Forward

One of the largest Jewish charities in the U.S. has been secretly funding a shadowy online blacklist targeting college students who criticize Israel.

For three years, a website called Canary Mission has spread fear among undergraduate activists, posting more than a thousand political dossiers on student supporters of Palestinian rights. The dossiers are meant to harm students’ job prospects, and have been used in interrogations by Israeli security officials.   Continue reading “REVEALED: Canary Mission Blacklist Is Secretly Bankrolled By Major Jewish Federation”

Right of the Right

The City of New York is giving two Israeli tech firms, SOSA and Jerusalem Venture Partners, $100 million in public/private funds to develop a massive internet “cybersecurity” industry hub whose headquarters is in Tel Aviv:  Continue reading “NYC Gives $100 Million to Jewish Tech Companies for Cybersecurity”

Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

The internet erupted in a flurry of posts about President Trump’s message to millions of people Tuesday afternoon. The text, which was announced prior to its transmission, served as a test to a new national alert system enacted by FEMA for the purposes of alerting citizens about natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and other emergencies.   Continue reading “The Presidential Alert Text Is Everything You Need to Know About the US Government”

Wired

The fight for our right to repair the stuff we own has suffered a huge setback.

As anyone who repairs electronics knows, keeping a device in working order often means fixing both its hardware and software. But a big California farmers’ lobbying group just blithely signed away farmers’ right to access or modify the source code of any farm equipment software. Continue reading “John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair”

RT

The US is withdrawing from the “optional protocol” in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, John Bolton has confirmed. He said it follows a case brought by Palestine, challenging the US embassy’s move to Jerusalem.

“I am announcing that the president has decided that the United States will withdraw from the optional protocol and dispute resolution to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” Bolton said.   Continue reading “US says Palestine ‘not a state,’ withdraws from Vienna Convention’s ‘optional protocol’”

There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches Thursday and Friday because my grandchildren get to choose who babysits them when their parents go out of town.  They choose grandma and grandpa because they believe they are the babysitters and they run the show.

We will be back on Monday.  Have a great weekend and thank you for understanding.

Reason – by Eric Boehm

The Transportation Security Administration’s Instagram page is a nightmarish mash-up of national security state propaganda and bad dad jokes. The fact that the TSA has captured more social media awards than it has terrorists says something about what the agency is actually good at.

Sometimes the account serves up a truly maddening cocktail of earnest obedience to nonsensical rules while simultaneously demonstrating just how silly those rules are. That’s what happened Wednesday when the TSA Instagram account posted a picture of six bullet-shaped whiskey stones agents had confiscated from an unlucky traveler at Idaho’s Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport:  Continue reading “TSA Confiscates Bullet-Shaped Ice Cubes, Even Though Unusable Bullets Are TSA-Approved”

The Organic Prepper

Yesterday, the first Presidential Alert was sent to phones all across the country. Theories and screenshots took over the internet shortly thereafter.

But one of these theories, in particular, comes from a source that is especially credible with regard to cybersecurity: John McAfee.   Continue reading “Check Out John McAfee’s (Educated) Warning About The Dark Side of That Presidential Alert Sent to Your Phone”

The New Observer

More than 754,700 immigrants became U.S. citizens during President Donald Trump’s second year in office, the highest number since 2013—and the vast majority of them come from just three countries, Mexico, India, and China.

According to a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) quoted by the SFGate news service, the latest figures “followed slumping citizenship numbers during fiscal 2017, a period that includes the president’s first nine months in office, and mounting frustration from advocates who fear that the government’s ‘extreme vetting’ will prevent people from becoming citizens in time to vote in the November midterms.”  Continue reading “US Gains 754,700 New Citizens in 2017—Majority from Mexico, India, and China”

Dallas News – by Lizzy Spangler

A former police officer in southeast Texas has been sentenced to 10 years of probation for stealing more than $2,000 of Christmas money from a man who suffered a fatal heart attack.

Linnard Ray Crouch, 42, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of theft by a public servant, court records show. An unrelated charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon was dismissed as part of a plea agreement.   Continue reading “Ex-Texas officer gets probation for stealing Christmas money from man who had fatal heart attack”

Courthouse News – by Izzy Kapnick

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CN) – Two South Florida women claim in court that they were surrounded by sheriff’s deputies, a helicopter and snarling K-9s after a mixup at a local car dealership made them the accidental target of a highway police pursuit.

Lauren Licalzi, 54, and her niece Bryana Rivera, 24, say they were driving home from work in their loaner vehicle from North Palm Motors, when they were pulled over and then encircled by a swarm of deputies with guns drawn.   Continue reading “Deputies, Police Copter Deployed in Accidental Highway Chase”

MassPrivateI

If you are having trouble digesting the headline, just imagine how much trouble I am having trying to write about it.

In what has to be the most ludicrous excuse ever made by police to spy on citizens, this one is at the top of my list.  Continue reading “Officials claim police drones will revitalize downtown and “create a community connection””

The Organic Prepper – by Meado Clark

The New York Times is reporting that 80,000 Americans died of the flu last winter and that it’s the highest death toll yet. Scary articles like these are thinly veiled attempts to push Americans into the vaccine regime (get your flu shots or your going to die!) out of fear, panic, and hysteria. Maybe it is the highest death toll yet, however, there is more than meets the eye.

The Big Pharma-media-government conglomerate has a lot staked in keeping you unwell, scared and dependent. Frightened, self-doubting, and unhealthy people are much easier to control.   Continue reading “Did 80,000 Americans REALLY Die From the Flu or Is This Big Pharma Propaganda to Push the Flu Shot?”

Salt Lake Tribune

A Navy veteran from Utah confessed to sending letters containing a poison to President Donald Trump and other top government officials on Wednesday, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in the 2nd District Court.

William Clyde Allen III, of Logan, was arrested Wednesday and the U.S. attorney’s office for Utah issued a statement saying federal charges will likely be filed Friday. He’s being held in the Davis County Jail.

Continue reading “Police say Utah man confesses to sending ricin-laced letters to Trump and other top government leaders”

ABC News 4

FLORENCE, S.C. (WPDE) – One Florence city police officer is dead and six other officers, three from the Florence County Sheriff’s Office and three from Florence city police, were shot in an incident in the Vintage Place subdivision off Hoffmeyer Road in Florence, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office.

The victim has been identified as Officer Terrence Carraway, 52, of Darlington, according to Florence County Coroner Keith von Lutcken. Carraway was pronounced dead at a local hospital. An autopsy will be conducted tomorrow at MUSC in Charleston.   Continue reading “1 South Carolina police officer dead, 7 shot; suspect in custody”