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Archive for category News
Obama Signs One Year Extension of Patriot Act
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 28/Feb/2010 22:10
President Obama just signed a one year extension of the Patriot Act. As a Senator, he had criticized the Patriot Act. Had he done nothing, something Obama is supremely gifted at, the provisions of the Patriot Act would have expired this Sunday.
Supreme Court Guns Case Preview
From: Fox News
The battle over the meaning of the Second Amendment returns to the Supreme Court Tuesday when the justices hear a case that is a follow-up to their historic ruling in 2008 that individuals have a Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. On Sunday, Fox’s Shannon Bream spoke with a couple of key figures in the gun rights debate: lawyer Alan Gura and Dennis Henigan of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Gura argued and won D.C. v. Heller two years ago and will appear before the Court Tuesday.
From: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it will take up a challenge to Chicago’s ban on handguns, opening the way for a ruling that could set off a vigorous new campaign to roll back state and local gun controls across the nation.
Victory for gun-rights proponents in the Chicago case is considered likely, even by supporters of gun control, in the latest battle in the nation’s long and often bitter dispute over the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. A ruling against the city’s outright ban could lead to legal challenges to less-restrictive laws across the country that limit who can own guns, whether firearms must be registered and how they should be stored.
The case is to be argued early next year.
Gadhafi declares holy war on the Swiss
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 26/Feb/2010 14:50
After two centuries of neutrality, Switzerland found itself in a bizarre and unprecedented situation Friday, facing a would-be “holy war” announced by Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi.
Gadhafi called for the “holy war” ostensibly because of a recent Swiss referendum that banned the construction of new mosque minarets in the country. He also urged Muslims everywhere to boycott Swiss products and to bar the country’s planes and ships from the airports or seaports of Muslim nations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022602903.html
UK to introduce “photograph a cop, 10 years in jail” law
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Feb/2010 18:56
NHTSA Has No Software Engineers or Electriacal Engineers To Analyze Toyotas
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 24/Feb/2010 18:16
The next time someone assures you that the government is fully capable of monitoring and managing our lives, send them to this story:
“The agency has an annual budget of more than $800 million, and it employs 635 thousands of people. That not a single one of them is an EE or software engineer borders on the criminally insane.”
The Utility Of Assassination
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 24/Feb/2010 14:15
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
By George Friedman
The apparent Israeli assassination of a Hamas operative in the United Arab Emirates turned into a bizarre event replete with numerous fraudulent passports, alleged Israeli operatives caught on videotape and international outrage (much of it feigned), more over the use of fraudulent passports than over the operative’s death. If we are to believe the media, it took nearly 20 people and an international incident to kill him.
STRATFOR has written on the details of the killing as we have learned of them, but we see this as an occasion to address a broader question: the role of assassination in international politics.
Defining Assassination
We should begin by defining what we mean by assassination. It is the killing of a particular individual for political purposes. It differs from the killing of a spouse’s lover because it is political. It differs from the killing of a soldier on the battlefield in that the soldier is anonymous and is not killed because of who he is but because of the army he is serving in. Read the rest of this entry »
Plot to Bomb New York Subway
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 23/Feb/2010 21:21
“The Afghan immigrant at the center of what the authorities described as one of the most serious threats to the United States since 9/11 pleaded guilty Monday to terrorism charges in what he said was a Qaeda plot to detonate a bomb in the New York subway.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/nyregion/23terror.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Meaning of Marjah
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 22/Feb/2010 18:01
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR”
By Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes
On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO effort in Afghanistan had been constrained by other considerations, most notably Iraq. Western forces viewed the Afghan conflict as a matter of holding the line or pursuing targets of opportunity. But now, armed with larger forces and a new strategy, the war — the real war — has begun. The most recent offensive — dubbed Operation Moshtarak (“Moshtarak†is Dari for “togetherâ€) — is the largest joint U.S.-NATO-Afghan operation in history. It also is the first major offensive conducted by the first units deployed as part of the surge of 30,000 troops promised by U.S. President Barack Obama.
The United States originally entered Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. In those days of fear and fury, American goals could be simply stated: A non-state actor — al Qaeda — had attacked the American homeland and needed to be destroyed. Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan at the invitation of a near-state actor — the Taliban, which at the time were Afghanistan’s de facto governing force. Since the Taliban were unwilling to hand al Qaeda over, the United States attacked. By the end of the year, al Qaeda had relocated to neighboring Pakistan and the Taliban retreated into the arid, mountainous countryside in their southern heartland and began waging a guerrilla conflict. In time, American attention became split between searching for al Qaeda and clashing with the Taliban over control of Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Soviet Guide To Afghanistan
Old propaganda from Wired.com
French Commandos in Afganistan
Photos of the French OMLT (airborne commandos)Â in Afghanistan
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?122779-french-OMLT-%28airborne-commandos%29
State of Utah to feds: Give us our land back!
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Feb/2010 17:00
“In a modern David and Goliath battle, Utah state Rep. Christopher Herrod has introduced HB143, which, if enacted, would authorize the state to use eminent domain to take land from the federal government. About 60 percent of the state is owned by the federal government.â€
Judge orders deportation of ex-CAIR board member
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Feb/2010 16:52
Nabil Sadoun
“Nabil Sadoun, a resident of Richardson, Texas, and former national board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was ordered deported to his native Jordan yesterday by a Dallas immigration judge.
Sadoun has a doctorate in education and has authored text books on Islam used in schools across the country.
The judge indicated the government had evidence showing Sadoun contributed to the Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which was the largest Islamic charity in the United States. Five leaders of the group were convicted in 2008 of funneling money to terrorist groups and some were imprisoned. CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case.
Evidence affirms CAIR is part of an organized crime network in America made up of more than 100 other Muslim front groups that collectively comprise the U.S. branch of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR’s ultimate purpose is to transform the U.S. into an Islamic nation under the authority of the Quran:
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future, but I’m not going to do anything violent to promote that. I’m going to do it through education.”
– Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s communications director, in a 1993 interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune.”
Saudi religious policeman: 120 lashes for having six wives
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Feb/2010 16:22
“A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 120 lashes for having six wives at the same time.
Muslim men can keep up to four wives at a time under sharia, or Islamic law, which is applied in Saudi Arabia. Reports say the unnamed man worked for the country’s religious police. At his trial, the defendant claimed he did not know he was breaking the law.
The man was also banned from leading prayers and ordered to read two chapters of the Koran.
Reports said that the accused was a member of the 5,000-strong Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.”
The Battle for America’s Border and Security
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Feb/2010 16:16
“Without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting our borders, language, and culture, the nation that once was the “land of the free and home of the brave” and the “one last hope of mankind” will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past. “
http://superstore.wnd.com/store/item.asp?DEPARTMENT_ID=6&SUBDEPARTMENT_ID=94&ITEM_ID=1844
Dad accused in ‘honor killing’ will not face death penalty
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Feb/2010 15:56
“A Glendale man accused of slaying his daughter in an “honor killing” will not face the death penalty.
The Iraqi immigrant is accused of slaying his daughter, 20-year-old Noor Almaleki, for being “too Westernized.”
Police say he used his Jeep Cherokee to run down his daughter and another woman in a Peoria parking lot Oct. 20. Noor Almaleki later died of her injuries.
Prosecutors said Almaleki has admitted killing his daughter because she disgraced the family by not following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.”
http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2010/02/19/20100219honor-killing.html