Posted on 2009 November 26 by BBVM
The new German government held a two-day cabinet conference Tuesday and Wednesday at Schloss Merseburg in Brandenburg. According to Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the meeting was meant to create “a comradely atmosphere in which we can resolve problems in a spirit of mutual [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 26 by BBVM
Last year, the Pentagon’s premiere research arm gave IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) nearly $5 million to make electronics that mimic the “function, size and power consumption” of a cat’s brain. Last week, IBM’s lead researcher on the project, Dharmendra S. Modha, announced that he had made major progress [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 26 by BBVM
The German army’s chief of staff has stepped down after reports of Afghan civilian deaths in a September air strike involving German troops.
Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told parliament on Thursday Wolfgang Schneiderhan had submitted his resignation.
Schneiderhan “has released himself from his duties at his own request,” zu Guttenberg [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 26 by BBVM
Norway has unveiled the world’s first osmotic power plant, which utilizes the energy unleashed when fresh water and seawater are mixed to produce clean electricity.
Osmotic power is a renewable and emissions-free energy source that Norwegian firm Statkraft has been researching into for 10 years. The company hopes to [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 26 by BBVM
Russia’s intelligence services got connected to the secret information bases of the Interpol.
Our police have a considerable amount of experience collaborating with their foreign colleagues. Now, it will be expanded by means of electronic communication
Yesterday, the European Union officially gave Russia online access to the special databases of [...]
Filed under: Communications, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Border Guard Service of Russia, European Commission, European Union, Federal Customs Service of Russia, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, Interpol, Investigating Committee, Jean-Michel Louboutin, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, National Central Bureau, Prosecutor General of Russia, Russia, State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, surveillance | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
LONDON — Pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu (influenza A virus subtype H1N1, a type of swine influenza) vaccines in case they trigger life-threatening allergies.
Company spokeswoman Gwenan White said that they issued the [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
A defendant’s fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) brain scan has been used in court for what is believed to be the first time.
Brain scan evidence that the defense claimed shows the defendant’s brain was psychopathic was allowed into the sentencing portion of a murder trial in Chicago, Science reported [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
I was an average high school student. I had to attend summer school between my junior and senior years just to graduate with my class and even then, on graduation night, I wasn’t sure there’d be a diploma waiting for me. I was always more interested in playing ball and [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
The Hispanic College Fund has opened up its student applications for the 2010-11 scholarship season.
More than $2 million will be awarded in scholarships to about 500 Latino students from the United States and Puerto Rico.
Entries will be open until Feb. 16.
This is the 17th year the Hispanic College Fund has supported [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
The public has ideas, and the governments of the Valley are all ears.
A community needs forum is set for Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 1:30 p.m. Members of all areas of Big Bear Valley are invited, along with merchants and service organization representatives. The audience is invited to share ideas on [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
Don Allen wants to set the record straight. He did not resign his seat on the Big Bear Valley Recreation and Park District advisory commission five months ago.
“I was removed,” said Allen, who represented the community of Moonridge on the board until June 30.
Allen was serving as the commission president [...]
Filed under: Information, SB Supervisors, San Bernardino County | Tagged: Bear City Park, Bear Valley Recreation and Park District, Big Bear City, Big Bear City Airport, Big Bear City Park, Big Bear Lake, Cassy Benson, Don Allen, Don Pletcher, Gloria Rose Tscharanyan, Jennifer McCullar, Jerri Boone, Katheryn Poole, Moonridge and Fawnskin, Moonridge Animal Park, Neil Derry, Rudy Macioge, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, Sugarloaf, Sugarloaf Park | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
Today, the Department of Homeland Security proposed to make permanent Global Entry, a program the agency says will “streamline the international arrivals and admission process at airports for trusted travelers through biometric identification.” Under the proposed system, pre-registered international travelers can bypass conventional security lines by scanning [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DHS, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Clear, Department of Homeland Security, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Global Entry, Privacy Act, surveillance | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document — and a related paper, on conveying hidden signals — were believed to be destroyed in [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
A wide-ranging affidavit by Washington Times editorial page editor Richard Miniter in the lawsuit he is filing against the Times provides a detailed picture of the inner workings of the newspaper that has been rocked in recent weeks by the canning of three executives and the resignation [...]
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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
On Nov. 22, at the instigation of Czech Human Rights Minister Michael Kocáb, the government of the Czech Republic expressed regret over the illegal sterilizations of women that have been performed in the country. Speaking after a cabinet session, Kocáb said a set of measures are being designed to [...]
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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 25 by BBVM
Cleared of murder charges after serving 18 years, Fernando Bermudez was freed on Friday. See NYT story here and my previous post.
Four witnesses recanted their testimony, stating that they had been pressured by the government into identifying Mr. Bermudez as the shooter.
The main witness, Efraim Lopez, testified falsely under a [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 24 by BBVM
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Prohibition, War on Drugs, Clifford Thornton Jr. | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 24 by BBVM
This archive presents over 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the , written between 1996 and 2009.
The CRU has told the BBC that the files were obtained by a computer hacker 3-4 days ago.
This archive includes unreleased global temperature analysis [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 24 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
The commander of the Chinese Air Force has described dominating the space as an imperative for the country’s security.
The commander of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), Xu Qiliang, said on Monday superiority in space could give a nation control over war zones both on land and at sea, [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Microsoft is holding talks with News Corporation and other media-companies to convince them to remove their news content from the Google search engine while continuing to feature their material on the Microsoft search engine. One source told the Financial Times that this initiative had originated with Keith Rupert [...]
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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 23 by BBVM
Google is taking a swing at the Lexis/Nexis / Westlaw duopoly by offering free searches and free access to the full text of state, district, and appellate court opinions. Law journals, too.
Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Senator Benjamin Louis “Ben” Cardin (D-MD) stops by the Editor’s Desk to chat about the letter he just sent to Secretary Robert Michael Gates regarding his concerns over the amount of prescription drugs being given to troops in the war zones and the long-term consequences of that practice. [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
UPDATED AND EXPANDED: In the wake of the Fort Hood tragedy, there have been media reports that mental health staff had been concerned about Major Nidal Malik “AbduWali” Hasan, but did not report their concerns to higher authorities. Rather, these staff hoped he would disappear, into Fort Hood and then [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
New York times article on Anwar al-Awlaki is here.
Some posts from his blog, retrieved from Google’s cache:
Website coming back online, November 11, 2009
Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing, November 9, 2009
RSS Feed, November 9, 2009
Response to Abdullaah bin Abdur-Rahmaan al-Jarboo, October 11, 2009
Eid Mubarak! Taqabbal Allah minna [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
The Citizen Media Law Project announced the launch of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University’s Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono initiative that connects lawyers and law school clinics with online journalists who need legal help. OMLN will provide [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Citizen Media Law Project, Harvard University, Journalism, Online Media Legal Network | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Obama Administration Defending Law that Makes Speech Advocating Human Rights a Terrorist Crime
November 17, 2009, New York – Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the first brief in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, the first case to challenge a portion of the Patriot Act before the [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Tiburon, California, is a twee little place. If you aren’t familiar with the old-country colloquialism “twee,” it means, well, something like “precious.” Like one of those dogs Paris Hilton used to carry in her purse.
When one wanders through its little streets, just north of San Francisco, one gets the sense [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
SAN BERNARDINO – Wylena Andrews landed in jail, she says, because police wanted her brother for burglarizing a sergeant’s house.
When they couldn’t find him, they took Andrews as a bargaining chip and threatened to haul her siblings off to Child Protective Services unless her brother turned himself in.
“I kept saying [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Information, Prison Industrial Complex, Uncategorized | Tagged: Bradley Lawrence, Child Protective Services, Greg Parker, Michael Billdt, Michael Desrochers, Minerva Santana, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, San Bernardino Police Department, Wiley Andrews, William H. Schneid, Wylena Andrews | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 22 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 22 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 22 by BBVM
A group of 145 evangelical, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian leaders have signed a declaration saying they will not cooperate with laws that “could be used to compel their institutions to participate in abortions, or to bless or in any way recognize same-sex couples.”
Citing Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Barrett Brown, Catholicism, Charles Wendell Colson, Christian, civil disobedience, Darren Spedale, Evangelical Christian, Focus on the Family, James Clayton Dobson Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Leith Anderson, Manhattan Declaration, Martin Luther King, National Association of Evangelicals, Orthodoxy, Prison Fellowship, Roman Catholic Church, Ted Arthur Haggart, Timothy Dolan, Watergate Hotel, Watergate scandal, William N. Eskridge Jr., Yale University | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 22 by BBVM
After being off work and without a paycheck for the past four weeks thanks to our FORMER County Administrative Officer Mark Uffer, writing that last article was a bit cathartic. Mark was a bit upset with me for several reasons, one of which is that I finally got sick of [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors, San Bernardino County | Tagged: Andrew Lamberto, Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Bob Windle, County of San Bernardino, Mark Uffer, San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, SB City, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB PD, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors, San Bernardino County | Tagged: alcohol, Bart Gray, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Carona, Keith Kilmer, Lohman Cordua, Michael S. Carona, Peace Officers Research Association of California, Richard Beemer, Rod Hoops, Ruth Stringer, Safety Employees Benefit Association, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, San Bernardino Police Department, William Hadden | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 21 by BBVM
Sources have confirmed that officials from the state regulatory agency have converged on Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) in what has been described by one long-term employee as the most extensive investigation/inspection of the facility since its opening ten years ago. The investigation involves all units in the hospital [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 21 by BBVM
Incoming Seattle City Attorney Peter Holmes says he’s still stunned by his election victory over incumbent Tom Carr. One area where Holmes hopes to bring change is in the city’s attitudes toward marijuana enforcement. Holmes says he has no plans to charge anyone with simple marijuana possession. And he’s [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Information, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: marijuana, Metropolitan Democratic Club of Seattle, Peter Holmes, Prohibition, Seattle, Seattle City Attorney, Tom Carr, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 21 by BBVM
It was a petulant fit of pique, certainly entertaining, and potentially hilarious — if safe access for so many medical marijuana patients weren’t hanging in the balance.
After things didn’t go his way at Monday’s Los Angeles City Council joint committee meeting, District Attorney Stephen Lawrence (“Steve”) Cooley pronounced Tuesday [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
Moscow will stick to its commitments on the abolishment of the capital punishment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia said on Thursday.
Constitutional Court of Russian Federation extended a moratorium on capital punishment earlier on Thursday. The court said that the ban, introduced in 1999, had begun an [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: capital punishment, Chechnya, Constitutional Court of Russian Federation, Council of Europe, death penalty, European Convention on Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Russia, Valery Zorkin | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
Security experts raised privacy concerns after a US National Security Agency official revealed that the Agency collaborated with Microsoft during the development stage of Windows 7. The revelation was made in a prepared statement by NSA information assurance director Richard Schaeffer, before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism [...]
Filed under: Communications, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Electronic Privacy Information Center, Marc Rotenberg, Microsoft, National Security Agency, Richard Schaeffer, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, surveillance, Windows 2000, Windows 7., Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 9X, Windows Vista., Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
The world is about to enter a period of unprecedented investment in nuclear power. The combined threats of climate change, energy security and fears over the high prices and dwindling reserves of oil are forcing governments towards the nuclear option. The perception is that nuclear power is a carbon-free technology, [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: arXiv, breeder reactor, Michael Dittmar, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, nuclear power, Secondary Uranium Resources, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction, Uranium | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
The Broadcasting Board of Governors oversees the United States Government’s non-military broadcasting. Its function is to provide managerial guidance from talented private sector leaders. The combined audience of the broadcasting it oversees is over 171 million, an increase of 71% over 2003, according to the BBG. Programming is in [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: City University of New York, Communism, Communist Party USA, Daily Worker, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Freedom of Information Act, old War, Pulitzer Prize, Studs Terkel, surveillance, The Good War, Working | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
Mark H. Uffer’s five-year tenure as the county’s top administrative officer drew to a close this week with a 3-2 vote of the board of supervisors.
The sacking of Uffer, who was named interim county administrative officer in March 2004 and then given the official title as CAO in September 2004, [...]
Filed under: Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, SB Assesssor, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors, San Bernardino County | Tagged: Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Bill Postmus, Brad Mitzelfelt, David Wert, Dean Arabatzis, Dennis Hansberger, Gary Ovitt, Josie Gonzales, Mark H. Uffer, Neil Derry, Paul Biane, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 19 by BBVM
Can ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) stimulants like Adderall (amphetamines) be the answer for college students looking to increase academic performance? They think so.
It’s a week before final exams and you haven’t begun studying. These general education classes are, simply, a drag and you’re already tired from fraternity, sorority or [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: youth, Prohibition, methamphetamine, Duke University, War on Drugs, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, Adderall, Amphetamines, David L. Rabiner | Leave a Comment »