The Department of Homeland Security began operations in March 2003 with missions that include preventing terrorist attacks from occurring within the United States, reducing U.S. vulnerability to terrorism, minimizing damages from attacks that occur, and helping the nation recover from any attacks. The Government Accountability Office has reported that the implementation and transformation of...
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Britain’s Daily Mail, Jan. 29, 2007, reported in the article “Multiculturalism drives young Muslims to shun British values”: Multiculturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found. In stark contrast with their parents, growing numbers sympathize with extreme teachings of Islam, with almost four in...
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Lacking the votes to restrict wiretapping by the executive branch, Democrats are instead trying to do it through the backdoor by punishing telephone companies Source: Wall Street Journal. Stiff Right Jab responds: The Wall Street Journal summarizes its position: We’ve long held that a President doesn’t need a court order under the Constitution to...
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Has anyone noticed the way we in society defend various forms of female violence, but are disturbed greatly by various forms of male violence? This phenomenon is being played out in Berkeley California, where the city council made an attempt to run the Marine Corp. recruiters out of town. This was an attempt by...
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“Therefore victory in war is not repetitious, but adapts its form endlessly.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War There were secret meetings in restaurants, encrypted e-mail messages using a mysterious shorthand, suitcases crammed full of stolen documents.There were covert payoffs: a pocket stuffed with a wad of bills, free poker games in Vegas,...
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is operated by the National Nuclear Security Administration, is responsible for, among other things, designing nuclear weapons. Over the past decade, security personnel documented numerous security, safety, and project management weaknesses at NNSA’s nuclear weapons complex, including LANL. In particular, during the Clinton Administration LANL has experienced a...
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If there exists one visional depiction of the Cold War’s end, it is still a Eurocentric one, November 9, 1989, the day East Berliners joined with those of the city’s West in celebration of the Berlin Wall’s demise. Three weeks earlier, on October 19, 1989, Stalinist East German dictator Erich Honecker, facing mass internal...
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In 2003, the Federal Protective Service was transferred from the General Services Administration to the Department of Homeland Security and is currently tasked with providing physical security and law enforcement services to about 8,800 facilities owned or leased by GSA. To accomplish its mission, FPS currently has a workforce of about 1,100 employees and...
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New “Essence of Hillary” video adapts Reagan’s “Morning in America” to “Morning After in America” following a “one term stand” with Hillary Clinton reprising the two-term stand with Bill Clinton.· By Jim Wrenn, Editor and Washington Bureau Drawer Chief at PoliSat.Com. February 1, 2008–            While a Charlotte Observer columnist swoons over what he...
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Abu Laith al-Libi, an al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, was reported killed on Islamist website Ekhlaas.org, saying: “ was martyred with a group of his brothers in the land of Muslim Pakistan….Though we are sad for his loss, he left a legacy that will inflame the enemy nation and religion.” It is speculated that he...
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Australia will press on with plans to withdraw its troops from Iraq in June this year, although promises were made by the nation’s foreign minister that relations with the United States will not be affected by the move. Foreign minister Stephen Smith said that the withdrawal will be conducted in an orderly fashion to...
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The sister-in-law and nephew of a former Orange County, California engineer convicted of orchestrating a scheme to smuggle sensitive defense information to China face deportation following their arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Fuk Hueng Mak Li, 50, and her son Billy Yui Mak, 27, were taken into custody this morning by ICE...
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To address concerns about unemployed or underemployed Soviet-era weapons scientists in Russia and other former Soviet Bloc nations, the US Department of Energy established the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention or IPP program in 1994. The general idea was to engage former Soviet weapons scientists in nonmilitary work in the short term and create private...
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KANSAS CITY, MO — A federal grand jury in the Western District of Missouri has returned a superseding indictment that charges the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and several of its former officers with eight new counts of engaging in prohibited financial transactions for the benefit of US-designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The indictment also...
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The 2006 United States National Security Strategy stated that this nation faces challenges from Iran, including Iran’s proliferation efforts and involvement in international terrorism. To address these concerns, the United States employs a range of tools, including diplomatic pressure, a military presence in the Gulf, and economic sanctions. A U.S. sanction is a unilateral...
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The lamestream media told you: Nothing. The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that: The U.S. armed forces are monitoring the successful development of a robotic exoskeleton that allows a soldier to effortlessly lift huge loads and exert tremendous energy without tiring. The next step, also under development, makes the system freestanding, to mimic a soldier’s...
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Many of the presidential candidates are running on the promise of change. Some are saying they will make more changes than the others. Is this a good thing? No! Change causes trouble! Think about it. Most of the problems we have today were caused by changes we made in the past. We changed the...
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(Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton made headlines on Monday with a display of being close to tears while she campaigned in New Hampshire. Her friends in the media especially those on CNN attempted to put a positive spin on her demeanor. Perhaps Americans should refresh their memories of Bill and Hillary Clinton as more state...
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Four Venezuelans and an Uruguayan national were charged on December 20 by a federal grand jury on charges of acting and conspiring to act as agents of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (“Venezuela”) within the United States, without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, as required by law. R. Alexander...
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by Jim Kouri, CPP Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, federal agencies have faced the challenge of protecting sensitive information from terrorists and others without a need to know while sharing this information with parties who are determined to have such a need. One form of protection involves identifying and marking such information...
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