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Some of the 5,800 US troops deployed to the southern US border right before the midterm election may be withdrawn as early as this week, however Trump administration officials concerned about ending the mission too soon are set on delaying their departure, according to the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”
Facebook and Instagram are still down for some users around the globe, 10 hours after the outages were first reported around 7am ET (12pm GMT) on Tuesday.
Users on both popular platforms were left unable to load the sites for hours, and thousands of people were unable to access their accounts entirely.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed outages had hit its ‘family of apps’ and that the firm is working to fix the issue. Continue reading “Facebook and Instagram are STILL down: Firm says it’s ‘working to resolve the issue’ as users around the world have trouble logging on 10 hours later”
BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s municipal government will assign citizens and firms “personal trustworthiness points” by 2021, state media reported on Tuesday, pioneering China’s controversial plan for a “social credit” system to monitor citizens and businesses.
The system’s rollout has attracted international headlines, sparking comparisons to George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”, with critics saying it could massively heighten the Chinese Communist Party’s already strict control over society. Continue reading “Beijing pioneering citizens’ ‘points’ system critics brand ‘Orwellian’”
COLTS NECK, N.J. (AP) — Two children and two adults were found dead Tuesday at a burning mansion that was intentionally set ablaze in an upscale community near the New Jersey shore, officials said.
One of the owners of the home is a technology CEO with a relative whose house not far away also caught fire Tuesday, records show. Authorities said they were investigating whether there was a link.
Continue reading “2 Kids, 2 Adults Dead in Arson Fire at Mansion”
Difficult as it had been for the Round Table to maneuver the British Empire into the war with Germany, it would be that much harder for their American fellow travelers to coax the United States out of its neutrality and into World War One. The cabal was going to have to leverage its control of the press and key governmental positions to begin to shape public perception and instill pro-war sentiment. And once again, the full resources of these motivated co-conspirators were brought to bear on the task. Join The Corbett Report for Part Two of The WWI Conspiracy. Continue reading “The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front”
The Centers for Disease Control came out Tuesday with a warning for everyone in the United States: Do not eat any romaine lettuce.
CDC officials are investigating the cause of an E. coli outbreak that has infected 32 people in 11 states. They were infected from October 8, 2018 through October 31, 2018. So far, there have been no cases in Washington State. Continue reading “CDC: Do not eat ANY Romaine lettuce amid E. coli outbreak”
What was World War One about? How did it start? Who won? And what did they win? Now, 100 years after those final shots rang out, these questions still puzzle historians and laymen alike. But as we shall see, this confusion is not a happenstance of history but the wool that has been pulled over our eyes to stop us from seeing what WWI really was. This is the story of WWI that you didn’t read in the history books. This is The WWI Conspiracy. Continue reading “The WWI Conspiracy – Part One: To Start A War”
There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today.
The oral surgery went well. Can’t talk.
This is the dramatic moment a forklift operator caused an entire warehouse of goods to fall like dominoes when he bumped into a shelving unit.
The clip, filmed inside an unnamed distribution warehouse, captured the driver as he made his way down an aisle between two tall pallet racks. Continue reading “Forklift driver causes an entire warehouse to fall like dominoes when he nudges a shelving unit”