From the Trenches World Report
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This was no meteor shower, there was a green laser like light, aimed at the tail end of this rocket.
Las Vegas Review Journal – by Lawren Lineham
The mysterious light spotted over Las Vegas and other parts of the West came from a Trident missile test-fired by the Navy off the coast of California, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Continue reading “Mysterious light seen from Las Vegas came from missile test, Navy says”
Two marshals are facing second-degree murder charges in Louisiana for allegedly killing a six year-old boy and seriously injuring his father during a shooting Tuesday. The state’s police chief called the incident “the most disturbing thing I’ve seen.”
Six year-old Jeremy Mardis, who was autistic, was killed and his father Chris Few was wounded when marshals opened fire on the vehicle they were traveling in Tuesday evening in the central Louisiana town of Marksville. Continue reading “2 officers arrested in shooting of 6yo autistic boy in Louisiana, accused of 2nd degree murder”
US President Barack Obama on Thursday notified Congress that he intended to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), hours after the long-awaited text of the trade deal was released.
The release of the text came exactly one month after trade ministers of the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries reached an agreement on the TPP in Atlanta, the US state of Georgia. Continue reading “Obama notifies Congress of intention to sign TPP agreement”
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes
Society is effed up. There’s just no other way to say it.
When parents aren’t busy letting iPhones and iPads raise their kids (considering 77% of two year olds are now on them daily), apparently they’re hiring creepy ass clowns to SCARE their kids into behaving. Continue reading “WTF: Parents Are Hiring This Creepy Clown to SCARE Their Kids into Behaving”
Following Stéphane Dion’s first meeting of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s new government, Canada’s new foreign minister announced that significant changes would be made in Canada’s approach to the Middle East.
Foreign Minister Dion assumed office on Wednesday. He’s wasted no time, though, in making it clear that diplomacy under his watch would take a new direction. Continue reading “Canada’s New FM: Era of Special Relationship with Israel Is Over”
EFF – by JEREMY MALCOLM and MAIRA SUTTON
Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. Some of the more dangerous threats to the public’s rights to free expression, access to knowledge, and privacy online are contained in the copyright provisions in the Intellectual Property (IP) chapter, which we analyzed based on the final version leaked by Wikileaks two weeks ago and which are unchanged in the final release. Now that the entire agreement is published, we can see how other chapters of the agreement contain further harmful rules that undermine our rights online and over our digital devices and content. Continue reading “Release of the Full TPP Text After Five Years of Secrecy Confirms Threats to Users’ Rights”
Times of Israel – by Uriel Heilman
NEW YORK (JTA) — Among the expansive field of Republican presidential candidates on display in the party’s first debates Thursday night, Donald Trump may be the most closely connected to the Jewish people.
Trump is from New York, works in professions saturated with Jews and long has been a vocal supporter of Israel. His daughter and two grandchildren are Jewish, the executive vice president of his organization is Jewish — and Trump certainly has chutzpah. Continue reading “When it comes to Jewish ties, no GOP candidate trumps Trump”
To be part of the European Union means you have to shed your national identity and be part of everybody. It is no longer acceptable to be yourself. This agenda serves the 1 percent and Washington, Paul Craig Roberts, an American economist, told RT in an interview.
Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has attracted attention once again, this time saying the European Union should take “at least a million” refugees every year to ease the mass exodus of desperate people from the Middle East and Africa. Continue reading “Soros’s ‘European values’ mean losing your national identity”
Hillary isn’t just doing campaign ads. It’s almost as if she knows she’s going to win and is telling you a list of what’s going to go down once she gets into the Oval Office.
For one, she just cannot wait to enact more gun control laws if she becomes president.
She is stomping the campaign trail with 2nd Amendment curtailing threats. She’s already mentioned she’ll bypass Congress and gleefully sign gun control executive orders if and when she’s elected president. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton’s New Gun Control Ad”
Breitbart – by Adelle Nazarian
The H-1B program is a “tremendous threat” to American professionals, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told Steve Bannon, Breitbart News’ executive chairman, on the Breitbart News Daily radio show.
“It represents the obliviousness of Congress and some of these economic forces to the reality of what’s happening: Half of STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] graduates are not finding jobs in STEM fields,” Sessions said on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125. Continue reading “Jeff Sessions: H-1B Visas ‘Tremendous Threat’ to American Professionals”
A newly leaked internal DHS memorandum produced for an off-the-record agency conclave reveals that the Obama administration is actively planning to circumvent a federal court injunction that suspended part of last November’s deferral-based amnesty initiative. The document, apparently prepared as follow-up from a DHS “Regulations Retreat” last summer, appears sure to re-ignite concerns in Congress as well as federal judges in the Fifth Circuit. The Administration has already been criticized from the bench for handing out work permits to hundreds of thousands of deferred action beneficiaries, in direct violation of a district court’s order. With the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals deciding any day now whether to deny the Administration’s request to reverse that injunction, this public leak has come at a critical juncture for U.S. enforcement policy. Continue reading “Leaked DHS memo shows Obama might circumvent DAPA injunction”
A small German village containing just 102 residents and with almost no infrastructure will have to accommodate as many as 750 asylum seekers after a decision by the regional authorities. Villagers fear the area will be unable to cope with the burden.
The first group of refugees amounting to 500 people will arrive in Sumte – a small village in the German state of Lower Saxony – as early as Monday. The one-street settlement with no shops, no school and even no police station fears that its accommodation capabilities will be pushed to the limit. Continue reading “‘No infrastructure for so many people’: German village of 102 getting ready to house… 750 refugees”
Refugee Resettlement Watch – by Ann Corcoran
This is short and sweet (well, maybe not so sweet). Reader Brenda is trying to figure out what is going on in her state and came across this document from the Department of Health and Human Services that sure looks like the welfare needs of refugees are being met by dipping into resources meant for Americans in poverty.
When the Refugee Act of 1980 was passed by Congress, a promise was made that the refugees would not simply bring more poverty to America, but that is exactly what is happening. Refugees should not be part of our combating poverty programs! Continue reading “Are refugees taking from federal programs for American poor and homeless, sure looks like it”
Huffington Post – by Zach Carter
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are angling to slip two pieces of bank deregulation into a major highway funding bill that is expected to pass with broad bipartisan support.
According to a source familiar with discussions, Republicans are trying to remove tighter regulations that were imposed on banks with at least $50 billion in assets after the 2008 financial crisis. They also are aiming to weaken the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), which has worked to prevent big banks, payday lenders and other financial firms from ripping off households. Continue reading “House Republicans Are Trying To Slip Bank Deregulation Into Highway Bill”
These new photos taken Oct. 23 by the California Department of Water Resources show frighteningly low water levels at Folsom Lake and Lake Oroville. Continue reading “New photos of NorCal lakes paint eerie picture of drought”
More than 400,000 people are boycotting goods produced by Israeli-linked companies using a barcode scanning app.
Buycott allows users to identify the source of products instantly so that purchases do not conflict with their beliefs.
People can set up banned product lists to support their own particular interests or causes, but it is the anti-Israeli lists which have boosted the app’s popularity. Continue reading “Barcode Scanning App Used To Boycott Israel”