FNH USA SCAR 16S Patrol Rifle

In 2003 the United States Special Operations Command approved a Joint Operational Requirements Document launching a search for a rifle that would satisfy the multifaceted needs of our special forces. By this time some of the luster had worn off the relatively new M4 carbine that many of these troops were issued. Problems with reliability, [...]

Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents

WASHINGTON — President Obama declared on Tuesday that “no information may remain classified indefinitely” as part of a sweeping overhaul of the executive branch’s system for protecting classified national security information. In an executive order and an accompanying presidential memorandum to agency heads, Mr. Obama signaled that the government should try harder to make information [...]

CRS Report – Privacy: An Overview of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping

Privacy: An Overview of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping, December 3, 2009 “Depending on one’s perspective, wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping are either “dirty business,” essential law enforcement tools, or both. This is a very general overview of the federal statutes that proscribe wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping and of the procedures they establish for [...]

War Veteran’s Speech

UPDATES: 3 police officers among 5 people indicted in fatal, race-related beating

Luis Ramirez was in a coma on life support before he died two days after he was beaten. See updated article on this case, with photos, here.  Then see here.  YouTube here … Five people, including three police officers, have been indicted on charges related to the beating death of a Latino man in rural [...]

Cell Phone Application directs border-crossing immigrants to water

SAN DIEGO — A group of California artists wants Mexicans and Central Americans to have more than just a few cans of tuna and a jug of water for their illegal trek through the harsh desert into the U.S. Faculty at University of California, San Diego are developing a GPS-enabled cell phone that tells dehydrated [...]

Langley-Eustis merger on track for Jan. 31

+ HAMPTON, Va. — Two Virginia military bases will merge next month, but officials say little will change in the short term. Langley Air Force Base and Fort Eustis will become Joint Base Langley-Eustis starting Jan. 31. Military officials say the process of combining operations is expected to last through October. Col. Kevin Altman, commander [...]

Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

News out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India reports massive corruption at the highest levels of government, corruption that could only be financed with drug money. In Afghanistan, the president’s brother is known to be one of the biggest drug runners in the world. In Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari is found with 60 million in [...]

Israeli Police Arrest Nuclear Whistleblower

JERUSALEM —  Israeli police say that nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been arrested. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Vanunu was detained on suspicion he met with several foreigners, in violation of the conditions of his 2004 release from prison. He’s to appear in a Jerusalem court later Tuesday. Vanunu was a former low-level technician at an [...]

Scientists discover antibody that kills prostate cancer

Micrograph of prostate adenocarcinoma, acinar type, the most common type of prostate cancer. Needle biopsy. HPS stain. US researchers have found an antibody that hunts down prostate cancer cells in mice and can destroy the killer disease even in an advanced stage, a study showed Monday. The antibody, called F77, was found to bond more [...]

Riverside Police Detective Scott Alan Impola Charged with Beating

[ Arraignment set for Tuesday, 12/29/2009 0 8:30 AM Department 22A Riverside ] A Riverside Police Department detective is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on misdemeanor charges that accuse him of forcing his way into the apartment of his estranged wife and beating her male companion, according to court documents. Det. Scott Alan Impola (this might [...]

PETN Popular Explosive for Terrorists

PETN in Wikipedia here. Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, or PETN , was used in the device Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on December 25. PETN, a common legal explosive, has been used in previous terrorist attacks. In an August 2009 attempt to assassinate the Saudi Prince Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdul [...]

Resistance Against Checkpoints

Law enforcement agencies have declared they will hold 300 “DUI” checkpoints during the holiday season statewide. Furthermore, they have declared 2010 “the year of the checkpoint.” Checkpoints are a military tactic that violate the Fourth Amendment and condition society to passivity toward police interference in daily activities. They disproportionately impact immigrant communities, who face deportation [...]

Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged

BERLIN — A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of global wireless systems. The action by the encryption expert, Karsten Nohl, aimed to question [...]

Missing Polish intel officer probably defected to China

We have been keeping an eye on the mysterious case of Stefan Zielonka, a senior signals intelligence officer with Poland’s Military Intelligence Services (SWW), who disappeared without trace in early May. The seriousness of Zielonka’s disappearance stems from his extensive knowledge of Polish undercover intelligence networks operating overseas, including names and contacts of illegals –i.e. [...]

Dutch MP: Curaçao is US spy base

Mr. Harry an Bommel has asked Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen whether he is aware that a Boeing RC-135 aircraft has been making regular reconnaissance flights from the Caribbean island’s Hato International Airport airport over the past few weeks. War on drugs The flights were the cause of angry reactions by Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chávez, [...]

War zone pregnancy punishments being dropped

Raymond T. Odierno A controversial policy that put pregnant soldiers in war zones at risk of discipline will be rescinded under an order from the top U.S. commander in Iraq. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno has drafted a broad new policy for the U.S. forces in Iraq that will take effect Jan. 1, and that order [...]

Top Censored Stories of 2009 / 2010

Top Censored Stories of 2009/2010 from Project Censored:

Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic Books Online

Nearly 60,000 books prized by historians, writers and genealogists, many too old and fragile to be safely handled, have been digitally scanned as part of the first-ever mass book-digitization project of the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC), the world’s largest library. Anyone who wants to learn about the early history of the United States, or [...]

Kern County’s Monstrous D.A. – Farewell to Ed Jagels, a man who put 25 innocent “child abusers” in prison

On his official government web page, Ed Jagels boasts that “During Jagels’s tenure as District Attorney, Kern County has had the highest per capita prison commitment rate of any major California County.” Note that the D.A. makes no claim about the New Jersey-sized county of farms and oil fields being any safer through his efforts. [...]

Chavez threatens to expel Toyota

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has warned that he may expel Japanese carmaker Toyota unless it produces an all-terrain model suitable for poor and rural areas. In a speech late on Wednesday, Chavez also said that he would not hesitate to expel and expropriate plants from other Asian and US automobile companies operating in Venezuela should [...]

New Year Greetings from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC)

Translate to English Al finalizar este año de 2009, queremos extender nuestro saludo entusiasmado, patriótico y pleno de optimismo en las posibilidades y el futuro libertario de nuestra patria, a todas las estructuras de guerrilleros integrantes de las FARC EP, Milicianos Bolivarianos, militantes del Partido Comunista Clandestino, integrantes del Movimiento Bolivariano, Redes Urbanas, a los [...]

Twentynine Palms Marine solicited and procured the sexual assault of Casper woman

“Enlisted in the Marines in 2001, went to Cherry Point NC, then to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom, then back for OIFII, and in about 2 weeks I’m going back for a 3rd time. Married to a beautiful woman from Washington. Have 2 beautiful boys who are the lights of my life. I am getting [...]

*** DANGER *** : LAPD on course to takeover Explorer Program

With a pledge to develop a program that does not tolerate discrimination, Los Angeles Police Department officials said Tuesday they are on target to take over the Exploring Program on Jan. 1. New uniforms, patches and other insignia will be unveiled – along with a new name – to make the long-debated transition of the [...]

Walmart Sued for Videotaping Employees, Customers in Bathroom

A Pennsylvania Walmart Supercenter videotaped employees and customers in a unisex bathroom, several former and current Walmart employees alleged in a lawsuit filed this week. Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at the Walmart in Easton, Pennsylvania., filed a lawsuit in county court against the Arkansas-based corporation and four local [...]

US to stop funding scandal-prone Colombian spy agency

The US Congress has voted to stop subsidizing Colombia’s soon-to-be dismantled Administrative Department of Security (DAS – Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad) intelligence agency. The Colombian government recently decided to disband DAS, after it was found to have illegally wiretapped the phones of several public figures, including the chief of the Colombian National Police (Policía Nacional [...]

Top Secret Brit Laptop Stolen

The theft of laptops with ‘top secret’ gov­ern­ment and military data has become a punch-​​​​line in the United Kingdom. There were 28 lap­tops lost or stolen in the last four months and 66 in total since January 1, 2009. Looking back over the last 4 years there were 658 that van­ished. A major hunt is now [...]

FBI Releases Michael Jackon Files

Michael Joseph Jackson, a celebrity pop star, was born on August 29, 1958. He died unexpectedly on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50. Between 1993 and 1994 and separately between 2004 and 2005, Mr. Jackson was investigated by California law enforcement agencies for possible child molestation. He was acquitted of all such charges. [...]

Chase Bank Says F-You to Students at Holiday Time

As reported by the New York Times, Chase Bank asked millions of Facebook users to “decide what matters” by casting votes for their favorite organizations. Participation comes with a chance to win $25K and a shot at $1 million. Chase ultimately rigged their own contest in hiding the voting information during the last few days [...]

Record High Federal Prosecutions in 2009

FY 2009 Federal Prosecutions Sharply Higher Analyzing data from the United States Department of Justice, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University has released this report showing a 9% increase in federal prosecutions compared to last year. At a total of 169,612, the swell in prosecutions is attributed to “an unusual flood of [...]

Those Airport Scanners Are Sensitive

Jack Bauer Interrogates Santa

YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer

Terrorist attacks today are often media events in a second sense: information and communication technologies have developed to such a point that these groups can film, edit, and upload their own attacks within minutes of staging them, whether the Western media are present or not. In this radically new information environment, the enemy no longer [...]

Two Phoenix Police Officers Fired For Hand Cuffing and Fondling a Civilian in a Bikini

Two Phoenix Police Department officers have been fired after an internal report revealed inappropriate sexual advances against a woman. Phoenix radio station KTAR says the incident occurred last July. The internal investigation report obtained by KTAR says Phoenix police Officers Michel Cruz and John Urban stopped a bikini-clad woman after she fled from a rear-end [...]

Christmas video from the Kenosha police department in Wisconsin

Federal Military/Prison-Industrial Complex Mole Slinks into Orange County

Alan Hostetter, the deputy chief of the Fontana Police Department, has been selected as the new police chief in La Habra and is scheduled to begin as city’s top cop Jan. 4.Hostetter ranked highest among 20 candidates who applied for the job in the 60,000-person city, according to a statement from city officials. He replaces [...]

Plea Bargains Get Renewed Scrutiny

A surprise twist in the criminal case against Broadcom Corporation co-founder Henry Samueli again raises questions about plea bargains, one of the most important and controversial aspects of the justice system. In a Santa Ana, California, court last week, federal Judge Cormac J. Carney dismissed the criminal complaint charging Mr. Samueli with lying to the [...]

NYPD Must Give NYCLU Data on Race of People Shot at by Police

A Supreme Court of the State of New York judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to turn over to the New York Civil Liberties Union data concerning the race of all people who were shot at by police officers between 1997 and 2006. The NYCLU sued the NYPD in August 2008 for [...]

Senate Vote Will Hold Military Contractors Accountable, Protect Employees Who Are Victims of Sexual Assault

In a move that will give employees of defense contractors rights they should have had all along, Senate lawmakers today voted to deny contracts to companies that force arbitration on employees who are sexually assaulted at work. Under a provision sponsored by Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) that was placed in the defense appropriations bill approved [...]

In secret case, court rejects ‘total and permanent’ seal

The U.S. Court of Appeals in New York (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) last week rejected a request to permanently seal the entire transcript of a criminal defendant’s sentencing. The appeal remains shrouded in secrecy, with court documents, the charges, the defendant’s name, and even the defense attorney’s name sealed. Prosecutors [...]

Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated)

Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electronic interception, multiple military sources tell Danger Room. That means militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft [...]

Lightning-gun tech ‘approaching weaponisation’

[ Scam, scam, scam ] The Pentagon continues to pour funding into Arizona-based laser plasma lightning blaster-gun firm Applied Energetics, formerly known as Ionatron. The US Army says that the firm’s lightning guns are “approaching the level of maturity needed to begin weaponization”. The military assessment came as the US Army Research, Development and Engineering [...]

California’s death row grows as death sentences decline nationwide

Los Angeles County sent more people to death row this year than Texas, Florida or any other state in the nation, condemning 13 convicted murderers — the highest number in a decade, according to a Times review of justice statistics. The increase comes as a national report projects that the number of death sentences issued [...]

Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A.

Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A. Andrew J. Oswald1,* and Stephen Wu2 A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals’ subjective well-being. These are responses to questions—asked by survey interviewers or medical personnel—such as “how happy do you feel on a scale from [...]

Texas pre-kindergarten program isolates 4-year-old ‘Tater Tot;’ his hair’s too long

BALCH SPRINGS, Texas — Taylor Pugh has been suspended from pre-kindergarten because he likes his hair a little on the floppy side. The 4-year-old sat with a teacher’s aide in a suburban Dallas school library Wednesday while his friends played and studied together in a classroom. “They kicked me out that place,” said Taylor, who [...]

Israel’s organ theft unforgivable: PFLP

A senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) says Israel‘s killing of Palestinian youths for their organs is an “unforgivable sin.” Stealing organs of Palestinian martyrs is a violation of all humanitarian principles and values, PFLP executive Maher al-Taher said in a Tuesday statement. Taher further called on human rights [...]

America’s Secret ICE Castles

“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear.” Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement‘s (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008. Also present [...]

Two Washington state lawmakers offer pot legalization bill

A pair of legislators in the state of Washington have submitted a marijuana legalization bill much like the one introduced by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D- San Francisco, back in February. The bill was introduced by state Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, with Rep. Roger Goodman as the principal coauthor. The two Democrats represent Seattle-area districts. Four [...]

Lista de agencias en el mundo que trabajan con la CIA

Caracas, dic. 2009, Tribuna Popular TP.- A continuación publicamos el listado de más de 500 agencias, fundaciones y empresas que son parte de la Central Intelligence Agency  (CIA) y trabajan con ella en el área de la información y acción contra los pueblos y sus organizaciones políticas y sociales. LISTADO DE AGENCIAS DE LA CIA:

Soldier Bowe Robert Bergdahl held by Taliban