From the Trenches World Report

New York Times – by MICHAEL BARBARO

Michael R. Bloomberg, determined to parlay his government experience and vast fortune into a kind of global mayoralty, is creating a high-powered consulting group to help him reshape cities around the world long after he leaves office.

To build the new organization, paid for out of his own pocket, the billionaire mayor is taking much of his City Hall team with him: He has already hired many of his best-known and longest-serving deputies, promising them a chance to export the policies they developed in New York to far-flung places like Louisville, Ky., and Mexico City.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Focuses on Rest (as in Rest of the World)”

New York Post – by Mary Kay Linge

Last week the city Board of Health voted to force annual flu vaccinations on all babies and children under age 5 who attend day-care centers and preschool programs. Here, Sophia Ling, mother of 3-year-old Oona and a fitness instructor in Staten Island, tells The Post’s Mary Kay Linge how the risks of the shot outweigh the benefits — and wants nannying bureaucrats to stop trampling parents’ rights.

When I first heard about the new flu vaccine rule, I was upset but not surprised. The Board of Health did this so quietly, with no input from parents of young children. The unanimous vote was cast before New Yorkers had any chance to protest.   Continue reading “Take your mandatory flu shot and shove it!”

iHLS

According to Homeland Security Research Corp’s new report, China Homeland Security & Public Safety Market 2013-2020, as early as 2014, the Chinese market for HLS & Public Safety products will surpass that of the U.S., becoming the largest in the world.

In 2012 alone, out of the total $45.2 billion market, foreign companies (e.g., IBM, FLIR, GE Security Asia, Honeywell Security Group, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Siemens, Bosch Security, Sony, Sikorsky, Honeywell, EADS) supplied $17.1 billion. This accounts for 38% of the total Chinese market for HLS & Public Safety products and services.   Continue reading “China Has the World’s Largest Internal Security Budget”

He should get the death penalty, since 2 people were executed due to his false testimony. That’s murder.

Crime, Guns, and Videotape

Phoenix, AZ—Debra Milke sat on Death Row for just a tad short of 24 years.  A corrupt and now disgraced former Phoenix cop, Armando Saldate fabricated a confession after he was unable to legitimately obtain one from Milke.

The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals investigated Saldate and found he was a serial perjurer.  Aside from Milke’s case apparently four people are doing life in prison and two were executed based on Saldate’s claims.  That court reversed Milke’s convictions and death sentence.  They also requested an investigation into the violation of Milke’s rights by cops and prosecutors.   Continue reading “Murder Confessions and the Reality of Police Corruption”

Gov Slaves

(David J. Krajicek)  In his first interview since he was jailed last month for contempt of court, Alabama journalist Roger Shuler said he will stay behind bars indefinitely rather than comply with a judge’s “unlawful” order to scrub his blog of scandalous stories he posted about a powerful Alabama politician’s son.

“Free press, free speech, the First Amendment—none of this means anything to these people,” Shuler said. “I don’t see any reason I should remove the material. Is a person obliged to take an action based on a judge’s unlawful order?”   Continue reading “Blogger Jailed For Refusing To Erase Stories He Wrote Exposing A Powerful Political Family”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

On Thursday, after we presented an article by Simon Black in which the author suggested that the IMF was implicitly proposing a 71% tax-rate on Americans, by “suggesting that the US government could maximize its tax revenue by increasing tax brackets to as high as 71%”, the IMF took offense to this characterization, and tweeted out the following:   Continue reading “The IMF Disagrees With Zero Hedge”

Press TV

The United States is experiencing an “economic collapse” because major powers like China and Russia have decided not to use US dollar in trade, a political analyst says.

“The American economy is just beginning to collapse. China, Russia and many other countries are moving away from using the US dollar in trade,” Linh Dinh said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.   Continue reading “US in economic collapse as China, Russia ‘moving away from using dollar’”

Intellihub – by JG Vibes

CALIFORNIA (INTELLIHUB) — Police in Riverside County, have been running an undercover sting investigation in a local school to hunt down small time teenage drug vendors and users.  The semester long operation resulted in the arrest of 25 different teenagers, all of whom believed that undercover officers were close friends.

The underage students were taken to a juvenile prison, and the adult students, 18-year-old Serina Ramirez and 19-year-old Erick De La Cruz of Perris High School, were taken to a detention center.   Continue reading “Police Posing as 11th Graders Arrest 25 Students”

Argentina Independent – by Lillo Montalto Monella

Uruguayan President José Mujica is the poorest president in the world, according to the news website Infobae.com: he earns US$12,500 per month and donates 90% of it to charities.

“His only property is his old Volkswaken, and he lives in an humble ranch in the outskirts of the capital,” the website writes. “But there are others who live with less,” Mujica said.

The donated 90% of the presidential salary goes to NGOs involved in social housing and to the Fondo Raúl Sendic, a fund that administrates Mujica’s political movement, the MMP (Movivimento de Participación Popular) and collaborates with many local charities.   Continue reading “Uruguay: President Donates 90% of His Salary to the Poorest”

Alarabiya News

Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in New Delhi on Saturday he no longer “trusts” the United States, accusing the Americans of saying one thing and doing another in his troubled homeland.

Karzai’s statement to journalists came a day after he insisted he would not be “intimidated” into signing a security pact allowing U.S. troops in Afghanistan to stay on after next year.    Continue reading “Afghan president says he does not ‘trust’ U.S.”

The Organic Prepper

Aside from the gifts under the tree, one of the big expenses of the holidays is the food.  Nearly everyone finds that their grocery bill is up this time of year.  You’re hosting parties, putting together a no-holds-barred Christmas morning breakfast, and making a gigantic feast for friends and family.

Stop!  You don’t have to go broke to enjoy the holidays!  It doesn’t matter what the neighbors are putting on their table this year.  Particularly if the money is stretched thin, there are lots of ways to make your dinner frugal, but still festive.   Continue reading “How to Make a Frugal and Festive Christmas Dinner from the Pantry”

An excellent perspective and well written article, however, one must get beyond the proper use and misspelling of: “leaf, border, and propaganda”, in order to realize the intent of the author.

Information Clearinghouse – by Anthony Evans

After reading a large number of well expressed and passionately motivated comments relating to the subject of war and the injustices and atrocities happening on a daily bases, an analogy I once heard of a sick and dying tree always comes to mind.    Continue reading “Human Farms – Global Leadership – It’s Broke and it Needs Fixing”

Political Film

Here’s your Holy Shit moment of the day:

That’s because the detailed 35-page affidavit supporting the request for a search warrant of Don and Bill Whittington’s air charter company filed at the United States District Court in Grand Junction Colorado has been sealed.   Continue reading “Huge Drug Cover-Up in Ft. Lauderdale”

The Washington Times – by Shaun Waterman

A program that gives coveted immigrant green cards to wealthy foreign investors was so susceptible to fraud and abuse that it was used by an Iranian network that sought to send banned high technology home and spread terrorism abroad, federal investigators said.

The EB-5 program was used by “a network involved in a series of international assassinations and terrorism operations” that also was “procuring a variety of goods for Iranian entities,” states an unsigned memo from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made public Thursday. The memo was written in response to questions asked by Janet A. Napolitano as homeland security secretary.   Continue reading “Senator’s memo shows Iran links in Homeland Security’s troubled immigration program”