From the Trenches World Report

RT News

The number of applications for concealed weapons permits has exploded in California, especially in rural counties, after a federal court overturned legal restrictions on the traditionally Democratic state’s concealed firearms law.

Approximately 56,000 residents in the state of 38 million currently have concealed weapons permits, which allows residents to carry weapons “capable of being concealed on the person,” (i.e. handguns).   Continue reading “Rush for gun permits following overturn of California firearms law”

RT News

Some 240 barrels of crude oil seeped from an underground pipeline and contaminated a large area in the Oak Glen Nature Preserve in Ohio. While the leak is relatively small, the cleanup process is expected to be tricky.

The 20-inches Mid-Valley Pipeline Co. pipeline probably burst at the end of last week, since local residents reported smelling petroleum at the time. The spill was discovered on Monday, after which authorities called for an inspection, local media reported.   Continue reading “Crude oil pipeline bust contaminates Ohio nature preserve”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government announced a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp. on Wednesday and filed a criminal charge alleging the company defrauded consumers by issuing misleading statements about safety issues in Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

Attorney General Eric Holder said it is the largest financial penalty of its kind ever imposed on an auto company. Under a deferred prosecution agreement, an independent monitor will review policies, practices and procedures at the company.   Continue reading “US Files Charge Against Toyota, $1.2B Penalty”

Crimes Against Humanity

One can interpret events as coincidences-until they fit too well to be anything but part of a well-conceived plan.  This is the unfortunate case regarding the radiation threat from the tragedy of the Fukushima Daiichi reactor melt-down.

The key to determining if you have been exposed or contaminated by ionizing radiation begins with determining the event.  Government documents define radiological events.   Continue reading “Bring in the Radiation Surveillance Clowns”

CNN – by Ben Brumfield

Are you a truck driver or shift worker planning to catch up on some sleep this weekend?

Cramming in extra hours of shut-eye may not make up for those lost pulling all-nighters, new research indicates.

The damage may already be done — brain damage, that is, said neuroscientist Sigrid Veasey from the University of Pennsylvania.   Continue reading “Shift workers beware: Sleep loss may cause brain damage, new research says”

The Guardian

A new study sponsored by Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.

Noting that warnings of ‘collapse’ are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.” Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to “precipitous collapse – often lasting centuries – have been quite common.”   Continue reading “Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?”

Daily Slave – by Lee Rogers

The Federal Bureau of Investigation otherwise known as the FBI is an embarrassment to humanity.  Since I started tracking this phenomenon late last year it has become clear that the FBI is busting fake terror plots they create, staging terror hoax events or investigating fake mass shootings roughly every six weeks.  One of the primary reasons why they do all of this is for job security.  Since part of their job is to fight terrorism, if they can’t find any real terrorists it eliminates the need for certain people at the FBI to be employed.  Since there is a lack of real terrorists, they create these hoax events and entrap different dupes and morons to make the American sheep believe that there are actual terror threats.  More importantly, it projects an illusion that America needs the FBI to keep them safe.  In short, it is nothing more than FBI sanctioned criminality which warrants a full Congressional investigation.  Too bad we’ll never get one because the FBI like most organizations in the federal government appears to be above the law.   Continue reading “Six Week Cycle Continues with FBI Manufacturing another Hoax Terror Plot”

MassPrivateI

Facebook has announced it now plans to unleash facial recognition technology with a new program that promises to identify the subject of an untagged image with nearly unparalleled accuracy.

Researchers at the social media giant claim that humans who look at two faces can identify if they are the same person with a 97.53 percent accuracy. They promise that the company’s new “DeepFace” program will be able to do the same with 97.25 percent accuracy.    Continue reading “Facebook’s new ‘DeepFace’ program could provide instantaneous facial recognition”

Ben Swann – by Joshua Cook

Apparently, some folks are mad at the new South Carolina law allowing CWP holders to conceal carry in restaurants that serve alcohol.

And the sign said, “NO CONCEALED WEAPONS ALLOWED. If you are such a loser that you feel a need to carry a gun with you when you go out, I do not want your business. Douchebag.”   Continue reading “S.C. Pub Insults Gun Owners With Offensive Sign, Gun owners fight back”

The Tallahassee O

Debra Williams, a 42-year-old bipolar woman, was arrested while arguing with her ex. Very distraught, talking about killing herself because her daughter needed her protection from being abused by her father and unable to help, Williams was handcuffed in a police cruiser, at times kicking the protective glass. Officer Chad Moyer and Cpl. Greg Hatfield grabbed Williams and punched her in the face several times. She also alleges the two officers filed false reports about the arrest.   Continue reading “Bipolar Woman Receives $250,000 Settlement for Police Brutality”

World Events and the Bible

(Source: ZeroHedge) – Forget tapering. Forget Ukraine. The largest single risk to the world economy and financial markets right now is China.

What’s going on in China reminds me a lot of what I witnessed firsthand when I lived in South Korea in the 1990s, before that economy’s crash in 1998.   Continue reading “The Dominoes Begin To Fall In China”

Examiner

March 19 2014: Today Nun-in-training Sosefina Amoa sat in a Washington D.C. jail awaiting 23 May sentencing for voluntary manslaughter in the death of her newborn. According to The Washington Post Sister Amoa admitted to smothering the baby she named Joseph after giving him birth at the Catholic Northeast Little Sisters of the Poor Convent.

Although the nuns reported Sister Amoa to police, Catholic authorities have not always been transparent about homicides committed within their secretive walls. According to child abuse survivors of Catholic institutions, it was common for priests and nuns to rape and kill children, especially a newborn. There was assurance from the Vatican that anyone tarnishing the Roman Catholic Church by reporting such crimes would be excommunicated and thus live in eternal Hell.   Continue reading “Are Catholic priests and nuns murdering their own children?”

Yahoo News – by Aleksandar Vasovic and Gabriela Baczynska

SEVASTOPOL/SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian troops and unarmed men stormed Ukraine’s naval headquarters in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on Wednesday and raised the Russian flag in a tense but peaceful takeover that signals Moscow’s intent to neutralize any armed opposition.

Russian soldiers, and so-called “self-defense” units of mainly unarmed volunteers who are supporting them across the Black Sea peninsula, moved in early in the morning and quickly took control.   Continue reading “Russian forces storm Ukraine naval HQ in Crimea”

Police State USA

FAYETTEVILLE, NC — A man drinking canned iced tea in a parking lot was accosted by a plainclothes beverage cop who demanded to inspect his drink.  He was placed in handcuffs and arrested.   Even though the man was innocent and was only drinking tea, prosecutors are still trying to set him up with probation and community service.

The incident took place on the evening of April 27th, 2013.  Two men were standing by their vehicle waiting for friends to arrive in the parking lot of a state-owned ABC Liquor Store.   Continue reading “Man arrested for drinking iced tea could get probation, community service”