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Their blue and white, three-bedroom home was hidden on a Concow vineyard. It was cheery and bright with potted plants outside and a hammock strung between two trees.
For a while, the Duncan family had hope it survived. They had left a sprinkler running on its roof. But four days after they fled from the Camp fire, a friend texted them a photo of what was left of their home. Nothing. Continue reading “Death toll rises as rain brings new dangers to California’s burn zones”
An American friend has been in Tijuana and is scheduled to return home after this week. In the last few days we’ve exchanged messages about the Honduran migrants who’ve begun arriving there so dramatically to claim asylum in the U.S.
What follows is his three-part report from the scene — or rather, just off the scene. Tijuana is a large city, over 1.5 million people, and what’s happening varies depending on where you are and whom you’re talking with. Continue reading “Dispatches from Tijuana”
President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly signed a memo late Tuesday allowing troops stationed at the border to act in a law enforcement capacity and use lethal force, if necessary, according to Tara Copp of Military Times. Continue reading “White House Authorizes Lethal Force At The Border”
Incredibly, royal subject Trump has given the Saudi Prince a pass on suspected mastermind of the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. The whole world knows what went on here, everything points to a corrupt Saudi Prince, but Trump is playing his Trump card, oil. Another one of many blatant cons he’s trying to splash on Americans thinking we are going to buy it. Continue reading “Trump Gives Saudi Prince A Big Wet Kiss – Wants Us to Buy his Bag of Crap”
Local police officers in Tijuana arrested 34 caravan migrants for misdemeanor charges including drug possession and public drunkenness. They were turned over to Mexican immigration authorities.
Through a news release, Tijuana Police revealed that under order from the mayor, they began carrying out various inspections and checkpoints, netting 34 arrests. Some migrants were reportedly in possession of methamphetamine and cocaine. Continue reading “Tijuana Police Arrest 34 Caravan Migrants for Drugs, Drunkenness”
It’s bad enough that we have to eat foods from countries who hate America, it’s something else when our government tells us not to eat it, especially produce we have been eating for decades, as more than ever, we are eating lettuce mixed with crap, literally.
American Nationals are eating crap more than ever now as more and more truck loads of unhealthy produce cross our boarders, and worse yet, produce which is grown here in America. We give jobs to border crossers who hate what America stands for, they pick our lettuce, they also crap on it. This has never really been a problem, until we started letting wet backs run rough shot on American territory. Continue reading “Americans Eating Lettuce From Hell – Thank You NAFTA”
Some of the 5,800 US troops deployed to the southern US border right before the midterm election may be withdrawn as early as this week, however Trump administration officials concerned about ending the mission too soon are set on delaying their departure, according to the Los Angeles Times. Continue reading “Troops Deployed To Southwest Border Begin Withdrawal As Migrant Caravan Arrives”
Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is increasingly family-friendly and helpful, largely to the credit of Adva Levin.
Levin, a content producer and designer, is the founder Pretzel Labs, an Israel-based voice design studio that focuses on creating experiences for families. In an interview with Forbes, she explained that she implements that focus in applications for Alexa, such as with Kids Court (for settling fights between kids) and Out the Door (a fun way to get them ready for school). Continue reading “This Israeli Is Making Alexa’s Voice Sound Like One Of Your Family”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Chattanooga, TN — A man’s call to 911 for help turned into a nightmare last month after police showed up and nearly killed him. On October 21, a 27-year-old maintenance worker, Christopher Penn was handcuffed, choked, tasered on his testicles, and beaten until he fell unconscious.
That night, Penn was in need of mental health help. Clearly delusional, he had called 911 telling police that he had taken some pills and said a friend let some people into his home who wanted to kill him. Six officers showed up. Continue reading “Cops Choke Handcuffed Man as They Taser Him in the Testicles Until He Passes Out”
Warning: If you have not taken mind-altering prescription drugs yet, don’t, because if anyone has a good story, which can even be a total lie about you being a “danger” or “threat” to society in any way, all they need is a sympathetic judge, and then a swat team will be raiding your house in the early morning hours to take your guns. Should you resist, you will be shot to death on the spot, in your own home, even if you’ve never committed a crime, and all your guns are legally obtained. Continue reading “Big Pharma depression drugs a TRAP for gun owners… mandatory confiscation coming for all who take mind-altering drugs”
ProPublica – by Derek Kravitz and Marshall Allen
Medical devices are gathering more and more data from their users, whether it’s their heart rates, sleep patterns or the number of steps taken in a day. Insurers and medical device makers say such data can be used to vastly improve health care.
But the data that’s generated can also be used in ways that patients don’t necessarily expect. It can be packaged and sold for advertising. It can anonymized and used by customer support and information technology companies. Or it can be shared with health insurers, who may use it to deny reimbursement. Privacy experts warn that data gathered by insurers could also be used to rate individuals’ health care costs and potentially raise their premiums. Continue reading “Your Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data to Themselves”
The Finance Director of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office has been arrested on dozens of charges in connection to a scheme that defrauded the Sheriff’s Office and associated Benevolence Fund of more than $700,000.
SJSO says 47-year-old Raye Brutnell admitted to the fraud and claimed she did it because of the “financial strain” her family was facing. Continue reading “St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office Finance Director Arrested For $700,000 Fraud Scheme”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today, still can’t talk.
Have a great Thanksgiving everybody!
An American missionary was killed with arrows shot by protected tribesmen living on a remote Indian island after he arrived there in a bid to convert them to Christianity.
John Allen Chau, 27, of Vancouver, Washington, paid local fishermen to help him get to North Sentinel Island, one of the world’s most isolated regions in India’s Andaman islands. Continue reading “American missionary, 27, killed by protected tribesmen on remote island”
Bloomberg is spending six million dollars on a “Mayors Challenge” that will put microphones in police drones.
According to an article in WPFL 89.3, Bloomberg Philanthropies wants the Louisville Kentucky Police Department to send out self-guided aerial drones equipped with ShotSpotter microphones across the city. Continue reading “Bloomberg’s role-playing workshops convince the public to accept self-guided police drones equipped with microphones”
Chicago Tribune – by Tresa Baldas
In a major blow to the government, a federal judge in Detroit has declared the nation’s female genital mutilation law unconstitutional, thereby dismissing nearly all of the charges against two Michigan doctors and seven others accused of subjecting at least nine minor girls to genital cutting in the nation’s first FGM case.
The historic case involves minor girls from Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota, including some who cried, screamed and bled during the procedure and one who was given Valium ground in liquid Tylenol to keep her calm, court records show. Continue reading “Federal judge finds female genital mutilation law unconstitutional”