From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Americans Are Starting to Wake Up from their Fear-Induced Haze
“Those who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
– Ben Franklin Continue reading “60% of Americans Value Privacy Over Anti-Terror Protections”
Lew Rockwell – by Andrew P. Napolitano
What if the state of the union is a mess? What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about?
What if the Constitution expressly prohibits the government from doing this? What if the government has written laws that are interpreted in secret by judges who meet in secret and are applied by federal agents who operate in secret and their secret behavior doesn’t even resemble what the laws say they can do? Continue reading “A Sorry State of the Union”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that when an airline reports to TSA about an individual who might pose a potential danger, the airline may not be held liable if its report contained exaggerations and minor falsehoods. (Court allows gov’t employees to LIE while innocent Americans get arrested, WTF?) Continue reading “Airlines aren’t liable for exaggerating possible air emergencies”
A U.S. terrorism defendant who was formally notified that he was spied on by the NSA filed a challenge to the constitutionality of the surveillance today, in a case likely to be litigated all the way to the Supreme Court.
Jamshid Muhtorov, a native of Uzbekistan who immigrated to Colorado, is one of only two criminal defendants the government has conceded was charged on the basis of evidence scooped up by the NSA’s surveillance programs. The spying was authorized by the controversial FISA Amendments Act. Continue reading “Terror Defendant Challenges Evidence Gathered by NSA Spying”
Can American States Rein In An Out-Of-Control Federal Spy Agency?
The American people aren’t falling for NSA’s propaganda. They want the rogue agency reined in.
But Obama refuses to rein in the NSA, Dianne Feinstein says that Congress “doesn’t have the votes” to do anything about mass surveillance, and at least some judges are supporting the NSA’s spying (and it’s not clear what the Supreme Court will do). Continue reading “States Fight Back Against NSA Spying”
The Daily Sheeple -b y Chris Carrington
Multi-Billionaire Tom Perkins has had a letter published in the Wall Street Journal that likens the Occupy movement and other progressive causes to World War ll Nazis.
Writing from the epicenter of progressive thought, San Francisco, I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi Germany to its war on its “one percent,” namely its Jews, to the progressive war on the American one percent, namely the “rich.” Continue reading “Multi-Billionaire Says Those Who Criticize the 1% “Are like World War ll Nazis””
Thrown into the spotlight and labeled a homewrecker, California women are finding themselves shamed online. Call Kurtis investigated a controversial website allowing scorned women to get back at the other woman.
More than 175 women from California are now labeled as homewreckers on one website. An Amador County woman found herself on shesahomewrecker.com. She admits to having the affair, but thinks what’s been posted about her is not fair. Continue reading “Homewrecker Website Lets Victims of Affairs Shame The Mistress”
Chicago. IL – Testimony given by an undercover officer in a state terrorism prosecution in Illinois sheds new light on the Chicago Police Department’s surveillance of dissidents, including what appears to be a targeted campaign to keep an eye on the activities of people who call themselves anarchists.
Journalist Kevin Gosztola is in Chicago covering the trial of the NATO 3, protesters who may have been set up by undercover Chicago police officers and are facing state terrorism and felony conspiracy charges. Gosztola’s reporting provides new insight into the CPD’s modern day red squad. Continue reading “NATO 3 trial exposes illegal police surveillance tactics used to discourage and frighten activists”
Courthouse News Service – by LISA BUCHMEIER
MILWAUKEE (CN) – A medical staffing company blew off a court order, and its president told a pregnant employee to use an “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force” so she could come back to work earlier, the woman claims in court.
The Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission sued HCS Medical Staffing, of Milwaukee, and its president, Charles Sisson, in Milwaukee County Court. Continue reading “This One Will Make Your Head Spin”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will work with Congress where he can and circumvent lawmakers where he must, his top advisers warned Sunday in previewing Tuesday’s State of the Union speech.
Obama faces a politically divided Congress on Tuesday and will use his annual address to demand expanded economic opportunity. Absent legislative action, the White House is telling lawmakers that the president is ready to take unilateral action to close the gap between rich and poor Americans. Continue reading “White House warns Obama could go around Congress”
The last report issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice (Vaccine Court), for compensation made by the Health and Human Services for people injured or killed by vaccines, was released in December 2013, covering the period of 8/16/2013 through 11/15/2013. The report is available as a Power Point presentation here.
There were 139 claims settled during this time period, with 70 of them being compensated. So, just over 50% of the claims filed for vaccine damages were compensated during this period. Continue reading “Flu Vaccine is the most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. based on Settled Cases for Injuries”
There are 2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States
● The US prison system costs the federal government $55 billion every year
PRISON VS. JAIL
● Jails are locally-operated facilities that hold inmates for a short period of time
● Prisons are long-term facilities run by the state or federal government Continue reading “Prison Inc.: The Secret Industry”
The Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley
A U.S. newspaper conglomerate has considered building state-by-state databases of people who have the right to carry concealed firearms.
Civitas Media, which owns 88 newspapers in 12 states and more than 100 total publications, is planning to use public records requests to build their databases, according to an internal Civitas email obtained by the Buckeye Firearms Association in Ohio.
Civitas director of content Jim Lawitz emailed content directors, managers, and producers in a January 19 email, saying that exploring the “explosion” of conceal and carry permits in the U.S. will be one of the company’s short-term objectives. Continue reading “Newspaper conglomerate considers building massive database of gun owners”
CNS News – by Michael W. Chapman
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spent approximately $900 million over the last 5 years for behavior detection officers to identify high-risk passengers but, so far, according to the General Accountability Office (GAO), only 0.59% of the passengers flagged were arrested and among those not one was charged with terrorism – zero.
In 2003, the TSA started testing its Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) program, which was then fully deployed in 2007. About 3,000 behavior detection officers (BDO) “had been deployed to 176 of the more than 450 TSA-regulated airports in the United States” by fiscal year 2012 (Oct. 1, 2011 – Sept. 30, 2012), according to the GAO. Continue reading “TSA Spent $900 Million on Behavior Detection Officers Who Detected 0 Terrorists”
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