From the Trenches World Report

AP

SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (AP) — California is taking a financial wallop from unrelenting wildfires that have drained its firefighting budget and prompted nearly $1 billion in property claims even before the start of the dangerous fall fire season, officials said Thursday.

The disclosures came as a roaring blaze in a rural area near the Oregon state line closed 45 miles (72 kilometers) of heavily traveled Interstate 5, the main highway from Mexico to Canada.   Continue reading “California takes financial wallop from unrelenting wildfires”

ABC News

A Dallas police officer shot and killed a 26-year-old man Thursday night upon returning home from her shift and entering an apartment she apparently thought was her own, authorities said.

Preliminary information suggests the off-duty officer, who has not been publicly identified, was still wearing her police uniform after working a full shift when she arrived that night at the apartment complex where she lives south of downtown Dallas, according to a statement released Friday by the Dallas Police Department.   Continue reading “Officer fatally shoots man after entering wrong apartment ‘believing that it was her own’: Police”

Gun Owners of America – by Michael Hammond

If Democrat Senators Dick Durbin (IL) and Chuck Schumer (NY) get their way, gun owners could go to jail — for a MINIMUM of five years — simply for posting a file that will allow honest citizens to print their own 3D-guns.

These Senators are trying to sucker Republicans into supporting this gun control by helping them pass prison reform legislation.

But for gun owners across America, this should be a non-starter!  Continue reading “Talking About Certain Guns Online to be Punished with FIVE Years in Prison!”

The Jamestown Sun

The newly minted junior at Liberty Preparatory School was perhaps still on summer break schedule during class last week. His teacher couldn’t wake him up. Even summoning the interim principal wasn’t enough to get the teenager to open his eyes.

So the Smithville, Ohio, educators called for the school resource officer, a part-time member of the local police named Maryssa Boskoski, whose idea of an impromptu alarm could cost her job and maybe even her freedom.   Continue reading “A sleeping student in Ohio wouldn’t wake up in class, so an officer pulled out her Taser”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While Syria seemed to have dropped from the Western media’s radar over the past months as the Syrian Army and its Russian and Iranian allies made rapid gains, multiple huge developments this week have returned the war to center stage in Washington and the dangerous rhetoric of escalation.

In just the last 24 hours alone, we’ve learned:   Continue reading “Top US Envoy Says “Lots Of Evidence” Assad Prepping Chemical Weapons; Russia Threatens Attack On US Base”

Daily Mail

A transgender prisoner has been accused of sexually assaulting four female inmates after being sent to a women’s prison, despite not having had reassignment surgery.

It is alleged the first attack took place within days of the inmate arriving at New Hall jail in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.   Continue reading “Transgender prisoner put in female jail ‘assaulted four women’”

Boing Boing – by Cory Doctorow

James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Youtube channel, but it didn’t stay up — Youtube’s Content ID system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has been dead for 300 years.

This is a glimpse of the near future. In one week, the European Parliament will vote on a proposal to force all online services to implement Content ID-style censorship, but not just for videos — for audio, text, stills, code, everything.   Continue reading “The future is here today: you can’t play Bach on Youtube because Sony says they own his compositions”

Independent Sentinel – by Linda Goudsmit

On January 26, 2018, Daniel Greenfield gave a brilliant speech in South Carolina in which he argued that politics make civil wars – not guns. “Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins.” What does that mean?

“Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.”   Continue reading “Countdown to Civil War”

Fox News

Johnny Bobbitt, the homeless military veteran who had $400,000 raised for him by well-wishers, will receive the full amount of money even though those behind the fundraiser allegedly squandered it.

GoFundMe, along with law firm Cozen O’Connor, said Thursday that Bobbitt will receive the balance of what he was not given of the hundreds of thousands raised for him in late 2017, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.   Continue reading “Homeless Philadelphia man Johnny Bobbitt will get his $400G, GoFundMe says”

Fox News

PHILADELPHIA –  Authorities say 12 passengers on two flights from Europe were evaluated for sore throats and coughs upon arrival at Philadelphia International Airport, but none were considered severely ill.

A federal Customs and Border Protection spokesman says the sick passengers had been attending the hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.   Continue reading “Passengers on 2 flights from Europe arrive sick in Philly”

Record Searchlight

Update at 7:15 p.m.

The fire is now 22,000 acres and still has no containment, officials said.

Update at 7:00 p.m.

Castle Rock Elementary School in Castella will remain closed on Friday because of its nearness to the fire area, evacuations and road closures, superintendent and principal Autumn Funk announced Thursday evening in an email.   Continue reading “Delta Fire updates: Blaze now 22,000 acres with no containment”