From the Trenches World Report
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – Hurricane Irma hit Leesburg hard, and resident Ami Honea’s neighborhood has piles of debris to prove it.
But just before the storm blew through, Honea made a decision that cost her her job.
“I did what I needed to do, for the safety of my children,” Honea said.
Honea worked as a nurse at the Lake County Jail, a place that can’t just lock up and close during a hurricane. Continue reading “Leesburg nurse fired for missing work during Hurricane Irma”
Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it was testing a service in the Silicon Valley to deliver groceries straight to customers’ refrigerators as it looks to gain an edge over Amazon.com.
The retailer said it is partnering with August Home, a provider of smart locks and smart home accessories, to test the service. (bit.ly/2ffqqvT)
The delivery person would get access to the customer’s house using a pre-authorized one-time passcode and would put away groceries. Continue reading “Wal-Mart tests delivering groceries straight to fridge”
MODESTO, Calif. — The parents of a 5-year-old California boy are upset after their son was suspended for a day after refusing to take off his backpack and making “terrorist threats,” according to KTXL.
Officials at Great Valley Charter School said Jackson Riley apparently told his teacher there was a bomb inside his backpack. Continue reading “5-year-old suspended from school for making ‘terrorist threats’”
OKLAHOMA CITY — A man died Tuesday evening after being shot by a police officer in southeast Oklahoma City.
Police were investigating a report of a hit-and-run around 8:15 p.m. in the 5700 block of Southeast Shields Boulevard, said Capt. Bo Mathews, with the Oklahoma City Police Department. Officers found a vehicle in the 200 block of Southeast 57th Street that matched the description of the one in the accident. Continue reading “Man dies after officer-involved shooting in southeast Oklahoma City”
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Police officers portrayed as pigs in a student art exhibit at Sac State is gaining attention.
Jacob Lewis is a senior art student and said there’s more than meets the eye in his paintings.
“There’s a lot of deeper meanings in there,” he said. Continue reading “College Student’s Art Depicting Cops As Pigs Drawing Attention”
The Kansas City Star – by Laura Bauer
VERSAILLES, MO. – A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper will spend 10 days in jail for his role in the drowning death of a handcuffed Iowa man.
In addition to the “shock time” in the Morgan County jail, Judge Roger Prokes sentenced Trooper Anthony Piercy to two years of supervised probation and ordered him to complete 50 hours of community service. Piercy will serve time in jail in five, two-day increments with his first stint scheduled to begin Friday.
For Craig Ellingson, whose son Brandon Ellingson drowned in May 2014 in Piercy’s custody on the Lake of the Ozarks, it’s not nearly enough.
Continue reading “Trooper gets 10 days ‘shock time’ in Brandon Ellingson drowning at Lake of the Ozarks”
It used to be the DOJ, COPS, NHTSA and the USDOT were responsible for paying police to ticket motorists.
In the past few years, things have taken a turn for the worse. It now appears that DHS has become the largest cash provider for police departments.
What does that mean for motorists? Continue reading “DHS pays police millions to ticket and prosecute motorists”
Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger
When it comes to the U.S. economy, the “con” part offers the best description of the current relationship between business, government and the preyed upon consumer. The way things work in early 21st century America is large businesses bribe politicians in a variety of ways at both the local and federal level, and the end result is laws that are designed to increase corporate profits at the expense of the wellbeing and freedom of the American public. Politicians end up with financial war chests to run their next campaign, while bureaucrats see a lucrative opportunity to swing through the ever spinning revolving door should they play ball with lobbyists and their patrons. Yes, there’s always some degree of corruption within any society of humans, but there are peaks and valleys in such cycles. I’d argue we are somewhere in the peak corruption phase. Continue reading “In Florida, You Can’t Use Your Own Solar Panels in a Crisis”
So what do you do when you fail to elect your chosen candidate and your former political allies and mainstream media turn against you by painting you not as the ‘progressive’, open-minded, friendly tech company that you used to be but as an evil, racist, Russian-colluding corporate villain intent upon destroying all that is sacred in the world? Well, you just buy the media, of course.
As Poynter notes today, after a series of public relations debacles in recent weeks, from the firing of James Damore to news last week that Google’s algos served up some fairly disturbing keywords to potential advertising buyers (e.g. “Why Do Black People Ruin Neighborhoods“), Google is ramping up its media presence with the announcement that the Google News Lab will be working with Report For America (RFA) to hire 1,000 journalists all around the country. Continue reading “Why Is Google Hiring 1,000 Journalists To Flood Newsrooms Around America?”
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A Vatican diplomat working in Washington has been recalled to the Holy See after the U.S. State Department said the priest may have violated child pornography laws, the Vatican said on Friday.
Prosecutors in the Vatican have opened an investigation into the case, which represents a fresh blow to the Roman Catholic Church as it struggles to overcome repeated sex abuse scandals among its clergy. Continue reading “Vatican recalls Washington diplomat amid child pornography investigation”
The death of free speech is imminent. Anyone with access to a computer and the internet can see that the United States mainstream media is nothing more than a propaganda machine designed to brainwash the masses into a lemming-like agreement with the government.
And now, it’s oh-so-ironic that the same government that tells the media what to report on in order brainwash the public is seeking to quiet those who disagree and label them as “propaganda.” Some may call it fake news, others just want a different opinion rather than the left-leaning media hysteria we are accustomed to. But now, media outlet RT (Russia Today), founded in Russia will have to register with the United States as “foreign media;” which will forever give it the inaccurate title of “propaganda.” Continue reading “The Death Of Free Speech Is Imminent: Government Begins Censorship Of Media Through Disingenuous Means”
Free Beacon – by Stephen Gutowski
A new poll published on Thursday found more Americans report having a gun in their home than ever before.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey of 1,200 adults found 48 percent of Americans said they or somebody else in their household owned a gun. That’s 3 percentage points higher than when the same question was asked last year. It’s 9 percentage points higher than when the question was asked in 2011, the low point of the poll’s findings for self-reported gun ownership. Continue reading “Poll: More Americans Have a Gun in Home Than Ever Before”
Baltimore Sun – by Jeff Barker
Gone are the days when sports-team giveaways were limited to T-shirts, bobbleheads, free-sandwich coupons and the like.
The Ravens on Sunday are adopting a unique approach: The tens of thousands of fans entering M&T Bank Stadium for the NFL team’s home opener against the Cleveland Browns will receive free DNA test kits. Continue reading “Ravens fans will get DNA test kits Sunday in unusual NFL promotion”
The Intercept – by Alice Speri
IT’S NOT UNCOMMON for residents of America’s most heavily policed neighborhoods to describe their local cops as “an occupying force.” Judging by where many U.S. police forces get their training, the description seems apt.
Thousands of American law enforcement officers frequently travel for training to one of the few countries where policing and militarism are even more deeply intertwined than they are here: Israel.
Continue reading “Israel Security Forces Are Training American Cops Despite History of Rights Abuses”
Google’s screening tool that enables people to check online whether they are clinically depressed could do more harm than good, one expert has warned.
Last month, the tech giant released a self-assessment quiz, called the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), which pops up as a result for the search query ‘Am I depressed?’ on a computer or cell phone.
Google developed its test in partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) but one professor claims that the quiz could just lead to over-treatment of depression amid the US’s opioid epidemic. Continue reading “Google’s depression tool funded by Pfizer”
Local police agencies caused a stir three years ago by setting up roadblocks around the country designed to “voluntarily” swab motorists for drug use. The heavy handed tactics used at these locations sparked a lawsuit and the ire of at least one US senator, forcing the agencies to retreat — for a time. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced last week that it is bringing back the controversial program.
“This study will estimate the prevalence of drugs in drivers arrested for impaired driving,” NHTSA associate administrator Jeff Michael wrote. “The goal is to better understand the frequency of alcohol, prescription, over-the-counter, and illicit drugs, in impaired driving arrests.” Continue reading “Federal Agency Proposes Return Of Drug Testing Roadblocks”
A police officer from Pass Christian, Mississippi, shocked a woman on the stomach with a stun gun after the woman begged the officer not to, saying she was pregnant, the woman and two witnesses say.
Aviana White, 27, was a passenger in her brother’s car when the officer pulled him over Monday morning for speeding, Pass Christian Police said. He had no license.
Police Chief Tim Hendricks said the officer was trying to be helpful by asking for White’s name and license so that she could drive her brother’s car home. Continue reading “‘Don’t Tase me, I’m pregnant!’: She says a police officer ignored her pleas”
The Daily Caller – by Peter Hasson
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned on Wednesday after a fifth man publicly accused the Democrat of molesting him as a child.
But Murray isn’t alone. At least 11 then-current and former mayors have been accused of child sex abuse-related crimes since 2016. The allegations range from child porn to physical abuse. The alleged victims were as young as four years old. Continue reading “At Least 11 Mayors Accused Of Child Sex-Related Crimes Since 2016”
