From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Common Dreams – by Robert C. Koehler
Another deep cry, followed by a shrug. The world is at war, at war, at war. But it only hurts them, the helpless ones, the anonymous poor, who absorb the bombs and bullets, who bury their children, who flee their broken countries.
Sixty million people have been displaced by the current wars, the highest number of uprooted since World War II. But who cares? Continue reading “Spiritually Rudderless”
A central Kentucky police officer who was shot while investigating an armed robbery has died from his injuries, the Kentucky State Police said on Friday.
Richmond Police Officer Daniel Ellis, 33, was shot Wednesday morning by a man while he and another officer were searching an apartment in a town about 25 miles (40 km) south of Lexington. Continue reading “Kentucky police officer shot during robbery investigation dies”
Russia suspended all passenger flights to Egypt on Friday after a deadly plane crash at the weekend as Western officials said intelligence “chatter” supported the theory that the jet was brought down by a bomb.
Putin’s decision was a response to the crash of an Airbus A321 operated by a Russian carrier on Saturday over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All 224 people on board were killed. Continue reading “Russia suspends Egypt flights as Western intelligence backs bomb theory”
The pro-amnesty group, United We Stay, released a 10 item list of demands, same number as the Bill of Rights, for illegal aliens living in the U.S. They are demanding that Americans recognize that illegal aliens already living in the country deserve citizenship, health care, and in-state tuition rates for college.
Here is the full list of their demands:
1. Acknowledgment that we are already here, that we are human beings with a right to be, that our mere presence cannot be deemed illegal or our existence alien. Continue reading “Pro-Amnesty Group Releases Illegal Alien ‘Bill Of Rights’”
A North Carolina local judge allegedly asked a known FBI official to obtain text messages from two phone numbers owned by judge’s family members for personal reasons. Placed on administrative leave, the judge is now facing up to 37 years in prison.
Wayne County Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones asked unnamed FBI agent for a favor in a conversation that took place in October, reports Ars Technica. Continue reading “US judge faces 37yrs in jail for bribing FBI agent to get family members’ texts”
The Cap Times – by Jessie Opoien
Wisconsin is one step closer to implementing a policy that would require some applicants to take a drug test in order to receive food stamps, job training or unemployment insurance.
Gov. Scott Walker announced on Tuesday that he has approved an administrative rule submitted by the state Department of Children and Families that would establish a process to screen for and test for the use of controlled substances by applicants for state work experience programs, and to refer those determined to be abusing drugs to a treatment program. Continue reading “Scott Walker approves administrative rule to require drug testing for public benefits”
New York Times – by Coral Davenport
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday announced that he has rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.
President Obama’s denial of the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, comes as he is seeking to build an ambitious legacy on climate change. Continue reading “Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline”
They used to be called juvenile delinquents. But not any more.
The new term is “justice-involved youth,” a non-disparaging, government-speak phrase that fits with the Obama administration’s recent push to give people with criminal convictions a second chance to become productive citizens. Continue reading “Juvenile Delinquents Are Now ‘Justice-Involved Youth’”
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two police officers who accused a motorist of trying to grab one of their guns were convicted Thursday of misconduct in part because a dashcam video showed the motorist holding his hands up.
Bloomfield Officers Sean Courter and Orlando Trinidad were found guilty by an Essex County jury of conspiracy, official misconduct, tampering with and falsifying public records and lying to authorities. Courter, 35, and Trinidad, 34, face mandatory minimum prison sentences of five years when they’re sentenced in January. Continue reading “Dashcam video of man holding hands up helps convict officers”
Cough is actually a vital player in the body’s defence against disease. Coughing expels mucus, microbes, and foreign particles from the respiratory tract, protecting the lungs from infection and inflammation. The forced and sometimes violent exhalation can be voluntary as well as reflexive, since coughing is useful for moving and clearing out anything disturbing our breathing from the respiratory system. Continue reading “This Homemade Elixir Cure Nagging Cough & Lung Inflammation Very Effectively”
Air Force Times – by Stephen Losey
It’s possibly the most heart-stopping fender bender ever posted to YouTube: An Air Force tractor trailer that may or may not be carrying a nuclear weapon rear-ended by a security vehicle.
Great Falls, Montana, resident Aaron Tedford videotaped the convoy of at least two police vehicles, a security forces truck, a Humvee and six security forces BearCat vehicles escorting a white tractor trailer through Great Falls when the minor accident happened Monday afternoon. Tedford later wrote on Facebook that several helicopters were also flying overhead at the time. Continue reading “Did a nuclear missile get rear-ended in Montana?”
Campus employees at New York University made a grisly discovery while carrying out maintenance work as they came across coffins and skeletons buried beneath a famous Greenwich Village square. Anthropologists now hope to try and identify those buried for over two centuries.
The workers were replacing a water main next to Washington Square Park, one of New York’s best loved public spaces and long a hangout for intellectuals, musicians and protesters, when they found the remains of what is believed to be part of a Presbyterian church cemetery, an archaeologist said. Continue reading “Village of the dead: Skulls & skeletons found below iconic square in NYC’s Greenwich neighborhood”
SOCASTEE, S.C. (AP) — Searchers found the body of a baby in a swollen, murky South Carolina creek on Thursday, two days after a mother said she put the 5-month-old girl into the water, according to police.
Divers found the body about 3:45 p.m., Horry County police Chief Saundra Rhodes said at a news conference. Later, more than a dozen rescuers gathered in a circle, praying. Some of them wiped their eyes. Continue reading “Searchers find baby’s body in South Carolina creek”
CHICAGO (AP) — A 9-year-old Chicago boy who was fatally shot this week was “lured” from a park into an alley and executed because of his father’s alleged gang connections, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Thursday in a crime he described as among the most “unfathomable” of his 35 years in policing.
Tyshawn Lee, an elementary school student headed to his grandmother’s house, was shot in the head and back Monday in a neighborhood alley on the city’s South Side. McCarthy told reporters Thursday that the slaying was the result of two gangs fighting, potentially in a string of retaliatory events dating back months. He said the boy’s father isn’t cooperating with police. Continue reading “Police: 9-year-old Chicago boy ‘lured’ into alley and shot”
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A charter bus ran off Interstate 40 and hit a bridge abutment on a foggy night in Arkansas, killing six people and injuring many others who were taken from the scene in ambulances.
Arkansas State Police said the crash occurred about 1 a.m. Friday. A heavy storm had recently passed through the area and left light rain and fog in its wake, but it wasn’t immediately known if weather played a role. A news conference was planned for later Friday morning. Continue reading “6 killed as bus leaves road in Arkansas, hits bridge support”
Sent to us by the author, Kenneth Anton author of ‘Popsicle Man’ and ‘Cancer Vortex’
There is a growing disconnect between the American people and government whose lying statistics proclaim a recovery while 92 million remain out of work; the Middle Class is disappearing; students are overburdened with debt and the top 0.1% control 90% of the wealth. As times get harder and they will, Americans are demanding the truth. Why waste trillions bombing other countries where the enemy (Al Qaeda and Islamic State) are known CIA creations. Continue reading “Exposing the Greatest Conspiracy of Modern Times”
Huffington Post – by Don Babwin and Tammy Webber
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois police officer who staged his suicide to make it look like he was murdered had a troubled job history, ranging from numerous suspensions to sexual harassment allegations to complaints that he intimidated an emergency dispatcher with guns, according to his personnel records.
Despite a reputation as a respected youth mentor, Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz also had problems off the job, including one incident in which a sheriff’s deputy found him passed out in his truck and took him home, only to have Gliniewicz report his truck stolen the next day, according to documents in the file. Continue reading “Records Show Numerous Complaints Against Officer Who Staged His Suicide”