From the Trenches World Report

The Intercept – by Victoria Law

WHEN MARY SHIELDS was first sent to prison, her daughter was too young to understand why their phone calls would cut off mid-conversation and why she would not hear from her mother again for days. Shields was among the many incarcerated people who had their contact with loved ones curtailed by the high rates for making prison phone calls. During her 21 years in a California state prison, she spoke with her family for 15 minutes twice a month. Each call cost $15.

“Those calls are very expensive,” she said, noting that her family paid the phone bills as well as the cost of caring for her children. Shields could have put more of a burden on her family but thought it would only drain their financial resources. “I wasn’t able to do that because I wanted the best for my children. I didn’t want to take anything away from them and that” — the phone bills — “was taking away from them.”   Continue reading “$15 For 15 Minutes: How Courts Are Letting Prison Phone Companies Gouge Incarcerated People”

Washington’s Blog

We noted yesterday that the Washington Post is owned by one of the world’s richest guys, worth $72.8 billion  … and who may soon become THE world’s richest.

And you probably won’t hear it from the New York Times, but the largest shareholder of the Times  is the sixth wealthiest guy … worth $54.5 billion.   He used to be THE richest person, but he’s slipped a little in the rankings.   Continue reading “Why Mainstream Media Represents the View of Billionaires … Instead of Average Americans”

Yahoo News

Tehran (AFP) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Monday missiles it fired into Syria had successfully hit Islamic State group targets in retaliation for Tehran attacks claimed by the jihadists earlier this month.

“Based on credible information, the missile operation against Daesh has been successful,” Revolutionary Guards spokesman General Ramezan Sharif said on the elite force’s Sepahnews website, using an Arabic acronym for IS.   Continue reading “Iran says its missiles into Syria hit IS targets”

Fox News

The New Mexico State Police rescued 14 hostages, including a three year old, from a pistachio farm in southern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.

State Police identified the suspect as Caleb Scroggins, 21 from Alamogordo, NM.

Police said they were looking for Scroggins because he was a suspect in a shooting earlier in the day. During a search, police found Scroggin’s vehicle and a chase began. While traveling west, Scroggins failed to yield to northbound traffic on a highway and was t-boned. Scroggins got out of the car, exchanged fire with police, ran into McGinn’s Pistachio Farm store and took 14 hostages.   Continue reading “New Mexico authorities rescue 14 hostages in farm standoff”

Reading Eagle – by Jennifer Peltz

NEW YORK (AP) — Wanted: 10,000 New Yorkers interested in advancing science by sharing a trove of personal information, from cellphone locations and credit-card swipes to blood samples and life-changing events. For 20 years.

Researchers are gearing up to start recruiting participants from across the city next year for a study so sweeping it’s called “The Human Project .” It aims to channel different data streams into a river of insight on health, aging, education and many other aspects of human life.   Continue reading “‘Human Project’ study will ask 10,000 to share life’s data”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The United States just attacked and destroyed a Syrian fighter for dropping bombs near US backed “rebels” in Syria. This is a major escalation and an act of war by the United States.

We know there are no moderate rebels, all of the rebels are working together, they are all a part of ISIS (we have extensive and consolidated documentation for you available on Wednesday). We also note on the same day Iran launched missiles from Iran into Syria to take out “ISIS infrastructure“. This was done in an effort to pay ISIS back for the terror attack on Iran last week. It is more than obvious the US is enraged by their rebel forces (ISIS) being attacked by Syria and Iran and this led to the strike against the Syrian fighter. This is the first time the US has directly attacked a Syrian warplane and it will not be the last.
Continue reading “ESCALATION: U.S. F18 Shoots Down Syrian Fighter That Attacked US Backed “Rebels” In Syria”

PIX 11 News

EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn — A woman was shot in the hip near a Brooklyn baseball field Sunday night, police said.

The woman was shot around 8 p.m. near Breukelen Fields in her hip, police said. She was getting out of her car when the bullet went through the window of the car and hit her.   Continue reading “Woman shot in hip near Brooklyn baseball field”

The Guardian – by Vikram Dodd

Police have confirmed they are investigating a terror attack in London after a van ploughed into people near a north London mosque, leaving one person dead and injuring eight others.

A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, and two of those hit by the van were said to be “very seriously injured”.

The prime minister, Theresa May, was woken to be told of the early morning incident at Finsbury Park and has confirmed that counter-terrorism command is leading an active inquiry.   Continue reading “London mosque attack: driver shouted ‘I want to kill all Muslims,’ witness says”

Life Site – by Claire Chretien

SALEM, Oregon, June 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A bill allowing the starvation and dehydration of dementia and mentally ill patients against their will passed the Oregon Senate 17-13 on June 8.

Oregon Right to Life has been battling SB494 since it was introduced, warning it’s a “devious” bill that’s “craftily written so as to hide its true intent.”

SB494 would remove safeguards in Oregon law that protect the right of patients to receive food and water as part of basic treatment. It would give healthcare representatives power to potentially coerce doctors into starving patients against their will.    Continue reading “Oregon Senate votes to allow dementia patients to be starved to death”

Singularity Hub – by Shelly Fan

Picture this: you’re sitting in a police interrogation room, struggling to describe the face of a criminal to a sketch artist. You pause, wrinkling your brow, trying to remember the distance between his eyes and the shape of his nose.

Suddenly, the detective offers you an easier way: would you like to have your brain scanned instead, so that machines can automatically reconstruct the face in your mind’s eye from reading your brain waves?   Continue reading “Forget Police Sketches: Researchers Perfectly Reconstruct Faces by Reading Brainwaves”

BBC

North Korea has accused the US authorities of “literally mugging” its diplomats at a New York airport.

A spokesman for the secretive state said its officials had been “robbed” of a diplomatic package at John F Kennedy Airport on Friday.

North Korea’s state news agency KCNA said the incident proved the US was a “lawless gangster state”.   Continue reading “North Korea says US ‘mugged’ its diplomats in New York”

100% Fed Up

Rutgers University-Camden recently hosted an event for illegals and their families ONLY. Yes, for ILLEGALS ONLY to teach them how to work the system and get into college using U.S. funding!

This is from the college website: Unreal!   Continue reading “College Hosts Illegals-Only Event On How To Get Into College…How To Tap Into U.S. Funding”