ICE Deports Fugitive Wanted for Murder in Bahamas
A citizen of the Bahamas who was illegally present in the United States for 15 years has been deported to face murder charges in his homeland.
On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the removal of Stanford Jahmaal Omar Bastian to the Caribbean island nation after he served time for trafficking narcotics in the U.S.
Bastian was admitted to the U.S. on a 6-month temporary visa in 2009 but remained in the country beyond that date without authorization.
On March 9, 2021, he was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida for intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and sentenced to 50 months in prison.
On July 5, 2022, ICE lodged an immigration detainer against Bastian after Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) agents from the Atlanta office encountered him at Federal Correctional Facility McRae in Helena, Georgia.
“In August, he was served with a final administrative removal order charging removability pursuant to Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act,” ICE explained in a press release.
“ERO Philadelphia detained Bastian at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Phillipsburg during removal proceedings.”
In January of this year, officials learned Bastian was wanted for murder by authorities in the Bahamas.
It is unclear how long he had been a fugitive from those charges or when the alleged murder took place.
Bastian was removed from the U.S. on March 26.
Authorities continue to catch dangerous foreign criminals illegally present in the U.S.
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Thug Opens Fire on Chicago Police During Traffic Stop
A police body cam video from March was released Wednesday that shows a traffic stop turn fatal when Chicago police, not in uniform, return fire with nearly 100 rounds after a suspect began shooting at them, sparking fears of another ‘summer of rage’.
26 year old Dexter Reed was driving on March 21 when police conducted a traffic stop while in plainclothes for a seatbelt violation.
Video shows Reed refusing to exit the vehicle and begin rolling his window up, after which the driver opened fire on officers, followed by return fire that killed the black man.
In a similar fashion to what happened during the 2020 election cycle, chaos broke out in front of a Chicago police station. Many believe Dexter Reed is 2024’s George Floyd.
The media is trying to push a new “George Floyd” movement after a police sh00ting in Chicago.
The reality shows the individual fired nonstop at the police.
Do not fall for their propaganda! pic.twitter.com/QKFeBbfwTo— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 10, 2024
A press conference with the suspect’s mother and photos of the suspect at a younger age are now being shared to garner sympathy and possibly incite unrest as mourning turns to revenge.
Media is trying to push a new George Floyd movement after a police shooting in Chicago.
— Sumit (@SumitHansd) April 11, 2024
Police fire 100 shots in 41 seconds, killing Black man during traffic stop
26-year-old Dexter Reed killed in Chicago police shooting pic.twitter.com/wuLvjekmqI
Shootings are quite common in Chicago, on Wednesday a ride share passenger was shot and killed.
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EU Disinfo Lab Proposes Expanding ICANN Operations From Phishing And Malware to Target ‘Disinformation’ Sites at The Domain Level
EU DisinfoLab, a non-profit officially operating independently but regularly making policy recommendations to the EU and member-states, is now pushing for a security structure created by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to be utilized in the “war on disinformation.”
EU DisinfoLab, which receives grants from George Soros’ controversial Open Society Foundations, is now testing the water regarding “repurposing” of an ICANN security operation set up to combat malware, spam, phishing, etc., and turn it into a tool against “disinformation sites.”
Attempting to directly enlist ICANN would be highly controversial, to put it mildly, at least at this stage. Given its importance in the internet infrastructure – ICANN manages domain names globally – and the fact content control is not among its tasks (DisinfoLab says ICANN “refuses” to do it) – this would represent a huge departure from the organization’s role as we understand it today.
But now DisinfoLab proposes to use “the structure already created by ICANN” against legitimate security threats, to police the internet for content that somebody decides to treat as “disinformation.” It would require “minimal amount of diligence and cooperation” from registries, a blog post said, to accept ICANN-style reports and revoke a site’s domain name.
The justification for all this is that alleged “disinformation doppelganger” sites use domain names that are deceptively similar to “trusted news sites.”
And, according to the group, who better to wipe out whatever domain name is deemed to belong to a “disinformation site” than a DNS registrar – and ICANN is the top authority for them all.
During the pandemic, ICANN’s Domain Name System Threat Information Collection and Reporting (DNSTICR) was used to identify domain names that contained terms related to Covid, but the goal was to find out if the sites abused the keyword(s) to mask phishing or malware proliferating operations, rather than to “moderate” any type of Covid-related content.
Now DisinfoLab wants to use a system based on DNSTICR to allow for reporting of “genuinely open-and-shut (disinformation) cases” to registrars for removal.
But, what authority would decide what’s a “genuinely open-and-shut case”?
DisinfoLab’s idea: registries or registrars could “grant media trade associations ‘trusted notifier’ status.”
No word on what methodology these “trusted notifiers” would use to perform their “arbiter of truth” role.
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CHD Files FOIA Requests: Why Did Government Shut Down Studies on Cellphone Radiation and Cancer?
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) today filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for documents and communications related to the agency’s decision to discontinue studies on the potential health effects of cellphone radiofrequency radiation(RFR) — even after a 10-year, $30-million study, completed in 2018, found evidence of cancer and DNA damage.
“We think it is important to understand what led to this decision, because we know too often big industry interests play a significant role” in shutting down this type of research, said Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia, director of CHD’s Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless program.
Eckenfels-Garcia told The Defender it’s “truly astonishing that the government has decided to stop research into the health effects of wireless radiation instead of deepening it, in light of ever-growing evidence of harm.”
CHD sent two requests to the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS), a subagency of NIH, whose scientists had been studying wireless radiation.
The requests are for key communications and study documents that could shed light on the research government scientists were conducting when before it was shut down, and what factors led to the shut-down.
“By working together at the outset,” CHD staff attorney Risa Evans wrote in the FOIA letters, “we can decrease the likelihood of costly and time-consuming litigation in the future.”
Why stop studying wireless radiation now?
As The Defender reported, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) in January announced via an updated fact sheet that it has no plans to further study the effects of cellphone RFR on human health.
This was after the program’s 10-year study, published in 2018, found “clear evidence” that RFR exposure was linked to malignant heart tumors, “some evidence” linking it to malignant brain tumors, and “some evidence” linking it to both malignant and benign adrenal gland tumors and DNA damage in rats.
NTP is an “interagency partnership” of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the NIEHS.
After publishing the study, government scientists conducted follow-up studies on the impact of RFR exposure on behavior and stress — especially stress on the heart, according to the NTP’s cellphone RFR website.
The follow-up studies also sought to “evaluate further” the 2018 study finding that RFR exposure caused DNA damage.
The research was “technically challenging and more resource intensive than expected” and “no further work” is planned, according to NTP’s RFR website.
According to the NTP website, the program “strives to remain at the cutting edge of scientific research and the development and application of new technologies for modern toxicology and molecular biology” and “provides the scientific basis for programs, activities, and policies that promote health or lead to the prevention of disease.”
“So why would its scientists stop studying wireless radiation?” asked Eckenfels-Garcia. “We want to know.”
‘I thought that was the right next step’
Brian Berridge, DVM, Ph.D., NTP’s scientific director until January 2023, confirmed that the follow-up studies were underway during his tenure and that the decision to no longer study RFR happened after he stepped down.
“The work was being done while I was there — with my blessing,” he told The Defender. “I thought that was the right next step.”
Large studies like the one the NTP did in 2018, Berridge said, raise questions that “ultimately take additional studies” to understand better.
For example, the follow-up studies were looking at whether the negative health outcomes the 2018 study saw in rats — cancerous tumors and DNA damage — could rightly be attributed to RFR or to some other aspect of the experimental conditions, such as living 24/7 in a small metal chamber.
CHD’s first FOIA request seeks more details about what the follow-up studies entailed.
The request asked agency officials to hand over “all protocols, standard operating procedures, and other records describing the methods, procedures, and/or study goals of every study planned or conducted by DTT [Division of Translational Toxicology] to follow up on the rodent studies previously conducted by the National Toxicology Program.”
Four government employees named in FOIA request
CHD’s second FOIA request asked for all communications between key researchers and officials from Feb. 1, 2023, to Feb. 1, 2024 — when NTP appeared to be conducting follow-up studies and when it decided to discontinue them.
The FOIA request names four government employees:
- Robert C. Sills, DVM, Ph.D., who at the time was the acting scientific director of NIEHS’ DTT. Scientists with DTT — who commonly work on NTP’s projects — were the ones conducting the follow-up studies, according to the NTP website.
- Stephanie Smith-Roe, Ph.D., the DTT scientist supervising the follow-up studies, according to a former government scientist who chose to remain anonymous.
- Nigel J. Walker, Ph.D., acting chief of DTT’s Systems Toxicology Branch, who was responsible for managing the follow-up studies, according to another former government scientist who chose to remain anonymous.
- Rick Woychik, Ph.D., director of NIEHS, who sets the budget for NIEHS, including DTT, according to Devra Davis, Ph.D., MPH, a toxicologist and epidemiologist who served on the NTP’s board of scientific counselors in the 1980s when it launched.
The request seeks communications related to the funding and termination of the studies.
It’s unclear whether some of the follow-up studies were prematurely terminated or whether they had simply completed their research goals, with no further studies planned.
For instance, the NTP cellphone RFR website states that the researchers had completed “feasibility testing” of a small-scale RFR exposure system for doing the research.
It appears they planned to use the small-scale RFR exposure system to “determine the impact of RFR exposure on behavior and stress, conduct real-time physiological monitoring, including evaluation of heart rate, investigate whether RFR exposure induces heating, and evaluate further whether RFR exposure causes DNA damage.”
But the NTP website does not say whether researchers had achieved these research goals or, if they hadn’t yet, at what point in the research process the decision was made to no longer study wireless radiation. It only states:
“The research using this small-scale RFR exposure system was technically challenging and more resource intensive than expected.
“In addition, this exposure system was designed to study the frequencies and modulations used in 2G and 3G devices, but is not representative of newer technologies such as 4G/4G-LTE, or 5G (which is still not fully defined).
“Taking these factors into consideration, no further work with this RFR exposure system will be conducted and NIEHS has no further plans to conduct additional RFR exposure studies at this time.”
The FOIA request also targets communications related to the overall execution and management of the follow-up studies, and it seeks emails or other communications containing any follow-up study data for interpretation, evaluation or review.
NIEHS deflects questions about the studies
Before CHD filed the FOIA requests, The Defender reached out repeatedly to various NIEHS staff for information about the follow-up studies and the decision to end RFR research.
Some of the questions The Defender asked included:
- Where can the public find the follow-up studies’ standard operating procedures and protocols?
- What is the status of the data gathered in the follow-up studies? Was it ever reviewed, and if so, by whom? If not, why not?
- The NTP cellphone RFR website states, “NIEHS has completed the feasibility testing of this small-scale RFR exposure system, and the results will be made publicly available and posted on this webpage when internal reviews are finished.” What sort of “internal reviews” are being conducted? By whom? What is the anticipated completion date of the reviews and when will the results be published?
- An earlier version of NTP’s cellphone RF radiation webpage (updated Nov. 30, 2023) stated that these studies were expected to be published in 2023-2024. Why haven’t the studies been published?
- Why would U.S. civilian governmental efforts to study the potential impacts of wireless radiation stop as the U.S. Department of Defense continues to study the problem and as the European Union has provided multi-million dollar grants for multidisciplinary studies?
The NIEHS Office of Communications consistently told The Defender that NTP’s cellphone RFR website “has all the information we have to share at this time. We will update the webpage when we have more information.”
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