[cia-drugs] Force of Science comes to San Francisco, not open to the public
force of Science comes to San Francisco, not open to the publicFrom: mary moore To all: I read this twice and I'm still trying to figure out just what force science research involves so maybe there are smarter heads out there than mine! I do know that excited delirium is the blanket phrase used by law enforcement to justify deaths by tasers-in other words the person died because of this condition not because of the taser. George Orwell, you never died!! MM February 1, 2008 www.ForceScienceNews.com http://www.forcesciencenews.com/ Force Science News Extra In this issue: Latest on force issues featured in upcoming Lethal Less-lethal seminar The latest findings on officer-involved shootings from the Force Science Research Center will be among the cutting-edge topics featured at an upcoming seminar on Lethal and Less-lethal Force, sponsored by Americans for Effective Law Enforcement. The popular 3-day program, spotlighting new developments in the legal, psychological, and physiological aspects of force encounters, is scheduled for Mar. 24-26 in San Francisco, to be repeated Oct. 20-22 in Las Vegas. Registration information and full descriptions of content and instructors are available at: www.aele.org/Seminars.html http://www.aele.org/Seminars.html . These programs typically fill up quickly, so prompt registration is recommended, says Wayne Schmidt, executive director of AELE, the nonprofit organization that monitors law enforcement-related court decisions and files legal briefs on behalf of police agencies in significant courtroom controversies. The use of force lies at the heart of an overwhelming proportion of litigation against officers and their agencies, not to mention demoralizing exposure in the media, Schmidt says. Misconceptions about how to defend these cases-and prevent them in the first place-too often result in severe judgments of liability against departments and in unwarranted criminal convictions of officers. Research, technology, training, and legal issues related to use of force are evolving rapidly, and our goal with this program is to de-mystify current complexities with practical information that's immediately useful to command staff, city and county attorneys, police legal advisors, trainers, and risk managers. Content presented by the nationally known faculty, including 4 instructors affiliated with the Force Science Research Center at Minnesota State University-Mankato, will cover in depth such urgent topics as: . Revelations about excited delirium and other sudden and in-custody death phenomena . How to use FSRC's recent ground-breaking research findings to improve investigations of controversial, high-profile shootings, including shot-in-the-back cases . What investigators must know about perceptual and memory distortions during critical incidents to keep their search for the truth on track . Important force implications for dealing with mentally ill, suicidal, and chemically influenced subjects, as well as suicide-by-cop scenarios . Critical, independent assessments of medical issues related to the Taser®: street truth vs. media truth . The latest policy and procedural recommendations for electronic restraint devices, neck restraints, chemical agents, and other options in the less-lethal toolbox . Devices, techniques, and tactics that can help in avoiding rather than generating lawsuits and complaints . How to dissect and apply in training the most critical Supreme Court decisions related to force, as well as other current case law . Sidestepping legal landmines in internal investigations, criminal probes, and review board hearings . The impact of consent decree litigation . Surprising discoveries about the psychology of combat and the dynamics of violent encounters, revealed in hundreds of officer-involved shootings . Proper procedures and preparation for internal affairs, review board, and criminal investigations to assure fair and valid results. Faculty members who are affiliated with FSRC are: Dr. Bill Lewinski, the Research Center's executive director; Dr. Alexis Artwohl, former police psychologist and a prominent researcher on perceptual and memory distortions in officer-involved shootings; Greg Meyer, captain (ret.) with the Los Angeles Police Academy and a risk management consultant specializing in reducing injuries in force encounters; and Charles Remsberg, senior correspondent for PoliceOne.com and author of 3 leading textbooks on officer safety. Other instructors include: Judge Emory Plitt Jr., past chair of the IACP's Legal Officers Section, with more than 3 decades' experience in civil liability litigation; Dr. John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths; Ken Katsaris, former sheriff and a prominent expert witness and litigation consultant; Michael Brave, national litigation counsel for Taser® International. AELE courses are
[cia-drugs] An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos
An Uncomfortable Spotlight in Davos by Pratap Chatterjee, Special to CorpWatch January 31st, 2008 The CEOs of three-quarters of the world's 100 largest companies have just completed an uncomfortable weekend at the tiny Swiss ski resort of Davos, while their companies' share prices nosedived on global stock markets, amid concern that the U.S. economy was staggering towards recession. The Alpine village, which is virtually inaccessible to anyone without a helicopter, is ringed with barbed wire and tight security arrangements for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in late January every year. This 37-year-old private gathering brings together dozens of heads of states, hundreds of government ministers and a smattering of activists and celebrities to join the chief executives for a series of discussions and workshops, as well as private parties thrown by companies such as Google with the help of the world's most famous disc jockeys. The price of attendance isn't cheap: each CEO spends roughly $60,000 a year to attend. But once they have made it onto the invite list they can look forward to schmoozing with their peers in Davos and hobnobbing with celebrities. This year they had a chance to meet Tony Blair, the former British prime minister; Al Gore, the former US vice-president and Nobel Prize-winner; and Bono, the Irish rock star and debt campaigner. Past gatherings have also given CEOs the opportunity to play chess with Antoly Karpov, the former Soviet champion, and to take a twirl on the ice with Russian skating stars. Some CEOs have occasionally delighted in doing the incongruous: Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of News Corporation, did a stint as a waiter at one party this year. Questioning Capitalism But the 2008 gathering was fraught with irony for the CEOs and the bankers who have financed them. Wrote Bruce Nussbaum of Business Week: Last year, an army of slick-haired, Wall Street private equity and hedge fund guys turned up to show the doubting Europeans the clever and kindly face of American market capitalism . (t)o the Europeans who complained that private equity and hedge fund wheeling and dealing were distorting economic growth, they gently suggested that the Old Country was out of touch with the new reality of financial innovation. This year the Wall Street whiz-kids had to eat humble pie. Turns out the Europeans were right, wrote Nussbaum. The subprime junk packaged and repackaged as top prime credit collapsed and is taking the rest of the U.S. economy (and perhaps the world economy) down with it . (s)o if the slick-haired guys can still afford to hop their private jets to get to Davos this year, they're going to find a lot of really angry Euros armed with really strong euros. Indeed, Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, suggests the Davos tradition of celebrating globalization has come to an uncomfortable halt: In the past few years, globalization has enjoyed virtually unqualified applause from the power-players inside the Davos conference rooms, whatever the noisy protests outside in the snow-clad streets -- the triumphalism has disappeared, replaced by a pervasive uncertainty. One of the world's best-known CEOs, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, admitted to fellow participants that he had become skeptical of the very notion of capitalism. He told the Wall Street Journal that he had seen the failings of capitalism first-hand on visits to places such as the South African slum of Soweto, and had discussed them with dozens of experts on disease and poverty. At one of the most widely attended events of the week, Gates called for a creative capitalism that uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well, Gates said. I'm an optimist, but I'm an impatient optimist. The world is not getting better fast enough, and it's not getting better for everyone. And billionaire George Soros, who made his fortune speculating on global currency exchange rates, took the opportunity of the WEF to call for major new regulations and oversight over financial markets. Soros said that the failure to restrain the free market has caused not a normal crisis but the end of an era. Not all CEOs agreed. People have to keep in mind, throughout history we have always had cycles, people shouldn't be surprised, JP Morgan CEO James Dimon, co-chair of the WEF, told the closing debate. Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris went further when he told Reuters: What's going on now should not have a 'Chicken Little' atmosphere. The sky is not falling. Public Eye on Davos While the CEOs finally acknowledged that a rising tide might not lift all boats, and that capitalism could indeed have a downside, Swiss activists showed up outside the WEF to name and shame companies with particularly egregious
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Obama's Skull and Bones economic advisor
Subject: Obama's Skull and Bones economic advisor Is Obama?old wine in a new bottle? ? His advisors can help us clarify the answer to that question. ? Please go to:? http://rense.com/general80/web.htm and decide for yourself. ? Best, Rich ? ? Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] The legislation behind a national ID
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6228910.html?tag=nl.e550 The legislation behind a national ID By CNET News.com Staff, News.com Published on ZDNet News: Feb 4, 2008 4:00:00 AM TalkBack Share Digg Del.ico.us Print Email Recommend Don't Recommend + 3 3 Tags: CNET News.com Staff, Politics government, U.S., License,Section,Driver, Secretary, Person, Identification Card,State, B, Social Security,Operational Accounting, Homeland Security, Security, Government, Finance Real ID became law not through the usual legislative process, but instead as part of a mammoth Iraq spending and Asian tsunami bill, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005. The following is the full, unedited text of the bill: TITLE II--IMPROVED SECURITY FOR DRIVERS' LICENSES AND PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS In this title, the following definitions apply: (1) DRIVER'S LICENSE--The term driver's license means a motor vehicle operator's license, as defined in section 30301 of title 49, United States Code. (2) IDENTIFICATION CARD--The term identification card means a personal identification card, as defined in section 1028(d) of title 18, United States Code, issued by a State. (3) OFFICIAL PURPOSE--The term official purpose includes but is not limited to accessing Federal facilities, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants, and any other purposes that the Secretary shall determine. (4) SECRETARY--The term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security. (5) STATE--The term State means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States. SEC. 202. MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use (1) IN GENERAL--Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of this section. (2) STATE CERTIFICATIONS--The Secretary shall determine whether a State is meeting the requirements of this section based on certifications made by the State to the Secretary. Such certifications shall be made at such times and in such manner as the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, may prescribe by regulation. (b) Minimum Document Requirements--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall include, at a minimum, the following information and features on each driver's license and identification card issued to a person by the State: (1) The person's full legal name. (2) The person's date of birth. (3) The person's gender. (4) The person's driver's license or identification card number. (5) A digital photograph of the person. (6) The person's address of principle residence. (7) The person's signature. (8) Physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes. (9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements. (c) Minimum Issuance Standards. (1) IN GENERAL--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall require, at a minimum, presentation and verification of the following information before issuing a driver's license or identification card to a person: (A) A photo identity document, except that a non-photo identity document is acceptable if it includes both the person's full legal name and date of birth. (B) Documentation showing the person's date of birth. (C) Proof of the person's social security account number or verification that the person is not eligible for a social security account number. (D) Documentation showing the person's name and address of principal residence. (2) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (A) IN GENERAL--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall comply with the
[cia-drugs] Forth Cable Cut - Iranian Oil Bourse Sabotaged
http://pkpolitics.com/2008/02/04/forth-cable-cut-iranian-oil-bourse-sabotaged/ Forth Cable Cut - Iranian Oil Bourse Sabotaged February 4, 2008 | Filed Under Featured Articles Iranian bourse was delayed due to Internet blackout in Iran, as the 4th international fiber mysteriously snapped. The Iranian bourse, which was scheduled to be launched in the first week of February, would have caused damage to already weakening dollars. Ships at Egypt were originally blamed for the cable damage, but the satellite imaging evidence showed that no ship was present at the time and location of cable cut. The cable cut has reported to affect both Pakistani neighbors India and Iran, but has left Pakistan unaffected due to the extra link installed in recent years. Digg Reports: A full explanation of the Iranian Oil Bourse and how it will DESTROY the US economy and crash the US currency. Hence all the talk about attacking Iran and why Bush went to Israel to possibly get them to attack Iran. Well, Russia stated about 2 weeks ago that they would nuke anyone who attacked their allies, which Iran happens to be. So that took that whole idea of a straight attack on Iran off the table. Hence the reason they are now chopping the fiber optic lines the week the Iranian Oil Bourse was to go live. They are trying to buy as much time as possible because the Bourse would have instantly crashed our economy. Now since the traffic is being re-routed through the US, they are probably trying to infiltrate that bourse and hack it so they can bring it down at a later date. References: Digg | Slashdot | DU | EconBrowser | Business Standard
[cia-drugs] Countries Getting Internet Back After Cable Cutting
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/04/countries-getting-internet-back-after-cable-cutting Countries Getting Internet Back After Cable Cutting By Doug Caverly - Mon, 02/04/2008 - 3:41pm. Proper repairs still need to be performed We're still waiting to hear what caused damage to several underwater Internet cables; it's likely to be either especially interesting (in an apocalyptic, WWIII sense) or completely mundane (think rusty old anchors). But either way, affected nations are getting their access back. India seems to have a solid job of recovering, with estimates putting its connection speeds at anywhere between 70 and 90 percent of their previous standing. At least 60 million people were originally affected by outages and slowdowns, and some fancy rerouting is behind the improvement. Elsewhere, Dylan Bowman reports that Qatar Telecom's "loss of capacity has been kept below 40% thanks to what the telecom said was a large number of alternative routes for transmission." And a spokesman for the UAE's Du corporation told Bowman, "Our internet access is almost back to normal . . . and data services are 100% restored." As for other areas, well . . . Egypt's Internet is also getting back on its feet, and it seems that Iran wasn't deeply affected in the first place. Initial reports seemed to suggest the country had been cut off, but Uruknet has countered those. Now we (and people who have lost Internet connections) are just waiting for repair ships to reach and fix the damaged cables. With the Super Bowl over, thinking about what the ships will find could even become a new betting game.
