Song banned, band pulls out

Reporting from Mexico City – Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico’s superstar norteño band, abruptly canceled its participation Wednesday in a major awards show after it was barred from performing a song critical of the government’s campaign against drug cartels. The band, best known for its corridos, or Spanish ballads, chronicling the legendary exploits of drug [...]

Prosecutors won’t charge LAPD officers in immigration march melee at MacArthur Park

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office announced today it would not file criminal charges against any LAPD officers for their actions during the 2007 May Day melee at MacArthur Park. Prosecutors said in a statement that after a lengthy review, there was insufficient evidence to prove any officer violated the law when using force, although [...]

Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray testifies for marijuana legalization

‘Shake-and-Bake’ Meth Harder to Detect

These days, you don’t need a stove for shake-and-bake. Or to cook methamphetamine. The drug itself hasn’t changed, but the process of making it has, according to Chief Deputy Jack Campbell of the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office.  Meth stoves, or “labs” — often converted coolers — are being traded for plastic bottles with the newfound [...]

Epping officer suspended, alleges harassment

A local police officer who claims he has been targeted because of his involvement with a group that wants to legalize drugs has been suspended from the force. Officer Bradley Jardis said he was told Monday that he was being suspended with pay pending an investigation. Police Chief Gregory Dodge would not comment on the [...]

Noteworthy New Publications

Former Federation of American Scientists President Jeremy J. Stone has published a memoir of his efforts to promote constructive dialogue in several of the world’s most intractable conflicts through his own organization, Catalytic Diplomacy.  Remarkably, writes Morton H. Halperin in a Preface to the memoir, “The conflicts that Jeremy sought to mitigate — US-Russian nuclear [...]

Q&A With FBI Director Mueller

As a result of polygraph testing, more than a thousand applications for employment at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been rejected or otherwise terminated in the last year alone, the FBI told Congress last month.  Polygraph testing has been the single largest reason for discontinuing an application, well ahead of administrative or medical issues, [...]

Is VOIP Now the Go-To Tool For Gov’t Spying?

There’s an interesting article this week about a new Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and some of the issues the Bureau faces in reviewing and processing evidence. One of the areas that is apparently singled out in the IG report is the review – or [...]

Spc. reaches plea deal in death of soldier

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An Army paratrooper charged after he helped subdue a fellow soldier who later died has agreed to a plea bargain that could give him 30 days in jail and dock his pay. Spc. Joseph Misuraca of Harper Woods, Mich., was the fourth soldier to make a deal in to charges following [...]

Testimony starts in murder trial of Carson GI

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Testimony is set to begin Friday in the trial of a Fort Carson soldier accused of killing two people and wounding another in drive-by shootings. Prosecutors say Iraq war veteran Jomar Falu-Vives called his assault rifle “his toy.” During opening arguments, Deputy District Attorney Diana Kay May said Falu-Vives’ gun was [...]

Leaked report reveals dozens of Congressmembers under investigation

Internal investigations into the conduct of several House members have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security involving the secretive process by which the United States Congress polices lawmaker ethics. Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct — also known as the Ethics committee — [...]

UN says US drone strikes may violate international law

US unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the United Nations top investigator of such crimes said. “The problem with the United States is that it is making an increased use of drones/Predators (which are) particularly prominently used now in relation to [...]

Arizona Supreme Court rules electronic data is public

The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that metadata – information about the history, tracking and management of an electronic document – is subject to the state’s public records law. Several national media organizations supported Phoenix Police Department officer David Lake’s challenge that the city improperly denied his 2006 public records request for the metadata about [...]

Kindergarten kids stabbed with ‘discipline syringe’

A 24-YEAR-OLD female kindergarten teacher has been detained in south-west China after allegedly stabbing more than 20 children with a syringe to discipline them. The woman, Sun Qiqi, was taken into custody at the weekend in Yunnan province after angry parents complained to police about the alleged abuse at the unlicensed school in Jianshui County, [...]

Experts discuss TASER’s new advisory

Following TASER International‘s recent bulletin advising officers to avoid shooting a suspect in the chest, PoliceOne staff spoke with leading TASER experts and trainers about how this announcement affects training and deployment of TASERs in the field. Full Story   All News Reports Medical Research Update & Revised Warnings bulletin FAQ about the advisory: Read [...]

Two ex-Georgia narcotics cops face criminal charges on unrelated crimes

Arrest warrants were sworn out Thursday for two former Gwinnett County narcotics investigators, one of whom is accused of using county funds to pay for a motel room and items at an adult novelty store. Officer Vennie Harden and Maj. David Butler are charged with unrelated crimes, but their offenses came to light at about [...]

Yet another snitch exoneration

Yesterday’s New York Times, “Unyielding in His Innocence, Now a Free Man,” reports on the exoneration of Dewey Bozella. Mr. Bozella spent 26 years in prison for a murder charge that the state now says it has insufficient evidence to prove. From the Times: The prosecution relied almost entirely on the testimony of two men [...]

Revelation Undermines Chevron Case In Ecuador

HOUSTON — An American whose secret recordings have placed him at the center of a $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador is a convicted drug trafficker, records show, throwing another complication into a case already tainted by accusations of bribery and espionage. The lawsuit pits Ecuadorean peasants against Chevron over oil pollution in the [...]

Los Angeles County deputy found dead in forest committed suicide

Authorities said Tuesday that the death of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy whose body was found in the Cleveland National Forest after a massive search last week has been ruled a suicide. An autopsy performed on Zoltan Richard Tombol, 42, of Yorba Linda, showed that he died of a shotgun wound to the [...]

Karzai’s brother ‘on CIA payroll’

US involvement in Afghanistan has come into new question with the claim that President Hamid Karzai‘s brother has for years been on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency – even though he is suspected of being a major figure in the illicit opium trade that Washington and its allies are pledged to do everything [...]

Burbank officer listed in FBI probe kills self

BURBANK, Calif. — A police sergeant who was being investigated in an FBI probe into police misconduct has committed suicide on the corner of a Southern California residential street. The Burbank Police Department said that 50-year old Neil T. Gunn, a 22-year veteran with the department, was found dead around 11:40 a.m. Thursday. The FBI [...]

A True Best Friend

Will Rogers once said that strangers were friends he hadn’t met yet. With this in mind, I can’t help but wonder why it is so foreign for women to handle a firearm. Mine is definitely one of my best friends. Why? I can trust this best friend to be reliable—to never flake out on me. [...]

West has moved from confrontation to cooperation: Ahmadinejad

MASHHAD – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stated that the West has changed its approach from “confrontation to cooperation”. Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a gathering of people in the shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad on Thursday. The West has moved from “confrontation to cooperation” and this is a preamble to further advancements in the [...]

Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP.org) Testifies at CA Marijuana Legalization Hearing

Hoops Backing Away From Penrod

Sheriff Rod Hoops this week took the first discernable step toward making a break with the Gary Penrod political machine that dominated the sheriff’s office for nearly a decade-and-a-half and which designated him as his predecessor’s replacement. Quietly but nevertheless firmly, Hoops is looking to withdraw from circulation the hundreds of honorary sheriff’s badges Penrod [...]

The California Fair Political Practices Commission Opens Probe of DA Mike Ramos

The California Fair Political Practices Commission has opened an investigation into San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos relating to his failure to properly report income provided to his wife, the Sentinel has learned. The matter under investigation, according to sources who were instrumental in bringing the relevant information to the attention of the Sacramento-based [...]

Schwarzenegger Flips Off Lawmakers in Hidden Message

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is ticked off. He’s tired of signing bills that don’t address the pet causes he deems important. So when another unworthy bill crossed his desk recently for signing — addressing funding issues for the Port of San Francisco — the guv vetoed it and sent lawmakers a little note saying why. [...]

WHO Releases Report on Major Global Health Risks

Global Health Risks: Mortality and Burden of Disease Attributable to Selected Major Risks This document, released today by the World Health Organization, provides a comprehensive assessment of leading risks to global health. This investigation focuses on 24 global risk factors and provides detailed estimates on detrimental health effects due to these risk factors. In summary, [...]

Drugs chief: Alcohol more dangerous than ecstasy, LSD and cannabis

The British Government’s chief drug adviser has sparked controversy by claiming ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol. Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, attacked the decision to make cannabis a class B drug. He accused former home secretary Jacqui Smith, who reclassified the [...]

Ex-recruiter gets 3 years on child sex charges

DEADWOOD, S.D. — A former Army recruiter has been sentenced to three years in prison for rape and possession of child pornography stemming from a relationship with a Lead-Deadwood High School student he met online. Authorities said Juan Otero of Chicago was arrested Feb. 12 at a hotel room after dropping the girl off at [...]

Massive Atheism Ads Arriving in Major U.S. Cities [Finally]

CNN is reporting (below) that atheist ads are going to be all over New York City’s subways next week, while the Chicago Tribune reveals that the second city is one step ahead (see photo): Some New Yorkers may want to reconsider exclaiming “Thank God” when arriving at their destination subway station beginning Monday. Or at [...]

Sheriff’s Academy Languishing

For the first time in nearly a decade, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department is not fielding a class at its academy in Devore. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Basic Training Academy for more than 30 years has schooled its own recruits and law enforcement hopefuls from surrounding counties through a rigorous 23-week course and [...]

Grants to Fund County Drug Courts

San Bernardino County Superior Court will utilize two grants totaling $1,099,830 to fund its drug court operations. Court officials, under the direction of presiding judge James M. McGuire, will use one grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and another Bureau of Justice Assistance Grant to carry forth the programs, which are [...]

Sheriff Hopefuls Offer Differing Law Enforcement Philosophieschallenger,

SAN BERNARDINO— The two declared candidates for sheriff in next year’s election faced off October 7 in a forum sponsored by the Safety Employees Benefit Association, the union representing the sheriff’s department’s deputies. Sheriff Rod Hoops, the incumbent, like his challenger, deputy Mark Averbeck, has never actually faced the voters. Hoops was appointed sheriff by [...]

County Extends Contract with Corruption Figure’s Firm

The county has extended by one year the contract it has with its Sacramento lobbyist, Platinum Advisors, despite a scandal involving the company and its simultaneous representation of the county and a company from whom the county purchased the Adelanto jail for $31.2 million in 2005. After whispers of the double dealing involving former Assemblyman [...]

Anti-corruption Group Discusses Strategy

The new organization dedicated to rooting out political corruption in San Bernardino County held its first public meeting on October 6 in Redlands. The meeting was relocated at the last minute when the San Bernardino Public Employees Association (SBPEA) reneged on its agreement to allow the group to use its meeting room. The organizers had [...]

Intrigue, Mystery Attend Former Sheriff’s Sergeant’s Case

Intrigue and mystery surround a case involving a former San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department sergeant who was placed on administrative leave earlier this year in the aftermath of allegations that he had sexual relations with an underage girl. The sergeant has now resigned and the department has handed the case off to federal authorities. Nevertheless, [...]

Public Defender Seeking Volunteers

San Bernardino County Public Defender Doreen Boxer this week moved to facilitate efforts of the public inclined to volunteer time to assist with the legal defense of those unable to pay for it. The public defender’s office is that portion of county government which is chartered to provide legal defense to those people charged with [...]

iePolitics: Turmoil in SB County Public Defender operation

Apparently, there is rising discontent among veteran attorneys in the Office of the San Bernardino County Public Defender. Sources inside the department tell iePolitics that one of the highly talented attorneys in the office who recently won an acquittal on a murder case is now on administrative leave. The sources also say that many of [...]

***DANGER***: Bill aims to update, grow Troops to Teachers

Just search this site for anything military, and see if you want this scum infiltrating the educational system to propagandize, indoctrinate and poison your child’s mind.  Here are some examples: Military Accepting Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Probe Finds The rise of low-IQ in the US military The US military and its cult of cruelty America’s Child Soldiers: US Military [...]

US citizenship and naturalization of offspring: Department of State Passport Bulletin 96-18

Summary United States Department of State Passport Bulletin 96-18. This bulletin confirms that the Department of State holds a different interpretation than the Immigration and Naturalization Service regarding Derivative Citizenship. Derivative Citizenship refers to U.S. citizenship that a child may derive after birth through the naturalization of a parent or parents. The reason it is [...]

Individual Rights Must Come Before Protecting Religious Institutions

The Obama Administration has changed the way the United States relates to the world.  I tend to think this is good on many levels, but change can be nerve-racking.  An example of this is the recent United Nations Human Rights Council resolution regarding freedom of opinion and expression co-authored by the U.S. and Egypt.  (You read [...]

Recommendations for Treasury’s Terrorism/Financial Intelligence

Combating Illicit Financing: Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Could Manage More Effectively to Achieve Its Mission “In 2004, Congress combined preexisting and newly created units to form the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) within the Department of the Treasury. TFI’s mission is to integrate intelligence and enforcement functions to safeguard the [...]

Supreme Court declines to set rule on drunk driving stops

RICHMOND, Va. — The US Supreme Court has let stand a ruling in Virginia that police officers must personally observe erratic driving before stopping a suspected drunken driver. On Tuesday, the high court declined to take up an appeal involving a Richmond motorist who was pulled over by a police officer based on an anonymous [...]

Immigrants Are Welcome Here. Nazis Are Not

October 24, 2009 RIVERSIDE, California – In Southern California’s largest antifascist action in recent memory, a diverse group of between 400 and 500 protesters held a demonstration against a group of 16 neo-Nazis from the National Socialist Movement (bowel movement) in the Casa Blanca barrio of Riverside. The NSM sought to target the day laborers [...]

From the Ashes of Dying Newspapers Will Come Authentic News

A company called the Audit Bureau of Circulations measures how many actual newspapers are sold by US dailies and has just released its September 2009 six-month report. Newspaper companies pay the Audit Bureau to conduct this measurement to be able to show potential advertisers how many readers – especially the upscale kind – their ads [...]

George Will: US ‘probably in the process’ of legalizing marijuana

In the chronicle of America’s war against its marijuana users, conservative columnist George Will may have just earned credit for his own Walter Cronkite moment. Appearing on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, the Pulitzer-winning journalist and longtime icon of America’s political right declared that with President Barack Obama’s new policy which respects [...]

U.S. Forcibly Deported Islanders And Gassed Their Dogs To Make Way For Diego Garcia Military Base

In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. forcibly transported its 2,000 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs. By banning journalists from the area, the U.S. Navy was able to perpetrate this with virtually no press coverage, says David Vine, an assistant [...]

Che Guevara’s daughter campaigns for Cuban 5

On the 11th anniversary of the detention of the Cuban Five in the United States, Dr. Aleida Guevara says that they are national heroes. The five Cubans, Antonio Guerrero, Raman Labaino, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, and Rene Gonzalez were arrested in Miami in 1998 and are now entering their 12th year of incarceration. The US [...]

Police states of America?

A protest against police brutality has taken place in New York. Demonstrators say police officers use their power to bully and attack innocent people. Indeed, images of police brutality are viral on the internet. But those who get such kind of treatment are far from serial killers. You don’t have to look far to come [...]