Trial begins for ex-Air Force nurse in 3 deaths

SAN ANTONIO — A former Air Force nurse intentionally gave three elderly Texas patients lethal doses of medication, killing them with his self-described “aggressive” care for end-of-life patients, prosecutors said Tuesday at the start of a court-martial. Capt. Michael Fontana has pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and a charge of conduct unbecoming [...]

A terrible week for German spy agencies

Germany’s largest intelligence agencies are in for a challenging few days, as two spy scandals are making headlines in the country’s media. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz or BfV), Germany’s foremost domestic intelligence organization, is firmly in the hot seat after it emerged that a woman it employed [...]

State police want nearly $7 million to fulfill FOIA request

The Michigan Department of State Police is charging the Mackinac Center for Public Policy nearly $7 million to fulfill its Freedom of Information Act request for information on how the state has used homeland security grant money since 2002, the nonpartisan research group reported. A communications specialist at the center requested information after the Department [...]

Bill O’ Interviews Lou Dobbs About His Termination

Sheriff bailiffs assigned other jobs

VICTORVILLE • Sheriff bailiffs who normally police the courts everyday to assure order take on a different task one day a month as they assist the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department with warrant sweeps, use-of-force training in the courtroom and even do sex offender compliance checks. The 140 San Bernardino County Deputy Sheriffs assigned as [...]

Jurors to hear criminal past of San Bernardino teen shot by officer with 5 prior shootings

SAN BERNARDINO – A jury will get to hear about the possible gang involvement and criminal history of a teenager who was shot by police two years ago after allegedly reaching for a gun at the end of a foot chase. It is undecided, however, whether the jury will learn about the officer’s five prior [...]

Germany opposes bank data deal with US

Germany has announced its opposition to a European Union agreement to share bank data with the United States for anti-terrorist investigations. According to the draft, financial records stored by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) financial data system including “name, account number, address, national identification number, and other personal data”, can be shared [...]

500 Million New Terrorists!

The world is becoming less safe by the day. Before the end of November, half a billion new terrorists will be added to the list kept by the US government. On November 30, one day before the Treaty of Lisbon is scheduled to take effect, the ministers of justice of the European Union‘s 27 member [...]

In The End, Fall Of Berlin Wall Was Gorbachev’s Call

Twenty years ago, the world was transfixed by images of spirited Germans clambering on top of the forbidding Berlin Wall and beginning to dismantle its legacy with each swing of their pickaxes and hammers. The events of Nov. 9, 1989 — the day the wall fell — became the primary symbol of renewal and rebirth [...]

Analysts: US capitalism on verge of collapse

The declining state of the US economy has convinced a growing number of American analysts that the US capitalist financial system is doomed to disintegrate. Citing the works of other leading economists such as Jack Bogle and Marc Faber, Market Watch commentator Paul B. Farrell gives 20 reasons, in a recent article, why the “American [...]

Poll: US views Israel exempted from law

The US apparently views Israel as being exempted from abiding by international law, the results of a recent online opinion poll indicate. Press TV asked in an online poll about the respondents’ opinion on a recent motion by the US congressmen against the Goldstone report (United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict), which [...]

US lawmakers call for ending Cuba travel ban

Two key American lawmakers say that Washington should allow its citizens to travel to Cuba to help promote ‘democratic reforms’ in that country. Veteran Republican Senator Richard Lugar and Democratic Congressman Howard Berman insist that the Cuba travel ban has been obsolete and should be discarded as a foreign policy measure. Lugar, the top Republican [...]

Ohio designs single-drug execution

COLUMBUS – Ohio yesterday announced it will become the first state in the nation to switch to a one-drug method of execution, essentially administering a massive barbiturate overdose. The state also will employ a back-up of injecting drugs directly into a muscle when prison medical technicians can’t find useable veins, such as occurred Sept. 15 [...]

Global survey on free market capitalism: Majority say fix it or ditch it

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism (laissez-faire). In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well. Most thought regulation and reform of the capitalist system were necessary. [...]

Increasing number of corporations toppled by industrial espionage

Industrial espionage is no longer the part-time job of secret agents from spy movies. It is prospering in everyday life and growing at a phenomenal rate. Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are being lost due to the theft of trade secrets. In recent years the definition of industrial espionage has broadened from the [...]

Beat anti-military bias with these replies to ‘loaded’ questions Now !!!

You know all too well the value of your military service. You’ve spent years getting high-tech training and developing leadership, problem-solving and project-management skills. You’re reliable, disciplined and mature. The trouble is that the person who will decide whether to hire you for that coveted civilian job may not have a military clue. The result: [...]

Society in Jail

“What are you in for?” the inmate of Lee County jail asked the new prisoner. “Rolling through a stop sign in my subdivision,” answered the new inmate, to gales of laughter from others languishing in the same cell. As they laugh, crumbs from their hard, dry sandwiches — distributed by the wardens twice per day [...]

Earth to Lou: It Could Have Been Different

It didn’t have to end this way for Lou Dobbs. He could have been a contender. But Dobbs, a supremely self-confident man who often mentions his Harvard University education in private conversation, just wouldn’t listen. Time after time, as the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show he has hosted on CNN (Cable News Network) since 2003 grew [...]

From cop to politician

San Bernardino County Sheriff Rod Hoops has spent a career in law enforcement, but now he’s running for elective office and it’s a new ball game for him. “I don’t really like that part of the job,” he told the San Bernardino County Democratic Club on Friday, Nov. 13. Even though his personality had to [...]

Pendleton Marine Beats Woman’s Face with Beer Mug, Nearly Severs Ear

A woman’s ear was nearly severed at a Temecula bar early Wednesday when a 22-year-old Marine struck her in the head with a glass object, authorities said. About 12:30 a.m., police were called to Aloha J’s at 27497 Ynez Road, where they found Jackson Gabriel Reyes, of Camp Pendleton, detained by security. They also found [...]

Preschool Hype: National Security Edition

Retired officers push early childhood benefits to help national security A bipartisan group of retired military officers says without more educational and health investments in children the country will face a growing “national security threat.” Now, the group is pushing for significant investments in early childhood education, parenting guidance as well as mental and nutrition [...]

Berlin Wall: 223 dead. Wall that separates the USA from Mexico: 5.6 thousand dead

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world lives with a number of barriers that serve to restrain the free movement of people. The wall that divides the West Bank from Israel and preventing the passage of Mexican immigrants to the United States are the best known, but there are [...]

Supreme Court hears case on prosecutorial immunity

Last week the Supreme Court heard oral argument in an important snitching case: Pottawattamie County v. McGhee. Two prosecutors are being sued for fabricating evidence — essentially pressuring a criminal informant until he came up with the story they wanted and then using that story at trial. The issue is whether they have absolute immunity, [...]

Recruiting new informants

Here’s a revealing article in the Buffalo News: Walking thin line in Village of Attica: Would-be informant says police coerced her into cooperation. It’s about Bianca Hervey, a 20-year-old college student who got pulled over by police for failing to pay her traffic tickets. The police threatened to put her in jail for the night, [...]

CALIFORNIA SEARCH & SEIZURE LAW: THE FOURTH AMENDMENT AND PRIVATE POSTAL BOXES

The defendant rented a private postal box. The police went to it and asked an employee if the defendant received mail at that facility. The clerk responded by reaching into the defendant’s postal box, retrieving three letters, and displaying them without opening them to the police. One showed a bill from AT&T. The police then [...]

Flaw in Fed Wiretaps Could Allow Circumvention

People who think they are being wiretapped by the cops could disable the taps by sending a stream of text messages or making numerous VOIP calls to overwhelm the system’s thin bandwidth, researchers in Pennsylvania postulate. The researchers say they’ve found a vulnerability in U.S. law enforcement wiretaps, if only theoretical, that would allow a [...]

Cameraman files suit against Newark officer for assault

A television news cameraman in New Jersey has filed a 17-count lawsuit against a Newark Police Department officer and the city of Newark, alleging that he was assaulted while covering demonstration against street violence, The Star-Ledger reported. Longtime cameraman James Quodomine was on assignment for Newark’s WCBS-TV when he was sent to cover a gathering [...]

AMA Urges Feds to Reconsider Classification of Marijuana as a Dangerous Drug

John Hoeffel reports in the Los Angeles Times: The American Medical Association has urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use, a significant shift that puts the prestigious group behind calls for more research. The nation’s largest physicians organization, with about 250,000 member doctors, [...]

University of Phoenix’s Curious Take on the Law

The University of Phoenix has 190 campuses operating in 39 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The school says it has 420,000 students and tens of thousands of employees at its schools of nursing, business and education, among others. But it does not have a law school. Maybe it should. In an official [...]

San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry Sings Sinatra

Patton Police fire back at political rookie, Neil Derry

Patton State Hospital Police Department fires back at Supervisor Neil Derry’s remark about a 500-member force of sworn peace officers as “rent-a-cops” mark of political rookie. To the doctors, staff, patients, visitors, and residents of nearby communities of 12 state hospitals and developmentally disabled facilities, they are the thin blue line of law enforcement, performing [...]

Secret Copyright Treaty Threatens Internet Freedom

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An Aryan Nations E-Mail Box Hacked ;)

WikiLeaks: aryannationspa@hotmail.com leaked emails, 2009 mail archives (chronological) ( Aryan Nations (AN) is a white nationalist neo-Nazi organization founded in the 1970s by Richard Girnt Butler as an arm of the Christian Identity group Church of Jesus Christ-Christian. As of December 2007 there were two main factions that claimed descent from Butler’s group. Aryan Nations [...]

15-fold rise in birth defects in Fallujah

There has been a 15-fold rise in birth defects and early childhood cancers in the war-ravaged enclave of Fallujah, the site of two major battles after the Iraq invasion, doctors say. Dr. Ayman Qais said that before the war began in 2003, there were sporadic numbers of deformities in babies, but now the frequency of [...]

Former Philadelphia Police Officer Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

A Federal judge has thrown the book at a crooked cop. Former Philadelphia Police Department officer Malik Snell wept about how apologetic and ashamed he was but the prosecutor wasn’t buying and neither was Judge R. Barclay Surrick. He gave Snell 360 months, 30 years, near the top end of the range the Feds had [...]

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US bans firms, people in Cali case

The United States government says it will impose sanctions on those who have assisted the financial network of the imprisoned leaders of Cali Cartel. The US Department of the Treasury under an executive order, froze the assets of 14 individuals and 25 companies spanning across three countries — Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands — which [...]

Tennessee trooper suspended over ‘white pride’ e-mail

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee state trooper who accidentally sent an e-mail proclaiming white pride to 787 state employees has been suspended for 15 days without pay and will have to attend diversity training. The e-mail from Trooper Brent Gobbell states, in part, “You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a [...]

Police use-of-force reports are public records in New Jersey

A New Jersey appeals court on Monday ruled that police use-of-force reports — generated any time a police offer uses force against a citizen — are public records and cannot be withheld as criminal investigatory records. Attorneys for West Milford, a township in northern New Jersey, appealed a state trial court’s ruling that the records [...]

New DOJ Report: Gang Information Management System Needed

Review of the Department’s Anti-Gang Intelligence and Coordination Centers The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General just released this report which examines the intelligence and coordination activities of the National Gang Intelligence Center and the Gang Targeting, Enforcement, and Coordination Center. Additionally, the review “assesses the effectiveness of their contributions to the Department’s [...]

Most Complained-About Chicago Cops List Remains Closed

A list naming the 662 Chicago Police Department officers with 10 or more complaints filed against them will remain closed. A journalist and 28 Chicago alderman sought access to the list compiled in connection with a 2004 suit against the Chicago Police Department.  Because that case has been settled, the federal appeals court ruled sua [...]

McDonald’s In Guantanamo Bay

Did you know there’s a McDonald’s In Guantanamo Bay? It’s true. They’re currently hiring for the position of assistant manager. Notice how the listing avoids referring to Guantanamo by name, instead calling it “the United States Naval base in Cuba.” Apparently, no special security clearance is need for the job, just a desire to “Enjoy [...]

Justice Department issued secret subpoena for news site’s traffic

The Department of Justice earlier this year served and shortly thereafter withdrew a grand jury subpoena that sought information about all visitors to the journalism website Indymedia.us for one day, and also contained a gag order “not to disclose the existence of [the] request,” CBSNews.com reports. In the Jan. 23 subpoena the Justice Department demanded [...]

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Cryptome posts Microsoft’s COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) and COFEE User Guide – receives take-down demand

Cryptome posts Microsoft’s COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) and COFEE User Guide – receives take-down demand. Click image

County Immigration Enforcement Plan Prompts Profiling Concern

Over the objections of eleven county residents, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors this week renewed a commitment to have the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department cooperate with federal authorities in identifying illegal immigrants and targeting them for deportation. While a representative of the county sheriff’s department indicated that the identification and deportation effort [...]

Convicted CIA agents also in Norway?

At least two of the 23 CIA agents who were earlier this week convicted of having abducted a Muslim cleric in Italy in 2003 and sending him to Egypt, have reportedly also been in Oslo. Their mission in Oslo is said to have been the charting of the movements of Mullah Krekar in preparation for an abduction of [...]

Openness and Patent Reform: USPTO Launches Director’s Blog

David J. Kappos, the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has taken on a tough mission that is critically important for the future of American innovation: fix our broken patent system and reduce the USPTO’s backlog of applications in order to foster [...]

New Audit Report on FBI’s ‘Sentinel’ Case Management System

Sentinel Audit V: Status of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Case Management System This Department of Justice, Office of Inspector General audit report is the fifth in a series of reports assessing the FBI’s ‘Sentinel’ case management system. “The objectives of this current audit, the fifth in our ongoing review of Sentinel’s progress, were to: [...]