From the Trenches World Report
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Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon
Yeah, yeah, cue the one-armed robber jokes. A pair of would-be armed robbers certainly had their hands full with the employees of a truck stop in Kentucky.
According to Kentucky.com,
Two men had entered the truck stop, and the one holding a gun demanded money. Continue reading “Truck Stop Employee Shoots One Armed Robber While Another Employee Tackles a Second”
We all know about CDC whistleblower William Thompson now.
On August 27, he released a statement through his lawyer, Rick Morgan, in which he admitted research fraud.
Thompson confessed he and his co-authors cooked the data in a key 2004 study, thereby exonerating the MMR vaccine from any connection to autism. Continue reading “There are 2 other MMR vaccine whistleblowers”
More police departments have adopted data analytics as a way to combat urban crime. Supporters of the approach, also referred to as predictive policing, say that if it is used in conjunction with existing policing techniques, such as community policing, it could have a drastic impact on crime. Some note, however, that the predictive policing methodology is more useful for its general tactical utility rather than the accuracy of its predictions.
Continue reading “More police departments adopt predictive policing”
The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder
When is the U.S. banking system going to crash? I can sum it up in three words. Watch the derivatives. It used to be only four, but now there are five “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have more than 40trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives. Today, the U.S. national debt is sitting at a grand total of about 17.7 trillion dollars, so when we are talking about 40 trillion dollars we are talking about an amount of money that is almost unimaginable. And unlike stocks and bonds, these derivatives do not represent “investments” in anything. They can be incredibly complex, but essentially they are just paper wagers about what will happen in the future. The truth is that derivatives trading is not too different from betting on baseball or football games. Continue reading “5 U.S. Banks Each Have More Than 40 Trillion Dollars In Exposure To Derivatives”
NJ.com, a consortium of reliably left-wing newspapers in the Garden State, has published an op-ed calling for the scrapping of the Second Amendment:
Having fewer guns lying around could mean they won’t end up in the hands of a curious child, abusive spouse or suicidal person. Having a gun at home makes it three times more likely that you’ll be murdered by a family member or intimate partner, or successfully attempt suicide.
But let’s not kid ourselves: Gun buyback programs are not going to reduce murders in cities like Newark and Camden. Studies have found that buyback programs don’t have much effect overall on either gun crime or gun-related injury rates. Continue reading “Newspaper Calls For Mandatory Gun Confiscation”
Govtslaves – by Daniel Beekman
The Seattle City Council passed a new ordinance Monday that could mean $1 fines for people who toss too many table scraps into the trash.
Under current Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) rules, people living in single-family homes are encouraged but not required to dispose of food waste and compostable paper products in compost bins.
Apartment buildings must have compost bins available, but residents of apartment buildings aren’t required to use them. Continue reading “Trash Police To Fine Residents For Throwing Away Too Much Food”
Catching up to this news, which dropped quietly just before the holiday weekend: In a first, the US Department of Agriculture has given permission for chicken products processed in the People’s Republic of China to be sold in the United States without labeling that would indicate where the chicken products came from.
The news was broken by Politico, whose writers obtained USDA documents before the agency released them, and then followed up by the New York Times, with some no-holds-barred analysis by Bloomberg Businessweek. Continue reading “Unlabeled Chinese Chicken Approved By USDA”
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian splinter group from al-Qaida has beheaded a French hostage over France’s airstrikes on the Islamic State group, in a sign of the possible widening of the crisis in Iraq and Syria to the rest of the region.
The killing of Herve Gourdel, a mountaineer who was kidnapped while hiking in Algeria, was a “cowardly assassination,” a visibly upset French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday, but he vowed to continue the military operation.
“Herve Gourdel is dead because he is the representative of a people — ours — that defends human dignity against barbarity,” Hollande said on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York. “France will never cede to terrorism because it is our duty, and, more than that, because it is our honor.” Continue reading “Algerian Islamic militants behead French hostage”
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing permanent new rules that would require media organizations to obtain a permit to film and shoot photographs in more than 100 million acres of the nation’s wilderness.
Under the plan, the Forest Service would consider the nature of a proposed project before approving a special use permit then charge fees of up to $1,500 for commercial filming and photography in federally designated wilderness areas. Continue reading “Proposal Would Require Permit for Media Filming”
New York Times – by Jonathan Weisman
WASHINGTON — In politics, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. Republicans and Democrats, and groups sympathetic to each, spend millions on sophisticated technology to gain an advantage.
They do it to exploit vulnerabilities and to make their own information secure. But sometimes, a simple coding mistake can lay bare documents and data that were supposed to be concealed from the prying eyes of the public. Continue reading “G.O.P. Error Reveals Donors and the Price of Access”
Washington (CNN) — U.S. and coalition warplanes pounded ISIS positions in eastern Syria on Wednesday, targeting what a Pentagon official described as mobile oil refineries being used by the so-called Islamic State terror group to help finance its operations.
The latest round of airstrikes were aimed at cutting off money flowing to ISIS, which makes up to $2 million a day from oil produced by the mobile refineries, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, told CNN. Continue reading “Pentagon: New airstrikes target refineries used by ISIS in Syria”
HOUSTON, Texas — A large new immigrant housing center will be opened in South Texas. The South Texas Family Residential Center will ultimately hold 2,400 individuals, primarily families, who were apprehended while crossing the Texas- Mexico border. During their stay at the center foreigners will be provided with taxpayer-funded “medical care, play rooms, social workers, educational services, and access to legal counsel,” Breitbart Texas has learned.
The facility will open in November in Dilley, Texas, which is located about 70 miles southwest of San Antonio. This is the fourth facility of its kind to be built in Texas, according to Fox News. Continue reading “Massive ‘Residential Center’ to Open in Texas for Illegal Immigrants”
New York Post – by Rich Calder
A Harlem activist — once dubbed a “professional agitator” by the NYPD for filming cops conducting stop-and-frisks — slapped the city with a lawsuit Wednesday claiming police officers have repeatedly violated her free-speech rights by taking her into custody for filming them at public protests.
Christina Gonzalez, who lost a bid last year for an Upper Manhattan City Council seat as a Green Party candidate, filed the Manhattan federal court lawsuit against the city, NYPD and unnamed cops over three incidents from September 2011 to July 2012 in which she was arrested and restrained while filming cops’ actions at protests. In each of three Manhattan incidents, she claims her First Amendment rights were violated to prevent her from legally protesting against authorities. Continue reading “Activist sues city for violation of free-speech rights”
AOL – by KIM CHANDLER and JAY REEVES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two longtime UPS employees killed in a shooting at a package-processing facility in Alabama were supervisors who had worked for the shipping giant for years, the company said Wednesday.
Business manager Brian Callans, 46, of Birmingham, and driver supervisor Doug Hutcheson, 33, of Odenville, were the men killed Tuesday, UPS said in a statement. Continue reading “2 supervisors killed in Alabama UPS shooting”
In a 40-minute address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, President Barack Obama described the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or ISIS) as “a network of death” and called on world leaders to join the U.S. in taking “concrete steps to address the danger posed by religiously motivated fanatics, and the trends that fuel their recruitment.”
“There can be no reasoning, no negotiation, with this brand of evil,” Obama told the General Assembly. He said force is the only language the militants understand, and warned those who have joined ISIS’s cause to “leave the battlefield while they can.” Continue reading “On Day Two of ‘Illegal’ US-Led Bombing of Syria, Obama Asks for Help Fighting ‘Network of Death’”
Wall Street Journal – by Robin Sidel
A large data breach at Home Depot Inc. HD +1.67% has started to trigger fraudulent transactions that are rippling across financial institutions and, in some cases, draining cash from customer bank accounts, according to people familiar with the impact of the hacking attack.
The fraudulent transactions are showing up across the U.S. as criminals use stolen card information to buy prepaid cards, electronics and even groceries, these people said. In some cases, the fraudulent transactions have been tracked to batches of cardholder accounts that are tied to specific ZIP Codes, they said. Continue reading “Fraudulent Transactions Surface in Wake of Home Depot Breach”
The suspect in the missing University of Virginia student case was arrested today in Galveston, Texas, authorities said.
Jesse Matthew had been wanted by Charlottesville, Virginia, police since Monday, first on a reckless driving charge before also being charged with abduction with intent to defile Hannah Graham, the sophomore who disappeared Sept. 13. Continue reading “UVA Abduction Suspect Arrested in Texas”
Governor Jindal of Louisiana made some very significant comments in a recent address, forewarning our elected failures in Washington, D.C. that the end of the world as they know it, could be just around the corner. Jindal has been making headlines lately, calling for an end to Common Core State Standards within his state, and now seeming to realize that millions of Americans are considering a second ‘rebellion,’ if necessary.
Jindal isn’t far off the mark in making this statement. Several politically motivated Facebook pages, groups, and organizations are, or have, attempted to launch protests in an effort to voice grievances against the overly abusive nature of our current federal government. The number of scandals associated with the Obama administration, coupled with the inactivity of all 535 members of Congress, has more Americans seriously thinking of ways to rectify the situation, even if it means going the route of rebelling with arms against tyranny. Continue reading “Jindal Addresses Rebellion”
Jon Rappoport
Homeland Security Newswire
Govtslaves – by Bob Owens
Govtslaves – by Maryn McKenna
Yahoo News
ABC News – by PHUONG LE, AP
CNN
Breitbart – by Kristin Tate
Common Dreams
ABC News – by MEGHAN KENEALLY
Republic Magazine