From the Trenches World Report
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Huffington Post – by Kathleen Miles
Surrounded by about 100 police officers in riot gear and a helicopter circling above, more than 50 Walmart workers and supporters were arrested in downtown Los Angeles Thursday night as they sat in the street protesting what they called the retailer’s “poverty wages.” Continue reading “Largest Civil Disobedience In Walmart History Leads To More Than 50 Arrests”
Arizona Central – by JJ Hensley
Cameras affixed to traffic signals at intersections are now commonplace.
A decade ago, law-enforcement agencies began mounting special cameras on patrol cars capable of reading hundreds of license plates a minute.
And Phoenix police have been flying a plane capable of conducting surveillance from 9,000 feet since 2010. Continue reading “Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office push for drones stirs privacy concerns”
Since October 2001, the enforcement wing of the Department of Education has issued Glock pistols to its special agents as a matter of course, according to documents obtained by MuckRock. The department has continued building out its arsenal and expanding its agents’ weapons selection using discounted law enforcement rates offered to the U.S. Capitol Police and the ATF.
The purchase orders and documents provided to MuckRock user Scriven King— which date back seven years – indicate that the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General has purchased more than 200 Glocks for its special agents since 2006, spending more than $80,000 on pistols in that span. The OIG also spent $17,000.79 on Remington shotguns in September 2010, according to another purchase order. Continue reading “‘Zero Tolerance’ policy be damned the Department of Education is acquiring handguns”
The bikers massed in Washington. So did truckers. Then there were the groups representing the military and its families. And don’t forget what the veterans themselves did when President Obama strategically shut off access to the World War II veteran’s memorial during the government’s partial shutdown.
Now a mass demonstration has been announced for Washington to combine all the frustration Americans have over the Obama scandals – Benghazi, Navy SEALs, Fast and Furious, the IRS, the NSA, Obamacare, amnesty for illegal aliens and others – and press for action. Continue reading “Washington rally call: ‘It is time for action’”
President Barack Obama has said on multiple occasions that he stands by the troops, and lauds their selflessness in fighting the Iraq war and the conflict in Afghanistan. During a time when our bravest in uniform have been in a state of war for more than a decade, one would think that our fearless leaders should reward their efforts by making life a bit easier at home.
Instead, Obama simply insists on tripling their fees on the military health insurance program called Tricare.
What is the administration’s reasoning on this? Well, they actually admit that Obama would rather the troops partake in ‘alternatives’ that were established in the Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare). In a report from the FreeBeacon.com, Bill Gertz states: Continue reading “Obama to Force Military Families Away From Tricare …By Tripling Their Fees.”
ABC Australian – by Will Ockenden
A young Australian entrepreneur says his bitcoin website has been hacked and thieves have stolen more than $1 million in virtual currency.
Unlike old currencies bitcoin is digital, traded computer-to-computer, and often used to pay for goods and services on the internet.
But it has no central authority or government-based backing, and the alleged theft – one of the largest in the currency’s four-year history – raises questions about digital money and if it can ever be regulated. Continue reading “Australian bitcoin user TradeFortress says site hacked, $1 million in virtual currency stolen”
Front Page Mag – by Raymond Ibrahim
According to Egyptian newspaper El Watan, a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S. president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court.
The complaint charges Obama of being an accessory to the Muslim Brotherhood, which incited widespread violence in Egypt both before and after the June 30 Revolution. Continue reading “Obama Accused of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ at International Criminal Court”
The Washington Free Beacon- by Bill Gertz
China’s military recently deployed an upgraded strategic bomber that will carry the military’s new long-range land attack cruise missile, capable of attacking Hawaii and Guam, according to a draft congressional report.
The Oct. 8 draft of the forthcoming report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission also reveals that China has developed a new armed drone nearly identical to U.S. military’s Reaper. The Chinese missile-firing drone likely was developed through Chinese cyber espionage against U.S. defense contractors. Continue reading “China Deploys New Bomber with Long-Range Land Attack Missile”
New York Post – by Julia Marsh and Reuven Fenton
A Manhattan dad is not lovin’ McDonald’s right now.
Attorney David Schorr slapped a court-appointed shrink with a defamation lawsuit for telling the judge deciding a custody battle with his estranged wife that he was an unfit parent — for refusing to take his son to the fast food joint for dinner.
“You’d think it was sexual molestation,” Schorr, 43, told The Post Thursday. “I am just floored by it.” Continue reading “Dad ‘unfit parent for refusing son McDonald’s’”
The Daily Caller – by Robby Soave
Toy nerf guns — the weapon of choice for students participating in Missouri State University’s semi-annual “Humans vs. Zombies” live-action game — may be the latest casualty of irrational anti-gun hysteria at American universities.
Humans vs. Zombies, a once-per-semester tradition at the Springfield campus, involves students using toy nerf guns to shoot foam bullets at each other. Almost 500 students played the most recent iteration of the game last month. Continue reading “The War on Fun: Missouri State want to ban nerf guns”
NBC Connecticut – by Amy Parmenter
When a strange phenomenon blew through the Hartford Police department’s parking lot and damaged an officer’s personal vehicle, police turned to NBC Connecticut to help them solve the mystery.
Surveillance video shows a ghost-like wisp of wind whirling around the car, ripping off the mirror, tossing it around a bit and then dropping right back beneath the door. Continue reading “Ghostly Image Damages Officer’s Car”
Opposing Views – by Jonathan Vankin
Yesterday, we told you about the horrifying case of David Eckert, a New Mexico man who was forcibly subjected to repeated anal probes after a drug-sniffing dog wrongly smelled something illegal when Deming, N.M., cops pulled Eckert over.
Eckert’s original offense: failure to fully stop at a stop sign.
Eckert’s story spread across the internet throughout the day, leaving the entire nation shocked. Continue reading “Timothy Young, Subject To Forced Anal Probe By New Mexico Cops, Is Second Victim To Come Forward”
Natural News – by Jonathan Benson
It might not seem like much, gently gracing the cellular structures of certain marine life and perking them up with that familiar pink hue seen in wild-caught seafood. But astaxanthin is one of the most powerful “superfoods” in existence, helping to mitigate oxidative stress, enhance immune response, quell damaging inflammation and even inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells.
A 2010 study published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism reveals these and other benefits associated with astaxanthin, which earlier studies have proven acts as a type of natural sunscreen in protecting the skin and body against ultraviolet A (UVA)-induced oxidative stress. But there is so much more that this amazing carotenoid can accomplish as far as your health is concerned. Continue reading “Dietary astaxanthin decreases oxidative stress, enhances immune response in humans”
Information Clearinghouse – by Ann Jones
The last time I saw American soldiers in Afghanistan, they were silent. Knocked out by gunfire and explosions that left them grievously injured, as well as drugs administered by medics in the field, they were carried from medevac helicopters into a base hospital to be plugged into machines that would measure how much life they had left to save. They were bloody. They were missing pieces of themselves. They were quiet.
It’s that silence I remember from the time I spent in trauma hospitals among the wounded and the dying and the dead. It was almost as if they had fled their own bodies, abandoning that bloodied flesh upon the gurneys to surgeons ready to have a go at salvation. Later, sometimes much later, they might return to inhabit whatever the doctors had managed to salvage. They might take up those bodies or what was left of them and make them walk again, or run, or even ski. They might dress themselves, get a job, or conceive a child. But what I remember is the first days when they were swept up and dropped into the hospital so deathly still. Continue reading “They Didn’t Know What They Were Getting Into The Cost of War American-Style”
As local police departments cut personnel due to excessive spending and budgetary restrictions, cities all across America are rapidly degenerating into gang infested war zones.
In the city of Chicago, which has been one of the hardest hit during the opening stages of a greater depression sweeping the country, law enforcement officials compared the situation on the ground to the kind of tribal warfare one might see in places like Iraq. With law and order breaking down, residents of the city have been caught in the middle. The crime wave has gotten so bad, in fact, that earlier this year the Chicago PD announced a new response plan, or rather, a NON-response plan, wherein police will not even show up at crime scenes unless someone has been critically injured or the perpetrator is still on the scene. Continue reading “Next-Generation Flash Mobs: The Breakdown of Law & Order”
Iran has “no nuclear relations” with North Korea, and rumours that it does are false, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEO) insisted on Tuesday.
Speaking to Iranian Students’ News Agency at a burial ceremony for two “unknown martyrs” at AEO headquarters, Ali Akbar Salehi denied the claims and said: “I don’t know why and how such rumours are produced”. Continue reading “Iran atomic chief insists no deal with the DPRK made”
Epoch Times – by Zachary Stieber
Stories claiming RFID chips are being tested as part of Obamacare have been going viral on alternative news websites, with people claiming that a test run began on the citizens in a small town in Wyoming in Hanna.
For instance, a post on the website “Before It’s News” from a blog called “Resist the Tyranny” claims that the chips are being “test ran” in Hanna and says it’s “yet another fatal blow to American privacy and liberties.” Continue reading “Are RFID Chips Being Tested for Obamacare? No, It’s a Hoax”
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WND – by Bob Unruh
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SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo
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