From the Trenches World Report

The Atlantic – by JOHN VILLASENOR

Why remain silent if they can just read your mind?

We don’t have a mind reading machine. But what if we one day did? The technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in localized brain activity over time, can now be used to infer information regarding who we are thinking about, what we have seen, and the memories we are recalling. As the technology for inferring thought from brain activity continues to improve, the legal questions regarding its potential application in criminal and civil trials are gaining greater attention.   Continue reading “Could the Government Get a Search Warrant for Your Thoughts?”

It took about thirty years, but apparently Americans had finally grown tired of watching cop shows on TV. There were probably at least fifty different ones over the years, but in every one of them the top cop at any crime scene would always say “send it to the lab boys” whenever chemical evidence or suspected drugs were found, so the natural progression from cop shows would be to a show about the lab boys themselves, and this has resulted in a show called “CSI.”

If you were ever trapped in a motel for a month I’m sure you’ve seen it. Multi-million dollar immaculate laboratories, high-tech and stylish, staffed by beautiful, intelligent, and morally perfect civil servants, who rely on their superior intelligence and experienced professionalism to always catch the bad guy.   Continue reading “Murder”

World Events and the Bible

Just days ago Egyptian General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for demonstrations on Friday to give the military a mandate to confront“violence and potential terrorism”. General Sisi said he was not calling for public unrest and wanted national reconciliation.

What exactly happens when you call for demonstrations in the streets among escalated tensions no less? Calamity. Those people amassed into crowds in record numbers reports the AP,   Continue reading “Egypt: 92 Killed, 649 Injured After General Calls for “Peaceful” Demonstrations”

Fox News

Seven people were killed, including the gunman, in an overnight shooting at a South Florida apartment building, authorities said.

Police Sgt. Eddie Rodriguez told Fox News that the gunman was shot dead by a SWAT team following a standoff at a five-story building in Hialeah, just a few miles north of Miami.   Continue reading “Gunman among 7 dead in Florida apartment shooting”

CBC

Federal regulators in the the U.S. say they have certified two types of unmanned aircraft for civilian use, a milestone expected to lead to the first approved commercial drone operations in the U.S. later this summer.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday the drones, officially named unmanned air vehicles (UAV) or unmanned air systems (UAS), are Insitu’s Scan Eagle X200 and AeroVironment’s PUMA.   Continue reading “Drones to fly U.S. skies, FAA approves 1st civilian UAVs”

Press TV

For the third time in two years, California inmates are refusing food to protest what they say are inhumane conditions.

Inmates are starving themselves to change the state’s practice of indefinite solitary confinement.

The protest is centered on California’s use of security housing units, or SHUs.    Continue reading “Inmates, advocates demand change as US prison hunger strike enters 3rd week”

RT News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has used drones for domestic surveillance purposes in the United States at least ten times without obtaining warrants. In three additional cases, drones were authorized but “not actually used.”

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday published a letter from FBI Assistant Director Stephen D. Kelly, who admitted that the agency used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) domestically, without gathering any warrants.   Continue reading “FBI admits to flying drones over US without warrants”

Mail.com

PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AP) — Some Americans call it the “Forgotten War,” a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it.

The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten. Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive celebration Saturday for a holiday it calls “Victory Day” — even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty.   Continue reading “Korean divide lives on 60 years after end of war”

Paul Craig Roberts

Amitai Etzioni has raised an important question: “Who authorized preparations for war with China?”http://yalejournal.org/2013/06/12/who-authorized-preparations-for-war-with-china/ Etzioni says that the war plan is not the sort of contingency plan that might be on hand for an improbable event. Etzioni also reports that the Pentagon’s war plan was not ordered by, and has not been reviewed by, US civilian authorities. We are confronted with a neoconized US military out of control endangering Americans and the rest of the world.   Continue reading “The Two Faux Democracies Threaten Life On Earth”

CenturyLink -by Nicholas K. Geranios, AP

PJ Tatler

UPDATE:

RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer is denying the claims made within this article, both via phone and by submitting comments below as “SeanS”.

Additionally, Tom Hofeller, mentioned in this article, claims via email that this article is “unequivocally false.”  Continue reading “RNC Operatives Join Holder’s Campaign Against Texas, Several Other States”

Infowars – by Adan Salazar

The Department of Homeland Security’s plans to occupy an old psychiatric hospital in the Washington D.C. area have slowly been moving forward, despite the project’s enormous projected cost.

The mammoth governmental entity, which has come to umbrella the offices of the Border Patrol Agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, FEMA, the abhorrent TSA, and even the Coast Guard since its creation in 2002, is working to consolidate all of its agencies within one campus at a cost of $4.5 billion.   Continue reading “New DHS Headquarters was a CIA MKUltra Test Facility”

Syracuse.com – by Douglas Dowty

Syracuse, NY — Three Syracuse residents were charged Tuesday with having a high-capacity rifle magazine under this year’s NY SAFE Act.

Blair Dion Odom, 20, of 157 Baldwin Ave.; Diamond Y. Ross-Hardy, 29, of 125 Stinard Ave. and Lloyd R. Brown, 31, of 125 Stinard Ave. were all charged with misdemeanor unlawful possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device, as well as unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. They were all arrested and sent to the Onondaga County Justice Center jail.   Continue reading “Three Syracuse residents charged with possessing high-capacity rifle magazine under NY SAFE Act”

SOFREP – by Bart “Sergei” Norman

PJ Tatler – by Bryan Preston

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is responding quickly and forcefully to Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to rope Texas back into the Voting Rights Act. The US Supreme Court just struck part of that law down.   Continue reading “Texas Officials, Activists to Holder on Voter ID: If It’s War You Want, It’s War You’ve Got”

Blacklisted News – by UPI

United Nations is assessing private military and security companies and their commitment to international norms, an envoy said from New York.

The United Nations announced a panel discussion on the use of mercenaries and private security companies is scheduled next week at the U.N. headquarters.   Continue reading “U.N. mulls use of mercenaries for international interventions”