From the Trenches World Report

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More lending companies are mining  Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social-media data to help determine a borrower’s creditworthiness or identity, a trend that is raising concerns among consumer groups and regulators.

Lending companies—some of which are backed with venture funding from Google Ventures the venture-capital arm of Google Inc., and Accel Partners, an early Facebook Inc. investor—are looking at potential problems such as whether applicants put the same job information on their loan application as they posted on LinkedIn, or if they shared on Facebook that they had been let go by an employer. A small business that draws negative reviews on Ebay could undermine its chances of getting more credit, lending companies say.   Continue reading “Lenders are spying on social media websites to determine a borrower’s creditworthiness”

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New Mexico – Albuquerque police handcuffed a middle schooler and took him to juvenile jail because he went to the wrong class, though a teacher told the cop the kid had severe ADHD and forgetfulness was part of his disability, the boy – now a man – claims in court.

Paul Castaneda sued Albuquerque; Officer D. Hensley, who allegedly arrested him; Sgt. Donny Keith and former Police Chief Ray Schultz, in Bernalillo County Court.   Continue reading “Middle school student handcuffed & arrested for being in the wrong class”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Who gave them the right to track you via GPS? Did you sign off on that when you bought your Ford? If they are doing it everyone else is doing it as well. The NSA spying scandal has already taught us, they capture every piece of digital information. If your GPS is transmitting as Ford is stating then that information is being captured by the NSA as well. These companies sell us and offer us all sorts of electronic gadgets aimed at helping us. These were never designed to help us, but help those who sell the product and ultimately the Kenites who rule this world.   Continue reading “Ford Exec: ‘We Know Everyone Who Breaks The Law’ Thanks To Our GPS In Your Car”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The United States in 2001 launched war against the Middle East moving from one nation to the next. As they have documented themselves they have been assisting the foreign rebels in Syria for sometime now. All of their moves have actually helped the terrorist organizations. Now tell me how the most powerful nation on earth could do that in error for so long? Don’t be fooled, this has been done on purpose to consolidate power in the middle east and move in the players required for the end game. We should also note, we are seeing record numbers of Christians killed in the middle east as well.   Continue reading “Al Qaeda controls more territory than ever in Middle East”

Huffington Post – by Emily Thomas

Ever had that awkward moment when you’re about to pay for coffee and you find out you’ve left your card at home and don’t have enough change?

Well, a new card-less payment service will let you pay by scanning your hand so you never have to worry about holding up the line.   Continue reading “PulseWallet Lets You Pay For Things Via Your Veins”

Prevent Disease – by NATASHA LONGO

Since the genetic code of the apple was mapped by researchers a few years ago, scientists have explored gene silencing and other manipulation techniques to alter one of nature’s most healing superfoods. Genetically modified apples may soon enter the food supply under the guise of preventing browning. First, though, officials must confront some enduring public distaste for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) now widely perceived as one of the most extensive global threats to human health.     Continue reading “Genetically Modified Apples Which Eliminate The Browning Process Soon To Be Approved”

The Blaze – by Becket Adams

U.S. employers added only 74,000 jobs in December, pushing the unemployment rate down to 6.7 percent, down from its previous rate of 7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

A full two-thirds of the unemployment rate is due to people who have given up on finding work – and a at least one news outlets has taken notice:   Continue reading “Unemployment Rate Falls to Lowest ever during Obama Presidency…But why even the Associated Press is Pointing Out it’s Not Good”

RT News

The US attorney for New Jersey announced on Thursday an investigation into lane closures last year near the George Washington Bridge, with the assistance of the FBI. Meanwhile, Governor Chris Christie has fired his deputy chief of staff over the incident.

The office of US Attorney Paul J. Fishman confirmed on Thursday that an inquiry into last September’s lane closures in Fort Lee, New Jersey would seek to determine whether any federal laws were broken. By Thursday evening agents with the FBI’s public corruption unit were also reported to be assisting the US attorney in that review.   Continue reading “FBI and US attorney to probe bridge scandal looming over 2016 GOP hopeful Christie”

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Congressional leaders on the US trade policy have introduced legislation that would grant President Barack Obama “fast-track authority” to enact three looming global trade accords, including the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership.

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R) and top Senate Finance Committee members Max Baucus (D) and Orrin Hatch (R) on Thursday unveiled the Trade Priorities Act of 2014 that would require a simple up-or-down vote on major trade deals without the opportunity to offer amendments to pertinent bills.   Continue reading “Congress introduces Obama fast-track authority on global trade pacts like TPP”

New York Times – by JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG AND PETER EAVIS

Wall Street could pay nearly $50 billion to buy peace from federal authorities who are taking aim at the banks over their role in the mortgage crisis, according to interviews and a confidential analysis of the industry’s potential legal exposure.

Bracing for a potential reckoning, the banks and their outside lawyers are quietly using JPMorgan Chase’s record $13 billion mortgage settlement in November to do the math and determine just how much each bank might have to pay to move beyond the torrent of government mortgage litigation that has dogged them since the financial crisis. Such calculations, people briefed on the matter said, have gained particular urgency among the banks’ board members.   Continue reading “Wall Street Predicts $50 Billion Bill to Settle U.S. Mortgage Suits”

Daily Mail – by MEGHAN KENEALLY

Michelle Obama’s ensuing 50th birthday party has already wreaked havoc for Hawaiian locals as security checkpoints have created traffic around Oprah Winfrey’s home.

The Queen of Talk is hosting the seminal birthday celebration for the First Lady, who stayed on in the Maui after President Obama and the girls returned to Washington following their Christmas vacation.

Mrs Obama’s birthday is on the 17th and the dance-heavy party will be held at Winfrey’s mansion on the 18th, but that hasn’t stopped problems from arising already.   Continue reading “Roadblocks causing havoc in Hawaii as security teams prepare for Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday party at Oprah’s Maui mansion”

RT News

The Pentagon is set to begin training 5,000 to 8,000 Libyan soldiers by mid-2014 to solidify the nation’s security forces, according to the head of US Africa Command. Gen. David Rodriguez told reporters Thursday that the US is planning a 24-week training program to aid Libyan security forces still in disarray since the US-backed ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The General also expressed concern over another potential attack similar to the siege at Nairobi’s Westgate Mall in September that killed 67 people.   Continue reading “US military to train up to 8,000 Libyan soldiers by midyear”

Mail.com

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie fired one of his top aides on Thursday and apologized repeatedly for his staff’s “stupid” behavior, insisting during a nearly two-hour news conference that he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams as part of a political vendetta against a Democratic mayor.

“I am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team,” Christie said as he addressed the widening scandal, which could cast a shadow over his expected run for the White House in 2016.   Continue reading “Christie fires aide, apologizes for traffic jams”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — We’ve become weather wimps.

As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation this week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists say, it seems more unprecedented than it really is. An Associated Press analysis of the daily national winter temperature shows that cold extremes have happened about once every four years since 1900.   Continue reading “Scientists: Americans are becoming weather wimps”

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tim Rutledge’s eyelid had frozen shut. His voice was hoarse after competing for hours with bitter-cold wind and humming truck engines while screaming for help. He was losing consciousness, pinned under his rig in sub-zero temperatures at an Indiana truck stop.

The longtime Florida truck driver had crawled under his truck with a hammer to loosen ice from his brakes around 4 a.m. Monday, as record-breaking temperatures swept into the state. But the truck suddenly settled deeper into the snow, pinning him beneath an axle.   Continue reading “Trapped trucker survives hours in subzero temps”

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F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, Wyo. (AP) — Hoping to boost sagging morale, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a rare visit Thursday to an Air Force nuclear missile base and the men and women who operate and safeguard the nation’s Minuteman 3 missiles. But his attempt to cheer the troops was tempered by news that launch officers at another base had been implicated in an illegal-narcotics investigation.

Two officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana are being investigated for allegations of drug possession, said a service spokesman in Washington, Lt. Col. Brett Ashworth. Both of those being investigated are ICBM launch officers with responsibility for operating intercontinental ballistic missiles.   Continue reading “Nuclear launch officers tied to narcotics probe”