Michael Hastings, probable assasination 20130620 http://12160.info/page/michael-hastings-contacted-wikileaks-lawyer-a-few-hours-before-de?commentId=2649739:Comment:1231482&xg_source=activity UPDATED!!! Either Mercedes has a problem or something’s not quite right - Hastings Turns A C250 Into A “Bomb”. RAW FOOTAGE Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Crash / Hollywood Stacy Summary: I don’t know what drives men to drive 100 mph down a suburban street. But I’ve seen many do it. Usually, however, they’re young or angry , but you never know what happens when guy gets behind the wheel of a Merc. Anyway, with the death of the much hated Michael Hastings this morning in a fireball of a car crash in a Mercedes, I thought this post from an auto blogger was interesting as I had no idea that it’s such a rare event for a car to catch on fire; especially one as well designed as a Mercedes: 20130622 http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/21/email-sent-by-michael-hastings-hours-before-his-death-mentions-a-big-story-and-a-need-to-go-off-the-radar/ http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/06/20/coroners-officials-confirm-journalist-michael-hastings-died-in-fiery-hancock-park-crash/ http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/06/18/award-winning-journalist-michael-hastings-dies/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5922667 HN comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5923040 by TerraHertz Does anyone know the name of the street where the crash occurred? Said to be in Hancock Park, but I can't find that palm lined center-row street in google maps. Want to check something out. My opinion on the crash - from the pictures online of the crash almost immediately after impact, the whole car is very much on fire, yet the R-side door paint is unburned. This just doesn't fit with modern fuel safety construction. In the current political climate, and given the evidence he was onto some big story, the 'dead man in a wifi-controlled car' idea seems quite realistic. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hancock+Park,+Los+Angeles,+CA,+United+States&hl=en&ll=34.067094,-118.360305&spn=0.02485,0.034461&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.287373,70.576172&oq=Hancock+Park&t=h&hnear=Greater+Wilshire+%2F+Hancock+Park,+Los+Angeles,+California&z=15 http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1687.htm June 20, 2013 Top US Journalist Attempting To Reach Israeli Consulate Assassinated http://ktla.com/2013/06/19/driver-killed-in-fiery-car-crash-in-hollywood/#axzz2WlbYZuI8 Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Hollywood Crash The solo-vehicle crash happened near the intersection of Highland and Melrose avenues around 4:15 a.m., according to the LAPD. Hastings’ Mercedes-Benz slammed into a tree and caught fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNhqKRugk8Q Michael Hastings "CAUGHT ON TAPE" Running Red-Light Seconds Before Crash LAnewsLOUDLABS Published on Jun 19, 2013 After reviewing yesterday's feeds and reading all the comments about the Michael Hastings crash we thought it would be a good idea for our photographer to get all his raw footage together including the dash-cam footage and put it aside. He mentioned to us in our meeting that he was close to the story because he was working a lead on the Justin Bieber crash on Sunset Blvd. The lead turned out to be nothing and he then drove to the intersection of Santa Monica & Vista to do some computer work before heading in for the night. When leaving that intersection he said that he noticed he'd made a mistake on what he was working on. (K-9 Deployed YouTube Feed) He then pulled into the gas station at Highland & Santa Monica Blvd to fix the problem. All of our work vehicles are equipped with dash-cams. Out of pure luck......his dash-cam caught a Mercedes Benz at a high rate of speed run the red light travelling south on Highland. Melrose is just a few blocks away and impact took place just seconds after. He said he did not see the car run the red light. When leaving the parking lot he headed east on Santa Monica Blvd. 30 seconds after leaving the gas station parking lot, the "call" hits the radios. It was a total of 4 minutes from the time the car was caught on dash-cam to when he saw the flames and shortly after arrived on scene and asks about the driver to the homeowner with the water hose. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LSY3wVuASg The onsite video Published on Jun 18, 2013 Written by City News Service - Journalist Michael Hastings, whose blunt Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal led to the resignation of the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, died today in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to the magazine and a website for which he worked. Officials with the Los Angeles County coroner's office could not immediately confirm if the 33-year-old Hastings was the person who died around 4:25 a.m. when a car smashed into a tree and caught fire on Highland Avenue near Melrose Avenue in the Hancock Park area. The circumstances of the crash were under investigation, but a cameraman at the scene said the vehicle, a Mercedes, was being driven at a high rate of speed when the crash occurred. The car's engine ended up 200 feet away from the collision site, he said. Lt. Fred Corral of the coroner's office said the body was burned beyond recognition, and the identity of the victim would not be known until at least Wednesday. The Hancock Park crash was the only fatal car wreck in the city today, according to police. However, Ben Smith, editor in chief of BuzzFeed.com, issued a statement announcing Hastings' death in a car accident in Los Angeles, saying the journalist's BuzzFeed colleagues were ``shocked and devastated by the news that Michael Hastings in gone.'' ``Michael was a great, fearless journalist with an incredible instinct for the story, and a gift for finding ways to make his readers care about anything he covered from wars to politicians,'' Smith said. ``He wrote stories that would otherwise have gone unwritten, and without him there are great stories that will go untold. Michael was also a wonderful, generous colleague and a joy to work with. Our thoughts are with Elise (his wife) and the rest of his family and we are going to miss him.'' Hastings was perhaps most famous for his candid 2010 Rolling Stone interview with McChrystal, who was then commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and was critical of the White House's oversight of the military. His comments resulted in the general being summoned to Washington, D.C., and his eventual resignation. Hastings was still a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. ``Great reporters exude a certain kind of electricity, the sense that there are stories burning inside them, and that there's no higher calling or greater way to live life than to be always relentlessly trying to find and tell those stories,'' Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana said in a story about Hastings' death posted on the magazine's website. ``I'm sad that he won't be stopping by my office for any more short visits which would stretch for two or three completely engrossing hours,'' Dana said. ``He will be missed.'' Hastings wrote two books about war, including ``The Operators'' about Afghanistan, and ``I Lost My Love in Baghdad,'' about Iraq. LOUDLABS NEWS 20130623 Hastings Sent Colleagues Email Hours Before Crash “On To A Big Story, Need To Get Off The Radar For Abit’ Staff Sgt. Joseph Biggs told KTLA that he received an email from Hastings on Monday. Biggs had known Hastings since 2008, when the journalist was embedded in his unit in Afghanistan. “On Monday morning, I woke up and I got an email, and it’s very panicked,” Biggs said. “It alarmed me very much,” Biggs said. “I just said it doesn’t seem like him. I don’t know, I just had this gut feeling and it just really bothered me,” he said. Okay, I now revise my opinion that this was only a freak car crash. While I still don’t think it was a bomb, there is definately something shady going on. Yikes. Truth is treason in the empire of lies. never has that saying had more relavent meaning to it. Hopefully more will continue to come out and we will find out what this big story was. http://therebel.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=657564:full-remote-control-of-all-modern-u-s-market-cars-proven&catid=173:jim-stone&Itemid=1314&acm=733_340 http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/carhack.pdf Full remote control of ALL modern U.S. market cars PROVEN A team of hackers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington conducted a study which has proven that all cars equipped with antilock brakes sold in the U.S. can be hacked via remote control and have their brakes entirely disabled with the car in motion, throttle revved, and remain fully operational with the key removed and the car in park with all driver input entirely ignored. WRH: Questions continue to swirl around the strange death of Michael Hastings, just hours after he told associates he was concerned over FBI interest in his current story on the NSA spying scandal. Witnesses and a video show Michael's car speeding out of control moments before it struck a tree and exploded. In light of he "back doors" built into all our modern computerized devices by the government, and in light of allegations of the use of remote control on the 9-11 aircraft, one cannot rule out similar back doors in modern cars controlled by computers and linked to the outside world via "On-Star" type radio links. Apparently, computer students at the University of Washington validated that it is indeed possible to take remote control of any modern "off the lot" US car and override the driver input. The above website, the rebel.org, has been very busy of late, so I have the PDF of the original University of Washington report saved HERE http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/carhack.pdf if you cannot access it through the above link. 20130624 http://intellihub.com/2013/06/23/nobodys-safe-car-hacking-the-latest-advanced-form-of-assassination/?fb_action_ids=317893168355133&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%22317893168355133%22%3A1383565315192422}&action_t Nobody’s Safe: ‘Car Hacking’ the Latest Advanced Form of Assassination 20130624 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fweyFCFKcp0 The only witness, gets interviewed with an interpreter. 20130627 http://patdollard.com/2012/09/hillary-clinton-aide-tells-buzzfeed-reporter-to-fk-off-and-have-a-good-life-over-tough-libya-questioning/ Flashback: Hillary Clinton’s Spokesman Tells ‘Asshole’ Reporter To ‘F**k Off’ And ‘Have A Good Life’ Over Tough Libya Questioning On Sunday morning, BuzzFeed correspondent Michael Hastings emailed Philippe Reines, Hillary Clinton’s longtime aide and personal spokesman at the State Department, asking a series of pointed questions about State’s handling of the Benghazi fiasco, and Reines’ over-the-top attack on CNN. The emails quickly got personal, with Reines calling Hastings an “unmitigated asshole” before an exchange of harsh words on both sides. The email chain concluded with Reines writing that Hastings should “Fuck Off” and “Have a nice life.” http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=44269 Richard Clarke: Hastings Accident "Consistent with a Car Cyber Attack" posted 06/27/2013, 3:16 AM (Infowars) Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post on Monday that the fatal crash of journalist Michael Hastings’ Mercedes C250 coupe last week is “consistent with a car cyber attack.” “There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers...” 20130704 http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/23/michael_hastings_sent_panicked_email_hours_before_car_crash.html 20130718 http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/michael-hastings-cremated-despite.html Michael Hastings Cremated Despite Family Wishes to Have Body Former Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings has been cremated and sent home in a urn despite the fact his family wanted his body. Hastings died on June 18th after his Mercedes crashed into a tree and had burst into flames in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, causing speculation to arise that Hastings, who was working on a major exposé of the CIA, could have been set up. Kimberly Dvorak of San Diego 6 who spoke directly with friends of Hastings family said, “A close family friend did confirm that Michael’s body was sent home in an urn, meaning he was cremated and it wasn’t the request of the family….in fact the family wanted Michael’s body to go home.” ... 20130720 http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/eye-witness-to-michael-hastings-murder-says-body-not-charred-beyond-recognition/51787/ Eye Witness to Michael Hastings Murder Says Body Not Charred Beyond Recognition The LAPD and the Los Angeles County Coroner were “trying their best” to hide the body from the witness, who asked to remain anonymous, when it was pulled from the vehicle approximately three hours after the fire was extinguished, between 7:20 to 7:40 AM. 20130722 http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1692.htm LA Police Detectives Investigating Hastings Assassination Ambushed 20130725 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqe6S6m73Zw Digital Carjackers Show Off New Attacks WRH: So there exists a technology that would have allowed government assassins to take remote control of Michael Hasting's car, drive it high speed, and disconnect the brakes, causing an accident that killed him (along with a suspected bomb). 20130805 http://blog.ioactive.com/2013/08/car-hacking-content.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6163325 Car Hacking Whitepaper and tools released 20140102 http://www.delaat.net/rp/2012-2013/p40/report.pdf Tinfoil attack Research on the security threats and weaknesses of GSM-based communication in a BMW car. University of Amsterdam http://investmentwatchblog.com/thieves-are-using-mystery-gadgets-to-electronically-unlock-cars-and-steal-what-is-inside/ 20140103 http://www.thedailysheeple.com/feds-consider-vehicle-location-tracking-in-new-cars_012014 20140109 http://autos.yahoo.com/news/automotive-black-box-mandatory-september-1-2014-150043524.html Automotive Black Box Mandatory by September 1, 2014 Sure, this automotive black box thing may seem like a case of Big Brother getting all up in your business, but remember; you can always buy an older car. Event data recorders have been in use since the 1970s, but mostly in the trucking industry. Through the years, more and more consumer automakers jumped on board, and while you might be skeptical, it will help get to the bottom of what caused an accident. Our thought is, if this gets rid of the “he said-she said” aspect of accidents. Time and resources wasted by insurance companies will go down, and potentially insurance rates will go down…actually, that won’t happen. Oh well, get ready for Big Brother, or make peace with buying an older car. 20140110 http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/news/ford-vp-we-have-gps-your-car-so-we-know-what-you-re-doing http://rt.com/usa/ford-vp-auto-surveillance-382/ Ford VP: 'We have GPS in your car, so we know what you’re doing' Modern automobiles are logging tremendous amounts of information every single second they’re being put to use, and a senior executive at the Ford Motor Company says car manufacturers have access to every last piece of it. 20140110 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnmgxnLzI1o MANDATORY GOVT BLACK BOX TRACKING IN ALL CARS & TRUCKS BY SEPT 1 2014 20150722 http://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/ Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It