From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Americans continue to warm to the idea of biometric scans and facial recognition technology, at least when it comes to U.S. law enforcement’s use of the tools.
The latest evidence comes in the form of a Pew Research Center study released this week that found 56% of Americans trust U.S. law enforcement agencies to use facial recognition technology responsibly. Continue reading “Study: More than Half of Americans Trust Law Enforcement to Use Facial Recognition Responsibly”
A new report from The Baltimore Sun shows Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday pledged $21 million to assist Baltimore City in their efforts to stop the spread of the homicide crisis that has completely engulfed the town. Hogan has also endorsed the use of a controversial surveillance plane to fly thousands of feet above to record every movement of people and vehicles in the city. Continue reading “Maryland Governor Endorses Surveillance Plane To Fly Above Baltimore Amid Murder Crisis”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Phoenix, AZ — As the Free Thought Project frequently reports, when most people see police lights in their rear view mirror, the last thing they feel is “protected.” When a cop is pulling you over it most likely means that you are about to be extorted for a victimless crime. However, if the cop in the story below was pulling you over, it meant something much worse than mere extortion. Continue reading “Cop Arrested on 61 Charges for Kidnapping And Sexually Assaulting Women While on Duty”
At least five people have been hospitalized after an alleged mass stabbing incident at an industrial park in Florida.
Tallahassee police responded to reports of the stabbing at just after 8.30am local time on Wednesday.
Officers arrived at Dyke Industries Inc off Hartsfield Road and discovered multiple victims. Continue reading “Multiple victims stabbed at Tallahassee industrial park before suspect is arrested”
A dozen leaders of a California-based ministry have been indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of forced labor of mostly homeless people, a US attorney said.
Imperial Valley Ministries leaders recruited people by promising food and shelter, and instead forced them to beg for money for nine hours a day, six days a week and to give up their welfare benefits “for the financial benefit of the church leaders,” prosecutors said in a news release Tuesday that announced the indictment had been unsealed. Continue reading “California church leaders charged with forced labor of homeless, US attorney says”
Epoch Times – by Jack Phillips
The Old Farmer’s Almanac is forecasting that portions of the United States will see a “snow-verload” during what has been described as a snowy winter.
For instance, it is predicting a “wet and wild” 2019-20 winter in the northeastern U.S.
But overall, it is calling for “shivers, snowflakes … and strong storms” with the “snow-verload” impacting northern states in the Midwest and West. Continue reading “Old Farmer’s Almanac Predicts ‘Snow-verload’ Winter Across Much of US”
President Trump has ordered White House officials to crack down on homelessness in California according to an anonymously-sourced Tuesday report in the Washington Post.
#1 on the list appears to be Los Angeles’s infamous “skid row,” where vagrants will be moved into government-backed facilities. Trump is said to be actively involved in the effort, which is currently under discussion by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Domestic Policy Council, and the Department of Health and Human Services. Continue reading “Trump Orders Crackdown On California Homelessness”
GENEVA (Reuters) – Air strikes by U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria have killed or wounded many civilians, indicating that required precautions were ignored and war crimes may have been committed, United Nations investigators said on Wednesday.
Syrian government and allied Russian warplanes are also conducting a deadly campaign that appears to target medical facilities, schools, markets and farmland and which may also amount to war crimes, the report by the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said. Continue reading “U.N. investigators link U.S., Syrian and Russian forces to war crimes”
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) – Some air rifles that can unexpectedly fire, even if the safety is engaged, are being recalled.
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Sept. 10 that about 1,400 DIANA Stormrider Gen 2 Air Rifles are being recalled. The unexpected firing of the rifles could result in serious injury or death, the commission says. Continue reading “RECALL: Air rifles can unexpectedly fire, posing risk of serious injury or death”
State Impact Pennsylvania – by Susan Philips
A federal appeals court has blocked PennEast pipeline company from condemning state-owned land for its proposed 116-mile long line that would ship Marcellus Shale gas from northeast Pennsylvania to New Jersey.
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision, saying that condemning public land violates the 11th Amendment of the Constitution. Continue reading “Federal appeals court strikes blow to PennEast pipeline project”
Four big U.S. retailers — Walmart, Kroger, CVS and Walgreens — recently asked civilian customers to leave their guns at home.
While the issue is particularly profound at Walmart after shootings at its stores in Southaven, Mississippi and El Paso, Texas on July 30 and Aug. 3, neither the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer nor the others are acting in isolation. Continue reading “These 10 restaurants and stores want customers to leave their guns at home”
Two weeks ago a former Federal Reserve board member and bank president, William Dudley, wrote an editorial that encouraged the Fed use its powers to defeat Donald Trump’s second bid for the US presidency. I don’t recall choosing presidents as being listed in the Fed’s two mandates — controlling inflation while maximizing employment.
For an organization that has been speaking a lot lately about the importance of its independence from politics, that was the most overtly political statement I’ve heard from a central banker, albeit a former central banker, but one with a lot of influence. Continue reading “Central Bankers Now Plotting Government Subversion?”
An island in Iraq home to Islamic State terrorists was annihilated Tuesday night by almost 80,000 pounds of bombs dropped from combined U.S. and allied warplanes.
Dramatic aerial footage shows multiple explosions as bombs hit Qanus Island followed by huge mushroom clouds billowing into the air over the Tigris River. Continue reading “Islamic State-Infested Island Cleared by 80,000 Pounds of U.S. Bombs”
U.S.—As society becomes increasingly dominated by nerds, hipsters, and computer programmers, people have fixated on what they think is our biggest problem: masculinity.
“It’s just toxic and causes nothing but problems,” said Elisha Mcewen, a vegan activist and no threat whatsoever to spiders or tight jar lids. “I was sharing my feelings on masculinity with other men in my drum circle, and we all agreed that if we ever encountered masculinity, we would run far away.” Continue reading “Least Masculine Society In Human History Decides Masculinity Is A Growing Threat”
The US subprime auto industry is doing everything in its power to recreate another 2008 crisis. After all, it takes a (Potemkin) village.
One of the largest subprime auto finance companies, Santander Consumer USA Holdings, verified the income on less than 3% of borrowers this year, according to Bloomberg. And in painfully vivid shares of 2008, it then took those loans and bundled them into more than $1 billion in bonds sold this year. Continue reading “Shades Of 2007: Subprime Auto Lender Verified Income On Only 3% Of Loans In Latest Bond”
Watching Jassmine McBride struggle to breathe is vicariously excruciating, particularly in one scene during “Flint’s Deadly Water” showing her on a hospital gurney, writhing with discomfort. Her painful is palpable on two levels, the physical aspect being more obvious. But this “Frontline” episode emphasizes the emotional agony of this moment by first showing McBride daring to hope for a treat most people take for granted: a simple birthday party. Continue reading “This is our “Chernobyl”: Frontline’s “Flint’s Deadly Water” exposes shocking Legionnaires’ crisis”
