LAT: “The narcos rule our lives.”
I do hear things are pretty bad across Mexico with the ongoing cartel wars, but some areas are worse than others…
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Gizmodo: 100 Naked Citizens: 100 Leaked Body Scans.
The system failed…
There’s video at the link. Next time you board a plane, you just might be heading towards 15 minutes of unintended fame…
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From all over the world, eh? The law of unintended consequences strikes again. Though it’s hard to understand how anyone couldn’t have foreseen this result. Heck, even illegal alien-friendly California doesn’t make getting a driver’s license that easy.
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You got GPS all over your shoes, dude: How they found and killed the bloodiest narcoterrorist in the world.
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NYT: Director Sonia Nassery Cole irks the Taliban with The Black Tulip; and Ronald Reagan might just have something to do with it…
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I’m sure Jihad had nothing to do with it: Maybe some young men with roots in certain parts of the world just find hipsters incredibly offensive…
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That leaves us with “Just Not On Our Side”.
Just sayin’…
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Islamic terror satire Four Lions gets distribution deal.
Does that come with a Fatwa? I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough!
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Remembering and understanding 9/11, by El Marco.
Very moving. Especially the obituaries. At the end of the day, that’s what’s it all about: thousands of innocent American lives. And that’s why we must never forget.
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Miami-Dade Police’s “Terrorist Awareness Guide” turns photographers into suspected terrorists.
The system works!
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Ace: White House Recommended Release of Lockerbie Bomber
So that’s what they meant when they said it was “not BP’s doing”…
White House Recommended Release of Lockerbie Bomber
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You can watch it at YesButHowever.
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At TOM. It’s Aggregation Station over there! Lots of links.
Funny how things turned out. Obama stuck by Bush policies right from the start, then he embraced them to the point of making him his own, now he’s outright borrowing leadership solutions from Bush.
And all that after openly criticizing these same policies for almost 2 years. What’s that saying again regarding imitation and flattery? I thought Obama wanted to part with the “failed policies” of the last 8 years.
That giant, deflating sound you hear is millions of rubes across America being let down.
Related: Chris Wysocki must be surprised that Petraeus got the job. And if he in fact is surprised, I can’t blame him…
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For Neda, a 67-minute documentary chronicling the story of Neda Agha-Soltan – who died on this day last year in the midst of Iran’s Green Revolution – is currently airing on HBO as part of its summer documentary series.
Check your local listings. Or watch it free on your computer – at the link above – or via YouTube:
Related content here.
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Fausta: Illegals in Mexico: What Calderon doesn’t want the US to know.
UPDATE: Related: Gov. Brewer launches Keep AZ Safe.
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“I can’t believe what I’m confessing to you.”
Now, for the repercussions. This is far from over…
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No? Well, you don’t have to! Because Obama is sending your tax money to “stimulate” the economy of the Palestinian Territories, to the tune of $400 million.
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An inspirational song and accompanying music video at TOM (based on a true story).
OK, I seriously expect Quincy Jones and his lawyers to make a big deal about this, a la Don Henley.
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Alex Knapp: “I don’t mind that the party in opposition is questioning the legality of President Obama’s acts in office. That’s what parties in opposition are supposed to do. I just wish they’d question things that matter.”
Amen.
UPDATE: Better time management from Congress in general would be nice, too. What with these being difficult times and all. However, I’m not ready to rule out that no impropriety occurred in this Sestak matter, especially given that the latest explanation doesn’t quite add up.
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STRATFOR:
In the United States it is very easy to obtain firearms and it is legal to go to a range or private property to train with them. Armed assaults are also clearly within the skill set of jihadists who have made it only through basic insurgent training…Such attacks will also allow these grassroots operatives to fight like they have been trained. When you combine all these elements with the fact that the United States is an open society with a lot of very vulnerable soft targets, it is not difficult to forecast that we will see more armed jihadist assaults in the United States in the near future.
In the United States it is very easy to obtain firearms and it is legal to go to a range or private property to train with them. Armed assaults are also clearly within the skill set of jihadists who have made it only through basic insurgent training. As we’ve mentioned several times in the past, these grassroots individuals are far more likely to strike the United States and Europe than professional terrorist operatives dispatched from the al Qaeda core group. Such attacks will also allow these grassroots operatives to fight like they have been trained. When you combine all these elements with the fact that the United States is an open society with a lot of very vulnerable soft targets, it is not difficult to forecast that we will see more armed jihadist assaults in the United States in the near future. -
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Smitty on understanding Obama’s National Guard deployment.
Related (marginally): DHS fears Somalian terrorist may sneak into U.S. via Mexico.
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Engadget: “A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego have determined that, with physical access to your car’s ECU, a hacker could ‘adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input’”.
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Is it more like Logan’s Run meets Soylent Green, with hints of The Terminator? Or is it more like Three Days of the Condor meets The Bourne Ultimatum meets Manhunter?
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IBD: “Greece was told that if it wanted a bailout, it needed to consider privatizing its government health care system. So tell us again why the U.S. is following Europe’s welfare state model.”
What will China ask us to give up when our Greek moment comes to pass? We should think about that. One thing we are buying with today’s monster deficits is an erosion of our sovereignty.
The writing on the wall is in Greek…
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Politico: Administration cuts DHS funds for New York City, as Obama visits to thank NYPD for their job in Times Square.
Bad timing. And bad optics, what with the aftermath of the Times Square bust unfolding in nearby Massachusetts.
How does the White House respond? How else? By attacking Bush!
UPDATE: TOM links with related content. Thanks, R.S.!
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LAT: The Road to Area 51.
Great piece on the supersecret air base that officially doesn’t exist.
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Is Awlaki the new Osama Bin Laden? Seems to me he’s running a New Economy version of Al Qaeda: It’s all run from his website. Freelancers, independent contractors and tele-commuters are welcome to apply. Be your own boss, set your own hours, part-time or full-time. You don’t work for Awlaki. You just buy his rhetoric and make it pay for yourself (and his nefarious brand of Islam). How you do it is up to you.
An even better question is what – if anything – is the Obama administration planning to do about Awlaki? Just like the failure to catch Bin Laden was hung around the neck of the Bush White House, the failure to do anything about Awlaki should be similarly placed on the Obama administration. After all, Bin Laden was as much of a sit-back-and-watch-others-do-the-dirty-work talking head as Awlaki is. What is the administration waiting for?
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Old Narrative: It’s domestic, stupid! So you just know “it’s a white man” who hates our government (H/T: Insty).
New Narrative: The system works!
Holder and Napolitano were not available for comment. Too busy congratulating each other…
UPDATE: Meanwhile, at the Ministry of Truth: disappointment and bewilderment.
MORE: More disappointment in the works? Word is Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat in Connecticut. Could it be? Since the guy is an American citizen, and no major media organ – to my knowledge – is talking about his political allegiances at the national level, I think it’s likely.
ANOTHER ONE: Related content from Ed Driscoll: “Bias will not be tolerated.” Too late…
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Guess what? No Tea Party connections, but – incredibly, perhaps – possible Islamic radical connections. Who knew!
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Remember the national security bogeyman of the nuclear weapon hidden in a shipping container, surreptitiously reaching an American port of call to then be detonated? A Russian weapons manufacturer may have just made it a reality, at relatively low cost.
Reuters: Deadly new Russian weapon hides in shipping container: “A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier.” Estimated cost: $10-20 million. That’s not very expensive, especially for oil-rich nations like Venezuela and Iran, who would be thrilled to be able to project power beyond their borders without having to develop or finance a world-class navy.
Perhaps predictably, Russian TV network RT is downplaying the threat: How would terrorists “hijack a satellite needed to guide the missiles?,” they ask. But who cares about terrorists when Venezuela and Iran can probably afford their own missile-guiding satellites?
You can watch the manufacturer’s nifty – but ominous – marketing video for their deadly new product below:
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NYT: T-shirt vendor takes on new persona: “‘See something, say something,’ he said.”
UPDATE: But we appeased you! London Telegraph: Possible link to South Park investigated. Comedy Central’s parent company, MTV Networks Entertainment Group – which is owned by Viacom – has offices in the immediate vicinity of where the car bomb was parked (a radio talk show on L.A.’s KFI640 just reminded me. Actually, MTV used to broadcast from Time Square when I was living in NYC, back in my college days. Not sure if they still do so).
Via Dr. Fiancee, who posted two maps. The car bomb was parked just around the corner from 1515 Broadway, also Viacom Inc.’s address.
MORE: MTV Networks also has offices in Santa Monica, CA. No car bomb there…
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Arizona Sheriff Deputy shot with AK-47 after traffic stop.
I was afraid this would happen; for quite some time, actually.
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Jihadi Masquerade: meet the dude behind the South Park threats. You’ll call him a dude, too, when you learn more about him.
Unfortunately, this conduct is part of a social trend.
I suppose that if Columbine had happened only 10 years later, it would have been carried out by some sort of homegrown “Muslim radical”…
H/T: Instapundit.
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New York grad student develops methods to defeat facial recognition systems.
Hey, if it’s already used at airports – and is coming to your favorite watering hole – might as well prepare now.
And if it makes for a more cyberpunk-looking society, so be it. I’m not sure that means we all have to look like dancers in an early 80′s music video, though. I think this face paint scheme would be more my style.
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Hear, hear. Well said, Mr. Stewart. And yes, both pieces of headgear in the picture are my hats.
(Photo courtesy of my crummy cellphone camera)
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Report: Mexican Cartels Using IED’s: “STRATFOR says the cartels are making more IEDs everyday. Right now, experts don’t think they’ll try to use them here in the U.S. But they’re not ruling anything out.”
Damn. The Cartel Wars get worse – and bigger – every day.
Thanks to Dr. Fiancee for the tip. Dr. Fiancee blogs about crime and national security news here. Be nice to her and pay her blog a visit.
