March 29, 2010
FBI Makes Raids In Mich., Ohio, Indiana
ADRIAN, Mich. -- Agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least one of the raids was a Christian militia group, the FBI said Sunday. Federal warrants were sealed, but a federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity said some of those arrested face gun charges and officials are pursuing other suspects. There had been activity in two southeast Michigan counties near the Ohio state line, FBI spokesman Sandra Berchtold said. Agents arrested two people Saturday after raids in two Ohio towns, FBI spokesman Scott Wilson in Cleveland said. A third arrest made in northeast Illinois on Sunday stemmed from a raid Saturday just over the border in northwest Indiana. Both arrests are part of an ongoing investigation led by the FBI in Michigan, according to a statement from agents in Illinois.
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FBI Arrest Seven Linked to Christian Militia Group for Allegedly Making Threats Against Muslims
Detroit News
ADRIAN, Mich. -- At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said. The suspects are expected to make an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Monday. On Sunday, a source close to the investigation in Washington, D.C. confirmed that FBI agents were conducting activities in Washtenaw and Lenawee counties over the weekend in connection to Hutaree, a Christian militia group. Sources have said the FBI was in the second day of raids around the southeastern Michigan city of Adrian that are connected to a militia group, known as the Hutaree, an Adrian-based group whose members describe themselves as Christian soldiers preparing for the arrival and battle with the anti-Christ. Mike Lackomar, of Michiganmilitia.com, said both The
Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia and the Michiganmilitia.com were not a part of the raid. Lackomar said he heard from other militia members that the FBI targeted the Hutaree after its members made threats of violence against Islamic organizations.
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Massive Federal Raid in Lenawee County
ADRIAN, Mich. -- The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are all involved in raids around Adrian that may be connected to a militia group. The FBI conducted multiple raids throughout Saturday and into Sunday, with one of them centered on a property where known members of a militia live. The land is owned by a man who lives in a house on the property. His sons live in two mobile homes that are also on the property. Saturday's raids were concentrated on those mobile homes. Helicopters were spotted in the sky for much of the night, and agents set up checkpoints throughout the area, including in Sand Creek and Clayton in Lenawee County. Witnesses tell Action News that it was like a small army had descended on the area.
Feds Confirm 'Activities' in Southeastern Michigan
Detroit Free Press
Federal agents conducted raids over the weekend in Lenawee and Wastenaw counties that reports say may be related to some members of Hutaree, a Christian-militia group in Michigan. "We can confirm that there were law enforcement activities in the Lenawee/Washtenaw County area," said Detroit FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold. But she added that "the federal warrants are sealed and we can not comment at this time." The website for Hutaree says that it is "preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive." The group's logo is a cross with the initials CCR, Colonial Christian Republic. In one of its videos, a group of men in military gear take down a burning United Nations flag and replace it with their flag, which has a cross.
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DARPA Radar System Will Track Cars Anywhere
This is something they will love over at '24' and its fictitious and nearly omnipotent Counter Terrorist Unit. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a radar system that can track suspects or vehicles around corners and “down into urban canyons”— essentially anywhere in a city. Using a few unmanned air drones, DARPA will use the new Multipath Exploitation Radar to create 3-D urban maps and something called a Ku-band radar, which will run at high enough frequencies to get detailed images of vehicles. The drones bounce radars off the ground and buildings and match the patterns to 3-D maps, creating a full, vivid picture of a city in motion.
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New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes
Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace. Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed directly onto cereal boxes and potato chip bags. The tag uses ink laced with carbon nanotubes to print electronics on paper or plastic that could instantly transmit information about a cart full of groceries. “You could run your cart by a detector and it tells you instantly what’s in the cart,” says James M. Tour of Rice University, whose research group invented the ink. “No more lines, you just walk out with your stuff.”
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Hacker Gets 20 Years For Massive Credit-Card Theft
Albert Gonzalez, the Miami cyberthief who masterminded the largest theft of credit cards in U.S. history, was sentenced to 20 years on Thursday in Boston federal court for his role in breaking into the computer systems of major retailers to steal millions in card numbers. The self-styled computer guru admitted last year to hacking into the networks of TJX Cos., BJ's Wholesale Club, Dave & Buster's and others, saying he cost stores, insurers and banks nearly $200 million. ``He shook a portion of our financial system,'' said prosecutor Stephen Heymann. Just before he was sentenced by Judge Patti Saris, Gonzalez, 28, apologized as his mother, father and sister watched from the front row of the courtroom. His father wept softly and dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief. Gonzalez said he did it not out of greed, but instead ``because of my inability to stop my pursuit'' and ``my [Internet] addiction.'' ``I blame nobody but myself,'' he said.
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Communist City In China Is World's Hacker Hub
A city in eastern China has been identified as the world capital of cyber-espionage by an American internet security company. The firm traced 12 billion emails in a study which showed that a higher number of “targeted attacks” on computers come from China than previously thought. Researchers for Symantec found almost 30% of “malicious” emails were sent from China and that 21.3% came from the city of Shaoxing alone. They were able to identify key targets for the hackers as experts in Asian defence policy and human rights activists, strongly suggesting state involvement. Symantec is assisting the investigation into suspected hacking attacks on Google, which closed its website in China last week rather than censor itself on behalf of the ministry of state security.
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March 27, 2010
Understanding the Mechanics of the Police State
By Michael Hampton / LewRockwell.com
"People don't know what fusion centers are," says Catherine Bleish, who was the opening speaker at the 2010 New Hampshire Liberty Forum on March 19. Fusion centers were created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a way for local and state law enforcement agencies to share terrorism related information with the federal government, and vice versa. The idea quickly ran into problems, first among them the fact that there simply isn’t enough terrorist activity to justify the concept. Instead of shutting down as pointless, fusion centers gradually began expanding into sharing information about all crimes. Fusion center activity over the years has also raised concerns about government surveillance of legally protected political activity.
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Music Can Be Banned If It Even Sounds Religious
A public school has banned performance of an instrumental version of "Ave Maria" at its high-school graduation simply because the superintendent fears it might sound religious – and the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the ban to stand by refusing to hear the case. Kathryn Nurre, a former student at Henry M. Jackson High School in Everett, Wash., brought the action against Carol Whitehead, superintendent of Everett School District, alleging that she engaged in unjustified censorship of expression. Nurre, a member of the Jackson High School Wind Ensemble who played alto saxophone, received her high school diploma in June 2006. The group was expected to perform at the graduation ceremony, and 17 students unanimously chose Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria" as their selection.
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S.C. County Councilman's Prayer Sparks Protest
SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- A South Carolina councilman's prayer to Jesus and against abortion and same-sex marriage to open a county council meeting last week has drawn at least one complaint, a newspaper reported Sunday. Spartanburg County Councilman O'Neal Mintz, filling in for the council's usual chaplain, opened the March 15 meeting thanking God for "His Son, Jesus Christ" and saying that America's problems are attributable in part to abortion. He also said the U.S. needs prayer because of same-sex marriage. The prayer got the attention of Spartanburg resident Mary Miles, who often observes council meetings for the League of Women Voters. Miles told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg that she complained on her own behalf, no the league's.
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Pastor: Prosperity Gospel Is Hindering Church Revival
Revival is not about a large crowd but it is about broken people who want to get right with God, said the Baptist pastor whose church made the hit films "Facing the Giants" and "Fireproof." Depending on the time, place and people, revival can look different, said Michael Catt, senior pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. But all revivals share a few common elements: repentance, confession, restoration and brokenness.
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Spring Valley Will Rebuild Church
VIBORG, SD -- A Viborg congregation is coming together to face the Holy Week before Easter without a church. Spring Valley Lutheran Church was fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived Friday morning. Officials don't know what sparked the fire but the church is a complete loss. Hundreds of members from the rural Spring Valley Church came together Friday night at their sister church in Viborg to remember the building that was lost. "We actually had a lot of people who were not members who were interested in coming because that church touches a lot of lives around here," Spring Valley Lutheran Pastor Steven Unzicker said.
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Vendors Say Crystal Cathedral Owes Them Tens of Thousands of Dollars
Los Angeles Times
Vendors who helped produce popular Christmas and Easter pageants at the Crystal Cathedral megachurch in Garden Grove said Thursday that they are owed tens of thousands of dollars for their work. The towering glass church, founded by Robert H. Schuller in the 1950s and home to an international ministry and the popular "Hour of Power" televangelist broadcast, has long been a symbol of success. But the church has struggled financially in the last two years, laying off workers and seeing revenues drop 27%. Now the financial pain has spread to vendors involved with the "Glory of Easter" and "Glory of Christmas" pageants, elaborate productions that attract thousands of spectators.
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March 26, 2010
Your Medical Records Are Not Secure
By Deborah C. Peel
I learned about the lack of health privacy when I hung out my shingle as a psychiatrist. Patients asked if I could keep their records private if they paid for care themselves. They had lost jobs or reputations because what they said in the doctor's office didn't always stay in the doctor's office. That was 35 years ago, in the age of paper. In today's digital world the problem has only grown worse. A patient's sensitive information should not be shared without his consent. But this is not the case now, as the country moves toward a system of electronic medical records.
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Prisoners Forced to Submit to Radiation Experiments for Private Foreign Companies
In Illinois, federal judges have allowed at least two lawsuits to proceed against correctional officials for using full body scanners to reveal the anatomy of both prisoners and visitors without removing their clothing. This is the very same device that airports are seeking to implement on some inbound flights to the United States. The cases of Young v. County of Cook, 2009 U.S. Dist. Lexis 64404(N.D. 111.), and Zboralshi v. Monohan, 616 Supp.2d 792, 798 (2006, N.D. Ill), explain, “A Rapiscan is a machine that uses ‘back-scatter’ x-ray technology to conduct a body scan.” There is no significant difference between using Rapiscan and computer tomography (CT scan) whole body scanning.
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Verizon Challenges FCC Role In Broadband
One of the nation's biggest telecommunications providers urged the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday not to assert its authority over Internet services, a challenge that comes as the agency embarks on a 10-year effort to greatly expand broadband access across the country. Verizon Communications said that the FCC's power over high-speed Internet services is "at best murky" and offered recommendations to Congress that could take away much of the agency's power. Tom Tauke, Verizon's top lobbyist, urged lawmakers to rethink the way the government oversees broadband, arguing that the FCC should shift to more of an enforcement role -- like that of the Federal Trade Commission -- from its current status as a rule-making body.
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Obama's Health Care Bill Unconstitutionally Regulates Tanning Bed Use
Obama Joker Poster Editor's note: The term "unconstitutionally" means that it is an illegal and criminal activity.
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Tanning bed users will soon have to pay more to get that bronzed glow. The health care reform legislation includes a ten percent tax on indoor tanning beds. That tax will be initiated within the first year of the law. J.R. Hundley tans on a regular basis for his psoriasis problem. He says taxing tanners is a form of communism. "I never came here until I got psoriasis," Hundley said. Hundley is an exception, though, most people tan for the color. In fact, thirty million Americans get the indoor glow each year. One million have skin cancer. That's why the Federal Drug Administration is trying to find out if there is a link. As for the tan tax, Brian Peach says the Federal Government should promote a healthy tan environment with restrictions across the board, instead of hurting small businesses.
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Cops Given Keys To Homes In N.J. Town
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- It's a novel program designed to improve the safety of senior citizens in New Jersey. The program would allow police quick access into a home to help anyone having a medical emergency – without having the break down the door. Chief Novick came up with the idea after one of the area's huge snowstorms. "What if we had to respond to the house where the keyholder couldn't respond because they were snowed-in? What would we do?" Chief Novick said.
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91% Of Americans Use Cell Phones
As the CTIA kicked off its annual conference in Las Vegas yesterday, it also released the results of its semiannual US wireless industry survey for the last half of 2009. Even in the face of the largest economic recession since the Great Depression, results show that the wireless industry continues to grow as a vast majority of the US population is using a mobile phone. The survey of wireless carriers revealed that over 285 million Americans are mobile subscribers, about 91 percent of the total population. That's up 15 million over the same time last year, and growth has slowed somewhat due to market saturation.
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March 25, 2010
Weapons Charges Eyed for Ex-Blackwater Boss
Federal prosecutors are considering weapons charges against former executives at Blackwater Worldwide over allegations the private security company illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned. Senior Justice Department officials are reviewing a draft indictment against former president Gary Jackson, former Blackwater general counsel Andrew Howell, and a third man who used to work at the firm's armory, people close to the case told the AP. A decision is not expected until at least next month. Blackwater has repeatedly been under federal scrutiny — from the FBI to Congress to agencies that have hired the firm. While some of the company's guards have faced charges for their actions overseas, Blackwater's executives have managed to weather a range of investigations.
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Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card
Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card -- what they're calling "high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards" -- that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another national identification card at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security. Virtually none of the states are in compliance with this Real ID program — adopted in 2005 — requiring state motor vehicle bureaus to obtain and internally scan and store personal information like Social Security cards and birth certificates for a national database. Now comes a bid for a second card.
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Colorado Taxi Drivers to Spy for Cops
Making our community safer; that’s the goal of a new partnership starting today with a local business and Colorado Springs police. The drivers of Yellow Cabs will now be an extra set of roving eyes and ears to help police catch criminals. One of those drivers is Andy Michopoulos. A Yellow Cab has been his office for three years. But now he will be doing double duty in an effort to help keep our city safe. “As a driver who’s out at all times of night and all over the city, you see things going on and to have a direct way of reporting that to the police is definitely a plus,” says Michopoulos.
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Proposed Tree-Hugger Bill In Maryland Would Change Poaching Laws, Expand Police Power
BALTIMORE -- Senate Bill 987, called the Conservation Law Enforcement Act of 2010, would allow officers to review the books of seafood dealers and inspect fish at local markets. It would increase fines for oyster poachers and permit the Department of Natural Resources to sell gear seized from poachers and use the proceeds to pay for law enforcement activities. Natural Resources Police has jurisdiction over 17,000 miles of waterways and more than 500,000 acres.
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Corporate Media Fears Competition From Social Networking Sites
When the president of CNN in the U.S. looks over his shoulder, it's not his rivals at Fox News that makes him anxious. It's Facebook. "The competition I'm really afraid of are social networking sites," Jon Klein said at the Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2010 Media Summit. "That's an alternative that threatens to pull people away from us." Klein laments the level of trust that Facebook and Twitter users seem to place in the people they follow. "We want to be the most trusted name in news," he said. "We don't want the 1,000 people you follow in Twitter to be the most trusted sources for you.
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'Criminal Pot Growers' In California Fear Being Put Out of Business
REDWAY, Calif. -- The smell of pot hung heavy in the air as men with dreadlocks and gray beards contemplated a nightmarish possibility in this legendary region of outlaw marijuana growers: legal weed. If California legalizes marijuana, they say, it will drive down the price of their crop and damage not just their livelihoods but the entire economy along the state's rugged northern coast. Under the ballot measure, Californians could possess up to one ounce of marijuana for personal use. They could cultivate gardens up to 25 square feet, which is puny by Humboldt County standards. City and county governments would have the power to tax pot sales. Some growers Tuesday fantasized about mobs of tourists in limos streaming to the county. Others were not thrilled with the idea of paying taxes on their crop. Many agreed with the sentiment on a sticker plastered on a pizza joint's cash register: "Save Humboldt County - keep pot illegal."
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AT&T Wants Developers and Consumers to Optimize Bandwidth
As an AT&T senior vice president of voice and data products, Mark Collins spends a lot of time thinking about the future of wireless networks and services. That future, at least for AT&T developers and subscribers, includes being efficient about bandwidth. Over the next three to six months, AT&T plans to publish guidelines for optimizing applications to run on its network, Collins told Forbes in an interview at the CTIA Wireless trade show. These tips and software tools will help developers understand how much bandwidth their applications consume when performing certain functions. They will also show developers how much bandwidth is available on AT&T's network at a given time.
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EPA To Issue Stricter Drinking Water Standards
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency is tightening drinking water standards to impose stricter limits on four contaminants that can cause cancer. In a speech Monday, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency is developing stricter regulations for four chemical compounds: tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, acrylamide and epichlorohydrin. All four compounds can cause cancer. Trichloroethylene, also known as TCE, and tetrachloroethylene are used as industrial solvents and can seep into drinking water from contaminated groundwater or surface water. The other two compounds are impurities that can be introduced into drinking water during the water treatment process.
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March 24, 2010
Harris Poll: Obama Is An 'Antichrist'
Obama Joker Poster Birthers, deathers, now, apparently, there are Antichristers on the Obama warpath. The Daily Beast's John Avlon writes, "On the heels of health care, a new Harris poll reveals Republican attitudes about Obama: Two-thirds think he's a socialist, 57 percent a Muslim—and 24 percent say 'he may be the Antichrist.'" Avlon, author of the book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, offers the poll as proof that "Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party." 57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim 45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president" 38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did" Scariest of all, 24 percent of
Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."
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Trans Texas Corridor Racing Ahead
By Terri Hall / August Review
After Rick Perry's highway department announced the Trans Texas Corridor (TTC) route known as TTC-35 was "dead" in 2009, we find out post-election in 2010 that it, along with free trade, is very much alive and well. Canadian officials have shown renewed interest in a multi-modal trade corridor along I-35. Winnipeg recently announced its intention to build an inland port similar to those in San Antonio and Dallas. One such inland port in Kansas City has ceded sovereign United States territory to Canada and Mexico with the flags of all three countries flying over it. Officials in Winnipeg said it also intends to run a logistics and trade corridor to include rail and high speed highways all the way to Mexico as an Asia-Pacific gateway connecting to Toronto and Montreal.
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Airport Device Follows Fliers' Phones
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON -- Today's smartphones and PDAs could have a new use in the nation's airports: helping passengers avoid long lines at security checkpoints. The Transportation Security Administration is looking at installing devices in airports that home in and detect personal electronic equipment. The aim is to track how long people are stuck in security lines. Information about wait times could then be posted on websites and in airports across the country. "This technology will produce valuable data that can be used in a variety of ways," TSA spokeswoman Lauren Gaches said, noting it could help prevent checkpoint snarls.
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! Speak Out In ISP Filter Consultation
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! have taken different tacks during public consultation over the Federal Government’s Internet filtering. A discussion paper on Broadband Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy’s mandatory ISP filtering bill was released for public comment last December. The document offered several options for determining how refused classification (RC) content should be categorised. On March 23, the Department of Broadband released submissions received during the discussion paper’s public consultation process.
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Google.cn is now Google.com.hk
Google has "violated its written promise" and is "totally wrong" for stopping the censoring of its Chinese language search engine results and blaming China for alleged hacker attacks, a government official said on Tuesday morning as the internet giant moved its search engine site to Hong Kong. The official in charge of the internet bureau under the State Council Information Office made the comments about two hours after the online search service provider announced it has stopped censoring its Chinese-language search engine Google.cn and was redirecting Chinese mainland users to a site in Hong Kong. "Google has violated its written promise it made when entering the Chinese market by stopping filtering its searching service and blaming China in insinuation for alleged hacker attacks," Xinhua news agency quoted the official as saying.
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Nintendo Aims to Counter Apple With New Portable 3D Gaming System
Nintendo surprised the gaming world this week by preannouncing a glasses-free 3D successor to the Nintendo DS, a new portable platform that the industry leader hopes will fend off surging competition from Apple's iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Nintendo released few details on the new platform, temporarily dubbed the Nintendo 3DS, in a press release issued on the company's Web site. More details will be delivered in June at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual gaming industry convention in Los Angeles.
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March 23, 2010
Health Care Bill Spurs Assassination Calls on Twitter
ABC News
The Secret Service is investigating two Twitter users who, apparently angered by the passage of the health care reform bill, took to the Internet Sunday to call for the assassination of Obama. "ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the Assassinations and Lincoln & Kennedy. We'll surely get over a bullet to Barrack Obama's head," wrote one Twitter user, who goes by the handle Solly Forell, and identifies himself as a conservative blogger and "'authentic' African American." Soon after the first post, Forell tweeted another message actively encouraging someone with a "clear shot" to kill Obama.
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Posted by Editor at 01:21 AM
Census Bureau Propaganda: Children, Spy On Your Family
US Census Bureau:
Children, spy on your family. BTW, funny to see the constant stress in census propaganda about "getting good things for our town, like day care centers and schools." That is, in return for your written nudo-scan, politically connected businessmen can get richer constructing more federal anti-family indoctrination halls at your expense. What a deal!
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Posted by Editor at 01:20 AM
Nano-Based RFID Tag, You're It
Long lines at store checkouts could be history if a new technology created in part at Rice University comes to pass. Rice researchers, in collaboration with a team led by Gyou-jin Cho at Sunchon National University in Korea, have come up with an inexpensive, printable transmitter that can be invisibly embedded in packaging. It would allow a customer to walk a cart full of groceries or other goods past a scanner on the way to the car; the scanner would read all items in the cart at once, total them up and charge the customer's account while adjusting the store's inventory. More advanced versions could collect all the information about the contents of a store in an instant, letting a retailer know where every package is at any time.
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Posted by Editor at 01:12 AM
Chinese Media: Google Is Tied to U.S. Intelligence
Chinese media organs lashed out at Google in an apparently coordinated assault on Saturday — with one paper suggesting Google is linked to the U.S. intelligence agencies — just days before the Web giant may announce plans to close its Chinese-language search engine. The attacks — which came in the form of media commentaries — came one day after a Chinese business newspaper said Google would on Monday announce plans to close its search engine on April 10. The Chinese media broadsides have exacerbated an already tense situation in which Google and the Chinese government are locked in a stare-down over Web censorship. Two months after Google declared it would no longer comply with Chinese filtering rules, the government shows no signs of backing away from its position: Follow the law, or get out. China to Google: We Don’t Need You.
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Google Stops Censoring Search Results in China, Communist May Block Websites
Bloomberg
Google Inc., following through on a pledge to stop censoring search results in China, began serving mainland Chinese users via its unfiltered Hong Kong site, a move that could prompt the government to block the service. The company began redirecting traffic from its Google.cn site to Hong Kong, a part of the country that isn’t subject to censorship laws. The move, which escalates a two- month dispute with the government over censorship, was “totally wrong,” the official Xinhua news agency said. By relying on Hong Kong, Google is trying to find a way to fight censorship laws while still keeping a presence in mainland China. The approach may not work for long because the government will probably block the site, called Google.com.hk, just as it has before with the main Google.com page, said Ben Schachter, an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech Inc. in San Francisco.
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Posted by Editor at 01:09 AM
Data Mining Project Benefits Investigators, Scares Privacy Experts
BOCA RATON -- Called a "mad scientist" by one employee, Asher has made a fortune collecting public records — deeds, lawsuits, voter registrations — and combining them into databases that can be invaluable in locating people. Plug a name into Accurint, Asher’s best-known product, and you’ll see addresses, possible relatives, licenses held. It was Asher’s technology that helped police find the Washington, D.C., snipers. Now he is building a super computer and a database “a thousand times more powerful” than anything he has developed yet.
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March 22, 2010
Homeland Security Wants Clearance to Fly Drones Over Texas
The federal government may soon send unmanned aircraft to scour West Texas and the state's coastal waters in an effort to boost border security, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a letter to the governor sent Friday. Perry had formally requested the assistance a week ago. The need also was underscored in a phone call that Democrat nominee Bill White had with Napolitano on Thursday. Homeland Security has six drones and is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to get the necessary clearance to begin flying over Texas, Napolitano wrote.
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16,500 More IRS Agents Needed to Enforce Obamacare
New tax mandates and penalties included in Obamacare will cause the greatest expansion of the Internal Revenue Service since World War II, according to a release from Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas. A new analysis by the Joint Economic Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee minority staff estimates up to 16,500 new IRS personnel will be needed to collect, examine and audit new tax information mandated on families and small businesses in the ‘reconciliation’ bill being taken up by the U.S. House of Representatives this weekend.
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Pentagon Sees a Threat From Online Muckrakers
To the list of the enemies threatening the security of the United States, the Pentagon has added WikiLeaks.org, a tiny online source of information and documents that governments and corporations around the world would prefer to keep secret. The Pentagon assessed the danger WikiLeaks.org posed to the Army in a report marked “unauthorized disclosure subject to criminal sanctions.” It concluded that “WikiLeaks.org represents a potential force protection, counterintelligence, OPSEC and INFOSEC threat to the U.S. Army” — or, in plain English, a threat to Army operations and information.
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FCC Broadband Plan Would Vastly Expand Federal Government Power Over The Internet
The Kitsap Peninsula Business Journal
Statements by Competitive Enterprise Institute telecom policy analysts on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan: Wayne Crews, vice president for Policy Competitive Enterprise Institute -- The FCC deserves praise for acknowledging the importance of competition among technologies as a key ingredient for promoting a national broadband policy. At the same time, unfortunately, the Commission's plan seeks new realms to rule even as the very need for regulation evaporates. America's challenge is not for the FCC to "do something" in the communications and Internet realm, but rather to dismantle obsolete regulatory impediments that constrain the market’s freedom to expand infrastructure and content access.
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Posted by Editor at 04:57 AM
U.S. Forest Service Admits Putting Surveillance Cameras on Public Lands
Last month, Herman Jacob took his daughter and her friend camping in the Francis Marion National Forest. While poking around for some firewood, Jacob noticed a wire. He pulled on it and followed it to a video camera and antenna. The camera didn’t have any markings identifying its owner, so Jacob took it home and called law enforcement agencies to find out if it was theirs, all the while wondering why someone would station a video camera in an isolated clearing in the woods. He eventually received a call from Mark Heitzman of the U.S. Forest Service.
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Posted by Editor at 04:44 AM
Cash-Strapped State Governments Hike Traffic Fees
Shomari Jennings was willing to pay the $70 ticket he received for driving without a seatbelt, but not the slew of tacked-on fees and penalties that ballooned the cost more than tenfold. Every $10 of his base fine triggered a $26 "penalty assessment" for courthouse construction, a DNA identification program, emergency medical services and other programs. Other fees ranged from $1 to $35. "It's the new tax," Jennings, 30, complained while waiting in traffic court to contest a staggering bill compounded by a $500 fine for missing a court date. And motorists can only expect more of the same as cash-strapped cities and states consider measures ranging from expansion of red-light camera systems to charging drivers for cleanup after accidents.
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Posted by Editor at 04:14 AM
Geneva Particle Accelerator Sets Record
The world's largest - and most controversial - atom smasher, based outside Geneva, has set a world record by ramping up its energy output to a level three times higher than ever achieved before. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced on Friday that it had circulated beams of sub-atomic protons in its Large Hadron Collider at 3.5 trillion volts in both directions around the 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel which straddles the Swiss-French border. "This is the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, and an important step on the way to the start of the LHC research program," a statement issued by CERN said. The Large Hadron Collider is designed to probe the origins of the universe by recreating the conditions that followed the Big Bang and to learn more about the sub-atomic structure of matter.
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Posted by Editor at 04:12 AM
Two Women Stung About 100 Times Each By Swarm of Bees in N. Phoenix
PPHOENIX -- A group of people were seriously injured when they were attacked by a swarm of bees in north Phoenix. It happened at about 8 p.m. at a Wal-Mart store in the area of 3rd Avenue and Bell Road. The victims were rushed to the hospital after the attacks. Two people are in critical condition and a third person who jumped in to help was also hospitalized. 3TV has learned two women were walking down the street when they were attacked by the swarm of bees. Witnesses say there were so many bees that at one point they could not see the women’s faces.
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Posted by Editor at 04:09 AM
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