From the Trenches World Report

The Heritage Foundation – by Evan Bernick and Paul Larkin

Brandy Berning spent the night in a Florida jail because she used a cell phone to film a traffic stop on I-95.[1] George Thompson of Fall River, Massachusetts, claimed that he was verbally abused, arrested, and locked up overnight for filming a profane police officer with a cell phone from his front porch. The officer was across the street in full view and within earshot of anyone who happened to be passing by his home.[2]Most recently, Florida police arrested and charged Lazaro Estrada with obstruction of justice for peacefully filming an arrest with his cell phone on a public street.[3]   Continue reading “Filming the Watchmen: Why the First Amendment Protects Your Right to Film the Police in Public Places”

AZ Central – by Megan Cassidy

A Phoenix man is suing a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy after he says the deputy collided with his truck and then handcuffed the plaintiff when he tried to write down the deputy’s license-plate number.

Detective Steve Chervenak denies the allegations of assault, false imprisonment and civil-rights violations, and instead claims the driver was combative, forcing Chervenak to detain him for safety concerns. The case is making its way through federal court.   Continue reading “Suit: Deputy caused crash, handcuffed other driver”

Breitbart – by DANIEL NUSSBAUM

FONTANA, CA — Breitbart News has learned that 46 illegal aliens, mostly women and children originally destined for the U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, CA, were bused instead Thursday to the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Fontana, roughly 45 miles north. The 46 are among several hundred Central Americans who were caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas and have been transferred to California since.   Continue reading “46 Illegal Aliens Bused to Church in Fontana for Release”

Tom Dispatch – by Rebecca Gordon

Once upon a time, if a character on TV or in a movie tortured someone, it was a sure sign that he was a bad guy. Now, the torturers are the all-American heroes. From 24 to Zero Dark Thirty, it’s been the good guys who wielded the pliers and the waterboards. We’re not only living in a post-9/11 world, we’re stuck with Jack Bauer in the 25th hour.

In 2002, Cofer Black, the former Director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, told a Senate committee, “All I want to say is that there was ‘before’ 9/11 and ‘after’ 9/11. After 9/11 the gloves come off.” He wanted them to understand that Americans now live in a changed world, where, from the point of view of the national security state, anything goes. It was, as he and various top officials in the Bush administration saw it, a dangerous place in which terrorists might be lurking in any airport security line and who knew where else.   Continue reading “The 25th Hour – Still Living With Jack Bauer in a Terrified New American World”

Lew Rockwell – by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The classical argument in favor of free immigration runs as follows: Other things being equal, businesses go to low-wage areas, and labor moves to high-wage areas, thus affecting a tendency toward the equalization of wage rates (for the same kind of labor) as well as the optimal localization of capital. An influx of migrants into a given-sized high-wage area will lower nominal wage rates. However, it will not lower real wage rates if the population is below its optimum size. To the contrary, if this is the case, the produced output will increase over-proportionally, and real incomes will actually rise. Thus, restrictions on immigration will harm the protected domestic workers qua consumers more than they gain qua producers. Moreover, immigration restrictions will increase the “flight” of capital abroad (the export of capital which otherwise might have stayed), still causing an equalization of wage rates (although somewhat more slowly), but leading to a less than optimal allocation of capital, thereby harming world living standards all-around.   Continue reading “On Free Immigration and Forced Integration”

Yahoo News – by Steve Holland

AUSTIN Texas (Reuters) – President Barack Obama may look back on this week as the time when he dropped all pretense of political decorum and let all his frustrations with Washington gridlock spill forth.

Obama’s public speeches on a three-day trip, like the one he delivered at the Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas, on Thursday, covered many of the same talking points he delivers at Democratic fund-raising events.   Continue reading “Obama lets rip on trip out of Washington”

NORML

Toronto, Canada: Subjects who regularly inhale cannabis smoke possess no greater risk of contracting lung cancer than do those who consume it occasionally or not at all, according to data published online ahead of print in the International Journal of Cancer.

An international team of investigators from Canada, New Zealand, Great Britian, and the United States analyzed data from six case-control studies involving over 5,000 subjects (2,159 cases and 2,985 controls) from around the world.   Continue reading “Study: Habitual Marijuana Smoking Not Associated With Increased Risk Of Lung Cancer”

San Francisco Bay View – by Abayomi Azikiwe

Detroit activists concerned about the massive water shutoffs across the economically devastated city blocked entrances into the yard of Homrich, a firm given a nearly $6 million contract to terminate services for hundreds of thousands of people. The firm was hired by emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who was appointed by right-wing Gov. Rick Snyder in March 2013, who later forced the city into the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history a year ago.

Protesters were taken into custody and charged with disturbing the peace. A hearing was set for July 21.A picket line set up before 7:00 a.m. on July 10 blocked the entrance to Homrich for over an hour. Eventually police arrived and attempted to force demonstrators out of the driveway, prompting resistance leading to 10 arrests.   Continue reading “10 arrested blocking trucks sent to shutoff water services in Detroit”

Planet Save – by Sandy Dechert

Look up this weekend, just as we advised you to for the blood moon and total lunar eclipse in April!  A “Supermoon,” one of the largest moons of the year, will come visiting. Both Friday and Saturday nights should provide good viewing, though the phenomenon actually occurs at 7:25 am EDT Saturday.

This July moon is also known as a Full Buck Moon, because it appears at the time male deer (bucks) begin to sprout antlers; or as a Thunder Moon. Those familiar with July in the States can figure out where Thunder Moon gets its name.    Continue reading “Three Summer Supermoons Of 2014 Start Saturday”

640 AM Toronto – by Jessica Gray

The Special Investigations Unit has laid several charges against a former Toronto Police Officer in the alleged sexual assault of two men.

The SIU says the agency was notified of a complaint against the officer. The incident is alleged to have taken place between January 1, 1970 and December 31, 1971.   Continue reading “Former Toronto Police Officer Charged by SIU”

Bloomberg – by Patricia Hurtado, July 4, 2014

KTNV 13 Action News – by Jacqui Heinrich

Bunkerville NV (KTNV) — There’s new information on the showdown at the Bundy Ranch.

A new study claims the militia response was organized, a crime, and should be prosecuted. More than 200 militia convened in Bunkerville for several weeks after the Bureau of Land Management started rounding up rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle for failing to pay grazing fees to use public land.

The Southern Poverty Law Center said Bundy’s show of support from right-wing conservatives was not a grassroots effort, but an organized response representative of a much larger threat. They’re calling for action before things turn dangerous.   Continue reading “Southern Poverty Law Center Study claims militia at Bundy Ranch tied to violent, radical movement”

Judicial Watch

The nation’s most violent street gangs—including Mara Salvatrucha—are actively recruiting new members at U.S. shelters housing illegal immigrant minors and they’re using Red Cross phones to communicate, a Homeland Security source tells Judicial Watch.

JW has reported extensively on the crisis created by the sudden influx of mostly Central American minors that have crossed into the U.S. through the Mexican border in recent weeks. It has created havoc and will end up costing American taxpayers billions of dollars to house, process, medically treat, feed and inevitably educate the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) which are being dispersed throughout the country. They are bringing in dangerous diseases—including swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis— and occupying our military bases as shelters.   Continue reading “MS-13 Actively Recruiting Illegal Alien Minors at U.S. Shelters”

Sent to us by Pontiac Tribune

For more than three days Israel has executed a bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians. Several hundred airstrikes on civilian-dominated areas were ordered by the Israeli military, killing at least 91 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Palestinian health services are on the brink of collapse due to the terror and panic caused by the high number of civilian victims(at least 18 children), not to mention 500 or more injuries.  Continue reading “Nobody Should Be A Number: Israel Mobilizes 40,000 Troops For Possible Gaza Ground Invasion”

Japan Today

TOKYO — Tropical storm Neoguri skirted past the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Japan’s east coast Friday and blew out to sea, leaving behind it a trail of destruction and several people dead.

The storm swept past Tokyo earlier Friday, where it failed to disrupt the morning rush-hour, but was still packing winds of up 83 kilometers an hour and bringing heavy rain.   Continue reading “Tropical storm skirts past Fukushima and heads out to sea”