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Raytheon, a Massachusetts defense contractor, has built tracking software that pulls information from social networks, according to a video obtained by the Guardian newspaper in London. "[Raytheon] has acknowledged the technology was shared with U.S. government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analyzing 'trillions of entities' from cyberspace." Using public data from Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla and Foursquare, the software - called RIOT, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology - apparently gathers uploaded information and forms a profile of a person's every move that was registered with one of the websites. The video obtained by the newspaper starts with a demonstration by Raytheon's "principal investigator," Brian Urch, showing how easy it is to track an employee named Nick - a real person - based on all the places he has checked in using his smartphone. "When people take pictures and post them on the Internet using their smartphones, the phone will actually embed the latitude and longitude in the header data - so we're going to take advantage of that," Urch says. "So now we know where Nick's gone ... and now we'll predict where he'll be in the future." Urch goes on to analyze - using graphs and calendars - where Nick likes to spend his personal time and make predictions about his behavior. "If you ever wanted to get a hold of his laptop, you might want to visit the gym at 6 a.m. on Monday," Urch says with alarming casualness.
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Airport body scanners that produce graphic images of travelers' bodies will be removed from checkpoints by June, the Transportation Security Administration says, ending what critics called "virtual strip searches." Passengers will continue to pass through machines that display a generic outline of the human body, raising fewer privacy concerns. The TSA move came after Rapiscan, the manufacturer of the 174 so-called "backscatter" machines, acknowledged it could not meet a congressional-ordered deadline to install privacy software on the machines. "It is big news," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "It removes the concern that people are being viewed naked by the TSA screener." Currently, the TSA uses the 174 backscatter machines in 30 airports, and has another 76 units in storage. It uses millimeter wave machines in 170 airports. The decision to remove the backscatter machine will make moot, at least temporarily, travelers' concerns about the health effects of the machines. Backscatter machines use X-rays, while millimeter wave machines use radio waves. The TSA has long maintained both machines are safe, but recently signed an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to study the scanners. The study will continue even though the machines are being pulled, the TSA said, because they could be reintroduced in the future.
Note: Each of those machines cost $175,000. Someone sure made a lot of money on these machines which had a very short lifespan.
New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent. It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves – was coordinated with the big banks themselves. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should once more shame major US media outlets (why are nonprofits now some of the only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news?), filed this request. The document – reproduced here in an easily searchable format – shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens.
Note: For analysis of these amazing documents revealing the use of joint government and corporate counterterrorism structures against peaceful protestors of financial corruption, click here and here. For a Democracy Now! video segment on this, click here.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation used counterterrorism agents to investigate the Occupy Wall Street movement, including its communications and planning, according to newly disclosed agency records. The F.B.I. records show that as early as September 2011, an agent from a counterterrorism task force in New York notified officials of two landmarks in Lower Manhattan — Federal Hall and the Museum of American Finance — "that their building was identified as a point of interest for the Occupy Wall Street." In the following months, F.B.I. personnel around the country were routinely involved in exchanging information about the movement with businesses, local law-enforcement agencies and universities. An October 2011 memo from the bureau's Jacksonville, Fla., field office was titled Domain Program Management Domestic Terrorist. The memo said agents discussed "past and upcoming meetings" of the movement, and its spread. It said agents should contact Occupy Wall Street activists to ascertain whether people who attended their events had "violent tendencies." Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the F.B.I. has come under criticism for deploying counterterrorism agents to conduct surveillance and gather intelligence on organizations active in environmental, animal-cruelty and poverty issues. The records were obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a civil-rights organization in Washington, through a Freedom of Information request to the F.B.I.
Note: For analysis of these amazing documents revealing the use of joint government and corporate counterterrorism structures against peaceful protestors of financial corruption, click here and here. For a Democracy Now! video segment on this, click here.
The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 did much more than shield lawbreaking telecoms from all forms of legal accountability. It also legalized vast new, sweeping and almost certainly unconstitutional forms of warrantless government eavesdropping. [The] 2008 law gutted the 30-year-old FISA statute that had [barred] the government from eavesdropping on the communications of Americans without first obtaining a warrant from a court. Worst of all, the 2008 law legalized ... the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program secretly implemented by George Bush after the 9/11 attack. The 2008 FISA law provided that it would expire in four years unless renewed. Yesterday, the Senate debated its renewal. Several Senators - Democrats Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon along with Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul - each attempted to attach amendments to the law simply to provide some modest amounts of transparency and oversight to ensure that the government's warrantless eavesdropping powers were constrained and checked from abuse. The Democratic Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein ... demanded renewal of the FISA law without any reforms. And then predictably, in virtually identical 37-54 votes, Feinstein and her conservative-Democratic comrades joined with virtually the entire GOP caucus ... to reject each one of the proposed amendments and thus give Obama exactly what he demanded: reform-free renewal of the law.
Note: For analysis of this Senate vote, click here. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on government assaults on privacy, click here.
Through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews with officials at numerous agencies, The Wall Street Journal has reconstructed the clash over the counterterrorism program within the administration of President Barack Obama. The attorney general [has] signed the changes into effect. The rules now allow the little-known National Counterterrorism Center to examine the government files of U.S. citizens for possible criminal behavior, even if there is no reason to suspect them. That is a departure from past practice, which barred the agency from storing information about ordinary Americans unless a person was a terror suspect or related to an investigation. Now, NCTC can copy entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others. The agency has new authority to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, and to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. Previously, both were prohibited. Data about Americans "reasonably believed to constitute terrorism information" may be permanently retained. "It's breathtaking" in its scope, said a former senior administration official. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution says that searches of "persons, houses, papers and effects" shouldn't be conducted without "probable cause" that a crime has been committed.
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Are unmanned aircraft, known to have difficulty avoiding collisions, safe to use in America's crowded airspace? And would their widespread use for surveillance result in unconstitutional invasions of privacy? Experts say neither question has been answered satisfactorily. Yet the federal government is rushing to open America's skies to tens of thousands of the drones - pushed to do so by a law championed by manufacturers of the unmanned aircraft. The 60-member House of Representatives' "drone caucus" - officially, the House Unmanned Systems Caucus - has helped push that agenda. And over the last four years, caucus members have drawn nearly $8 million in drone-related campaign contributions. Domestic use of drones began with limited aerial patrols of the nation's borders by Customs and Border Patrol authorities. But the industry and its allies pushed for more, leading to provisions in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, signed into law on Feb. 14 of this year. The law requires the FAA to fully integrate the unmanned aerial vehicles into national airspace by September 2015. The FAA has predicted that 30,000 drones could be flying in the United States in less than 20 years. House members from California, Texas, Virginia and New York on the bipartisan "drone caucus" received the lion's share of the funds channeled to lawmakers from dozens of firms that are members of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on drone killings and other war crimes committed by the US in its wars of aggression in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, click here.
The Petraeus scandal is receiving intense media scrutiny. Several of the emerging revelations are genuinely valuable, particularly those involving the conduct of the FBI and the reach of the US surveillance state. The FBI investigation began when Jill Kelley - a Tampa socialite friendly with Petraeus (and apparently very friendly with Gen. John Allen, the four-star U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan) - received a half-dozen or so anonymous emails that she found vaguely threatening. She then informed a friend of hers who was an FBI agent, and a major FBI investigation was then launched that set out to determine the identity of the anonymous emailer. What is most striking is how sweeping, probing and invasive the FBI's investigation then became, all without any evidence of any actual crime - or the need for any search warrant. The FBI traced all of [Paula] Broadwell's physical locations, learned of all the accounts she uses, ended up reading all of her emails, investigated the identity of her anonymous lover (who turned out to be Petraeus), and then possibly read his emails as well. They also discovered "alleged inappropriate communication" to Kelley from Gen. Allen, who is not only the top commander in Afghanistan but was also just nominated by President Obama to be the Commander of US European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe (a nomination now "on hold"). This is a surveillance state run amok. It also highlights how any remnants of internet anonymity have been all but obliterated by the union between the state and technology companies.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on government surveillance, click here.
Rented computers from seven different companies secretly took photographs of their users, US authorities have said. The companies used software made by US company Designerware which could track key strokes and other personal data. The software, called PC Rental Agent, captured people engaging in "intimate acts", including sex. It is believed that PC Rental Agent has been installed in approximately 420,000 computers worldwide. The Federal Trade Commission ruling concerned a feature in the software, called Detective Mode, which would typically become activated if the user was late in returning equipment, or failed to pay for use. Detective Mode would assist the rental store in locating the overdue computer in order to pursue its return. Part of the process involved a pop-up window designed to look like a software registration screen. It would request personal information such as email addresses and telephone numbers that could then be used to pursue the users for payment and/or the return of equipment. In addition, the FTC said the software had access to much more sensitive information, including: usernames and passwords for email accounts, social media websites, and financial institutions. Among the other data collected were social security numbers; medical records; private emails to doctors; bank and credit card statements. Webcam pictures of children, partially undressed individuals, and intimate activities at home were also found. In the FTC's formal complaint document, it said the software had captured "couples engaged in sexual activities".
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[William] Binney, a 32-year veteran of the National Security Agency turned whistle-blower, ... described details about Stellar Wind, the N.S.A.'s top-secret domestic spying program begun after 9/11, which was so controversial that it nearly caused top Justice Department officials to resign in protest, in 2004. "The decision must have been made in September 2001," Mr. Binney told me [and] cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. "That's when the equipment started coming in." He resigned over this in 2001 and began speaking out publicly in the last year. [Binney] is among a group of N.S.A. whistle-blowers, including Thomas A. Drake, who have each risked everything — their freedom, livelihoods and personal relationships — to warn Americans about the dangers of N.S.A. domestic spying. The N.S.A. has technical abilities that are nearly impossible to defend against if you are targeted. The 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which oversees the N.S.A. activities, are up for renewal in December. Two members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mark Udall of Colorado ... have been warning about "secret interpretations" of laws and backdoor "loopholes" that allow the government to collect our private communications. Thirteen senators have signed a letter expressing concern about a "loophole" in the law that permits the collection of United States data. The A.C.L.U. and other groups have also challenged the constitutionality of the law, and the Supreme Court will hear arguments in that case on Oct. 29.
Note: The video about this on the NY Times webpage at the link above is quite revealing. One potent comment of this 32-year NSA veteran in the video is "They wanted to highly classify the extreme impeachable crimes they were committing." For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on government and corporate surveillance, click here.
The days of secrecy at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may be coming to an end. It's a widely held belief that the agency's hasty embrace of expensive, X-rated x-ray machines has more to do with closed-door lobbying efforts of manufacturers than a deliberate consideration of the devices' merits. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) [has] pushed for some transparency by asking the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to compel the agency to hold a public notice-and-comment period on the use of pornographic scanners, as the law requires. EPIC has a good case because on July 15, 2011, the D.C. Circuit issued a ruling insisting TSA "promptly" come into compliance with Administrative Procedure Act requirements regarding public hearings. TSA believed it wasn't subject to such rules because the virtual strip-searching of women, children and the elderly is an essential security operation. The last thing TSA wants is the public-relations disaster of having to collect and publish the horror tales from Americans subjected to humiliation from the nude photography and intrusive "pat-down" groping sessions. It's time to admit the post-Sept. 11 experiment in having the government take over airport screening duties has been a colossal flop. TSA has defied the Administrative Procedures Act, an appellate court, the public will and common decency. It's not enough just to pull the plug on the scanners; the plug should be pulled on TSA itself.
Note: According to this PBS report, "European Union regulators recently banned any body scanner that uses X-rays, 'in order not to risk jeopardizing citizens' health and safety.'" It also states, "The TSA tested the devices behind closed doors, without scrutiny from independent scientists." For lots more on this topic important to all air travelers, click here.
Last week, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly to unveil a major new police surveillance infrastructure, developed by Microsoft. The Domain Awareness System links existing police databases with live video feeds, including cameras using vehicle license plate recognition software. No mention was made of whether the system plans to use – or already uses – facial recognition software. But, at present, there is no law to prevent US government and law enforcement agencies from building facial recognition databases. And we know from industry newsletters that the US military, law enforcement, and the department of homeland security are betting heavily on facial recognition technology. As PC World notes, Facebook itself is a market leader in the technology – but military and security agencies are close behind. According to Homeland Security Newswire, billions of dollars are being invested in the development and manufacture of various biometric technologies capable of detecting and identifying anyone, anywhere in the world – via iris-scanning systems, already in use; foot-scanning technology (really); voice pattern ID software, and so on. What is very obvious is that this technology will not be applied merely to people under arrest, or to people under surveillance in accordance with the fourth amendment. No, the "targets" here [include] everyone. In the name of "national security", the capacity is being built to identify, track and document any citizen constantly and continuously.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on civil liberties, click here.
[Trapwire is] a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to commit a terrorist or criminal act. According to documents released online by WikiLeaks [it] is being used in a number of countries to try to monitor people and threats. Founded by former CIA agents, Trapwire uses data from a network of CCTV systems and numberplate readers to figure out the threat level in huge numbers of locations. The documents outlining Trapwire's existence and its deployment in the US were apparently obtained in a hack of computer systems belonging to the intelligence company Stratfor at the end of last year. Documents from the US department of homeland security show that it paid $832,000 to deploy Trapwire in Washington DC and Seattle. Stratfor describes Trapwire as "a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance and logistical planning". It serves "a wide range of law enforcement personnel and public and private security officials domestically and internationally", Stratfor says. Some have expressed doubts that Trapwire could really forecast [future] acts based on data from cameras. The claims might seem overblown, but then the idea that the US could have an international monitoring system seemed absurd until the discovery of the Echelon system, used by the US to eavesdrop on electronic communications internationally.
Note: For more on the growing use of this secret technology, click here. For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on privacy, click here.
The Department of Homeland Security will soon be using a laser at airports that can detect everything about you from over 160 feet away. This laser-based scanner ... could read everything from a person's adrenaline levels, to traces of gun powder on a person's clothes, to illegal substances — and it can all be done without a physical search. It also could be used on multiple people at a time, eliminating random searches at airports. The scanner is called the Picosecond Programmable Laser. The device works by blasting its target with lasers which vibrate molecules that are then read by the machine that determine what substances a person has been exposed to. The inventor of this invasive technology is Genia Photonics. Active since 2009, they hold 30 patents on laser technology designed for scanning. In 2011, they formed a partnership with In-Q-Tel, a company chartered by the CIA and Congress to build "a bridge between the Agency and a new set of technology innovators." Although the technology could be used by "Big Brother," Genia Photonics states that the device could be far more beneficial being used for medical purposes to check for cancer in real time, lipids detection, and patient monitoring.
Note: For deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources on government threats to privacy, click here.
Most Americans have gotten used to regular news reports about military and CIA drones attacking terrorist suspects – including US citizens – in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere abroad. But picture thousands of drone aircraft buzzing around the United States. By some government estimates, as many as 30,000 drones could be part of intelligence gathering and law enforcement here in the United States within the next ten years. Operated by agencies down to the local level, this would be in addition to the 110 current and planned drone activity sites run by the military services in 39 states, reported this week by the Federation of American Scientists, a non-government research project. Civil libertarians warn that "unmanned aircraft carrying cameras raise the prospect of a significant new avenue for the surveillance of American life," as the American Civil Liberties Union put it in a report last December. "The technology is quickly becoming cheaper and more powerful, interest in deploying drones among police departments is increasing, and our privacy laws are not strong enough to ensure that the new technology will be used responsibly and consistently with democratic values," reported the ACLU. "In short, all the pieces appear to be lining up for the eventual introduction of routine aerial surveillance in American life."
Note: For deeper analysis of the threats posed to American citizens by military and police drones in the skies, click here. For information on a federal recent law compelling the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to fly in US skies, click here. For more information on the use of drones by police in the US, click here. For lots more from reliable sources on surveillance in the US, click here.
Military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones ... to the size of insects and birds. The drones in development ... are designed to replicate the flight mechanics of moths, hawks and other inhabitants of the natural world. "We're looking at how you hide in plain sight," said Greg Parker, an aerospace engineer, as he held up a prototype of a mechanical hawk that in the future might carry out espionage or kill. An explosion in aerial drones is transforming the way America fights and thinks about its wars. Predator drones ... are by now a brand name, known and feared around the world. But far less known is the sheer size, variety and audaciousness of a rapidly expanding drone universe, along with the dilemmas that come with it. The Pentagon now has some 7,000 aerial drones, compared with fewer than 50 a decade ago. Within the next decade the Air Force anticipates a decrease in manned aircraft but expects its number of "multirole" aerial drones like the Reaper — the ones that spy as well as strike — to nearly quadruple, to 536. Already the Air Force is training more remote pilots, 350 this year alone, than fighter and bomber pilots combined. "It's a growth market," said Ashton B. Carter, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer. The Pentagon has asked Congress for nearly $5 billion for drones next year, and by 2030 envisions ever more stuff of science fiction: "spy flies" equipped with sensors and microcameras to detect enemies
Note: Ashton B. Carter, CIA director John Deutch, and executive director of the 9/11 Commission Philip Zelikow co-authored a 1998 article in the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affairs, titled "Catastrophic Terrorism". It predicted, years in advance, a massive attack on the World Trade Center that would result in loss of civil liberties, detention without charge, torture, and endless wars abroad. The Pentagon's weapons-buying spree, now including billions of dollars for drones to be used over US soil, and for which Carter is the "chief weapons buyer," would have been impossible without the 9/11 attacks.
Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm's way. Small teams of special operations troops quietly train and advise foreign forces. Viruses sent from computers to foreign networks strike silently, with no American fingerprint. It's war in the shadows, with the U.S. public largely in the dark. The high-tech warfare allows Obama to target what the administration sees as the greatest threats to U.S. security, without the cost and liabilities of sending a swarm of ground troops to capture territory; some of them almost certainly would come home maimed or dead. But it also raises questions about accountability and the implications for international norms regarding the use of force outside of traditional armed conflict. "Congressional oversight of these operations appears to be cursory and insufficient," said Steven Aftergood, an expert on government secrecy issues for the Federation of American Scientists, a private group. "It is Congress' responsibility to declare war under the Constitution, but instead it appears to have adopted a largely passive role while the executive takes the initiative in war fighting," Aftergood said in an interview. That's partly because lawmakers relinquished their authority by passing a law just after the Sept. 11 [attacks]. In this shroud of secrecy, leaks to the news media of classified details about certain covert operations have led to charges that the White House orchestrated the revelations to bolster Obama's national security credentials and thereby improve his re-election chances.
Note: For deeper analysis of the threats posed to American citizens by military and police drones in the skies, click here. For information on a federal recent law compelling the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to fly in US skies, click here. For more information on the use of drones by police in the US, click here. For lots more from reliable sources on surveillance in the US, click here.
Washington looks set to wave through new cybersecurity legislation next week that opponents fear will wipe out decades of privacy protections at a stroke. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa) will be discussed in the House of Representatives next week and already has the support of 100 House members. It will be the first such bill to go to a vote since the collapse of the Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) in January after global protests and a concerted campaign by internet giants such as Google, Wikipedia and Twitter. The author of the new bill, Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House intelligence committee, has said it is aimed at tracking the nefarious activities of hackers, terrorists and foreign states, especially China. But its critics charge the bill will affect ordinary citizens and overturn the privacy protections they now enjoy. Opponents fear the way it is currently drafted will open up ordinary citizens to unprecedented scrutiny. The bill uses the wording: "Notwithstanding any other provision of law," a phrase that if it became law would trump all existing legislation, according to critics. In one section, the bill defines "efforts to degrade, disrupt or destroy" a network as an area that would trigger a Cispa investigation. Opponents argue something as simple as downloading a large file – a movie for example – could potentially be defined as an effort to "degrade" a network. The bill also exempts companies from any liability for handing over private information.
Note: For lots more on government and corporate threats to civil liberties, click here.
The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon. Internet firms will be required to give intelligence agency GCHQ access to communications on demand, in real time. The Home Office says the move is key to tackling crime and terrorism, but civil liberties groups have criticised it. Tory MP David Davis called it "an unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop on ordinary people". A new law ... would not allow GCHQ to access the content of emails, calls or messages without a warrant. But it would enable intelligence officers to identify who an individual or group is in contact with, how often and for how long. They would also be able to see which websites someone had visited. Conservative MP and former shadow home secretary David Davis said it would make it easier for the government "to eavesdrop on vast numbers of people". "What this is talking about doing is not focusing on terrorists or criminals, it's absolutely everybody's emails, phone calls, web access..." He said that until now anyone wishing to monitor communications had been required to gain permission from a magistrate. Nick Pickles, director of the Big Brother Watch campaign group, called the move "an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance seen in China and Iran". The previous Labour government attempted to introduce a central, government-run database of everyone's phone calls and emails, but eventually dropped the bid after widespread anger.
Note: For more on this from BBC, click here. Though this is interesting news, many know that the government has had easy access to all people's emails, phone calls, and more for many years through systems like echelon and more. For an abundance of major media articles showing how many of the power elite want to create a big-brother society, click here.
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, joined by the court's conservative wing, wrote that courts are in no position to second-guess the judgments of correctional officials. The procedures endorsed by the majority are forbidden by statute in at least 10 states. According to a supporting brief filed by the American Bar Association, international human rights treaties also ban the procedures. Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for the four dissenters, said the strip searches the majority allowed were "a serious affront to human dignity and to individual privacy" and should be used only when there was good reason to do so. Justice Breyer said that the Fourth Amendment should be understood to bar strip searches of people arrested for minor offenses not involving drugs or violence, unless officials had a reasonable suspicion that they were carrying contraband. People have been subjected to "the humiliation of a visual strip search" after being arrested for driving with a noisy muffler, failing to use a turn signal and riding a bicycle without an audible bell. A nun was strip-searched ... after an arrest for trespassing during an antiwar demonstration. In a study of 23,000 people admitted to a correctional facility in Orange County, N.Y., using that standard, there was at most one instance of contraband detected that would not otherwise have been found.
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Another contributor to the STL LOUD project, The Warbuckles cut their track at R&R Music Labs on Sunday and I stopped by to snap a few shots. It's a foot-stompin' track too. Literally.
Bonus points for innovative use of a bar as a studio baffle.
The Warbuckles @ STL LOUD 11.14.2010 – Images by Corey Woodruff

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We Ended Up Seeing Two Wildebeest Crossings
Equipped with Sharon's visionary plan and our driver guild Petro's extended experiences and great talent with animals, we have just completed our unforgettable African dream safari.
Our trip started from the North Serengeti. Someone told my husband that the chance of seeing the wildebeest crossing Mara river was 15%. We wanted to see it badly. However, we understood perfectly that nothing was guaranteed and a safari trip was supposed to be a surprised one. Petro knew where to take us and how to approach the potential crossing spot and the best time to get closer therefore not to disturb the animals. We ended up seeing two crossings. Second one with more wildebeests and lasted more than ten minutes and very exciting.
Around the Buffalo Spring area, we visited a Maasai village, had a guided nature walk and a night game drive. All the activities were fun and rewarding.
In the central Serengeti area, we saw the chases and hunts by lions, a mama leopard, and a cheetah. Some failed and some succeeded.
In the Ngorongoro Crater, we saw more hyenas than elsewhere. All the animals here seemed braver than those in the Serengeti National park. It is a good chance to take close up pictures of them.
Tarangire guaranteed us with more elephants and lions.
Over all, we have seen all the animals and most of their actions we wanted to see. We saw 65 lions, 5 leopards, 9 cheetahs, a family of African hunting dogs, and countless of a lot of other commonly seen animals and beautiful birds. I believe the land in Tanzania is magical. It became a habit of trying to spy an animal and animal seeing has continued in our dreams. The beauty of the land, people, and animals of Tanzania has printed in our hearts.
Ann W.
Fremont, California
Safari Dates: July 25, 2013 to August 5, 2013
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One Response to We Ended Up Seeing Two Wildebeest Crossings
l am an employee at four seasons Serengeti Tanzania.l am welcoming you to a wonderful Lodge you have never Seen in your life ,its new four seasons in Tanzania,But different from all other four seasons.You will see Animals coming very close to our natural water pond ,while having lunch or while relaxing in your room. Each room has long view that is never been in the other hotels. l am proud working here.


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Ms LIVERMORE (Capricornia) (09:47): I am pleased to have this opportunity to add my support to the Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related bills which set Australia on its path to a clean energy future, a path to a clean energy future that will see our economy transformed in ways that will cut our national emissions of carbon and drive innovation and improvements in efficiency in both existing and emerging industries; a path to a clean energy future that provides for generous compensation to pensioners and families, provides assistance to industries to protect and grow jobs, and delivers tax reform.
As I have said many times in media interviews, my support for this package of bills, the introduction of a carbon price and the other measures that go with it, should come as no surprise to anyone. After all, it was only two years ago that I was up on my feet speaking in support of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, not once but two or three times, and every time the CPRS came back before the House I voted in favour of it. So it should not come as a surprise that, given another opportunity in here to vote on putting a price on carbon, I will act consistently with what I have done in the past and vote for it. We are here with these bills before us again, and faced with this decision yet again, because the reality and the challenge of a changing climate, a warming world, has not gone away. It has not gone away since the defeat of the CPRS two years ago; it has not gone away in all the many years that this parliament and international forums have been presented with increasingly alarming scientific evidence and asked to respond. It is not going away just because some choose to ignore it or deny it. Successive governments starting with John Howard's signing of the Kyoto protocol and commissioning of the Shergold report, and the Rudd government's negotiations over the CPRS have brought us to this point. Now is the time to finish the job they started and pass these clean energy bills. There is no value to Australia in continuing the uncertainty and delay over something that scientists tell us requires urgent action and that economists warn us will only get more difficult and costly to our economy the longer we leave it. As I made clear in my speeches on the CPRS, I strongly support the direction the government is taking. I agree that Australia should do our bit to respond to the threat of climate change and I agree that we should do that by putting a price on carbon. This is not an article of faith for me, rather it is an issue like many others that demand the government of the day to make a decision and take action. Our Labor governments and the Howard Liberal government before us were presented with this problem as one needing attention and a response. Our government and the Howard government before us sought advice from scientists, economists and other experts as to the dimensions of the problem and the range of solutions available to us.
On the basis of that advice, our government and the Howard government before us came to the same conclusion: that climate change is real, that it is caused by human activity, that we should reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions and that the best way of doing that is by means of an emissions trading scheme. That led to both parties going to the 2007 election promising to introduce almost identical emissions trading schemes to cut carbon pollution. I do not remember the Leader of the Opposition getting all hot and bothered about John Howard's emissions trading scheme when he proposed it and started legislating for it back in 2007, a scheme that we now know—and the member for Wentworth confirmed last week—was very similar to the one we are debating today.
This debate has been characterised all along by the inconsistencies of the opposition leader and his determination to never ever let the facts get in the way of his unrelenting scare campaign. The facts start with the science. Although it is going over old ground it is worth restating in this debate why we see the need to do what we are doing to reduce carbon emissions. I could go to any number of sources to support my conclusion and the conclusion of those of us in government that we can be confident in accepting the scientific consensus on climate change and using that as the basis for our judgments about whether and how to take action. There are the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Academy of Sciences all telling us the same thing. Professor Garnaut summarised his reasoning for accepting the mainstream science on climate change in his 2011 report:
The vast majority of those who have spent their professional lives seeking to understand climate and the impacts of human activities on it have no doubt that average temperatures on earth are rising and the human-induced increases in greenhouse gases are making major contributions to these rises. They are supported in this by the learned academies of science … in all of the countries of scientific accomplishment.
So much for the world government conspiracy to corrupt scientific data. Depending on what day it is and on what audience he is addressing, you might find the opposition leader accepting the scientific consensus that we should cut carbon emissions or you might find him ridiculing that very same science. Luckily there is a rational voice within the opposition, the member for Wentworth. He tells us that it is absolutely Liberal Party policy to accept the scientific consensus that the globe is warming and that human greenhouse gas emissions are substantially the cause of it. Labor and the Liberals are agreed on the climate change science. The member for Wentworth in the same speech confirmed that both parties are agreed on the need to cut emissions and the extent to which we intend to cut them. Just as the Labor government is pledged to cut emissions in Australia by five per cent on 2000 levels by 2020, we have it from the member for Wentworth that it is also the Liberal Party's policy to take action to cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. This is the same unconditional target adopted by the Rudd government and the Gillard government and pledged at Copenhagen. Labor and Liberal are agreed on the target for emissions cuts.
The next fact is that if you want to meet that target for a reduction in the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere, the most effective and least-costly way of doing it is to put a price on carbon. There is almost universal agreement among economists that the best way to meet emissions reduction targets is through a market based mechanism putting a price on carbon. In response to that pricing signal, business and consumers will do what they always do—innovate, look for value, create solutions, find cheaper and better ways of doing things. In that way a price on carbon will lead to lower emissions and will drive the economic reform that we need to build the modern competitive industries and the skilled productive workforce that the 21st century demands.
The world is not going to wait for us; it never has. Australia accepted that challenge in the eighties and nineties, floating the dollar and bringing down the tariff wall and transforming our industries. It was not easy at the time, but we have been reaping the benefits of that change to an open, competitive, outward-looking economy ever since. It is why the government has adopted a similarly market based approach to meeting this latest challenge of reducing carbon emissions and starting the transition to an economy based on efficiency and clean energy. This is a very comprehensive package of legislation. It is based on the best scientific and economic advice, including extensive Treasury modelling. It has been the subject of broad consultation and intense debate for at least the last four years.
I turn to two particular aspects which will be of interest to the people I represent. The first of those is the assistance that individuals and households can expect to receive as a result of this reform. The first point to make in that regard is that the carbon price is not a cost to be paid by individuals. This legislation requires just 500 of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, those companies that emit 25,000 tonnes or more per year, to pay a price of $23 per tonne for the gases they emit. In Central Queensland that equates to the major coalmining companies, Stanwell Power Station and a handful of other businesses. The carbon permits that companies are required to purchase will generate significant revenue for government which leads to the second and very important point.
Over half of that revenue will be returned to families, to workers, to pensioners, to self-funded retirees and to students in the form of either tax cuts, higher Centrelink payments or both. What that means for people in Capricornia is that for most of them any costs that might be passed on to them from companies that have to pay the carbon price will be at least partially compensated and, in most cases, completely covered by the extra money they will have in their pockets from tax cuts and pension increases. For example, there are almost 20,000 pensioners in Capricornia. Single pensioners will receive an extra $338 per year and couples up to an extra $510 in their pension payments. On average the expected increase in costs due to a carbon price for a single pensioner will be $204 per year. With the increase in their pension payments they will be $134 better off. Out of 64,000 taxpayers in Capricornia, around 47,000 will receive a tax cut and out of those 47,000, 39,000 will receive a tax cut of at least $300. We want to support households, families and pensioners while we make this economic transition. The price on carbon will drive that transition and the revenue it raises will allow us to help low- and middle-income households meet any resulting costs. Updated Treasury modelling shows that those costs to consumers will be minimal and for most households more than met by the compensation measures. The average household food bill is estimated to increase by only 80c per week and the overall rise in the cost of living for an average household would be just 0.7 per cent in the first full year of the carbon price. That compares to a cost-of-living jump of about 2½ per cent with the introduction of the GST.
The opposition scare campaign just does not stand up to the facts in this debate. Nowhere has this been more obvious than in Capricornia where opposition members and the Coal Association have been making the most overblown and fanciful claims about the impact the price on carbon will have on the coal industry. I have lost count of how many times I have been asked to respond to their latest warning that this spells the end of the coal industry. The trouble for the opposition is that the mining companies would not stick to the doomsday script. It started with Peabody's multi-billion-dollar bid for Macarthur Coal the day after we announced the details of the carbon price. Then it kept going because the companies, their shareholders and their banks have obviously judged that the future is too bright and the opportunities in the coal sector are too valuable to slow down their investment activity even for a couple of months for the sake of keeping up the pretence about the impact of the carbon price.
Day after day the opposition soldiers on with its scare campaign while the people of Central Queensland can see with their own eyes the evidence of a mining boom that shows not the slightest sign of slowing down. I will give a snapshot of what has been going on in my electorate since this package was announced in July. I met with Xstrata who told me they are full steam ahead with their Wandoan Coal Project—that is, a mine, hundreds of kilometres of railway line and a major new port facility at Balaclava Island. Representatives from Indian company Adani did a roadshow to Bowen to talk up the opportunities coming their way with the expansion of the port at Abbot Point to ship out the coal from Adani's mine in the Galilee Basin. Landholders in the Central Highlands held mass meetings over concerns that not one but three companies are each proposing to build their own individual 500 kilometres of railway line from the Galilee Basin to the coast. BHP was reported as insisting on fly-in fly-out operations in the Bowen Basin because it does not know how else it can fill the hundreds of jobs it is projecting in the region in the coming years. BHP is also encouraging steelworkers from other parts of Australia to come and fill jobs in its Bowen Basin projects. QR National confirmed that it is going ahead with an expansion of its rail network between the Bowen Basin and the Hay Point/Dalrymple Bay coal-loading terminals. Vale came to see me last week to tell me about their long-term plans to lift investment in their coal business in Australia. Proponents of the Fitzroy River Coal Terminal are working hard to progress their project, with huge interest from coal producers in the Surat and Bowen basins. And ABS figures released last week show that a record $207.2 million was spent exploring for coal in the June quarter. That is a jump from the December quarter, and of course that jump happened after the details of the carbon price were announced.
This was all summed up best in a headline in the Australian newspaper's business pages last month: 'Watch what miners do, not say, about the carbon tax'. Exactly. When it comes to the future of the coal industry, my advice to central Queenslanders is to follow the money, because that exposes the opposition's scare campaign as a complete sham. The money trail tells the real story: that investment in mines and infrastructure, the search for workers and the investment by members of the opposition in mining company shares continue to grow.
I am confident that there is nothing in this legislation for my electorate to fear. In fact, there are opportunities in embracing a lower carbon future that I have not had time to detail today: opportunities for farmers and graziers through the Carbon Farming Initiative; opportunities in renewable energy, like Mackay Sugar's cogeneration plant using biomass from sugarcane; and opportunities to improve efficiency in the meat-processing sector, which I know local plants are already investigating.
I attended my first briefing on emissions trading in 1999, my first year in the parliament. We have marked time on this issue for long enough—12 years now. Let us get this debate behind us and get started on the real work of creating a clean energy future for this nation.


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Bill Ayers' recent appearance on Megyn Kelly's Fox News program appears to be part of a systematic campaign to whitewash the activities of the communist terrorists who were murdering policemen and FBI agents during the 1960s and 70s, and to set the stage for their release and rehabilitation.
Kelly was unprepared for the interview and failed to consult prominent experts on the case, such as former FBI agent Max Noel. "I'm extremely disappointed, as are a number of us who actually worked the WUO [Weather Underground Organization] case on a daily basis, in your attempt to 'confront him' without availing yourself of the knowledge that those of us who actually worked the case could have given you," Noel said in a message to Kelly. The former FBI agent, who arrested the UNABOMBER and has co-authored a sensational new book about that case, was a member of the Weatherman Task Force in San Francisco, where Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, were operating.
Noel has sensational details about how the Weather Underground constructed its bombs in order to kill people, not just damage property. This information, if publicized on "The Kelly File," would have exposed Ayers as the crazed and committed communist he truly is. As a result of this glaring omission, Ayers succeeded in coming across as simply an aging "anti-war activist" or "radical" who carried things a little too far with bombings that caused some property damage but killed no one.
This is as big a lie as Ayers' claim made to Kelly that he didn't know Barack Obama very well, even though he helped him launch his political career in Chicago. "I knew him as well as he knew 10,000 other people," Ayers said. "Today, I wish I knew him much better and I wish he'd listen to me."
But the evidence indicates that President Obama, or at least his Attorney General Eric Holder, is listening.
Left unsaid on "The Kelly File" show was the critical fact that many of Ayers' comrades are still in jail or prison, waiting for Democratic politicians such as President Obama and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to grant pardons or clemency. Some have already been released, with no significant press attention devoted to the pattern that is developing.
Ayers and Dohrn could themselves be charged in the Park Police Station case, in which Police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell was killed. But apparently, they are quite confident that this will never happen as long as President Obama and Eric Holder are running the Justice Department.
The insidious campaign of releasing and/or rehabilitating these terrorists has been underway for some time.
It began in 2003 when Kathy Boudin, one of Ayers' more notorious associates, was granted parole from New York state prison. Boudin had gone to prison for her involvement in an October 20, 1981 armed terrorist assault that left Nyack, New York Police Sgt. Edward O'Grady, Patrolman Waverly Brown, and Brinks guard Peter Paige dead.
Taking a cue from the rehabilitation of Ayers himself, who had become a "professor" of education at the University of Illinois, Boudin is now an associate professor at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
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Kentucky Derby: Itsmyluckyday works sharp mile at Calder
MIAMI – Itsmyluckyday had his final serious tune up for the 2013 Kentucky Derby when working a mile in 1:43.10 shortly after dawn Thursday morning at Calder Race Course.
With exercise rider Hopeton "Bobby" Gray aboard, Itsmyluckyday cruised through a 26.82-second and 53.82 opening half-mile, then responded when set down leaving the three-eighths pole. He completed his final half-mile in 49.28 and final quarter in 24.80 over a fast track that had opened more than an hour earlier and had been cut up pretty well when Itsmyluckyday worked just prior to the renovation break.
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"I couldn't be more pleased with the way he worked," said trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. while watching Itsmyluckyday cool out immediately after the work. "The first half-mile is what it is, I just wanted him to finish up. I've been doing this a long time over here and they don't tend to go much faster than 1:43 for a mile at Calder. Maybe one or two have but I don't think I've had a horse finish like he did or gallop out so strongly after working a mile in that kind of time.
"I had Bobby work him rather than Elvis [Trujillo] because these mile works are his specialty, he's been with me seven or eight years and he does it better than anybody I've ever had."
Plesa said he may bring Itsmyluckyday back with one more easy work prior to putting him on the van for Churchill Downs next Friday, April 26.
"He's bigger and stronger than he's ever been," said Plesa. "The 62 days between the Holy Bull and Florida Derby was just what we needed to do. He's responded very favorably and is on top of his game right now."
Itsmyluckyday won the Grade 3 Holy Bull, beating the then undefeated 2-year-old champion Shanghai Bobby by two lengths. He bypassed the Fountain of Youth before returning to finish second behind Orb in the Grade 1 Florida Derby.
Itsmyluckyday would have beaten Secretariat !!! I've never seen a bigger lock to win the Kentucky Derby !!!
Great work by one of the top colts in the country! Don't know if anyone noticed, but that track was sealed for the fillies three races earlier on Florida Derby Day, but cut deep for the colts.. A perfect set-up for Orb, but pretty tough on ' Lucky ' coming off an eight week break! Remember, Churchill is always set-up lightning fast on Derby Day, hope the weather cooperates, and they can get alot of days to gallop him before the race, as most horses need a little time to adjust to that track.. Big chance, wish him the best.... saratoga jack
This is the horse I look to press the pace from 3/4 pole to top of stretch. That's where the running starts and orb runs by. And I'm not Plesa but that work sucked. 53 for first half is appalling. And he is working him on a Thursday? Schedule seems off to me???
SBobby has proved to be a bust over a mile so the WIN is much for Itsmyluckyday
I've heard a trainer say their Horse worked like crap!!! Dale Romans said Dullahan was ready for Dubai and the 1 mile prep that sucked was because he got out of the gate bad and he was working great for the big one....and he sucked the big one. It the Risen Star a Trainer from GG said his Horse awesome and would WIN and guess what I can't remember his name.....went back to San Francisco...I'd like a trainer to just be honest and Elvis may be buy we hear it all the time..........................
Old School work for an Old School trainer and horse. Like his foundation too. Hope he takes to the Churchill Strip. In my top 3
I believe this is my Derby horse. May have to put a few bucks on itsmyluckyday........
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Nice workout. Thats how you work a horse going into a race like this


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Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
Pine Ridge Condominiums offers 71 accommodations with fireplaces and washers/dryers. Rooms open to balconies. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations have separate sitting areas and include sofa beds. Accommodations at this 3-star condominium resort have kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers, stovetops, microwaves, and separate dining areas. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations.
This Breckenridge condominium resort provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Televisions come with premium cable channels, DVD players, and pay movies. Housekeeping is provided on a limited basis.
- Free local calls
- Second bathroom
- Separate sitting area
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Kitchen
- Coffee/tea maker
- Fireplace
- Balcony
- Premium TV channels
- DVD player
- Pay movies
- Limited housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Television
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room climate control (heating)
- Sofa bed
- Separate dining area
- Dishwasher
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Stovetop
- Washer/dryer
- Free WiFi
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
Where to Eat
The hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Angels Hollow
Blue River Bistro
Breckenridge BBQ
Breckenridge Brewery
Eric's Underground
Nearby Things to Do
Guests enjoy 2 spa tubs and a fitness center. The condo complex is adjacent to the Four O'Clock Ski Run.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Cross-country skiing nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Snowshoeing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Ski equipment rentals on site
- Downhill skiing on site
- Snowboarding on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
Property Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
Minimum check-in age is 25
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
No elevators
- Resort fee
Property Name
- Pine Ridge
- Pine Ridge Breckenridge
- Pine Ridge Condominiums
- Pine Ridge Condominiums Breckenridge
- Pine Ridge Condominiums Hotel Breckenridge
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you did the right, thing safety is everybody's business! i don't own any 32s myself, but i am sure all that do and read this will agree with the safety issue first.
Hello all,
I do not own a Kel-Tec, but this concerns a .32 auto cartridge and there are probably more KT users of .32 than any other brand of firearm. Earlier today I was shooting .32 60gr. Hornady JHP/XTP's in my Seecamp, when one went off with a slight pop. Sure enough, the bullet is lodged in the barrel, just ahead of the chamber.
I debated as to whether or not I should mention this on a public forum without giving time for Hornady to address the situation, but I have decided that this situation is potentially a very hazardous one, and other users of .32 auto should know of what happened. The lot number is 3060696.
I will of course let the Hornady company know of what happened as soon as possible. Hopefully they will not get their nose bent out of shape because I am letting others on a public forum know of what happened. If so, so be it, but I would hate to hear of someone having a pistol blow up in their hand because they sent another round off behind one that was stuck up the barrel.
you did the right, thing safety is everybody's business! i don't own any 32s myself, but i am sure all that do and read this will agree with the safety issue first.
Care less what a company thinks as they didn't put any podwer in the cartridge. It can happen to the best of reloaders too. That's why I shoot my own and nobody elses reloads. If something goes wrong all I got to do is look in the mirror. Thanks for the heads up.
I would have to agree too. Even if Hornady found what you said, what could they do. There could be a potentially hazardous batch of ammo floating around. Are they going to take you to court because of a bad batch of ammo? Don't think so! You did the right thing in my eyes, and those are the ones I look through.
Good thing you realized it B-4 you pulled the trigger again.
Lucky it was you shooting it instead of a novice.
how could you tell?
how could you tell the bullet was stuck? what does it feel or sound like? I have never had that happen.
If you ever have a round that feels significantly underpowered, especialy one that doesn't operate the slide, stop, wait a moment, then unload, check and make certain you unloaded, break the gun down and inspect the barrel.
I carry 6 inch long pieces of wooden arrows in my range bag for bullet removal. I have used it twice.
I carry a 6" piece of brass dowel in my bag and I have used it about four times over many years. Three on factory loads and one of my own. Just tap them back till you can get cylinder open or in a auto field strip and knock it out of the barrel. Happens to everybody sometime.
PhilR: Sir; follow up with 'Hornaday's' position. It will be a learning tool for all of us.
Always post issue's whether they potentially be embarrassing or self "dumb-dumb", or what we could consider 'manufactures' issues. We all gain from others experiences
I guess autos are "SAFER" than revolvers...
With a "pop" load, the slide won't cycle, you cannot follow up the pop with a boom, unless you manually cycle the slide.
With a "pop" from a revolver in DA, it would be much easier to pull the trigger again... KABOOM
Just had to rib the revolver guys a little...
I was always taught that it was called a squid round. From everyone who has had one including myself, they all agree that it feels very different. Not quite sure what the gun company are going to do for bad rounds but hey good luck none the less.
I once inadvertently chambered a .380 in my FNP-9, the round fit in the mag and fed and fired correctly, but the slide didn't operate. The bullet did not get lodged in the barrel but I think it could have.
Yes, I know I'm an idiot... but I'm working on it!
I'm much more careful to separate my ammo now, and very attentive to the reports issued by my guns.
The Hornady rep I spoke to stated that they knew of another squib load from the same lot. They had decided not to issue a recall, but would consider it if a few more cases emerge. He also went on to say that they would not make any more .32acp until better controls were in place.
It took almost three months, but they replaced the two boxes I sent back, and sent along a third as compensation for my time. They work just fine in my Seecamp. I'm happy with the way they handled this problem.


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Still, millions of Americans can't find work. So commentator Todd Buchholz has an idea for creating more jobs.
Todd Buchholz: We all know we could use some hiring with a roughly 9 percent jobless rate. And that means encouraging more companies to hire workers. But there's a problem. Take a look at the health care legislation that just had its one-year anniversary. A firm with 50 or more employees must provide government-approved health insurance. Or it can pay a fine.
By the way, for businesses that already provide coverage, that fine looks enticing. Just $2,000 per worker. That's why some firms may end up choosing to voluntarily pay the penalty and dump their coverage and their workers onto the taxpayers. Accountants at AT&T told their bosses they could save nearly $1.8 billion by paying fines.
But for small and growing businesses, the rule of 50 looks like a stumbling block. And it's a big one -- currently, we have about six million companies with fewer than 50 employees.
Let's take a hypothetical case: say you have 48 employees. Would you hire two more and risk stumbling across the line that says "50?"
Better to hire the part-timer. In this recovery, about 25 percent of the new jobs have been temporary. That's compared with 10 percent after the 1991 recession. A recent government report showed the number of job openings actually falling, and five applicants wrestling over each job. No wonder millions of job seekers have given up.
What can President Obama do? Surely, the president doesn't like the high jobless rate. No one does. But he can take back the "rule of 50" stumbling block. How? By turning it into an incentive for businesses to go out and hire people. Young, growing businesses create the bulk of our new jobs. The president should say: "If you hire another employee, I will exempt you from my health care plan for another five years." That way the rule of 50 can inspire job creation rather than stifling it.
Moon: Todd Buchholz worked for the first President Bush. He's the author of the new book, "Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race."


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Galloway places sixth in giant slalom
Sandy High skier Andrew Galloway finished sixth overall at the giant slalom race at Mt. Hood Meadows on Saturday, completing his two runs in a combined time of 1:14.28. Eli Holeman of The Dalles won the boys competition in 1:08.62, while Hood River Valley won the team event. Sandy finished third out of four complete teams.
On the girls side, Sandys Holly Duewiger finished 10th overall in 1:20.24, while Lucy McLean of Hood River Valley won the event in 1:08.85. The Eagles came in first in the team tally, as well, while Sandy was fifth out of six complete teams.
Mt. Hood women fall to Lakers
The Mt. Hood womens basketball team lost touch in the first half during a 77-52 defeat against SW Oregon on Saturday. The Saints were within 10 points with five minutes to play in the first half before the Lakers put together a 9-1 run that finished with Hailey Laird drilling a long shot from the right side with her toes just touching the 3-point line.
Barlow High graduate Chanel Celis tried to bring the Saints back before halftime, grabbing a rebound and making a quick pass downcourt that ended in a breakaway layup for teammate Whitney Warren. On the next possession, The half ended with Celis coming in from behind to poke the ball loose from SW Oregons Jazmin Bembry before she could reach the hoop.
The Lakers connected on just 9 of 34 (.265) shots in the second half, but still managed to expand their lead by nine points. Hannah Mocaby led the Saints with 13 points and 13 rebounds, while Celis finished with nine points.
Mt. Hood (2-21) has dropped 18 straight games with its best chance to end that streak coming at home Saturday against Linn-Benton (7-17) in the season finale.
The unbeaten Clackamas CC womens basketball team raced to a 108-65 win over Mt. Hood on Wednesday. The Cougars hit more than half their shots in the first half and took a 54-23 lead into the locker room. Clackamas had seven players score in double figures, led by Sade Elliot with 19 points.
Kirsten Schockman led the Saints with 15 points, while Sadie Jenks and Mercedes Smelser added 14 apiece.
Leipsic scores winning goal in OT
Brendan Leipsic found the net 49 seconds into overtime to lift the Winterhawks to a 4-3 win over Vancouver on Saturday. Portland erased a two-goal deficit to take a 3-2 lead on a Paul Bittner goal midway through the third period before the Giants forced overtime with 3:59 to play.
Portland goalie Brendan Burke made 29 saves in the win.
Portland (47-9-1-2) wrapped up the division title with more than a month left in the regular season.
The Winterhawks travel to Kamloops on Wednesday to begin a four-game road trip.
Johnson gets hat trick in draw
The Portland Timbers finished with a 3-3 draw against San Jose in a preseason match Sunday at Jeld-Wen Field. Ryan Johnson lifted three slabs of timber over his head after the game, celebrating his hat trick for the night. He struck twice in the first half and added another to put the Timbers up 3-2 shortly after intermission.
San Jose tied the game in the 60th minute when Timbers goalie Donovan Ricketts made a diving save in the corner only to have the Quakes rush the net and put in the rebound.
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Awsome. I just purchased a Century C93 which shoots great. I got lucky with the bolt gap (varies from .011 to .015). But, an authentic HK rifle is a bragging right.
When I make enough money someday I will go after one.
Here is my 60s vintage MARS CETME. The background story is in the closing days of WWII a number of German engineers from Mauser escaped to Spain. While they were there they were put to work at CETME (Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales) now Empresa Nacional SANTA BARBARA. There they continued to refine some rifle designs started at Mauser during the war.
What would become known to many in the US as the CETME rifle was primarily designed by Ludwig Vorgrimler. Later when the Belgians would refuse to grant a license to manufacture the G1 (FN FAL) to the Germans, which after an order of 100,000 rifles really ticked off the Germans, they turned to the Spanish Government and CETME and negotiated to build the CETME rifle in Germany. They came to an agreement and eventually the HKG3 was born of this effort.
In the 1960s a small number of CETME rifles were imported by the Mars company in Chicago Illinois. Here is one of those rifles.
Note the groove in the lower to make conversion difficult.


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