From the Trenches World Report

Gov’t Slaves

In December we shared how we’re expanding our work to remove content that violates our policies. Today, we’re providing an update and giving you additional insight into our work, including the release of the first YouTube Community Guidelines Enforcement Report.

Providing More Information
We are taking an important first step by releasing a quarterly report on how we’re enforcing our Community Guidelines. This regular update will help show the progress we’re making in removing violative content from our platform. By the end of the year, we plan to refine our reporting systems and add additional data, including data on comments, speed of removal, and policy removal reasons.   Continue reading “YouTube removes 8.3 million videos in 3 months”

Daily Mail

American warplanes are being jammed as they fly missions over Syria, preventing them from telling friend from foe on the battlefield.

General Raymond Thomas, head of U.S. Special Operations Command, said unspecified ‘adversaries’ were ramping up cyber attacks in the region.

He said the Air Force AC-130 gunship was ‘aggressively’ targeted, which could force it to abort missions and leave ground forces exposed.   Continue reading “Air Force gunships in Syria are being jammed by ‘adversaries’ rendering blind and unable to help under-siege troops, special ops general says”

Gov’t Slaves

So is it really the end of the American car on its home turf?

From the way Detroit’s major executives are talking, it would seem so.

Ford said Wednesday it will only offer two new cars in North America over the coming years — its iconic Mustang and the Focus Active, a rugged-looking hatchback that has already debuted in Europe, and somewhat resembles the Subaru Crosstrek or the Buick Regal TourX.   Continue reading “Ford is basically giving up on US car business, and GM is not far behind”

Honolulu Civil Beat

A bill banning the possession of firearms modified with bump stocks is expected to soon head to Hawaii Gov. David Ige for his consideration.

The state Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved legislation that prohibits owning bump stocks, multi-burst trigger activators and trigger cranks.   Continue reading “Bump Stock Ban Passes Hawaii Legislature In Wake Of Las Vegas Massacre”

Daily Mail

San Francisco’s Tenderloin was bustling with tents, sleeping bags, the meager possessions of the city’s homeless on Tuesday – now it is empty.

About 50 tent-dwellers were evicted in a sweep of problem streets, either moved on or having their tends and possessions taken away.

The raid came days after Mayor Mark Farrell vowed to clean up the streets after dozens of homeless resisted efforts to move them into shelters.   Continue reading “San Francisco police trumpets its removal of homeless camps after the mayor promised a crackdown but Twitter users demand to know what happened to the people in the tents”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

On April 9, 2018, I re-blogged Dr. James Tracy’s post on the sudden and untimely death, at age 42, of Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Fitzsimons, who had questioned the Parkland school shooting’s gun control agenda.

Now comes an announcement of another Broward County deputy death — that of 53-year-old Marshall Peterson. Yesterday, the Broward Sheriff tweeted this:   Continue reading “Second Broward County Sheriff’s deputy dead, at 53”

Breitbart – by Edwin Mora

The World Bank is allowing Kabul to use the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), financed by American taxpayer money estimated in the billions, to pay for “dysfunctional” projects and possibly even “ghost workers,” a U.S. watchdog agency announced Wednesday.

In an audit published Wednesday, the U.S. Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) identifies the United States as the largest contributor to World Bank-administered ARTF.   Continue reading “Watchdog: U.S. Spending Billions on ‘Dysfunctional Projects,’ ‘Ghost Workers’ in Afghanistan”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As part of its latest disastrous earnings, which saw trading revenues tumble by 17% as new CEO Christian Sewing took over, we reported that Deutsche Bank announced a sweeping restructuring plan, abandoning its long-running ambitions to be a top global securities firm, scaling back U.S. rates sales and trading, reducing the corporate finance business in the U.S. and Asia, and reviewing its global equities business with a view toward cutting it back, the bank said in a statement. The measures will lead to a “significant reduction” in the 97,130-person workforce this year, Deutsche Bank said. We translated it more simply: massive layoffs.   Continue reading “The Purge Begins: Deutsche Bank Fires 400 US Bankers”

New York Daily News

A student at the University of Utah has crafted the perfect sanctuary for the panicked masses during finals week.

Senior Nemo Miller created a “Cry Closet” that will remain in the library on the Salt Lake City campus until exams are over.   Continue reading “‘Cry Closet’ helps college students get through finals week”

RT

Denmark’s immigration minister, known for her hardline stance on migration, has drawn ire from people on social media after she said that in order to pass language tests, asylum seekers cheat and abuse the trust of authorities.

Minister Inger Stojberg of the ruling center-right Venstre party, cited a Facebook group that provides answers to Danish language and culture tests, which all migrants have to take in the Nordic country. “A significant group” of refugees who have come to Denmark “cheats, lies and abuses our trust,” she wrote in an editorial in BT, a Danish tabloid newspaper.   Continue reading “Cheat, lie and abuse – Danish immigration minister hits out at migrants”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to vote Thursday on a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s job — legislation that has split Republicans as President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Two Republicans and two Democrats introduced the bill earlier this month as Trump ramped up criticism of the special counsel. Mueller is investigating potential ties between Russia and Trump’s 2016 campaign as well as possible obstruction of justice by the president.   Continue reading “Senate committee poised for vote on bill to protect Mueller”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for President Donald Trump will be back in court Thursday as part of his attempt to limit investigators’ access to records the FBI seized from his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

A judge in New York scheduled a noon conference to discuss electronic files and communications seized from Cohen’s home and office April 9 as part of an investigation of his personal business dealings.   Continue reading “Lawyer: Trump ready for role in raids’ evidence review”

Mail.com

PHOENIX (AP) — A wave of red-clad teachers will crash upon the Arizona state Capitol on Thursday for an unprecedented walkout that closed most of the state’s public school schools, part of an educator uprising that’s also bubbled up in Colorado.

Around 30,000 to 50,000 teachers and their supporters are expected to march through Phoenix to rally at the Arizona state Capitol to demand a 20 percent raise for teachers, about $1 billion to return school funding to pre-Great Recession levels and increased pay for support staff, among other things.   Continue reading “Thousands of teachers in Arizona, Colorado to protest”

Freedom Outpost – by The Common Constitutionalist

Ever wonder why it takes multiple trillions of dollars to run the federal government? And why, no matter how large the federal “budget” gets, we never have enough?

We all think of waste, fraud and abuse, but there is another contributing factor. It’s death by thousands of cuts.   Continue reading “The DOJ Awarded $1 Million To Florida Law Enforcement Following Failure In Parkland”