From the Trenches World Report

MassPrivateI

How does the Fourth Amendment apply to deleting a picture from a digital camera? InBurch v. City of Florence, Ala., 913 F.Supp.2d 1221 (N.D.Ala. 2012), the police had received various complaints that the plaintiff  John Wesley Burch was causing concern because he was taking pictures of lots of people and cars in town. Burch has performed a variety of odd jobs, including sometimes working since 2004 as a freelance private investigator, or as an assistant to a private investigator.   Continue reading “Court ruled police can grab and delete pictures from your camera during a traffic stop”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Authorities in Poland last week announced the confiscation of bonds held in private pension funds without compensation, implausibly claiming that the move did not amount to a nationalization of the assets. While Polish officials engaged in rhetorical games and semantics to conceal the severity of the “transfer” of privately owned assets to a “state pension vehicle” known as ZUS, the controversial move is still fueling confusion and fierce criticism from analysts and economists. Some experts fear other governments may follow suit.     Continue reading “Polish Government Seizes Private Pension Assets”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Barry Smitherman, head of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission and is seeking to be the state’s next Attorney General, made waves last week with comments about economic collapse, energy policy and the future. However, those things only led up to a much bigger statement: “We have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system.”   Continue reading “Texas Official: State Actively Preparing to Become an Independent Nation”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

If you have a job that involves building homes, buying homes, selling homes or that is in any way related to the mortgage industry, you might want to start searching for alternate employment.  Seriously.  Interest rates are starting to rise dramatically, and mortgage lenders such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are all cutting thousands of mortgage-related jobs.

Last week, mortgage refinance activity plunged to the lowest level that we have seen since June 2009 and total mortgage activity dropped to the lowest level since October 2008.    Continue reading “Prepare For Tough Times If Your Job Has Anything To Do With Real Estate Or Mortgages”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Update: In this article we posted the information was provided by a “Western Official.” In this article from The Sidney Morning Heard, it is being reported by the U.N. team probing the case, “On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrators. The majority of casualties result from unlawful attacks using conventional weapons” There is no evidence according to this team of chemical weapons use. No one has the same story, lies, lies, lies. In the end it will not matter, the powers that be will attack Syria. Reason will be given and the show will go on.    Continue reading “Based On Circumstantial Evidence U.N. Report Will Point to Syria’s Assad in Chemical Attack”

Las Vegas Guardian Express – by Graham Noble

A military attack against the government of Syria is inevitable and will likely happen around the end of the month. Whilst there is no official confirmation of this, there are numerous indications that it seems all but certain. Whilst US President Barack Obama continues to speak in deliberately unequivocal terms, in order for him to evade responsibility for any negative consequences arising from US military intervention – or the lack of it – statements made by his staff and political allies appear to confirm the administration’s determination to intervene on behalf of the al Qaeda terrorists leading the fight against Bashar al-Assad’s government.   Continue reading “Syria Attack Inevitable”

Ventism – by Daniel McAdams

The president and his coterie of humanitarian interventionist laptop bombers have been so desperate to push the US into another war in the Middle East they have resorted to cooking the US Intelligence Community books and cherry picking second-hand intercepts and other intelligence to a degree that would even have made President George W. Bush blush.    Continue reading “NSA has become an agent of Israeli intelligence!”

AlterNet – by Tana Ganeva

Homelessness is a complex, daunting problem, and cities all over America seem determined to resolve it with a simple strategy: abusing homeless people until they go away.

Local governments have come up with a myriad of Constitution-trampling ways to clear out their homeless populations, from sit/lie bans that can land people in jail for sitting down in public, to anti-panhandling measures that empower police to bust people for speaking or holding a sign while being poor. Cops also routinely use anti-loitering and jaywalking laws to hassle the homeless.   Continue reading “5 Screwed Up New Ways America Is Abusing the Homeless”

The Ulsterman Report

Both Politico and the Associated Press just released scathing critiques of the much hyped but largely contradicting Barack Obama speech on Syria, including the accusation that what America really saw was two completely different presidents speaking at the same time…

Here’s an excerpt from the Associated Press, which basically calls out Obama for lying to the American people:   Continue reading “Reviews Of Barack Obama Syrian Speech – “Lies, Contradictions, Desperate, Disingenuous””

Tenth Amendment Center, September 3, 2013

SACRAMENTO, Cal. (Sept. 3, 2013) – Today, the California State Senate voted to approve a bill that will help render toothless the federal “indefinite detention” powers under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).  The bill, by Assemblymember Tim Donnelly, was previously passed by the state assembly by a vote of 71-1 (roll call here)

California residents are strongly encouraged to contact Governor Jerry Brown, urging him to sign AB351.  (contact info here)   Continue reading “California Senate Votes to Reject NDAA “Indefinite Detention.” 37-0”

Huffington Post – by Brock Vergakis

ATLANTIC, Va. — NASA scientists are using former military surveillance drones to help them understand more about how tropical storms intensify, which they say could ultimately save lives by improving forecast models that predict a hurricane’s strength.

The unmanned Global Hawk aircraft were designed to perform high-altitude, long-endurance reconnaissance and intelligence missions for the Air Force. Two of the original Global Hawks built in the developmental process for the military have found new life as part of NASA’s research mission, studying storms that form over the Atlantic Ocean. NASA planned to launch one of the drones from its Wallops Flight Facility on Wednesday to study Tropical Storm Gabrielle, which re-formed in the Atlantic on Tuesday.   Continue reading “NASA Weather Drones: Scientists Launch Unmanned Aircraft To Study Storms”

ENE News

Title: Tainted water may be leaking near No.2 reactor
Source: NHK WORLD
Date: Sept. 11, 2013

A nuclear expert says radioactive groundwater at the crippled plant in Fukushima is likely still flowing into the sea.   Continue reading “NHK: Attempts to stop Fukushima contamination flowing into ocean have failed”

Christian Science Monitor – by Elizabeth Barber

One year ago, Mars One announced big plans for the Red Planet: a human settlement. The colonizing mission, planned for 2023, would be stylized like a reality TV show, but with the added drama that its participants, the would-be first humans to set foot on another planet, will never get to go home.   Continue reading “More than 200,000 people apply for a one-way trip to Mars”

Police State USA

A recent weapons purchase by NASA piqued the interest of some of my readers, prompting questions such as, “What is NASA doing with assault rifles?”  In post 9/11 America, no self-respecting federal agency — from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Education — can exist without its own SWAT team.   A strong trend of militarizing law enforcement has been occurring for some time, and if this is a surprise to you, its time to catch up.  Yes, even NASA has a SWAT team, and you may be surprised with some of their assignments, which include militarized perimeter security and robbing grandmothers of heirloom decorative paperweights.   Continue reading “Why does NASA need a SWAT team? To steal moon dust from retirees!”