Im Oktober 2009 findet die Berliner Polizei in Friedrichshain “angebrannte Gegenstände” unter einem Auto, dadurch “entstand ein geringer Sachschaden am Pkw”. In Berlin brennen hunderte Autos pro Jahr, die Polizei ist blamiert. Im Jahr 2007 hatten sie 14 Verdächtige gefasst, von denen neun ein Handy dabei hatten. Deswegen geht die Polizei davon aus, dass auch diesmal die Täterin ein Handy einstecken hatte. Also möchten die Ermittler “sämtliche Verkehrsdaten” der 13 am Tatort zu empfangenden Funkzellen. Ein Gericht bewilligt den Antrag und die vier Betreiber der deutschen Mobilfunknetze geben die Daten heraus. Deutlich wird, dass ein recht großer Teil von Berlin-Friedrichshain betroffen ist. Alle Handys, die sich darin aufhielten, könnten also in den übermittelnden Daten auftauchen.

Bulat Tschagajew ist ein Tschetschene, wie er im Bilderbuch steht: korrupt, cholerisch, unberechenbar. Der beste Satz seiner bisher knapp acht Monate als Besitzer des Neuenburger Traditionsvereins Neuchâtel Xamax: «Ich werde euch alle töten!» Jüngster und hoffentlich bald letzter Höhepunkt der Ära Tschagajew: Nachdem die Liga seinem Verein die Lizenz entzogen hatte, liess der Choleriker per Nachrichtenagentur ausrichten «Fuck you!». Ein Mann sieht rot – im doppelten Sinn. Im Rückblick könnte man sagen: Bulat Tschagajew hat vom ersten Tag nichts anderes als «Fuck you!» gesagt. Vermutlich hat ihn nur niemand verstanden.

Der Gütersloher Spielehersteller Ascaron hat große Spiele wie Sacred hervorgebracht, und mindestens ebenso groß waren seine Reinfälle. Mit der Pleite im April endet eine Ära - auch eine von Pfusch und Nachlässigkeit. Die Geschichte einer schleichenden Katastrophe.

A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. ... A spate of stories in 2007 and 2008, including a report by ABC News and a New Yorker article, suggested that the United States was offering covert support to Jundallah. The issue has now returned to the spotlight with the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and has outraged serving and retired intelligence officers who fear that Israeli operations are endangering American lives.

The march toward musical empire began on Oct. 22, 2003, in a bar in Milan, Italy. Fans of Club Brugge K.V., in town for their team's group-stage UEFA Champions League clash against European giant A.C. Milan, gathered to knock back some pre-match beers. Over a stereo blared seven notes: Da...da-DA-da da DAAH DAAH, the signature riff of a minor American hit song. Kickoff was coming. The visiting Belgians moved out into the city center, still singing. They kept chanting it in the stands of the San Siro—Oh...oh-OH-oh oh OHH OHH—as Peruvian striker Andres Mendoza stunned Milan with a goal in the 33rd minute and Brugge made it hold up for a shocking 1-0 upset. Filing out of the stadium, they continued to belt it out.

Der Spitzensatz der spanischen Einkommenssteuer, bisher 43 Prozent, wird von der PP um bis zu sieben Prozentpunkte angehoben. Damit besteuern die Konservativen höhere Einkommen wieder stärker. Die Sozialdemokraten, die sich Sozialisten (PSOE) nennen, hatten den Steuersatz zuvor von 45 auf 43% gesenkt und sogar die Vermögenssteuer mitten in der Krise abgeschafft. Die Konservativen haben nun sogar die Erhöhung der Steuer nach Höhe des Einkommens gestaffelt. Wer zwischen 5.050 und rund 17.360 Euro im Jahr zu versteuern hat, für den wird der Steuersatz nur um 0,75 Prozentpunkte erhöht. Während für Spitzenverdiener mit einem Jahreseinkommen über 300.000 Euro eigentlich eine Anhebung um sieben Prozentpunkte ansteht, gilt das für viele Fußballspieler mit Millionengehältern nicht. Denn für etliche ausländische Stars von Real Madrid, wie Cristiano Ronaldo oder Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (Kaká) und andere, wird nur eine Steuererhöhung um 0,75 Prozentpunkte auf einen ohnehin abgesenkten Steuersatz von 24% fällig.

In those days it was rare for sophomores to make varsity. Herring made one exception in 1978, one designed to remedy his team's height disadvantage. This is part of the reason Mike Jordan went home and cried in his room after reading the two lists. It wasn't just that his name was missing from the varsity roster. It was also that as he scanned the list he saw the name of another sophomore, one of his close friends, the 6'7" Leroy Smith. Over the next three decades Jordan would become a world-class collector of emotional wounds, a champion grudge-holder, a magician at converting real and imagined insults into the rocket fuel that made him fly. If he had truly been cut that year, as he would claim again and again, he wouldn't have had such an immediate chance for revenge. But in fact his name was on the second list, the jayvee roster, with the names of many of his fellow sophomores. Jordan quickly became a jayvee superstar.

Cocksucker Blues is an unreleased documentary film directed by the noted still photographer Robert Frank chronicling The Rolling Stones' North American tour in 1972 in support of their album Exile on Main St.. The film was shot cinéma vérité, with several cameras available for anyone in the entourage to pick up and start shooting. This allowed the film's audience to witness backstage parties, drug use (Mick Jagger is seen snorting cocaine backstage), roadie and groupie antics, and the Stones with their defenses down. One scene includes a groupie in a hotel room injecting heroin. The film is under a court order which forbids it from being shown unless the director Robert Frank is physically present. This ruling stems from the conflict that arose when the band, who had commissioned the film, decided that its content was embarrassing and potentially incriminating, and did not want it shown.

In this film, leading UK fashion photographer Rankin celebrates the work of Life's legendary photographers including Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, who went to outrageous lengths to get the best picture - moving armies, naval fleets and even the population of entire towns. He travels across the USA to meet photographers Bill Eppridge, John Shearer, John Loengard, Burk Uzzle and Harry Benson who, between them, have shot the big moments in American history - from the assassination of Robert F Kennedy, the Civil Rights struggle and Vietnam to behind the scenes at the Playboy mansion and the greatest names in Hollywood.

If anything it makes me hugely nostalgic for the days when every kid in Sweden (or least so it seemed) wore enormous pants, baggy Stüssy t-shirts over baggy Earth Crisis long sleeves, rode skateboards to band practice to rehearse with their own vegan hardcore band, and talked about how Millencolin's first album was so much better than the new one, Life On A Plate.

Yesterday, an 93-page long FBI document recording the alleged criminal activity of Wu-Tang Clan member, the late Russell T. Jones bka Ol Dirty Bastard, was made public under the Freedom of Information Act. You can read the entire (although, profoundly redacted) thing, which includes accounts of shootings, car jackings and numerous other crimes below.

The social club wasn’t so inviting, though, and had a lot of attitude. We made the rules and ran a business that was very successful. People were addicted to the clothes like a drug. We didn’t want to work so hard so we developed a sales style that worked in our favour. In the early days, it was like, come in, but don’t touch. You can look with your eyes, but not with your hands. It was a crazy way to sell garments but the customer learned the deal: don’t fuck with us and we won’t fuck with you.

The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90 percent of wireless bandwidth. Arieso, a company in Newbury, England, that advises mobile operators in Europe, the United States and Africa, documented the statistical gap when it tracked 1.1 million customers of a European mobile operator during a 24-hour period in November. The gap between extreme users and the rest of the population is widening, according to Arieso. In 2009, the top 3 percent of heavy users generated 40 percent of network traffic. Now, Arieso said, these users pump out 70 percent of the traffic.

Die italienische Mafia wächst - nach einer aktuellen Studie ist das organisierte Verbrechen die größte Wirtschaftskraft des Landes und mit einer Liquidität von etwa 65 Milliarden Euro inzwischen auch die mächtigste Bank. Das geht aus dem Bericht "Die Hand der Kriminalität auf den Betrieben" hervor, den die Dachvereinigung kleinerer und mittlerer Firmen am Dienstag in Rom vorstellte. Allein die fast 100 Milliarden Euro, die das organisierte Verbrechen jährlich über Bars, Restaurants, Hotels oder Geschäfte in ihrer Hand einnehme, machten etwa sieben Prozent des italienischen Bruttoinlandsproduktes aus.

Abductees: created from real interviews of people who claim alien abduction, some taken while under hypnosis. Taken from tv early one morning, had to cut about a minute off the start to get it on Youtube, but you get the gist.

This trailer, directed by the late James Lebon, features a look into the rave like gathering of Stussy Tribe members, including Jules Gayton, Michael Koppelmon, Albee and Hiroshi Fujiwara to name a few, as well as shots from their Tokyo travels and interviews. A reminiscing piece for sure, it certainly captures the storied history of Stussy and its influential role in the development of streetwear culture.

In the quest for the test to fulfill an achievement / everybody's only in it for themselves / when the fact of the matter is they just don't care / to extend a helping hand to anyone else / so tell me why, did you have to lie / and try to make me all confused about the U.S.A. / when the fact of the matter is you just don't care / to comprehend or understand a single word I say / I don't want to have I go against I / oh let me tell you / the same old story, no factual glory / I against I against I against I / and I say I don't like it, and I know I don't want it / I against I against I against I / almighty watching, almighty watching / I against I against I against I / and I say I don't like it, and I know I don't want it / I against I against I against I / I said who's gonna tell the youth about the drugs / about the drugs, mugs, bugs, and the police thugs / about the rotten stinkin' rackets and the fantasies / around the nation, around the nations / oh baby what you gonna do / I tell you the truth is looking straight at you / I got a brass continental with a 300 Z, two color t.v.s,now a video too / I got a rest home in Jamaica for my fantasty, for my family / around the nation / around the nations / what you gonna do.

Eigentlich soll sich Oberst Przybyl zu Vorwürfen betreffend der Ermittlungen zum tragischen Flugzeugunglück vor zwei Jahren äussern, bei dem der polnische Präsident und ein Grossteil der polnischen Elite starb. Nach einer Erklärung bittet er die Journalisten den Raum zu verlassen, er brauche eine Pause. Einer der Journalisten lässt seine Kamera laufen. Man sieht wie Przybyl die Tür hinter den Journalisten verschliesst und dann aus dem Bild läuft. Sekunden später hört man wie eine Pistole entsichert und abgefeuert wird. Przybyl überlebt den Selbstmordversuch und liegt nun mit einer Kopfverletzung im Krankenhaus.

An internal memo from India’s Military Intelligence that hackers have posted online suggests that manufacturers of mobile devices have provided “backdoor” access to the Indian government in exchange for access to the Indian market. The manufacturers, referred to collectively in the memo as “RINOA,” include RIM, Nokia, and Apple.

A Tribune analysis shows Taser use has jumped fivefold in the city since 2008 and suburban agencies that were surveyed were on pace to double their use, as departments equipped more officers with the devices. Chicago police were deploying Tasers at a rate of more than twice a day in 2011.

1998.08.22 - Bizarre Festival Essen, Germany. Deftones @ Bizarre Festival. Setlist: 01. Root / 02. My Own Summer / 03. Lotion / 04. Bored / 05. Around The Fur / 06. Mx / 07. Birthmark / 08. Engine No9 / 09. Mascara / 10. Be Quiet And Drive / 11. Headup

Bassnectar laying out the dubstep musical family tree in an interview with MoBoogie.

A sham AIDS clinic -- complete with patients getting kickbacks but no treatment -- stole $4.5 million from Medicare. According to Reuters, similar schemes are bilking hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicare.

At some of the meetings, the politicians arrived with campaign materials and occasionally with aides. The sessions were organized much like corporate-style job fairs. The gang representatives conducted hourlong interviews, one after the other, talking to as many as five candidates in a single evening. Like supplicants, the politicians came into the room alone and sat before the gang representatives, who sat behind a long table.