In Defense of Pirates

Hazardous waste on Somalian shore (scidev.net) If I’m to believe the mainstream press and pundits (most disappointingly, Rachel Maddow,) there are bands of inexplicably evil men sailing around the Horn of Africa, pillaging ships and terrorizing sailors simply because they are pirates. And pirates are evil. End of story. Except, that’s a rather shallow interpretation [...]

Reporter’s recording confiscated at veterans event

A Washington D.C.-based radio reporter says his audio storage device was inappropriately confiscated Tuesday by Department of Veterans Affairs officials after he interviewed a patient at a VA Medical Center forum. VA officials claim they intervened after the reporter “took advantage” of the patient, who was undergoing medical treatment. David Schultz, a reporter for WAMU 88.5, the local NPR affiliate, [...]

UMC Doctor Alleges Excessive Force from Metro Officer

A local obstetrician says he was trying to get to the hospital to deliver a baby, and instead ended up being held at gunpoint by a Metro Police Officer in a parking lot at UMC. Metro confirms it has opened an internal affairs investigation into the incident involving one of its officers. The incident occurred [...]

Domestic USAF Operations

If you read USAF news releases, you could be excused for thinking that the Air Force is 100% occupied – and preoccupied – with operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every other day, regular as clockwork, there’s an “airpower summary” posted, all of which are basically summarized as “jets kill insurgents, film at 11.” What’s easy [...]

Child Casualties in Mexico Drug War

Mexico, Apr 13 (Prensa Latina) A total of 610 children have died as a result of the war waged by Mexican drug cartels, reports a study of the national Defense Secretary (SEDENA). This institution together with the Navy and different police institutions has participated for almost two and a half years in fighting drug traffic [...]

British cops bust Obama’s half-brother for child sex assault

One of President Obama’s half-brothers was denied entry to Britain because he had been accused of sexual assault on a previous visit. Samson Obama was travelling from Kenya to his half-brother’s presidential inauguration ceremony in January when he tried to enter the country at East Midlands Airport for a short break but he was stopped [...]

Former soldier charged in fatal child abuse case goes to trial

BARSTOW • The trial of a former Fort Irwin soldier accused of fatally abusing his infant son opened Wednesday at the Barstow courthouse. Segieray Cooper, 21, faces a charge of child abuse resulting in death. Cooper was an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Irwin in July of 2007 when his seven-month-old son died. He was [...]

TEA Party rally set for Big Bear

TEA party rally set for Big Bear Linda Smith is hosting a TEA party, but it’s not what it seems at first glance. There is a Taxed Enough Already rally set for noon Wednesday, April 15, at the corner of Stanfield Cutoff and Big Bear Boulevard. “It’s a Boston Tea Party movement going across America,” [...]

Legalization Key to Ending Drug Violence

You don’t have to be a Harvard economics professor like Jeffrey Miron to know that America’s war on drugs has been a lost cause for decades.  Now a bloody war between the Mexican government and vicious drug cartels is raging just across our southern border, killing thousands and threatening to spread into the U.S.A. The [...]

Fusion center declares nation’s oldest universities possible terror threat

A newly leaked terrorism assessment from a law enforcement fusion center in Virginia highlights US universities as potential “radicalization nodes” for terrorists. RAW STORY has published the entirety of the 215 page report, available here in PDF format.

Texas Police Officer Jeffrey Cotton Indicted in Shooting of Bobby Tolan’s Son

A Harris County grand jury today indicted Bellaire police Sgt. Jeffrey Cotton in the New Year’s Eve shooting of a man outside his home. Cotton was indicted on one count of aggravated assault by a public servant. The offense is a first-degree felony, and, if convicted, Cotton faces a maximum possible sentence of life in [...]

Get a Gun, Woman!

Do you want to reduce violent crime nationwide? Get a gun, woman! Women with a knowledge of firearms for the purpose of self-defense actually make a bigger difference on the numbers of violent crimes nationwide than if men were to have the same knowledge. Why? Women are more often the target of violent crimes than [...]

Blogger’s laptop confiscated in search of his home

Police in Phoenix searched and confiscated items from the home of a blogger who runs a Web site that is critical of the police department. According to blogger Jeff Pataky, who runs the site BadPhoenixCops.com, the police confiscated his laptop, wireless router, and paper files including tax documents and bills, when they searched his home in mid-March. Those [...]

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Murfreesboro, Metro teacher arrested on charges of secretly filming teenagers having sex

A man who taught in Murfreesboro and Metro city schools has been arrested on charges he’s been secretly taping teenagers having sex in his house. According Metro police, Louis Jay Levine was arrested this morning by sex crimes detectives on federal charges of producing child pornography. Levine, 52, was a science teacher in Murfreesboro City [...]

Raymond Pryke ordered to pay sanctions, costs in libel lawsuit by Penrod’s wife

SAN BERNARDINO – An appellate court has ordered a High Desert newspaper publisher pay thousands of dollars in sanctions and fees to an attorney for the wife of former county Sheriff Gary Penrod.The ruling comes as a multi-million dollar libel lawsuit filed by Nancy K. Bohl and The Counseling Team against the publisher nears a [...]

Villegas pleads not-guilty, faces additional charges

BARSTOW • Former Barstow Police Department officer and one-time City Council candidate Richard Villegas pleaded not-guilty to a roster of seven charges against him at the Barstow courthouse Thursday. Barstow police arrested Villegas Tuesday on suspicion of attempted kidnapping, robbery, and making criminal threats. As of his arraignment Thursday, the District Attorney’s Office had added [...]

San Bernardino County Scandal Spills Into Riverside County

The San Bernardino County’s District Attorney’s investigation into public corruption has led to three resignations and arrests. Republican party political operative Adam Aleman was the first to be arrested following his resignation as an Assistant Assessor to then San Bernardino County Assessor Bill Postmus. After Aleman’s arrest and his cooperation with investigators, his former boss, [...]

Fresno: Police Accusations

Wednesday, through a department spokesperson, Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer refused to comment on allegations he’s condoned a culture of violence within the force. Dyer declined to discuss accusations made by a member of his own force, that he had a hand in manipulating the outcome of internal affairs investigations. But, attorneys pushing a lawsuit [...]

NYU Center Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology and Issues

The New York University Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) released a report yesterday entitled: Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues. In the report, the authors examine five broad categories of issue & concern including performance, evaluations, operation, policy concerns, and moral and ethical considerations.

New Military Doctrinal Publications

Noteworthy new documents on military doctrine of one sort or another include the following (all pdf). The participation of U.S. armed forces in humanitarian assistance operations abroad is governed by “Foreign Humanitarian Assistance,” Joint Publication 3-29, 17 March 2009, 223 pages. Almost every function or task performed by the U.S. Army is captured and organized [...]

CIA’s CREST Leaves Cavity in Public Domain

The curious refusal of the Central Intelligence Agency to provide online access to its “CREST” database of declassified documents was examined last week in Mother Jones magazine. “In a quiet, fluorescently lit room in the National Archives’ auxiliary campus in suburban College Park, Maryland, 10 miles outside of Washington, are four computer terminals, each providing [...]

“Tactics in Counterinsurgency” Again Online

“Tactics in Counterinsurgency” (large pdf), a new Army Field Manual that was published on the website of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and then removed from public access, is now available on the FAS website. The new manual, a substantial addition to the literature of counterinsurgency, was reported last week in the Washington Post [...]

Eielson airman pleads guilty before trial

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — An airman from Eielson Air Force Base has entered a plea agreement with prosecutors just as testimony was to begin in a second trial accusing him of trying to kill his wife. Joseph Basom was originally charged with attempted murder and other counts. The 32-year-old man pleaded guilty Wednesday to lesser charges [...]

Campbell pfc. faces attempted murder charge, assault, kidnapping and rape

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Police said a Fort Campbell, Ky., soldier was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and rape. Clarksville police spokesman Jim Knoll said 19-year-old Pfc. James Isaiah Fye was arrested Wednesday night after an escape attempt in another case and is being held at the jail on a $260,000 bond. A [...]

Soldier charged in 2 shooting deaths, robbery

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — A man charged with killing two people and robbing a west-central Pennsylvania sandwich shop was a Army veteran home on a temporary medical retirement status. Nicholas Hrneor, of Altoona, faces charges including criminal homicide following the fatal shootings that started Monday at a Subway shop. Friends say the 28-year-old Horner joined the [...]

Texas police chief fired for using TASER on wife

OAKWOOD, Texas — The chief of a small Central Texas town’s police department has been fired and jailed for allegedly using a Taser gun on his wife. Former Oakwood police chief Oly Ivy is in Leon County Jail in Centerville on Wednesday, charged with aggravated assault. Bond is $100,000. Ivy, 30, was arrested near Palestine [...]

Sailor accused of raping, sodomizing girl under 12

A junior sailor was arrested in Alabama on Monday and was accused of raping and sodomizing a girl under the age of 12 before he joined the Navy, a law-enforcement official said. Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Robert Boswell, 19, who is assigned to the carrier Enterprise, was charged with first-degree rape and sodomy, said investigator Greg [...]

Oath Keepers Orders We Will NOT Obey Full Length Video

Go here: http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009… to read the full written Declaration with detailed explanations for each of the ten orders we Oath Keepers will NOT obey. JOIN US ON APRIL 19, 2009 ON LEXINGTON GREEN TO RENEW YOUR OATH OR TO TAKE IT FOR THE FIRST TIME! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvJqXO… as special guests of Committees of Safety. SUMMARY LIST [...]

Pentagon accused of pig victimization

Animal rights activists take issue with the Pentagon’s alleged mistreatment of swine after revelations that military researchers have been blowing up pigs to check the efficacy of body armor worn by American soldiers. Under the research guided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), live pigs have been dressed in body armor and strapped [...]

Cybersecurity Bill Proposes Unprecedented Government Power Over the Internet

A cybersecurity bill introduced today in the Senate would give the federal government extraordinary power over private sector Internet services, applications and software. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would, for example, give the President unfettered power to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies or disconnect any critical infrastructure system or network on national security grounds. [...]

Former Barstow Police Department officer arrested

BARSTOW • A former Barstow Police Department officer who ran for a City Council seat in 2008 was arrested Tuesday afternoon on felony charges. Richard Michael Villegas, 29, was arrested from his home in Barstow on Tuesday on suspicion of attempted kidnapping, robbery, and making criminal threats, according to San Bernardino County jail records. He [...]

Supervisor: S.B. County DA looking into his complaint against predecessor

The San Bernardino County district attorney’s office is looking into a complaint by Supervisor Neil Derry alleging that his predecessor Dennis Hansberger destroyed public records before leaving office, according to the supervisor. Derry, who raised the issue when he took office in December, lodged a formal complaint and sought an investigation to determine if any [...]

Derry buys more police protection

Jamie Garland didn’t have to go far for her new job. In fact, she was able to stay about 50 miles closer to home. Garland is the new mountain area representative for San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry. She replaces Jerry Lemke, who turned in his resignation March 17. Lemke’s final day in the office [...]

Children detail Upland teacher’s alleged sexual abuse

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Four Upland schoolchildren and a police detective took the witness stand Monday and detailed sexual abuse allegations against former schoolteacher James Andrew Megaw.Following a full day of testimony in West Valley Superior Court, a judge ruled that Megaw, the former head of Upland’s teachers union, must stand trial on four of the [...]

Deputy Wilbert Garcia held for rape of child under 14

WILDOMAR–Investigators are saying little about the arrest of an Orange County sheriff’s deputy in a sexual abuse case. Deputy Wilbert Garcia, 49, was arrested during a traffic stop in nearby Murrieta. Garcia is accused of raping a child under the age of 14. The victim’s identity is being protected. Authorities did not disclose when or [...]

Police kill another innocent victim via high-speed chase

RIALTO–Authorities now say that a police chase was involved in a deadly early Sunday morning crash. San Bernardino officers were attempting to stop a Lincoln Town Car when the driver took off down Foothill Boulevard. The driver ran a red light near Riverside Avenue crashing into another car. Killed was a passenger in the other [...]

Baltimore Officers Allegedly Lied About Beating

Two Baltimore police officers beat a teenager with a baton and a pool stick while he was handcuffed and shackled, then tried to cover up the attack with their sergeant’s help, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Officers Gregory Mussmacher and Guy Gerstel and Sgt. Wayne Thompson face charges of civil rights violations in [...]

Webb remains as defendant in Carrion’s civil lawsuit

A federal judge has rejected a motion to dismiss former San Bernardino County sheriff‘s deputy Ivory Webb as a defendant in the civil case brought by Airman Elio Carrion against Webb and the county.Carrion was unarmed and lying on his back when Webb shot him three times in January 2006 following a high-speed chase that [...]

Despite protests, DeKalb proceeds with Marines school

DeKalb County school officials are forging ahead with plans to open a first-of-its-kind military-style public high school, despite a growing campaign by activists upset at the involvement of the U.S. Marines. “It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened in Georgia education,” said Michael Burke, a DeKalb resident and spokesman for the Georgia Veterans Alliance, a [...]

Costa Rica to reestablish ties with Cuba

Costa Rica will reestablish diplomatic ties with Cuba that were broken off in 1961 after the Cuban Revolution, President Oscar Arias says. “The world today is diametrically different to what it was in those days. We have to be capable of adjusting to new realities,” Arias said in a statement. Arias has softened his stance [...]

Germany awash with hate crimes

Germany has been gripped with a recent surge in racist violence with thousands of hate crimes entering last year’s police records. The German Interior Ministry is worried about the 2008 crime rates. The figures include 773 cases of racist violence where the victims sustained injuries, Deutsche Welle reported. This number is just part of an [...]

200 ‘potential terrorist’ kids in UK

The British Police brand as much as 200 youngsters as ‘potential terrorists’, claiming that they are attracted to hardliner extremists. The chief constable of West Yorkshire Police and Britain’s most senior officer in charge of terror prevention, Sir Norman Bettison, revealed the number to The Independent on Saturday. He said the ‘Channel Project‘ had intervened [...]

US opens another prison for Iraqis

The American military has inaugurated a 27-million-dollar prison in northern Iraq which is capable of holding 3,000 detainees. According to an American military statement on Sunday, the jail was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers at Chamchamal in the autonomous Kurdish region, 70 kilometers south of Sulaimaniyah, in the space of two years. [...]

US military Intelligence, ,Surveillance and Recon manual final draft and cover, FM 2-01, Mar 2009

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Jack Cafferty and Clarence Page Attack Drug Prohibition

CNN’s Jack Cafferty calls the war on drugs “insane” and recommends repealing prohibition: What do you suppose the total price tag is for this failed war on drugs? One senior Harvard economist [Jeffrey Miron] estimates we spend $44 billion a year fighting the war on drugs. He says if they were legal, governments would realize about [...]

DHS Releases New Immigration Statistics for 2008

Naturalizations in the United States: 2008 U.S. Legal Permanent Residents: 2008 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics has just released these two statistical reports which provide information on U.S. legal permanent residents and naturalizations for the year 2008. These reports are part of an ongoing series of annually reported data which [...]

USJFCOM Releases New Irregular Warfare Vision

Irregular Warfare Vision The U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Commander Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis has recently released a new irregular warfare vision for the command. “The vision provides guidance on how USJFCOM will respond to the threats posed by irregular adversaries. The vision prioritizes specific efforts necessary to achieve the objectives and guidance of [...]

2008 Internet Crime Report Available

IC3 2008 Internet Crime Report The National White Collar Crime Center has just released its eighth annual internet crime report. “In December 2003, the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) was renamed the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to better reflect the broad character of such criminal matters having a cyber (Internet) nexus. The 2008 Internet [...]