From the Trenches World Report
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The Senate voted to advance bipartisan gun legislation on Tuesday, with hopes of passing it prior to the July 4 recess.
All 50 members of the Democratic caucus joined 14 Republicans in moving the legislation forward. The bill comes after a number of mass shootings, most notably in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. Continue reading “What’s in the Senate’s new gun control bill”
Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson
Ukrainian authorities have banned the country’s main opposition party and seized all its assets, once again undermining the narrative that President Zelensky is presiding over a beacon of democracy. Continue reading “Ukraine Bans Main Opposition Party, Seizes All Its Assets”
The first images from inside the Uvalde school shooting have emerged, revealing that police were heavily armed with rifles and a ballistic shield, yet still waited another 58 minutes while gunman Salvador Ramos continued his rampage – leaving 19 students and two teachers dead. Continue reading “First Pictures Of Uvalde Shooting Emerge As City Hires Lawyers To Block Evidence”
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Breitbart News Saturday the IRS spent approximately $700,000 “between March and June 1” purchasing ammunition.
Gaetz described the ammunition acquisition as “bizarre.” Continue reading “IRS Spent Approximately $700,000 on Ammo ‘Between March and June 1’”
(Reuters) – Two police officers in southern California were shot and killed while responding to a possible stabbing at a local motel where they were ambushed by the suspect who was fatally wounded himself during the shootout, authorities said. Continue reading “Two police officers in California killed in ambush, authorities say”
Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith
What happens when the workforce no longer wants to work? We’re about to find out. As with all cultural sea changes, macro statistics don’t tell the full story. The sea change is better illuminated by anecdotal evidence: workers constantly quitting to take better jobs; zero loyalty to corporate employers; workers cutting hours from full-time to part-time; workers going out for lunch and never coming back; workers giving up on selling sugar-water for the rest of their lives (echoing Steve Jobs’ famous challenge to John Scully: “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?”) and giving up on owning an insanely over-valued house. Continue reading “What Happens When the Workforce No Longer Wants to Work?”
The Senate gun control agreement that emerged Sunday adds an “investigative period” to some firearm background checks.
Breitbart News reported that the Senate agreement includes proposals such as a crackdown on straw purchases, funding to incentivize states to adopt, red flag laws, and deeper record searches for gun buyers under the age of 21, among other things. Continue reading “Senate Gun Control Agreement Adds ‘Investigative Period’ to Some Firearm Background Checks”
An out-of-control wildfire that burns six miles north of Flagstaff, Arizona, has promoted evacuations for hundreds of people. According to CNN, thousands could be placed under mandatory evacuation orders imminently. Continue reading “People Urged To Evacuate As Out-Of-Control Wildfire Burns Near Flagstaff”
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York this week became the second state to enact a law intended to force firearms manufacturers to adopt microstamping, a technology in which guns imprint tiny codes on ammunition cartridges as they are fired — creating a unique signature police could use to help solve crimes. Continue reading “New push in NY to force gunmakers to adopt microstamping”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a wide-ranging gun control bill Wednesday in response to recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, that would raise the age limit for purchasing a semi-automatic rifle and prohibit the sale of ammunition magazines with a capacity of more than 15 rounds. Continue reading “House passes gun control bill after Buffalo, Uvalde attacks”
A man’s life was changed after he spent 17 days in a New Mexico jail because American Airlines wrongfully accused and identified him to police as a shoplifter at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. Continue reading “AZ man spent 17 days in jail for crime he didn’t commit. He blames American Airlines”
Mexican police and immigration officials allowed a nearly 10,000-strong migrant caravan to cross the country’s southern border and head to the United States, an organizer told Fox News. The group departed without government resistance from Tapachula in southern Mexico on Monday. Continue reading “REPORT: Mexico Allows 10K Migrant Caravan to Head for U.S. Border”
Fresh off his disturbingly authoritarian response to trucker protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau turned the dystopia dial all to way to 11 on Monday, introducing legislation that would completely freeze the import, purchase or sale of handguns, while compelling compensated forfeitures of “assault weapons.” Continue reading “Trudeau Proposes Law Banning Handgun Sales In Canada”
A court will decide Wednesday whether an elephant can be a person.
Happy the Elephant, a resident of the Bronx Zoo in New York, is being considered for release by the state’s top court. Happy, 51, has lived in the zoo since 1977. However, an animal rights group launched a coordinated campaign to free her in 2018, declaring Happy eligible for the rights of a “person” under New York law. Continue reading “Does New York zoo elephant have human rights? State Supreme Court to decide”
The Interior Department will not move forward with planned oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet, it announced Wednesday night.
A spokesperson for the department confirmed the Cook Inlet lease sale would not proceed due to insufficient industry interest. Meanwhile, the planned sale of two leases, lease 259 and lease 261, in the Gulf of Mexico will not proceed due to contradictory court rulings on the leases, the spokesperson confirmed. Continue reading “Biden administration cancels oil and gas lease sales in Alaska, Gulf of Mexico”
Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson
In a newly released video clip, Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz demands that “trustworthy verified people” like her be given the power to edit other people’s tweets, making Twitter more like Wikipedia.
Yes, really. Continue reading “Biden Disinformation Czar Demands Power to Edit Other People’s Tweets”
President Biden on Monday signed a bill into law reviving the World War II-era lend-lease program for Ukraine, paving the way for an escalation in US military aid to Kyiv. Continue reading “Biden Signs Bill Reviving World War II-Era Lend-Lease Program to Ukraine”
Open the Books, December 31, 2020
TOP 10 TAKEAWAYS
1. One hundred and three federal agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted). Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone. Continue reading “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies”
Officials still cannot say exactly how many billions of dollars in Paycheck Protection Program loans fraudsters made off with in the past couple of years, but they know it is a lot.
Reports and estimates vary, but multiple inspectors general have said the total value of the fraudulently obtained loans through the Paycheck Protection Program is likely to total in the billions. A total of $800 billion was earmarked for relief by the Small Business Administration during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading “COVID-19 relief fraud led to billions in taxpayer-funded Paycheck Protection Program loans lost”