Category: News
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Covert action in Colombia
Covert action in Colombia Previously undisclosed CIA program provided intelligence for airstrikes and GPS kits to guide smart bombs. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/12/21/covert-action-in-colombia/?wprss=rss_world The 50-year-old Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), once considered the best-funded insurgency in the world, is at its smallest and most vulnerable state in decades, due in part to a CIA…
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Top Photojournalism Of 2013
Link: Top Photojournalism Of 2013 | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Adobe users warned of cyber attack
Link: Adobe users warned of cyber attack – British Journal of Photography Adobe has confirmed that personal data for 2.9 million of its customers has been stolen after the software company was the victim of a cyber attack
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Photojournalist Raped in Mumbai
Link: Photojournalist Raped in Mumbai – NYTimes.com A female photojournalist on assignment in Mumbai was gang raped while her male colleague was tied up and beaten, the police said. Five men were being sought as suspects in the assault Thursday evening
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Fine-Art Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Faces Murder Trial August 26
Fine-Art Photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa Faces Murder Trial August 26 | PDNPulse Zwelethu Mthethwa, the South African fine-art photographer, will go on trial on Monday, charged with murdering a woman on a street in a suburb of Cape Town, according to South Africa’s Mail & Guardian. Mthethwa was arrested May 5, accused of beating and k…
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Bashar Al-Assad Introduces Syrian Bike-Sharing Program
Link: Bashar Al-Assad Introduces Syrian Bike-Sharing Program | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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Kim Jong-il’s Sushi Chef Kenji Fujimoto
Men’s Fashion, Style, Grooming, Fitness, Lifestyle, News & Politics homepage | The latest tips and advice for men on style, grooming, fitness, best products, travel destinations and more. Find politics, sports and entertainment news. via GQ: http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201306/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson-2013?printable=true North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or,…
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Survivorship bias and electronic publishing: practically no one is making any money
Survivorship bias and electronic publishing: practically no one is making any money Toby Buckell has posted a great piece on “survivorship bias” and new models for electronic publishing. Survivorship bias occurs when we only hear about spectacular success stories, and … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/29/survivorship-bias-and-electron.html Toby Buckell has posted a great piece on “survivorship bias”…
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How Raymond Davis Turned Pakistan Against the United States
How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States What really happened after Raymond Davis killed two men in the street in Lahore. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/magazine/raymond-davis-pakistan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&pagewanted=all Davis was sitting in a Lahore police station, having shot two young men who approached his car on a black motorcycle, their guns drawn, at an intersection congested…
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See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya
Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing traps — secret compartments in cars that can hide everything from weed to jewelry to guns. And if they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn’t his problem. He…
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David LaChapelle Sued for $3 Million by Gallerist
David LaChapelle Sued for $3 Million by Gallerist | PDNPulse A Montana gallerist has sued David LaChapelle for $3 million dollars, alleging the photographer attacked him in his Manhattan apartment on March 9, 2012. The suit, filed yesterday by James Parmenter in Manhattan Supreme Court, alleges that in the middle o via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/03/david-lachapelle-sued-for-3-million-by-gallerist.html A…
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share.” Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0&pagewanted=all “Don’t talk to me about nutrition,” he reportedly said, taking on the voice of the typical consumer. “Talk to me about taste, and if this stuff tastes better, don’t run around trying to sell stuff…
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The Shooter
Link: The Shooter | Center for Investigative Reporting The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden sat in a wicker chair in my backyard, wondering how he was going to feed his wife and kids or pay for their medical care.
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John McAfee’s Last Stand
John McAfee Fled to Belize, But He Couldn’t Escape Himself On November 12, 2012, Belizean police announced that they were seeking John McAfee for questioning in connection with the murder of his neighbor. Six months earlier, I began an in-depth investigation into McAfee’s life. This is the chronicle of that inves via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/ff-john-mcafees-last-stand/all/ On…
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A Eulogy for #Occupy
A Eulogy for #Occupy Wired hired writer Quinn Norton in the fall of 2011 to embed herself among activists in the Occupy movement, and report back on what she witnessed. Throughout the past year, Norton filed a number of stories about the people behind the movement, the cops s via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/12/a-eulogy-for-occupy/all/ Just as I…
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Lair of King Tongmyong’s Unicorn Reconfirmed in North Korea Lair of King Tongmyong’s Unicorn Reconfirmed in North Korea
Link: News From KOREAN CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY of DPRK Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom (B.C. 277-A.D. 668).
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The Corner Where Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan Meet
The Scariest Little Corner of the World In the dusty triangle where Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan meet, there is more than one war going on. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/magazine/the-corner-where-afghanistan-iran-and-pakistan-meet.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 An old man with a missing finger pulled me aside and admonished: “Our life depends on this smuggling business. If this ends, we will have nothing. There’s no…
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Kidnapping unravels a spy’s career
Link: Kidnapping unravels a spy’s career – The Washington Post At 56, Sabrina De Sousa’s life has come to be defined by a landmark criminal case that has been playing out in Italy for much of the past decade, ever since prosecutors began investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known…
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Homebrew narco-tanks of the Mexican drug war
Homebrew narco-tanks of the Mexican drug war Here’s a brief article from a June 2011 number of the NYT by Damien Cave detailing the bizarre improvised tanks used by Mexican drug gangs: Over the weekend, Mexican authorities found two mor… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/16/homebrew-narco-tanks-of-the-me.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The completed versions were bigger than what has been found before.…
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Yuri Irsenovich Kim a.k.a. Kim Jong Il is dead, but where was he born?
Yuri Irsenovich Kim a.k.a. Kim Jong Il is dead, but where was he born? From the very start, Kim Jong Il’s life has been shrouded in mystery. According to official North Korean biographers, the Dear Leader was born on Mount Paektu under a double rainbow and the a… via Tomas van Houtryve | Journal: http://tomasvanhoutryve.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/yuri-irsenovich-kim-a-k-a-kim-jong-il-is-dead-but-where-was-he-born/…