From the Trenches World Report
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France’s parliament voted late on Tuesday to adopt a definition of anti-semitism that includes anti-Zionism, prompting angery from activists who believe it will restrict legitimate criticisms of Israel.
French lawmakers adopted the controversial bill, which was tabled by Paris MP Sylvain Maillard from Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en Marche centrist party, with 154 votes against 72. Continue reading “France adopts resolution equating ‘anti-Zionism’ with ‘antisemitism’”
New York Times – by Reed Abelson
The nation’s hospital groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over a new federal rule that would require them to disclose the discounted prices they give insurers for all sorts of procedures.
The hospitals, including the American Hospital Association, argued in a lawsuit filed in United States District Court in Washington that the new rule “is unlawful, several times over.” Continue reading “Hospitals Sue Trump to Keep Negotiated Prices Secret”
Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg is pledging to appoint pro-gun control judges if elected to the White House.
Bloomberg revealed this promise in a December 1, 2019, Chicago Tribune op-ed. Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg Pledges Pro-Gun Control Judges if Elected President”
Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard
America’s love affair with guns is only getting stronger.
New federal data shows that there are 422.9 million firearms in circulation, or about 1.2 guns for every person in the country. Continue reading “ATF: 423M guns in America, 1.2 per person, 8.1B rounds of ammunition a year”
When the mother of former Chicago Police Cmdr. Kenneth Johnson died in 1994, she left behind a bank account she shared with her son — the one where her monthly Social Security benefits landed.
The one Johnson described in court Tuesday as “the sword of Damocles.” Continue reading “Ex-CPD commander sentenced to six months community confinement after pocketing dead mom’s Social Security checks”
Mint Press News – by Whitney Webb, October, 2019
Since the apparent death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan prison, much has come to light about his depraved activities and methods used to sexually abuse underage girls and entrap the rich and powerful for the purposes of blackmail. Epstein’s ties to intelligence, described in-depth in a recent MintPress investigative series, have continued to receive minimal mainstream media coverage, which has essentially moved on from the Epstein scandal despite the fact that his many co-conspirators remain on the loose. Continue reading “Former Israeli Intel Official Claims Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Worked for Israel”
A guest speaker at Andrews University, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Michigan, urged students to harbor illegal aliens in their churches because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not usually raid churches, Campus Reform reported.
“People are being hurt right now across this country,” James Standish, the event’s speaker, said. “Many of them are our brothers and they’re our sisters. And we stand by with our churches empty when they could be sanctuary sanctuaries.” Continue reading “Speaker at a Christian University tells students to hide illegal aliens in churches because ‘ICE will not raid a church’”
Breitbart – by Ildefonso Ortiz, Brandon Darby
The Governor of Coahuila, a Mexican state bordering Texas, revealed that approximately 150 cartel gunmen illegally snuck into Texas through dirt roads and the border river as they made their way to the Mexican town of Villa Union for an hours-long shootout that killed 23 individuals–including four cops and two firefighters. Continue reading “150 Los Zetas Cartel Gunmen Crossed into Texas Before Deadly Attack That Killed 22”
The Guardian – by Samuel Gilbert
The Trump administration is sending a new “surge” of rangers from US national parks such as Zion, Yosemite and the National Mall to patrol the southern border for crossings by illegal immigrants.
Continuing a controversial policy initiated in 2018, rangers who work in law enforcement will be dispatched to Organ Pipe Cactus national monument on the Arizona and Mexico border as well as Big Bend national park on the border in south-west Texas. Continue reading “Trump deploys ‘surge’ of park rangers to patrol Mexican border”
Washington Examiner – by Spencer Neale
Counties across the state of Virginia are passing Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions in anticipation of strict gun control measures planned by the majority-held Democratic Virginia General Assembly. Continue reading “Dozens of Virginia counties pass Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions”
The Future of Freedom Foundation – by Jacob G. Hornberger
For centuries, it has been an established tenet of Western jurisprudence that a person cannot be punished for a crime unless the government first convicts him of the crime in a court of law. After the Constitution called the federal government into existence, our American ancestors demanded that this principle be enshrined in the Bill of Rights because they were convinced that federal officials would end up violating it. Continue reading “Asset Forfeiture and the Destruction of American Liberty”
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear its first Second Amendment case in nearly a decade on Monday which has caused panic among left-wing activists who worry that the case could undo their freedom-restricting agenda.
The case centers around New York City’s handgun “premises” licenses which, according to NBC News, allow residents with the proper permit to “take a handgun outside the home to a city shooting range, provided it was unloaded and in a locked container” but prohibit the gun from being taken “beyond the city limits.” Continue reading “SCOTUS Takes Gun Case That Could Decimate Gun Control Laws. Left-Wing Activists Begin To Panic.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s private wealth banker, who brokered and signed off on untold multiple millions of dollars in controversial Deutsche Bank and Citibank loans spanning two decades for the convicted pedophile, has died from a reported suicide.
The news of yet another mysterious Epstein-linked death comes shortly after the FBI was seeking to interview the bank executive about loans he approved for Epstein and the indicted child trafficker’s labyrinth of US-based and offshore companies. Continue reading “Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Banker at Deutsche & Citi Found Swinging From a Rope; Executive ‘Suicide’ Before FBI Questioned Him”
Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering
Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday listened and nodded without disputing a claim from Pastor William Barber that illegal immigrants from Mexico were merely reclaiming land from the United States.
“We call people illegal aliens … Why can’t we just own in America that some of the people that are trying to come from Mexico here are coming back to land we stole?” he asked. “And the reason we took the land is because people wanted to keep their slaves?” Continue reading “Pete Buttigieg Nods as Pastor Says Mexican Illegal Aliens Just Reclaiming Stolen Land”
The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder
We are facing a corporate debt bomb that is far, far greater than what we faced in 2008, and we are being warned that this “unexploded bomb” will “amplify everything” once the financial system starts melting down. Thanks to exceedingly low interest rates, over the last decade U.S. corporations have been able to go on the greatest corporate debt binge in history. It has been a tremendous “boom”, but it has also set the stage for a tremendous “bust”. Large corporations all over the country are now really struggling to deal with their colossal debt burdens, and defaults on the riskiest class of corporate debt are on pace to hit their highest level since 2008. Everyone can see that a major corporate debt disaster is looming, but nobody seems to know how to stop it. Continue reading “47 Percent Of GDP – This Is Definitely The Scariest Corporate Debt Bubble In U.S. History”
The Most Important News – by Michael Snyder
If you have a good paying job, you should probably try to hold on to it as hard as you can, because those types of jobs are steadily becoming rarer. Since 1990, the U.S. economy has produced millions of jobs, but as you will see below nearly two-thirds of them have been low wage jobs. Of course this is one of the biggest factors causing the systematic erosion of the American middle class. Today, half of all U.S. workers make less than $33,000 a year, but meanwhile the cost of living has been steadily increasing. Housing costs, health insurance and other basic necessities have been rising much faster than our paychecks have, and this has put an enormous amount of financial stress on hard working American families. Continue reading “63 Percent Of All U.S. Jobs Created Since 1990 Have Been Low Wage Jobs”
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Monday U.S. military ships and aircraft won’t be allowed to visit Hong Kong, and also announced sanctions against several U.S. non-government organizations for encouraging protesters to “engage in extremist, violent and criminal acts.”
The measures were announced by China’s Foreign Ministry in response to U.S. legislation passed last week supporting anti-government protesters. It said it had suspended taking requests for U.S. military visits indefinitely, and warned of further action to come. Continue reading “China suspends U.S. military visits to Hong Kong, sanctions U.S.-based NGOs”
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned Friday he would not allow the United States to conduct cross-border armed operations, after Donald Trump vowed to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.
The U.S. president has been talking tough on the powerful drug cartels since one was allegedly responsible for the massacre of nine women and children from a U.S.-Mexican Mormon community in northern Mexico on November 4. Continue reading “Mexico: We Will Not Allow US Military Operations Against Cartels”
PJ Media – by Michael Van Der Galien
Now that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced his candidacy for president, he is — of course — fair game. And yes, that’s great for us with a working memory. After all, there have been many times when Bloomberg proved himself to be an extremely arrogant member of the Know-It-All elite. Case in point? Just watch this video in which Bloomberg basically explains that it’s a great idea to tax the poor because higher taxes mean they have less money to hurt themselves. Or something. Continue reading “Bloomberg: Taxing the Poor is Good Because They’ll Have Less Money to Hurt Themselves”