From the Trenches World Report
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By Miles Dilworth – The Daily Mail
San Francisco’s glitzy hotels have been plunged into massive debt following a dramatic drop off in tourism to the Golden Gate City.
The Californian city’s two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency.
The State Department said Friday that the US will continue providing military aid to an Israeli military unit that was responsible for the death of 78-year-old Palestinian American Omar Assad. Continue reading “US To Keep Funding Israeli Military Unit That Killed Elderly Palestinian American”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
Under Louisiana’s new, recently enacted law (HB 173), journalists and other citizens are limited in their right to film the police. Continue reading “Louisiana’s New Law Sparks First Amendment Showdown”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is rounding up Brits and launching a totalitarian crackdown in response to last week’s fiery but mostly peaceful protests over a Rwandan teen stabbing three British girls to death. Continue reading “UK Govt Threatens to Extradite Americans for ‘Incitement,’ Censor ‘Legal But Harmful’ Content”
By Lubna Masarwa – Middle East Eye
At least 100 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were killed at dawn on Saturday after Israeli forces targeted a school in Gaza City whilst displaced people performed morning prayers. Continue reading “Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 100 people during dawn prayers”
By ARMAGEDDON PROSE – Zerohedge
When I was younger in 2010, during a brief stint as an English teacher in Saudi Arabia that didn’t end harmoniously for the involved parties, I was struck by the fact that I could buy cigarettes from the corner store in dollars. Continue reading “BRICS Alternative Currency Near Realization, American Empire Death Imminent?”
The parents of a former student at Tualatin High School in Oregon have filed a lawsuit against the school district, alleging that the district failed to protect their disabled daughter from being raped in a gender-neutral school bathroom during school hours. Continue reading “Parents sue Oregon school district after student raped in gender neutral bathroom”
Israel has targeted 13 shelter centers in Gaza since the beginning of August alone, the Civil Defense spokesman in the Palestinian enclave, Mahmoud Basal, said on Saturday. Continue reading “‘Peak of Criminality’ – 13 Schools Turned Shelters Targeted in Gaza by Israel in August alone”
By Cindy Harper – Reclaimthenet.org
Facebook has decided to block user access to posts containing the viral #XX hashtag following the ongoing debate over gender eligibility in women’s Olympic boxing in Paris. Continue reading “Facebook Takes Sides in Olympic Gender Debate as #XX Hashtag is Blocked”
President Joe Biden signed a bill on April 24th that would ban TikTok, the shortform video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, if the company doesn’t sell the platform off within a year. Continue reading “TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform”
London’s Metropolitan Police chief warned that officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commentary on the riots in the U.K., but on American citizens as well. Continue reading “UK police commissioner threatens to extradite, jail US citizens over online posts: ‘We’ll come after you’”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube who championed deplatforming and censorship as a tool of social engineering, died of lung cancer at age 56 on Friday. Continue reading “Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Dies at 56 of Lung Cancer”
By Zainab Al Mashat and Omar Al Jaffal – The Guardian
A draft law in Iraq that would allow the marriage of girls as young as nine has provoked protests across the country, with women’s rights activists saying it would “legalise child rape”. Continue reading “Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists”
A new study by a team of Canadian researchers into excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic found that patterns of excess death globally could not be explained by the virus, including long COVID. Continue reading “HealthNew Study of 125 Countries Finds No Evidence COVID Vaccines Provided ‘Any Benefit’”
By Cindy Harper – Reclaimthenet.org
In 2020, as the reaction to the Covid pandemic tightened its global grip, the administration of Minnesota’s Democratic Governor, Tim Walz, controversially initiated a hotline encouraging citizens to report non-compliant neighbors, opening a Pandora’s box of surveillance reminiscent of dystopian literature. Continue reading “Walz’s 2020 Covid Snitch Hotline Sparks Debate Amid VP Bid”
By Umar A Farooq – Middle East Eye
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ team has publicly disavowed suggestions that she is open to an arms embargo on Israel, a day after progressive activists described an “openness” from the vice president to discuss regulating military aid to Israel. Continue reading “Kamala Harris aides reject Israel arms embargo, refuting ‘Uncommitted’ activists”
By Thomas Stevenson – The Post Millennial
Kamala Harris’ choice for VP candidate Tim Walz backed giving illegal immigrants free tuition at Minnesota colleges, signing the measure into law as the state’s governor in 2023. According to a report from the SCRIPPS News, in 2023 an omnibus education bill that was signed a bill into law by Walz, the “North Star Promise” program allowed for illegal immigrants to apply for free college tuition within the Minnesota State and University of Minnesota school systems if their families make less than $80,000 a year. Continue reading “Tim Walz backs plan for taxpayers to fund college tuition for illegal immigrants”
Bodycam footage from local Pennsylvania police reveal that in the moments after last month’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump, an officer says he told the Secret Service to cover the warehouse used by shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks.
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Vice President Kamala Harris shouted down a group of pro-Palestine activists at a rally in Detroit on Wednesday, ordering them to shut their damn mouths while she is speaking. Continue reading ““I’M SPEAKING!” Kamala Harris Pivots From “I See You and I Hear You” on Palestine”
Authorities in the UK are now arresting people for posting “inaccurate information” on social media, according to a new report.
Sky News reports that a woman has been arrested by Cheshire Police for posting “inaccurate information on social media” about the attacker who stabbed three girls to death in Southport last week. Continue reading “UK Authorities Now Arresting People For Posting “Inaccurate Information” On Social Media”