From the Trenches World Report
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The U.S. government says it has negotiated a significant cut in the United Nations budget. The U.S. Mission to the United Nations said on Sunday that the U.N.’s 2018-2019 budget would be slashed by over $285 million. The mission said reductions would also be made to the U.N.’s management and support functions. Continue reading “US says it negotiated $285M cut in United Nations budget”
St George News – by Bryan Hyde
OPINION — Those who maintain that what happened in Bunkerville in April of 2014 was simply about Cliven Bundy’s cows and the federal Bureau of Land Management are getting a much needed reality check.
It was a symptom of a much larger long-term problem involving government power being exercised without proper limits or accountability. Continue reading “The Bundy mistrial, the government’s false narrative is exposed”
Police have removed a candle-lit memorial that a white nationalist group created to honor an Australian woman killed in Minneapolis by a Somali-American officer in July.
Minneapolis Police spokesman John Elder told local radio that an officer cleared the memorial when the department learned it was displayed outside a precinct headquarters.
‘We cannot allow any memorial and anything like that to be put up at that location,’ Mr Elder told Minneapolis Public Radio News. Continue reading “US police remove memorial created by white nationalists in honour of Australian woman shot dead in her pyjamas by a Somali-American cop”
Mysterious Universe – by Brent Swancer
Throughout the world, from nearly every culture there are tales of little people. Fairies, gnomes, elves, goblins, all manner of tiny strange beings inhabit the lore of these places, and in many cases these creatures are seen as quite real indeed. Occasionally one can find such stories in the last place one might expect, and one such type of gnome or little person has been reported from the area of Detroit, Michigan for centuries. Far from merely a bit of folklore, there have been actual sightings of these beings dating from before European settlement all the way up to the modern day, and the mysterious little people of Detroit are one of the more bizarre stories of such creatures out there. Continue reading “Strange Encounters with the Mysterious Little People of…. Detroit?”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Alexandria, VA – A 17-year-old boy who was forced to masturbate in front of police officers after he was accused of taking nude photos of himself and sending them to his 15-year-old girlfriend, won a small victory in court, when he argued that by attempting to force him to recreate the photos, the officers were manufacturing child pornography.
The United States Court of Appeals in the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of Trey Sims, who is now 20. He was originally accused of sending his girlfriend explicit photographs and videos in 2014. Manasseh City Police Detective David Abbott—who is now deceased—investigated the alleged transmission of child pornography. He asked for, received, and executed a search warrant, which ultimately demanded Sims masturbate for Abbott and two other officers. Continue reading “Child Molesting Cop Brought Teen To Jail, Forced Him to Masturbate as Fellow Cops Filmed It”
This has been a year of worry and disaster, based on the top 10 articles of 2017.
Back-to-back hurricanes like we’ve never seen before swept the Southern coasts and the Caribbean. Worries of world wars and nuclear strikes were foremost in the minds of people who want to be prepared. Meanwhile, other people are desperately seeking security and distraction, as the battle for political correctness created minefields in every industry. Continue reading “Reader’s Choice: The Top 10 Prepping Articles of 2017”
BEIJING (Reuters) – China sentenced a prominent rights activist to eight years in jail for subversion on Tuesday, his lawyer said, the harshest sentence passed in a government crackdown on activism that began more than two years ago.
In a separate case, a rights lawyer avoided criminal punishment despite being found guilty of inciting subversion, because he admitted his crimes, the Chinese court trying him said. Continue reading “China hands down harshest sentence yet in crackdown on activists”
Well, here’s another one…
In Pasadena, CA “heroes” noticed a motorist driving a car with windows that were tinted “too much” and which was missing its front license plate. Heinous offenses against the peace, you see. Can’t that let that go. Continue reading “CA “heroes” Beat Motorist Over Tinted Windows, “Missing” Front Plate”
The organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and the Tokyo metropolitan government are planning to use a facial recognition system during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, sources said.
The system would be used when the 300,000 to 400,000 athletes, volunteers and others expected to be involved in the Games enter event venues, the sources said. This would be the first time for facial recognition to be used at an Olympics, a move intended to strengthen anti-terrorism measures. Continue reading “Facial recognition eyed for 2020 Games”
CHICAGO — Judges in divorce cases can consider the well-being of pets in allocating sole or joint ownership, under an Illinois law that takes effect Jan. 1.
“It sort of starts treating your animal more like children” instead of property, said Illinois state Sen. Linda Holmes, an animal lover who sponsored the legislation. “If you’re going before a judge, they’re allowed to take the best interest of the animal into consideration.” Continue reading “New Illinois law treats pets more like children in custody cases”
(Reuters) – A man claiming to be the person who delivered a gift-wrapped package of horse manure at the Los Angeles home of U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Monday he did it to protest the federal tax overhaul signed into law last week by President Donald Trump.
Robert Strong, 45, a psychologist for the Los Angeles County Public Health Department, said by telephone he left the poop-filled parcel addressed to Mnuchin and Trump in the driveway outside Mnuchin’s home in the posh Bel Air community. Continue reading “Man says he delivered manure to Mnuchin to protest new U.S. tax law”
A passenger on a flight from Houston to Washington D.C. has accused United Airlines of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. D-Houston, and then threatening to remove her from the plane for complaining and snapping a photo of the Houston congresswoman.
“It was just so completely humiliating,” said Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher who used 140,000 miles on Dec. 3 to purchase the first-class tickets to take her from Washington D.C. to Guatemala and back home. Continue reading “Teacher ‘was evicted from her first class United seat so that the airline could give it to a US Congresswoman and was threatened by staff when she complained’”