From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger
U.S. Attorney General William Barr, along with co-conspirators in the UK and Australia, recently wrote a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting he not move forward with a plan to implement end-to-end encryption across Facebook’s messaging services. A draft of the letter was published earlier this month by Buzzfeed, and it’s worth examining in some detail. Continue reading “William Barr Wants to Kill Privacy and Security…’For the Children’”
Every year, as Halloween approaches, the social justice-oriented “woke” police begin issuing their edicts, proscribing certain “offensive” costumes and cancelling Halloween events lest someone — anyone — be offended.
Late last month, an elementary school in the tony Chicago suburb of Evanston announced that they would be cancelling Halloween altogether over concerns that some children who did not celebrate the holiday would be offended by chilling costumes and spooky treats, according to North Cook News. Continue reading “Happy Halloween! Annual ‘Offensive’ Costume Bans Begin, Starting With Michigan State University”
(Reuters) – A Texas woman was shot dead by a Fort Worth police officer in her home after she heard noises outside, picked up a handgun and pointed it at a window, the officer’s arrest warrant showed on Tuesday.
Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew around 2:30 am on Saturday when she heard sounds in her backyard, according to the warrant for former Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean’s arrest for alleged murder. Continue reading “Texas woman killed by officer pointed gun after hearing noises”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) cloud computing arm is making an aggressive push into one of the most sensitive technology sectors: U.S. elections.
The expansion by Amazon Web Services into state and local elections has quietly gathered pace since the 2016 U.S. presidential vote. More than 40 states now use one or more of Amazon’s election offerings, according to a presentation given by an Amazon executive this year and seen by Reuters. Continue reading “How Amazon.com moved into the business of U.S. elections”
We’ve been documenting how there is a new cold war flourishing across the Arctic. The US, Russia, China, and Europen countries are all attempting to militarize parts of the Arctic region. The first country to dominate the frozen frontier will become the world’s next superpower and possibly control $35 trillion worth of natural resources hiding underneath the ocean floor. Continue reading “Russia Announces Massive Nuclear War Games In Arctic This Week”
A family of six has been rescued from the hidden cellar of a Dutch farmhouse after the eldest son escaped and wandered into a local pub to seek help. They had lived in total isolation for nine years, ‘waiting for the end of time.’
Police descended upon the isolated farmhouse in Ruinerwold, Netherlands after the son, now 25, escaped on Sunday night and ran to a nearby pub for help. Explaining he had left at night because it was “not possible during the day,” the man – dirty, unkempt and confused, according to the pub owner – said he lived on the farm with his brothers and sisters and that he “wanted to end the way they were living.” Continue reading “Dutch family found living in cellar for 9 YEARS waiting for ‘end of days’ & unaware other people still existed”
An analysis of studies involving more than 23,000 people with dementia has found outdoor activities and massage are more effective than drugs in treating aggression and agitation.
The authors, led by geriatrician Jennifer Watt from St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto in Canada, have called on policymakers to prioritise non-drug treatments for the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. Continue reading “Dementia patients do better without drugs”
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — As Typhoon Hagibis hammered Japan on Saturday (Oct. 12), thousands of bags containing radioactive waste have reportedly been carried into a local Fukushima stream by floodwaters, potentially having a devastating environmental impact.
According to Asahi Shimbun, a temporary storage facility containing some 2,667 bags stuffed with radioactive contaminants from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was unexpectedly inundated by floodwaters brought by Typhoon Hagibis. Torrential rain flooded the storage facility and released the bags into a stream 100 meters away. Continue reading “2,667 radioactive bags from Fukushima nuke disaster unleashed by Typhoon Hagibis”
At 12:32 p.m. on Monday, April 19, 1993, FBI agent Byron Sage placed his right hand on his PA system’s power switch and flicked it from on to off.
Sage knew the small gesture was momentous. For the previous seven weeks, he and 51 other negotiators from various agencies had tried to persuade the Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his more than one hundred followers to leave their home, a rambling, multilevel structure on a 77-acre property ten miles east of Waco known as Mount Carmel. Now that building was engulfed in fire. Continue reading “The FBI Agent Who Can’t Stop Thinking About Waco”
LONDON (Reuters) – Global banks earned $1 billion from trading government-backed U.S. mortgage securities in the first half of 2019, data shows, a fivefold increase on last year for what industry sources say is the fastest growing revenue source in investment banking.
The shift this year to a more dovish interest rate policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve has sparked a surge in investor demand for packaged-up home loans issued by mortgage agencies Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae and Freddie Mac. Continue reading “Banks reap $1 billion from U.S. mortgage bond trading boom”
The Eagle – by Megan Rodriguez
The Food and Drug Administration deemed a Texas A&M AgriLife researcher’s genetically modified cotton seed as safe to consume — a milestone in the 25-year project that could improve agricultural sustainability across the globe.
The feat comes one year after A&M plant biotechnologist Keerti Rathore and his team received U.S. Department of Agriculture approval, which permit the seeds to be grown anywhere. While cotton seeds are high in protein, the naturally produced toxic substance gossypol has prevented people and single-stomach animals from eating the plant. But Rathore told AgriLife Today that this ultra-low gossypol version could change the game, since the annual output of cotton seeds around the world could meet the basic protein requirements of more than 500 million people. Continue reading “FDA gives green light to edible cotton seeds developed by Texas A&M AgriLife researcher”
China’s Global Times state newspaper suggested on Monday that the American government use its policies in Xinjiang – where the Communist Party has built hundreds of concentration camps for Muslim ethnic minorities – as a “reference” in fighting terrorism at home.
Xinjiang is home to the majority of the nation’s ethnic Uyghur minority. The concentration camps, believed to number upwards of 1,000 and be holding up to 3 million people, contain mostly Uyghur prisoners, but also Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and other ethnic minorities. Reports suggest that some Christians and other enemies of the Communist Party are also languishing in the camps. Continue reading “China: U.S. Should Use Concentration Camps as ‘Reference’ for War on Terror”
Rossiter Elementary School in the Helena Valley was evacuated Tuesday morning after a detonated explosive device, which authorities describe as a soda bottle wrapped in duct tape, was found on the school playground. Continue reading “Sheriff: Explosive device at school was soda bottle wrapped in duct tape”
CEYLANPINAR, TURKEY – Russia moved to fill the void left by the United States in northern Syria on Tuesday, deploying troops to keep apart advancing Syrian government forces and Turkish troops. At the same time, tensions grew within NATO as Turkey defied growing condemnation of its invasion from its Western allies.
Now in its seventh day, Turkey’s offensive against Kurdish fighters has upended alliances and is re-drawing the map of northern Syria for yet another time in the eight-year-old war. Continue reading “Russia swoops to fill void left by U.S. in northern Syria, getting between invading Turks and Assad’s forces”