From the Trenches World Report
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On June 22, President Trump issued an Executive Order barring nearly all visa workers – a move he said would open up 525,000 American jobs. Continue reading “State Department Neuters Trump EO Barring Immigrant Workers As H-1B Visa Malarkey Continues”
Seated at his kitchen table, finishing off the remains of a Saturday breakfast, Hunter Hollingsworth’s world was rocked by footsteps on his front porch and pounding at the door, punctuated by an aggressive order: “Open up or we’ll kick the door down.”
Surrounded on all sides of his house, and the driveway blocked, Hollingsworth was the target of approximately 10 federal and state wildlife officials packing pistols, shotguns and rifles. And what was Hollingsworth’s crime? Drugs, armed robbery, assault, money laundering? Not quite. Continue reading “Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Welcome to Open Fields”
Connecticut says it has issued its first $3,000 in fines to a pair of residents who failed to comply with the state’s new coronavirus travel advisory.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that the individuals were both hit with $1,000 fines for failing to fill out public health forms when they flew back weeks ago from Louisiana and Florida – two states that are reporting higher numbers of daily confirmed cases. One of those residents was fined an additional $1,000 after his co-worker informed officials he was refusing to self-quarantine for 14 days as required under the restrictions, he added. Continue reading “Connecticut fines residents $3,000 for violating coronavirus travel advisory”
Federal agents in Bend, Ore., clashed with hundreds of protesters late Wednesday night after an hourslong standoff sparked by the arrest of two men by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who said they were a “threat to the public.”
Bend’s episode, which is about a three-hour drive from Portland, was the latest in tensions among protesters, local police and federal agents. Continue reading “Bend, Oregon activists block ICE bus, prompting federal agents’ response”
Portland’s city council seems certain Wednesday to set a new bar for North American housing reform by legalizing up to four homes on almost any residential lot.
Portland’s new rules will also offer a “deeper affordability” option: four to six homes on any lot if at least half are available to low-income Portlanders at regulated, affordable prices. The measure will make it viable for nonprofits to intersperse below-market housing anywhere in the city for the first time in a century. Continue reading “On Wednesday, Portland will pass the best low-density zoning reform in US history”
MOSCOW, August 11. /TASS/. The vaccine against the coronavirus infection developed in Russia may cause certain changes in the human body but they are of short-term nature and are directed at the protection of the body, said President of Russia’s Bakulev National Medical Research Center of Cardiovascular Surgery Leo Bokeria. Continue reading “COVID-19 vaccine may cause short-term changes in body, expert thinks”
The people who run society are engaged in bringing systems and structures into interlocking alignment, in order to create larger and larger machines of control.
I keep returning to this territory, because the whole thrust of modern civilization is making the individual extinct. Continue reading “Exit From The Matrix: Free Individual vs. Deep State”
Washington Examiner – by Madison Dibble
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there is no need for an independent investigation into his policy on nursing homes that critics say led to thousands of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic.
Cuomo, a Democrat, told reporters during a teleconference on Monday that Democrats and Republicans will never agree on the examination of his now-reversed March 25 directive that prohibited nursing homes from turning away recovering coronavirus patients. Continue reading “Andrew Cuomo: No need for independent investigation into nursing home coronavirus deaths”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Key West, FL — A video of an utterly disgusting display of the American police state was published by attorney Ben Crump this week showing a tiny child being frisked, handcuffed, and hauled off to an adult prison for processing. His crime — acting out in school.
The video is from an incident that occurred at the boy’s school in December 2018. However, Crump just released the video late Sunday night while announcing a lawsuit against the Key West Police department. Continue reading “School Cops Handcuff Mentally Disabled 8yo Boy, Bring Him to Adult Prison for Misbehaving”
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore firefighters say an explosion leveled several homes in the city on Monday, killing one person and critically injuring others.
The Baltimore Firefighters IAFF Local 734 said on Twitter that one person has been pronounced dead on the scene. The union also said that three people were in critical condition after being rescued by firefighters. Continue reading “Explosion levels Baltimore homes; 1 dead, 1 trapped”
Hundreds of people packed into a bar in Sturgis, South Dakota on Saturday night to hear a ZZ Top tribute band play, as fear continue about the huge annual motorcycle rally contributing to the spread of coronavirus.
An estimated 250,000 people have flocked to the city of 7,000 people this weekend for the start of the 10-day festival.
Continue reading “Bikers undaunted by COVID pack Sturgis bars and concerts”
National File – by Jack Hadfield
Twitter has banned all links to the video-sharing site BitChute, in another crackdown by Big Tech against alternative tech companies.
BitChute serves as an alternative platform to YouTube, where creators can upload their videos without the worry of censorship. However, this of course, can’t protect BitChute itself from being deplatformed from Big Tech sites, such as Twitter. Continue reading “Twitter BANS All Links To Video-Sharing Site BitChute”