From the Trenches World Report

RT

Thousands of Google employees have signed an open letter urging the tech giant not to work on a US government surveillance engine which could use artificial intelligence to improve the targeting of drone strikes.

“We believe that Google should not be in the business of war. Therefore we ask that Project Maven be cancelled and that Google draft, publicize, and enforce a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its contractors will ever build warfare technology,” reads the letter which was published by the New York Times on Tuesday.  Continue reading “‘Not in the business of war’: Google employees urge company to abandon Pentagon AI project”

Mail.com

ATLANTA (AP) — The nation’s chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying the overdose antidote naloxone to help combat the nation’s opioid crisis and save lives. Speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta on Thursday morning, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams issued his office’s first national public health advisory in 13 years.

Adams said he hopes those who are at risk — as well as their friends and family members — will keep the antidote on hand and learn how to use it. “You don’t have to be a policeman or a firefighter or a paramedic to save a life,” said Adams, who pointed out that more than half of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S. occur at home.  Continue reading “Surgeon general urges Americans to carry overdose antidote”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — The father of a man killed by police officers in Brooklyn said his son was bipolar and wasn’t taking his medication, but was not dangerous and didn’t deserve to die. Saheed Vassell, 34, was fatally shot Wednesday evening in Brooklyn by police officers responding to multiple 911 calls about a man threatening people with a gun.

The officers who rushed to the scene encountered Vassell holding a metal object in his hand. In security camera images released by the police, the L-shaped length of pipe looked remarkably like a firearm. Vassell brandished it like a weapon, too, extending his arm and pointing the short-barreled object at several people, causing some to cower in apparent fright.  Continue reading “Father of man shot by NYPD says he was ill, but harmless”

Breitbart – by Aaron Klein

NEW YORK — David Hogg and other activists from the #NeverAgain movement are helping to lead the Town Hall for Our Lives project, a series of forums across the country seeking to get lawmakers to push for stronger gun-control measures.

The town halls are being assembled by professional progressive activists, with primary participation from Indivisible, a radical organization that describes itself as a “progressive grassroots network of local groups” seeking to “resist the Trump Agenda.”   Continue reading “David Hogg, Left-Wing Operatives Organize Gun Control Activism at Lawmakers’ Town Halls”

RT

Israel has shown it is ready and willing to use the might of its air force, as it did in order to kill a single “armed terrorist” – a Palestinian man spotted at the border fence with Gaza.

“Overnight, an IAF aircraft targeted an armed terrorist adjacent to the security fence in northern Gaza,” the Israeli Army said in a statement. It added that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operations against “terrorists” will not allow “any harm to the security of Israeli civilians.”   Continue reading “Israel calls in Air Force to target ONE ‘armed terrorist’ on Gaza border”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

A New York judge on probation after being convicted of drunk driving is getting an $11,700 raise despite working just one day in the past 214 days.

Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio’s salary will increase from $175,500 to $187,200 because of a scheduled pay raise all city judges in New York state are expected to receive, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported.  Continue reading “Judge Gets $11,000 Pay Raise Despite Missing More than 200 Days of Work”

Sac Bee – by Benjy Egel

More than 1 million undocumented immigrants have received driver’s licenses, the California Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday.

Assembly Bill 60, authored by then-Assemblyman Luis Alejo in 2013, required California DMV offices to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants as long as they can prove their identity and residence within the state. The law has led to 1,001,000 undocumented immigrants receiving licenses as of March 31 but doesn’t give the licensees carte blanche to drive outside of California or fly across state or federal borders.  Continue reading “More than a million undocumented immigrants have received California driver’s licenses”

Global Research – by Eric Zuesse

The 2003 invasion of Iraq is the best-known example of America’s Government and press lying to fool its public to invade a foreign country that actually posed no threat to U.S. national security (so that America’s Defense Department was obviously America’s Aggression Department, and even its very name was a lie). However, that fraud and its resulting mega-violence were unfortunately typical, not at all exceptional, for the brutal American regime. This crucial but ugly fact will be documented here, so as to destroy (by clear facts) the lying U.S. regime’s supposed credibility — and this refers to both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party wings (and their ‘news’media), of our ruling aristocracy. (Same for America’s lapdog, UK.)  Continue reading “U.S. and Its Press Lie Americans Into Invasions Routinely”

MassPrivateI

Imagine walking down a public street on your way to dinner with your family, now imagine police knowing exactly who you are and the names and ages of every family member.

But wait it gets worse, because the surveillance doesn’t stop there.

Once you have entered the restaurant, police can use Project Green Light, Project Nola or any other police cam-share program to spy on you while you are eating.  Continue reading “New surveillance camera software allows law enforcement to identify groups of people in real-time”

The Organic Prepper – by Anonymous 411

Information Collection for the Prepper – Part 3

The most important maps discussed in this article are the Quadrangle Maps, County Highway Maps, and the City and Town maps (incorporated areas). These maps will prove essential in Part 4 when we discover the locations of hospitals, fire and police stations, drugstores, gas stations/convenience stores, sporting goods stores, grocery stores, walk-in clinics, military and national guard bases and armories, and much more. It will be worth the effort to find and download these maps.  Continue reading “The Essential Maps That Preppers Need”

NPR – by Bill Chappell

In a much-watched case, a Michigan agency has approved Nestlé’s plan to boost the amount of water it takes from the state. The request attracted a record number of public comments — with 80,945 against and 75 in favor.

Nestlé’s request to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to pump 576,000 gallons of water each day from the White Pine Springs well in the Great Lakes Basin was “highly controversial,” member station Michigan Radio reports. But despite deep public opposition, the agency concluded that the company’s plan met with legal standards.  Continue reading “Michigan OKs Nestlé Water Extraction, Despite 80K+ Public Comments Against It”

Yahoo News

A pilot with the U.S. Air Force’s elite Thunderbirds flight-demonstration team died Wednesday when the pilot’s F-16 crashed near Nellis Air Force Base outside Las Vegas.

The Thunderbirds pilot died during a routine training flight at the Nevada Test and Training Range around 10:30 a.m., the Air Force confirmed in a statement.  Continue reading “Thunderbirds pilot dies in F-16 crash in Nevada”

RT

Authorities should be allowed to take children away from parents who express anti-Semitic views, the head of Germany’s 2nd largest police union has stated, without elaborating on how or when such measures would be enforced.

“Authorities need to act decisively [against anti-Semitism] including when the aggression comes from migrants,”Rainer Wendt, head of the German Police Union (DPoIG) told Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper on Wednesday.  Continue reading “German police union chief proposes taking children away from ‘anti-Semitic parents’”

Wired – by Issie Lapowski

FACEBOOK NOW SAYS the data firm Cambridge Analytica gained unauthorized access to up to 87 million users’ data, mainly in the United States. This figure is far higher than the 50 million users that were previously reported.

Facebook’s chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer shared this figure at the end of a lengthy—and somewhat unrelated—blog post Wednesday that laid out a slew of changes Facebook is making to restrict access to user data.  Continue reading “Facebook Exposed 87 Million Users to Cambridge Analytica”

Educate Yourself – by Victor Ter

[Editor’s Note: Nothing reveals the utter rot and corruption of the US congress and the corporate psychopaths of the Telecommunication industry who own them, than the FORCED imposition of the deadly 5G microwave network that will soon make life nearly unbearable in every corner of America. This untested, no-trial, UN-certified, UN-scrutinized, UN-examined high frequency microwave radiation nightmare will exert more physical, neurological, DNA-damaging, fetus-damaging, and stress-producing damage on the American population than any other technology the public has ever been (so recklessly) exposed to. Continue reading “An Overview of Telecomm’s 5G Nightmare Network”