From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Smart meter report: The Institute for Electric Innovation’s (IEI’s) new report, “Electric Company Smart Meter Deployments: Foundation for a Smart Grid,” identifies the innovations, benefits, and capabilities enabled by smart meters, and summarizes the deployments of smart meters to date. Continue reading “Smart meter report finds 76 million smart meters deployed across U.S.”
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (WCMH) — A woman in Indiana says a hotel charged her $350 after writing a negative review of her stay.
Katrina Arthur and her husband were just trying to enjoy a getaway trip in March of 2016, but soon after arriving at their hotel things took a turn for the worse.
Arthur tells WRTV, soon after arriving she could smell sewer, and the air conditioner and water pressure weren’t working. Continue reading “Indiana woman charged $350 for negative hotel review”
Seattle Times – by Mike Carter
Federal prosecutors have charged a Department of Homeland Security detention agent with assault for allegedly pointing her sidearm at her supervisor, prompting an evacuation at the agency’s Tukwila offices.
A complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle alleges Peggy Lee Robbins unholstered her handgun and pointed it at her boss Thursday after he asked her to sign documents related to an employee “performance improvement plan” aimed at correcting unspecified “issues” with her job performance.
Continue reading “Homeland Security agent accused of pointing gun at boss over job review”
An Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud storage bucket containing information from data analytics firm Alteryx has been found publicly exposed, comprising the personal information of 123 million US households.
The S3 bucked, located at the subdomain “alteryxdownload”, was found by Californian cybersecurity firm UpGuard, with its Cyber Risk Team discovering the leak on October 6, 2017. Continue reading “Alteryx S3 leak leaves 120m American households exposed”
When do we realize we’re already living in a police state?
Maybe one clue is when our betters make a point of assuring us that we aren’t. Here’s Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testifying before a House Judiciary Committee inquiry into political bias in the Robert Mueller “Russia-gate” investigation:
Department of Justice employees are united by a shared understanding that our mission is to pursue justice, protect public safety, preserve government property, defend civil rights, and promote the rule of law. Continue reading ““Give Us The Man, We Will Make The Case”: Civil Forfeiture, RussiaGate, And The Police State”
It’s official, law enforcement has turned bus drivers into an extension of the police state.
In San Jose, Califonia, an Appeals court ruling revealed that police regularly hand bus drivers “Be on the Lookout’ (BOLO) fliers.
Which effectively turns them into police informants. Continue reading “Bus drivers have become ‘true police informants’”
San Diego Tribune – by Greg Moran
With a mandate from President Donald Trump to hire 5,000 new Border Patrol agents, Customs and Border Protection awarded a $297 million contract to a private company to help recruit and hire the new agents and other workers.
[Accenture is a global management consulting and professional services company that provides a strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services. A Fortune Global 500 company, it has been incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, since 1 September 2009.] Continue reading “CBP has to hire 5,000 new Border Patrol agents. It’s paying a foreign private company $297 million to help.”When Liz Snook wanted to hire a nanny a few years ago, she did what many parents do: she ran a background check. And she was surprised with what she found — her nanny had once been charged with swearing in public in Virginia.
“I thought that was such a bizarre charge and I didn’t know why it would show up,” says Snook, an attorney in D.C. Continue reading “Hell Yes! Virginia Legislator Pushes To Decriminalize Swearing In Public”
Detroit Free Press – by Ann Zaniewski
A woman is suing several Coldwater, Mich. police officers after she says she was slammed to the ground and knocked unconscious while handcuffed in a secure entrance to the county jail, a bloody incident captured on camera.
Tiffany McNeil’s federal lawsuit alleges that police used excessive force and then lied about what happened. Continue reading “Injured woman accuses Coldwater police of ‘disgusting, thug-like conduct’ in jail incident”
Courthouse News – by Matt Reynolds
ST. LOUIS (CN) – A St. Louis suburb’s bid to dismiss allegations that it repeatedly jails low-income residents when they cannot pay traffic fines faltered Monday when a federal judge ruled that five former detainees can proceed with civil rights claims against the city.
In an 18-page ruling, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nannette Baker found that five former detainees at the city of Florissant’s jail pleaded sufficient facts to establish that their civil rights were violated, and that the city enacted a scheme that some have likened to a modern-day debtors’ prison. Continue reading “St. Louis Suburb Must Face Class-Action Claims of Debtors’ Prison”
Miami Herald – by Linda Robertson
Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll may grow fruit trees and flowers in the front yard of their Miami Shores house. They may park a boat or jet ski in their driveway. They may place statues, fountains, gnomes, pink flamingoes or Santa in a Speedo on their property.
Vegetables, however, are not allowed. Continue reading “Court upholds ban of vegetable garden in the front yard of Miami Shores home”
The sexual harassment scandals involving prominent Hollywood figures, media personalities and politicians has brought heightened awareness to the issue, but one public college appears to be taking things too far. At Tennessee State University in Nashville, “whistling in a suggestive manner” may qualify as sexual harassment and can get students expelled or employees fired. Those caught making “suggestive or insulting sounds” or making “suggestive or obscene gestures” also face similar consequences as well as students or staff who joke about sex on campus. Continue reading “Public University: Whistling May Qualify as Sexual Harassment”
A recent article in the Kansas City Star, revealed that politicians are allegedly using a messaging app that deletes messages after they have been read.
The article claims that Governor Eric Greitens and his staff used the ‘Confide’ app to hide text messages from the public. Continue reading “Do self-destructing apps keep Big Brother from spying on your messages?”
The Guardian – by Antony Loewenstein
William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move towards mass surveillance.
On 5 July he spoke at a conference in London organised by the Centre for Investigative Journalism and revealed the extent of the surveillance programs unleashed by the Bush and Obama administrations. Continue reading “The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control”
Politifact delivered a “pants on fire” slam to Fox News on Friday because one of its commentators asserted that the Federal Bureau of Investigation “has become America’s secret police.” The FBI has legions of new champions nowadays among liberals and Democrats who hope that its probes will end Donald Trump’s presidency. This is a stunning reversal that may have J. Edgar Hoover spinning in his grave.
In order to boost the credibility of the FBI’s investigations of the Trump team, much of the media is whitewashing the bureau’s entire history. But the FBI has been out of control almost since its birth. Continue reading “Yes, the FBI is America’s secret police”
As I indicated in a recent article, the B-team, or even the C-team, is now heading up the national evening news in America. These anchors’ faces and voices (Muir, Glor, and Holt) are not even faint reminders of the so-called Golden Age, when father figures like Cronkite and Reasoner fed official truth into the brains of viewers. The new C-team is vague gloss from a paint job on a used car. This is an ominous sign for the news bosses in the upstairs suites. They can’t find adequate hypnotists anymore. Continue reading “The collapse of major media”
Nearly 50 years before President Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, a SECRET Central Intelligence Agency report had already declared the issue of the city’s ownership a “stumbling block” which could sink the entire peace process, and worse, one “without prospects” for a solution. Continue reading “1971 SECRET CIA report declared Jerusalem was “an issue without prospects””
I cannot believe what I am writing, the TSA has officially invaded auto manufacturing.
According to a Lincoln Motor Company media release, their 2018 Lincoln’s will offer ‘complimentary’ CLEAR biometric memberships to new car owners.
“Working with CLEAR, Lincoln takes effortless travel to the next level, offering complimentary memberships for new Lincoln owners.”
Continue reading “New cars to be equipped with ‘complimentary’ TSA PreCheck biometric scanners”
San Joaquin County’s chief forensic pathologist resigned Tuesday, one day after the release of memos alleging Sheriff-Coroner Steve Moore interfered with death investigations to protect law enforcement officers.
Dr. Bennet Omalu, and his colleague Dr. Susan Parson, who perform autopsies for the county, have accused Moore of trying to influence their medical findings, especially in cases where officers were involved in a person’s death. Continue reading “Autopsy Doctor Resigns, Says Sheriff Overrode Death Findings to Protect Officers”
The Daily Caller – by Michael Bastach
Global warming has not accelerated temperature rise in the bulk atmosphere in more than two decades, according to a new study funded by the Department of Energy.
University of Alabama-Huntsville climate scientists John Christy and Richard McNider found that by removing the climate effects of volcanic eruptions early on in the satellite temperature record it showed virtually no change in the rate of warming since the early 1990s. Continue reading “Satellites Show No Acceleration In Global Warming For 23 Years”