From the Trenches World Report
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Maine’s Marine Patrol is allowed to put secret surveillance devices inside boats.
According to an article in the Portland Press Herald, the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) wants the Marine Patrol to secretly install electronic surveillance devices on the boats of fishermen suspected of violating state fishing regulations.
Continue reading “Police are secrety installing GPS devices, audio and video equipment on boats”
New Paradigm – by Paul A Philips
Alternative media followers know that there are numerous citizens sleeping away with their eyes wide open, falsely believing they’re living in the ‘land of the free.’ They still think that their government ‘cares’ for them…
Taking the case of America as an example, many American citizens have no idea about the nature of their Washington D.C Judas-despotic leaders and how they are covertly screwing them all over. How they are nothing more than henchmen for the ruling elite’s corporate/banker oppressive control system…
Continue reading “7 Things to Show that you’re not living in the ‘Land of the Free’”
Huffington Post – by Andy Campbell
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) vetoed a bill that would have required the state to fund legal services for the poor.
Cuomo struck down the bipartisan reform in its final hour on New Year’s Eve, to the disappointment of defense attorneys and municipalities across the state.
Continue reading “New York Governor Vetoes Bill That Would Provide Legal Services To The Poor”
Privacy Internet Access – by Rick Falkvinge
It begins: Amazon’s constantly-listening robotic home assistant was near a domestic murder case, and now the Police wants access to anything it might have heard. There have been similar cases in the past, but this is where it starts getting discussed: There are now dozens of sensors in our house. Do we still have an expectation of privacy in our home?
A recurring theme in the dystopic fiction of the 1950s was an everpresent government watching everything you did, as witnessed in the infamous Nineteen Eighty-Four and many others. Adding to the dystopia, starting in the 1970s with movies such as Colossus, computers are typically added to the mix of watching everything all the time. Continue reading “The Government didn’t install cameras and microphones in our homes. We did.”
The Daily Caller – by Eric Lieberman
Nothing may have had as bad of a year as the Internet.
The Internet has been hit with an onslaught of criticism and suffered several setbacks in 2016: from relinquishment of American control over web address management, introduced surveillance measures in the United Kingdom, social media backlash for users’ hate speech and terrorist affiliations, to censorship and fake news. Continue reading “2016’s Assault On The Internet Was Brutal. Will 2017 Be Worse?”
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — In cities across the country, parking-style meters collect loose change from donors in an attempt to cut down on panhandling – a strategy critics argue is wrongheaded and in vain.
New Haven is among the latest to install the meters, which sit curbside and collect donations in the form of cash or credit cards for programs that benefit the homeless. The city has four brightly colored meters in areas where panhandling has been a problem and plans to install six more to support local, nonprofit organizations that help the homeless. Continue reading “Spare a dime? Cities install meters to combat panhandling”
The Duran – by Alexander Mercouris
In conjunction with US President Obama’s announcement of new sanctions against Russia, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have published a 13 report into the Russian hacking allegations.
I think it is fair to say that a mountain has moved and produced a mouse. To get a sense of the absurdity, consider that the report actually begins with a Disclaimer Continue reading “Joint FBI-Homeland Security report fails to prove Russians behind Clinton leaks”
Tenth Amendment Center – by Harold Pease
On December 31, 2011, New Year’s Eve, President Barack Obama signed into law the most constitutionally damaging law in American history, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012.
This New Year’s Eve we note its 5th Anniversary. Previous annual appropriations bills funding national defense were mostly procedural but it was the addition of two sections, buried deep within the over 600 page document, that potentially gutted the Bill of Rights for American citizens thought by the President to be assisting the enemy, that so upset constitutionalists and libertarians. Continue reading “Fifth Anniversary of NDAA “Indefinite Detention””
Liberty Blitzkrieg – b y Michael Krieger
After coming under attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy about this, and is doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war). It’s whining about it to its readers.
Nothing more perfectly highlights the mainstream media’s instinctual response to complain than an article published on Christmas Day in The New York Times, which reinvents history by claiming alternative media is to blame for turning “fake news” into an overly expansive and thus meaningless term. Here are a few excerpts: Continue reading “Mainstream Media is Now Whining About the “Fake News” Hysteria It Created”
Chicago Tribune – by Robert McCoppin
After Harley Busse was convicted of stealing $44 in coins from a vending machine, the judge in his case noted that he had an “egregious” criminal history as a “career thief.”
Because “nothing up to this point has made an impression on you,” Cook County Judge Michael McHale said, “maybe my 12-year sentence will make an impression on you.”
Continue reading “Appeals court calls 12-year sentence for stealing $44 in coins ‘absurd’”
The Ohio General Assembly earlier this month gave the green light for small townships to set up speed traps on highways that had previously been off-limits to ticketing. By a 30 to 1 vote in the state Senate and an 81 to 16 vote in the House, lawmakers deleted the existing prohibition so that the state’s smallest jurisdictions may now issue tickets on any road that is not an interstate highway. Continue reading “Ohio Extends Authority For Small Town Highway Speed Traps”
WASHINGTON — In 2012, Joohoon David Lee, a federal Homeland Security agent in Los Angeles, was assigned to investigate the case of a Korean businessman accused of sex trafficking.
Instead of carrying out a thorough inquiry, Mr. Lee solicited and received about $13,000 in bribes and other gifts from the businessman and his relatives in return for making the “immigration issue go away,” court records show.
Continue reading “The Enemy Within: Bribes Bore a Hole in the U.S. Border”
ASHLAND, Ky. (WSAZ) — Beginning in 2018, flying could become more difficult for Kentucky residents.
Kentucky driver’s licenses are not compliant with the REAL ID Act, and the state has not been granted an extension to become compliant. Continue reading “Kentucky travelers will not be able to fly with driver’s license”
Happy New Years and welcome to nightmare 2017.
Last week, I warned everyone, that beginning next year cops will be using pot breathalyzers to arrest innocent people but what’s about to happen in Texas, should scare the ‘you know what out’ of everyone. Continue reading “New Years 2017: Cops to use ‘mental health assessments’ on everyone”
MADISON, Miss. — Madison businesses will soon be required to install and maintain security cameras or face consequences, the Madison County Journal reported.
The mayor and Board of Aldermen passed the ordinance during a meeting Tuesday night. The ordinance will go into effect in 30 days. Continue reading “Madison businesses must have security cameras or face consequences”
The Nebraska Supreme Court just made it harder for gun owners to drive through the state without running afoul of the law. The justices unanimously ruled Friday that a driver must have a concealed carry permit even when his gun is stored in an inaccessible part of the vehicle — a precedent that may leave SUV owners with limited travel options.
The justices set the new standard while reviewing the case of Joseph D. Senn Jr, who was behind the wheel of a U-Haul on October 4, 2014 with a 9mm pistol in a box, tucked away on the back passenger side of the moving truck, out of reach under a pile of clothes. Continue reading “Nebraska Supreme Court Says Gun In A U-Haul Requires Permit”
Caffeine may be the “nootropic” brain drug of choice in Silicon Valley, but an hour’s drive north in Solano County, California, the stimulant could get you charged with driving under the influence.
That is according to defense attorney Stacey Barrett, speaking on behalf of her client, Joseph Schwab. Continue reading “California man fights DUI charge for driving under influence of caffeine”
BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn (WABC) — A family in Brooklyn is outraged after NYPD officers raided their home, put everyone in handcuffs and then posted a picture of them on social media with the caption “Merry Christmas Its NYPD.” The ordeal led to the suspension of an officer.
The Brownsville residents were so upset that not only did they file a report, but they also called 911. Continue reading “NYPD Suspends Officer Who Posted Snapchat Of Brooklyn Family In Handcuffs”
I’ve written numerous articles warning everyone that DHS is working with police departments and UC Berkley to create a pot breathalyzer. Unfortunately it appears my warnings went unheeded and now police in California are being equipped with pot breathalyzers. (click here to read about DHS paying police to set up DUI checkpoints.)
The police chief of Lompoc, California, announced his department’s participation and said he hopes to provide the technology to a half-dozen departments over the next six months.
Continue reading “New Years 2017: Pot breathalyzer checkpoints, drug ‘sweat tests’ and pot sobriety Tablets”