From the Trenches World Report
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A particularly disheartening video was uploaded to facebook late Tuesday night.
It takes place in Rochester, NY on the 4/4X Hudson Regional Transit Service Bus.
The video shows one Regional Transit Officer telling the woman to get off the bus because she hadn’t paid the fare. Continue reading “Cops Kick This Woman and Her Two Babies Off the Bus in the Pouring Rain, After She Paid the Fare”
Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas
NEW YORK (INTELLIHUB) — That’s right people, the writing is on the wall. The signs are clear as media rhetoric has now kicked into full swing. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is gaining power, now threatening all Americans — or at least that’s what they want you to believe.
In fact, according to reports, mayor Bill DeBlasio said Wednesday how the city will remain “vigilant” at all times, looking for any possible threat. This all comes following the Obama Admin’s botched and illegal release of 5 terror figureheads in exchange for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a known U.S. military deserter. Continue reading “NY police commissioner: ‘Our city remains one of the top terror targets in the world’ — New terror attack to incite carpet bombing in Mid-East”
Nation of Change – by Christina Sarich
Just in case you haven’t been keeping up with the ‘tin-foil’ hat conspiracies, increasingly proven to be true, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is the center of a secret global economy that has bailed out American International Group Inc., huge insurance companies like AIG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co., J.P. Morgan,Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank AG, among others.
The secret cabal’s control over international markets is becoming less of a mystery as increasing numbers of markets reveal themselves so obviously to be fixed. The cabal cheats the 99 percent with Libor interest rates, foreign exchanges, and gold, silver, and platinum price fixing. Then there’s high-frequency trading (HFT), where Wall Street banks use supercomputers to monitor incoming stock market orders, analyze their likely impact on prices, and place orders ahead of those trades to capture a bit of the price impact, called ‘stealing’ if it were properly named. Continue reading “132 Nations Want Out of the Cabal Banking System”
How long should I keep my records?
Note: Keep copies of your filed tax returns. They help in preparing future tax returns and making computations if you file an amended return.
A video posted to facebook today shows two belligerent cops assault a man and his mother.
The man filming is Richard Phillips who was at his mother’s house today when two Wareham, Massachusetts police officers, Chandler and Verhaegen showed up at the door.
It is unclear as to why the officers were there, but they were questioning the mother and she responded by saying she was “drinking strawberry milk and smoking a cigarette.” Continue reading “Facebook Video Shows Cops Grab Man’s Camera, Assault Him and his 58-Year-Old Mother”
An attorney pursuing a lawsuit against alleged domestic United States military spying says during depositions in the case a civilian employee who worked for the Army admitted he was paid to attend activist meetings at private homes in the state of Washington. And a fusion center intelligence employee, who coordinated with the military, also considered civil disobedience to be “terrorism.” Continue reading “Army spied on activist’s meetings in their homes, call civil disobedience terrorism”
Amid new reports claiming that Louis Lerner’s emails sought by Congress pursuant to claims the IRS targeted Tea Party groups are lost forever, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued a blistering statement alleging that such federal records can only disappear like this through deliberate destruction. Continue reading “Darrell Issa: Records Like Lois Lerner’s Emails ‘Don’t Just Disappear… Unless That Was the Intention’”
National Review – by Eliana Johnson
Lois Lerner’s lost emails are most likely gone forever.
In the wake of the news that a computer crash destroyed over two years’ worth of Lois Lerner’s emails, House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa on Tuesday subpoenaed her hard drive. Unfortunately, according to a source in the IRS’ IT department, that subpoena is unlikely to turn up much.
As a matter of practice, says the source, the IRS discards damaged hard drives after wiping them of all data. ”If we can run them, we have to wipe them,” he says. If they will not run, the agency destroys them completely by magnetically degaussing them. Continue reading “IRS Source: Lerner’s Hard Drive Likely Destroyed”
New York Times – by ERIK ECKHOLM
CLEVELAND — As cries of “shots fired” shrieked from police radios, a caravan that grew to 62 patrol cars chased an old blue Malibu through 20 miles of this city’s streets and highways. The vehicle and its two occupants were surrounded in a school lot, and in a disorienting jumble of sirens and strobes, officers fired 137 rounds at close range.
When the shooting stopped that night in November 2012, a man and a woman, both African-American, were dead, riddled with bullets in the car’s front seat. There was no evidence that either had a gun. Investigations suggested that they had set out to purchase crack cocaine in a car that apparently backfired as it passed an officer, and then panicked when the police tried to pull them over. Continue reading “As Justice Department Scrutinizes Local Police, Cleveland Is Latest Focus”
ARS Technica – by Cyrus Farivar
The American Civil Liberties Union has lost in its attempt to get the city of Sarasota, Florida, to hand over city records pertaining to the use of stingrays, or fake cell tower surveillance devices.
As we reported earlier this month, the ACLU asked a Florida court for an emergency motion (PDF) that would require the city to make its stingray records available via a public records request. These devices, which are also known as international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catchers, can be used to track phones or, in some cases, intercept calls and text messages. Continue reading “Judge allows US Marshals’ seizure of stingray records, dimisses lawsuitCyrus Farivar”
PARMA, Ohio- Doug ‘Deo’ Odolecki stood on a street corner Friday night with sign warning drivers about an upcoming drunken-driving checkpoint, but two words on the sign cost him a citation and an upcoming trial.
The sign, white poster-board with black letters, read: “Check point ahead! Turn now!”
Parma Police Lt. Brian McCann asked him to remove the part of the sign that told drivers to “turn now” because it was obstructing police business. Odolecki refused and was given a ticket by officer James Manzo, who was involved in a $40,000 police-brutality lawsuit earlier this year. Continue reading “Parma resident ticketed for sign warning of drunken driving checkpoint”
Natural Society – by Christina Sarich
It’s sad when one of the biggest ‘super powers’ can’t even export a quintessentially American food to another country because it is too toxic to eat. But apples treated with diphenylamine (DPA), a substance which keeps them from turning brown for months at a time when they are kept in storage, is now a sore spot for importers of American apples. Continue reading “The Reason Europe Bans American Apples”
Washington’s Blog – by Charles Hugh Smith
Powers once granted are almost impossible to take back.
After 13.5 years, there is more than enough evidence for reasonable people to conclude that the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama are easily the most destructive in U.S. history.
When historians speak of failed presidencies or weak presidencies, they are typically referring to presidencies characterized by uneven leadership, petty corruption by self-serving cronies or in extreme cases such as the Nixon presidency, abuses of executive power. Continue reading “The Most Destructive Presidencies in U.S. History: George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama”
New York Times – by ALAN SCHWARZ
ATLANTA — More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder outside established pediatric guidelines, according to data presented on Friday by an official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, which found that toddlers covered by Medicaid are particularly prone to be put on medication such as Ritalin and Adderall, is among the first efforts to gauge the diagnosis of A.D.H.D. in children below age 4. Doctors at the Georgia Mental Health Forum at the Carter Center in Atlanta, where the data was presented, as well as several outside experts strongly criticized the use of medication in so many children that young. Continue reading “Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report Finds, Raising Worries”
Suppose you spent five years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit. How much does the government owe you?
Over the past few decades, the rise of DNA exonerations has made this a more pressing question. And many states have created explicit policies to answer it.
But those policies vary wildly from state to state. Continue reading “When Innocent People Go To Prison, States Pay”
New York Post – by Carl Campanile
Meet 8-year-old Asher Palmer, who was tossed out of his special-needs Manhattan school for threatening other kids with a toy “gun’’ — which he made out of rolled-up paper.
She was incensed that Principal Micaela Bracamonte told other staffers in an email that Asher “had a model for physically aggressive behavior in his immediate family.’’“Asher is exactly the type of student Lang [School] is supposed to be serving. Why they did this doesn’t make sense,’’ his outraged mom, Melina Spadone, told The Post. Continue reading “Toy gun made of paper gets kid tossed from school”
Courthouse News Service – by David Lee
ALBUQUERQUE (CN) – A 12-year-old boy was handcuffed and arrested after he found a blade from a pencil sharpener at school, the former student claims in court.
Quentin Scott sued Albuquerque Public Schools; Brad Winters, APS chief of operations; Steve Tellez, APS chief of police; and C. Sigler, APS school resource officer, in Bernalillo County Court on June 12. Continue reading “Overkill in Albuquerque Public School”
HARRISBURG, PA. — _ A pair of Texans with decades of firefighting experience is encouraging state and local government leaders to consider establishing SWAT-like response teams for crude oil train fires.
A series of derailments of trains loaded with crude oil in the past year has exposed numerous safety vulnerabilities, including the integrity of the rail cars, the condition of the tracks and the way the trains are operated. Continue reading “Oil train fires require SWAT teams, veteran firefighters tell states”
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Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing
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Breitbart – by Dan Riehl
Cleveland – by Maura Zurick
NPR – by GABRIELLE EMANUEL
McClatchy DC – by Curtis Tate