From the Trenches World Report

AOL – Accuweather

Severe thunderstorms are expected to rumble from Texas on Saturday to Georgia by Sunday as a complex and multi-faceted storm takes shape.

Plenty of warm, moist air transported northward from the Gulf of Mexico will clash with colder air surging southward across the Plains. As a result, violent thunderstorms will erupt over eastern Texas, including Dallas and Houston.   Continue reading “New Storm to Bring Severe Thunderstorms to South, Snow to East”

RT News

The US had 875,000 people in its terrorist watchlist system as of December 2012. Those secretly blacklisted have no real path to challenge their status, states a new report, thus indefinitely restricting those listed from travel or simply getting a job.

Hundreds of thousands of Americans and foreigners languish in the watchlist system, considered“known or suspected terrorists” based on secret rules and evidence that are basically impenetrable should the average suspect attempt to contest them, says a new report by the ACLU that highlights these challenges.   Continue reading “875,000 left in bureaucratic black hole that is US terror watchlist system”

WPXI 11

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A south-central Pennsylvania municipality is agreeing to pay $500,000 to settle two federal civil rights lawsuits that claimed its police officers beat two suspects in separate incidents then made false reports to cover up the assaults.

Police State USA

DES MOINES, IA — A settlement has been reached for a groom who was beaten unconscious at his own wedding reception, although the city still refuses to admit their officer did anything wrong.

Wedding Bash

The case dates back to 2011, when John Twombly and his bride Khamla made their vows.   They held a reception with roughly 275-300 guests, and hired an off-duty Des Moines police officer, Andrew Phipps, to provide security.   Continue reading “Groom beaten unconscious by police at his own wedding”

The Raw Story

The following is an excerpt from Julia Angwin’s Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Who is watching you?

This was once a question asked only by kings, presidents and public figures trying to dodge the paparazzi and criminals trying to evade the law. The rest of us had few occasions to worry about being tracked.   Continue reading “Dragnet Nation: Here’s how you may already be getting hacked”

World Events and the Bible

(Source: WSJ) – The value of U.S. government bonds held by foreign central banks at the Federal Reserve shrank by a record amount this week, causing a stir in the Treasury market.

Treasury securities held in custody for foreign official and international accounts dropped by $105 billion in the week that ended Wednesday, according to the latest weekly data published by the Fed. That decline brought the current figure to $2.855 trillion, a 15-month low.   Continue reading “Big Drop in Foreigners’ Treasury Holdings at Fed Stirs Talk”

The Malay Mail

SHAH ALAM, March 15 — Police were seen arriving at the residence of Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the pilot of the Flight MH370 at about 2.42pm today.

Metro

Spam videos enticing people to click on fake news stories about the missing Malaysia Airlines jet have been spreading malware on Facebook.

The fake ‘breaking news’ clips, which falsely claim the missing plane has been found, have been cluttering users’ timelines the week.

One bogus video has the headline: ‘Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted Somewhere Near Bermuda Triangle. Shocking Videos Release Today.’   Continue reading “Spam ‘missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 jet spotted near Bermuda Triangle’ video spreads on Facebook”

New York Times – by KEITH BRADSHER and CHRIS BUCKLEY

SEPANG, Malaysia — Malaysia turned the search for Flight 370 into a criminal investigation on Saturday, after the prime minister declared that the plane had been deliberately diverted from its planned route a week ago from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The plane then flew as much as seven hours to an unknown destination.   Continue reading “Search for Malaysian Jet Becomes Criminal Inquiry”

New Straits Times

Below is the full text of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s full statement of the missing MAS MH370 flight.

Seven days ago Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared. We realise this is an excruciating time for the families of those on board. No words can describe the pain they must be going through. Our thoughts and our prayers are with them.   Continue reading “PM’s statement on missing airliner”

Information Clearinghouse – by Mike Whitney

“The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.” – Harold Pinter, Nobel Acceptance Speech

“Obama is just a willing executioner. From the ruling class’s point of view, he’s the perfect figurehead because his mere appearance confuses and disarms so many. He seems to have spent his whole life trying to get chosen to play Judas. And that’s all there is in his resume.” -bevin, Comments line, Moon of Alabama   Continue reading “Obama: The Willing Executioner”

RT News

Fears of possible armed assaults and provocation in Ukraine and neighboring countries are on the rise after yet another report that rocket grenade launchers, firearms and munitions have been stolen from a military warehouse in western Ukraine.

A source in the Ukrainian Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti that the coup appointed Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has recently been notified that a large cache of guns and ammunition was missing from one of the military warehouses.   Continue reading “Over 5,000 Kalashnikovs, other guns stolen from Ukrainian military bases – report”

Mail.com

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from the maximum-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida, living under an assumed name, getting married and working for an air conditioning company.

It all came to an end this week when Jones — or Bruce Walter Keith, as the former Army private was known in Florida — was recaptured with the help of technology that was more sci-fi than reality when he broke out during the disco era: facial-recognition software.   Continue reading “After 37 years on lam, killer caught in Fla.”

Jim Stone Freelance, Jan 8 2012

There is a reason why the U.S. government is waging war all over the world, even obviously against the good of the nation.

There is a reason why the U.S. government rapidly rolled over and did the banker bailout without question, in an amount which exceeded the value of every mortgage in the country by more than 3x, and every mortgage in default by over 15x; an amount which will destroy America once the ripple effect is finished.   Continue reading “Nuclear Blackmail”

Pat Dollard

(Reuters) – Investigators believe someone aboard a missing Malaysian airliner deliberately shut off its communications and tracking systems, turned the plane around and flew for nearly seven hours after it vanished, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Saturday.

As the unprecedented search for Flight MH370 and its 239 passengers and crew entered its second week, Najib told a news conference that the hunt for wreckage around the scheduled flight path to the east of Malaysia was being called off.   Continue reading “Investigators Presume #MH370 Ran Out Of Gas, Crashed Into Indian Ocean”