More talk of requiring black boxes in all cars
March 12, 2010 by supermario
Filed under Police State
kvue.com
You’ve heard of black boxes in airplanes and chances are pretty good your car has one too.
You just may have to wait a few years before the manufacturer tells you. A rule by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will require car manufacturers to tell you whether your car is equipped with an Event Data Recorder or “black box” starting with 2011 models.
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Greece – 60,000 people protest against the government
March 12, 2010 by supermario
Filed under World News
dailymail.co.uk
Street clashes broke out between rioting youths and police in central Athens today as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several off their bikes, as police responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades. The violence spread after the end of the march to a nearby square, where police faced off with stone-throwing anarchists and suffocating clouds of tear gas sent patrons scurrying from open-air cafes.
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March 12, 2010 by supermario
Filed under Economy
By Mark Huffman
ConsumerAffairs.com
The price of gasoline continues to move higher, establishing a new high for the year on Friday. The national average price of self-serve regular is $2.783 a gallon, up more than six cents from last Friday, according to AAA.
The price is nearly 14 cents a gallon higher than it was a month ago. The price of diesel fuel is $2.919, up more than two cents a gallon in the last week.
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March 12, 2010 by supermario
Filed under US News
By Gary Solis
washingtonpost.com
In our current armed conflicts, there are two U.S. drone offensives. One is conducted by our armed forces, the other by the CIA. Every day, CIA agents and CIA contractors arm and pilot armed unmanned drones over combat zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Pakistani tribal areas, to search out and kill Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters. In terms of international armed conflict, those CIA agents are, unlike their military counterparts but like the fighters they target, unlawful combatants. No less than their insurgent targets, they are fighters without uniforms or insignia, directly participating in hostilities, employing armed force contrary to the laws and customs of war. Even if they are sitting in Langley, the CIA pilots are civilians violating the requirement of distinction, a core concept of armed conflict, as they directly participate in hostilities.
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March 4, 2010 by supermario
Filed under US News
Rick Ungar
trueslant.com
Yesterday, this page posted a piece on the disturbing and despicable tactics being employed by Liz Cheney’s ‘Keep America Safe’ gang in seeking the names of seven Justice Department attorneys accused by the organization – and others – of aiding terrorist detainees.
Today, the Justice Department released the names. Let’s take a look at who they are and what they have done that has caused Ms. Cheney and her ilk to impugn these government employees by calling them “The Al-Qaeda Seven“.
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March 4, 2010 by supermario
Filed under World News
Deborah Dupre
Examiner.com
Captured Jundallah terrorist group ringleader, Abdolmalek Rigi, has confessed that the US administration had assured him of unlimited military aid and funding for waging an insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran reported Press TV.
The following detailed transcript of Rigi’s confession, stated in Farsi, was broadcasted on Press TV.
“After Obama was elected, the Americans contacted us and they met me in Pakistan.They met us after clashes with my group around March 17 in (the southeastern city of) Zahedan, and he (the US operative) said that Americans had requested a meeting.”
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March 4, 2010 by supermario
Filed under US News
tomsguide.com
While speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney told attendees that the technology industry needs to change in the way its approaches security issues. The speech comes at the heels of Microsoft’s recent attempt to shut down the Waledac botnet through the court system. Microsoft has also spent millions to combat hackers and their devious programs slipping through minuscule OS and browser cracks.
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March 2, 2010 by supermario
Filed under Featured, World News
Dead paramilitary troops outside the border town of Mier, Mexico.
Mario Andrade
DeadlineLive.info
March 2, 2010
Last week, the border towns along the Texas Mexico border witnessed a major Drug War escalation. Recently, eyewitnesses who have been in contact with our research team described a scene where over 80 people died in Reynosa, Mexico in a shootout between drug gangs. Dozens of innocent bystanders sought refuge inside a convenience store but it was no use because gunfire and hand-grenades reached into the store. They all died. Previously, another shootout took place near the Monterrey Highway on the west side of Reynosa, where over one hundred people died.
The Mexican government has been silent so far because it would not be good public relations for their justifications for putting military troops on the streets if the rest of the world and the United States would find out what’s really going on. On the other hand, the Mexican press does not report any of these incidents because they are threatened by the cartels.
Dead paramilitary troops wearing full combat gear.
The border town of Reynosa is under martial law. There is a curfew in place. Anyone seen on the street at night can be shot or apprehended. Eyewitnesses describe the scene as chaotic as every few minutes, they hear sirens and see military vehicles passing by. There have also been reports of vehicles, mostly trucks and SUVs, carrying anywhere between 4 to 6 fully armed and equipped paramilitary men. Some of these vehicles bear the initials ‘CDG’ (Cartel Del Golfo or Gulf Cartel). The paramilitary teams –apparently working for different drug cartels- are wearing full combat gear, military-style BDU uniforms, body armor and grenades.
There have been other recent massive shootings in the cities of Matamoros, Miguel Aleman, Mier and Nuevo Laredo. In Laredo Texas, local law enforcement officials are on high alert as they patrol the streets near the international bridge and the Rio Grande. They are bracing for a possible violent spillover into the US side of the border.
The US State Department has closed the US Consulate in Reynosa, Mexico and has issued a travel advisory to the border area.
A truck involved in a shooting outside the border town of Miguel Aleman bears the initials CDG "Cartel Del Golfo" or Gulf Cartel.
According to many credible sources in the intelligence community and law enforcement. The Gulf Cartel has officially broken its ties with the paramilitary group known as the Zetas. As a result, they are fighting for control of the territory along the US-Mexico border. To make matters worse, the rival Cartel from Sinaloa has also taken advantage of the territory dispute, sending their own paramilitary groups to eliminate as much of their competitors as possible.
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March 2, 2010 by supermario
Filed under World News
Alfredo Corchado
The Dallas Morning News
Longstanding tensions between the Zetas paramilitary group and their old employers, the Gulf drug cartel, have exploded into a full-blown war, worrying U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials that a likely protracted battle will further threaten this stretch of the Texas-Mexico border. Parts of it are already under heightened security.
The resumption in violence shatters a three-year uneasy truce in this region and represents a potential menace to places such as North Texas where the Zetas and a rival drug trafficking organization known as La Familia are entrenched, according to a U.S. intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“This is where the drug war began [Tamaulipas in 2003] and hopefully where it will end,” said Eduardo “Buho” Valle, an analyst and former adviser to Mexico’s attorney general’s office. “We’re looking at a war that will change the drug cartels’ national structure. That’s why everyone is on edge, nervous.”
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March 2, 2010 by supermario
Filed under US News
Houston Chronicle
U.S. District Judge Hilda Tagle of Brownsville accepted a plea bargain for Osiel Cardenas Guillen, 42, known in Mexico as the “Friend-Killer” for the way he gained control of the vast, murderous drug smuggling operation of which Castillo was a small part. (According the U.S. officials, ledgers found in Atlanta showed Cardenas’ operation peddling more than $41 million in less than four months in the Atlanta area alone.)
His sentence: 25 years in federal prison, with credit for five years spent awaiting trial.
That’s a considerable step down from the confident prediction by then Drug Enforcement Administration head Karen Tandy two years ago when Cardenas first appeared in federal court.
“He killed his way up the ladder to lead the Gulf Cartel,” she said. “And now he’s looking forward to the rest of his life in prison.”
The DEA didn’t comment on the sentence. Neither did the FBI.
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