NEW CASTLE, Del. -- Police responding to a report of a suspicious man carrying a gun instead found two legs sticking out of a homemade igloo. New Castle County police said the legs belong to Delaware teen who was arrested Wednesday after he was found to be carrying a survival knife, a hammer, 7.5 grams of marijuana and two marijuana pipes. I dunno, but I'm thinkin' it might be a drug-related incident. It's certainly possible, y'know?
County police spokesman Senior Cpl. Trinidad Navarro said the teen was released to his parents. Police said he was charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon, carrying a concealed deadly instrument, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of marijuana.
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This seems like more of a case of police harassment to me. Some busybody reports a person carrying a gun. The cops show up to investigate, find no gun, but use the excuse to poke through his stuff at which point they find the weed. If survival knives are illegal then you shouldn't be able to buy them at Wal-Mart. And the hammer? You have got to be kidding me. This is just another story in a growing trend. People calling the cops when they notice someone with a gun. What are the carry laws in Maryland? Are they that backward that guns must be completely concealed at all times? I see no crime here to warrant the search that found the "illegal" marijuana.
With its enormous legs and lethal claws, this monster of the deep is already the biggest crab ever seen in Britain. But astonishingly, the arthropod - which measures a staggering 10ft from claw to claw - is still growing, and could live until it is 100. "T'ain't been a crab pot made wot could hold it!"
Nicknamed 'Crabzilla' after the fictional giant monster, the Japanese Spider Crab has a body the size of a basketball and its legs can straddle a car. They will eventually measure a massive 15ft.
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I see we've captured another AQ king-crabpin. This one looks to be from their media division; the bony hide, grasping appendages, small brain and staring, lifeless eyes are dead giveaways.
PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities say an illegal immigrant is accused of stealing the identity of a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy so he could get construction jobs.
The Sheriff's Office says 31-year-old Loebardo Estrada-Robles is suspected of using the identity of a deputy, including his Social Security number.
The deputy contacted detectives after he received notice from the Social Security Administration, saying he owed $2,354 for employment at two different construction companies in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
The deputy had never worked for either of the companies, which later identified Estrada-Robles as the man using the deputy's name.
Authorities say Estrada-Robles has been booked into a county jail on suspicion of several counts of aggravated identity theft.
Snow records for Baltimore have been established on several levels. The numbers are below.
4.0" Feb 9 snow
15.5" Feb 10 snow ... New Record
19.5" Storm Total
23.2" Dec 2009 snow total ... New Record ... 21.5" above normal
7.5" Jan 2010 snow total ... .5" above normal
49.2" Feb 2010 snow total ... New Record ... 46.4" above normal
79.9" 2009-2010 season total so far ... New Record ... 67.8" above normal
62.5" Old season record snow total (1995-96)
18.2" Normal season total snow (1971-2000)
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Dulles and National also had similar records as did Phil, Wilmington DE and Atlantic City.
As of today Dallas, TX also has new 24 hour record and calendar day records for snow. Meanwhile, the Cascades of Washington State and Oregon are well below normal in snow.
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Poor Fred....
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supposed to be sunny and in the 80's inland here in San Diego this weekend....
sorry 'bout that
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You'll be laughing out your snorkel when the rising sea level turns Cali into an underwater reef, Frank. Better get a waterproof distributor cap for that F-150....Woah! Drinks!
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So maybe Darpa wants to protect civilian populations from the ravages of natural disasters. But those same tools could be used for military purposes against enemies, suspects one unnamed geoscientist. All of my science is good! tree-hugging comments aside, what this program is probably really about is detecting, targeting, and destroying hard and buried underground facility (UGF) targets, he said.
Well then. No sitting on the bridge to collect data, off to transport and join a survey team. And, by the way, you'll be the one in the red shirt for this mission, mister.
12 February 2010 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama's charm offensive on Muslim states comes to a weekend forum in Qatar, where he will send a video message and his chief diplomat will give a speech, organizers said Thursday. Obama will deliver his message to the seventh annual US-Islamic World Forum in the Qatari capital, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend Sunday with other senior US officials, The Brookings Institution said.
Maybe Bambi can visit Baghdad and celebrate Joe Biden's victory in Iraq ...
The gathering organized by the think-tank's Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Qatar's foreign affairs ministry brings "leaders from across the Muslim world for an intensive three-day dialogue with key US officials, societal leaders and policy experts," Brookings said.
"With President Obama determined to turn the page in America's relations with Muslim communities around the globe, this year's Forum will examine how to craft more robust partnerships that can help repair the deep divisions our societies," Brookings President Strobe Talbott said in a statement.
Talbott, who was a key diplomat in president Bill Clinton's administration, is also due at the forum, along with Richard Holbrooke, the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan and Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry.
Brookings said Clinton will join Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar who doubles as foreign minister, in delivering a speech, but no further details were immediately available.
The chief US diplomat is due to arrive in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar on Saturday, where she will also hold talks with the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and leave for Saudi Arabia on Monday, the State Department said.
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He's only polling above 50% on foreign policy, so I guess he's decided to make the best of it.
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Um,UH,UHM mm,Um,Uh, I see why he needs the teleprompter.
Seriously doesn't Harvard offer classes in public speaking?
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I can't wait to find out what we'll be apologizing for this time. The Qataris must be excited to learn what other Muslim and Arab knowledge and inventions have contributed to modern civilization without anyone noticing until BHO came along to fill us in. This promises to be an interesting trip, one we can expect to accomplish nothing much at all.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A mayor of a Brazilian town has banned Carnival revelers from playing funk or rap music during the traditionally free-wheeling celebrations that kick off around the country on Friday. It's still ok to have sex in the streets though....
Mayor Jose Neto of Sao Lourenco in southeastern Minas Gerais state told Globo television he was banning songs that incite violence and disrespect authority and wanted to protect more traditional Carnival music, such as samba.
Anyone caught listening to funk -- a pounding beat often with sexual lyrics popular in Rio de Janeiro's slums -- or rap during the Carnival period would have to turn it off or face arrest and up to six months in prison, he reportedly said. Yikes! Six months in a Brazilian prison should shut anyone up. "You have the right to remain silent. Or else..."
"They are mass gatherings that demand better coordination, control and security that a public festival like Carnival doesn't allow us to adopt," Neto told Globo TV.
Funk music has long been frowned upon by police and city authorities in Rio and faced crackdowns because of its association with slum gangs who use parties to sell drugs. Being frowned on by the Brazilian cops is not like an ugly look from, say, SF's finest:
"Boom, boom, boom, boomity boom!"
"Shut that noise down!"
"Up yours copper!" Boomity, boom, boo---"
Bang!
But the music form, which originated in U.S. slums in the late 1960s, has increasingly found a mainstream following in Brazil and as far away as Europe. Just like a number of other addictive and (now) illegal substances.
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I wish my mayor had the same guts! In fact, Obama could do a great service to America doing the same - nothing like having your kids coming home from school chanting rap lyrics which sets the civil rights movement back 50 years...
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Even with Zero in charge, the US economy is ~ 14 times the size of Russia's. Unless Obambi has agreed ahead of time to throw the fight, Russia better not try kicking anyone's ass.
P.S. Georgia was almost too much for them.
Al
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"The Americans and their allies again want to surround the cave of the Russian bear?" Rogozin tweeted, along with a link to a news report about the Romania decision. "How many times must they be reminded how dangerous this is!? The bear will come out and kick the ass of these pathetic hunters," he added in his next tweet, writing in Russian.
Hmmmmmmm...that's not how I remember it working out the last time.
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AL-SHABAAB is threatening to send fighters to CHECHNYA. + makes clear that the ISLAMIST JIHAD FOR THE "LIBERATION" OF SOMALIA IN AFRICA IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
11 February 2010 ANKARA - Turkey and Armenia must show political courage and honour their commitments to bury a century of hostility, Turkey's president said on Thursday, after the two countries accused each other of trying to rewrite the accords. Four months after Turkey and Armenia signed an historic deal to open their border with the endorsement of the United States, the European Union and Russia, the process has been thrown into question by the weight of still-unresolved disputes.
We have to be aware that concluding this historic process will require honouring our commitments in their entirety as well as displaying adequate political courage and vision,' Turkey's President Abdullah Gul said in a letter addressed to his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarksyan.
Overcoming long-established prejudices and nurturing mutual understanding and trust among our two neighbouring peoples were our main objectives when endorsing the process of normalisation between our countries. You should have no doubt that our determination to move these objectives forward is intact, provided this resolve and commitment remains reciprocal.'
On Wednesday, Sarksyan said the accords must be voted on by the Turkish parliament before Armenia's parliament would approve them, and warned that Armenia could break off the effort to normalise relations if Turkey dragged its feet. The accords require approval by both parliaments.
Ankara and Yerevan have accused each other of trying to re-write the texts, which are the closest the sides have come to overcoming the legacy of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One.
Turkey has demanded that ethnic Armenian forces pull back from the front lines of the disputed mountain region of Nagorno-Karabakh as a condition of ratifying the peace deal. This has aroused fierce resistance in Armenia.
The Turkish condition is aimed at placating close Muslim ally Azerbaijan, an oil and gas exporter which lost control over Nagorno-Karabakh when ethnic Armenians there, backed by Christian Armenia, broke away as the Soviet Union collapsed. The accords made no mention of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia and Turkey said they would create a commission to investigate the WWI massacres, which Armenia backed by several European states and many historians says was genocide. Turkey rejects the term and says many Muslims and Christians died during the chaotic collapse of the Ottoman empire.
The deal would bring big economic gains to poor, landlocked Armenia. Turkey would burnish its credentials as a potential EU entry state and boost its clout in the South Caucasus, a region criss-crossed by pipelines carrying oil and gas to the West.
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All nuclear submarines in Russia's Northern Fleet have been united in one unit -- the submarine forces. The forces' headquartes will be located in the closed town of Gadzhiyevo on the Barents Sea coast.
The two squadrons the submarines in the Northern Fleet earlier were organized in have now been merged into one structure, GTRK Murman reports. The forces are organized in four divisions, all under the leadership of Rear Admiral Andrey Volozhinsky.
Admiral Volozhinsky said after a ceremony in the closed military town Zaozersk that the Northern Fleet's submarine forces will have the same tasks as before and that there will be no changes in the number of personnel.
According to Chief of Staff in the Northern Fleet Vladmir Korolev solving social issues will be easier under consolidated leadership: - History has shown this. We are now returning to the structure the submarine forces had in the 1950's and 60's.
The Northern Fleet's submarine forces will have their headquarters in Gadzhiyevo, and the submarines will be based in Gadzhiyevo, Vidyayevo and Zaozersk. These three towns are all located on the Barents Sea coast between the town of Murmansk and the border to Norway.
Murmansk Oblast has seven closed towns -- Severomorsk, Vidayevo, Gadzhiyego, Zaozersk, Skalisty, Ostrovnoy and Snezhnogorsk. They either host naval bases or defense related industry like ship repair yards.
BEIJING - CHINA declared on Thursday it had 'no dissidents', just hours after a Beijing court upheld an 11-year jail term for one of the country's top pro-democracy voices.
'There are no dissidents in China,' foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters at a regular news briefing.
Mr Ma made the comment in answer to a question about leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, whose appeal of his conviction on subversion charges was denied early Thursday. When asked to elaborate, Mr Ma said: 'In China, you can judge yourself whether such a group exists. But I believe this term is questionable in China.'
Activists have said the treatment of Liu, who co-authored a bold petition calling for political change, is just one example of what they say is an increasing Chinese crackdown on dissent in the country.
On Tuesday, Chinese activist Tan Zuoren was jailed for five years for subversion, his lawyer said, after he probed whether shoddy construction linked to offical corruption caused school collapses in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
Liu's case has sparked calls around the world for his release, and the upholding of his sentence on appeal triggered swift US and EU condemnation Thursday.
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Sure. Just like there is no cannibalism in the British Navy.
It was a dragnet along a stretch of highway north of Belleville that police say cracked the brutal murder of two eastern Ontario women, the violent sexual assault of two others and snared the base commander of one of Canada's largest and busiest airbases.
Col. Russell Williams, 46, the wing commander of CFB Trenton, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Cpl. Marie-France Comeau and Jessica Lloyd. Williams has also been charged with two counts of forcible confinement and two counts of breaking and entering and sexual assault after two Tweed women were attacked in September.
On Feb. 4, police stopped cars travelling in both directions along Hwy. 37 north of Belleville, near Lloyd's home where she vanished without any identification, her wallet or her car in January.
Three days after that roadside canvas, Williams was arrested in Ottawa the same city where one of his alleged victims was laid to rest in the National Cemetery back in December.
Police told reporters in Belleville Monday that unspecified information received at that roadside check put Williams in their crosshairs.
They had him in handcuffs by Sunday and were searching his Cosy Cove Lane home in Tweed.
OPP Det.-Insp. Chris Nicholas told reporters Monday it was due to the similarities' of the crimes committed against Comeau, Lloyd's disappearance and the assaults on women in Tweed that led police to believe the crimes were committed by the same individual. Those similarities include the geography' of the crimes, Nicholas said.
When asked if they are examining other unsolved crimes, OPP inspectors said they will look at where Williams was stationed during his accomplished career and speak to police services in those jurisdictions.
We are certainly tracking the movements of where this man has been over the past several years,' Nicholas said.
The colonel was out of uniform Monday, wearing a blue prisoner jumpsuit as he was led into the Belleville courthouse in shackles.
Except for reciting his name and acknowledging the charges against him, Williams said nothing and stared at the floor.
As Williams was led away, Lloyd's burly brother, Andy, stared grimly at the man accused of killing his sister.
Lloyd, 27, went missing Jan. 29 after she failed to show up for her job in Napanee. Her body was found early Monday morning off Carry Rd., near Tweed, police said.
Comeau, 38, was found murdered in Brighton, Ont., on Nov. 25, 2009. She was a member of 437 Squadron at CFB Trenton.
A slew of media clippings, photographs and Department of National Defence literature paint a heroic portrait of Williams, a married man with more than 20 years in the Canadian Forces.
In charge of CFB Trenton since July, Williams had been tasked with overseeing the 24-hour air bridge' that moves equipment and personnel between Trenton, Jamaica and Haiti, to support Canada's relief mission on the earthquake ravaged island.
Williams' wife Mary Elizabeth Harriman works in Ottawa as the associate executive director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.
Officials from the foundation said Harriman was taking an extended leave and described her as one of their most beloved staff members.
Lieutenant-General André Deschamps, chief of the air staff, issued a statement Monday announcing Williams had been relieved of his duties.
Although one is considered innocent until proven guilty, in light of the seriousness of the charges, and in consideration of the high level of responsibilities attached to the position of Wing Commander, an interim Wing Commander for 8 Wing Trenton will soon be appointed,' Deschamps said.
At a press conference at CFB Trenton Monday night, Gen. Yvan Blondin, Commander of 1 Air Division, said base personnel are in a state of shock.
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The MSM is trying to tar the entire Canadian military to every violent crime ever committed. It's just totally disgusting. The forces members, bless 'em, are just shoving this garbage aside and keeping on doing their jobs.
The Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the potential use of directed energy to defend against ballistic missiles when the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. The experiment, conducted at Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center-Weapons Division Sea Range off the central California coast, serves as a proof-of-concept demonstration for directed energy technology. The ALTB is a pathfinder for the nation's directed energy program and its potential application for missile defense technology.
At 8:44 p.m. (PST), February 11, 2010, a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform. Within seconds, the ALTB used onboard sensors to detect the boosting missile and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch, while its rocket motors were still thrusting.
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HMMMMM, HMMMMM, wehell, could be wrong but I believe USMDA + DARPA/NASA-JPL have been quietly or covertly conducting a number of LATE NIGHT = POST-MIDNITE TESTS of the ABL over GUAM-WESTPAC [Agana Bay + Central Guam].
The planes I've seen have been shooting at thingys that don't leave any FIERY TAIL - ALL ONE SEES IS THE HORIZONTAL LASERS EMANATING FROM THE PLANE TIP. IMO, unless the USA has dev some kind of ADVANC SMOKE/FLAME-LESS, "COLD START" MISSLE, THEY MAY BE TESTING ON VARIOUS
"EXPENDABLE" BIRDS???
Read, PETA = NEW NUDE BABE PROTESTS.
Well Alrightey-y-y then - CLEARLY WE MUST SUPPOR PETA, ETC + THEIR MIGHTY FINE ENVIRON PROTEST EFFORTS!
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SteelJawScribe has quite a bit more on the test
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At 8:44 p.m. (PST), February 11, 2010, a short-range threat-representative ballistic missile was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform. Within seconds, the ALTB used onboard sensors to detect the boosting missile
Target launch from Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) for another test (Aegis BMD)
and used a low-energy laser to track the target. The ALTB then fired a second low-energy laser to measure and compensate for atmospheric disturbance. Finally, the ALTB fired its megawatt-class High Energy Laser, heating the boosting ballistic missile to critical structural failure. The entire engagement occurred within two minutes of the target missile launch, while its rocket motors were still thrusting.
This was followed by a shoot down of a solid fuel boosted missile within an hour.
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Pelosis focus is on keeping her majority and her job. She wants to protect vulnerable members, but she also wants to accomplish some big things as speaker. This is a big reason she wants to pass health care reform and focus more on spending money on infrastructure than on cutting taxes for small businesses.
Obama obviously wants to keep control of the House and the Senate, but it would be foolish for him to take his eye off 2012 or his public image. This is a big reason the president is putting so much focus on reaching out to Republicans and making a public show of his bipartisan efforts.
Oh, really?
One Democratic official went further, saying some Democratic House members actually believe that the White House wouldnt mind having a foil, and that foil is a Republican [House] majority that would serve their political purposes going into 2012.
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The comments there were pretty funny with the Obmamaniac ranting about people that call Obamao a socialist.
That's true, of course, he, as of now, is more of a corporatist aka fascist. Privatise the profits and socialize the losses. Unfortunately this is all too common a philosophy among members of both parties. Dems however do have a large lead in the category.
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Of course she wants to protect her job! Right now she gets to call the Air Force, have them stock up a nice private-type jet with fine hooch, and she and her peeps get dropped off close to her vineyard. San Fran Nan doesn't want to deal with the TSA any more than the rest of us do.
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Pelosi is a bitch that represents a bitch district. We would be better off if her district simply dropped off into the ocean, excepting the loss of life.
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Zero has no plans of his own and outsources everything, deflecting the blame away from himself, whether health care or Gitmo and tribunals. Pelosi vs. Obama--I'll take an extra-large tub of popcorn, no butter, please.
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I feel for the staffers.
Because the White House voted present on the run up to the stimulus bill and the health care bill, the house staffers have run themselves ragged.
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While I agree OS, I know people who are and were living in that particular district, there are tremors they are upset as well. Some, because she is not leftist enough (case in point the demonstators at her house were upset they were delt with in such an authoritarian manner ironically) and those who consider themselves too trendy to be republicans so they call themselves libertarians.
Now the childish side of me clicked on account of the headline, so I quit at only the mention of bearded lady jokes and settle for a Skeletor.
Lord Garth, have to agree. What we are seeing is mission fatigue; if we were talking about a generic country it would be called overreach sold as reach around. I think politacally there are 6 months most for the last full measure. Keep it up, get involved.
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Re: #3, yep beseoker that was one of the incidents that I was thinking of.
I am a firm believer in Free Market capitalism. Not, crony capitalism, corporatism or coporate welfare all of which can rightly be termed fascist and in fact WERE termed as such when Benito started all that ship as a governing philosophy.
Everyone mentioned in that video should be put up against a wall and given a choice......9mm, 5.56 or .308 maybe 12ga just for fun.
Chip, chip, chip. W wanted to gather info on foreign terrorists and oh how the Dems howled. Looks like things have come full circle now that they think they can use it to expand governmental control of people's lives.
Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the "Scarecrow Bandits" that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves.
FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers had recorded at the time of a dozen different bank robberies in the Dallas area. The voluminous records showed that two phones had made calls around the time of all 12 heists, and that those phones belonged to men named Tony Hewitt and Corey Duffey. A jury eventually convicted the duo of multiple bank robbery and weapons charges.
Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments (PDF) in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.
In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
Those claims have alarmed the ACLU and other civil liberties groups, which have opposed the Justice Department's request and plan to tell the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that Americans' privacy deserves more protection and judicial oversight than what the administration has proposed.
Obama has, in the past, emphatically opposed warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty. In response to emails his campaign has received over the past couple days, he has been sending out an email containing the following statements:
I have consistently opposed this Administration's efforts to use debates about our national security to expand its own power, whether that was in regard to the conduct of the Iraq war or its restrictions on our civil liberties through domestic surveillance programs or suspension of habeas corpus. It is time to restore oversight and accountability in the FISA program, and rejecting this unprecedented grant of retroactive immunity is a good place to start.
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I can tell Bambi's lying - his lips are moving.
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"if Navas intended to keep the cell phone's location private, he simply could have turned it off."
Not necessarily. The GPS locator is active even if turned off. The battery must be removed which is difficult in the newer phones.
The court has ruled there is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using the internet. Isn't this the same thing? Since this technology is used for good tracking of lost or kidnapped people, only crooks, druggies, pimps, and other ne'er-do-wells would have anything to worry about, making the argument for privacy rights suspicious if not indefensible. Interesting about-face.
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"if Navas intended to keep the cell phone's location private, he simply could have turned it off"
I wouldn't how how to do that (or that I could). You gonna come down here and turn mine off for me, judgie?
They chip and chip away at our freedom and privacy by saying they're doing it to catch criminals. While I don't like most criminals and what they do, where in the Constitution does it say criminals don't have the same rights as the rest of us? They're not criminals until they're convicted. And don't think for one minute some gummint thug won't use this against someone who just disagrees with the gummint.
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Agni-III Not Against Any Country: Antony Defence Minister A K Antony told an Asian Security Conference organised by Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses here.
He said bilateral relations with China was progressing and that both countries had invested in confidence-building measures aimed at enhancing understanding and trust-building.
"Every nation has to be adequately prepared to safeguard its territorial integrity and sovereignty. We will make all-out efforts to strengthen our security and safeguard our people. However, our defence policy is neither aggressive, nor is it aimed at any particular country," he said.
"We only seek to build an effective deterrent capability to safeguard ourselves. The recent successful test of Agni-II needs to be seen in this context. It is not aimed against any particular nation," he said.
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INDJUH is repor planning to test their new 5000-km AGNI-V later this yarn, suppos capable of blowin'/nukin' all of China to curry-weenies.
Forty million Americans have end-stage kidney disease, or ESKD. About 500,000 of them are in the terminal stage, as are 5,000 Israelis. African- and Hispanic Americans have a double-to-quadruple risk for the fatal disorder, compared to Caucasians of European origin.
Now an Israeli research team has discovered new genetic data on a DNA region that could predict who will develop the disease, and eventually help millions of people of African ancestry. I'm sure the later will be very grateful to "Zionist oppressors".
All the sordid details of the Palestinian sex tape scandal are rising to the surface the way scum does on a stagnant pond. Like scum on a stagnant pond...so are the "Days of Our Pali Lives".
The allegations in the sex scandal itself read like a textbook sexual harassment or coercion case. The whistleblower provided the tape to Israel Channel 10 reporter Tzvi Yehezkeli and told him it starts with the Secretary General to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Rafik Al Husseini is his name and he wanted to hire a second secretary. A woman applied. Yehezkeli says through a series of text messages and meetings, Al Husseini let the applicant know, if she wanted the office job, she needed to meet him in the bedroom for a little manual labor first. Hows about it, honey? Up for a little..."manual labor".
Tee hee...I don't know.
She reported that to Palestinian intelligence, who set up cameras in her apartment. When Al Husseini showed up, allegedly to welcome the applicant to the work force in the most primitive way, tape was rolling. All right, baby. Let's see how you take...dictation.
Shortly after Al Husseini got in his bureaucratic birthday suit, intelligence officers blew the mood by storming the boudoir. Get 'em up, Rafik! No...not that thing! Your hands!
The allegation goes on to say Al Husseini apologized and offered them "anything" to make this story go away. Ya got it all wrong, boys. I'm...I'm...running a sting operation! That's it!! Excellent work, men! I'll make sure you'll all look good in my report. I'll be going now.
I don't think so, Rafik...
The whistleblower, Fahmi Shabaneh, is now on the run. He was the head of the anti-corruption unit in the Palestinian Authority. In addition to the sex tape, he has provided to Yehezkeli evidence of millions and millions of dollars leaking from government bank accounts to private ones. Moshe! Stop the presses!!
A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, Tayeb abdel Rahim,told reporters that Shabaneh's allegations are, "lies and unreal stories made by a former low ranking Palestinian officer." He said, "this officer was fired more than 2 years ago and he is a collaborator with the Israeli government." The Palestinian Authority issued an arrest warrant for Shabaneh alleging the following crimes: damaging the honor of the State, conspiracy to commit murder and real estate crimes. Shabaneh is nowhere to be found.
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A U.S. high-powered airborne laser weapon shot down a ballistic missile in the first successful test of a futuristic directed energy weapon, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency said on Friday.
"The Missile Defense Agency demonstrated the potential use of directed energy to defend against ballistic missiles when the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) successfully destroyed a boosting ballistic missile" the agency said.
"This was the first directed energy lethal intercept demonstration against a liquid-fuel boosting ballistic missile target from an airborne platform," the agency added.
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[Straits Times] SENATOR Jim Webb, who paid a rare visit to Myanmar last year, called on Thursday for the United States to keep engaging the military regime after it handed a three-year sentence to a US citizen. Burma has had a military government since 1962. My guess is that it will have a military government in 2062, and likely in 2162. Why should we waste our time with them when we could be wasting our time with Iran?
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During my time with Asia Times when it was a print publication (now atimes.com) there was an editorial policy of support for "engagement" with the Burma junta. Many members of the Asia Times staff was opposed to this editorial position, but were overruled by the management. Fast forward to 2010, I am unemployed, Asia Times continues online, and my opinion of the Engagement policy with Burma remains the same: it is a suckers bet.
And Thailand says to Burma: "I drink your milkshake!!!"
[Straits Times] INDONESIA'S former anti-graft chief Antasari Azhar was sentenced to 18 years' jail yesterday after he was found guilty of ordering the mafia-style killing of a company director. Well, at least he wasn't corrupt...
Judge Herri Swantoro told a packed South Jakarta court: 'Defendant Antasari Azhar has been legitimately proven guilty of participating in persuading others to execute a premeditated murder.'
It took the judge and others seven hours to read out the 179-page judgment.
Antasari, 56, said he would appeal.
During a sensational trial televised across Indonesia, he was accused of ordering the murder of Mr Nasrudin Zulkarnaen, 41, the director of a state-owned firm.
In court, the prosecution said Antasari wanted Mr Nasrudin dead because the businessman had threatened to reveal that the anti-graft chief was having an affair with his third wife.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Snow records for Baltimore have been established on several levels. The numbers are below.
12 February 2010 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama's charm offensive on Muslim states comes to a weekend forum in Qatar, where he will send a video message and his chief diplomat will give a speech, organizers said Thursday. Obama will deliver his message to the seventh annual US-Islamic World Forum in the Qatari capital, which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend Sunday with other senior US officials, The Brookings Institution said.
11 February 2010 ANKARA - Turkey and Armenia must show political courage and honour their commitments to bury a century of hostility, Turkey's president said on Thursday, after the two countries accused each other of trying to rewrite the accords. Four months after Turkey and Armenia signed an historic deal to open their border with the endorsement of the United States, the European Union and Russia, the process has been thrown into question by the weight of still-unresolved disputes.
BEIJING - CHINA declared on Thursday it had 'no dissidents', just hours after a Beijing court upheld an 11-year jail term for one of the country's top pro-democracy voices.
All the sordid details of the Palestinian sex tape scandal are rising to the surface the way scum does on a stagnant pond.
[Straits Times] INDONESIA'S former anti-graft chief Antasari Azhar was sentenced to 18 years' jail yesterday after he was found guilty of ordering the mafia-style killing of a company director.
