From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Surprise, surprise! The NYPD is less enthusiastic about telling its officers to restrain themselvesthan it is about letting them off their leashes.
The NYPD has lightened up on its use of stop-and-frisk, but unconstitutional stops persist because cops don’t know about reforms, according to a federal monitor’s report released Tuesday.
Continue reading “Court Monitor Finds NYPD Still Performing Unconstitutional Stops”
Courthouse News Service – by Nick Divito
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (NY) – A former Long Island police chief pleaded guilty Friday to beating up the man suspected of breaking into the chief’s car, stealing a duffel bag full of porn and bullets.
James Burke, 51, had been the police chief of Long Island’s Suffolk County in December 2012 when someone broke into his cruiser and liberated a duffel bag full of pornography, the officer’s gun belt, magazines of ammunition, a box of cigars, a humidor, toiletries and clothing. Continue reading “Long Island Police Chief Cops to Beating Suspect”
Las Vegas Sun – by Scott Sonner
SPARKS — Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors’ battery manufacturing plant in northern Nevada on Monday to protest what union organizers say is the increased hiring of out-of-state workers for less pay.
Approximately 350 plumbers, carpenters, electricians, painters and others walked away from the construction site Monday along U.S. Interstate 80 about 25 miles east of Reno, said Russell James, District 16 business development specialist for the Building and Construction Trades Council of Northern Nevada. Continue reading “Construction workers walk off Tesla job site in labor dispute”
Justice Scalia is just the latest of targeted and politically motivated deaths that have taken place during the Obama Administration, and virtually everyone is raising questions about the suspicious details surrounding his death, including the lack of autopsy or official investigation into the possible causes of death.
The motive is simple: subversion of the laws and rights of this country. Obama is likely enough to get a third Supreme Court appointment, in spite of the opposition. If he doesn’t, Hillary might. Continue reading “The “Dead List”: Who The Secret Government Plans to Target Next”
Off the Grid News – by Daniel Jennings
Politicians nationwide have discovered a sneaky new way to discourage gun ownership: mandatory insurance.
Laws that would force gun owners to purchase liability insurance have been proposed in three states and the city of Los Angeles, Insurance Business America reported. Continue reading “Here Comes Mandatory Gun Insurance (And A $10,000 Fine If You Don’t Buy It)”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Rochester, NY — Brendan Carter was on his way to see his sick uncle last week when he was detained by multiple security officers in the public RTS bus station in Rochester, subsequently assaulted by police and arrested — all over his dancing.
According to Carter, he was waiting for the bus to visit his uncle who is in the hospital. Apparently overcome by emotion, Carter said he put his headphones in and started dancing to avoid crying. This dancing got the attention of DHS employees and security officers at the station. Continue reading “Video Shows How Dancing in Public in the Police State is Hazardous to Your Health”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
Well, Publius Huldah is no stranger to these parts. She has done the prerequisite work in pointing back to how the framers of the Constitution understood the term natural born citizen and has written on the subject. The following video is specifically on that subject. Unfortunately, I have been sitting on this video for a couple of weeks, but in God’s Providence, it seems it is time just ahead of Super Tuesday to unveil it to the people of Freedom Outpost. This is one you will want to share with your friends over the next couple of days for sure. Continue reading “Explained: Natural Born Citizen & Naturalized Citizen”
New York Times Books – by JOHN EARL HAYNES and HARVEY KLEHR
VENONA AND THE COLD WAR
The Venona Project began because Carter Clarke did not trust Joseph Stalin. Colonel Clarke was chief of the U.S. Army’s Special Branch, part of the War Department’s Military Intelligence Division, and in 1943 its officers heard vague rumors of secret German-Soviet peace negotiations. With the vivid example of the August 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact in mind, Clarke feared that a separate peace between Moscow and Berlin would allow Nazi Germany to concentrate its formidable war machine against the United States and Great Britain. Clarke thought he had a way to find out whether such negotiations were under way. Continue reading “Venona – Decoding Soviet Espionage in America”
The Stranger – by Alex Garland
A ginormous container ship, the CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, made its way to Terminal 18 at the Port of Seattle early this morning.
Cranes soon began lifting containers off the ship, possibly carrying recent Amazon purchases. In a press conference this morning, Stephanie Bowman, a Seattle Port commissioner, reminded the audience they were in a “unique position” to “get a close, personal look at the future of our region.” Bowman also stressed the importance of a working waterfront, stating, “We want to see our working water front filled more with working cranes rather than more ferris wheels.” Continue reading “A Massive Container Ship They’re Calling “the Future of Our Region” Just Floated Into the Port of Seattle”
Americans are most forgiving of their former Presidents. When they leave office, most people forget about all the shenanigans and sweet heart arrangements. On the surface, Obama looks like a relative novice when compared to the Bushes and Clintons. Hey, give him a little slack. He is just ready to get started. By any evaluation, the net worth of the Obama’s is mere chump change from the rarified air of the Trump Towers. Making money at the end of the office term is understandable. Few folks would expect Obama to be the next Jimmy Carter, when he has to pay for his own golf vacations. Continue reading “How much did Barack Obama rip-off while President?”
The police shooting of a 24-year-old man south of downtown Raleigh, N.C., early Monday afternoon generated a tense, impromptu protest of more than 100 people and questions about excessive use of police force.
Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown said the shooting took place shortly after noon as officers tried to arrest a man on a felony drug charge. She said one of her officers was chasing the man when the man was shot and killed, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported. Continue reading “Raleigh police kill fleeing drug suspect”
Apple Insider – by Mikey Campbell
In his ruling, New York Magistrate Judge James Orenstein decided the government lacks legal authority to force Apple, or indeed any company, to break its own digital security protocols. Echoing Apple’s arguments against Department of Justice overtures in the high-profile San Bernardino attack investigation, today’s decision noted the “unreasonable burden” in inventing, coding and distributing a purposely vulnerable operating system in hopes of cracking existing device security. Continue reading “Federal judge rules Apple cannot be forced to aid in NY iPhone unlocking, cites ‘unreasonable burden’”
New York Times – by Adam Liptak
WASHINGTON — Breaking a decade-long silence, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked several questions from the Supreme Court bench. He spoke just weeks after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose empty seat next to Justice Thomas’s remains draped in black.
It was hard to escape the conclusion that the absence of the voluble Justice Scalia, who had dominated Supreme Court arguments for nearly 30 years on the bench, somehow liberated Justice Thomas and allowed him to resume participating in the court’s most public activity. Continue reading “Clarence Thomas Breaks 10 Years of Silence at Supreme Court”
https://twitter.com/gabriellahope_/status/704366973619195904
A gunman burst into a the lunch room of an Ohio high school Monday morning and opened fire, wounding four students before officials caught him and put him in custody, investigators confirmed.
The shooting unfolded at Madison High School in Butler County. Investigators say the suspect is student-age but they’re not certain whether he attended that school. They did not name him. Continue reading “Shooting in Ohio high school lunch room wounds 4 students”
