The videos released by the FBI show common spy techniques, like “brush passes” and “meets” (see video: FBI releases surveillance video of Russian spy Anna Chapman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LgbWDTgrOA ). COUNTER INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS The FBI have scores of people called special surveillance group or SSG’s, using ell established surveillance techniques the FBI was able to film the Russian spies (see: FBI […]
Senate OK’s Letting Governor Serve 2 Terms
By Shelby Mertens Capital News Service RICHMOND – Starting in 2017, Virginia voters could have the opportunity to re-elect the governor to a second consecutive term if the House joins the Senate in seeking to amend the state’s Constitution. The Senate this week approved a proposed constitutional amendment to allow governors to serve two […]
Bosnia:Identifying War Victim’s Remains
By David Nelson Painstaking task of identifying remains of war victims and matching them to living relatives. The bones of a young man in his twenties rest on a metal table in the Bosnian town of Tuzla. He has no name, but the International Commission on Missing Persons hopes to give him one soon. The skeletal […]
What is the World?, by Phin Upham
How do we organize and understand the world around us? In this review of seminal scholarship on the subject Phin Upham reviews some of the major theories and integrates their conclusions. Construal, the sense in which we organize our world around facts rather than facts organizing the world for us, is a crucial concept in […]
Bay Area Toxic Tour: West Oakland
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Why Authorities Haven’t Stopped the Foreclosure ‘Rescue’ Boom
This story is a collaboration with Steve Henn of American Public Media’s Marketplace [1]. It was co-published with Salon [2]. During the go-go years of the real estate bubble, shady mortgage brokers [3] thrived, thanks to the sluggish response of regulators and law enforcement agencies. Amid the ruins of the crash, there’s a new boom […]