From the Trenches World Report
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NEW YORK — Sometimes the bait is a small amount of cash in a stray wallet. Or a credit card. Even a pack of cigarettes can do the trick.
Police in New York City leave the items unattended – on subway platforms, on park benches, in cars – and wait to see if someone grabs them. Continue reading “NYPD ‘Lucky Bag’ Tactic, Use To Fight Theft, Comes Under Criticism”
Yahoo News – by Barbara Liston | Reuters
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – South Florida is fighting a growing infestation of one of the world’s most destructive invasive species: the giant African land snail, which can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster.
More than 1,000 of the mollusks are being caught each week in Miami-Dade and 117,000 in total since the first snail was spotted by a homeowner in September 2011, said Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Continue reading “Florida battles slimy invasion by giant snails”
My Fox 8 WGHP – by Ryan Sullivan
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Two men who attempted to invade a Fayetteville home early Friday morning died after a gun fight with the homeowner, according to WTVD.
WTVD reports the exchange of gunfire happened shortly after 3:30 a.m. at a house in the 7500 block of Levi Road. Continue reading “Suspects dead after attempted home invasion in Fayetteville”
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Northwest Ohio – by Bryant Maddrick
TOLEDO — An attempted burglary early Saturday ends with one man dead.
It happened around one this morning at this home on the 4500 block of Douglas Road. police say the homes owner, 45-year old Bryan Loyer woke up to an intruder attempting to kick in his side door. Continue reading “Man killed by homeowner in attempted burglary”
The Department of Defense has issued an instruction clarifying the rules for the involvement of military forces in civilian law enforcement. The instruction establishes “DoD policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for DoD support to Federal, State, tribal, and local civilian law enforcement agencies, including responses to civil disturbances within the United States.” Continue reading “DoD Issues Instructions on Military Support of Civilian Law Enforcement”
Earlier in the week I posted on the New York man who had his firearm confiscated, purportedly for being on anti-depressant drugs (which I noted at the time is a treatment for a fairly common malady; making the confiscation akin to seizing someone’s broken arm for the crime of wearing a cast). As the story broke and started gaining narrative steam, NY state law enforcement (Erie) suggested that the whole thing had been an honest record-keeping mistake and that the mental health aspect of the story as it had been reported wasn’t true. Continue reading “NY’s Cuomo and DHS lie, collude on gun confiscation gambit?”
It’s now being suggested that Google Glass, the computers worn over the eyes, can be used to catch rogue stock traders before they wander off the reservation and destroy the firms they work for.
Google Glass records everything the wearer sees and says. So if all brokers are ordered to have them, their every move can be observed by company spies. Wonderful, right? Continue reading “Google Glass: obedience to the Matrix”
The Daily Cougar – by Sarah Backer
Next time you see someone sporting a shirt or anything with the visage of Marxist freedom fighter, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, stop and ask them what they know about this romanticized symbol of revolution.
Chances are it’s not too much. Continue reading “Che: A revolution in pop culture misrepresentation”
In order for the US to permit citizens of a foreign country to enter the US without a visa, that country must agree to certain conditions. Chief among them is reciprocity: that country must allow Americans to enter without a visa as well. There are 37 countries which have been permitted entrance into America’s “visa waiver” program, and all of them – all 37 – reciprocate by allowing American citizens to enter their country without a visa. Continue reading “Barbara Boxer, AIPAC seek to codify Israel’s right to discriminate against Americans”
There’s a dirty little secret in some organic fruit orchards.
That juicy apple or pear that you just paid triple the price for may have been sprayed with antibiotics.
Yep – that’s right. The USDA has approved “new options for organic producers and processors.” Continue reading “Poison Apples: “Organic” Fruit can be Tainted by Antibiotics until Fall 2014”
A civil war looks likely to break out in America, and it will pit gun rights advocates (people who love liberty) against gun control zealots (people who hate freedom and love tyranny). The battle lines are being drawn right now as gun manufacturers are leaving anti-Constitution states like Connecticut and Colorado and relocating to pro-Constitution states like Texas and Arizona. Continue reading “Civil war battle lines being drawn as Magpul, Colt, Beretta and other gun manufacturers relocate to pro-Constitution states”
LONDON – The ‘legacy thing’ is especially hard to manage when large swaths of the population feel that a former political puppet was completely on the wrong side of history.
Just ask Tony Blair, who is a shoe-in to grace the annals of history as one of most evil, money-orientated and unapologetic leaders in history. But this year’s fury has been reserved for the ‘The Iron Lady’, who many Britons believe laid the groundwork for the elitist, dysfunctional, closing society and greed-plagued political culture the country is unfortunately witnessing today. Continue reading “BBC Shoot Themselves in Foot Again Trying to Preserve Thatcher’s Thorny Legacy”
Smoking marijuana has numerous health benefits and they are:
A lot of people say cannabis has no medicinal value when it is smoked. Let’s finally put this myth to bed. Is smoking weed good for you? Well…. It depends… Continue reading “The Health Benefits of Smoking Marijuana”
Mr. Conservative – by Bookworm
History has shown us that one of the most dangerous things an individual can have in a totalitarian state is an opinion. In Hitler’s German, Mao’s China, or Stalin’s Soviet Union, it was always the same – have an opinion, go to jail.
What’s completely discouraging is that America is starting to be the same kind of state. People who are using their First Amendment free speech rights to raise important issues are increasingly finding themselves carted off to jail, or running the risk that their children will be wrenched from their arms and placed into the state system. Continue reading “Man Charged With Terrorism For Criticizing School Security”
GOMA, Congo – A top Congolese official says 12 senior army officers have been arrested on charges of responsibility for mass rapes committed by several army units in eastern Congo in November 2012.
Justice Minister Wivine Mumba confirmed the arrests to The Associated Press Saturday. The arrests come more than two weeks after the United Nations pressed the Congolese government to take action in the case. Continue reading “Congo: 12 senior army officers to be charged with mass rapes”
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A high school English teacher who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave.
The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive writing by penning a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that “Jews are evil.” Continue reading “NY teacher who assigned Nazi letter put on leave”
Before It’s News – by Monica Davis
An attack on Word Press is growing in intensity. Analysts say a monster botnet with over 90,000 servers is trying to log onto the system, using massive numbers of usernames and passwords. Security analysts say the attacks have increased in the last few months. Continue reading “Attack On Word Press Is Trial Run For Shutting Down Internet”
Alabama.com – by Challen Stephens
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — Around 1 p.m., the line out the door stretched 60 or 70 people long. But waits were running only 25 to 30 minutes, as customers steadily streamed out of Larry’s Pistol & Pawn laden with Ruger rifles and boxes of Hornady cartridges. Continue reading “Half-hour long lines for guns and ammo in north Huntsville”
It is a well known fact that criminals do not purchase guns legally. They do not go to stores. They do not undergo background investigations. They do not fill out necessary paperwork. They purchase cheap, throwaway guns, steal them, or obtain them from friends or family.
A Bureau of Justice Statistics publication from 2001 confirmed that among state inmates possessing a gun, fewer than 2% bought their firearm at a flea market or gun show, about 12% from a retail store or pawnshop, and 80% from family, friends, a street buy, or an illegal source. A more recent BJS study showed that from 2005 through 2010, 86% of burglaries and 75% of other property crimes involving a stolen firearm were reported to police. Continue reading “Law Abiding Citizens Forced to Pay for Criminal Acts of Others”
Huffington Post – by Tom Hays
Public Intelligence
Guardian – by Glenn Greenwald
The Organic Prepper
Natural News – by Mike Adams 
21st Century Wire
Natural Cures not Medicine
The Times Union