From the Trenches World Report

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A redacted IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps, as evidence to revoke the 501(c)(4) status of a homeowner’s association.

“The road consists of a two-mile loop around the inside of the property. It goes not have any sidewalks or bicycle lanes. The examining agent printed and copied a map from Google Maps into this report,” states the letter.   Continue reading “The IRS is using Google Maps to spy on taxpayers”

Huffington Post – by Radley Balko

In the monthly e-newsletter for the Justice Department’s Community Oriented Police Services (COPS) program, Senior Policy Analyst Karl Bickel sounds the alarm about the militarization of America’s domestic police forces. Here’s his conclusion:

Police chiefs and sheriffs may want to ask themselves—if after hiring officers in the spirit of adventure, who have been exposed to action oriented police dramas since their youth, and sending them to an academy patterned after a military boot camp, then dressing them in black battle dress uniforms and turning them loose in a subculture steeped in an “us versus them” outlook toward those they serve and protect, while prosecuting the war on crime, war on drugs, and now a war on terrorism—is there any realistic hope of institutionalizing community policing as an operational philosophy?   Continue reading “DOJ Agency Warns Of Police Militarization”

Yahoo News – by Maayan Lubell

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament has moved to ensure African migrants who enter the country illegally can be held without charge, despite a Supreme Court ruling that had struck down a previous detention law.

Legislation approved late on Monday set a maximum detention period of one year for new illegal migrants, a change from a term of up to three years stipulated in a previous law annulled by the court in September.   Continue reading “Israel approves detention without charges for African migrants”

Yahoo News

Montevideo (AFP) – Uruguay is to give a green light Tuesday to making marijuana legal, in a social experiment that countries plagued by drug-related crime worldwide will watch.

The legal change in this largely rural and well-educated South American nation of just 3.3 million, looms large with a vote in the Senate.   Continue reading “Uruguay to make marijuana legal in trailblazing gamble”

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

On Friday the case against the US government, brought by Rahinah Ibrahim over her being placed on the “no fly list,” officially concluded with closing arguments, but that may have been the least interesting part of everything. Apparently, the day got off to a rocky start, after Ibrahim’s lawyers informed the DOJ that they intended to file bar complaints against some of the DOJ legal team for their actions in court, specifically concerning “misrepresentations” made to the court.   Continue reading “Witness In No Fly List Trial, Who Was Blocked From Flying To The Trial, Shows That DOJ Flat Out Lied In Court”

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“Police see our mobile devices as the go-to source for information,” Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said. “The idea that police can obtain such a rich treasure trove of data about any one of us without appropriate judicial oversight should send shivers down our spines.”

The records, from more than 125 police agencies in 33 states, reveal:   Continue reading “More police departments using Stingray system to spy on smartphones”

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They’re here for your gun rights! The recently launched television network, Al Jazeera America, is owned and operated by the royal family of Qatar. According to National Review, these Persian Gulf dictators are funders of the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the terrorist group Hamas, and now they’re here to throw a burqa over your God-given right to keep and bear arms. Will you let them?   Continue reading “GRNC Alert: ‘Al Jazeera America’ Goes After Guns”

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George and Laura Bush will all figuratively wear a necklace at Nelson Mandela’s memorial tomorrow—the Winnie Mandela necklace that is the most grotesque one of all time.

The prime ministers of Canada and Britain, Stephen Harper and David Cameron will wear the necklace, too.  But none of the world leaders at the Mandela funeral—Daily Mail touted as the biggest funeral in the world since Winston Churchill—will hear the screams of the young blacks who died in agony wearing the Winnie Mandela necklace.   Continue reading “Western leaders wearing Winnie’s Necklace to Mandela Memorial”

CNN – by Ralph Ellis, Josh Levs and Holly Yan

Frigid weather that gripped much of the United States created a crisis in northwest Nevada, where rescue teams have been searching a mountainous area for two adults and four children.

James Glanton, 34, and Christina MacIntee, 25, are missing, along with a 10-year-old, two 4-year-olds and a 3-year-old, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said. The six set out Sunday for Seven Troughs mountain range and haven’t been seen since.   Continue reading “Extreme cold raises fears for 2 adults, 4 children missing in Nevada snow”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

At a time when Wall Street is absolutely swimming in wealth, New York City is experiencing an epidemic of homelessness.  According to the New York Times, the last time there was this many homeless children in New York City was during the days of the Great Depression.  And the number of homeless children in the United States overall recently set a new all-time record.  As I mentioned yesterday, there are now 1.2 million public school kids in America that are homeless, and that number has gone up by about 72 percent since the start of the last recession.    Continue reading “The Most Homeless Children In New York City Since The Great Depression”

CBS News – by STEPHANIE CONDON 

The Senate on Monday passed a bill to extend a ban on guns that can’t be detected by x-ray machines and metal detectors.

President Obama signed the 10-year extension of the Undetectable Firearms Act into law before midnight, using an auto pen as he traveled to Africa for ceremonies honoring the late South African President Nelson Mandela. The device Mr. Obama used to sign the bill has been used for the signatures of traveling presidents since the administration of George W. Bush.   Continue reading “Plastic guns ban extended”

Politicker – by Colin Campbell and Jill Colvin

Autism advocates are set to protest tomorrow against a quiet effort by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration to require annual flu vaccinations for all New York City schoolchildren.

On Wednesday, with just three weeks to go until he leaves office, Mr. Bloomberg’s controversial Board of Health is set to vote on new rules that would force children as young as six months old to be immunized each year before December 31 if they attend licensed day care or pre-school programs.   Continue reading “Protest Planned Against Last-Minute Bloomberg Push for Mandatory Flu Vaccines”

New York Daily News – by NINA GOLGOWSKI

A “shelter in place” has been lifted in a Southern California neighborhood hours after a hazardous materials spill sickened and hospitalized residents and local employees, according to officials.

Approximately 200 people were exposed to a mixture of chemical gases that escaped from a Monrovia business in Los Angeles County just before noon, said city spokesperson Alexis Newell in an email.   Continue reading “Chemical odor exposes 200 people in Southern California to mystery gas, hospitalizes nine”

Continue reading “The New Logo For the US Spy Satellite From the National Reconnaissance Office Is Eerily Similar To American Depiction of Communists”

IntelliHub – by Shepard Ambellas

SAN ANTONIO, TX (INTELLIHUB) — In today’s day and age, if you don’t obey the police like a good little slave, you may end up getting shot. And that’s just what one young man, Robert Cameron Redus, 23, found out last Friday, after being pulled over by a University of the Incarnate campus police officer.

The horrific event all started when the off-duty campus police officer Christopher Carter pulled Redus over in front of an apartment complex near the school for allegedly driving recklessly about. Redus was a resident at the apartment complex according to reports.   Continue reading “Sarcastic Remark Gets Student Killed by Police on Texas Campus”

Ingogman – by Phillip Marlowe

OK AMERICA, THIS Nelson Mandela BS has gone far enough. I am so sick and tired of this crap, I am about ready to friggin’ explode! Why don’t we just pay the GD Chinese a boatload of our taxpayer dollars to build a commie heroic-style statue of “Mandiba,”“Mandicka” — or whatever the flock they call him – and put the thing up in Washington DC next to the one of sacred MLK and be done with it?

If Mendela was an Arab muzzie or Palestinian, they would have had Seal Team 6 “double-tap” the guy right in the forehead  — even if he was an old man. Say what, Nazi boy? Yep, Nelson Mandela easily fit the bill for what we call a “terrorist” 24/7 these days. The militant wing of the African National Congress (ANC) under his command killed plenty of innocent people — White, blacks and “colored” (what they call people with Paki or Indian heritage) – by a wide variety of violent ways.   Continue reading “The White-hating Nelson Mendela Lovefest Goes On”

The American Dream – by Michael Snyder

The “coming persecution of Christians” has already begun.  It is already here.  So why is the mainstream media in the United States almost totally silent about this phenomenon?  When some politician somewhere around the globe inadvertently offends homosexuals or Muslims, it instantly makes headline news.  But very few Americans are even aware that it has been estimated that 100 million Christians are currently facing persecution and that approximately 100,000 Christians die for their faith each year.  As you are about to see, Christians all over the world are being burned alive, beheaded, crucified, tortured to death and imprisoned in metal shipping containers just because of what they believe.  This persecution goes on year after year and it is steadily intensifying.  But the governments of the western world and the mainstream media are almost entirely ignoring what is happening.    Continue reading “Christians Are Being Burned Alive, Beheaded, Crucified, Tortured To Death And Imprisoned In Metal Shipping Containers”