From the Trenches World Report
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Activist Post – by Joe Jankowski
The U.S. Army is set to send a convoy of vehicles along a stretch of Interstate 69 in Michigan as part of an initial testing of driverless military vehicle equipment on public roadways.
The vehicles will be testing a piece of equipment that is critical to the development of driverless technology. Continue reading “U.S. Army To Test Convoy Of Driverless Vehicles On Public Roadways”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Chicago, IL – It was recently reported that the Chicago Police Department has implemented an Orwellian new program that targets innocent citizens based on indicators that they might be a person who has the potential to carry out a crime. Similar to dystopian films like The Minority Report, a complex computer algorithm will track and catalog every citizen in the city, and use private data about each person to determine whether or not they could be a potential criminal. Continue reading “Police Now Using “Pre-Crime” Algorithm To Target and Label Innocent Citizens as Criminals”
Washington Post – by Thomas Gibbons-Neff
TAMPA — On Wednesday, Special Operations troops from more than a dozen countries jumped out of helicopters, rappelled from buildings and expended hundreds of rounds of ammunition as they attempted to rescue the mayor of this Florida city.
The operation was, of course, an exercise, but it was also a public spectacle for a force that has tried desperately to remain in the shadows despite now being at the forefront of America’s wars. Continue reading “Special Operations troops assaulted downtown Tampa … all to thunderous applause”
The Intercept – by Jenna McLaughlin
A PROVISION SNUCK INTO the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.
If passed, the change would expand the reach of the FBI’s already highly controversial national security letters. The FBI is currently allowed to get certain types of information with NSLs — most commonly, information about the name, address, and call data associated with a phone number or details about a bank account. Continue reading “Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records”
The Tenth Amendment – by Michael Maharrey
Despite growing awareness and even public outrage in the wake of unrest in Ferguson, the federal government continues to equip state and local police departments with military weapons.
According to a new report by Open the Books, the feds transferred $2.2 billion worth of military gear to state and local agencies through Federal Program 1033 from 2006 and 2015. Report author Adam Andrzejewski described it as a “federally-sponsored ‘gun show’ that never ends.” Continue reading “Police Militarization Program a Federally-Sponsored Gunshow that Never Ends”
The expansion of American arms exports leaves the military-industrial complex at risk of being overtaken by countries who scooped up defense secrets without the cost of research and development.
On Tuesday, US defense industry analysts offered a report claiming that American military contractors will be overtaken in coming years by defense contractors in Israel, South Korea, and Brazil, marking an end to Western dominance over war profiteering.
Continue reading “US Arms Industry Dead: World Bought American Weapons, Stole the Technology”
This is just incredible. In a horrifying development, the grieving widow of rancher Jack Yantis got an eerily identical call from Adams County Idaho Sheriffs Department a few nights ago, asking Donna Yantis to come out to the highway and help them with some cows who were in the road.
Donna’s experience was re-posted in The Justice for Jack group. Continue reading “Sheriffs Who Killed Jack Yantis Call His Widow At Night and Tell HER That Their Cows Are Once Again In The Road”
The San Diego Tribune – by Sandra Dibble
SAN YSIDRO — Surging numbers of Haitians and migrants from other countries have been arriving at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in recent days, hoping for admission to the United States. Early Thursday morning, more than 200 people were crowded inside the port’s pedestrian entrance as they awaited processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Men, women and children were huddled together, sleeping under blankets on the center’s tile floor, while lines of pedestrians continued stepping through to the United States. Outside the facility in Tijuana, about two dozen people gathered in the open air, waiting to be admitted — a group that included Haitians, Mexicans, and French-speaking men who said they were from the Congo. Continue reading “Surge of Haitians at San Ysidro Port of Entry”
Recordings of upcoming testimony by an aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are to be kept under seal over concerns the video might be used against the Democratic presidential front-runner.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled in advance of Friday’s scheduled deposition by Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills. She is among a half dozen current and former officials to be questioned about Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was the nation’s top diplomat. Continue reading “Video of testimony in Clinton email lawsuit ordered sealed”
On Monday, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo revealed audio recordings of a conversation between the country’s planning minister, Romero Juca, and Sergio Machado, former CEO of state-owned oil company Petrobras subsidiary Transperto, calling to oust Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, as part of a bid to derail an ongoing corruption investigation under which the two are involved. Continue reading “Leaked Tapes Show Michel Temer’s Henchmen Led Dilma Rousseff Coup in Brazil”
Haifa-born Ilan Goldfein was appointed on Thursday to be the president of the Central Bank of Brazil. He was appointed to the position following the suspension of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff due to charges of corruption.
Goldfein had previously served as chief economist at Itau, Brazil’s largest private bank, deputy to the bank governor of Brazil, an advisor to the World Bank and advisor to the International Monetary Fund. Continue reading “Israeli made president Brazil’s Central Bank”
Donald Trump the real estate developer owes much of his fame to the 1980s. Now Donald Trump the presidential candidate is going back to that decade to call on President Ronald Reagan’s economic team.
As the presumptive Republican nominee gets ready to put out his plan to boost U.S. growth, he’s sought advice from some of the most notable names in Reaganomics, including Arthur Laffer, Larry Kudlow and Stephen Moore. More voters might support Trump if he can persuade them he will bring back some of the economic successes of the era when he penned his bestselling book, “Trump: The Art of the Deal.” Continue reading “Reaganomics Band Gets Back Together to Advise Trump on Plan”
DUESSELDORF, GERMANY – The talks in Germany to flesh out December’s historic global climate deal are probably not at the top of Donald Trump’s agenda this week.
But the diplomats from 196 nations huddled in Bonn are keenly aware of the fact that the “The Donald” is now within spitting distance of the White House — and it is making a lot of them nervous. Continue reading “Trump sends shivers down spines of nations trying to solidify global warming pact”
An illegal immigrant who allegedly posed as a dead veteran for years to claim VA and social security benefits has been arrested.
Rene Ortiz Quintana, 69, has been accused of stealing the identity of late veteran Ruben Gallardo, who died in 1994.
Quintana has been in the United States illegally for around 50 years and assumed the identity of Mr Gallardo in October 2012, police said. Continue reading “Illegal immigrant ‘posed as veteran who died in 1994 for YEARS to get VA and social security benefits worth $30,000’”
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe invited the Chinese businessman whose donations to him have been named as a focus of Justice Department investigators to a 2013 fundraiser at Hillary Clinton’s personal Washington, D.C., residence.
Wang Wenliang, a Chinese national with U.S. permanent residency, briefly shook Clinton’s hand at the Sept. 30 event, a representative for Wang told TIME. An American company controlled by Wang made a $60,000 contribution to McAuliffe’s campaign three weeks before the fundraiser. Less than a month later, a separate Wang company pledged $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation, the first of several donations that eventually totaled $2 million. Continue reading “Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Invited Chinese Donor to Hillary Clinton’s Home”