U.S. charges 24 people in massive hacking sting

(Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials on Tuesday said 24 suspected hackers had been arrested in a sting operation spanning four continents that targeted online financial fraud of stolen credit card and bank information.

In a two-year investigation, FBI agents posed as hackers on Internet forums, watching as other hackers swapped methods for breaching data security walls and creating fake credit cards that would work for Internet and in-person purchases.

The probe [...]

Feds fine man for leading Bigfoot hunt without permit

A man who led tour groups on a hunt for Bigfoot met up with the long arm of the law instead, and got fined for doing business on federal lands without a permit.

Matt Pruitt was leading a group expedition for The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization at the Buffalo National River Park in Arkansas in February when he and his group of 31 people were stopped by two park rangers. Pruitt [...]

What Will 2012 Bring? by Gerald Celente |”Wake-Up Call” Trend: The Decline of America trend is nowhere near bottom, and the worse is yet to come.

One year later: ”Worse” has happened, as the country piles up more and more debt, politicians are gridlocked, paralyzed in some perpetual political traffic jam of inaction.

“Crack-Up 2011″ Trend: Teetering economies will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected, economic unions will splinter…

One year later: The Sovereign debt crisis threatens both the European Union and Euro, currency wars are underway and the US and China are trading trade barbs.

“Crime Time” [...]

Gerald Celente: The Decline of America trend is nowhere near bottom, and the worse is yet to come.

Gerald Celente
Trends Research
Friday, December 16, 2011

“Wake-Up Call” Trend: The Decline of America trend is nowhere near bottom, and the worse is yet to come.

One year later: “Worse” has happened, as the country piles up more and more debt, politicians are gridlocked, paralyzed in some perpetual political traffic jam of inaction.

“Crack-Up 2011” Trend: Teetering economies will collapse, currency wars will ensue, trade barriers will be erected, economic unions will splinter…

One year later: The Sovereign debt [...]

Two little girls busted after stealing goat from petting zoo

By Dan Nienaber Free Press Staff Writer

MANKATO — A couple of young rustlers attempted to use their imagination to escape the long arm of the law Saturday, but after about an hour of story telling they eventually learned they’d made a baaaaad decision.

A Mankato resident called 911 at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday to report two very young girls, who [...]

David Rosenberg: “There is nothing organic about the US economic recovery”

by zh

David Rosenberg, who has very patiently taken the peanut gallery’s swipes at him for the past month during the latest bear market rally bout (of which Japan had roughly 25 as the broader secular one took its market about 75% lower over two decades), finally lashes out at all those who still fail to see that there is nothing organic about the US economic recovery, [...]