From the Trenches World Report

Huffington Post

Homelessness could be turned into a crime under proposed anti-social behaviour laws a think-tank has warned.

The Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing bill, which featured in the Queen’s Speech earlier this month, includes powers to ban certain activities from designated areas.

The Manifesto Club claims these Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) are more wide-ranging than the powers they will replace while including fewer checks on their use leaving them open to exploitation.   Continue reading “Homelessness Could Be A Crime Under Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill Warns Think Tank”

Reuters

Egyptian security forces raided the office of the Iranian Al Alam Arabic language satellite channel in Cairo and detained its director, the outlet reported on Saturday.

“The security forces also seized equipment and devices from the channel without giving any explanation for these actions,” Al Alam said on its website.   Continue reading “Egyptian security forces raid office of Iranian TV channel”

Freedom Outpost – by John Risselada

If you haven’t been able to put two and two together yet, the spectacle we just witnessed as the George Zimmerman trial wasn’t really about George Zimmerman at all. It wasn’t a trial to find real justice and it wasn’t even a trial where George Zimmerman was the accused. It wasn’t about Trayvon Martin or the perceived injustice of a white guy who wasn’t white being racist against a poor, oppressed black kid. Nope, this was a trial where the nation’s self-defense laws were the accused and it was designed explicitly to get the new generation of ding dongs educated in social change and social justice to believe that drastic steps need to be taken to change our nations out dated gun laws. Ding dongs incidentally, that haven’t had an honest discussion about liberty and the constitution since the third grade.   Continue reading “The Zimmerman Trial Was Ultimately About Going After Guns & Self-Defense Laws”

You’d think the only thing happening in the world right now is the Trayvon Martin case.  Perhaps that’s the  intention of TPTB.  In the last few days of the Zimmerman trial, over 20 children were shot in Chicago, but no one really noticed.  I agree without argument or ceremony that both sides, Zimmerman and Trayvon, were in the wrong.  That said, we need to move on to equally or more pressing issues and avoid the theatrics designed to distract us.

Issues that are at  least if not more pressing include Bernanke and the FED admitting that dollar collapse would be imminent as soon as the FED stops pumping “QE Infinity”.  This is very significant because apparently there are only two alternatives – inflation ad infinitum or dollar collapse.  But the country being so involved in the soap opera that was the Zimmerman trial and related events, no body seemed to notice much.   Continue reading “What Kind of World?”

The Organic Prepper

Monsanto and their biotech buddies would have you believe that they are super-heroes, set on saving hungry children from starvation wearing a dazzling fake-green cape. In fact, in a recent attack on activists, Monsanto’s CEO Hugh Grant said that because critics “can afford” organic food, we don’t care about the plight of those who can’t afford it. “There is this strange kind of reverse elitism: If I’m going to do this, then everything else shouldn’t exist,” said Grant. “There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.”   Continue reading “The 10 GMO Myths That Monsanto Wants You to Believe”

Business Week – by Venessa Wong

Henry Makow – by Hugo Vance

The American Civil LIberties Union (ACLU) is filing lawsuits in strategic states to remove the medical ban on homosexuals donating blood and plasma.

Never mind that just 30 years ago, in the early days of AIDS, thousands of innocent women, children and men died of AIDS from infected blood transfusions.  Dozens of medical workers in blood donation centers contracted the disease from contact with contaminated blood.   Continue reading “Bad Blood: The Gay Drive to Donate”

NPR – by Dan Charles

According to a new survey of America’s beekeepers, almost a third of the country’s honeybee colonies did not make it through the winter.

That’s been the case, in fact, almost every year since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began this annual survey, six years ago.   Continue reading “Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops”

Libertarian Republican – by Eric Dondero

Whoa! duuuuuude, major diss of SD Mayor 

From Eric Dondero:

Nancy Pelosi and Bob Filner served in the US House as representatives from California for 8 years. Filner and Pelosi served together in numerous caucuses and committees over the years.    Continue reading “Pelosi seriously backs away from scandal-ridden fmr. colleague Bob Filner – He’s not “my former colleague””

Salon – by RADLEY BALKO

Excerpted from “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces”

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.   Continue reading ““Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

When you add maturing debt to the new debt that the federal government is accumulating, the total is quite eye catching.  You see, the truth is that the U.S. government must not only borrow enough money to fund government spending for this year, it must also “roll over” existing debt that has reached maturity.

Of course the government never actually pays any of that debt off.  Instead, it essentially takes out new debts to cover the old ones.  So the U.S. government is actually borrowing far more money each year than most Americans realize.    Continue reading “The U.S. Government Will Borrow Close To 4 Trillion Dollars This Year”

Russian Beyond the Headlines –  by Marina Maksimova

According to media reports of early July, the People’s Bank of China is mulling the possibility of phasing out the dollar as the reference currency for the yuan exchange rate, and to start using gold as the reference point.

The reports have not been confirmed officially, but analysts are warning that the step, if taken, will weaken the yuan and destabilise China’s already troubled economy, ultimately provoking a new bout of the economic crisis worldwide.   Continue reading “China reportedly planning to back the yuan with gold”

RT News

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that New York Times journalist James Risen must testify in the trial of a former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of leaking classified national defense information to the media.

A lower court ruled previously that Risen could protect the source responsible for sharing intelligence about a CIA operation discussed in his writing, but the US Court of Appeals from the Fourth Circuit reversed that decision Friday morning with a 2-1 vote.   Continue reading “Court rules journalists can’t keep their sources secret”