From the Trenches World Report
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A San Diego Police Department sergeant arrested by fellow officers last week on suspicion of soliciting a minor for sex was found dead in his Carmel Valley home after missing a court appearance, authorities said.
Joseph Ruvido, 49, was found unresponsive about 4:24 p.m. and ultimately pronounced dead, the San Diego Police Department said in a written statement. Continue reading “San Diego Police Sergeant Accused of Soliciting Minor for Sex Found Dead in Home, Suicide Suspected”
Two Israeli ministers will speak at a conference this week which will also honour a notorious right-wing rabbi who praised a 1994 massacre of Palestinian worshippers in Hebron, reported Haaretz.
Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich will speak at the event on Thursday, during which a prize will be awarded to Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. Continue reading “Israel ministers to speak at event honouring far-right rabbi”
A major hospital in Chicago was so overwhelmed with shooting victims over the weekend that it was forced to temporarily stop accepting new patients, according to CNN.
There were several gang-related multi-victim shootings on the west side of Chicago on Sunday, overwhelming Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the five trauma centers in Chicago and causing patients to be diverted elsewhere. Continue reading “A Chicago hospital had to stop taking patients due to excessive number of shooting victims”
The Galveston Police Department issued an apology on Monday evening after an image was circulated on social media showing two mounted officers, both white, leading a handcuffed black man behind their horses, attached by what looked like a rope or leash.
Adrienne Bell, a Democratic candidate running for Congress in Texas’ 14th District, posted the image to Facebook, saying the scene had invoked “anger, disgust and questions from the community.” Continue reading “Texas Mounted Officers Apologize For ‘Poor Judgment’ After Leading Man Behind Horse By Leash”
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced that he would “limit” his work in August after having surgery to remove a part of his lung damaged in the 2017 assault on him by his neighbor.
In a tweet published on Monday morning, Paul revealed that he had lung surgery over the weekend to remove a part that was damaged when he was assaulted by his neighbor — Rene Boucher — two years ago. Continue reading “Rand Paul to Limit August Senate Activities After Partial Lung Removal Surgery Stemming from 2017 Assault”
The idling of General Motors’ (GM) transmission plant in Warren, Michigan, is expected to cost about 16,000 jobs in the state over the next two years, analysis finds, as hundreds of laid-off American workers have already been uprooted.
Last week, GM CEO Mary Barra idled the 78-year-old Warren Transmission plant, leaving about 335 American workers laid off from their jobs and forcing them to either find new work in the area or uproot their lives to take jobs at the automaker’s other plants. Continue reading “GM Michigan Plant Closure Projected to Leave 16K Americans Jobless”
BuzzFeed News – by Ryan Broderick
Less than an hour before killing at least 20 people and injuring some 26 more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, the suspected shooter posted a hate-filled manifesto to the anonymous message board 8chan.
The El Paso suspect is the third shooter this year to post such a screed to the site before carrying out an act of horrific violence. And as the nation reels from another in a string of mass shootings this year, calls to shut down 8chan have never been louder. Continue reading “The Problem Isn’t 8chan. It’s Americans.”
American Partisan – by NC Scout
Originally written a year ago, I continue to return to the piece due to its importance as well as prophetic warning. Leftist militias are not only on the rise but currently incredibly active in both an underground function and an overt direct action phase. But that said, again, I wrote it a year ago, and encountered a bit of flak from guy in the ‘militia’ crowd who said I was wrong. Continue reading “So, What Role Will Militias Play In The ‘Upcoming Unpleasantness’, Anyway?”
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration froze all Venezuelan government assets Monday after he cited foreign involvement in supporting the illegitimate socialist administration of Nicolás Maduro by Russia and China on Aug. 1 and hinted at further action.
The ban blocking American companies and individuals from doing business with the Maduro regime and its top supporters, which takes effect immediately, is the first of its kind in the western hemisphere in over three decades, following an asset freeze against Gen. Manuel Noriega’s government in Panama and a trade embargo on the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Continue reading “Trump Moves Ahead to Freeze Maduro Regime’s Assets After Citing Billions from Russia, China”
While some experts assume that China and Russia would never enter a formal military alliance against the United States and its friends and allies, the two nuclear neighbors are now actively increasing the depth and scope of their military cooperation in ways that are improving their joint capacity to threaten U.S. security.
In less than a year, China and Russia have engaged in ground force, naval, and aerial exercises, that while relatively small in scale, have established the basis for more sophisticated joint-force exercises in the future. Continue reading “Chinese-Russian Military Cooperation Targets US Security”
Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
Is this how you Make America Great Again?
From The Jerusalem Post:
US President Donald Trump pardoned Israeli-born Ronen Nahmani on Monday, who had served four years of a 20-year sentence for conspiracy to distribute synthetic drugs he bought from suppliers in China. Continue reading “Trump Pardons Israeli Drug Smuggler Judge Said ‘Showed No Remorse Or Concern For His Victims’”
To help battle global warming, companies around the world are expected to spend billions of dollars over the next decade building devices aimed at sucking carbon from the atmosphere. The thing is, Mother Nature already made one. While each acre of most tree species can capture and store 1.1 to 9.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, an acre of empress trees can absorb 103. “The tree has a very Jack and the Beanstalk energy to it,” says Wendy Burton, whose 15-year-old Mesa, Ariz.-based timber company, World Tree, has planted more than 1,000 acres of empress. Continue reading “We Already Have the World’s Most Efficient Carbon Capture Technology”
Green Med Info – by Sayer Ji, Founder
Recently, Google was caught red-handed manipulating its search results to serve a not-so-hidden agenda, both by scrubbing its results clean of natural health and vaccine skeptical information, and by rigging its autocomplete keyword phrases to disparage complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and promote an exclusively pro-vaccine agenda.
Now, a new investigation reveals that Bing (Microsoft’s search engine launched in 2009 which has 9% of the global markeshare) is targeting the so-called “vaccine hesitant” with preprogrammed search suggestions that bully, disparage, and ultimately characterize this increasingly marginalized group as dangerous and violent against others. Continue reading ““Antivaxxers Are Killers” Programmed Into Microsoft’s BING Autosuggest – Is this Hate Speech?”
Lobe Log – by Mitchell Plitnick
The staunchly militaristic Jewish Institute for the National Security of America (JINSA) has proposed a mutual defense pact between the United States and Israel. JINSA frequently publishes papers and analyses around strategies that it would like to see pursued by the United States, Israel, or both, but this one is a little different. In this case, JINSA has enlisted Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to help them sell the idea in both Israel and the United States. Continue reading “Graham And Neocons Push For A U.S.-Israeli Defense Treaty”
The company also experienced an uptick in interest for its cloud services, Amazon Web Services, which separately reported a 77 percent uptick in the number of subpoena requests over the last six-month period.
According to data released in the company’s latest report, Amazon’s response varied depending on the type of requests. Continue reading “Spike in government demands for Amazon customer data”
Following the plunge in the yuan overnight, The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday designated China as currency manipulator, a historic move that no White House had exercised since the Clinton administration.
“Secretary Mnuchin, under the auspices of President Trump, has today determined that China is a Currency Manipulator,” the Treasury Department said in a release. Continue reading “For The First Time In 25 Years, US Treasury Just Designated China A Currency Manipulator”
China’s Global Times — the communist country’s hawkish, belligerent state tabloid — has responded to the Pentagon’s Friday announcement stating the US is looking to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles to Asia “within months,” warning “it will certainly trigger an intense arms race in the region.” Continue reading ““New Cold War” Unleashing “Geopolitical Chaos”: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia”
Police in El Paso tweeted that there were multiple reports of multiple shooters as the grim massacre in El Paso unfolded last Saturday, and the mayor of El Paso later told CNN distinctly that “three suspects” had been placed in custody. However, further reports have eliminated mention of any more than one shooter. The sole suspect now is Patrick Crusius, 21, of Allen, Texas, who allegedly posted a racist manifesto on the Internet before the shooting. Continue reading “El Paso Police Say They Received Multiple Reports of Multiple Shooters, Witness Claims She Saw Multiple Shooters”
Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy
Chief Justice of the Samoa Supreme Court Vui Clarence Nelson sentenced two nurses this week (August, 2019) convicted of negligence and manslaughter in the death of two infants who died immediately after receiving the MMR vaccine.
See our previous coverage: Continue reading “Two Nurses Sentenced to Five Years for Manslaughter and Negligence in MMR Vaccine Deaths of Two Babies”
Lebanese actress Soha Kikano has called for burning Palestinians in Nazi leader Adolph Hitler’s ovens over their protest against the Lebanese decision to restrict their working rights, Al-Wattan Voice reported yesterday.
Kikano wrote on Twitter: “The Palestinians in Sidon are protesting against the decisions of the labour minister. May they get blinded,” suggesting that measures are needed to “get rid” of them. Continue reading “Lebanon actress calls for burning Palestinians in Hitler’s ovens”