From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Irving Burgie, the Brooklyn-born composer of the Calypso classic “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” has died. He was 92.
Burgie’s death was announced by Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley who called for a moment of silence for the man who also wrote the lyrics for the country’s national anthem. Continue reading “Irving Burgie, Brooklyn-born composer of ‘Day-O,’ dead at 92”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
A West Virginia Corrections Officer apparently wanted to be a part of the prison population he served so badly he allegedly raped a young girl from the time she was 9 until she turned 13. He’s now facing hundreds of charges over the incident.
For his crimes, James Cain, 48 of Salem, WV was charged with over 600 counts of child sex charges. Cain already admitted to sexually assaulting the young victim. Evidence has also been collected from the home where the sexual assaults took place which included photos of the girl’s naked body. Continue reading “High-Ranking Officer Arrested on Over 600 Counts of Child Sexual Abuse”
New Zealand’s online notification platform for the firearm buy-back program has been shut down after a local gun owners association found a vulnerability that allegedly exposed the data of some 37,000 law-abiding citizens.
“We have advised the office of the Privacy Commissioner of the potential issue,” police said in a statement, sharing little additional detail and admitting they were informed of the problem by a “member of the public.” Continue reading “New Zealand shuts down gun buyback website amid fears of massive leak of law-abiding firearm owners’ data”
Naked Capitalism – by Lambert Strether
No doubt Los Angeles County’s VSAP (“Voting Solutions for All People”) rollout will not be covered as a debacle. The real question is: If there were a debacle — like, say, a case of election fraud — would we even know? Doubtful. Just what we want in a voting system! In this post, I’ll give a brief overview of issues with electronic voting. Then I’ll look at VSAP as an institution. Next, I’ll show why the VSAP system is not only insecure, but likely to make money-in-politics even worse than it already is. Continue reading “Los Angeles County to Intoduce VSAP E-Voting System: NOT Hand-Marked, NOT Paper, NOT Hand-Counted in Public”
California’s growing homeless crisis has made headlines over the past year. Diseases are rampant and state and local governments have failed to do anything to solve the problem.
A new state law would allow the state to forcefully “conserve” people with mental illness meaning that if you are homeless and determined to be not “self sufficient” the state can detain you and seize and control your finances until you prove yourself to be “self sufficient.” Continue reading “California Plans FORCED Internment And Asset Seizure To Solve Homeless Crisis”
A shooting rampage near the famed French Quarter of New Orleans early Sunday left 10 people wounded, revelers from an annual football game scrambling for cover and police in pursuit of at least one “cowardly” gunman.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said the shooting erupted on Canal Street near Bourbon Street, an area crowded with tourists and police officers – even at 3:20 a.m. Two of the injured were hospitalized in critical condition. No officers were among the wounded, he said. Continue reading “10 wounded in ‘cowardly and senseless’ shooting rampage at New Orleans French Quarter”
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – A onetime informal adviser to the Trump campaign who is charged with bringing a 14-year-old Czech boy to the United States for sex failed to persuade a federal judge that the crime is too old to prosecute.
In a three-count indictment unsealed in July, prosecutors alleged that George Nader brought the boy to Washington in 2000 after being introduced by way of a European pimp. “Night after night,” the indictment alleges, Nader assaulted and exploited the boy while withholding his passport to keep control over him. Continue reading “Child-Sex Charge Upheld Against Trump Campaign’s Nader”
“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH,OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.”
MY DICTIONARY DEFINES “RELIGION AS,“A STRONG BELIEF THAT SUPERNATURAL POWER CONTROLS DESTINY”. Continue reading “CATHOLICISM AND JUDAISM ARE UNLAWFUL UNDER US LAW.”
The Daily Beast – by Spencer Ackerman
For the 18-year lifespan of the war on terrorism, an obscure provision of the PATRIOT Act permitting the indefinite detention of non-citizens on U.S. soil has gone unused. But to keep a Palestinian man behind bars even after he finished serving his sentence, the Trump administration has fired this bureaucratic Chekhov’s gun. Continue reading “Trump Is First to Use PATRIOT Act to Detain a Man Forever”
A senior citizen brought home the prize of her life this week after a hunting trip with her son in Phillips, Wisconsin.
Bill Teeters said his 104-year-old mom, Florence, told him last year she wanted to get a hunting license. This week, she got her wish and accompanied him during a hunt on their land in Price County, according to NBC 15. Continue reading “104-Year-Old Wisconsin Mom Bags Her First Buck”
Zero Hedge – by Gordon G. Chang
On January 1, China’s Cryptography Law becomes effective. The legislation follows the December 1 implementation of the Multi-Level Protection Scheme 2.0, issued under the authority of the 2016 Cybersecurity Law.
Together, these measures show Beijing’s absolute determination to seize from foreign companies all their communications, data, and other information stored in electronic form in China. Continue reading “China Adopts Malicious “Cybersecurity” Rules”
