From the Trenches World Report
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The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday released the full text of its net neutrality rules, which were approved two weeks ago.
The document runs 400 pages, which includes the statements of the five commissioners. Without the statements, the document runs 313 pages. Continue reading “FCC releases 313 pages of Internet rules”
Guerrrillamerica – by SAMUEL CULPER III
One of my favorite things about Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield/Community (IPB/IPC) is learning more about where I live. Many people point out that now is the time to collect information, when information is so freely available. We don’t yet know what Net Neutrality will do to the internet (although we have some good ideas), we don’t know that the sources of information we take for granted will be allowed to continue in their current forms, and we don’t know how a collapse-style event, even just a regional one, will affect the rest of us and our ability to collect relevant and timely intelligence information. Continue reading “ASCOPE Factors in Intelligence Collection for the Patriot-Prepper”
The Anti-Media – by Nick Bernabe
Washington, D.C. — Congress has really outdone itself this time. On Monday, neoconservative Republicans in the Senate were apparently so eager to go to war with Iran that they broke a federal law known as the Logan Act in the process. The Logan Act has been around since 1799 and has remained mostly unchanged, created to keep rogue members of Congress from undermining foreign relations.
How did Senate Republicans violate the Logan Act? Well they did that by being war mongers. But more specifically, when 47 members of Congress signed onto a letter that was sent to Iranian officials in an attempt to undermine the peace deal with Iran, they clearly violated the act — and also all committed felonies. According to Cornell University, the act reads: Continue reading “Half of the US Senate Just Committed Felonies, Could Face 3 Years in Prison”
My News 13 – by Caroline Rowland
ORLANDO — An Orlando man believes Orange County deputies went too far and violated his civil rights after forcing him to delete video he took with his drone.
Aaron Bitler said he flies his drone every day. He thought it was normal to send it up in the air when he saw deputies in his neighborhood Monday night.
“I’m bringing it up and I’m trying to see what the police (are) looking at,” Bitler said. “I want to make sure there is no one coming near us or our property.” Continue reading “Orlando man said deputies forced him to delete video he captured on drone”
Yahoo News – by Jon Herskovitz
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier accused of running a prostitution ring at Fort Hood, one of the largest Army bases in the country, pled guilty on Wednesday to 15 charges related to the accusation, officials said on Wednesday.
Sergeant 1st Class Gregory McQueen is expected to be sentenced as early as Thursday at the court-martial after pleading guilty to charges including conspiracy to solicit prostitution, adultery and dereliction of duty, the base said in a statement. Continue reading “U.S. Army sergeant pleads guilty to sex ring charges at Texas base”
The New American – by Bob Adelmann
The groundswell of public and congressional opposition against the ATF’s proposed ban on 5.56 M855 rifle ammunition was so swift and strong that the agency announced on Tuesday that it was backing down. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was not only bombarded with more than 80,000 negative responses to its latest anti-Second Amendment maneuver, but it also was blasted in Congress, where 238 House members and 52 senators signed letters opposing the ammo ban. Not only that, but legislation has been introduced to abolish the agency. Continue reading “ATF Drops Proposed Ammo Ban; Agency’s Very Existence Threatened”
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — A disturbing video has surfaced out of the Oakland Unified School District.
In the video you will only see on ABC7 News, you can see school security officers dragging a student and then allegedly punching the student off camera.
It happened last year at Fremont High School, but now Oakland Unified Police Chief Jeff Godown is calling for a review of the incident. Continue reading “Caught On Tape: Oakland Officers Attack High School Student”
HAMMOND, LA (WVUE) – A search for 11 service members missing after a helicopter crash off the Florida coast was called off for the night Wednesday because of weather, according to Air Force spokesman Maj. Craig Savage.
Savage said he expects the search to resume Thursday morning.
Human remains washed up on a Florida beach as crews search for 11 missing military members involved in an Army helicopter crash. The Pentagon said all 11 service members are presumed dead, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading “Weather suspends search for 11 service members missing in crash”
Two police officers were shot and seriously wounded early Thursday outside the police department in Ferguson, Mo. amid protests that followed the resignation of the town’s police chief.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told a news conference that a 41-year-old officer from St. Louis County was shot in the shoulder at around midnight local time, while a 32-year-old officer from suburban Webster Groves was shot in the face. Both victims were taken to a local hospital. Belmar said both men were conscious, but had no further word about their condition except to describe the injuries as “very serious.” Continue reading “Two officers shot, seriously injured outside Ferguson police department”
Defense News – by Paul McLeary
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense only has about 250 civilian contractors in Iraq supporting the 2,700 US troops deployed there; but a handful of new solicitations and potential contracts may soon add to that number, according to items posted to a federal contracting Web site.
For the past two decades, the resource-heavy American way of war has dictated that where US troops go, civilian contractors follow. It’s a way of doing business that has become ingrained in the Pentagon’s culture as end strength has slowly been whittled away while global commitments show no sign of slackening. Continue reading “US Looking for Contractors to Help in Iraq”
The head of Argentina’s tax authority has demanded that HSBC repatriate $3.5bn (£2.3bn) in funds that it says HSBC helped its clients move offshore.
Ricardo Echegaray said that HSBC’s actions threatened the stability of the Argentine government.
“HSBC built a platform to help clients evade tax,” said Mr Echegary in a press briefing at London’s Argentine embassy. Continue reading “Argentina demands HSBC repay $3.5bn in offshore funds”
The Depart of Justice issues a report on vaccine injuries and deaths every quarter to the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (click on “Meeting Book PDF – 11 MB” and start reading at page 51.). This March 5, 2015 report states that there were 117 cases for vaccine injuries and deaths compensated from 11/16/2014 to 2/15/2015.
92 of the settlements were listed in the report, giving the name of the vaccines, the injury, and the amount of time the case was pending before settlement. Five of those settlements were for deaths linked to vaccines, with three deaths related to the flu shot. 73 of the 92 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Continue reading “March 2015 Settlements in Vaccine Court: 117 Vaccine Injuries and Deaths”
Prevent Disease – by DR. McINTYRE BURNHAM
The history of medical marijuana and its use for epilepsy is a curious one. The marijuana plant, cannabis sativa, has been a part of folk medicine since antiquity and it has been used in Western medicine since the 19th century. One of its early uses was to control epileptic seizures. An obvious drawback, however, was that it was psychoactive — it made its users “high.” It was these psychoactive effects of cannabis that led to its being banned in most countries in the early 20th century. In the 1930s and 1940s, research chemists began to extract various pure compounds — called “cannabinoids” — from the cannabis plant and discovered that some extracts made you high while others didn’t. Continue reading “Cannabinoids Stop Seizures In Humans”
The Hill – by Mario Trujillo
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