From the Trenches World Report
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CHASE-WAMU MERGER CONSIDERED IN MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS AS NOT AN ASSIGNMENT. BOA FORECLOSURE DISMISSED AND REMANDED FOR LACK OF STANDING.
And next is an interesting favorable decision in the State of Michigan entered June 6, 2013 but not yet published. Sobh-v-Bof-A, Chase et al Continue reading “Michigan Appellate Court Dismisses BOA Foreclosure for Lack of Standing — but for the wrong reason?”
Lest we forget.
Daily Mail – by DAMIEN GAYLE and MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
Published May 6, 2013
A senior United Nations official has claimed that Syrian rebels may have used chemical weapons against government forces.
Carla Del Ponte said evidence from casualties and medical staff indicated that rebel forces in the civil war had used the deadly nerve agent sarin. Continue reading “UN accuses Syrian rebels of carrying out sarin gas attacks which had been blamed on Assad’s troops”
If you see something, say something. Edward Snowden did and now apparently the country’s atwitter about whether Big Brother is so in the Orwellian sense or in the run of the mill older brother who knows better and looks out for you so the other kids don’t pick on you sense.
Many of you – a full 37% according to one survey – are quite okay with Uncle Sam having a complete record of your lives. Some of you even go beyond that; so far as to say that you’d be okay with giving your Government your DNA. Continue reading “J’Accuse, or: why you really shouldn’t trust the government”
The Guardian – by Glenn Greenwald
I haven’t been able to write this week here because I’ve been participating in the debate over the fallout from last week’s NSA stories, and because we are very busy working on and writing the next series of stories that will begin appearing very shortly. I did, though, want to note a few points, and particularly highlight what Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez said after Congress on Wednesday was given a classified briefing by NSA officials on the agency’s previously secret surveillance activities: Continue reading “On PRISM, partisanship and propaganda”
The New American – by Bob Adelmann
When the Japanese stock market lost more than six percent of its value on Wednesday in a massive sell-off, pundits jumped on the move to try to explain what happened, and what it all means. Evan Lucas, a market strategist at IG Markets, wrote:
The storm clouds are building: the Dow has just suffered its first three-day losing streak for the year, the Chicago VIX [fear] index has climbed further; Europe is sliding off its highs; China is slowing down faster than expected, and the BOJ [Bank of Japan] is holding [off] on additional stimulus action. Continue reading “Central Banks’ Bubble Bursting, Sending Markets Down Worldwide”
The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country’s ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports.
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families. Continue reading “Obama Admin Considers Resettling Thousands of Syrian Refugees in U.S.”
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From the good folks at Mayors Against illegal Guns: Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: “No more names” campaign launched to commemorate six-month anniversary of Sandy Hook”
Russia is not convinced by the evidence which the US provided alleging that the government of Syria’s President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against rebel forces.
“The Americans tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons by the regime, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing,” said presidential aide Yury Ushakov on Friday. Continue reading “Moscow unconvinced by US evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use”
World Events and the Bible – by Brandon Ward
WEB Notes: The situation is now spiraling out of control in Syria and the Middle-East. It was reported yesterday,93,000 people have been killed in the war against the “rebels.”Isaiah 17:1 is quickly approaching.
The Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons against the rebels seeking to overthrow him and, in a major policy shift, President Obama has decided to supply military support to the rebels, the White House announced Thursday. Continue reading “Middle East Fuse Lit: USA to Enforce No Fly Zone and Give Military Support to Syrian Rebels Who Pledge Allegiance to Al-Qaeda”
After over 40 years of secrecy, the real cause of death of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, has been made public. Prominent Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov reveals the truth behind the events of that tragic day.
For over 20 years Aleksey Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, has been struggling to gain permission to disclose details of what happened to the legendary Yuri Gagarin in March 1968. Continue reading “Death of Yuri Gagarin demystified 40 years on”
Brooklyn prosecutors are examining 50 homicide convictions involving a retired police detective who may have intimidated suspects into confessing to crimes they never committed – with words he chose.
Louis Scarcella was a celebrated member of the Brooklyn North Homicide squad through the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, when he gained a reputation for his unusual ability to draw out confessions. He investigated about 175 murders alone and helped with almost 200 more, but questions have been raised on whether Scarcella coerced, or even entirely fabricated, the admissions of guilt. Continue reading “Dozens of convictions in question as NYPD detective said to have falsified murder confessions”
Reuters – by Parisa Hafezi and Matt Spetalnick
The United States is considering imposing a no-fly zone in Syria, its first direct military intervention of the two-year-old civil war, Western diplomats said on Friday, after the White House saidSyria had crossed a “red line” by using nerve gas.
After months of equivocating, President Barack Obama’s administration said on Thursday it would now arm rebels, having obtained proof the Syrian government used chemical weapons against fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Continue reading “U.S. considering no-fly zone after Syria crosses nerve gas “red line””
Washington Post – by Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura
Update: The White House has cancelled the safari for this trip.
Continue reading “Document: Major resources needed for Obama Africa trip”
During testimony before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, FBI DirectorRobert Mueller was asked why he thought the National Security Agency’s monitoring of all Americans communications were necessary programs. Mueller testified that these NSA programs, had they existed before the events of September 11, 2001, could have either disrupted or even prevented those attacks. Continue reading “FBI Director Mueller: NSA Programs ‘Could Have Derailed’ Sept 11, 2001 Plot – So What’s the Truth?”
Former Department of Justice prosecutor Larry Klayman has filed a $3 billion class-action lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia against President Obama, Eric Holder, Director of the NSA Keith Alexander, the CEO of Verizon, the NSA, Verizon Communications, the Department of Justice, and the judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Robert Vinson who rubber-stamped the illegal NSA spying program for violating Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights, Plaintiffs’ reasonable expectation of privacy, free speech and association, right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process rights. Continue reading “Former DOJ Prosecutor Files $3 Billion Suit against Obama, Holder, NSA, Verizon over Prismgate”
MOSCOW, June 12 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian parliamentary committee approved for review a new controversial anti-piracy law dubbed “the Russian SOPA” by critics after a similar US bill.
The bill will undergo on Friday the first of three required readings in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, and may be passed by mid-July, lawmaker Robert Shlegel said Tuesday, Vedomosti daily reported Tuesday. Continue reading “Russia to Fast-Track New Online Censorship Bill”
Mr. Conservative – by Warner Todd Huston
Like most Democrat-controlled, big cities, New York City has one of the most stringent gun-control schemes in America. But this heavy emphasis on banning guns has not stopped a recent rise in murders in the Big Apple.
Over a 48 hour period between June 11 to June 13 25 people were killed with firearms in New York. Victims were from all over the city. In fact, the only part of the city that didn’t experience a shooting over the 48-hour period was Staten Island! Continue reading “New York In Shock As Gun Control Leads To 25 Murders In The Last 2 Days”
Sun Sentinel – by Paula McMahon
One South Florida man accused in a series of bank robbery attempts is hoping the recent revelation that the federal government is secretly keeping millions of U.S. phone records could help his defense.
Terrance Brown, 40, is one of five men on trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on charges they conspired to hold up armored trucks making cash deliveries to banks in Miramar and Lighthouse Point in 2010. They have all pleaded not guilty. Continue reading “Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense”
China can and will “disconnect” from the US economy–from a letter to a high-level friend, July 18, 2006 :
Many have stated that China is too dependent upon trade with the United States to do anything drastic to “upset the apple cart”. But those who state/believe that don’t know the Chinese (or they do and are purposefully misleading others). Continue reading “How’s this for someone who got it about China 7 years ago -Thank You Loren”
Natural News – by Jonathan Benson
The recent passage of Amendment 64 in Colorado, which legalizes the cultivation and recreational use of marijuana throughout the state, is having a major impact on the state’s agricultural sector. But the biggest potential for economic growth may actually come from marijuana’s non-psychoactive cousin hemp, which is right now being planted on U.S. soil for the first time in 60 years, thanks to the initiative’s passage. Continue reading “Industrial hemp returns to America: Colorado to plant first new major crop on US soil in 60 years”
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