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Cartel thugs go phishing in Mexico: Fliers circulate with fake email to “denounce” Monterrey narcos In Mexico, where violence seems to be escalating daily, the nation’s National Defense Secretary today warned citizens of fake flyers distributed in narco-plagued Monterrey that invite concern… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/09/29/cartel-thugs-go-phishing-in-mexico-fliers-circulate-with-fake-email-to-denounce-narcos.html In Mexico, where violence seems to be escalating daily,…

Flavor Flav denies chicken restaurant is in trouble Ethan Miller/Getty Images Rap veteran Flavor Flav has dismissed allegations his fried chicken restaurant is in financial difficulty after a number of employees claimed their paychecks had bounced. … via Daily Dish: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=86419 Let me say this – being that is a new up-and-running business there was…

Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security A computer programmer who said his software could prevent Al Qaeda’s next attack won $20 million in contracts, despite suspicions that his claims were a hoax. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/us/politics/20data.html?_r=1 For eight years, government officials turned to Dennis Montgomery, a California computer programmer, for eye-popping technology that he…

Afghan imams wage political battle against U.S. Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/17/AR2011021706160.html?wprss=rss_world Across town, a firebrand imam named Habibullah was even more blunt. “Let these jackals leave this country,” the preacher, who uses only one name, declared of foreign troops. “Let these brothers of monkeys, gorillas and pigs leave this country. The people of Afghanistan should determine their…

WikiLeaks Defector Slams Assange In Tell-All Book WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost control of his site’s submission system in an internal revolt last fall, and has never regained it, according to a tell-all book penned by the organization’s top defector, who accuses Assange of routinely exaggerating via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/wikileaks-book/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 Last August, in the wake of…

‘All People Are the Same to God’: An Insider’s Portrait of Joseph Kony An unearthed document provides a layered, bizarre, insight into Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, which to many people are known more by deeds than by close-up views. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/an-insiders-portrait-of-joseph-kony/ Among the men at large in the world…

Moscow clashes put authorities in a quandary Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/13/AR2010121302229.html?wprss=rss_world On Saturday, several thousand young men clashed with police at Manezh Square, just outside the Kremlin. Eighty were briefly detained, but riot police chased most of the crowd into the subway, where they rampaged through the cars threatening non-Russians. Three natives of the Caucasus were stabbed…

Surprise! Feds stored thousands of checkpoint body scan images after all US agencies have long defended the use of body scanning devices at airports with the promise that all images will be discarded as soon as security staff have viewed them. Last summer, the TSA claim… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/04/surprise-feds-stored.html Now it turns out that…

Mexican drug lord’s killing sparks roadblocks, threatening banners Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/06/AR2010110603627.html?wprss=rss_world “It’s a huge relief to know that Tony Tormenta has been eliminated, His gangsters were everywhere,” said a supermarket worker in Reynosa who gave his name as Oscar. “But we’re still worried, because they’ll find another boss, and who knows what the Zetas will do?”

Iraq confirms that bomb-sniffing devices don’t work Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/02/AR2010110203290.html?wprss=rss_world The Iraqi Interior Ministry inspector general recently determined that wands used by police as the frontline defense in the country’s fight against bombs are worthless.

North Korea releases photo, video of Kim Jong Eun, presumed successor Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093000535.html?wprss=rss_world His mouth is pursed. He is wearing a black Maoist-style track suit. His hair, parted in the middle, flows up on both sides, giving his hairline the profile of an “M.” Dozens of delegates stand behind him. Two seats to the left…