From the Trenches World Report
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As votes continue to be counted throughout Oregon, the Linn County Sheriff is already preparing for the possible passage of one measure that is some of the strictest gun control legislation in the U.S. Continue reading “Linn County won’t enforce Measure 114 if passed, Sheriff says”
These past few months have seen the ‘war of drones’ play a decisive role on the Ukrainian battlefield. For the Russian side, drones were heavily utilized in the ramped up air campaign to degrade Ukrainian energy infrastructure following the bombing of Crimea’s Kerch Strait Bridge. For Ukraine’s army, Western-supplied drones have allowed them to strike increasingly behind Russian front lines. There’s meanwhile been international condemnation over the prevalence of Iran-supplied suicide drones launched from the Russian side. Continue reading “White House Slams Door On Advanced Drones For Ukraine”
A report released last week by the New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice details how the US Department of Defense (DoD) has been allowed to covertly deploy troops and wage secret wars over the past two decades in dozens of countries across the globe. Continue reading “Pentagon exploits post 9/11 laws to wage ‘secret wars’ worldwide: Report”
The Internal Revenue Service is on a hiring spree, just as several well-known companies have announced thousands of layoffs over the last few weeks. Continue reading “IRS hiring 700+ customer service reps amid wave of corporate layoffs”
Willamette Week – by Lucas Manfield
Oregon is on the verge of a major tightening of its gun control laws.
As of noon Wednesday, Measure 114 had won 50.7% of the vote, with many of the outstanding ballots in blue Willamette Valley strongholds. Continue reading “Backers of Oregon Gun Control Measure 114 Declare Victory in Close Contest”
Mississippi police reported they discovered human remains in an abandoned home after witnesses spotted a dog carrying around a severed arm. Continue reading “Mississippi police follow dog carrying human arm to headless human remains”
The US and Taiwan kicked off two days of talks in New York on Tuesday aimed at reaching a new pact to deepen trade and economic cooperation despite strong objections from Beijing. Continue reading “US, Taiwan Begin Trade Talks Despite Objection from China”
More Americans are turning to second jobs as the holidays approach and inflation rates continue to soar, making many pinch pennies.
A new jobs report for October from the Labor Department showed that the percent of Americans working a part-time job on top of their full time job rose six percent from one year ago. Continue reading “4.5 million cash-strapped Americans are turning to SECOND JOBS jobs to supplement their incomes – in 6% increase from last year”
Zero Hedge – by Gun Owners of America
The FBI, through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) has announced that a mandatory wait period for 18–20-year-old legal adults, as enacted by the gun control known as Cornyn-Murphy or the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, will go into effect November 14, 2022. Continue reading “FBI Announces “Enhanced” Firearm Background Checks For Young Adults To Start Next Week”
For the first time since the Russian invasion began back in February, the Ukrainian government has invoked wartime laws to dramatically intervene into the private business sector, seizing five “strategically important” companies for state and military use. It comes a year after President Zelensky’s so-called “de-oligarchization” reforms and targets companies run by some of Ukraine’s wealthiest billionaire businessmen – at least a couple of which are facing major corruption investigations. Continue reading “Ukraine Seizes 5 Major Companies From Billionaire Oligarchs For ‘Wartime Needs’”
Neighborhoods in southeastern Georgia were ordered to evacuate Monday as “multiple explosions” at a chemical plant on Colonel’s Island have led to a fire, police say. Continue reading “Symrise Chemical Plant in Georgia rocked by ‘multiple explosions,’ fire: police”
President Joe Biden is welcoming at least 6,200 border crossers and illegal aliens into American communities every day, according to figures shared with Breitbart News from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Continue reading “Biden Welcoming at Least 6.2K Illegal Aliens into U.S. Every Day at Border”
A special civil jury in Northern California found a former longtime sheriff guilty on all six counts of corruption and willful misconduct in a case involving the issuing of concealed-carry weapons permits in exchange for campaign donations. Continue reading “California sheriff found guilty of corruption”
The State Department is giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies unrestricted access to the personal data of more than 145 million Americans, through information from passport applications that is shared without legal process or any apparent oversight, according to a letter sent from Sen. Ron Wyden to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and obtained by Yahoo News. Continue reading “State Dept. gives law enforcement, intelligence agencies unrestricted access to Americans’ personal data”
Four months after a Northern California district attorney cleared officers who shot and killed a man at a checkpoint during evacuations for the Lava Fire, the man’s family has a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $20 million in damages. Continue reading “Fatal shooting at checkpoint during Northern California Lava Fire spawns $20 million suit”
Residents of a Virginia town were ordered to shelter in place Thursday as police search for an armed and dangerous man who tried to run over two police officers with a stolen police car, authorities said. Continue reading “Virginia town, schools under shelter-in-place order as ‘armed and dangerous’ man on the loose: police”
After over eight months of pouring tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons into Ukraine, the Biden administration has announced some steps it will take toward oversight of the military aid. Continue reading “After Over 8 Months of Pouring Arms Into Ukraine, US Announces Some Oversight”
Massachusetts’ governor wants Americans in other states to fund food and shelter for the several thousand illegal migrants sent by the federal government to cheap-labor employers and high-rent landlords in the Old Colony State. Continue reading “Massachusetts Gov. Asks Other States to Fund Its Illegal Workers and Renters”
One person is at-large and four people are in custody following a firefight between the relative of a car theft victim and a group of people in the stolen vehicle, according to Missouri authorities. Continue reading “Son tracks down mom’s stolen car and opens fire on people inside, Missouri cops say”
Gateway Pundit – by Jason Grossman
A group of illegal migrants, previously removed from the U.S., have built a tent city on the Mexican border. On Monday, they stormed Border Patrol Agents on the US side of the border resulting in the agents firing non-lethal pepper balls – at the crowd. A total of three shots were fired. The migrants were seen marching toward the border with a large banner reading, “We Migrants Build America.” Continue reading “Illegal Migrants Storm US Border with Giant Venezuelan Flag, Hurl Rocks at Border Agents – Are Forced Back into Mexico”