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POPSFt. Hood Shooting, 'This is a Domestic Terrorist Attack' Gen. Barry McCafferty (CNN) -- An owner of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Fort Hood, Texas, said Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came in for coffee and hashbrowns most mornings, including the morning he allegedly shot dozens of soldiers. Surveillance video from the store obtained by CNN shows a man who, according to the store owner, is Hasan at the cashier's counter at about 6:20 a.m. Thursday (7:20 a.m. ET) -- about seven hours before the mass shooting -- carrying a beverage and dressed in traditional Arab garb. View video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWuTSuw9Nw more here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.suspect/index.html
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POPSStudents Outsource Homework I don't think this is what Timothy Ferris had in mind with his 4-Hour Work Week concept. Kids need to learn - outsourcing homework is not a good thing - the kids in other countries are already much smarter because they work hard at studies. If students want to outsource something, they should be outsourcing getting tutors and academic coaches from overseas to help them study more, not having the work done for them.
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POPSMichael Jackson alive?! Seen coming out of coroner's van! before ya get excited read article at http://topics.cnn.com/topics/michael_jackson BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- A hoax video purporting to show Michael Jackson hopping out of a coroner's van alive was produced by a German television station as an experiment, the broadcaster told CNN Monday.. It was made to show how easy it is to spread rumors online, said Heike Schultz, a spokeswoman for RTL, the leading private broadcaster in Germany. "We sent out a press release before we did the video to alert everyone that it was fake, but once posted it spread really fast," she said. More than 880,000 people have clicked on the most popular version of the video on YouTube, posted by a user using the name
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POPSEmployment and Insurance: What’s the Connection? The problem with insurance being tied to employment is that small businesses are not offered price breaks due to economies of scale. Small businesses are paying a proportionately higher cost than larger companies. And because of the growing number of uninsured Americans, cost shifting inevitably occurs. Additional health care costs are passed on to whoever is paying the bills – be that businesses or taxpayers. We taxpayers, businesses and individuals are paying to care for the uninsured, and we’re doing it in the most expensive way possible. As long as people continue to fall through the gaps, those who cannot afford healthcare through their employer or are unemployed, there will be a greater need for public policy to define a solution. Public policy should not be the only answer but instead should work with private industry to find a solution to cover all Americans.
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POPSSuicide blasts at Jakarta Ritz, Marriott kill 8 see images of the aftermath: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/17/indonesia.hotels.explosions/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto Suspicion will fall on the Southeast Asian Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah or its allies. The network is blamed for past attacks in Indonesia, including a 2003 bombing at the Marriott when 12 people died. The blasts at the J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, located side-by-side in an upscale business district in Jakarta, blew out windows and scattered debris and glass across the street, kicking up a thick plume of smoke. Facades of both hotels were reduced to twisted metal. An Associated Press reporter at the scene saw bodies being shuttled away in police trucks. Alex Asmasubrata, who was jogging nearby, said he walked into the Marriott before emergency services arrived and "there were bodies on the ground, one of them had no stomach," he said. "It was terrible."
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POPS Be Afraid Bomb parts smuggled into 10 federal buildings during test In a videotape obtained by CNN, a covert GAO inspector places a bag containing bomb components on an X-ray machine conveyor belt and then walks through a magnetometer at an unidentified federal building. Unlike some covert tests that use simulated explosives, the GAO used actual bomb components in the test and publicly available information "to identify a type of device that a terrorist could use" to damage a building. Watch undercover agent smuggle bomb "The (improvised explosive device) was made up of two parts -- a liquid explosive and a low-yield detonator -- and included a variety of materials not typically brought into a federal facility by an employee or the public," the report says. Investigators obtained the components at local stores and over the Internet for less than $150, the report says. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/07/federal.buildings.security/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
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POPSBlacks in survey say race relations are worse under Obama (cnn.com)
From Blackinformant.com: The Democratic party played the race card to the hilt all throughout the election cycle. If you criticized Obama in any way, you were portrayed as either a “racist” who secretly did not want a Black man in the White House or you were simply an “Uncle Tom”. After Obama won the election, the media was quick to locate racist loons like David Duke (whose opinions never matter to the mainstream in the first place) and ask him for his two cents on Obama. Democrats repeatedly asked the question “Is Obama Black enough?” when Obama was running against Hillary Clinton. Any association with fried chicken with Obama became a few marchers short of launching yet another civil rights movement. Didn’t like the first lady’s fashion picks? You were a mean, bitter person who simply had a hard time dealing with Black women in powerful positions. Didn’t support the stimulus package? It was considered a “…a slap in the face of African-Americans.”
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POPSMore than 800 gun buyers on terrorist watch list
The futility of ‘government control’ The terrorist watch list is becoming a joke. There are children, a retired ANG General (and commercial pilot) on the list: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tsa.watch.list/index.html The sheer size of the list makes it a joke: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-03-10-watchlist_N.htm can there really be this many terrorists living in the US? This list has become a witch hunt reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Terrorists are the new Red Scare. If someone on the terrorist watch list is allowed to buy a gun and then kills people with it shouldn’t the US government be held responsible much like a bartender serving a drink to a drunk who then gets in his car a kills someone? They claim they want to protect us and then don’t communicate between departments. Seems pretty futile to me. This is a means for the FBI to get that database of everyone in the US it has wants so badly. http://www.contumacy.org/bbs/index.pl?noframes;read=7839
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POPSWhat Consumers Should Know About Credit Card Law click for video. The other risk is that your account could be closed all together, as what happened to a million Advanta customers http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/18/news/cards.advanta.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009051813
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POPSConficker Worm Awakens to Drop Potentially Dangerous Payload The Conficker worm is currently active and updating via peer-to-peer (P2P). Researchers and security experts are analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto infected computers. We suspect that the code may be some type of logging program that has the ability to steal or compromise data on an infected system. Many people are surprised as to the new developments of Conficker as they thought April 1st marked the date for Conficker performing any malicious actions but they failed to realize that Conficker only downloaded an update on April Fool’s day. Judging from today’s actions, it is safe to say that we have yet to see the true devastation of Conficker.C.
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POPSConficker Wakes Up, Updates, Drops Payload The development was found when Trend Micro researchers noticed a new file in the Windows Temp folder and a large encrypted TCP response from a known Conficker P2P IP node hosted in Korea: Two things can be summed up from the events that transpired: 1. As expected, the P2P communications of the Downad/Conficker botnet may have just been used to serve an update, and not via HTTP. The Conficker/Downad P2P communications is now running in full swing! 2. Conficker-Waledac connection? Possible, but we still have to dig deeper into this…
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POPSBrian J. Doyle Brian J. Doyle, (born April 7, 1950) is a former Deputy Press Secretary in the United States Department of Homeland Security. In 2006 he was indicted for seducing a 14 year old girl.
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POPSBlackOps: False Intel Iraq - Now False Intel Iran
Some have defined political balckops as 1.) Kill the truth and 2) Spread lies and fear. In that case BlackOps were at work last week. That story is herehttp://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/20/iran.nuclear/ The story with the truth, though, was never mentioned: a significant annual report by the IAEA that Iran was cooperating okay with nuke weapons inspections and another story from Iran pledging to continue to cooperate. IAEA are the people who got it right about Saddam Hussein having no WMD and got it right about the claims of Saddam trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger were based on forged documents. But the news reported last week came instead from ISIS, a 2-faced blackop group that always kept saying Saddam had WMD. Are we to get fooled again, by the very same people, in the very same way!? This clip/report challenges what ISIS said last week. It also exposes who was behind the Niger yellowcake lies. We need truth & justice. Spread the word
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POPS Atlas Is Shrugging Monday, 2/23/2009 Obama drives up the fear factor CNN: A new national poll indicates that nearly three out of four Americans are scared about the way things are going in the country today. Seventy-three percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday say they're very or somewhat scared about the way things are going in the United States. That's six points higher than in an October poll. Nearly eight in 10 say things are going badly in the country, with just 21 percent suggesting that things are going well. The survey also says that three out of four Americans are angry about the way things are going in the country. But three out of four questioned say that things are going well for them personally. http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-drives-up-fear-factor.html ... http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/23/poll.obama.media/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
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POPShttp://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/02/20/women.bank.robbers/index.html "It felt powerful, exciting, quick," said the woman, who spoke with CNN under the pseudonym Jane Smith. "At that time of my life, everything was upside down and I didn't have any control." Smith told CNN she was going through a bad divorce and that robbing a bank "made me feel like I was in control again." She is one of a growing number of female bank robbers, a crime normally committed by men. Video Watch what makes female bank robbers tick »
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