From the Trenches World Report

Breitbart – by Kritin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — About half of the nation’s federal criminal cases last year were filed in regions near the U.S.-Mexico border, according to an alarming annual report from the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ).

During FY 2013, U.S. Attorney’s offices filed a total of 61,529 criminal cases against defendants, according to the DOJ. Regions along the border each had more convictions than in any other district. 6,341 cases were filed in Western Texas, suggesting it is home to the country’s most severe crime patterns. 6,130 cases were filed in Southern Texas; 4,848 were filed in Southern California; 3,889 were filed in New Mexico; and 3,538 were filed in Arizona.    Continue reading “DOJ: Regions Near Mexico Border Most Crime Ridden in US”

The Smoking Gun

A South Carolina woman yesterday summoned cops to her home after she discovered that her 15-year-old son had been watching pornography on the livingroom television.

According to a police report, Chavonda Gallman, 40, told sheriff’s deputies that she returned to her Spartanburg home yesterday at 3 PM with her two-year-old daughter and a client (Gallman is a real estate agent). Her son was in his room when the trio arrived.   Continue reading “Mom Calls Cops After Discovering Son, 15, Was Watching Porn On Living Room TV”

Breitbart – by John Sexton

Tuesday evening the CDC confirmed to Breitbart News that six individuals in the United States had been tested for Ebola. Those tests came back negative, but the CDC would not identify the states where they originated.

CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported Tuesday that half a dozen people had been tested for Ebola. It was not clear whether a patient who walked into Mount Sinai Hospital in New York Monday with “high fever and gastrointestinal problems” was one of those six or in addition to the six.   Continue reading “CDC Refuses to Identify Where Previous Ebola Tests Originated”

Daily Caller – by Patrick Howler

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) quietly changed regulations to allow more undocumented immigrants to keep their taxpayer status through a program that is rife with fraud and abuse, and to delay deactivation of immigrant taxpayer status until 2016.

The IRS now prevents peoples’ Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) from automatically expiring after five years as previously mandated. Now immigrants can keep their ITIN so long as they pay taxes at least once in a five-year period.   Continue reading “IRS Abolishes Mandatory Expiration Dates For Illegal Immigrants’ Taxpayer Status”

USA Today – by Donna Leinwand Leger, Elizabeth Weise and Jessica Guynn

LAS VEGAS — Security researchers say a Russian crime ring has pulled off the largest known theft of confidential Internet information, including 1.2 billion username and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses.

The cyber gang injected malicious code to steal databases from at least 420,000 websites, says Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer for Hold Security in Milwaukee, Wisc.   Continue reading “Russian gang stole 1.2 billion Net passwords”

Reuters – by CLAIR MACDOUGALL AND DANIEL FLYNN

Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak of the virus that has killed 887 people.

In Nigeria, which recorded its first death from Ebola in late July, authorities in Lagos said eight people who came in contact with the deceased U.S. citizen Patrick Sawyer were showing signs of the deadly disease.   Continue reading “Bodies dumped in streets as West Africa struggles to curb Ebola”

RT

The US military will begin questioning former US prisoner-of-war Bowe Bergdahl on Wednesday regarding his 2009 capture in Afghanistan by the Taliban, according to Bergdahl’s lawyer.

Major General Kenneth R. Dahl will question Bergdahl, a US Army sergeant, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. The main focus of the probe, according to a senior Army officer, is to ascertain circumstances that led to Bergdahl’s disappearance from his base station in Afghanistan and his later capture by the Taliban.   Continue reading “US military to begin questioning of ex-POW Bergdahl”

Mail.com

NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — A family in this mountainside Salt Lake City suburb huddled late at night with neighbors and a local Mormon leader, praying in vain that a fractured ridge above their home would hold steady during a storm and prevent boulders and gravel from crashing through the back door.

Three generations of the Peruvian family awoke at dawn Tuesday to the sounds of snapping and rumbling as the rain-soaked swath of hillside crumbled above them. The six inside, including young children and their grandparents in their 70s, scrambled outside to escape danger.   Continue reading “Family prayed in vain for home to withstand storms”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Take a White House state dinner and multiply it by 50. The result is the most elaborate and unusual dinner of President Barack Obama’s administration, a one-of-a-kind affair put on Tuesday night for a one-of-a-kind gathering of several dozen leaders from countries across Africa.

The leaders are attending a three-day conference organized by the White House and aimed at boosting U.S. ties to the continent. Obama wasted little time highlighting his own personal connection to Africa during a brief toast. Guests were shuttled down to a massive tent erected on the South Lawn because the White House, as big as it is, does not have any rooms large enough that can hold the more-than-400 invited guests.   Continue reading “Obama welcomes African leaders for unusual dinner”

Mail.com

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was put to death Wednesday for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S. prisoner executed since a lethal injection in Arizona last month in which an inmate took nearly two hours to die.

The Missouri Department of Corrections said Michael Worthington was executed by lethal injection at the state prison south of St. Louis and was pronounced dead at 12:11 a.m., 10 minutes after the process began. He is the seventh Missouri inmate executed this year.   Continue reading “Missouri inmate executed for raping, killing woman”

Huffington Post – by Ben Hallman

Every day in neighborhoods across the country, low-paid workers with little oversight or training decide whether to break into someone else’s home.

They are independent contractors working indirectly for banks, including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.   Continue reading “Banks Keep Breaking Into Houses, And Homeowners Are Fighting Back”

Gold Core – by Mark O’Brian

European stocks fell today as nervous investors sold stocks on reports of a build-up of Russian troops near the border with Ukraine. Polish foreign minister Sikorski said Russia has gathered substantial military forces at the border with Ukraine to either put pressure on the neighbouring country or to enter it.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his government to prepare retaliatory measures against the latest round of Western sanctions. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev threatened on yesterday to retaliate for the grounding of a subsidiary of national airline Aeroflot because of EU sanctions, with one newspaper reporting that European flights to Asia over Siberia could be banned.   Continue reading “Russia And Iran Sign Historic 500,000 Barrel A Day Oil Deal – Petrodollar Under Threat”

Police State USA

ERIE COUNTY, NY  — A family was traumatized when gun-wielding police officers walked onto their quiet property and shot their dog in the head while looking for a man who did not live there.

Megan Shimburski, 25, was spending a quiet afternoon with her children at her parents’ countryside East Concord residence on July 25, 2014. It was a normal day, she said, which involved watching her 5-year-old daughter play behind the house with their dog, as her infant son lied in a playpen inside the house.   Continue reading “Family pet shot in the head by plainclothes cops searching at wrong address”