if convicted.Authorities say Phillipos misled investigators during the probe that was launched in the aftermath of the April 15, 2013 bombings that killed three and injured more than 200 others. Phillipos was an acquaintance of accused bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, also 19, and according to investigators he and two other classmates visited the suspect’s University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth dorm room mere hours after the police published images of two men thought to be responsible for the terrorist attack.After the Federal Bureau of Investigation released surveillance cameras photos on April 18 of two suspects, Phillipos reportedly called classmate Dias Kadyrbayev and told him to turn on the news “because one of the suspects in the Marathon bombing suspect looked familiar.” Shortly after, the two men and colleague Azamat Tazhayakov went to Tsarnaev’s dorm room. Tsarnaev never returned to campus that night and the following morning the students learned that his brother and co-suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed following a firefight with police.Phillipos spoke with FBI investigators four times in the aftermath of Tsarnaev’s death, starting with a first meeting on April 19. It wasn’t until one week later on April 26, however, did he admit to stopping by the surviving brother’s dorm room and seeing what he described as “seven red tubular fireworks” in Tsarnaev’s backpack.According to investigators, Kadyrbayev disposed of the backpack, the firework remnants and a laptop in a nearby dumpster on the night of April 18. Police recovered the evidence from a Boston-area dump more than one week later.In court papers filed over the weekend by Phillipos’ attorneys, they asked the court to release him on bond because he had nothing to do with the attack itself and had been “frightened and confused” under questioning from investigators.“This case is about a frightened and confused 19-year-old who was subjected to intense questioning and interrogation, without the benefit of counsel, and in the context of one of the worst attacks against the nation,” the lawyers wrote.Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov remain in federal custody after being charged last week with conspiracy to obstruct a police investigation. Dzokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty if convicted. … Read More
Neo-Nazi woman begins murder trial in Germany as protesters rally outside courthouse
As angry anti-racism protesters rallied outside the courthouse Monday, the woman at the centre of a landmark German neo-Nazi murder trial was the picture of calm. As Beate Zschaepe entered the courtroom, arms casually crossed and looking confident, she briefly glanced toward the television cameras,…
New video shows Harvard’s creepy quarter-sized ‘RoboBee’ robot insect in flight
Harvard’s tiny “RoboBee” flying robot is shown in flight in a new video released by the school, flapping its translucent wings 120 times per second, emitting a creepy persistent buzz. … Read More
