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Archive for November, 2011
All White House communications on government gun-smuggling scandal at ATF have been subpoenaed.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 3/Nov/2011 17:29
by Dudley Brown
“In just a few short weeks, Barack Obama’s hand-picked, anti-gun Attorney General, Eric Holder, will be forced to testify before Congress about the ATF’s scandal, “Fast & Furious.”
But this time, there is more evidence.
A number of Eric Holder’s deputies may testify what you and I knew all along — that Eric Holder was well aware of the scandal. Others are also coming forward.
“This was an effort by Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano to make an aggressive assault against our 2nd Amendment rights. I’m calling for Eric Holder’s resignation and prosecution,” an Arizona Sheriff recently stated.
Ten Arizona Sheriffs have joined the battle to hold Eric Holder accountable for his actions, which have endangered innocent lives all along the border.”
Project Trains HeroRATs to save lives and limbs
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 3/Nov/2011 16:02
HeroRATs are being trained to save lives and limbs, by using their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out unexploded landmines and tuberculosis.
Landmines pose a structural barrier to development and economic growth, long after a war ends. Detection of landmines is difficult, dangerous, costly and time-consuming. Trained HeroRATs offer a cheap, efficient and effective solution to this problem.”
Texas Attorney General warns Obama: Mexican cartels ‘spilling over’ border
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Nov/2011 15:20
“Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday warning that Mexican cartel violence is increasingly “spilling over” the border and calling for more security.
Abbott cited a “deadly shootout” involving “cartel operatives” last weekend in the town of Elsa, about 250 miles south of San Antonio, in which a Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy was shot three times. Sheriff’s officials have said the deputy was wearing a protective vest and is expected to recover.
Islamist Jihad ready for all-out war with Israel
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 3/Nov/2011 15:14
By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi
“The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, which traded deadly fire with Israel at the weekend in Gaza, does not expect a subsequent truce to last long and has at least 8,000 fighters ready for war, a spokesman said.
Islamic Jihad is the second largest armed group in Gaza, after Hamas, which rules the tiny Mediterranean enclave. The two share a commitment to the destruction of Israel and both are classified as terrorist groups by most Western governments.
However, while Hamas has recently spent much of its energy on the business of government, Islamic Jihad has kept its focus firmly on the conflict, gaining in prominence and enjoying significant backing from Muslim supporters, including Iran.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/03/us-palestinians-israel-islamicjihad-idUSTRE7A24RR20111103
Sheepdogs
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Training on 2/Nov/2011 21:59
“Sheep can be controlled by the sheepdog for the same reason they fear the wolf – they are both predators.
The same relationships hold with the general population, the police, and the criminals. Most people are sheep, but you don’t have to be.
If you have the skills and attitude of a predator the criminals will leave you alone – because they will recognize you as a predator and there is easier game available.”
– Neoteric Bladesman
US Navy electromagnetic railgun milestone: firing of the one-thousandth shot
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Nov/2011 17:13
By Lewis Page
“US Navy boffins are chuffed to announce that they have managed to fire their thousandth shot from a test electromagnetic railgun, addressing one of the most serious weaknesses of such weapons: that they tend to damage or wreck themselves after only a few shots.
“A railgun weapons system must be able to launch hundreds of projectiles and withstand extreme pressures, currents and temperatures,” said Captain Paul Stewart in tinned quotes issued by the Naval Research Laboratory yesterday. “Today’s firing of the one-thousandth shot demonstrates Navy researchers are steadily progressing toward achieving that goal, developing a more effective and efficient future ship combat system.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/02/railgun_durability_milestone/
Getting A Gun In D.C.
An editor at the Washington Times is documenting her attempt to attain a handgun in the nation’s capitol.
My quest to get a legal handgun in Washington, D.C. feels daunting. I went to the D.C. Firearms Registration office two weeks ago to start the process of getting a legal gun by picking up a 22-page packet of forms and instructions.
The second amendment says “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. The rules and regulations do just that, infringe. These laws are intended to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, but why would any criminal attempt to get a gun in such a manner when they could go buy one on the black market. Laws never prevent anyone from committing an act, they are only used for punishment after the fact.
UK Police Intercepting Cell Traffic
From: Threat Level
Britain’s largest police force has been using covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network to intercept communications and unique IDs from phones or even transmit a signal to shut off phones remotely, according to the Guardian.
The system, made by Datong in the United Kingdom, was purchased by the London Metropolitan police, which paid $230,000 to Datong for “ICT hardware†in 2008 and 2009.
The portable device, which is the size of a suitcase, pretends to be a legitimate cell phone tower that emits a signal to dupe thousands of mobile phones in a targeted area. Authorities can then intercept SMS messages, phone calls and phone data, such as unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes that allow authorities to track phone users’ movements in real-time, without having to request location data from a mobile phone carrier.
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A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service verified to CNET that the agency has done business with Datong, but would not say what sort of technology it bought from the company.
The FBI is known to use a similar technology called Triggerfish, which also pretends to be a legitimate cell tower base station to trick mobile phones into connecting to it. The Triggerfish system, however, collects only location and other identifying information, and does not intercept phone calls, text messages, and other data.
18-year old girl, Rukhsana Kauser, is an awesome warrior.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 1/Nov/2011 00:00
Rukhsana Kauser may not look like much, but she is awesome.
Why? Let me tell you what Rukhsana Kauser did when a very bad man, Abu Osama, broke into her home and attacked her family.
When this bad guy burst into her home he was confronted by her father. Abu Osama attacked the father, beating him terribly.
18 year-old Rukhsana Kauser and her 19 year-old brother were hiding under the bed in her room, watching the severe beating of their parents at the hands of this terrorist, Abu Osama. Only, instead of getting terrorized, she got extremely angry.
“I couldn’t bear my father’s humiliation…I thought I should try the bold act of encountering militants before dying.”
– Rukhsana Kauser
Rukhsana and her brother grabbed a couple of hatchets, crawled out from under the bed, and charged forward.
Ruksana grabbed Abu Osama by his head, and slammed the back of his skull against the wall. Then, as he was backed up against the wall, she smashed him with the hatchet.
As he started to slump down, Rukhsana reached down, grabbed his AK-47, and cracked him in the face with the stock, then flipped it around, and pumped twelve rounds into his head and torso at point-blank range, killing him instantly.
The other five bad guys found themselves facing a raging teenage girl with an AK. In the few seconds that followed, Rukhsana wounded two more terrorists, and sent the rest running for cover.
The terrorists tried to return fire, but Rukhsana and her brother (who had picked up a rifle that one of the militants dropped) exchanged gunfire until the bad guys ran off.
Rukhsana Kauser stood up, defended her family from some of the most notorious criminals in Northern India. She and her brother had fought off six terrorist by themselves, killing one and wounding a couple more. Abu Osama, one of the most dangerous criminals in the world, was lying dead at her feet.
She not only saved every member of her family, including herself, from certain death, she also managed to rid the universe of a very bad man.
That, my friends, is awesome.
“I had never touched a rifle before this, let alone fired one – but I had seen heroes firing in films and I tried the same way. Somehow I gathered courage.”
– Rukhsana Kauser
She has been relocated to a witness protection program, nominated for the highest award for civilian bravery offered by the Indian government, and awarded the $6,000 bounty that had been placed on the head of the fallen terrorist leader.