Joe from MassPrivateI, Author at From the Trenches World Report

CNBC – by Katrina Bishop

It’s a guest list that most conference organizers can only dream of, with attendees ranging from royalty to business leaders, spies to politicians.

But this isn’t any conference – this is the Bilderberg conference, a top-secret annual gathering attracting the richest and most powerful people from across the globe.

Attendees at this year’s Bilderberg meeting, which kicks off in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday, include Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Continue reading “Bilderberg conference: Spies, CEOs and politicians gather”

MassPrivateI

The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in England weren’t just interested in hard drives nor did they destroy whole devices. An examination of the targeted hardware by Privacy International, with cooperation from the Guardian, has found the whole episode to be more troubling and puzzling than previously believed.

The GCHQ & NSA work hand in hand, click here & here to read more. Continue reading “Do personal computers come with NSA surveillance devices built-in?”

Simple Justice

Even when it’s beyond dispute that a police officer had no choice but to defend himself from deadly force, someone will question why. Why did they have to shoot that many times? The Supreme Court has now given a conclusive answer to the question: Because they can.

In Plumhoff v. Rickard, a quasi-unanimous Court rejected the claim that excessive force was used when Donald Rickard was shot. From the syllabus: Continue reading “Good To The Last Shot”

CBS DFW – by Jack Fink

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – A fired female state trooper pleaded guilty to criminal charges on Friday morning after conducting illegal cavity searches on two women along the side of the road. The incident was recorded on the trooper’s squad car dashboard video camera.

Kelly Helleson, 34, admitted that she is guilty of two charges of official oppression. As part of her deal with the Dallas County District Attorney’s office, prosecutors dropped sexual assault charges against her. Continue reading “Guilty Plea In Roadside Cavity Search Case”

Courthouse News Service

SHERMAN, Texas (CN) – A Sherman police officer told other officers to “Tase the bitch” during a traffic stop, and officers then beat her to death after stopping her for an illegal lane change, the dead woman’s sister claims in court.

Linda Surratt sued the City of Sherman, its police Officer Brian McClarin, and police Officer Does 2-5, for the death of her sister, Lesa Ann Surratt, in Federal Court. Continue reading “Beaten to Death During a Traffic Stop”

MassPrivateI

First lady Michelle Obama is encouraging students to monitor (spy) their older relatives, friends and co-workers for any racially insensitive comments they might make, and to challenge those comments whenever they’re made.

One journalist, this was more than an off-hand comment made by the first lady. In the opinion of Cheryl Chumley, a reporter for The Washington Times Michelle Obama’s remark reflects a growing trend in America to target and attack individuals for committing “thought crime.” Continue reading “Police state America where even your thoughts are criminal”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

NEWTOWN, Conn. (INTELLIHUB) — That’s right, on Christmas Day of 2009, when just about every business in the country was closed, numerous real estate transactions for the amount of $0.00 (free) took place in and around the town, most of which included families or public figures, such as Gene Rossen, who were in some way connected to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Continue reading “Newtown Tax Assessors Database: ‘The whole town of Sandy Hook was bought off on Christmas Day 2009′, says investigator”

RT News

Glenn Greenwald, who helped Edward Snowden leak sensitive documents about the National Security Agency spying on its citizens, says he’s set to publish his most dramatic piece yet, which will reveal those in the USA who were targeted by the NSA.

“One of the big questions when it comes to domestic spying is, ‘Who have been the NSA’s specific targets?’ Are they political critics and dissidents and activists? Are they genuinely people we’d regard as terrorists? What are the metrics and calculations that go into choosing those targets and what is done with the surveillance that is conducted? Those are the kinds of questions that I want to still answer,” Mr. Greenwald told the UK’s Sunday Times. Continue reading “‘Biggest yet’: Greenwald to publish names of Americans whom NSA is spying on”

London Democrat – by Jared Felkins

Taco day was far from a fiesta Friday after eight students faced misdemeanor criminal charges for starting and participating in a food fight at Wilson Central High School.

Sheriff Robert Bryan said school resource officers charged four adult and four juvenile students with disorderly conduct and vandalism following the incident. He said the students were issued misdemeanor citations and released to their parents. Continue reading “Food fight leads to charges for eight students”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

I am presently in touch with two former CPS agents, one senior analyst for a war college and two mainstream publications who are investigating many of the same allegations that I am going to bring forth in the next two articles. For now, I am not publishing names, however, this may soon change and names and exact positions may indeed be identified. Continue reading “Special Report on CPS Sponsored Child Abductions: CPS Insiders Blow the Whistle”

CNS News – by Penny Starr

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told attendees at a Family Research Council pastors retreat that Senate Democrats want to limit free speech through amending the Constitution.

“When you think it can’t get any worse, it does,” Cruz said at the FRC’s Watchmen on the Wall 2014 event in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. “This year, I’m sorry to tell you, the United States Senate is going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to repeal the First Amendment.” Continue reading “Democratic Senators Want to ‘Repeal the First Amendment’”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Georgia state Attorney General Sam Olens recently decided to play hardball with a journalism student who published certain documents at the Society for Professional Journalists blog network. Needless to say, it backfired. (via Jim Romenesko)

First off, University of Georgia student David Schick made a public records request for documents concerning names of candidates for his university’s president, as part of an investigation into the school’s Georgia Perimeter College’s $16 million budget shortfall. According to Schick, the obfuscation began there. The published part Olens objected to is only four of the 700 pages Schick ended up with — but he had to fight hard to get anything at all. Continue reading “State AG Tries To Order Removal Of Public Records From Journalist’s Blog, Resulting In Records Being Posted Everywhere”

Sturgis Police WZZM 13

STURGIS, Mich. (AP) — A southwestern Michigan prosecutor has called for the firing of a state trooper who pulled a gun on an 18-year-old woman whom he had stopped for speeding.

The Kalamazoo Gazette obtained a video showing the trooper leaving his cruiser with gun drawn, then handcuffing the woman and putting her in the backseat of his cruiser. Continue reading “Prosecutor: Fire trooper who pulled gun on speeder”

Washington’s Blog

Senate: Which Groups Are We At War With? Admin: That’s Classified

The Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing today on renewing the Authorization for the Use of Force (AUMF) in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Senators repeatedly asked representatives from the Department of Defense which groups we are at war with. And the DOD refused to answer. Continue reading “Defense Department Refuses to Tell Senate Which Groups We’re At War With”

Lew Rockwell – by Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the federal government is shameless? What if it personifies the adage of do as I say and not as I do? What if it does the very things it prosecutes others for doing? What if it has written laws and enacted procedures so that it can spy and kill, while it charges others with doing just that?

What if the feds recently indicted five low-level Chinese military officers for spying on American corporations? What if the feds accused these officers of using their computers in Beijing to hack into computers in Denver that are not owned by the federal government but by well-known and wealthy American corporations? What if these corporations are rich enough to install digital protections and procedures to insulate themselves from hackers? What if when Google and Apple and Facebook were hacked, they protected themselves from their hackers at no expense to the taxpayers? Continue reading “Another Week of Government Lawlessness”

Freedom in Our Time – by William Norman Grigg

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. – A.E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”

The presence of a single, non-violent citizen openly carrying a firearm is sufficient to cause panic in people habituated to the evil idea that only state functionaries should be armed. So acutely alarmed do such people become that their first reaction is to call the police, thereby inviting the intervention of additional armed strangers who – owing to the indoctrination they’ve received, and the “qualified immunity” they enjoy – are immeasurably more dangerous than the first. Continue reading “Eeek! An Armed Citizen!”

Politico – by Josh Gerstein

The Central Intelligence Agency has the right to keep secret a draft history of its involvement with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion more than five decades ago, a split federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled, 2-1, that the CIA can withhold the volume about the 1961 operation against Cuba in its entirety under a Freedom of Information Act exemption that protects government agencies’ interest in receiving candid advice. Continue reading “CIA wins secrecy for Bay of Pigs history”

KATU 2 News – by Chelsea Kopta

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A third-grade teacher at Mill Plain Elementary school was “out of the classroom” Monday as the district investigated two complaints about whether that teacher’s policy, which requires students to pay fake money to go to the bathroom, led to students wetting themselves in class.

KATU first revealed the controversial classroom policy last week after Jasmine Al-Ayadhi complained that her 9-year-old daughter, Reem, had an accident in class as a result of the “pay to potty” policy. The story prompted the Evergreen Public Schools investigation. Continue reading “Pay to potty teacher ‘out of the classroom’ while district investigates”

Police State USA

HOUSTON, TX –A family received more than they bargained for when they requested the help of local police in dealing with a mentally ill family member. To “defuse” a situation involving a delusional man who had locked himself in a bathroom with a knife, police kicked in the door, screamed obscenities, tased him several times, and finally shot him to death. The horrifying scene was captured through a hidden camera set up by family members who were distrustful of police.

The incident involving the death of Michael Blair took place on November 4th, 2013. The video was only recently released. Continue reading “Family seeks help with schizophrenic family member, police arrive and tase, shoot him”

E&E News – by Mike Lee, May 16, 2014

People who disclose confidential information about hydraulic fracturing chemicals in North Carolina would be subject to criminal penalties and civil damages, under a bill in the state Legislature.

The “Energy Modernization Act,” which was introduced yesterday, would make it a Class I felony to disclose trade secrets related to hydraulic fracturing, while spelling out how the information is supposed to be provided to emergency workers. Class I is the lowest-level felony, punishable by a few months’ imprisonment. Continue reading “N.C. bill would make it a felony to disclose fracking chemicals”