From the Trenches World Report

Press TV

Citing a Pentagon spokesman, Military Times reported on Tuesday that major US units – including the Army’s 17th Field Artillery Brigade, 1st Armored Division; the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade; elements of the Navy’s Task Force 51/59; and the 407th Air Expeditionary Group – will take part in the drills, which are dubbed as ‘Eager Lion.’   Continue reading “6,000 US troops head to Jordan for military drills”

21st Century Wire

The reactionary Israeli right could have wished for a better pretext for an extended tantrum this week, as Russia announced plans to help Iran build up to 8 nuclear reactors.

This latest deal is designed to stimulate economic activity in the BRICS economic zone and also includes two desalination plants, with Russia trading its expertise in exchange for oil. Continue reading “Israel Foaming at Mouth as Russia Announces Plan to Build 8 Reactors in Iran”

EE Times – by Rick Merritt

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard will lay off another 16,000 workers on top of 34,000 layoffs it already announced. The move could save up to an additional billion dollars a year by 2016 on top of the maximum $4 billion savings previously anticipated.

The layoffs will come across all HP’s product divisions and geographical locations. About 7,000 of the new layoffs will come before the end of HP’s 2014 fiscal year and the rest before the end of 2015.   Continue reading “HP Plans 16,000 More Layoffs”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

There are already more than 101 million working age Americans that are not employed and 20 percent of the families in the entire country do not have a single member that has a job.  So what in the world are we going to do when robots start taking millions upon millions more of our jobs? Thanks to technology, the balance of power between employers and workers in this country is shifting dramatically in favor of the employers.  These days, many employers are wondering why they are dealing with so many human worker “headaches” when they can just use technology to get the same tasks done instead.  When you replace a human worker with a robot, you solve a whole bunch of problems.  Robots never take a day off, they never get tired, they never get sick, they never complain, they never show up late, they never waste time on the Internet and they always do what you tell them to do.  In addition, robotic technology has advanced to the point where it is actually cheaper to buy robots than it is to hire humans for a vast variety of different tasks.  From the standpoint of societal efficiency, this is a good thing.  But what happens when robots are able to do just about everything less expensively and more efficiently than humans can?  Where will our jobs come from?   Continue reading “The Robots Are Coming, And They Are Replacing Warehouse Workers And Fast Food Employees”

Continue reading “Jack in the Box Robbed at Gun Point AGAIN. 3rd Time Since Guns Were “Banned” from Store”

RT News

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled recently that police are allowed to search vehicles without a warrant. Meanwhile, the state General Assembly is advancing a bill to grant police authority to arrest those with “secret compartments” in their vehicles.

In a 4 to 2 decision weeks ago, the state Supreme Court decided that police could conduct searches of vehicles based solely on probable cause, or an officer’s reasonable belief that the vehicle contained illegal goods or evidence of a crime. The new standard puts the state in line with the federal law, which allows warrantless searches of vehicles.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania to allow police to search cars without a warrant”

RT News

North America is in for a natural light show overhead, as a meteor shower expected over the weekend could turn into a full-on sky storm, affecting countries’ entire skylines. Its intensity could even outdo the Perseid meteor shower.

Stargazers are expecting the spectacle to hit late Friday and last into Sunday morning, just as Earth passes through a stream of debris consisting of up to 1,000 pieces of a comet it shed in the 1800s falling all around, every hour, at speeds of 12 miles per second (19.3kps).   Continue reading “Never-before-seen meteor shower could light up entire North America over weekend”

Mail.com

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in southern Oregon held an unlikely suspect overnight: an adorable black bear cub.

Myrtle Creek Police Chief Don Brown says a teen boy and his parents dropped off the cub in a large plastic storage bin at the police station Monday. The teen found the small animal whimpering in the bushes outside his house on the outskirts of town.   Continue reading “Adorable bear cub charms police in Oregon”

Mail.com

DETROIT (AP) — When they pull up to a gas station these days, Detroit drivers are looking beyond the price per gallon at a far more threatening concern: carjackers.

The armed auto thieves have become so common here that parts of the bankrupt metropolis are referred to as “Carjack City,” and many motorists fear getting out of their vehicles even for a few moments to fill a tank.   Continue reading “Detroit motorists under siege in ‘Carjack City’”

Mail.com

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair.

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill into law Thursday allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event prisons are unable to obtain the drugs, which have become more and more scarce following a European-led boycott of drug sales for executions.    Continue reading “Tennessee brings back electric chair”

KATC News 3 – by Jim Hummel and Tina Macias

A Vermilion parish woman is calling foul over the sale of her foreclosed home. It’s a sale that could cause potential ethical and legal problems for one elected official in Vermilion Parish.

The Sale

“It just doesn’t seem right,” said Michelle McNabb, who lost her home earlier this year when she fell on hard times, financially. “My note went from $350 to $700 per month, which became impossible.”   Continue reading “Corruption Accusation Over Sheriff’s New Home; Sheriff Defends Purchase”

The New American – by Warren Mass

Using a device called StingRay, police across America are able to intercept calls and texts from cell phones — often without a warrant. The StingRay simulates a cell tower, prompting cellphones within its range to identify themselves and transmit their signals to the police instead of the nearest mobile network operator’s tower.

No one seems to know exactly how many local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies are using Stingray technology, how extensive the monitoring is, or even what information the devices are capable of capturing, such as the contents of phone conversations and text messages.   Continue reading “Police Use “StingRay” Device to Monitor Cellphones”

Press TV

It is illegal to detain a CIA agent under any circumstances. They may carry any weapon, anywhere, anytime, and request assistance from any law enforcement official with more than certainty.

Why then would this incident be part of a highly classified Russian intelligence report? Could it, perhaps, be that Carnaby, answering directly to former President and CIA Director, George H.W. Bush, was murdered to silence his participation in the theft and sale of American nuclear warheads?   Continue reading “US secretly selling nukes worldwide via Israel”

Child Abuse Recovery

Air Force personnel massacred 13 children on May 17 1958 according to the lone survivor of a suspected genocide by Royal Canadian Air Force personnel.

The homicides were said to take place as the Canadian government closed their MKULTRA mind control program. Last week the witness, now in her mid-sixties, gave heart-wrenching details about child genocides during hearings at the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels. She also discussed her eyewitness to murders of seven other children during her two year childhood stint at the base. She claimed to be a victim of a CIA-funded mind control program designed to develop “Super Spies.”   Continue reading “CIA, US, Canadians torturing, murdering children to develop Super Spies?”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Georgia state Attorney General Sam Olens recently decided to play hardball with a journalism student who published certain documents at the Society for Professional Journalists blog network. Needless to say, it backfired. (via Jim Romenesko)

First off, University of Georgia student David Schick made a public records request for documents concerning names of candidates for his university’s president, as part of an investigation into the school’s Georgia Perimeter College’s $16 million budget shortfall. According to Schick, the obfuscation began there. The published part Olens objected to is only four of the 700 pages Schick ended up with — but he had to fight hard to get anything at all.   Continue reading “State AG Tries To Order Removal Of Public Records From Journalist’s Blog, Resulting In Records Being Posted Everywhere”