Enforce our Bill of Rights
1791-1941 (150th Anniversary of The Bill of Rights)
Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, N.Y., Thursday, Feb 20, 1941
Special to the Brooklyn Eagle
Sag Harbor, Feb 20 —– Students at the Pierson High School here will goosestep from class to class tomorrow under the watchful eyes of “Storm Troopers” alert to punish the slightest infraction of the institutions “new order” Continue reading “L.I. School Scraps U.S. Bill Of Rights – But Only for a Day So Students Can Compare Nazi Bans With Freedom Here”
Panic ensued Tuesday at Walter Reed hospital in Bethesda, Md., after an active shooter exercise was thought to be an actual shooting.
The U.S. Navy said in a tweet Tuesday that there was no shooter at the hospital and that the incident was an “ad hoc drill by tenant command.” Continue reading “Panic at Walter Reed after exercise mistaken as active shooter”
Veterans Today – by Enkidu Gilgamesh
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Archive: TWFTT 11-27-18
President Emmanuel Macron is once again finding that the French do not respond well to reform.
Thousands of demonstrators known as “Yellow Jackets” due to their fluorescent garb descended into the streets across France over the weekend to protest planned tax hikes on gas. Continue reading “Who are France’s ‘Yellow Jacket’ protesters and what do they want?”
Illegal immigration at the United States-Mexico border is expected to hit the highest level in a decade next year, as border-crossings surged to record levels last month.
Last month, illegal immigration at the southern border soared to the highest level for a single month since April 2014, marking the most southwest border crossings since President Trump was elected in 2016 on a platform to reduce immigration to the country. Continue reading “Illegal Immigration Under Trump On Track to Hit Highest Level in a Decade”
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) received two more F-35I aircraft this weekend, bringing the IAF’s total inventory of fifth-generation fighters up to 14.
Since receiving its first pair of F-35Is in December 2016, Israel’s inventory of F-35 jets has grown at a slow and steady pace. The IDF officially cleared its first F-35 aircraft for live operations last December. Israel is the only nation in the Middle East with active F-35 aircraft that are ready for operations, the Jerusalem Post reported Monday. Continue reading “Israel Grows Stealth Arsenal With More F-35 Fighter Jets”
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – by Linda Satter
A federal agent testified Friday that Harold “H.L.” Moody, who was fired last week from his job as special events coordinator for Pulaski County Youth Services, distributed child pornography and smoked methamphetamine out of a glass pipe while seated at his desk in the county administration building during regular work hours.
Jason Bennett, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, said an agent who was participating in an undercover capacity in a video-conferencing application used by child pornographers took “screen shots” of Moody sitting at his desk and conversing with others in the secret chatroom on more than one occasion between Aug. 29 and Oct. 12. Continue reading “Arkansas political consultant charged in child porn case used meth at county job, federal agent says”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Milwaukee, WI — Disturbing body camera footage was recently released showing Milwaukee police shoot an unarmed man on a rooftop. The man was holding nothing but his cellphone and had committed no crime when an officer opened fire.
The newly-released body camera footage shows multiple officers chasing Jerry Smith Jr., who was 19 at the time. The officers have Smith cornered on a rooftop as they yell at him to put up his hands. According to police, officers thought Smith was armed. He was not. Continue reading “Police Shoot Unarmed Teen Holding a Cellphone Trying to Call His Mom”
The Lord of the Rings series has been branded ‘racist’ by a science fiction writer who claims orcs are discriminated against and written as inferior.
American author Andy Duncan said British author JRR Tolkien depicted evil creatures such as orcs as ‘worse than others’ and said this had ‘dire consequences for society’. Continue reading “Science Fiction writer claims the Lord Of The Rings series is ‘racist’ because it discriminates against orcs”
WASHINGTON – More than 1 million copyright-infringing website domain names selling counterfeit automotive parts, electrical components, personal care items and other fake goods were criminally and civilly seized in the past year through the combined efforts of law-enforcement agencies across the world, high-profile industry representatives and anti-counterfeiting associations. Continue reading “Over a million websites seized in global operation”
BriefCam’s “Transforming Video into Actionable Intelligence” allows law enforcement and retailers to secretly identify people by their gender, body size, color, direction, speed and more.
BriefCam’s Video Synopsis version V allows police and retail stores to use surveillance cameras to identify individuals and cars in real-time. Continue reading “Surveillance cameras equipped with thermal imaging allow police to identify people by their gender, body size and color of their skin”
WEB Notes: Even Obama did not suggest something like this and I bet the blind Republicans are still going to support this man. Sick. This is right out of China’s playbook and remember what Trump said about his Communist friend?…
‘Maybe we’ll give that a shot‘ with reference to China’s power grab. You remember that one right? Continue reading “Trump Proposes State-Run Television”
Tampa Bay Times – by Stuart Leavenworth
LEHI, Utah — It markets its DNA kits with promises that tug at the heartstrings: Discover ancestors. Strengthen family ties. Understand your life.
Aided by venture capital and a flood of savvy marketing, Ancestry LLC has grown to become the world’s largest DNA testing conglomerate. Since 2012, it has lured more than 5 million people to spit into tubes and add their genetic code to the world’s largest private database of DNA. It has also banked away the world’s largest collection of human spittle, numbering in the hundreds of gallons. Continue reading “DNA for Sale: Ancestry wants your spit, your DNA and your trust. Should you give them all 3?”
Issues
Is the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause, which prohibits the government requiring excessive payments as punishment for criminal offenses, incorporated against the states under the Fourteenth Amendment?