A New York Police Department officer and two of his brothers were arrested for allegedly trafficking high-powered firearms out of the United States and into the Philippines, federal law-enforcement officials announced on Friday.
Rex Maralit, a 44-year-old officer assigned to police headquarters in Lower Manhattan, was arrested on charges of conspiring with his brothers to violate the Arms Export Control Act and engage in unlicensed firearms dealing, law-enforcement officials said. Continue reading “New York Police Officer Arrested For Trafficking Illegal Guns”
OBERLIN, Ohio — Oberlin, a bastion of liberalism, is bracing itself to deal with a state gun law that many residents and officials oppose.
City Council is reluctantly mulling a change to its law that prevents firearms in city parks, as it conflicts with an Ohio statute that permits guns in most public places, including parks. If City Council does not rescind the measure, gun owners can take the city to court. Cleveland lost a similar fight over a guns-rights issue in 2010. Continue reading “Oberlin’s law on firearms in parks makes city a target for gun litigation”
The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools protecting the privacy of everyday communications in the Internet age, according to newly disclosed documents.
The agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems, protects sensitive data like trade secrets and medical records, and automatically secures the e-mails, Web searches, Internet chats and phone calls of Americans and others around the world, the documents show. Continue reading “N.S.A. Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web”
Even as Congress considers President Obama’s push for military strikes on Syria, the details of that plan continue to change by the day — with one source telling Fox News that military officials have been asked to revise their plans 50 times since the Pentagon first began considering a “limited” action.
Still to be resolved is what method of attack the U.S. would use. While missile-equipped ships are at the ready in the Mediterranean Sea, a senior defense official told Fox News that the possibility of launching military aircraft strikes was one of the range of options presented to Obama. Continue reading “US military has revised Syria strike plan 50 times, source says”
Amid the explosions, smoke, roaring vehicles and chattering gunfire of a terrorist attack Thursday afternoon at Port Everglades, one fact became chillingly clear:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has a strange way of speaking straightforwardly, without all the artificial and “morally superior” airs one expects from Western politicians.
You will not deny that one does not really need to support the people who not only kill their enemies, but open up their bodies, eat their intestines in front of the public and cameras. Are these the people you want to support? Is it them who you want to supply with weapons? Then this probably has little relation to humanitarian values that have been preached in Europe for hundreds of years. Continue reading “Putin Puts Obama in Hot Seat: ‘What Will You Do If Rebels Are Ones Using Chemical Weapons?’”
DEXTER, Mo. — A Missouri man who told authorities he had sexual contact with as many 300 people since being diagnosed with HIV pleaded not guilty on Thursday to infecting another man with the virus, and prosecutors said more charges are expected.
David Mangum entered the plea after being charged with recklessly infecting another with HIV, which in Missouri — where penalties for such crimes are among the nation’s harshest — carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. His attorney didn’t return messages seeking comment. Continue reading “Missouri man charged with spreading HIV claims 300 partners”
Emerging and developed G20 powers struggled to find common ground on Thursday over the turmoil unleashed by the prospect of the United States reducing a flood of dollars to the world economy.
The Group of 20, which united in response to global crisis in 2009, now faces a U.S. economypicking up, Europe lagging and developing economies facing blowback from the looming ‘taper’ of the Federal Reserve’s monetary stimulus. Continue reading “Emerging market pain dominates G20 economy talks”
WEB Notes:There is another article from the WSJ stating “Iran plots revenge” in case of a U.S. strike on Syria. Supposedly the U.S. “intercepted” communications from Iran. What is the point of that article and this one here? To generate a hate within you, to make you want war with Iran. How dare they protect their neighbor who they have a military pact with. Put this in other terms. If other nations were amassing military assets around Israel and threatening an attack against it and the U.S. stated, “we will plot revenge” that would be quiet obvious since the two nations are close “allies.” Use your mind folks. In either case these wars are going to happen whether days or months away, Syria (Isaiah 17:1) and Iran (Daniel 8). Continue reading “Iranian Military Chief: ‘We Will Support Syria To The End’”
The Acxiom Corporation, a marketing technology company that has amassed details on the household makeup, financial means, shopping preferences and leisure pursuits of a majority of adults in the United States, knows that Mr.Scott E. Howe is 45, married with children, the owner of a house in the 2,500-square-foot range, and is interested, among other things, in tennis, domestic travel, cooking, crafts, sweepstakes and contests. Those intimate details, Mr. Howe says, are entirely accurate. Continue reading “What data brokers know about you and how you can opt-out”
“When one door closes, another is opened,” as the saying goes. But Colorado did one better, albeit not very intentionally.
Formerly known as the Fort Lyon Correctional Facility, the 550-acre facility in Bent County, Colorado will now offer supportive housing, health services, substance abuse treatment, counseling and job training for the homeless. From there, it is hoped that participants will be able to transition to independent living — while saving the state money. Continue reading “Colorado’s Fort Lyon Prison, Closed By Budget Cuts, Reopens To House Homeless”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has added the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), an active group of hackers sympathetic to the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, to its list of wanted criminals.
Though working largely on the periphery for the last few years, the SEA has recently raised its profile considerably after temporarily disabling major media outlets.
Just one week after the SEA disabled The New York Times’ website for a considerable number of hours on August 27, the FBI issued an advisory warning Americans about the SEA and its capabilities. The statement also reported that any US citizen found to be aiding the hackers will be investigated as a terrorist who is actively aiding attacks against US companies.
The memo, dated August 30, was first published by journalist Matthew Keys.
“The Syrian Electronic army, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, has been compromising high-profile media outlets in an effort to spread pro-regime propaganda,” the advisory stated. “The SEA’s primary capabilities include spearphishing, web defacements, and hijacking social media accounts to spread propaganda.”
While little is known about the SEA, the collective claims it took control of domain servers for the The Times, Twitter, and The Huffington Post last week in its most recent cyber-attack. The SEA also defaced a Marine Corps recruitment website on September 2, posting images of US soldiers holding messages of contempt regarding possible American involvement in Syria.
“The Syrian army should be your ally not your enemy,” a letter on the page read. “Refuse your orders and concentrate on the real reason every soldier joins the military, to defend their homeland. You’re more than welcome to fight alongside our army rather than against it.”
The Marines stated that their webpage had not been infiltrated, although users were in fact redirected to a different site.
The SEA has also claimed responsibility for cyber-attacks on The Washington Post and Thomson Reuters, along with posting false news on the Associated Press’ Twitter feed. As a result of the online attack, the Associated Press – one of the most trusted sources for journalists – falsely reported that US President Obama had been injured in a surprise attack on the White House, causing a brief panic online. The tweet caused the stock market to fall by over 150 points.
The number of arrests made for low-level violations in New York City grew exponentially over the past decade, a result of the so-called “zero tolerance” policy that sought to prevent people from committing future crimes by arresting them preemptively.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spent much of his final year in office defending the city’s stop-and-frisk policy, which a federal judge ruled was unconstitutional in August. But while he and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly fended off allegations of stop-and-frisk’s inherent racial discrimination, complaints about severe policing have largely stayed out of the headlines. Continue reading “Low-level arrests surged under Bloomberg’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy”
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