From the Trenches World Report
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“Prepare your daughter for a lifetime of surveillance with Hello Barbie, the doll that records children’s private conversations and transmits them to cloud servers, where they are analyzed by algorithms and listened to by strangers. Girls will learn important lessons, like that a friend might really be a corporate spy, and that anything you say can and will be used for market research.” Continue reading “Kid’s toys are recording and transmitting every conversation”
Amazon has force-reset an unknown number of accounts, after passwords may have been compromised.
A number of readers told ZDNet they received an email from Amazon saying the company has reset their account password. The message was also sent to their account message center on Amazon.com, and Amazon.co.uk, confirming the message is genuine. Continue reading “Amazon force-resets some account passwords, citing password leak”
Immigration Minister John McCallum will release details today of the Liberal government’s plan to resettle 25,000 refugees across the country. Some information has already been leaked, but there are still outstanding questions about how the plan will unfold. Continue reading “Canada’s Syrian refugee plan: What we know and don’t know”
Courthouse News Service – by Rebekah Kearn
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) – A Bakersfield police detective portrayed in the Disney film “McFarland, USA” is charged with taking bribes from a drug dealer.
The 16-count indictment against Damacio Diaz, 43, was unsealed Thursday.
As a member of the Bakersfield Police Department’s Narcotics Unit, Diaz also worked with DEA agents and was assigned to the Southern Tri-County Task Force of the Central Valley High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), a multi-agency drug task force investigating both state and federal narcotics crimes, according to the 23-page indictment. Continue reading “Cop from Disney Film Faces Bribery Charges”
Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner
If you’re lucky enough to escape unscathed from contact with a Texas police officer, but unlucky enough to have broken an unjust law such as drug possession, the danger is not over.
550 people have died while in custody of Texas law enforcement so far in 2015, mostly under the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Local departments and sheriff’s offices do their part too. Some places, such as Dallas, see “custodial deaths” at all levels of incarceration—city, county and state. Continue reading “Sandra Bland’s Death was Hardly Isolated – 550 People Died in Texas Jails in 2015 Alone”
Free Thought Project – by William N Grigg
Because the assailants who beat Kelly Thomas to death on the streets of Fullerton, California were swaddled in government-issued costumes and clothed in “qualified immunity,” the killers went free, and the city’s taxpayers will have to underwrite a $4.9 million civil settlement with the victim’s family, reports the Orange County Register. Continue reading “Family Gets $4.9M After Cops Beat Mentally Ill Son to Death on Video and Walked Free”
A weekend shootout that wounded 17 people, including a 10-year-old boy, in a New Orleans park appears to be gang-related, city officials said on Monday, as they urged hesitant witnesses to come forward with information about the suspects and a motive.
The incident unfolded Sunday evening at a playground in the city’s Upper 9th Ward where a crowd of as many as 500 people had gathered for a block party and the filming of a music video, police said. Continue reading “Shootout that wounded 17 in New Orleans park is gang-related: police”
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry began a one-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday by describing a wave of Palestinian knife and car ramming attacks as terrorism that must be condemned.
At the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kerry said they would discuss ways to work together to restore calm. With U.S.-backed Palestinian statehood negotiations frozen since 2014, Netanyahu said there could be no peace while an “onslaught of terror” continued. Continue reading “Kerry says Palestinian attacks ‘acts of terrorism’ that must be condemned”
A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters.
“During the flight, the aircraft was flying within the borders of Syria, which was registered by objective monitoring data,” the ministry said, adding that the aircraft was “supposedly shot down from the ground.” Continue reading “Russian Su-24 fighter jet shot down over Syria – Russian MoD”
Five people were wounded when gunfire erupted near a Minneapolis police precinct where demonstrators have been protesting the shooting death of Jamar Clark, police said.
All were hospitalized late Monday night with non-life threatening injuries. Police are searching for three white males suspects.
The shootings did not occur at the #Justice4Jamar protest, police spokesman John Elder said, but in “close proximity” to it. Continue reading “5 people shot near Jamar Clark protest site in Minneapolis”
“This market is looking like a disaster and the rates are a reflection of that,” warns one of the world’s largest shipbrokers, but while The Baltic Dry Freight Index gets all the headlines – having collapsed to all-time record lows this week – it is the spefics below that headline that are truly terrifying. At a time of typical seasonal strength for freight and thus global trade around the world, Reuters reports that spot rates for transporting containers from Asia to Northern Europe have crashed a stunning 70% in the last 3 weeks alone. This almost unprecedented divergence from seasonality has only occurred at this scale once before… 2008! “It is looking scary for the market and it doesn’t look like there is going to be any life in the market in the near term.” Continue reading “Global Trade Just Snapped: Container Freight Rates Plummet 70% In 3 Weeks”
Natural Society – by Christina Sarich
America has a sweet tooth. We eat over 8 tons of sugar derived from different sources every year. For decades farmers provided a myriad of food makers with the sugar they needed without relying on GM sugar beets. But with promises made by Monsanto in 2008 (the year genetically modified sugar beet seeds were introduced), farmers began counting on increased yields and reduced costs. Now they face record low sales as American consumers demand non-GMO food. Continue reading “Sugar Beet Farmers Face Record Low Sales as Demand for ‘Non-GMO’ Booms”
SitRep, Auslander goes behind enemy lines
I have just returned from a trip to USA. It matters not why I had to go, it simply suffices to say it was not my choice and it will in all probability be my last journey west baring an emergency that requires my presence. I am getting old and such long journeys are pretty hard in regards to the time and strain of so many hours in flight. Continue reading “USA SitRep November 21 by Auslander”
In a stunning demonstration of online book burning, Amazon.com has just banned a book because of its contents. The book Nobody Died at Sandy Hook consists of analysis from a dozen contributor authors, and it’s edited by Jim Fetzer, Ph.D. The book concludes that Sandy Hook was a staged FEMA drill carried out by the government to push an agenda of nationwide gun control.
Use hashtag #StopAmazonCensorship to Tweet this story. Continue reading “Amazon.com bans investigative book ‘Nobody Died at Sandy Hook’ because it disagrees with government version of what happened”
These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced at church services:
The Fasting & Prayer conference includes meal
Scouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children. Continue reading “Excerpts from church bulletins”
The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to possible risks of travel due to increased terrorist threats. Current information suggests that ISIL (aka Da’esh), al-Qa’ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions. These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics, using conventional and non-conventional weapons and targeting both official and private interests. This Travel Alert expires on February 24, 2016.
Now that the dust has settled in Paris from the latest “False Flag” mission to herd the sheeple into a pen of jingoistic fervor, the blood flow coming out of the latest version of Comité De Salut Public would make Robespierre proud. Setting the context, dauntless ex-CIA Michael Scheuer out does his usual perceptive analysis.
“Honoring Paris’s dead and wounded is now being done with crocodile tears, candles, moments of silence, crowds of strangers holding hands, pledges of solidarity, the endless, pro forma singing of national anthems, and bouquets of followers mounded up as colorful, if wilting, temples to the dead. Continue reading “ISIS – Intelligence Agencies Creation and Asset”
Liberty Fight – by Martin Hill
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest discussed “Enhancing National Security” today, and the White House tweeted a video of his comments. The 40-year old Rice University graduate criticized Republicans and insisted that anyone on a terror list should be forbidden from owing guns. He fails to mention the fact that millions of Americans are fraudulently placed on these so-called ‘terrorist lists’ including millions of gun-owning Americans who have never even been charged, much less convicted, of any crime whatsoever. Continue reading “White House: “There’s no law on the books that prevents someone on a terror list from buying a weapon. It’s time to change that.””