From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
WEB Notes: This man is an “idiot”, that is not an insult, it is a fact. An “idiot” is “a person to be lacking intelligence”. This man is lacking intelligence in our Father’s Word. What did Christ tell us?
Matthew 5:17-20
17 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
Continue reading “Church Honors LGBTQ Community With Sanctuary Memorial”
The Daily Sheeple – by Daniel Lang
It’s been months now since the mainstream media became hysterical following the election, and began a veritable witch hunt over “fake news” on the internet. Now this madness is spilling into the real world. California’s legislature recently tried to pass legislation that would ban fake news.
Last week, the California Assembly’s Committee on Privacy and Consumer Affairs filed AB 1104, or the California Political Cyberfraud Abatement Act. This law would have essentially made it illegal to knowingly publish or share fake news that is related to an election. The bill made no exception for satire or hyperbole, and failed to explain by what standard anyone would determine if a story was fake. Continue reading “California Legislature Actually Tried To Make It A Crime To Share Fake News”
The IRS seized millions dollars from innocent individuals and businesses because it was easier than targeting terrorists and drug dealers, a new report from the Treasury Department’s internal watchdog has revealed.
A report from Treasury’s Inspector General found that the IRS misused a law aimed at cracking down on organized crime and terrorism to target innocent individuals and businesses. Agents adopted a policy of seizing cash before investigating for other wrongdoing because it was just easier to seize the money of innocent people than hardened criminals and terrorists. Continue reading “IRS Seized Millions of Dollars from Innocent Citizens Because It Was Easier Than Going After Crooks”
VOA News – by Catherine Maddux
The United States formally entered World War I a hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917.
The nation set aside its posture of neutrality nearly three years after the start of the bloody conflict that came to be known as the “Great War.” Continue reading “This Day in History: US Marks Centennial of Entry Into the ‘Great War’”
USA Today – by Kim Komando, December, 2014
Most commercial airplanes have an indestructible flight recorder, also called a “black box” — even though the casing is actually bright orange. Actually, there are two of them: One records information from the flight computers, and the second box records cockpit audio and other sounds inside the plane. In the event of a crash, investigators can recover the black boxes and find out exactly what happened.
Cars can have black boxes, too. In fact, it’s a good bet your current car has one already, and if it doesn’t your next new car certainly will. That’s why you should know exactly what that black box is recording, who can get that information and how you can stay in control of it. Continue reading “Your car’s hidden ‘black box’ and how to keep it private”
CBC News – by Dave Seglins, Matthew Braga, Catherine Cullen
The RCMP for the first time is publicly confirming it uses cellphone surveillance devices in investigations across Canada — but at the same time says the potential of unauthorized snooping in Ottawa, as reported by CBC News, poses a threat to national security.
“Absolutely,” RCMP Chief Supt. Jeff Adam, who is in charge of technical investigations services, said in an unprecedented technical briefing Wednesday with reporters from CBC News, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail. Continue reading “RCMP reveals use of secretive cellphone surveillance technology for the first time”
ZD Net – by Zack Whittaker for Zero Day
Several users have complained that ads served through Microsoft’s Skype app are serving malicious downloads, which if opened, can trigger ransomware.
News of the issue came from a Reddit thread on Wednesday, in which the original poster said that Skype’s home screen — the first screen that shows up on consumer versions of the software — was pushing a fake, malicious ad, purporting to be a critical update for the Flash web plug-in. Continue reading “Skype users hit by ransomware through in-app malicious ads”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Oklahoma, OK — Ordering a deceased man to get his hands up is just about as futile as convincing some law enforcement officers it is not justified to shoot unarmed civilians. But that’s precisely what the Oklahoma Law Enforcement officers commanded 38-year-old George Lee Seeton to do, immediately after they fatally shot the fleeing suspect on March 4th. Now, with the release this week of the patrolman’s body camera footage, the public can know precisely just how he died. Continue reading “Bodycam Footage Shows Police Kill Unarmed Man for Driving in Reverse”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
Contractors are concerned for their safety and the safety of their workers in light of planned and threatened protests and violence by anti-Trumpers. Now, they are seeking to carry their firearms with them on the work site.
Before we go further, the Second Amendment applies to contractors too, you know. They should not be “asking” permission to keep and bear arms. It is their right, their duty even, to do so. Continue reading “Border Wall Contractors Want to Carry Guns on Site”
The German government has approved a new bill on combating hate speech and fake news, under which social networks could face hefty fines if they fail to remove offensive content promptly. Critics denounced the bill as a violation of free speech.
The bill, introduced by German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, is aimed at forcing social network giants such as Facebook or Twitter to take more responsibility for the content posted by users and to make it compliant with German law. Continue reading “‘State-imposed thought police’: German politicians, activists slam bill on hate speech & fake news”
It was a one-two knockout punch for anyone still holding out hope that Trump’s domestic economic policies will take place in the near, or not even so near, future.
First, Rep. Patrick McHenry, a member of House Republican leadership, said on Wednesday afternoon that conservatives’ proposals to reach a compromise on healthcare are a “bridge too far” to win support from colleagues. McHenry, the chief deputy whip, told reporters that calls from the conservative House Freedom Caucus to allow states to apply for waivers to repeal ObamaCare protections for people with pre-existing conditions are a “bridge too far for our members” and can’t get enough votes to pass. Continue reading “Suddenly, Both Obamacare Repeal And Trump Tax Reform Are Dead”
Federal Reserve officials said the shedding of the $4.5 trillion in bonds the central bank is holding on its balance sheet will begin this year.
The revelation came Wednesday from a summary of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting held in March, during which the group approved a quarter-point hike in its benchmark interest rate target. Officials at the meeting noted that the Fed likely is on a faster pace with rate hikes ahead.
Continue reading “Federal Reserve wants to start unwinding the $4.5 trillion in bonds on its balance sheet this year”
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A jury might hear from just one or two defense witnesses and only one of the six men accused of wielding guns against federal agents during a 2014 standoff involving Nevada cattleman and states’ rights advocate Cliven Bundy, following a judge’s decision Monday limiting the scope of remaining testimony.
After nearly two months of testimony by more than three dozen prosecution witnesses, defense attorneys were knocked off a plan to call most of about 10 witnesses. Continue reading “Judge limits number of defense witnesses in Nevada Bundy trial”
Only 10 companies control almost every large food and beverage brand in the world.
These companies — Nestlé, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Associated British Foods, and Mondelez — each employ thousands and make billions of dollars in revenue every year. Continue reading “These 10 Companies Control Everything You Buy”
