From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
How do I despise thee, O Congress? Let me count the ways.
Don’t take my word for it: 75% of Americans disapprove of the job our representatives are doing. It’s things like this that explain why: Continue reading “Congress Is Coming After Your 401(k)”
Police arrested 21 members and associates of street gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, in Los Angeles on Wednesday in pre-dawn raids that were the culmination of a three-year probe, officials said.
Federal prosecutors indicted 44 people, including those taken into custody on Wednesday and others already in jail, on charges ranging from murder to extortion. The indictment also names 12 senior leaders of MS-13 in Los Angeles as defendants. Continue reading “Dozens charged in largest-ever Los Angeles raid against MS-13 gang”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
The two defendants in the first round of the Bundy Ranch siege trials who were found guilty will not face a retrial on the counts where the jury did not reach a verdict.
According to documents from the prosecution against Todd Engel and Greg Burleson, neither man will face a retrial. The government has also decided to dismiss without prejudice counts 1 and 2 against Mr. Burelson and all hung counts against Mr. Engel. Continue reading “Government Will Not Try 2 Bundy Ranch Defendants Again – Dismiss Counts Without Prejudice”
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel sought Wednesday to contain the fallout from Donald Trump’s sharing of its intelligence with Russia after the move cast a further shadow over the US president’s visit to the country next week.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump spoke by phone on Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for the premier’s office said, while stressing that they only discussed next week’s trip during the 20-minute conversation. Continue reading “Israel seeks to contain fallout from Trump intel sharing”
The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane
The skies sure seem to be unfriendly lately.
The latest air travel incident occurred on a Monday night flight from Jamaica to Toronto. Continue reading “Man Attacks Air Canada Crew with Coffee Pots and Threatens to Take Down Plane, Flight Makes Emergency Landing”
Daily Caller – by Jonah Bennett
In a briefing Monday, the Department of State admitted that the alleged crematorium in the Syrian prison used to incinerate prisoners could actually just be a warmer part of the building.
The State Department stated Monday based on international and local NGO reports that the alleged crematorium used to burn the bodies of hundreds of hanged prisoners at a prison run by the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad may not be a crematorium at all. Continue reading “State Department Admits Assad ‘Crematorium’ Could Just Be A Warmer Part Of The Building”
As the quest to unearth just what Trump told Russian foreign minister Lavrov continued, an unexpected development emerged on Wednesday morning, when none other than Russian president Vladimir Putin said that Trump did not share any classified information or state secrets to foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, and to prove it he was ready to hand over a transcript of the talks between Putin and Lavrov to Congress if the White House requests it. Continue reading “Putin Ready To Give Congress Transcript Of Trump-Lavrov Conversation To Prove No Secrets Were Revealed”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the soldier who was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for giving classified materials to WikiLeaks, said Wednesday that she’s excited about what lies ahead, just hours after she walked free after serving seven years behind bars.
“I’m figuring things out right now — which is exciting, awkward, fun, and all new for me,” Manning said in an emailed statement. She tweeted a picture of her feet in tennis shoes — with the caption “First steps of freedom!!” — after walking away from the Fort Leavenworth lockup in Kansas. Continue reading “Newly freed Chelsea Manning: ‘I’m figuring things out’”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Stratford, CT — Sadly, America will add Jayson Negron’s name to the list of more than 1,000 people killed by police each year. Negron, a 15-year-old Sophomore at Bunnell High School in Stratford, had gone on a joyride May 9th, in someone else’s car. But Negron received the death penalty for his sins after encountering Bridgeport police officer James Boulay.
Police employ a number of ways to stop a fleeing automobile. Stop sticks often do the trick, immobilizing the tires by puncturing them. Then there’s the box method whereby officers surround a suspect vehicle with two or three other cars, and squeeze in, causing the car to come to a stop.
Continue reading “Cops Shoot, Handcuff 15yo Boy, Left Him in the Street for Hours as He Bled to Death”
The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane
Last Saturday, the city of Los Angeles conducted its annual “Come rob me, I’m unarmed!” event.
Oops!
I mean, it conducted its annual no-questions-asked Gun Buyback Program event. Continue reading “The LAPD Just Got People to Turn in Their Guns in Exchange for Target Gift Cards”
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
Earlier reports of Syrian forces moving towards Deir ez-Zour and, hence, Western troops has now apparently been confirmed. According to reports from numerous sources, the Syrian soldiers are growing ever closer to a joint US/UK Special Forces Base.
The base, located at al-Tanf, has been operational for around a year. Reports suggest that the Syrian military troops are within 15 miles of the base. Continue reading “Syrian Forces Heading Toward US/UK Base In Syria – Reports Say SAA 15 Miles Away”
The federal H1b program is intended to allow foreign workers into the US to do high-skill jobs for which employers can’t find qualified domestic workers. In reality, it’s a way for US employers to lower their labor costs, ignoring the large pool of fully qualified (but more expensive) US workers in favor of cheap foreign labor.
This isn’t a small program, either; in 2014 there were 124,326 new applications approved and 191,531 renewed. Since this is a three-year program with one possible renewal, the total number of H1b foreign workers in the US is triple that, or close to a million lower-wage workers in positions that should otherwise go to US workers at much higher wages. Continue reading “The H1b scam”
Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a Christian printer is free to turn down jobs that conflict with his religious beliefs.
In 2012, the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) filed a complaint against Blaine Adamson, the owner of Hands on Originals in Lexington, after he declined the job of printing T-shirts for a local Gay Pride festival. Though Adamson referred the activists to another printing company, and they ended up obtaining the shirts at no cost to them, GLSO’s complaint with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission landed Adamson a ruling that would have required him to take on jobs at his business that force him to abandon his faith principles. Continue reading “Kentucky Court Rules Christian Printer May Decline Gay Pride T-Shirt Job”
Yet another police officer is speaking out against the drug war, this time in the United Kingdom. Former officer Neil Woods worked as an undercover drug cop for 14 years, infiltrating some of the most violent gangs in Britain only to learn his tactics were worsening the drug epidemic. Now, he advocates ending the drug war and decriminalizing drugs as he admits his own role in fueling violence and the proliferation of narcotics.
Woods recently spoke with the Independent to make his case and recount the struggles he faced enforcing the British government’s drug war. He was first enlisted by the Home Office to tackle the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s, an effort that apparently ‘pleased the crown.’ Continue reading “Drug Cop Who Spent 14 Years Undercover Tells Truth About the Drug War”
A recent measles outbreak that has caused dozens of Somali-Americans living in Minnesota to contract the highly contagious virus has been traced to an anti-vaccination campaign linking the potentially life-saving immunizations to autism, state health officials said on Monday.
According to Live Science, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) revealed Friday that it had confirmed 54 cases of measles in the state. All but three of those cases involved children under the age of 18, and the majority of them had not been vaccinated, they revealed in a report. Continue reading “Minnesota measles outbreak blamed on anti-vaxxers”
A white Tulsa police officer charged with killing an unarmed black motorist took the stand in her own defense on Monday, saying she fired because training taught her to act quickly against a perceived deadly threat, according to local news reports.
Betty Shelby, 43, could face between four years and life in prison if convicted of manslaughter in the September 2016 killing of Terence Crutcher. Continue reading “‘If you delay, you die’ Tulsa officer charged with manslaughter testifies”
Remember when North Korea “hackers” breached several firewall layers at Sony, exposing gigabytes of confidential data, only for it to eventually emerge that it was all the work of a disgruntled Sony employee?
Apparently not, because the same plot line is being re-run all over again. Continue reading “North Korean Hackers Emerge As “Culprits” Behind Global Malware Cyberattack”
A Mexican National with a long criminal rap sheet was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Michigan.
Federal prosecutors charged Rafael Munoz-Molina on May 10 with illegal reentry into the United States after seven prior deportations, MLive reported. Continue reading “Seven-time Deported Criminal Illegal Alien Arrested Again”
Authorities arrested three illegal aliens for allegedly breaking into an attorney’s home and kidnapping him in the middle of the night.
Detectives from the Orange County Sherriff’s Office Criminal Division located German Adalid Borjas-Benitez, 19, Henrry Eduar Rivera-Antunez, 17, and Erik Pagoada-Bustillo, 17, in Port Arthur on Friday, 12 News reported. Continue reading “Three Illegal Aliens Arrested for Allegedly Kidnapping Texas Attorney”