These are some of the most incredible pictures I’ve seen in some time. The New York City transit department is building an entirely new subway system on the east side of Manhattan. These are pictures of the tunnels and caverns they’re currently building right into the bedrock. Again, not terribly surprising. I know they don’t build these things in the top soil. But when you actually see them they look more like the lunar excavations from 2001. Just give these a look. They’re amazing.
Passenger stands up on flight from Tokyo to Newark, says he’s poisoned everyone on the plane.
The flight is scheduled to arrive at 2 PM.
For all the back and forth about Phoenixes and what exactly he expected a spy organization to do, the one interesting and significant thing to come out of this Snowden live chat is his focus on what is technically possible within the NSA vs whatever policy restrictions are in place to protect privacy, constitutional protections for US citizens and so forth. It’s not even totally clear, reading these answers, how much Snowden and his nemeses within the Intel Community are even disagreeing about how things work.
I have to say Snowden loses a little credibility each time he suggests the US government might try to take him out with a hit squad. And now, al Awlaki really isn’t good evidence to the contrary.
Snowden explains why he didn’t just go to Iceland if that’s where he wanted asylum.
Montreal Mayor arrested on corruption charges.
There’s little doubt the mix of scandals and non-scandals are taking a toll on President Obama’s standing. Here’s the chart of his approval going back to Spring of last year … Read More
Pope Francis blesses thousands of bikers and their Harleys.