From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) — Furiously divided from the start, representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the rebellion against him threatened Wednesday to collapse a peace conference intended to lead them out of civil war.

Assad’s future in the country devastated by three years of bloodshed was at the heart of the sparring, which took place against a pristine Alpine backdrop as Syrian forces and rebel fighters clashed across a wide area from Aleppo and Idlib in the north to Daraa in the south.   Continue reading “Peace talks on Syria stuck over Assad’s future”

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife are accused of taking at least $165,000 in loans and gifts to help the chief executive of a health supplement company peddle his products. But proving the couple broke the law may be difficult.

Legal experts say the case hinges on whether prosecutors can show that McDonnell agreed to provide specific favors in exchange for the gifts, a tough task given the fine line between what is illegal versus what is unseemly. And prosecutors will need to prove the McDonnells abused their positions and conspired together to sell their influence.   Continue reading “Lawyers: Case against ex-Va. governor no slam dunk”

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SUMTER, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers finally got the chance to argue on behalf of George Stinney, 70 years after the 14-year-old black boy was sent to the electric chair for killing two white girls in South Carolina.

Whether his conviction from that segregation-era court is tossed out is now up to Judge Carmen Mullen after a two-day hearing concluded Wednesday. She gave both sides at least 10 more days to consult witnesses and make more arguments.   Continue reading “SC judge gets case of new trial for executed teen”

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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — An 86-year-old Nevada woman shot by her husband while hospitalized died Wednesday and her spouse of more than six decades was charged with murder, authorities said.

Frances Dresser of Douglas County died from injuries suffered when she was shot once in the chest Sunday while at Carson-Tahoe Regional Medical Center, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said. Her husband told officers he planned to “end his wife’s suffering” by killing her and then himself, but his gun jammed, police said.   Continue reading “Woman shot at Nev. hospital dies; husband charged”

NJ.com – by Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal, January 20, 2014

Residents in northern New Jersey and New York City will see a low-flying helicopter in the upcoming days as it surveys naturally occurring background radiation as a security measure for the upcoming Super Bowl, officials said today.

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration will use a twin-engine Bell 412 helicopter equipped with radiation sensing technology, flying in a grid covering about 10 square miles at altitudes of 150 feet or higher at about 80 miles per hour, according to the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management.   Continue reading “Choppers to scan background radiation as Super Bowl security measure”

MassPrivateI

The type and amount of personal, family, and non-academic data collected by the schools, reported in state longitudinal databases and used for research by the federal government was stimulated by the passage of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA) and has grown rapidly since then.  Loss of student and family data privacy has been accelerated by the proliferation of education programs funded by the federal government, especially in the early childhood realm and including home visiting programs that collect a plethora of medical, psychological, and family data and the effort to integrate standards, programs and data literally from “cradle to career” through P-20W education program integration.   Continue reading “Common Core creates a womb-to-tomb dossier on kids and families”

Washington Post- by Brian Fung

Reuters – by JONATHAN KAMINSKY

In a decade with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Patrick Moen rose to supervise a team of agents busting methamphetamine and heroin rings in Oregon – before giving it all up to join the nascent legal marijuana industry in nearby Washington state.

In November, the former federal drug agent quit his post to work for a marijuana industry investment firm, and says he relishes getting in on the ground floor of a burgeoning industry he was once sworn to annihilate.   Continue reading “U.S. ex-DEA agent in unlikely new role with pot investment firm”

Reuters – by JON HERSKOVITZ

A Mexican national convicted for the 1994 slaying of a Houston police officer was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, ending a capital murder case that put him at the center of a diplomatic dispute.

Edgar Tamayo, 46, who was denied an 11th-hour stay of execution by the U.S. Supreme Court, was pronounced dead at 9:32 p.m. local time at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas, according to officials at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.   Continue reading “Texas executes Mexican national despite diplomatic protests”

New York Daily News

McALLEN, Texas — Account information stolen during the Target security breach is now being divided up and sold off regionally, a South Texas police chief said Monday following the arrest of two Mexican citizens who authorities say arrived at the border with 96 fraudulent credit cards.

McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said Mary Carmen Garcia, 27, and Daniel Guardiola Dominguez, 28, both of Monterrey, Mexico, used cards containing the account information of South Texas residents. Rodriguez said they were used to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise at national retailers in the area including Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Toys R Us.   Continue reading “Two arrested near Mexican border with 96 fake credit cards linked to Target breach”

CBS New York

More and more New Yorkers have been reaching out to soup kitchens to feed their families, new research showed Wednesday.

Research from the Food Bank for New York City revealed that most of the city’s food pantries have seen a sharp increase in visitors.

The trend follows a $5 billion national cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that went into effect Nov. 1, CBS 2 reported.    Continue reading “NYC Food Bank Use Skyrockets Following SNAP Cuts, Report Says”

Revolutionary New Book by Stephanie Relfe

Fat is Not about Calories.  It’s about Toxins.

Obesity is not a disease. It’s a business plan.

You’re Not Fat. You’re Toxic is an explosive expose in the fight against the worldwide obesity epidemic.

Mega-corporation presidents and government infiltrators worked together to plan your weight gain. It is not an accident that you are overweight.   Continue reading “Book Review: You’re not fat, You’re toxic”

Relfe – by Stephanie Relfe

It looks the same—the bread, pies, sodas, even corn on the cob. So much of what we eat every day looks just like it did 20 years ago. But something profoundly different has happened without our knowledge or consent. And according to leading doctors, what we don’t know is already hurting us big time.   Continue reading “The Ultimate Killing Machine – GMOs”

Independent Political Report

LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN.

People from; the left, right, and center, cry out, “Take Back America.”

The only way to take back our country is to do as our forefathers did in 1776, start a revolution against the powers that be.   Continue reading “Arizona Constitution Party Chairman Calls for Revolution”