Edward Snowden’s complex world is unraveling and transforming. Snowden, you will recall is the former employee of Booze Allen Hamilton, a private company used by the secretive National Security Agency. What is not recognized is that Snowden’s revelations about the collection of meta-data, every electronic communication in the country – is nothing new. The NSA […]
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Did “They” Get to Journalist Michael Hastings?
Why Radical Republicans Are Courting Radical Islam
Let’s all take another trip down the covert rabbit-hole, shall we? As has been reported, the Uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers accused of the Boston Marathon Bombings was married to the daughter of high ranking CIA officer Graham Fuller. Buried deep within an article about the Tsarneav family and Fuller is one of the best […]
Turkish Protests: The Next “Big Thing”
The Dumbest Person in Congress is Calling it “Quits”
Woo-Hoo! One of the absolute stupidest people in the U.S. Congress is finally calling it quits. That’s right, Michele Bachmann – the wild-eyed zombie-crazed Christian freak of nature will not seek another term in Congress. Proving once again that many people fail upward, Michele-my-belle joins the ranks of Sarah Palin in failed radical right-wing Republitards. […]
MMA Fighter Linked to Boston Bombing Shot by FBI (UPDATE #3)
It looks like Federal agents are whittling away at more suspects linked to the Boston Marathon bombing. From Raw Story: Report: FBI shoots and kills man in Florida connected to Marathon bombing suspect Federal agents shot and killed a man linked to one of the suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing attack after […]
The Utility of Tai Chi Chuan
Readers of the old “Dojo Rat” blog, which began in the fall of 2006, know that martial arts has been one of my passions for over thirty years. It began with wrestling in high school, progressed through Japanese and Korean Karate, some Aikido blended with Jujitsu, and landed in the soft Chinese arts of Bagua, […]
Russian Report: Tsarnaev Trained at U.S.-Sponsered Seminar
Sources in Russia are reporting that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect, was trained at a seminar by a right-wing think-tank. First, here is the report, translated from the original Russian in “Izvestia”: “Tamerlane Tsarnaeva recruited via the Georgian Foundation One of the organizers of the terrorist attack in Boston, studied at the workshop held […]
The Worst Possible Use of a Karate Dojo
Recapping a week from hell recently; The Boston Marathon bombing, the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, Someone shot at a power plant in California, and another at a Tennessee Nuclear plant, and finally the delivery of toxic Ricin letters to President Obama and other public officials: From Raw Story Ricin found in dojo of man charged […]
Boston Bombing: Tsarnaev Uncle Married CIA Officer’s Daughter
In an interesting twist of intrigue, “Gawker” and other sources are reporting that The uncle of the Tsarnaev brothers was married to influential CIA official Graham Fuller: “Ex-CIA Agent Denies Rumors of Ties to Ruslan Tsarnaev” “Graham Fuller, a retired CIA officer whose daughter was briefly married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Uncle Ruslan), has come out […]