From the Trenches World Report
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Bit by bit, the federal judiciary is tearing out the legal ground from under “America’s toughest sheriff.”
First, a federal appeals court said it was illegal to deny bail to immigrants in the country illegally. Then, on Monday, an Arizona federal judge blasted a state law that stretched the crime of identity theft to include everyone from forgers to people simply seeking employment without valid documentation. Continue reading “Arizona told to stop prosecuting job-seeking immigrants”
Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz
A federal weather service employee charged with stealing sensitive infrastructure data from an Army Corps of Engineers database met a Chinese government official in Beijing, according to court documents that reveal the case to be part of an FBI probe of Chinese economic espionage.
Xiafen “Sherry” Chen, an employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office in Ohio, was arrested in October and charged in a federal grand jury indictment with illegally accessing the Army’s National Inventory of Dams (NID). Continue reading “NOAA Employee Charged With Computer Breach Met Senior Chinese Official in Beijing”
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Chicago man might think twice the next time he goes into a police station to report something as stolen.
On Friday night, 31-year-old Adam Wisneski rode his bike to the Shakespeare District police station on the Northwest Side to report a stolen iPhone.
He says he didn’t have his bike lock with him, and asked police if he could leave his bicycle inside the station. Continue reading “Cyclist’s Bike Stolen At Police Station While Reporting iPhone Theft”
New Delhi: The US Secret Service is leaving nothing to chance as they prepare a foolproof security mechanism for President Barack Obama during his visit to India later this month.
The advance team of the Secret Service is already in India and is working in tandem with Indian security agencies to workout security arrangements across the venues on President’s itinerary. Continue reading “Obama’s India visit: US Secret Service to deploy surveillance satellites”
Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — The ever worsening security situation in Mexico has led to a new mode of transportation for Mexican tourists that includes traveling in a convoy with police escorts at speeds of 100 miles an hour or more — all in an effort to avoid getting carjacked by drug cartels on their journey to the U.S. border.
The police escort is provided by the Mexican Federal Police which leads daily convoys to and from cities like Tampico and Ciudad Victoria to the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa. Each day, between 100 to 150 travelers line up outside of the police station where they provide their license and other identifying information to police officers in preparation for the convoy. Continue reading “Mexican Tourists Now Traveling with Police Escorts to the US Border”
Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
The son of legendary Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cardenas remains in federal custody after U.S. agents arrested him at the Texas border. He was allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of ammunition rounds and weapons parts into Mexico.
Osiel Cardenas Jr, the son of the legendary capo, is set to remain behind bars without bond pending a detention hearing later this week in the Texas border city of Brownsville, court records obtained by Breitbart Texas show. Continue reading “Former Mexican Gulf Cartel Leader’s Son Busted in Texas at Border”
Only 216 Republicans voted to re-elect a humbled Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner as Speaker of the U.S. House on Tuesday, as many Republicans voted for alternative candidates in the second organized attempt to unseat Boehner in as many speakership elections.
He wins re-election as Speaker with less than a majority of the House, something that has happened only four times since 1917. A total of 25 Republicans in the chamber did not vote for Boehner, with 24 voting for alternative candidates and others who were not nominated and one voting present. Continue reading “Boehner Wins Re-Election With Less Than Majority Of House”
UT San Diego – by Sandra Dibble
Methamphetamine seizures at U.S. ports of entry on the California-Mexico border reached unprecedented levels in fiscal 2014, as drug trafficking organizations strive to smuggle growing quantities of the low-cost Mexican-made product into the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show 14,732 pounds of meth seized by the San Diego field office during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, accounting for 63 percent of the synthetic drug seized at all land, air and sea ports of entry nationwide. Continue reading “Record border meth seizures”
ABC News – by JAMIE STENGLE and BETSY BLANEY
A new Thai and sushi restaurant sits on a busy corner, not far from the vast prairie that once epitomized Texas’ early cattle ranching days.
Only five years ago, owner Saw Lawla left his home country of Myanmar and resettled in Los Angeles through a federal refugee program. Vexed by big-city life, Lawla was lured to the Panhandle in 2011 by cheaper living, employment at a meat processing plant and a growing population of other Myanmar refugees. Continue reading “Refugees expand cultural diversity in remote Texas cities”
Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
A group of gunmen stormed the home of a journalist in the Mexican state of Veracruz taking him at gunpoint while at the same time stealing his camera, computer and cell phones.
The kidnapping took place in the town of Medellin Del Bravo, Veracruz, when a group of heavily armed gunmen arrived in three vehicles to the house of Jose Moises Sanchez Cerezo from where they kidnapped him, Mexico’s El Universal reported. Continue reading “Journalist Kidnapped by Gunmen in Mexico”
Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ
MCALLEN, Texas – The Mexican military seized an armored vehicle loaded with a grenade launcher and several other drug cartel weapons and ammunition just south of the Texas border.
The seizure took place when a convoy of Mexican soldiers was carrying out routine patrols in the Mexican city of Miguel Aleman when they spotted an SUV with makeshift armor plating that tried to drive away, information provided to Breitbart Texas by the Tamaulipas government revealed. The town of Miguel Aleman is just south of Roma Texas and is an area that has been used for drug trafficking for decades. Continue reading “Mexican Army Seizes Armored Truck, Grenade Launcher Near Texas Border”
Many illegal immigrants at a Northern California DMV reportedly were failing the written exam when applying for driver’s licenses on Friday.
Under the AB 60 law that Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed in 2013 and took effect at the start of 2015, illegal immigrants were able to apply for driver’s licenses on Friday. And nearly 1.4 illegal immigrants are expected to apply for licenses in California in the next three years. Continue reading “CA Illegal Alien at DMV: ‘Nobody’s Passing’ Written Test”
The Telegraph – by John Ficenec
The FTSE 100 slid on the first day of trading in 2015. Here are 10 warning signs that the markets may drop further.
Vix fear gauge
For five years, investor fear of risk has been drugged into somnolence by repeated injections of quantitative easing. The lack of fear has led to a world where price and risk have become estranged. As credit conditions are tightened in the US and China, the law of unintended consequences will hold sway in 2015 as investors wake up. The Vix, the so-called “fear index” that measures volatility, spiked to 18.4 on Friday, above the average of 14.5 recorded last year.
Continue reading “Ten warning signs of a market crash in 2015”
LUZERNE COUNTY — Call it the case of the mysterious boom. Folks in the back mountain heard a loud rumble, some even saying it shook their home.
It takes a lot to wake up 12-year-old Kendra Steltz of Lake Township.
“I was sleeping and all I heard was a big bang,” she said. Continue reading “Mysterious Boom In Luzerne County, Pennslyvania”
The Washington Post – by Brian Fung
Federal regulators looking to place restrictions on Internet providers will introduce and vote on new proposed net neutrality rules in February, Federal Communications Commission officials said Friday.
President Obama’s top telecom regulator, Tom Wheeler, told fellow FCC commissioners before the Christmas holiday that he intends to circulate a draft proposal internally next month with an eye toward approving the measure weeks later, said one official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the agency’s deliberations are ongoing. The rules are meant to keep broadband providers such as Verizon and Comcast from speeding up or slowing down some Web sites compared to others. Continue reading “Get ready: The FCC says it will vote on net neutrality in February”
Breitbart – by DANIEL NUSSBAUM
Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro on Thursday urged New Yorkers and others across the nation to donate to a New York Daily News fund for the families of the two slain NYPD officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos.
“At times like these, New Yorkers know what to do,” De Niro told the Daily News. “Thank you for joining me in contributing to the Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos families.” Continue reading “De Niro Urges Donations to Slain NYPD Officers: ‘They’ve Done Their Duty, and Now It’s Time to Do Ours’”
HUNTINGTON BEACH (CBSLA.com) — The viral video of a homeless man buying food for friends with $100 he had been given warmed the hearts of many of the more than 25 million people who clicked on it.
Donations came pouring in for the homeless man named Thomas. More than $130,000 donated from around the globe in about a week. Continue reading “Was viral video of generous homeless man a hoax?”
It’s 2015 and the MSM is wasting no time in breaking out the “us vs them” race articles in full force.
There was a simpler time in America, a time when racists wore white hoods and carried torches, when Nazis wore swastikas and a skinhead could shave his scalp without being mistaken for a metrosexual. But those days are long behind us. Now, apparently, white supremacists hold conferences with guest speakers and video hookups to their colleagues overseas, kind of like a Davos for the intellectually vacant. Continue reading “Five ways to know you’re speaking to white supremacists”
A year ago this New Year’s Eve, John Filippidis of Florida was driving south with his family on Interstate 95 when the Maryland Transportation Authority Police pulled over his black Ford Expedition and proceeded to raid it while his twins, wife and daughter looked on — separated in the back seats of different police cruisers.
The officers were searching for Mr. Filippidis‘ Florida-licensed, palm-size Kel-Tec .38 semi-automatic handgun, which he left at home locked in his safe. (Maryland does not recognize handgun permits issued by other states.) Continue reading “Gun owners fear Maryland cops target them for traffic stops”
Biometric Update – by Stephen Mayhew
Intel recently filed an application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a new technology method of real-time facial detection using an image or video of the subject taken by a mobile device.
Intel Korea research engineer Wooju Ryu describes the face detection method in the U.S. Patent Application No. 20140341430, titled “Method and Device for Detecting Face, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Recording Medium for Executing the Method”. Continue reading “Intel files patent for real-time facial recognition system”
CBS Chicago – by Steve Miller
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