From the Trenches World Report

Yahoo News – by Paul Handley

China’s yuan is a growing force in global finance, more than doubling in use over the past year, according to a new study from the Institute of International Finance Thursday.

Although its use in the international payments system remains dwarfed by the dollar and euro, the yuan, officially known as the renminbi, grew to 1.4 percent of total transactions.   Continue reading “China’s yuan ‘a growing force in global finance’”

National Review – by Ryan Lovelace

In order to avoid future clashes with the citizens of Murrieta, Calif., over attempts to transfer illegal immigrants there, the Obama administration has turned to an unusual bedfellow: the Catholic Church. Deacon Luis Sanchez of the Diocese of San Bernardino tells National Review Online that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent approached the diocese on July 2, 2014, and “expressed his desire for the Church to help in helping these families reach their destination.” Since that time, he says, diocesan officials have spoken on the phone with ICE, and they held a planning meeting on Monday.      Continue reading “The Obama Administration’s Border-Crisis Plan B: Use the Catholic Church”

Scribd – by ket99

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has for two years involved in stuffing child pornography images and moving-images inside of average files shared by servers sanctioned by the FBI. The methods of stuffing varies from each agent or officer but are approved as long as the suspect cannot detect that the file contains child pornography until the file has been downloaded. Child pornography has successfully been stuffed into adult pornography films, music files using ID3 tags, software programs, keygens and cracks, and other material that has been illicitly traded over P2P file sharing networks.   Continue reading “Operation Flicker ICE Special Training Notice 2013”

WikiHow

If you’re looking for new ways to cut costs, you can make your own laundry detergent at a cost of just a few cents a load. Homemade detergent gets your clothes just as clean and is less toxic to the environment. Read on to learn how to make either powdered or liquid detergent.

Continue reading “How to Make Your Own Laundry Detergent”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

At a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday, President Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell said that beds for illegal immigrant children can cost the federal government up to $1,000 per bed.

While asking the senators to approve the Obama administration’s request for $3.7 billion to deal with the border crisis, Burwell said that beds can cost $250 to $1,000, and the supplemental funding was needed so the federal government can enter into more cost-effective contracts.   Continue reading “HHS Sec: Beds for Illegals Can Cost Feds Up to $1K”

Bloomberg – by Sonali Basak and Jennifer Oldham

A Colorado man is infected with the rarest and most fatal form of plague, an airborne version that can be spread through coughing and sneezing.

It is the first case of pneumonic plague seen in the state since 2004, said Jennifer House, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The man, who hasn’t been identified, may have been exposed in Adams County near Denver, health officials said in a statement. While House said the man has been hospitalized and treated, she wouldn’t release other details about his situation.   Continue reading “Deadliest, Rarest Form of Plague Contracted Near Denver”

Washington Examiner – by Susan Crabtree

The White House is standing by a statement on its website claiming that border security is at its strongest in history even in the face of a spiraling border crisis in Texas.

Under the heading “border security” on the White House website’s section on President Obama’s immigration proposal, the whitehouse.gov website gives the president credit for having “doubled the number of Border Patrol agents,” saying “today border security is stronger than it ever has been.”   Continue reading “White House stands by claim that border security is stronger than ever”

National Review – by Ryan Lovelace

Adult illegal immigrants posing as unaccompanied alien children appear to be attempting to enroll at public high schools, city officials in Lynn, Mass., tell National Review Online.

“Some of them have had gray hair and they’re telling you that they’re 17 years old and they have no documentation,” Jamie Cerulli, the Lynn mayor’s chief of staff, tells NRO. “If my children went to the public schools, I’d be very uncomfortable with all of these unaccompanied minors [that] are placed in the ninth grade.”    Continue reading “Adult Illegal Immigrants Posing as Children To Enroll in High School”

D-RMOR GEAR

As many of my readers know by now, steel plates offer tremendous advantages (low cost, extreme durability/multiple hits, thin profile), but do suffer from issues with front-face spall (fragmentation caused by defeated rounds) and weight. Most solutions that attempt to address this issue exacerbate the weight, and negate the advantage of a thin profile.   Continue reading “Shoot Test: Version 4.2.3 Spall Guard and Maingun Patriot Plate”

Computer World – by Jeremy Kirk

IDG News Service – Apple users accessing Gmail on mobile devices could be at risk of having their data intercepted, a mobile security company said Thursday.

The reason is Google has not yet implemented a security technology that would prevent attackers from viewing and modifying encrypted communications exchanged with the Web giant, wrote Avi Bashan, chief information security officer for Lacoon Mobile Security, based in Israel and the U.S.   Continue reading “Gmail users on iOS at risk of data theft”

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Veterans Today – by Preston James

The USG has never enforced its southern border and recently there has been a very large breach of thousands of illegal immigrants crossing it.

Those who control the Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM) will not allow you know the actual reasons for this recent very large border breach.

You will never be able to read the actual reasons this has occurred with thousands of children and adolescents from Mexico and Central America coming into America illegally, many without parents.   Continue reading “Border Breach, The Real Story Behind The Headlines”

Mint Press News – by Max Ocean

Over 65 tech companies, open Internet advocates and other organizations released two open letters to negotiators of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Wednesday, expressing their concern that the trade deal’s approval will force websites to censor content and block Internet users.

Spearheaded by the United States, the TPP––dubbed a “free trade” deal––includes twelve of the world’s most economically-prosperous countries that cumulatively account for 40 percent of the global economy. With the possibility of wide-reaching effects on everything from Internet freedom to the prices of medicine in developing countries, critics have slammed it as a “corporate coup d’etat” and “NAFTA on steroids.” Although the text of the deal has not been seen in its entirety by anyone outside of the negotiations, a draft version of the intellectual property rights section of the deal was released last November by WikiLeaks, and Internet rights groups have voiced their opposition ever since.   Continue reading “Digital Rights Groups Warn TPP Will Force ‘Policing’ Of Internet Users”