From the Trenches World Report

Hang the Bankers – by Clark Kent

American and British intelligence hope to take advantage of social media platforms, like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, in an effort to spread disinformation and propaganda, as well as potentially foment public protests, recent Snowden leaks claim.

According to Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first broke the news on the Snowden NSA leaks, an Orwellian-style dystopia is lurking on the horizon as western spy agencies see an opportunity for manipulating public opinion and disseminating state propaganda by exploiting global internet giants, such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.   Continue reading “US and UK intelligence planning to infiltrate social media to spread propaganda and disinformation”

Pittsburgh Post Gazzette – by Jonathan Weisman, The New York Teams

WASHINGTON — The Senate is expected to easily approve legislation today restoring unemployment benefits to nearly 3 million people, throwing the bill to a divided House, where Republicans favor starkly different approaches to the issue.

Six Senate Republicans joined all 55 Democrats last week to end debate on legislation that retroactively restores benefits cut off Dec. 28 and extends them through June 1, clearing the way for passage today.   Continue reading “Senate set to pass jobless benefit extension”

World Events and the Bible

(Source: Natural News) – A newly released study funded in part by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center predicts a Roman-style collapse of Western civilization unless resources and wealth are distributed more “equitably.”

The study warns of a coming “collapse” within a few decades and attempts to avoid being viewed as fringe or controversial by attempting to make sense of historical data indicating that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.”   Continue reading “NASA warns how ‘powerful, complex societies’ are subject to immediate collapse”

NBC Los Angeles – by Andrew Lopez and Jane Yamamoto

More than 100 people were arrested and several deputies were injured during a spring break street party near Santa Barbara, Calif., that quickly dissolved into violence overnight.

Authorities from various law enforcement agencies were dispatched to control unruly crowds during Deltopia, an annual party in Isla Vista that drew about 15,000 people, according to a news release from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office.   Continue reading “100 People Arrested After Spring Break Party Turns Violent”

MassPrivateI

The World Privacy Forum report: ‘How Secret Consumer Scores Threaten Your Privacy and Your Future’ highlights the unexpected problems that arise from new types of predictive consumer scoring, which this report terms consumer scoring. Largely unregulated either by the Fair Credit Reporting Act or the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, new consumer scores use thousands of pieces of information about consumers’ pasts to predict how they will behave in the future. Issues of secrecy, fairness of underlying factors, use of consumer information such as race and ethnicity in predictive scores, accuracy, and the uptake in both use and ubiquity of these scores are key areas of focus.   Continue reading “How secret consumer scores threaten our privacy”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

While the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify its $40 million, 6,300 page report detailing the CIA’s torture regime — including the facts that it went beyond what was authorized, produced no useful intelligence and then the CIA lied about it all — three members of the Committee voted against it. Senators James Risch, Dan Coats (though, who knows if he had any idea what he was voting on) and Marco Rubio all voted against declassifying, with Risch and Rubio putting out a statement claiming that the State Department didn’t want the report declassified.   Continue reading “State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry”

Fox News Radio – by Todd Starnes

Muslim moms and dads in Dearborn, Mich. are upset after students received flyers promoting an Easter Egg hunt at a local Presbyterian church. The parents say the egg hunt violates the U.S. Constitution.

The Muslims told the Detroit Free-Press that they were concerned about the religious implications of Cherry Hill Presbyterian Church’s “Eggstravaganza!” They were also troubled by images of a bunny rabbit.   Continue reading “Muslims Object to Easter Egg Hunt”

Now the End Begins

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Liberty University, which is considered the world’s largest Christian university, has hired an open homosexual advocate to choreograph its upcoming Broadway-style presentation of Mary Poppins.

The university recently published an article regarding the production, which it celebrates as being the school’s “largest to date.” The article notes that Alluvion Stage Company, an arm of the university’s Department of Theater Arts, “has hired a guest music director, a flight director, and a Broadway choreographer” to assist with the presentation.   Continue reading “Liberty Christian University Now Hiring Open Homosexuals”