From the Trenches World Report
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This story has been sent in by a number of contributors but all had copyrights ‘do not republish’ on them. I have found this most recent account.
A suspect in the brutal beating of a World War II veteran who later died from his injuries has been arrested, as police in Spokane, Washington continue to search for a second attacker. Continue reading “Police arrest one suspect, seek another after World War II veteran dies following parking lot beating”
Be Your Own Leader – by Dana Gabriel
In a short period of time, the Pacific Alliance has emerged as one of the leading economic integration projects in Latin America. It aims to succeed where others have failed by creating a gateway to Asian markets and building a Pacific-rim trade deal. The U.S. and Canada are both pursuing deeper ties with the group and have been granted observer status. This is part of efforts to revive and expand their presence in Latin America. In some areas of integration, the Pacific Alliance has surpassed NAFTA. By merging the two together, it could be used to fill the void left by the collapse of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Continue reading “U.S. Economic Hegemony: Consolidation and Deepening of the Pacific Alliance Trade Bloc”
Buzz Feed – by Andrew Kaczynski
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn said Wednesday that President Barack Obama was getting “getting perilously close” to the constitutional standard for impeachment. Coburn was speaking at the Muskogee Civic Center in Oklahoma.
“What you have to do is you have to establish the criteria that would qualify for proceedings against the president, and that’s called impeachment,” Coburn said, responding to a question about holding President Obama accountable. “That’s not something you take lightly, and you have to use a historical precedent of what that means. I think there’s some intended violation of the law in this administration, but I also think there’s a ton of incompetence, of people who are making decisions.” Continue reading “Tom Coburn: Obama “Getting Perilously Close” To The Standard For Impeachment”
Thank you Issiah Carey for covering this story.I find this story very strange with red flags everywhere in this case. The girl who was nine years old at the time was accused of touching a four year old boy playing doctor in the court yard of an Apartment complex. The Houston PD close to four months later afte the alleged incident decided to investigate the complaint. I have some serious questions that needs to be asked. Continue reading “A Miscarriage of Justice of Police Gone Wild? A 10 year old Texas Girl charged with sexual assault”
War correspondent Michael Hastings, who died in a car crash in April, had reportedly become concerned that his car had been tampered with in the days leading up to his death, and asked friend Jordanna Thigpen to borrow hers, according to new profile in the LA Weekly.
From the report: Continue reading “Report: Michael Hastings feared his car had been tampered with”
“I am Chelsea Manning.”
With those words, read from a statement on NBC’s “Today” on Thursday, Bradley Manning immediately shifted public conversation away from the Army private’s conviction on espionage charges to gender identity. Continue reading “Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman, be known as Chelsea”
Daily Mail – by DAVID MARTOSKO
More than 1,600 new employees hired by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources in the aftermath of Obamacare’s passage include just two described as ‘consumer safety’ officers, but 86 tasked with ‘criminal investigating’ – indicating that the agency is building an army of detectives to sleuth out violations of a law that many in Congress who supported it still find confusing. Continue reading “Feds are building a detective squad to target consumers and companies that don’t follow Obamacare’s rules”
In a democratic republic, the “innocent until proven guilty” concept is supposed to be sacrosanct. Jurors, police officers, judges and prosecuting attorneys—at least in theory—are required to err on the side of caution, and if a guilty person occasionally goes free, so be it. But with the war on drugs, the concept of innocent until proven guilty has fallen by the wayside on countless occasions. The war on drugs is not only fought aggressively, it is fought carelessly and haphazardly, and a long list of innocent victims have been killed or maimed in the process. Continue reading “10 Shocking Examples of Police Killing Innocent People in the “War on Drugs””
The EFF finally gets to step away from one of its many legal battles with the government with its hands held aloft in victory and clutching a long-hidden FISA court opinion.
For over a year, EFF has been fighting the government in federal court to force the public release of an 86-page opinion of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Issued in October 2011, the secret court’s opinion found that surveillance conducted by the NSA under the FISA Amendments Act was unconstitutional and violated “the spirit of” federal law. Continue reading “Declassified FISA Court Opinion Shows NSA Lied Repeatedly To The Court As Well”
Authorities say a sinkhole has apparently swallowed a small lake in Ocala.
Woodland Villages Association property manager Wes Herren told the Ocala Star-Banner that something appeared wrong with the lake on Tuesday afternoon.
By 4:30 p.m., Herren says his phone was bombarded with calls from residents saying the lake was “essentially gone.” Continue reading “Sinkhole empties small lake in Ocala”
Damascus, (SANA) – An official spokesman at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the cooperation agreement between Syria and the international committee for investigating the use of weapons of mass destruction in some areas in Syria didn’t please the terrorists and the countries supporting them, which is why they came up with new false allegations that the Armed Forces used toxic gas in Damascus Countryside. Continue reading “Foreign Ministry: Allegations of armed forces using toxic gas in Damascus countryside untrue”
The federal government is perfecting software that will be able to pick suspects out of a crowd through facial recognition, and while we’re sure it’ll prove itself very useful for finding terrorists, it’s kind of horrifying all the same–especially since they might make it available for use by your neighborhood police.
The crowd-scanning project is called the Biometric Optical Surveillance System, the New York Times reports, and will be known as BOSS, because if there’s one thing our government loves more than chipping away at our privacy, it’s hyper-masculine acronyms. Continue reading “Government Perfects Crowd-Scanning Facial Recognition Tech for Use by Your Local Cops”
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg late Tuesday announced on his Facebook profile page the formation of a partnership with Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Qualcomm and others to make Internet access available to everyone on Earth.
The group — Internet.org — intends to make the Internet an option for the 5 billion people who don’t have it. Only about one-third of the world’s population – 2.7 billion – has Internet access. Continue reading “Zuckerberg unveils plan for Internet access for all”
Mexico City, Aug 19 (EFE). — More than 100 women in the southern Mexican town of Xaltianguis have taken up arms to protect their community from organized crime groups, a local selfdefense force official said Monday.
The women signed up over the past four days with the Union of Peoples and Organizations of Guerrero State, or UPOEG, Xaltianguis community self defense force commander Miguel Angel Jimenez told reporters. Continue reading “Over 100 women take up arms in Mexico to defend community”
Reports by “biased regional media” about alleged chemical weapons use near Damascus might be “a provocation planned in advance,” says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aleksandr Lukashevich.
“It draws attention to the fact that biased regional media have immediately, as if on command, begun an aggressive information attack, laying all the responsibility on the government,” Lukashevich said in a statement on Wednesday. Continue reading “Russia suggests Syria ‘chemical attack’ carried out by rebels, provocation not ruled out”
Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation’s history by providing files to Wikileaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind, who last month convicted Manning of 20 charges including espionage and theft, could have sentenced him to as many as 90 years in prison. Prosecutors had asked for 60 years. Continue reading “U.S. soldier Manning gets 35-year prison sentence”
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Salon -by JILLIAN RAYFIELD
CNN – by Michael Pearson
AlterNet – by Alex Henderson
Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing
My Fox Orlando
Syrian Arab News Agency
Beta Beat – by Molly Mulshine
USA Today – by Jon Swartz
Vida Latina
RT News