From the Trenches World Report

Extreme Tech – by Sebastian Anthony

Two days ago, Comcast did something that would be inconceivable if it was any other company than Comcast: It turned 50,000 residential Xfinity modems into public WiFi hotspots. There are 50,000 paying Xfinity customers in Houston, Texas who are now broadcasting free WiFi that anyone can use. As far as Comcast is concerned, of course, this is a genius move to blanket the country in high-speed WiFi (and there are plans to hijack millions more modems by the end of 2014) — for Comcast’s customers, though, this is egregious monopolistic overreach taken to the next level… and it’s possibly illegal as well.   Continue reading “Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public hotspots, millions more by the end of the year”

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A group of marijuana activists has filed a lawsuit claiming they should not have to pay taxes on pot in Colorado, an assertion that threatens to upend legalization in the state less than a year after it became law.

Rob Corry, a local attorney, filed the suit in a Denver District Court this week, asking a judge to order an injunction against the state and the city of Denver because the collection of marijuana-related taxes violates the right against self-incrimination guaranteed by the US Constitution.   Continue reading “Colorado activists sue to halt taxes on legalized marijuana”

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US law enforcement officials must convince a judge to provide a search warrant before they obtain phone location data from a cell tower, according to an appeals court ruling poised to force the police to narrow down their evidence-gathering methods.

The three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Americans do have the right to expect that their private movements will not be tracked, and the mere action of driving past a cell tower with their phone in hand is not enough cause for police to violate that privacy. The judges ruled Wednesday that police who do obtain the records without a judge’s permission are violating a suspect’s rights under the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search and seizure.   Continue reading “Warrant required to obtain phone tracking data, court rules”

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A coalition of immigrant advocacy organizations filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday, claiming systemic abuse of unaccompanied immigrant children by US Customs and Border Protection.

The groups filed the complaint on behalf of 116 unaccompanied immigrant children, ranging in age from five to 17 years old, “who experienced abuse and mistreatment while in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which includes U.S. Border Patrol,” the document said, asking DHS to investigate the allegations.   Continue reading “Immigration groups accuse US customs officials of abusing minors”

The Guardian – by Ian Sample

Scientists have created a life-threatening virus that closely resembles the 1918 Spanish flu strain that killed an estimated 50m people in an experiment labelled as “crazy” by opponents.

US researchers said the experiments were crucial for understanding the public health risk posed by viruses currently circulating in wild birds, but critics condemned the studies as dangerous and called on funders to stop the work.   Continue reading “Scientists condemn ‘crazy, dangerous’ creation of deadly airborne flu virus”

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A gaping security bug in Google’s systems may have been used to unearth millions upon millions of users’ email addresses. The activist claimed it took Google a month to rectify the problem after his report to the company.

Tel Aviv-based security researcher Oren Hafif discovered the bug and has informed Google, which has managed to resolve the problem.    Continue reading “Massive flaw could have exposed every Gmail user’s address”

Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

Four Russian strategic bombers triggered U.S. air defense systems while conducting practice bombing runs near Alaska this week, with two of the Tu-95 Bear H aircraft coming within 50 miles of the California coast, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) confirmed Wednesday.

“The last time we saw anything similar was two years ago on the Fourth of July,” Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Norad spokesman, told the Free Beacon.   Continue reading “Russian Bombers Fly Within 50 Miles of California Coast”

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A Pennsylvania woman who was serving a two-day jail sentence for failing to pay fines accrued by her children’s truancy was found dead in her cell over the weekend, inspiring the judge who sent her there to condemn the system that mandated her sentence.

Eileen DiNino, a 55-year-old mother of seven from Reading, Pennsylvania, was found dead in her cell on Saturday. She was in the midst of a 48-hour jail sentence that was meant to erase her $2,000 debt, which had built up since 1999 by her sons’ truancy from a vocational school, according to the Associated Press.   Continue reading “Mother of seven found dead in jail cell serving time for children’s truancy”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Both ConsumerLab.com and the Natural News Forensic Food Lab have simultaneously confirmed high levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium in cacao powder products. High levels of lead have also been found by Natural News in one brand of cacao powder.

Takeaway points from this research:
• High levels of toxic cadmium are consistently found in cacao POWDER products, across many brands.   Continue reading “ConsumerLab, Natural News Labs both confirm high levels of toxic cadmium in popular cacao powders”

Mail.com

LAFITTE, La. (AP) — Gasps can be heard by tourists on a swamp boat tour in south Louisiana as their guide jumps in the water to feed chicken and marshmallows to two alligators. At one point the guide puts a marshmallow in his mouth and lets one of the gators snatch it away.

The scene was captured on video by Stacy Hicks of St. Helens, Oregon, who visited the area in May. “When he jumped in I was a little scared, more for him than us though,” Hicks said. “I am surprised at the attention this video has gotten. I just thought that this was a thing that happens all the time on the tours.”   Continue reading “Tourist video captured gator-feeding frolic”

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Lew Rockwell – by Roger Stone, The Stone Zone

According to the New York Times, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, surviving LBJ staff members, and the Johnson family has launched a campaign to improve Johnson’s image as an ex-President. This effort includes batshit crazy first daughter Luci Bird Johnson, who will host a “Civil Rights Conference” at the LBJ Library in April. Ms. Johnson will also headline a Texas Bar Association Meeting in June. LBJ’s greatness has been subsumed by Vietnam, they contend.   Continue reading “House of Cards: Is Frank Underwood LBJ?”

Lohud – by Joseph Spector, TJN

Senate Finance Committee chairman John DeFrancisco said today he has no plans to move a bill that would legalize medical marijuana out of his committee, saying too many uncertainties remain about the drug.

“The Savino bill will not come out of my committee, the Finance Committee,” he said. “You don’t have any kind of reasonable research on the effects. You have people coming in here every day trying to ban e-cigarettes and use of tobacco in other ways.”   Continue reading “Medical marijuana suffers major blow in Senate”