From the Trenches World Report

RT News

Big Apple residents with big thirsts were victorious Thursday this week when an appeals court in the Empire State said New York City officials lacked the authority to implement a ban against large beverages.

The decision handed down by the state’s Court of Appeals in Albany by way of a 4-2 ruling Thursday morning now means that former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign to keep big drinks out of area businesses has officially hit the end of the road.   Continue reading “Suck it, nanny state! Court kills NYC soda ban”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president’s power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan clash with President Barack Obama.

The high court’s first case involving the Constitution’s recess appointments clause ended in a unanimous decision holding that Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 without Senate confirmation were illegal. Obama invoked the Constitution’s provision giving the president the power to make temporary appointments when the Senate is in recess.   Continue reading “High court rebukes Obama on recess appointments”

Mail.com

IZVARYNE, Ukraine (AP) — Thousands of Ukrainians in cars stuffed with belongings lined up Thursday at the eastern border to cross into Russia, with some saying they felt betrayed by their government and vowing never to return.

A commander at the rebel-controlled border post southeast of the city of Luhansk said 5,000 people had left by evening, joining a stream he said has continued unabated through a shaky cease-fire set to expire on Friday.   Continue reading “Thousands flee Ukraine for Russia; truce nears end”

Mail.com

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s vice president called on parliament Thursday to convene next week, taking the first step toward forming a new government to present a united front against a rapidly advancing Sunni insurgency that threatens to spread across the region.

Britain’s top diplomat, visiting Iraq, urged its leaders to put aside their differences for the good of the nation. And in Paris, Secretary of State John Kerry met with the United States’ top Sunni state allies in the Mideast to consider how to confront the growing turmoil.   Continue reading “Iraqi parliament to meet in step to form new govt”

The Blaze – by Sara Carter

U.S. law enforcement officials have been finding “cheat sheets” along the border used by illegal immigrants to try to stay in the United States and not get deported after they’ve been caught.

The notes, believed to be supplied by human trafficking groups, give pointers in Spanish on what immigrants should say when confronted by border authorities.

One federal law enforcement official dubbed them “illegal alien cheat sheets.”   Continue reading “This Is a ‘Cheat Sheet’ Found at the Border to Coach Illegals on How to Stay in the U.S.”

Forbes – by Jacob Sullum

Sean Green grows marijuana at 1919 East Francis Avenue in Spokane, about six miles from the courthouse where the federal government plans to try Larry Harvey, a 70-year-old retired truck driver, for growing marijuana. Green’s operation is a lot bigger than Harvey’s: up to 21,000 square feet of plant canopy, compared to the 45 plants that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) found on Harvey’s property  in a rural area of northeastern Washington about 10 miles from Kettle Falls. The difference in scale makes sense, because Green is growing pot for Washington’s newly legal recreational market, while Harvey and four other medical marijuana users were growing it for their own consumption. Both kinds of cultivation are allowed under Washington law, and both are prohibited under federal law. Yet Green’s future as a cannabis entrepreneur looks bright, while Harvey and his co-defendants face prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life.   Continue reading “Feds Prosecute Medical Marijuana Patients While Tolerating Commercial Cannabis—All In The Same City”

Armstrong Economics- by Martin Armstrong

The financial system is simply imploding because those running the affairs of government are more concerned about retaining power than providing economic stability. There are people who are so polarized on each side of many issues from hyperinflation, global elites, socialists hating the rich, communists who see capitalism as evil, and politicians who blame tax avoiders. There is so much polarization within society that there cannot be any solution for everyone has a fixed opinion and only they are right. This is then exemplified in government. They too only see their point of view and it is simply that they lack 100% control of everything (communism) and this is why it is failing.   Continue reading “Bank Runs in Bulgaria”

Conservative Tribune

There is a humanitarian crisis currently taking place along our nation’s southern border.

Thousands of illegal immigrants, many of them unaccompanied children, are flooding across the border, completely overwhelming our border security system, which already has the Border Patrol’s  hands tied due to the Obama administration’s immigration policy, or lack thereof.

Texas is now making moves to secure the southern border themselves, something they have done previously for brief periods, since the federal government has made no effort to secure it like they are supposed to.   Continue reading “Militia Mobilizes… They’re Going to Defend the Border”

Immigration of the 1950s

 In the United States, Operation Wetback was enacted in the 1950s by immigration and Naturalization service. The effects of World War 2 caused a massive exodus of Mexican migrants into the U.S through the Rio Grande, into the Southwest part of the United States, to work as farm hands .  It was characterized by massive exploitation, and abuse of Mexican farm workers, by southwest farmers, law enforcement and Immigration agents.  Due to the massive abuse, the Mexican government, in response, in conjunction with the United States enacted a treaty to protect migrant Mexican bracero worker rights (Koestler. Web. 2012).   Continue reading “Operation Wetback”

Lew Rockwell – by William Norman Grigg

Although government-aligned media outlets generally are faithful stenographers for the coercive caste, the same is not true of social media. YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have fatally undermined the official narrative that law enforcement is a noble calling by offering critics the means to document and publicize the criminal violence and pervasive corruption that characterize the profession. Thus it’s not surprising that police are seeking to ban Facebook pages that document police misconduct and demand accountability.

“There are anti-anti-police pages starting whose main purpose isn’t to engage the anti-police pages intellectually, but just to report and get them banned,” warns LRC reader Buddhadev Chakraborty. “Examples of these pages are Stop the Cop Haters, and Night of Blue Lights.”   Continue reading “Privileged Purveyors of State Violence Seek to Ban — Or Cage — Their Critics”

Houston Chronicle – by Brian Rogers

Scores of pending criminal cases and past convictions could be in jeopardy in the wake of revelations that a former Houston Police crime lab technician resigned after an internal investigation found evidence of lying, improper procedure and tampering with an official record.

Former DNA lab technician Peter Lentz worked on 185 criminal cases, including 51 murders or capital murders, according to letters sent out by the Harris County District Attorney’s Office and obtained by the Houston Chronicle through an open records request.   Continue reading “Scores of cases affected after HPD crime lab analyst ousted”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has asked the government to distribute potassium iodide pills to Canadians living within 10 kilometers of nuclear power plants, highlighting lingering concerns over the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Tasked with studying how Canada should respond to the Fukushima meltdown, the nuclear watchdog wants authorities to ensure that residents have on hand an adequate stock of the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents.   Continue reading “Watchdog Asks Government To Distribute Emergency Nuke Pills To Canadians”

Turn It Off

SACRAMENTO, June 24, 2014 – In the face of opposition lobbying from the California Sheriffs Association and two former NSA analysts, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill which creates a mechanism to turn off all material support and assistance, including water and electricity resources, from California to federal mass surveillance programs. The vote was 7-0.

Dubbed the 4th Amendment Protection Act, Senate Bill 828 (SB828) passed the State Senate last month by a vote of 29-1, and is just two votes away from reaching Gov. Brown’s desk.  If signed into law, it would ban the state from participating in, or providing material support or resources to any federal agency engaged in the “illegal and unconstitutional collection of electronic data or metadata, without consent, of any person not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place, and thing to be searched or seized.”    Continue reading “California Assembly Panel Votes Unanimously to Turn off Resources to the NSA”

ProPublica – by Minhee Cho

Continue reading “Restraints and Seclusion in Public Schools”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

University of California Professor Darrell Y. Hamamoto warns that the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States is part of a plan to create a new underclass of people who can be re-educated in order to create a subservient underclass.

Hamamoto, a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis, exclusively contacted Infowars to express his shock at what he sees as a clear “plan to destroy national sovereignty” through mass uncontrolled illegal immigration.   Continue reading “UC Professor: Immigration Influx Is About ‘Re-Education’ Of Society”

Newsmax – by Elliot Jager

A U.S. Border Patrol academy in New Mexico will be used to house up to 700 adults with children who have crossed illegally into the United States, Fox News reported.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made the announcement before the House Committee on Homeland Security on June 24. He said the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center at Artesia would serve as a temporary holding facility where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can house illegals “in a humane manner” pending their expedited deportation. Continue reading “Border Agent Academy to House Illegals”

Grist – by John Upton

In the heavily fracked Keystone State, the economic interests of frackers trump the health concerns of residents.

That much is abundantly clear in the wake of an extraordinary story by StateImpact Pennsylvania, which interviewed two retired state health department workers. The former workers say they were ordered to not return the phone calls of residents who complained that nearby fracking was harming their health. Instead, they were told to pass messages on to their superiors, who apparently never returned the calls either. The health workers were also given a list of fracking-related “buzzwords” to watch out for:

Continue reading “Pennsylvania ordered its health workers to never discuss fracking”