Check out this fascinating and hilarious article from Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone as he retells his experience of infiltrating Pastor John Hagee’s mega church.

The CIA just released documents re: their use of torture in interrogations. In this revealing document we learn all the details the CIA feels comfortable releasing. Everything is blacked out except: “These enhanced techniques include:” and then farther down the page, “waterboard.”

via boing boing

If there was any doubt on whether or not cell phones are powered by evil demons, here’s the decisive proof…

(This gets particularly ugly at 19 seconds)

Who knew so much evil could be compacted into a small handheld device?

Nothing more sexy than cameras shaped like guns…

Great news!  Now the Air Force can successfully drop 500-pound bombs from unmanned aerial vehicles!

An MQ-9 Reaper successfully dropped its first GPS-guided GBU-49 missile during a live-fire test May 13 at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, at China Lake, Calif.

Manned U.S. aircraft have frequently dropped the 500-pound bomb loaded with a GPS kit in Iraq and Afghanistan because of its accuracy and ability to reduce collateral damage.

Pilots and sensor operators with the 658th Aeronautical Systems Squadron flew three Reaper sorties and dropped six GBU-49s on target, according to an Air Force Material Command news release.

The FBI is attempting to recruit people to help them infiltrate vegan terrorist pot-luck dinners in Minneapolis/St. Paul the site for the 2008 Republican National Committee Convention this summer…

What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant—someone to show up at “vegan potlucks” throughout the Twin Cities and rub shoulders with RNC protestors, schmoozing his way into their inner circles, then reporting back to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, a partnership between multiple federal agencies and state and local law enforcement. The effort’s primary mission, according to the Minneapolis division’s website, is to “investigate terrorist acts carried out by groups or organizations which fall within the definition of terrorist groups as set forth in the current United States Attorney General Guidelines.”

Carroll would be compensated for his efforts, but only if his involvement yielded an arrest. No exact dollar figure was offered.

via Boing Boing

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A lot more meat in this installment… wonderful, colorful, straight-forward writing:

http://www.dailyspeculations.com/wordpress/?p=2929