From the Trenches World Report

Portland Oregon Police Bureau

On Tuesday March 4, 2014, at 3:47 p.m., North Precinct and Transit Police Division (TPD) officers responded to Northeast 82nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard on the report of an armed man on a TriMet bus.

As officers were en route to the scene, additional information was received that the suspect claimed to have a “loaded and cocked” handgun.    Continue reading “Man Arrested on TriMet Bus After Implying He Had a Gun”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – by Mike

The night is gathering gloomily, the day is closing fast —
The tempest flaps his raven wing in loud and angry blast;
The thunder clouds are driving athwart the lurid sky —
But “put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.”
— “Oliver’s Advice,” a poem by William Blacker, 1834.   Continue reading “On the proper response to Connecticut tyranny going operational. “Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!””

The Weekly Standard – by  STEPHEN F. HAYES

Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan

There once was a guy who wrote a book about his journey out of crippling brain fog. He warned that to get out of it he and others needed to use extreme caution about what they brought into the house. With gloves, anything he purchased was unwrapped and placed into more natural vessels like glass, wood and stainless steel. Furthermore, most of those purchases were avoided in the first place.

Does that seem extreme to you?   Continue reading “The Longterm Health Impact of Toxic Food Packaging”

Cryptogon

Just about everyone I know with XP won’t budge, despite my warnings.

Maybe Microsoft has plans to try to convert millions of XP users over to Windows 8 with the rumored Windows 8.1 with Bing, which will supposedly be free.

Still, tens of millions of people will probably refuse to deal with the situation. I wouldn’t use Windows 8.x if someone paid me to use it. But I wouldn’t use XP on the Internet after that cut off date either. No way.   Continue reading “Windows XP Market Share Climbs Again as Customers Dig Their Heels In”

Information Liberation – by Chris

From the Baltimore Sun:

A city police officer is accused of beating a Jack Russell terrier puppy with a mop, then choking the dog and sending a picture of its dead body to its owner — his girlfriend.   Continue reading “Cop Strangles Puppy to Death, Sends Picture to Owner”

RT

Turkey has given a US Navy Warship the green light to pass through the Bosphorus within the next two days as tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea region continue to divide world powers.

Turkish sources, speaking with the Hurriyet Daily News on Wednesday, declined to elaborate on the name of the US warship. The same officials told the daily on condition of anonymity that the ship in question was not the USS George H.W. Bush nuclear aircraft carrier as suggested in some news reports, as it did not meet the standards specified by the 1936 Montreux Convention in terms of weight.    Continue reading “Turkey grants US warship permission to enter Black Sea”

Npr.org – by Mark Memmott

Russian President Vladimir Putin is among the 278 nominees for a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize,according to Peace Research Institute Oslo, an institution that closely tracks the Nobel committee’s work.

Putin, who of course is now at the center of one of the world’s most dangerous situations — the crisis in Ukraine — has been “nominated by the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among the Nations of the World and backed by Russian MP Iosif Kobzon, for his averting of an air strike on Syria after the chemical gas attacks in August 2013,” PRIO reports.   Continue reading “Putin Reportedly Joins List Of Nobel Peace Prize Nominees”

PJ Tatler – by Bridget Johnson

In a somewhat unusual move, the State Department issued a fact sheet titled “President Putin’s Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine” Wednesday evening.

The fact sheet was released after Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that talks with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Paris today didn’t get anywhere.    Continue reading “State Department Issues Fact Sheet on Why Putin’s a Lying Liar”

AOL

CHICAGO (AP) – A father, mother and daughter from a posh Chicago suburb stole $7 million in merchandise during a decadelong shoplifting spree – traveling to stores nationwide and targeting dolls, toys, cosmetics and other valuables – according to a federal complaint released Wednesday.

The three were arrested earlier this week at their $1.3 million Northbrook home after returning from a three-day trip through Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, where authorities say they shoplifted from stores. Working in tandem, the family traveled from their Chicago-area residence to hit businesses in multiple states, including Maryland, Tennessee and Florida, according to the 20-page complaint.   Continue reading “Mom, dad, daughter accused in $7M shoplift spree”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Should police be able to kill a man for shooting at a police robot?

Sherry Booth thought she had a good, if nosy neighbor, in the man who lived in the other side of her Grays Hill Court duplex. Then her daughter called her a little after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“She was scared to death,” Booth said. “The police (sic) was banging on the door. Told her to hurry up and get out because he had a gun.”   Continue reading “Did Kentucky State Police Kill A Man For Shooting A Robot?”

AOL

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was blocked by bipartisan opposition Wednesday in an emotional postscript to the long-ago murder of a Philadelphia policeman and the legal help his killer received.

The vote against advancing Debo Adegbile toward confirmation was 47-52, shy of the majority needed under new procedures Democrats put in place late last year to overcome Republican stalling tactics.   Continue reading “Senate blocks Obama’s pick of Debo Adegbile for civil rights post”

Freedom Outpost – by David Zuniga

In our Constitution, We The People empower Congress to make laws within its federal aegis.  But most Americans are oblivious to the bedrock fact in American civics:

We The People created our supreme law and through it, we created government.  All of government is under the Constitution, and We The People are sovereigns over it.  We The People created, defined, and severely limited our servant congresses, presidents, and supreme courts.    Continue reading “Can the Cartels Be Stopped? – The American People are the Sovereigns of the Constitution”

Arab Times