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Rupertgate Friday – A Week Full Of Intrigues.

enlarge Heather Mills – Sir Paul isn’t amused either. Click here to view this media The latest revelations in the ever-growing Phone Hacking scandal may have less to do with Rupert Murdoch than the Standard Operating Procedure so much used by the Murdoch Empire. This time it’s via The Daily Mirror, whose editor at the time was CNN’s Piers Morgan and who later became Editor at News Of the World and now Scotland Yard would like to have a word or two with him. As was disclosed by Heather Mills , the former Mrs. Macca on an episode of BBC2′s Newsnight this past Wednesday, she was approached by a writer for the Daily Mirror and asked for a statement about a recent spat she had with then-boyfriend Paul. When the journalist gave her a verbatim rundown of a phone call the two had, Heather promptly blew a gasket and threatened legal action if the gist of the conversation was ever made public. When informed of this two days ago, Sir Paul expressed shock, horror and a bee-line visit to Scotland Yard when he finishes his latest tour. There have been numerous phone hacking allegations associated with Morgan, who of course denies them all. But since he did disclose in a recent book a somewhat cavalier attitude towards the practice, it certainly prompts many questions and begs many answers. enlarge Piers Morgan – former Editor of The Daily Mirror. “Scotland Yard’s jus’ dyin’ to meet ya”. And then there’s the disclosure of letters written between Rupert Murdoch and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond , taking on a friendlier-than-usual air between Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Salmond right up to June of this year. Maybe nothing, but a curious batch of coincidences surrounding a sudden shift in support from News Of The World of Mister Salmond in a recent election and the presence of News International printing plants springing up in Scotland shortly after. Fancy that. enlarge Alex Salmond. Allegedly in that fine tradition of one hand washing the other. Click here to view this media And next week? Anybody’s guess.

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Standard and Poor’s has downgraded US Treasury Bonds from AAA to AA+. They claim the downgrade is based on the GOP’s refusal to raise revenues. Maybe. But I doubt it. The first question I have is which hedge fund managers stand to profit. That’s an answer I want right now. Not ten months from now. NOW. On July 25th, someone placed a ONE BILLION dollar bet that our credit rating would drop. It’s time for them to be identified. It’s time for us to name the terrorists and know they are us. I am tired of the manipulation. The tea party is rejoicing over this. They believe they will break Medicare and Social Security by breaking the country. If ever there was a time to stand in the streets, in our communities, in our towns and call for them to be held to account. Enough. this rant brought to you from my vacation. I will be back next week.

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Black Hat hackers demo Square card skimmer, feed it stolen credit card numbers

Here’s some more fun out of Vegas, this time involving Jack Dorsey’s Square and a little thing we like to call credit card fraud. Researchers from Aperture Labs (seriously) held two demonstrations at the Black Hat Conference . The first used a script, written by Adam Laurie, to convert stolen credit card data into a series of audio tones that were then fed to the Square app via the headphone jack on a phone — removing the need to have a physical card. A second avenue of fraud, also using code authored by Laurie, turned the Square dongle into a skimmer. It intercepted incoming data, which is unencrypted, and spit out human readable numbers that could easily be used to clone a card. New hardware that encrypts information pulled from the magnetic strip is in the pipeline but, until then, it seems everyone’s favorite smartphone-based payment service has some troublesome holes to fill. Black Hat hackers demo Square card skimmer, feed it stolen credit card numbers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Coming into office after a series of crises, Dwight Eisenhower knew that part of his job as president was to calm us down. “He set out to project an aura of calm command” and, “through patient and temperate negotiation,” he sought to balance rival factions in the government, writes Jim…

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Williams College Takes Top Spot in Forbes’ University Rankings

This week, Forbes released its annual ranking of the 650 best undergraduate academic institutions in America.  Its top ten however, are not quite as predictable as you might assume. The magazine conducted its analysis using a set of criteria which encompassed caliber of professors, career opportunities the students are afforded, matriculation rates, and degree of student

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Back On All My Children

DufGo says: Sarah Michelle Gellar Back On All My Children | Online News http://htxt.it/yx43

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Potter fans beware: Cybercriminals are looking to hex users of JK Rowling’s new website, Pottermore, a security firm warns. The site, which offers ebooks and new material, is currently in beta, with limited accessibility—and some hackers are trying to sell early-access accounts for up to $100, the Telegraph reports….

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75-year-old Pilot Explains Encounter With F-16s

Myrtle Rose was taking a flight over Chicago when the 75-year-old pilot looked out her cockpit window to see two F-16 fighter jets. When she landed, police told her she had strayed into restricted airspace during a visit by Pres. Barack Obama. (Aug. 5)

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Turns out one medical marijuana dispensary in Los Angeles wasn’t so chill. A police raid of the place netted 9 kilos of cocaine, oxycodone, an AK-47 assault rifle and other guns, and 300 pot plants, according to authorities. An investigation of the White Oak Healing Center was launched last year…

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Its International Beer Day

Happy International Beer Day.mp4 justincripe says: @ conqueredthesky But…but… its International Beer Day .

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