Mail.com

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The National Park Service has outlined a series of actions in response to a federal report that found employees at the Grand Canyon preyed on their female colleagues and retaliated against them for refusing sexual advances.

The agency’s Intermountain Region director, Sue Masica, said employees will be disciplined appropriately and she will push a message of zero tolerance for sexual harassment and hostile work environments.   Continue reading “Park Service vows reforms after report on sexual harassment”

Mail.com

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey blamed Kurdish militant groups at home and in neighboring Syria on Thursday for a deadly suicide bombing in Ankara and vowed strong retaliation for the attack — a development that threatens to further complicate the Syria conflict.

The rush hour car-bomb attack on Wednesday evening targeted buses carrying military personnel, killing 28 people and injuring dozens. It came as Turkey is grappling with an array of serious issues, including renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels, threats from Islamic State militants and the Syria refugee crisis. The attack was the second deadly bombing in Ankara in four months.   Continue reading “Turkey blames Kurdish rebels, Syria for Ankara attack”

Mail.com

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A college fundraiser fatally shot his niece and her 4-year-old son at their suburban Indianapolis home Wednesday, following a dispute over a family trust worth millions of dollars, before killing himself inside a downtown hotel room, authorities said.

Lucius Oliver Hamilton III fatally shot himself inside a hotel room one block from the Indiana Statehouse just after officers knocked on the door, state police Capt. Dave Bursten said. Hamilton, 61, had been the subject of a manhunt since shortly after the bodies of Katherine Giehll and Raymond Peter Giehll IV were found Wednesday morning in their home in an upscale neighborhood near Zionsville, just northwest of Indianapolis.   Continue reading “Authorities: Man kills 2, himself after family trust dispute”

CBS News

LOS ANGELES — The FBI is leading the investigation of a hostage situation at a California hospital — but it’s not people who were being held, it was the hospital’s computer system.

Inside Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, computer screens were dark since hackers took over the data network almost two weeks ago.   Continue reading “California hospital computer system taken “hostage””

MassPrivateI

According to Courthouse News (CN) article, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson warned law enforcement of a new breed of terrorism that sees people “self-radicalize.”

“As I have said many times, we are in a new phase of the global terrorist threat, requiring a whole new type of response,” Johnson said. “We have moved from a world of terrorist-directed attacks to a world that includes the threat of terrorist-inspired attacks.”
Continue reading “Fearing Americans are tiring of the war on terror, DHS creates a “new breed of terrorism””

Reuters

Iraq is searching for “highly dangerous” radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State.

The material, stored in a protective case the size of a laptop computer, went missing in November from a storage facility near the southern city of Basra belonging to U.S. oilfield services company Weatherford WFT.N, the document seen by Reuters showed and officials confirmed.   Continue reading “Radioactive material stolen in Iraq raises security fears”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

BASTROP, Tex. (INTELLIHUB) — Photos taken by Joe Carey last Friday, in a Lowe’s parking lot reveal something rather suspicious.

A fully armored surveillance truck, equipped with surveillance electronics and stabilizer bars, that is sitting stationary, with its stabilizers extended as if it’s in operation.   Continue reading “Fully armored surveillance truck, with stabilizers down spotted in Lowe’s parking lot — European plates”

Papers, Please!

One of the big lies being told by supporters of the REAL-ID Act of 2005 is that, as the DHS says on its official “Rumor Control” page, “Fact: REAL ID does not build a national database nor does it grant the Federal Government or another state access to a state’s driver’s license data.”

In fact, as we’ve been pointing out and as others have noted, the REAL-ID Act is both building a national database and requiring any state that wants to issue drivers’ licenses or state ID cards that are “compliant” with the REAL-ID Act to grant all other states access to their state’s drivers’ license and ID card data.   Continue reading “How the REAL-ID Act is creating a national ID database”

Boston Globe – by Matt Rocheleau

The federal government has ordered three Massachusetts town police departments and the state Department of Correction to return military equipment, including grenade launchers, bayonets, and tracked armored vehicles, that they received as part of a controversial program.

After concerns were raised over the use of military equipment by police during riots in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014, President Obama issued an executive order that established a working group to study the issue. He later accepted the group’s recommendations to curb federal programs that send surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies nationwide.   Continue reading “Goodbye, grenade launchers: Mass. towns return military equipment to feds”

RT

Six military personnel have been killed and one seriously wounded in an explosion that hit a military convoy in the southeast of Turkey, the armed forces said in a statement. The convoy was traveling along a highway linking Diyarbakir and Bingol.

The military also said that a handmade bomb was detonated by remote control while the military vehicle was searching for mines on the highway linking Diyarbakir to the district of Lice, Reuters reports.   Continue reading “6 dead, 1 injured as blast hits military convoy in SE Turkey”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

In January 2016, police killed 113 people — at least one person was fatally gunned down by a cop every day that month. One particularly deadly day, January 27, saw ten people meet their fate, thanks to the police. On average, that is almost 4 people a day.

And there is no indication this tragic epidemic will end soon.   Continue reading “Cops Killed Nearly 4 People a Day in January – More Deaths a Day Than Most Countries Kill Per Year”

Reuters – by Sharon Bernstein

A woman charged with conspiracy in the takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge last month has filed a rambling counter-complaint in which she accuses the federal government of working for the devil and demands $666,666,666,666.66 in damages.

Shawna Cox, who made headlines by challenging the FBI’s version of the events leading up to the death Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, another of the occupants, said she and the other occupiers were victims of numerous crimes committed by mercenaries and foreign agents.   Continue reading “Accused Oregon refuge occupier cites devil, demands damages from U.S.”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is expanding its counter-terrorism efforts by launching a propaganda site for children, complete with a comically primitive video game that no kid would want to play.

The stated purpose of the FBI’s new program, called “Don’t Be A Puppet: Pull Back the Curtain on Violent Extremism,” is to “keep young people…from embracing violent extremist ideologies in the first place.”   Continue reading “The FBI Just Released a Video Game to Propagandize Children — It’s Both Orwellian and Terrible”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

A wealth of conspiracy theories have followed the sudden and shocking death of 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, with many people suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the jurist’s demise. But Scalia’s own son is now pleading for an end to the “hurtful” speculation.

Appearing on the Laura Ingraham radio show, the conservative giant’s eldest son, Eugene Scalia, denied there was any wrongdoing in his father’s death.   Continue reading “Justice Scalia’s Son Calls for End to ‘Hurtful’ Conspiracy Theories Over Dad’s Death”

Gizmodo – by Kate Knibbs

The FBI and Apple are fighting over modern technology using a very old law. A 227-year-old statute, created at the same time as the federal courts themselves, is now at the center of a showdown about privacy.

The FBI wants Apple to write custom software that will help the FBI break into a seized phone. Apple doesn’t want to do that, because it would be creating a serious security flaw in its own privacy protections, a flaw that could be exploited to hurt its millions of customers. Depending on how the All Writs Act is interpreted by a judge, Apple may have to comply.   Continue reading “The 227-Year-Old Statute Being Used to Order Apple to Endanger Your Privacy, Explained”

The Anti-Media – by Clarice Palmer

 A recent examination of National Security Agency documents previously released by whistleblower Edward Snowden shows that the CIA and other U.S. agencies may be killing innocent people as a result of their reliance on metadata.

The NSA’s SKYNET is a program that surveils phone metadata in order to track suspected terrorists. Through SKYNET, the security agency engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan’s mobile phone network, affecting 55 million people — but that’s not all. Once the data is gathered, it’s run through a machine learning algorithm that attempts to rate whether a particular individual is more or less likely to be a terrorist.   Continue reading “The NSA Actually Has A Program Called SKYNET — And It’s Terrifying”

Yahoo News

A federal grand jury in Nevada indicted Cliven Bundy and four others Wednesday on 16 charges related to an armed standoff near his ranch in 2014 over unpaid grazing fees.

The 69-year-old Nevada rancher was arrested Feb. 10 in Portland, Oregon, where his sons, Ammon and Ryan Bundy, are jailed and accused of organizing the occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In the takeover, which lasted nearly six weeks, they had demanded that public lands be turned over to locals and that two area ranchers serving sentences for arson be freed.   Continue reading “Cliven Bundy, 4 others, face federal indictment in Nevada”