From the Trenches World Report

Fox Carolina – by Jennifer Phillips

INMAN, SC (FOX Carolina) – A Spartanburg County business owner is upset after he says SunTrust Bank closed his business accounts because he runs a pawn shop.

Even as a boy, Morris Williams often had a gun in his hands.

“I grew up hunting with my dad,” Williams said.   Continue reading “South Carolina Store Owner Says Bank Accounts Closed Because He Sells Guns”

Eric Peters Autos – by Eric

In Virginia, they’re both Class 1 Misdemeanors  – along with animal cruelty and larceny. One small notch below a felony. They’ll put you in jail for it. The speeding, I mean. Sexual battery? Meh. Give ‘em a fine, maybe an ankle bracelet, send ‘em on their way.

But Johnny Cochran help you if you get nabbed doing over 80 in Virginia. Or more than 20 MPH faster than any speed limit – no matter how preposterously under-posted.   Continue reading “Sexual Battery . . . and Speeding”

Alternet

ST. LOUIS (CN) – St. Louis police falsely arrested a woman, claiming she was someone who was already dead, and continued to hold her in jail and give her the runaround after acknowledging that the warrant was for a dead person, the woman claims in court.

     Shannon Renee McNeal sued the St. Louis Division of Corrections, the City of St. Louis, all of the members of the St. Louis City Police Board, St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson, several police officers and St. Louis Circuit Clerk Jane Schweitzer, on Monday in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Insane Case of Mistaken Identity: Woman Arrested, Told She Is Actually Dead, Held Anyway”

Huffington Post

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two Tulsa police officers who are married have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man who was walking with their daughter, authorities said.

Jeremy Lake was found shot to death Tuesday night on a street near downtown, Tulsa police department spokeswoman Jillian Roberson said.   Continue reading “Married Tulsa Police Officers Arrested After Fatal Shooting”

New York Post – by Larry Celona and Laura Italiano

The NYPD is offering a sweet deal to its retirees, asking hundreds of them to consider part-time, nonpatrol jobs with the department while still collecting their pensions, according to a survey sent out Wednesday and obtained by The Post.

The returning retirees would work as recruiters and instructors, and might also be called on to scrutinize applicants and make verification visits to cops who call in sick.   Continue reading “NYPD offers its retirees on pensions part-time jobs”

ABC News

The U.S. Border Patrol says it arrested a 42-year-old Rwandan citizen at the border of Maine and Canada who is wanted for war crimes.

A Canadian warrant says Jean Léonard Teganya is wanted for deportation for violating human rights under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act related to the Rwandan genocide in the 1990s.   Continue reading “Rwandan Sought for War Crimes Stopped at US Border”

RT

Edward Snowden has received a residence permit in Russia, which is valid for three years, starting on August 1, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer announced.

“On the first of August he received a three-year residence permit,” lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told reporters.

He added that Snowden had not asked for political asylum.   Continue reading “Snowden granted 3-yr residence permit – lawyer”

Business Insider – by SAM RO AND MICHAEL B KELLEY

Russia just announced a ban on food imports from the U.S., the European Union, Canada, Australia, and Norway.

Russia is specifically banning all beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, dairy, cheese, and fish imports from the U.S. and the E.U.

The ban will last one year from Thursday.   Continue reading “IT’S OFFICIAL: Russia Bans Food Imports From The US And The EU”

CNN – by Euan McKirdy

Two former top leaders in Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge, which ruled the Southeast Asian country between 1975 and 1979, were found guilty of crimes against humanity by a specially-convened Cambodian court Thursday.

Before the verdict, only one person had been brought to justice over one of the 20th century’s great atrocities.

Nuon Chea, the former Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, and Khieu Samphan, the one-time President of Democratic Kampuchea both received life sentences.   Continue reading “Top Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of crimes against humanity, sentenced to life in prison”

The Last Refuge – by Sundance

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has activated emergency response containment status to Level 1 – CDC central command center (pictured below) now activated.   WHO in emergency meeting considering declaration of “P.H.E.I.C” (Public Health Emergency Of Immediate International Concern)   Continue reading “CDC Activates Defcon 1 – Nigerian Ebola Patient Was Not Initially Quarantined”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bank of America is nearing a $16 billion to $17 billion settlement to resolve an investigation into its role in the sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis, a person directly familiar with the matter said Wednesday.

The deal with the bank, which must still be finalized, would be the largest Justice Department settlement by far arising from the economic meltdown in which millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure. It would follow earlier multibillion-dollar agreements reached in the last year with Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase & Co.   Continue reading “AP source: BofA nears $16-$17B settlement with US”

Daily Mail – by COREY CHARLTON and TED THORNHILL

President Barack Obama drew the diplomatic line somewhere at the first ever U.S-Africa summit at the White House this week by not inviting Zimbabwe’s brutal dictator Robert Mugabe.

But the guest list still included several other African leaders with only slightly better human rights records.

The White House promoted the summit as the largest-ever gathering of African leaders in the United States, with more than 50 countries represented.    Continue reading “Obama’s monsters ball: How the White House opened its doors to some of Africa’s most evil dictators and homophobes and turned blind eye to their human rights record”

Freedom Outpost – by Richard Anthony

Let me ask you all a couple of questions before you start reading my article, OK?

1. Is our Border secure?
2. Are you happy with the work ethic of your elected officials?

As you read, you’ll understand why I asked those questions.

Now, I’ve been a registered Republican my entire adult life, but watching what certain establishment Republicans have been doing against their Tea Party opponents makes me re-think my loyalties. No, I’m not going ‘liberal,’ it’s just that over the last few years, my eyes have really been opened.    Continue reading “Elected Officials Going on a 5 Week Vacation Now Should be Arrested and Charged with Dereliction of Duty”

Freedom Outpost

In our weekly radio show, “Truth Trends,” Dr. Fred and I often laugh as we make references to the fact that we are of the conspiracy theory mindset in a number of areas. Every week there is usually some mention of needing to don our “tin foil hats” because we are venturing into territory that many may view as “being way out there.” I suppose to some people the topics Dr. Fred and I discuss may be a little much for them to handle, and thus, they brush it off as being conspiratorial or just plain nonsense. That’s fine; however, the subjects we discuss are actually of a very serious nature and not everybody can handle that subject matter. To do so would require re-wiring the gray matter between the ears and rearranging the brain housing group. To accept that there is any premise of truth within a conspiracy theory is to admit that you have absolutely no control of anything going on around you and most of us simply cannot handle that, so it is rejected outright.  Continue reading “What was Once Called Conspiracy Theory is Actually Happening Now”

Our decision is final. We can no longer continue to hide our disdain for America while the masses are waking up to the truth, no matter what we do, your always right there exposing the lies we swear are truths. We try to explain to you that there are ‘Evil’ people out there who want to destroy us and our freedoms, countless times we’ve pointed out dictators in many other countries who destroy their own citizens because of their own lust for more power and control.

We have shown you pictures and videos of these very dictators who have held power for decades and create their own laws destroying the very fabric of their own countries. We’ve asked you, the American people and our allies that something must be done to stop this madness that is killing innocence around this globe. We hire the best news reporters to give you honest news to help show you what we see without exposing any ‘Top Secret’ information, this is why we claim them to be reliable sources.   Continue reading “The decision has been made – Rand Paul is going to be the next President of the United States of America!”

EAG News – by Brian Sikma

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A prominent CNN commentator, the top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon.

Founded by leftwing activist Billy Wimsatt, the group is a secretive digital gathering of writers, opinion leaders, activists and political hands who share information, ideas and strategy via a closed Google group.   Continue reading “1,000-member secretive progressive journalist group uncovered”

Officer – by MIKE WARD AND PEGGY FIKAC

AUSTIN, Texas — National Guard troops beginning a controversial deployment to the Rio Grande Valley to help deal with a flood of undocumented immigrants will stow their combat gear and take up Spanish lessons, state officials said Tuesday as questions continued to swirl about whether the additional boots on the ground even were needed.

The Guard troops will be armed for self-defense and trained to avoid confrontation with border crossers as they help back up federal border agents and hundreds of Department of Public Safety troopers, Texas Rangers, DPS investigators and game wardens who arrived weeks ago.   Continue reading “Guard Troops to Take Up Spanish Lessons”