Journalist Michael Hastings is dead at 33

[KeenInsight]

Just like Teddy believing Bobby and Jack weren't done in by a conspiracy. Well they are the family, it is their right to think nothing of these things

Ted Kennedy revealed a long time ago, before he passed, that he suspected Bobby knew a lot more about what happened to their brother JFK.

Bobby suspected, from the start, the findings of the Warren Commission were biased at best or fraudulent, but at some point simply went along with the whole "Oswald Did It," Meme which some suspect was to distance himself from pursuing the truth, but that changed when he also ran for President.

Bobby said shortly before his own murder, ""I found out something I never knew... I found out my world was not the real world."

I suspect he meant the true power play of the military and banker infrastructure and corruption at high levels of power. Of course, that's just my assumption, but Bobby to say something like that... Once JFK, RFK, and MLK were scrubbed, Ted Kennedy distanced himself far from the pursuing anything to do with the assassinations and simply went along with whatever the fraudulent investigations stated.

And on the topic of Hastings death, here is a nice video:



Its certainly not news that cars can be hi-jacked and planes remote-controlled. Even a fake heart, pace maker can be hacked to kill someone. Or the CIA's "heart attack" gun. There are plenty of technologies that are manipulated and taking advantage of for the sole purpose of assassination or staged events.

[Luther Blissett]

I find it bizarre that the owner of the pizzeria is a celebrity. I was assuming that this was just a regular corner pizzeria (there are hundreds of those here) up until page 37.

Just a confounded observation.

[Forgetting2]

A culinary celebrity of sorts. It's a high end italian restaurant and adjacent pizzeria, frequented by hollywoods airy, crispy upper crusts.

[fruhmenschen]

see link for full story
http://rt.com/usa/fbi-lawsuit-michael-hastings-753/

FBI sued for keeping secret their file on journalist Michael Hastings
July 29, 2013 19:23


Two investigative journalists are suing the FBI after the government failed to respond on time to a pair of Freedom of Information Act requests filed for details on the death of reporter Michael Hastings.

Jason Leopold and Ryan Shapiro filed a joint suit on Friday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation neglected to respond to their FOIA requests within the 20-working day period required by law.

Leopold and Shapiro both sent FOIA requests to the FBI following Hastings’ untimely death last month, and are now taking legal action in an attempt to expedite pleas that have so far been ignored by the bureau.

Hastings, 33, died last month in Los Angeles, California after his Mercedes C250 Coupé crashed at a high rate of speed in the early morning hours of June 18. Hastings was widely-respected for his hard-hitting brand of national security reporting with outlets ranging from Rolling Stone to Buzzfeed.com, and has been credited with causing the resignation of Stanley McChrystal, the four-star general who headed NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan until a Hastings-penned expose in 2010 embarrassed him to the point of abandoning that role.

According to a friend, Hastings warned his colleagues over email just hours before his death that he was working on a big story and that the FBI would likely be investigating his associates.

“It alarmed me very much,” Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs, a friend of Hastings, said of the email he received last month. “I just said it doesn’t seem like him. I don’t know, I just had this gut feeling and it just really bothered me,” he told KTLA News.

The anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks also claimed that Hastings made contact with an attorney for the group the night before his fatal car-crash, furthering speculation that he sought protection from a potential government investigation.

But now more than one month after Hastings passed away, little remains known about the night of the accident or what kind of investigation, if any, occurred in the days and weeks before the crash, which only further fueled the flames of conspiracy theories that developed in the wake of the accident. The FBI has formally denounced reports that it was involved in a probe focusing on Hastings, but Leopold and Shapiro still insist the government handle the FOIA request, which it was obligated to address after the 20-day mark passed earlier this month.

Screenshot from YouTube user LAnewsLOUDLABS

Screenshot from YouTube user LAnewsLOUDLABS

In a statement published by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Leopold and Shapiro say they’ve retained attorney Jeffrey Light, who in turn filed the motion for summary judgment seeking expedited processing of the federal complaint last week.

"By suing the FBI for failure to comply with the Freedom of Information Act, [we] hope to obtain records pertaining both to the unusual circumstances of Michael Hastings's death and to the broader issue of FBI surveillance of journalists and other critics of American national security policy," Shapiro said.

[slimmouse]

This recent episode of the Corbett Report contains some interesting later interviews with Michael Hastings.



Theres some incredibly real passion in the Irish, to be sure, to be sure.

[82_28]

I (we) could in fact go down in history as the first online entity to call this a car hack. I also again, surmise that in order to gain control of the car Hastings tried futilely to pull the physical emergency brake thus igniting something. Perhaps they were able to send an explosive pulse to the computer that gauges the fuel level, overloading the circuits and igniting the gas tank. But how that car completely exploded is ridiculous. How that tree didn't get uprooted also as ridiculous.

[82_28]

Students spoof GPS signals to send yacht off course

University of Texas at Austin students used a custom-built GPS signal spoofer to send a yacht off course. The $80 million vessel relies entirely on GPS for navigation, and with the owner's permission the students used their device to mimic a GPS signal. The yacht's on-board navigation system detected the signal and used it as a triangulation point; no alarms were triggered, and the crew obeyed their computer and changed course.

GPS spoofing devices are illegal in the US, but can be purchased without issue in other countries. The tactic has also made international news: North Korea was accused of using a similar attack against its southerly neighbor in a massive GPS jamming incident last year. As the Houston Chronicle reports, there are ways to combat these spoofing devices, but "if nothing is done, [GPS receivers are] vulnerable to attack."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/30/45705 ... off-course

[Nordic]

It's interesting how this event serms to have spurred a great many limited hangout types of stories in the media, along with the notion that only "terrorists" are those dastardly enough to do such a thing.

Which is true I suppose considering the USA is the biggest trrrorist organization in the history of mankind.

[0_0]

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1j ... n_100_mph/

[Nordic]

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1jfmgv/car_crashes_into_light_pole_at_more_than_100_mph/

So why didn't that car explode and burn to a crisp?

[Luther Blissett]

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1jfmgv/car_crashes_into_light_pole_at_more_than_100_mph/

So why didn't that car explode and burn to a crisp?

Why would it do that in the absence of an incendiary device? Cars don't often explode anymore.

[Nordic]

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1jfmgv/car_crashes_into_light_pole_at_more_than_100_mph/

So why didn't that car explode and burn to a crisp?

Why would it do that in the absence of an incendiary device? Cars don't often explode anymore.

Exactly.

[DrEvil]

Car hacking code released at Defcon

Car computer hacking hit the gas on the first morning of Defcon 21, as hackers revealed how they took over two of the most popular cars in America (Toyota Prius and Ford Escape).

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Prerecorded video demos of the hacks showed Miller and Valasek disabling the car's brakes, jerking the steering wheel back and forth while the car was in motion, accelerating, taking full control of the steering wheel, yanking the seat belt tight, turning off the engine, turning interior and exterior lights on and off, honking the horn, and making the console show a full tank of gas when it wasn't.

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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-575968 ... at-defcon/

Edit: Video!

[JackRiddler]

Car hacking code released at Defcon

Car computer hacking hit the gas on the first morning of Defcon 21, as hackers revealed how they took over two of the most popular cars in America (Toyota Prius and Ford Escape).

Fits your sig line so well.

[DrEvil]

Heh. Hadn't even thought of that, but it reminded me that it's time for a new one.