Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
From federal prosecutor to accused violent gangster, pimp, and drug-dealer…That’s the unusual career trajectory taken, say the Feds, by Paul Bergrin, who was indicted earlier this month in a 39-count racketeering indictment.
In a drama that could have been made for HBO, Bergrin — a white-collar defense lawyer who once represented, [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
After the sickening murder of a 9-year-old boy in Washington, our friend Spencer Ackerman made an impassioned plea: U.S. Central Command chief General David Petraeus for D.C. metro police chief. The idea of America’s leading counterinsurgent taking on one of its most crime-ridden towns definitely has a certain [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
“Statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that 7,783 criminal incidents involving 9,168 offenses were reported in 2008 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or disability. Published by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Hate Crime Statistics, 2008, [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 24 by BBVM
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Excerpt:
When I reached her by phone, Goodnight said, “Our research has shown that child trafficking increases when you have military bases and a strong agricultural presence in the area.” That’s why, this year, before Shaniya Davis’s disappearance and the discovery of her body made “human trafficking” a hot topic, [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Of all the factors on the table in the current Afghan strategic review, the War on Drugs and its unintended consequences should be front and center. Our 95-year effort to create a Drug Free America by enforcing world-wide prohibition has twisted our foreign policy out of shape all over the globe and [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 22 by BBVM
Sheriff Rod Hoops let’s continue from my last posting.
I do not want our readers to think that misconduct such as the credentials falsification issue with Sheriff’s Captain Bart Gray is nothing but an aberration.
It is actually the opposite. In other words it happens quite frequently.
Not only are special accommodations made for [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which acted as America’s political police during the Cold War, spent several decades watching Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, who died earlier this year at age 96. The revelation was made by the City University of New York’s NYCity News Service, which [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
“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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 16 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 12 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 12 by BBVM
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit [1] against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying it illegally detained and mistreated an American, Amir Meshal, who was held in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia for four months in 2007 before being released.
According to the ACLU’s complaint, which was filed [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 12 by BBVM
Pot smoker in Mexico City. Mexicans consume an estimated 342 tons of marijuana a year. Photo by Castillo / AP.
Legalization is the only answer…
Mexico’s massive drug problem
As poet Juan Pablo Garcia posited long ago in his 1985 Pacheco (marijuana user) Manifesto: ‘drugs don’t make us criminals but laws against [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 11 by BBVM
Through interviews with former narcotics agents, politicians, and bureaucrats, this exposé documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) up until the present day. Written in [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 10 by BBVM
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Posted on 2009 November 10 by BBVM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday after a pair of hunters found about 100 pounds of explosives outside his home near Fort Campbell.
Timothy Ryan Richards was charged with possessing two unregistered guns, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent Eric Kehn said he [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 1 by BBVM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in league with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (part of the Department of Justice), has launched a program that harks back to East Germany’s Stasi.
In Philadelphia, the FBI has instructed tattoo shops to rat out their customers if they demand privacy, insist on paying [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 31 by BBVM
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, [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: AB 390, Alex Woon, Drug Policy Alliance, Kraig Negrete, marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NORML, Prohibition, San Jose State University, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Tom Ammiano, University of California Berkeley, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 29 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 29 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 29 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 27 by BBVM
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: [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 26 by BBVM
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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
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Posted on 2009 October 23 by BBVM
A fundamental principle of interventionism holds that one government intervention inevitably leads to more interventions, in order to “fix” the problems of the previous interventions. At the end of this road lies omnipotent government and the loss of freedom.
A good example of this phenomenon is being provided by a group called [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 23 by BBVM
Stewart D. Nozette, who was arrested and charged this week under the Espionage Act, is an unusually gifted and accomplished technologist. The allegation that he provided classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer in exchange for cash is distressing on several levels.
Among other things, [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 23 by BBVM
For years, former Mexican President Vicente Fox has suggested that drug legalization needs to be on the agenda when discussing how to resolve prohibition-related problems like the wave of violence plaguing Mexico. Now, he’s getting personal and political, as he attacks sitting President Felipe Calderon for what Fox is describing [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 19 by BBVM
WASHINGTON – Pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by the Justice Department.
Under the policy spelled out in a three-page legal memo, federal prosecutors are being told it is [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 15 by BBVM
Former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria on Tuesday strongly criticized the United States’ approach to fighting drugs.
“Just putting all consumers in jail, as the U.S. does, is not a solution,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “You have to reduce consumption.”
In a wide ranging interview, Gaviria said the United States now has [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 14 by BBVM
A new poll shows a substantial majority of Americans have resigned themselves to the reality of our nation’s perpetual foreign wars. They don’t like it, but they see it happening and know there is nothing they can do about it. The poll, conducted by Clarus Research Group, showed that 68 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 14 by BBVM
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, October 12, 2009
United Nations and Interpol officials will meet today to discuss the formation of a “global police force” that would enjoy access to a worldwide database of DNA, biometric and fingerprint records. The effort will be spearheaded by a man known as “The Enforcer” [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 13 by BBVM
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently made available an unclassified U.S. State Department report on Mexico’s human rights as related to the Merida Initiative. The report comes as a response to section 1406 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (P.L. 110-252), and section 7045 of the [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 13 by BBVM
Sometimes, dangerous people with guns sell marijuana to people who use it, sometimes in places where there are other people who don’t want marijuana to be sold in front of them. Then, sometimes people use those guns to flex their control when they feel threatened.
Source
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Posted on 2009 September 29 by BBVM
OKLAHOMA CITY — Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
“The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 27 by BBVM
The Justice Department made 763 requests for “sneak-and-peek” warrants in 2008, but only three of those had to with terrorism investigations, Sen. Russ Feingold told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.
“Sneak-and-peek” warrants allow law enforcement officials to break into homes and businesses and search the premises without [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 25 by BBVM
The brilliant thinkers that wrote our Constitution had it right… They had just fought a war to overthrow an oppressive government, and they had won it by having similar technologies to this oppressive Government and tactics more suitable to the type of war they were fighting. These geniuses wrote the [...]
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