From the Trenches World Report

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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is urging theater operators to crack down on in-theater camcording with the deployment of night-vision goggles, low-light binoculars and security cameras.

The latest version of the MPAA’s “Best Practices to Prevent Film Theft” (.pdf) also suggests old-school surveillance, like “random bag and jacket checks for prohibited items” and to “observe patrons” when entering the theater.   Continue reading “Movie theaters join the police state conducting “random bag & jacket checks””

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While some police officers would like to be able to use GPS trackers on suspects without a warrant, being on the receiving end of surveillance is taken quite differently. Boston cops are concerned about the pending use of trackers on their cars.

The devices would monitor the movement of cruisers in real time, and their adoption comes following negotiations between the city and the patrol officers union, reports The Boston Globe. The installation needs the approval of the city council, but is likely to happen.   Continue reading “Watchers watched: Boston cops grumpy over GPS trackers on cruisers”

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A pact between the United States and Afghanistan to keep American troops inside the country is in danger of falling apart.

According to a report by Reuters, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected a provision in the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that would grant the United States authority to unilaterally carry out military operations within the country, including the search of civilian homes.   Continue reading “US-Afghan security pact collapsing after Karzai refusal”

We already subsidize WalMart’s profits with food stamps for WalMart employees, now they are asking WalMart employees to pay for other employees Thanksgiving dinners.

USA Today – by Melanie Eversle

An advocacy group called Organization United for Respect is chastising Walmart for setting out storage containers to collect donations for employees who can’t afford a Thanksgiving dinner.   Continue reading “Walmart defends collections for employees”

The Daily Sheeple – by Kimberly Paxton

Just when you thought it couldn’t be tougher to be a single mom, trying to be both mother and father to her children and struggling to make ends meet, along came Obamacare.

One mom decided to vent her frustration by posting a letter to the President on her Facebook page. Yolanda Burroughs-Vestal of Palmer, Texas never expected her rant to go viral, but it has had tens of thousands of views and is still going strong.   Continue reading “Thanks a Lot, Mr. President: Single Mom’s Letter Goes Viral”

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Search giant Google is to pay $17 million to settle a dispute with 37 American states and the District of Columbia after it bypassed Safari browser privacy settings to place ad cookies.

Under the settlement, announced Monday, Google pledged not to use any code capable of overriding browser settings without user consent, unless for security, fraud or technical issues, and to work on raising consumer awareness about how cookies work.   Continue reading “Google to pay extra $17 mln to states over privacy-violating Safari cookies”

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Five foreign Greenpeace activists were granted bail by Russian court in the city of St. Petersburg. A total of eight out of 30 crewmembers detained over the protest at an oil rig in the Barents Sea have had bail approved.

Brazilian Ana Paula Alminhana Maciel, Argentinian Miguel Hernan Perez Orsi, New Zealander David John Haussmann and Poland’s Tomasz Dziemianczuk are to be released while awaiting trial as soon as Greenpeace makes bail for them.    Continue reading “Russian court grants bail to 5 foreign Greenpeace activists”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

With government intervention now becoming the only viable solution being touted for everything from individual health care and the economy to our personal safety and how we educate our children, it would only make sense that officials in Washington also figure out a way to use their power of confiscation and redistribution to equalize the income playing field.

It’s no secret that 48 million Americans require nutritional assistance just to put food on the table, or that over 100 million of us are living in or at the very edge of poverty, or that nearly one in three of us is currently without any meaningful labor.   Continue reading “Establishment Proposes: “Have the Government Give Every Adult a Basic Income””

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — On the Civil War battlefield where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, historians and everyday Americans are gathering to ponder what the Gettysburg Address has meant to the nation.

Civil War historian James McPherson and U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell are scheduled to speak Tuesday to mark the 150th anniversary of speech. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett also will deliver remarks.   Continue reading “Gettysburg Address event to mark 150th anniversary”

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BEIRUT (AP) — Twin suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché, apparently in retaliation for the Lebanese group Hezbollah’s support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The bombings appeared to be another strike in an intensifying proxy battle over Syria’s civil war that is rattling its smaller neighbor Lebanon. An al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying more would follow unless the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah withdraws fighters that have helped Assad’s military score key victories over Syrian rebels.   Continue reading “Suicide blasts near Iran Embassy in Beirut kill 23”

Food Riot Radio – by Brad Jordan

The deadline for submitting comments on two key rules the FDA has proposed as a part of the Food Safety Modernization Act has been extended to Friday, Nov. 22.

Hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of farm and food policy since the Great Depression, many fear the law will actually make our food supply less safe – not to mention sterile – by regulating small, organic farmers out of business and leaving it in the hands of a few mega farmers and processors.   Continue reading “Food Safety Modernization Act: The End of Fresh, Living Food?”

Slate – by Joshua Keating

Bloomberg’s China troubles took another ugly twist over the weekend with the news,first reported by the New York Post, that award-winning journalist Michael Forsythe has been suspended, a week after the New York Times reported that the agency had spiked an investigation he had worked on looking into the financial interests of China’s senior leadership.

According to unnamed Bloomberg employees, that story had been killed over fears that the company, whose news website is already blocked in China, would be expelled entirely. Amazingly, this whole story may have been first broken in a video by Taiwan’s Next Media Animation studio, which in its own inimitable way implied that the whole affair may be tied to soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s business interests.   Continue reading “Bloomberg Suspends China Reporter Amid Censorship Scandal”

Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff

A new investigation has revealed that one of the foremost online resources for health information accepted millions of dollars from the federal government in exchange for its promotion of Obamacare. As reported by The Washington Times, the federal government awarded WebMD a $4.8 million contract for its agreement to post pro-Obamacare propaganda on its website, including the deceptive article “7 Surprising Things About the Affordable Care Act.”

A contract document obtained by The Washington Times reveals that the Obama administration funneled cash lump sums to WebMD each time it posted articles or information endorsing the health care program. WebMD also reportedly accepted funds as part of a federal scheme to indoctrinate physicians about Obamacare, so that they, too, could dispense propaganda about the program to help build support for it.   Continue reading “Exposed: WebMD betrays Americans by pocketing millions to promote Obamacare propaganda”

Natural News – by Adrian Cooper

There is a silent tragedy taking place, mostly in the USA, as countless millions of children of all ages are being erroneously administered doses of amphetamine class drugs multiple times each day. These drugs are otherwise illegal, schedule II, in the same highly addictive group as cocaine, morphine and opium banned in most of the world. Why are innocent children being medically abused in this way?

In any classroom in America today, there is likely to be one, two or three children who do not behave like normal, happy boys and girls, instead walking with a blank zombie-like stare, unwilling to interact meaningfully with friends and others.   Continue reading “Millions of children dumbed down and drugged up on schedule II amphetamines”

New York Post – by John Crudele

In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.

The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, according to a reliable source, were manipulated.   Continue reading “Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report”