From the Trenches World Report

IMEMC News – by Celine Hagbard

In a ruling that directly violates international law and conventions against the use of torture, the Israeli High Court ruled Monday that Israeli intelligence officers were justified in their use of torture against a Palestinian prisoner. The ruling sets a precedent for the future use of torture and the expansion of such techniques used against Palestinians held in Israeli custody.

The case, which involved Palestinian prisoner Fares Tbeish, was brought to the Israeli High Court after lower courts ruled that the torture was justified.   Continue reading “Israeli High Court Rules to Allow, Expand Use of Torture”

Boing Boing – by Xeni Jardin

Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros because he gave a speech boldly critical of the social media giant as a “menace,” reports the New York Times tonight.

After Davos, “in an email in January to senior communications and policy executives,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg “asked Facebook’s communications staff to research George Soros’s financial interests in the wake of his high-profile attacks on tech companies.”   Continue reading “Sheryl Sandberg ordered Facebook staff to investigate George Soros after he gave THIS speech”

Breitbart – by Penny Starr

United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Thursday that the trend in favor of nationalist policies around the world is making it harder to promote a global approach to fighting climate change.

“I think that it is clear to me that the world is more polarized. We have more and more nationalist approaches being popular and winning election or having strong election results,” Guterres said. “We see the trust between public opinions and institutions — governments, political establishments but also International organization … being eroded.”   Continue reading “U.N. Secretary: Rise of Nationalism Threatens Fight Against Climate Change”

The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark

A long-held federal hemp ban has finally been lifted in the United States thanks to provisions in the newly reconciled Farm Bill.

In case you haven’t heard, hemp could literally save the world and certainly didn’t deserve to be in the Controlled Substances Act. However, it was kept there through a misinformation and propaganda campaign spearheaded by corporate interests.   Continue reading “FINALLY: Feds Lift the Propaganda and Misinformation Based Industrial Hemp Ban”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Can you believe this? It seems I have been asking that a lot lately. Trump put up a big stink to sent troops to the border. Then the law breakers known as illegal immigrants threw all sorts of things at the men defending our border…

All for the illegal immigrants to walk free right into the US. Our President said we will not tolerate lawlessness. Continue reading “Illegal Immigrants Arrested In Mexican Border Clash Will Not Be Prosecuted”

Tucson.com – by Shaq Davis

Continue reading “Deputy US marshal shot and killed serving arrest warrant on Tucson’s north side”

NPR

President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the new U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement — or USMCA — in Buenos Aires Friday, using the backdrop of the G-20 Summit to resolve a trade dispute between America and its closest neighbors.

“Let’s go,” all three leaders said as they sat alongside each other to sign multiple copies of the deal.   Continue reading “Trump Signs New Trade Agreement With Mexico And Canada”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

A couple of months ago, a consent decree drastically restructured Philadelphia’s severely-abused asset forfeiture program. It didn’t eliminate the program entirely, but it did eliminate the small-ball cash grabs favored by local law enforcement. The median seizure by Philly law enforcement is only $178, but it adds up to millions if you do it all the time. Small seizures like this now need to be tied to arrests or the property needs to be used as evidence in a criminal case.   Continue reading “Philly Cops Skirting Forfeiture Restrictions By Seizing Cars As ‘Evidence’”

Yahoo News

Chicago (AFP) – Several police officers in the US city of St Louis were charged Thursday with illegally beating an undercover officer posing as a protester and then attempting to cover up their actions.

The charges stem from a widely-criticized police response to September 2017 street protests in the Midwestern city during which police were accused of using excessive force.  Continue reading “St. Louis cops charged with beating undercover officer during protest”

CBC News

A Niagara Regional Police officer is in stable condition in a Hamilton hospital after being shot by a fellow police officer in Pelham, Ont., the service says.

Around noon Thursday, several officers were investigating a collision that had happened days before in the area of Effingham Street and Roland Road in the rural area southwest of St. Catharines, Ont., when two of the officers became involved in an altercation, according to Monica Hudon, spokesperson for Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit.  Continue reading “Niagara police officer in stable condition after being shot by fellow officer”

Daily Mail

CNN has fired a commentator who made comments that critics described as a ‘dog whistle’ advocating the elimination of Israel.

During a speech at the United Nations on Wednesday, Marc Lamont Hill said accused the Israeli government of ‘normalizing settler colonialism’ and called for a ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea.’   Continue reading “CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill dropped over anti-Israel comments made at the United Nations”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan, March 2, 2015

The IRS is defending its decision to let illegal immigrants claim up to three years’ refunds on income even if they never paid income taxes, telling Congress in a new letter last week that agency lawyers have concluded getting a Social Security number triggers the ability to go back and ask for previous refunds.

President Obama’s new deportation amnesty could grant Social Security numbers to as many as 4 million illegal immigrants, making many of them eligible for tax refunds under the Earned Income Tax Credit even for years when they cheated on their taxes, by working off the books and not filing tax returns.   Continue reading “Flashback: IRS defends paying refunds to illegals who never filed taxes”

Daily Mail

The Trump Organization at one time planned to give Russian President Vladimir Putin a penthouse worth $50 million in the never-built Trump Tower Moscow, according to a new report.

Felix Sater, a real estate developer and former mobster turned FBI informant who advised the Trump Organization on the deal, said on Thursday that the idea was a marketing ploy.   Continue reading “Trump Organization ‘planned to give Putin a $50 million penthouse in Trump Tower Moscow’”

Steemit – by Larken Rose

So Trump is all set to do his ban on “bump stocks.” Let’s look at a few aspects of this:

1 – This is not being done by legislation. It is being unilaterally done, dictator-style, by just declaring bump-stocks to fit within the definition of what is already “illegal,” in direct contrast to the DOJ’s own prior interpretation of the law, going back for decades. In other words, Trump is declaring that what the ATF and DOJ thought the law meant before wasn’t authoritarian and controlling enough. (Incidentally, he could just as easily do the same thing with tri-burst trigger assemblies next.)   Continue reading “Heil Fuhrer Trump!”

Sputnik

Earlier this month a number of Jewish organisations in Argentina launched a petition against the former Pink Floyd front man after he participated in an event put on by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to pressure Israel to change its Palestinian policy.

Arthur Stark, Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations, and Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein have been urging companies sponsoring rock legend Roger Waters’ scheduled Mexico tour to pull their support ‘in view of the hostile, bigoted, and anti-Semitic comments’ made by the musician ‘on numerous occasions’.   Continue reading “US Jews Urge Sponsors of ‘Bigoted’ Roger Waters to Pull Tour Support”

Epoch Times – by tom Ozimek

A New York lawyer who was previously accused of participating in a $5 million corporate tax evasion scheme has now been found guilty on charges of asylum fraud.

Andreea Dumitru Parcalaboiu, who was charged with a range of crimes in association with her job as an immigration attorney, was found guilty on Nov. 19 of asylum fraud, making false statements to immigration authorities, and aggravated identity theft.   Continue reading “New York Immigration Attorney Found Guilty of Large-Scale Asylum Fraud”