Al Qaeda in Brooklyn Court, Airbnb Gets Blasted, and More Brooklyn Briefs

- An al Qaeda operative appears before a judge in Brooklyn. Among other charges, he plotted to attack the LIRR. [The Daily Beast]

- City Council blasts Airbnb executives in contentious hearing. [NY Daily News]

- Renderings: The Cobble Hill Association has gotten copies of the modified plan for the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Henry Street (where the Shell gas station now stands). [CHA]

- Brooklyn and Barclays are a logistical and ethical minefield for the Democratic Convention, says Norman Order. [NYT]

- Forbes: Brooklyn Nets valued at $1.5 billion, 6th most expensive NBA team. [NetsDaily]

- More than 130,000 pages of declassified documents relating to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) from the U.S. Air Force have been published online by man who spent 20 years filing Freedom of Info Act requests. [abc7]

- "The unemployment rate among recent IT graduates at the moment is actually twice that of theater majors." [WSJ]

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Everything You Need to Know About the European Bank Bailout

Via The Real Deal:
The 50 percent "haircut," a "credit event," "Europe exploding," and why aliens may be necessary to save the European economy in simple language anyone can understand.

And if there are no aliens?

"Then we are screwed."

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Blogging Brownsville's Skies for Aliens, Etc.

Those recent videos of UFOs over Williamsburg have created a frisson of excitement across the media. (We've always wanted to use the word frisson in a post.)

Now we've heard from Yvonne, who lives in Brownsville and blogs about UFOs, aliens and government secrets. Her web site is called "Blogging Brownsville's Sky's for Aliens, UFOs and Stargates" and it's packed with interesting videos.

The blog description reads: "I've google searched and read mountains of UFO documents and have come to a stunning conclusion that needs to be blogged. The rabbit hole is deep and leads to information people have been killed for even speaking about. But I'm not scared - I'm here online in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Who's going to believe me?"

We believe you Yvonne!

Photo by Kevin Dooley, Creative Commons license

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Something Odd Floating Over Brooklyn

 This video posted on YouTube by a person named "tderamus" is described as "UFO Brooklyn Jan 26th" and "Something odd floating in the skies over Bushwick."

According to Paranormal Daily News, "Some people in Brooklyn are convinced aliens are flying above the Big Apple. We have two videos that were posted on YouTube Monday showing two unknown objects floating in the sky. The person who posted the video writes, “Spotted from my backyard in Williamsburg. I watched for about 40 min. so I could tell they were moving but very slowly. They sort of looked like stars but were hanging too low and the blue one was a bit too sparkly.”

In related news, the folks over at The Disclosure Project have several demands:

• That President Obama investigate the matter, gain proper control over these operations, end for once and forever the secrecy surrounding the UFO subject, and work with other nations to quickly coordinate an official Disclosure;
• That President Obama stand-down any covert offensive targeting of ET spacecraft;
• That President Obama, working with other leaders around the world, initiate open, peaceful Contact with these Extraterrestrial Civilizations;
• That President Obama move swiftly to release the Earth-saving new energy technologies contained within these illegal covert Majestic programs so that we may be freed from the death grip that oil, gas, coal, and nuclear energy have on the planet;
• That the Congress hold open, secrecy-free hearings on these matters immediately.

This sounds like something that Republicans, Democrats and Tea-Party members call get behind.

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