From the Trenches World Report
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The Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
A police officer in Pennsylvania will not receive any charges after shooting and killing his pregnant wife. The unborn baby was also killed. There has been no mention of the officers name in any news reports, but the name of his deceased wife, Joan Miller has been released.
Miller was 34 years old at the time, and the unborn child was 22 weeks old. Continue reading “Cop Shoots and Kills Pregnant Wife and Unborn Child Then Walks Free”
An interesting — and possibly harmful — ruling on public records requests has just been issued by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Although the ruling has a very limited jurisdiction, it could be used to push for similar legal activity elsewhere. Journalism student David Schick (who was last seen drawing the ire of Georgia State Attorney General Sam Olens over the release of public documents) has the story.
In a ruling earlier this month, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals set a precedent of allowing state officials to consider the purpose of a citizens’ public records request before handing over documents… Continue reading “Wisconsin Court Broadens FOI Exception, Allowing Government Agencies To Deny Requests Based On Perceived Motive”
Not this again. We’ve noted many times in the past that the two popular “print on demand” t-shirt/merchandise operations online, CafePress and Zazzle, too frequently seem to quickly take down content based on bogus legal threats. Last year, after Zazzle caved in to threats from Homeland Security and the NSA over parody logos, a lawsuit was filed by Dan McCall, whose designs were taken down. The geniuses in the US government realized they were in trouble and admitted that there is no violation in parody logos. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton PAC Sends Bogus Takedowns Over Parodies On Zazzle And CafePress”
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FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) — Military officials say a soldier with the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division based in northern New York has died while serving in Afghanistan.
Officials at Fort Drum say Wednesday that 34-year-old Spc. Terry Hurne of Merced, California died Monday from a non-combat-related incident in Logar province. No other details were provided. Continue reading “Operation Enduring B.S”
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Jerad and Amanda Miller had lived in Nevada for only five months, but the couple quickly established political ties in their new state before gunning down two police officers and a bystander in Las Vegas.
The couple each claimed in social media that they moved from Indiana to support the gubernatorial campaign of David Lory VanDerBeek, who said he had spoken to them five times at campaign events and communicated with them through social media and text messages, although not for at least two months. Continue reading “The Millers and the Bundy Ranch”
Alasdair Macleod the other day compared the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to the empire of Genghis Khan whose name in English is just Great Leader. The Mongol Empire reached its height under his grandson Kublai Khan. The Mongol Empire combined economic and military power into the hands of one man. The modern SCO works cooperatively as a competitor to NATO and the European Union. Ankara, the capitol of Turkey, is 4,806 miles (7,734.5 kilometers) from Shanghai. Yet the Turkish government is exploring membership in the SCO because their EU acceptance is stalled and the EU looks a lot less attractive. Who wants to wind up like Greece anyway? Doctors and nurses work for months without paychecks. They’ve had riots just about every week for 150 weeks. Continue reading “Comparing The Shanghai Cooperation Organization To The Mongol Empire”
Chapel Hill News – by Michael Helms
Ellie Kinnaird’s interpretation of the Second Amendment (“2nd Amendment never said right to bear arms was absolute,” DN, May 27) is an interesting work of fiction, but its basis in historical precedent and established jurisprudence couldn’t be more mistaken.
Ms. Kinnaird’s fantasy vaguely refers to an 1875 Supreme Court case wherein she alleges “that the Second Amendment applies to the government, not an individual gun owner.” A closer reading of the 1875 Supreme Court case United States v Cruikshank affirms what Americans have long known: that the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right neither granted nor revocable by the government. To wit: “The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.” Continue reading “Militia means you and me”
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has unveiled the Green Rock – a mobile autonomous tactical counter Rocket, Artillery & Mortar (C-RAM) system. This system, was delivered to the Israel Defense Forces and named Wind Shield by the IDF.
The system will be on display at the Eurosatory exhibition being held between June 16-20 in Paris, France. Green Rock is designed to support a variety of ground force protection missions, including fire source location, friendly forces fire correction, and detection of low-flying airborne targets such as UAVs, gliders and hovering platforms. Continue reading “New Israeli System Detects Low-flying Drones”
Stop the Drug War – by Phillip Smith
A Tennessee police chief gets caught misbehaving, so does a strung out Pennsylvania deputy, and a San Diego husband and wife cop team go down for dealing. Let’s get to it:
In Graysville, Tennessee, the Graysville police chief was arrested last Monday on charges he was improperly disposing of seized vehicles and dipping into seized cash. Police Chief Jason Erik Redden is accused of either taking for himself or returning to the original owner three of the vehicles, and is also being held responsible for $4,128 in missing seized cash and fees paid to the department. He is charged with seven counts of misconduct in office, two counts of theft over $1,000, and one count of theft under $500. Continue reading “This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories”
Fox 4 KC – by Michelle Pekarsky
ST. LOUIS — A man who allegedly held a gun to a teenage girl’s head during a home robbery Monday night is in critical condition after police say he was shot by the girl’s father.
A second man is dead.
The family reports that two men confronted the teenaged girl at about 11:00 pm in front of her home. Continue reading “Dad, and then mom, open fire on gunmen who confront teen daughter outside their home”
On June 8th, a couple shot and killed two police officers inside a Las Vegas restaurant. Before opening fire, the couple reportedly yelled “This is a revolution!”. They then covered the bodies of the police officers with a yellow Gadsden “Don’t thread on me” flag, along with a note containing a swastika symbol. The shooters then entered a nearby Walmart, killed another man inside and took their own lives.
When the murderers were identified as Jerad and Amanda Miller, media sources quickly tagged the couple as “extreme-right”, “pro-gun”, “conspiracy theorist”, “Tea Party”, “anti-Government” and “White supremacists”. Then, pictures of them emerged and things got strange. Continue reading “Las Vegas Shooting : Was Jerad Miller a Patsy Used to Further an Agenda?”
KIEV, June 10, 22:44 /ITAR-TASS/. Everyone willing to leave the zone of the armed ‘special operation’ in eastern Ukraine will have an opportunity to do so, the press service of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
“An opportunity will be given to leave the territory through to checkpoints of the antiterrorist center,” the report said. “Inspections in order to prevent the transportation of weaponry, explosives, etc., will be done at the checkpoints.” Continue reading “Kiev promises opportunity for everyone to leave zone of punitive operation”
TUCSON Ariz. (Reuters) – A Mexican immigrant who took refuge in an Arizona church to avoid deportation from a country where he has lived illegally for over a decade and raised a family can stay in the United States, a federal official said on Tuesday.
Daniel Neyoy Ruiz, 36, had been ordered to report for voluntary deportation in May. But in a high-profile challenge to U.S. immigration policy he instead turned to a Tucson church whose leaders were involved in a movement to give sanctuary to Central American refugees in the 1980s. Continue reading “Mexican immigrant who sought sanctuary in church can stay in U.S”
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Continue reading “The Wit (and Wisdom) of Phyllis Diller”
Wyoming Institute of Technology – by John Brugle, Ph.D
John T. Brugle, Ph.D and Mary Franz, Ph.D, M.P.H.
Wyoming Institute of Technology, Human Studies Division
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Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Chips have been used extensively in wildlife ecology and conservation to identify and track individual specimens in a population. It has been unknown, however, how often RFID chips have been implanted in human populations for the tracking and identification of individuals. This study analyzed the prevalence of RFID Chips in 3 geographically discrete populations and found that, on average, 1 in 3 individuals carried an RFID Chip. Interestingly, there was a strong correlation with RFID Chip presence and previous dental work. Continue reading “Analysis of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Chip Prevalence in 3 Discrete United States Populations”
KSL – by Dennis Romboy, June 3, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY — An angry and emotional Mark Shurtleff says agents who searched his home Monday used “Dirty Harry” tactics and traumatized his teenage daughter.
“I don’t care what people think I may have done, and the truth will come out on that,” the former Utah Attorney General said Tuesday. “But there was nothing that justifies what they did yesterday in my home.” Continue reading “Agents ‘trashed’ home, traumatized kids during search, former Utah Att Gen Shurtleff says”
President Barack Obama had some tough love for young people in a discussion on student loans hosted by Tumblr on Tuesday afternoon, warning them not to waste their time while in college and reminding them that they might have to take a job they don’t like to pay off their debts.
Obama told the audience of Tumblr users gathered at the White House that despite skyrocketing tuition costs, college is still worth it for most people. Continue reading “Obama has tough love for young people in Tumblr student loan chat”
Think Progress – by Nicole Flatow
In 1981, Norma Uy was deemed eligible for an immigration visa by way of her sister, a U.S. Citizen. At the time, her two-year-old daughter also applied for a visa through a provision of U.S. immigration law that allows the children of visa applicants to also be considered. The petition was approved the very same day it was filed. But it wasn’t until 21 years later that Norma’s name got to the top of the visa waiting list and she was granted legal permanent residence. By that point, her daughter Ruth was 23 years old, and wasn’t permitted to immigrate with her mother, under an agency interpretation of federal law that deemed Ruth no longer a “child.” Norma was forced to choose between leaving her daughter behind and attempting to bring her over later, or not going at all after a 21-year wait. Continue reading “Woman Waits In Line For 21 Years To Immigrate Into US, Then Gets Turned Away For Being Too Old”
Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing
Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick
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Yahoo News – by Paul Ingram
Yahoo News – by Liz Goodwin