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A homeless teenager was arrested in the murder of a dance student at the University of Texas at Austin, police said on Friday.
Meechaiel Criner, 17, was taken into custody on Thursday and held on $1 million bond, online records showed. Haruka Weiser, 18, of Portland, Oregon, was reported missing on Monday. Her body was found on Tuesday behind the university’s alumni center. Continue reading “Homeless Teen Arrested in Killing of University of Texas Student Haruka Weiser”
Why did so many ancient societies around the world make human sacrifices to appease the gods? A new study supports the theory that the practice may have played a key role in keeping the poor downtrodden and the elites in power.
And barbaric as it sounds, human sacrifice may have created one path for more advanced civilizations, according to the study. Continue reading “Human sacrifice helped ancient societies entrench class divide, study suggests”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today, I have an abscessed wisdom tooth and cannot do the program.
Apologies.
“BILLBOARD COMPANY REFUSES TO HONOR NAVY VETS – We placed this billboard in New Bedford, MA, to honor USS Liberty veterans and to help them and their families get the respect and help they deserve.
But Israel partisans complained, one threatening to take his business elsewhere, so the billboard company reneged on their contract and took the billboard down two weeks early. Continue reading “USS Liberty Vets Call For Help As Billboard Company Bows Down To Isreal”
In a growing trend across the U.S., Colorado is moving toward burying the term “illegal alien.”
The state House of Representatives voted in favor of stopping use of the controversial term in favor of undocumented person or foreign national, according to the Denver Post.
The force behind the measure, Rep. Steve Lebsock, says “illegal alien” is simply “outdated and hurtful language.” Continue reading “Colorado House of Representatives passes bill dropping use of ‘illegal alien’”
So, recently, it probably seemed like I vanished off the face of the earth. Well, it turns out I only vanished from the virtual earth because we were without the internet.
No, I didn’t get buried under a mound of moving boxes. We’re alive and well here in the mountains, although we were somewhat disconnected for a while. This was a huge move – while I thought moving as a prepper was an enormous undertaking, it was nothing compared to moving as a prepper/homesteader. Moving the contents of a barn, chicken coop, and house was a tremendous amount of work, even though we hired a moving company for the majority of the big stuff. Continue reading “Untethering: 10 Days without the Internet”
True Activist – by Brianna Acuesta
As though homeless people don’t already own so little possessions, the city of Los Angeles just passed a law saying that the amount of things a homeless person can own must fit inside of a trashcan. They even have size dimensions for the trashcan, noting that the items must fit in a 60-gallon trashcan and the lid must close over it.
The new law allows police to even confiscate tents that are still standing on public property during daylight hours. Taking away a homeless person’s shelter is not constructive, and in fact only makes them feel less secure in a time when they need a solid foundation to get back on their feet. Continue reading “New LA Law: Homeless People Can Only Own A Trashcan’s Worth Of Belongings”
Propaganda News – by David Risselada
In recent days gun rights activists have seen some big wins for the second amendment. The issue of “constitutional carry” (exercising your right to carry a firearm without a permit) has been gaining traction with West Virginia and Idaho becoming the latest of now ten states to adopt such a law. This is big news because the licensing of our rights is a telltale sign of tyranny. In Oklahoma there is a constitutional carry bill waiting to be heard; however, the bureaucracy that oversees licensing fees has argued that passing a constitutional carry law would affect their bottom line, as if our rights are dependent on whether or not the government makes money. Continue reading “A Deceptive Gun Control Agenda”
British programmer Joshua Browder is helping people save on legal fees with his latest project – the world’s first robot lawyer. The 19-year-old developed a free service that allows users to ask any kind of legal question, providing instant answers autogenerated by bots.
Browder first started the project last summer as a free website to help people appeal unfair parking tickets. He came up with the idea after getting a series of tickets himself for “trivial reasons”. Having wasted several hours on writing appeals to these tickets, he realised that many people do not have the time, legal knowledge or even the energy to appeal. So he decided to create an automatic appeal generator, using previously successful letters as a template. He aptly named the service DoNotPay, given that the legal fees involved in challenging tickets could mount up to $400 to $900. Continue reading “Free Robot Lawyer Created by 19-Year-Old Programmer Is Saving People A Lot of Money in Legal Fees”
“See Something, Say Something.” That’s the motto of the Department of Homeland Security. If you see suspicious activity or believe there is a danger to the general public you’re supposed to call police.
When Ronald Ritchie saw what he believed to be a man wielding a gun at an Ohio Walmart that’s exactly what he did. There’s no way Ritchie could have known the gun John Crawford was playing around with was a BB-gun. Continue reading “Man Who Called 911 To Report Walmart Threat To Be Charged After POLICE Shoot and Kill Suspect”
Lebanon cannot stand on its feet anymore. It is overwhelmed, frightened and broke.
It stands at the frontline, facing Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS/ISIL) in the east and north, hostile Israel in the south and the deep blue sea in the west. One and a half million (mostly Syrian) refugees are dispersed all over its tiny territory. Its economy is collapsing and the infrastructure crumbling. ISIS is right on the border with Syria, literally next door, or even with one foot inside Lebanon, periodically invading, and setting up countless “dormant cells” in all the Lebanese cities and all over the countryside. Hezbollah is fighting ISIS, but the West and Saudi Arabia apparently consider Hezbollah, not ISIS, to be the major menace to their geopolitical interests. The Lebanese army is relatively well trained but badly armed, and as the entire country, it is notoriously cash-strapped. Continue reading “Lebanon is being forced to collapse”
Global Research – by Makia Freeman
ISIS is a US-Israeli creation, a fact as clear as the sky is blue. It’s a truth as black and white as the colors on their flag. For many alternative news readers, this may be patently obvious, but this article is written for the large majority of people in the world who still have no idea who is really behind the rise of ISIS. No matter which name they go by – ISIS, ISIL, IS or Daesh – the group has been deliberately engineered by the US and Israel to achieve certain geopolitical goals. They are a religious, fundamentalist, Sunni terrorist organization created to terrorize and overthrow certain secular or Shiite Arab nations such as Syria and Iraq, but they are not just “Islamic”. They may be Muslims, and they may be advocating an Islamic State, but they are very much working towards the goals of Zionism. Continue reading “ISIS is a US-Israeli Creation. Top Ten “Indications””
AUSTIN – A 17-year-old man is in police custody in the death of a University of Texas student and police are planning to pursue charges against him Friday, KVUE’s Tony Plohetski has learned.
Ploehtski reported that multiple law enforcement sources have confirmed the development in the case of who killed 19-year-old Haruka Weiser, a freshman at UT. The sources would not identify the teen because he has not been charged. Continue reading “Suspect arrested in UT student’s murder”
Update: SAN ANTONIO – A shooting Friday morning at Lackland Air Force that left two people dead is an apparent murder-suicide, Bexar County Sheriff’s Office spokesman James Keith said.
“(We) do believe the shooter is accounted for,” Keith told reporters.
Keith said the sex of the victims and their relationship wasn’t immediately known. Continue reading “BCSO: Murder-Suicide suspected in Lackland AFB shooting”
Less than a week after opening applications April 1, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced petitions for H-1B visas has exceeded the 85,000 allotted by law. This is the fourth year in a row the cap was surpassed in less than a week, meaning workers will face a lottery for the visas, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The cap includes “65,000 visas for the general category and 20,000 for the advanced degree exemption,” according to a USCIS news release. Continue reading “H-1B Visa Cap Reached in Less than a Week”
A Florida mother is outraged after her 12-year-old daughter came home with an assignment she was given in her seventh grade Spanish class.
Regina Stiles posted on her Facebook page a form that asked students “How much privilege do you have?” Continue reading “Mom Furious Over ‘Privilege’ Survey Teacher Gave 7th-Grader”
Adobe has issued Flash Player security updates for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS to address “critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system” by way of ransomware.
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a user’s hard drive and demands payment in order to decrypt it. These type of threats often display images or use voice-over techniques containing instructions on how to pay the ransom. Continue reading “Adobe Issues ‘Emergency’ Flash Player Security Update for OS X to Address Ransomware Attacks”
“The great and the wise and the mighty will be in possession of places and offices; they will oppose all changes in favor of liberty; they will steadily pursue the acquisition of more and more power to themselves and their adherents. . . .”
The following essay is in two parts: the first is by “MASSACHUSETTENSIS,” and is reprinted from The Massachusetts Gazette of January 29, 1788; the second part was written by “AN OLD WHIG,” and is taken from The New-York Journal of November 27, 1787. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 49 – On Constitutional Conventions (Part 1)”
Florida’s Supreme Court may soon resolve the question of whether police may detain a vehicle’s passenger simply because the driver committed a minor traffic infraction. On Friday, the state’s Fifth District Court of Appeal reversed a prior decision and certified conflict with appellate decisions in other districts, packaging the ruling for the high court’s review.
In this case, Edwin Aguiar was riding in the front seat of a car that had a burned out brake light. A Daytona Beach police officer also noticed the driver forgot to buckle up, so he activated his emergency lights. The driver pulled over in a restaurant parking lot, and Aguiar hopped out. The officer yelled at Aguiar to get back in the car. Continue reading “Florida Court Gives Police Right To Detain Innocent Passengers”