From the Trenches World Report
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Five-time deportee, seven-time convicted felon Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez said in a new interview Sunday with a local ABC News affiliate that he came to San Francisco because he knew the sanctuary city would not hand him over to immigration officials.
He also claimed that he was “looking for jobs in the restaurant or roofing, landscaping, or construction.” Continue reading “Murderer: I Chose SF Because It Is A ‘Sanctuary City’”
At least five children received improper immunization shots from a clinic in New Jersey, revealed a state compliance audit of the Shots for Tots program released on Saturday. The statement comes from Salem County, which runs the clinic, according to NJ.com.
The five children who received the incurred medications were: two children who were injected with expired vaccines; one child who received the flu mist dose but was under the recommended age; one boy who received the Gardasil injection; and one child who received a vaccine that officials have not yet determined. The parents of the unidentified children were notified on Tuesday, June 30, officials said. Continue reading “At least 5 New Jersey children received incorrect vaccines, officials say”
New York Daily News – by Tobias Salinger
A county official and three other people were found dead at a house in South Carolina on Sunday afternoon, according to reports.
York County Assistant Manager Anna Hubbard Moore, 50, her husband, Randy Eugene Moore, 55, her son Jason Lockamy, 31, and Lockamy’s girlfriend, Lora Kathryn Young, 31, died from gunshot wounds, York County Coroner Sabrina Gast said in a statement to the Rock Hill Herald. Continue reading “County official is 1 of 4 found fatally shot in South Carolina home: reports”
ATHENS, Greece – Greece lurched into uncharted territory and an uncertain future in Europe’s common currency Sunday after voters overwhelmingly rejected demands by international creditors for more austerity measures in exchange for a bailout of its bankrupt economy.
Results showed 61 percent voted “no,” compared with 38 percent for “yes,” with 97 percent of the vote counted. The referendum — Greece’s first in more than four decades — came amid severe restrictions on financial transactions in the country, imposed last week to stem a bank run that accelerated after the vote was called. Continue reading “Greece enters uncharted territory after referendum ‘no’ vote”
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Giza Death Star – by Joseph P. Farrell
Do you remember all those strange acts of vandalism over the past couple of years? First, there was the bizarre, and very professional, assault on an electrical power substation at the very southern end of Silicon Valley in California, an assault that left part of the region without electrical power for a few hours. The papers and media tended to report this as an act of vandalism. The trouble was, you’ll recall, that the “vandals” knew exactly what to to, and what to target, inside the sub-station, and were in, out, and gone before local law enforcement even had a chance to respond. In short, the team that hit the sub-station were not vandals at all; they were professionals. Continue reading “You Tell Us: “Vandals” Sever Another Internet Cable In California…So What’s Going On?”
CBS Sacramento – by Lemor Abrams
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A week after Amazon stopped selling Confederate flags in the wake of a deadly shooting, Jewish organizations are calling on Amazon to ban books denying the Holocaust.
Sacramento Rabbi Mendy Cohen is leveling serious charges against Amazon for selling books denying the Holocaust. Continue reading “Sacramento Rabbi Calls On Amazon To Stop Selling Books Denying Holocaust”
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New York Times – by Andy Newman and James Estrin
Some of the most curious costumes worn along the parade route belonged to protesters.
Behind a barricade, a group of men wore the fringed Jewish prayer garment known as the tzitzit and held up anti-gay signs bearing the logo of a group calling itself the Jewish Political Action Committee. Continue reading “Orthodox Jews Hired Mexican Workers To Protest Gay Rights”
This seems to be the week for old government corruption to be cleaned up. First we heard about Leland Yee packing his bags for the crowbar motel and now we see that Jeffrey Neely will be doing three months (?) in prison. This is a name that you’re probably familiar with if you’ve been following government waste, fraud and abuse stories for the past few years. (From the WaPo)
Jeffrey Neely, the senior executive whose appearance in a video drinking wine in a hot tub at a Las Vegas hotel became the public face of a conference where hundreds of federal employees partied at taxpayer expense, was sentenced Tuesday to three months in prison. Continue reading “Jeffrey Neely, the GSA “hot tub” exec to spend three months in prison”
US negotiators in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks fought on behalf of big drug-making companies, championing intellectual property laws that would protect their profits from competition by generic medications, leaked documents have revealed.
The protections proposed by US trade representatives may even transcend US patent laws, according to a draft copy of TPP’s intellectual property chapter leaked to Politico this week. The 90-page document, leaked to the paper by a critic of the trade deal, contains the draft proposal as it stood on May 11, before the latest TPP talks in Guam. Continue reading “Leaked TPP document shows US favoring Big Pharma”
As the Fourth of July weekend looms and Americans prep their grills and ready their fireworks, some citizens are packing their bags.
A recent online poll of more than 2,000 adults by TransferWise, a peer-to-peer money transfer service based in the United Kingdom, revealed that 35 percent of American-born residents and emigrants would consider leaving the United States to live in another country. Continue reading “Survey says: 35 percent of Americans would expatriate”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Police and FBI officials gave the “all clear” signal at the Washington Navy Yard on Thursday, two hours after reports raised fears of an active shooter at the facility, media reported.
Police said streets have re-opened, according to CNN. FBI officials said they have given the “all clear” at the yard, the local CBS affiliate said. Continue reading “Authorities report ‘all clear’ at Washington Navy Yard: media”
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)– A Colorado Springs man was arrested after police believe he left racist messages outside a church.
Vincent Broughton, 44, who is black, is facing charges for committed a bias-motivated crime and disorderly conduct. Continue reading “Black Suspect Arrested After Racist Message Discovered Outside Predominately Black Church”
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A Colorado police officer pleaded guilty to attempted third degree assault after he was recorded on body camera video repeatedly beating a hancuffed man.
Video of the December incident obtained by KMGH shows Federal Heights Officer Mark Magness appearing to punch and kick a suspect while pulling him from a patrol car at the police station. A minute later, Magness slams the man into a concrete wall. Continue reading “Colorado officer reminds fellow cop of body cam but he beats jailed man anyway”
TransCanada Corp said on Tuesday that tightening climate-change rules from the governments of Canada and the province of Alberta help justify the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.
The company, Canada’s No.2 pipeline operator, released a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and other department officials saying that increased carbon levies for Alberta oil sands producers and new Canadian targets for greenhouse-gas emission cuts should serve to help assuage U.S. concerns that approving the C$8 billion ($6.41 billion) project would increase climate change. Continue reading “New CO2 rules should aid Keystone XL approval, TransCanada says”
Ars Technica – by Cyrus Farivar
On Tuesday, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed into law one of the most stringent vaccination laws in the United States, eliminating the state’s previous personal and religious belief exemption for vaccines.
Under the new law, which takes effect January 1, 2016, all California schoolchildren must prove that they have been vaccinated in order to attend school. They can only be exempted when that child’s physician explicitly approves it. Continue reading “California governor signs bill eliminating personal vaccine exemptions”
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCIV) — The Ku Klux Klan plans to hold a rally at the South Carolina Statehouse next month to protest renewed efforts to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.
The Loyal White Knights out of Pelham, N.C. requested the rally from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on July 18 at the north grounds of the Statehouse. They expect to have as many as 200 supporters, according to an application filed with the state Budget and Control Board. Officials say the grounds are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Continue reading “KKK plans Confederate flag rally at Statehouse”
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Poisoned Water – by Craig Nelms
At a family gathering during which the subject of conversation had travelled through spiritual and truther subjects, my Aunt turned to me and, in a whisper, said, “I’m not going to accept the mark!” I looked at her with sort of a ‘really?’ expression on my face and she looked at me and nodded. However I wasn’t surprised that she “wasn’t going to take the mark” but rather that she didn’t realize that she was already an integral part of The System of the Beast. I just kept my mouth shut, though, and the gathering continued on. Continue reading “Finding the bars of your cage”
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The Last Bastille – by Kyle Reardon
Statists have always told libertarians that if we don’t like the law, we should work to change it. Unfortunately, what this means is that if individuals want to secure their liberty, they must do so by begging for it from those tyrants who imagine themselves to be our rulers. Worse, some opportunists use this dynamic in order to put themselves on this week’s news cycle, in order to further their own self-aggrandizement. As the Austrian economists put it, human action is purposeful behavior, yet, what behavior can be said to be purposeful if the actors are doing the same things over and over again, all the while expecting different results? Continue reading “Grassroots Lobbying Does Not Work: A Review of Chris Cantwell’s “Anarcho-Lobbyist” Series (Season One)”
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that a voter-approved independent redistricting commission in Arizona is constitutional.
In response to complaints that the state legislature was engaging in partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts, Arizona voters approved an independent commission to draw district lines in a 2000 ballot initiative. The commission has two Republicans and two Democrats, who legislative leaders choose from a list composed by the state’s Commission on Appellate Court Appointments, in addition to a chairman who may not be a member of either party. Continue reading “Supreme Court Upholds Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission”
