From the Trenches World Report

Tehran Times – by Catherine Shakdam

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children … If you want peace and democracy, I will support you. If you want formal Apartheid, we will not support you. If you want to support racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, we will oppose you—wrote Nelson Mandela in a letter to Thomas Friedman, a prominent journalist and writer for the New York Times.   Continue reading “Israel’s ethnic cleansing: The real face of terror”

Bloomberg Businessweek

ROME (AP) — The European Union is warning its citizens and companies against doing business with Israeli settlements. It says they run legal, economic and reputational risks by making deals in what the EU considers illegally occupied territory.

The Italian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday on behalf of the EU, the presidency of which it takes over next week. It said financial transactions, investments, purchases, contracts and tourism in Israeli settlements only benefit the settlements.   Continue reading “EU warns against business in Israeli settlements”

Rudaw – by Raed asad ahmed

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death is alive and well, contrary to international media reports he was executed by the jihadi-led insurgents blazing across Iraq, a Kurdish official and a family member told Rudaw.

A spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Justice in Erbil said he had personally spoken to Rauf Rashid Abdulrahman, the judge who sentenced Saddam to death by hanging in 2006, and that reports he had died were false.   Continue reading “Kurdish Judge Who Ordered Saddam Hanged is Alive and Well”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

A veteran has contacted Infowars to inform us that his son’s combat unit was told they are being deployed to Iraq in February 2015, contradicting President Obama’s vow not to send U.S. troops back into the stricken country.

The veteran, who served in the U.S. Navy with honor in the 1990′s, was shocked when his son relayed what his Virginia-based unit had been told by superiors.   Continue reading “Combat Troops Being Sent Back to Iraq?”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This is big news. If the Federal Reserve raises the interest rate you can bet the wicked ones have decided it is time to collapse the world’s economic system. The illusion of our world has been held together for the past seven years due to money printing and negative interest rates. The problem from 2008 never went away, but it has become much worse.

(Source: Breitbart) -Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard predicted the central bank will raise interest rates starting in the first quarter of 2015, sooner than most of his colleagues think, as unemployment falls and inflation quickens. Continue reading “Bullard Predicts Fed Rate Increase in First Quarter of 2015”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The mainstream media is reporting this. They are essentially saying, stick a fork in the United States she is done. I find them pointing out how much things have changed since 9/11 to be very timely considering we have been discussing this in the comments section of another article. This is the goal though of the children of Satan. To destroy the nation state idea. When the wars of the world spin out of control and they collapse the global economy they will present their new world order and it will be perceived to be the only option since the nation states of the world have failed, yes including the United States by their hand. Continue reading “Shredding the Fourth Amendment in Post-Constitutional America”

Examiner – by Dave Gibson

On Sunday, police in Omaha arrested Pedro Diego-Antonio, 31, after he reportedly hit a man crossing the street at the intersection of 38th and Dodge Streets. The Guatemalan national fled the scene, but was taken into custody, only a few blocks from the fatal crash.

As a result of the impact, the victim, 64-year-old Dr. Edward Horowitz, was thrown nearly 20 feet, into the windshield of a U-Haul truck stopped at the red light. Less than an hour later, he died at a local hospital from his massive injuries.   Continue reading “Illegal alien with history of DUIs charged with killing doctor in Nebraska”

The Daily Caller – by Blake Neff

Students could have advertisements directed at them by Coca-Cola due to holes in existing privacy laws, one expert testified Wednesday during a House hearing on the data security of American schoolchildren.

Joel Reidenberg, who directs the Center on Law and Information Policy at Fordham Law School, told joint hearing of two House subcommittees that the privacy risks of growing digital efforts in education are grossly underappreciated.   Continue reading “Student Data Could Be Sold To Coke, Expert Warns On Capitol Hill”

Politico – by Lauren French

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will travel to the southern border of the U.S. on Saturday to be briefed by Customs and Border Protection on the flood of unaccompanied minors entering the country.

The California Democrat will also meet with a group of children held at the South Texas Detention Facility.   Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi to travel to border, meet detained minors”

USA Today – by Michael Winter

Nearly 1,200 Chicago teachers and other unionized staff received layoff notices Thursday because of declining enrollment, the city’s schools chief announced.

Pink slips went out to 550 teachers and 600 other members of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Public schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett said the staff reductions “are driven by declining student enrollment at each of the affected schools,” which were not immediately identified.   Continue reading “Chicago lays off 1,150 teachers, staff”

Yahoo News – by Harry Bruinius

As Congress remains gridlocked by the partisan wrangling over the issue of illegal immigration, New York City this week approved two separate plans that advocates say could signal a sea change in the ways cities handle undocumented workers and their families.

On Wednesday, the New York City Council earmarked $4.9 million of the city budget to give legal assistance to foreign-born New York residents facing deportation. This makes New York the first city in the US to provide lawyers for low-income immigrants detained by federal authorities. The city will provide such aid both for undocumented immigrants and for those with legal residency.    Continue reading “New York to provide free legal aid, IDs to undocumented immigrants”

Privacy SOS

Today the ACLU released a major report, tracking the militarization of the police in the United States. The report found, among other startling things, that only 7 percent of the 800 SWAT raids studied occurred in hostage and barricade situations and against active shooters. The vast majority were related to drugs. In what probably won’t come as a shock to black and brown people, the majority of these SWAT raids executed to serve drug warrants were against people of color.

Here in Massachusetts, we also released a report on the same subject. Unfortunately, it is very slim on SWAT raid details. One of the reasons it is so slim on these details is because the cops, when asked for after-action reports and statistics on raids, claimed they didn’t have them, that it would be too expensive to compile them, or that they didn’t have to obey public records law.   Continue reading “Regional SWAT squad claims it is a private organization, not subject to public records law”