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By Steve Huff 10/17/12 4:52pm

Terrorism

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis (Google+)

Bangladeshi National Allegedly Plotted to Blow Up New York Federal Reserve

The New York Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested 21-year-old Bangladeshi Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis for an alleged plot to bomb the New York Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhattan.

Mr. Nafis was taken into custody Wednesday morning after authorities say he used a cell phone to try and detonate what he thought was a van filled with a thousand pounds of explosives. The van was a dud. Mr. Nafis was the target of a joint F.B.I./N.Y.P.D. sting that began months ago, after authorities became aware he was planning something: Read More

By Steve Huff 10/12/12 8:38pm

Troubling Developments

Twitter/@SamTLevin

Looks Like Someone Shot a Window at Obama’s Denver Campaign Offices

As the march toward November 6th intensifies, things might get weird. For example: someone apparently fired a shot into President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Denver Colorado on Friday afternoon, shattering a large window.

The Denver Post reports the incident occurred around 3 p.m. There were people in the offices at the time but no injuries were reported.

A reporter for Denver’s alt-weekly Westword tweeted a photo of the shattered window and his puzzled comment: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/29/12 11:01am

Obits

The New York Times

Former New York Times Publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger, Sr. Dies

Former New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, Sr., who ran the paper from 1963 to 1992, has died. The Times reports Mr. Sulzberger passed away at his Southampton  home on Saturday. The senior Sulzberger piloted the paper through the rough seas of the late 1960s and early 1970s and was primarily responsible for pulling the trigger on one of the biggest exposés of the Vietnam War, the Pentagon Papers: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/27/12 8:56am

Mysteries

Jimmy Hoffa (Wikimedia)

Police Search for Jimmy Hoffa Under Roseville, Mich., Driveway

The mystery of the fate of International Brotherhood of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is one of the most enduring in American history. Hoffa vanished in July 1975 and in the decades since his name has become a punchline for jokes about unexplained disappearances.

Shouts and murmurs of a new Hoffa resting place come out every other year or so–the latest candidate is an innocuous suburban driveway in Roseville, Michigan. It’s hard to take new rumors that Hoffa’s grave has been found too seriously anymore, but ABC News reports there may be something to this one: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/25/12 12:22am

celebrities and drugs

Lady Gaga, not thinking of the children. (Screengrab)

Staten Island Borough President Molinaro Calls Lady Gaga a ‘Slut’ [Video]

James Molinaro may know who Lady Gaga is but he probably isn’t aware of her fandom, the “little monsters,” and how they might react to an NY1 report that Mr. Molinaro referred to the pop star as a “slut” while launching an anti-drug campaign Monday night.

The performer’s fans are fiercely loyal and may not take well to the Staten Island Borough President’s characterization of their idol, whom Mr. Molinaro said was part of a celebrity culture that promotes drug use, among other things. Read More

By Steve Huff 9/24/12 5:28pm

Scary Things

Golden Dawn New York (Screengrab)

Rising Greek Neo-Nazi Party Opens N.Y. Office

Golden Dawn is a Greek neo-Nazi party that has gained an alarming amount of power as Greece reacted to harsh government austerity measures. In an effort to reach out to Greek expatriates, Golden Dawn has opened an office in New York.

Salon reports that the party calls its American outpost “Golden Dawn New York” and the party has set up a creepy website.

Golden Dawn New York’s “About Me” page explains that it “unapologetically stands for the sovereignty, security, and dignity of the Greek people.”

Golden Dawn elaborates on what that means before concluding with this chilling statement: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/22/12 1:21pm

Viral Video

They don't teach Krav Maga at Wharton. (Screengrab)

Happy Saturday, Here’s A Couple of Guys Fighting Over a Taxi [Video]

Based on the minimal information in the YouTube description of this unintentionally comic viral video, it appears film producer and screenwriter Ron Senkowski was “walking between film financing meetings” in New York City on Thursday when he captured this instance of mutual thuggery between a pair of Wall Street types waiting for a cab.

In the video we see two nicely-dressed men of indeterminate age slapping, shoving, then grappling until one finally wins and slams that yellow door. The camera then swings rather sadly away, as if Mr. Senkowski was shaking his head sadly at the state of humanity. Read More