From the Trenches World Report
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Huffington Post – by Ben Hallman
Every day in neighborhoods across the country, low-paid workers with little oversight or training decide whether to break into someone else’s home.
They are independent contractors working indirectly for banks, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Continue reading “Banks Keep Breaking Into Houses, And Homeowners Are Fighting Back”
European stocks fell today as nervous investors sold stocks on reports of a build-up of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine. Polish foreign minister Sikorski said Russia has gathered substantial military forces at the border with Ukraine to either put pressure on the neighbouring country or to enter it.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to prepare retaliatory measures against the latest round of Western sanctions. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on yesterday to retaliate for the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned. Continue reading “Russia And Iran Sign Historic 500,000 Barrel A Day Oil Deal – Petrodollar Under Threat”
ERIE COUNTY, NY — A family was traumatized when gun-wielding police officers walked onto their quiet property and shot their dog in the head while looking for a man who did not live there.
Megan Shimburski, 25, was spending a quiet afternoon with her children at her parents’ countryside East Concord residence on July 25, 2014. It was a normal day, she said, which involved watching her 5-year-old daughter play behind the house with their dog, as her infant son lied in a playpen inside the house. Continue reading “Family pet shot in the head by plainclothes cops searching at wrong address”
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released a video by acclaimed documentarian Brian Knappenberger(The Internet’s Own Boy) that explores how and why an unlikely coalition of advocacy organizations launched an airship over the National Security Agency’s Utah data center.
The short documentary explains the urgent need to rein in unconstitutional mass surveillance, just as the U.S. Senate has introduced a new version of the USA FREEDOM Act. Continue reading “Airship Flight Over the NSA Data Center: New Behind-the-Scenes Video”
A few weeks ago we fought a battle for transparency in our flagship NSA spying case, Jewel v. NSA. But, ironically, we weren’t able to tell you anything about it until now.
On June 6, the court held a long hearing in Jewel in a crowded, open courtroom, widely covered by the press. We were even on the local TV news on two stations. At the end, the Judge ordered both sides to request a transcript since he ordered us to do additional briefing. But when it was over, the government secretly, and surprisingly sought permission to “remove” classified information from the transcript, and even indicated that it wanted to do so secretly, so the public could never even know that they had done so. Continue reading “UNSEALED: The US Sought Permission To Change The Historical Record Of A Public Court Proceeding”
Philly.com – by DANA DiFILIPPO
A SOUTHWEST Philadelphia woman claims cops trying to subdue a neighbor’s unruly pit bull blasted their guns at the animal – and hit her.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in Common Pleas Court, Kristen Kelly said that at least one of the six bullets two officers fired at the dog on Aug. 5, 2012, hit her in the leg on her block on Etting Street near Reed. Continue reading “Lawsuit: Cops trying to subdue dog shot woman”
RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — Two illegal immigrants from Mexico who were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent in front of his family in Texas have been arrested and deported numerous times, police sources told FoxNews.com.
One suspect has been arrested no fewer than four times for entering the U.S. illegally, according to federal court records. The other has been deported twice after entering the U.S. illegally, sources said. Continue reading “Suspects in murder of Border Patrol agent arrested and deported numerous times”
The Daily Sheeple – by Joshua Krause
As they say, you can always judge a society by how they treat their weakest members. So I shudder to think of how future generations will judge our society. We’ve become a nation that discards our poor like they are trash, and anyone who doesn’t “fit in” is segregated from the herd.
The police are now fining homeless folks for any arbitrary offense they can think of, and city councils across the country are making it illegal to sleep in public. They’ve gone so far as to make it illegal to camp, or even sit or lay down in certain public areas. Worst of all, many cities are making it illegal, or prohibitively expensive to give food to the homeless. According to an interview from The Independent, with a former police chief involved in a charity dedicated to feeding the poor: Continue reading “It’s Official: Being Poor in America Has Been Outlawed”
Huffington Post – by Christopher Mathias
A scathing report released Monday details the “culture of violence” imposed upon teenage inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island, the second largest jail facility in the U.S. The report, a product of a two-and-a-half-year investigation by the Justice Department, describes the “rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force” by guards and the overreliance on solitary confinement as a means of punishment.
It also offered a grim reminder that Rikers Island has become a de facto psychiatric hospital from hell. Continue reading “Rikers Island, NY Has Become A De Facto Psychiatric Hospital From Hell”
Natural News – by Julie Wilson
Martha Boneta, operator of a small family farm in Paris, Virginia, achieved success not only for her business but also for small farmers and property owners across the state when the “Boneta Bill” finally became law on July 2.
Despite efforts from local and state government officials, including Fauquier Zoning Administrator Kimberley Johnson, who accused Boneta of violating zoning ordinances, HB-268 passed, which protects traditional farming and agricultural practices against over-regulation on the county level. Continue reading “Small family farmer fights back against over-reaching government forcing her off her land”
For the past week, I have been giving a lot of consideration to what I would personally do if there was even the slightest hint of an Ebola pandemic in the United States. You would think that the process I engage would be easy since I live on an island that is only accessible by ferry, private vessel, or small aircraft. But, as with all things, preparedness, there are always unique circumstances that come into play in any disaster and a pandemic is no different. Continue reading “Preparing to Hunker Down in Place”
John Birch Society – by Art Thompson
In this week’s analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson discusses how the IRS agreed on July 17 to monitor church sermons for political content as part of an agreement made with the Freedom From Religion Foundation; how tax collection in the United States has always been rife with corruption; how our original Constitution prevented the the imposition of the federal income tax; how our original Constitution provided for U.S. Senators to be chosen by state legislatures, not by a popular vote of the people; and how we need to get back to a truly independent Senate that represents the state legislatures, repeal the income tax, and thereby get back to our original system of financing the government.
Continue reading “The IRS Will Be Stifling Free Speech in Churches”
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Every production phase or civilization or other human invention goes through a so called transformation process. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation. In this article I will use one such transition to demonstrate the position of our present civilization and its possible effect on stock exchange rates.
When we consider the characteristics of the phases of a social transformation we may find ourselves at the end of what might be called the third industrial revolution. Transitions are social transformation processes that cover at least one generation (= 25 years). A transition has the following characteristics: Continue reading “New stock market crash, a pattern?”
DC Clothesline – by Paul Joseph Watson
Despite repeated assurances that the Ebola virus cannot be transmitted via airborne particles, the CDC is concerned about that very outcome and has directed airline staff to take steps to prevent the spread of “infectious material through the air.”
While Ebola is highly contagious, the risk of a full blown pandemic has been downplayed by health authorities because, according to our current understanding of the virus, Ebola, “is not airborne and is transmitted through contact with bodily fluids, including sweat and blood.”
Continue reading “Airborne? CDC Now Confirms Concerns of Airborne Transmission of Ebola”
Solicitation Number: HSFE70-14-I-0006
Agency: Department of Homeland Security
Office: Federal Emergency Management Agency
Location: Logistics Branch
: Added: Jan 10, 2014 11:54 am
Pat yourselves on the back!
As you will recall, GOA rallied gun owners several times over the past couple of months in opposition to Operation Choke Point.
Well, faced with a devastating barrage from the Second Amendment community, the Obama administration has staged a hasty retreat on its plan to shut off credit for gun stores through “Operation Choke Point.” Continue reading “Obama Administration Retreats on “Choke Point””
Truthstream Media – by Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Media coverage is now focusing on the experimental Ebola treatments being given to two American Ebola patients who contracted it while caring for victims in Africa — the site of the world’s deadliest outbreak.
But that Ebola treatment was developed by a leading bioengineering scientist from the University of Arizona who was caught on camera “joking” about wiping out humanity. Dr. Charles Arntzen suggested the use of a “better” genetically engineered virus during a post-lecture Q&A focused on over-population issues, citing the 2011 Hollywood film ‘Contagion.’ Continue reading “Scientist Working on Gov’t Ebola Drug Joked About Culling Population with GMO Virus”
Shootings and killings barely make the news in major American cities, but in a rural county outside of Raleigh, North Carolina, residents are alarmed by a recent wave of violent crime and they’re looking for answers from their sheriff.
Harnett County Sheriff Larry Rollins didn’t hesitate to give a straight answer. When called upon at a prayer vigil Monday night, he urged them to get armed and get serious about defending their homes. Continue reading “Sheriff: Pack heat to stop bloody crime wave”
New York Times – by MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and MICHAEL WINERIP
Even on the most violent cellblocks at Rikers Island, the beatings were astonishing in their severity. Two inmates were strapped to gurneys, taken to a clinic in a mental health unit and beaten so badly by correction officers that blood splattered the walls and witnesses described feeling sick to their stomachs.
Several witnesses, including civilian staff members, were so appalled that, in a rare occurrence at Rikers, they came forward to tell investigators what they had seen on that night in December 2012. The New York City Department of Investigation referred the case for prosecution twice, and The New York Times reported details of the assaults in an investigation into brutality by guards last month. Continue reading “No Charges for Rikers Officers in 2012 Beatings of 2 Inmates”
Gold Core – by Mark O’Brian
Police State USA
Activist Post
EFF – by David Greene
Fox News – by Jana Winter
Backdoor Survival – by Gaye
FedBizOps
Gun Owners of America
WND – by Leo Hohmann