From the Trenches World Report
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Reclaim the Net – by Christina Maas
Lawmakers in Russia’s lower house approved a bill that would obligate banks to share clients’ biometric data with the government.
The government has tried to justify the bill as a measure to help people in remote areas and those with disabilities access digital services. Continue reading “Russia tells banks to share biometric data with government”
Reclaim the Net – by Cindy Harper
Following the release of a study on Canadians’ beliefs about free speech, an “expert on hate crime and right-wing extremism” dismissed freedom of speech as a “rallying call for the far-right.” Continue reading “Hate “expert” dismisses free speech as a “rallying call for the far-right””
President Biden called for the ban on assault weapons to be reinstated on Monday at a White House event celebrating the passage of a bipartisan gun control bill, the first major firearm legislation that Congress has passed in decades. Continue reading “Biden says America is ‘awash in weapons of war,’ calls for ban on assault weapons”
President Joe Biden is bragging about the “record” number of foreign visa workers his administration has brought to the United States to compete for working and middle class jobs against unemployed Americans. Continue reading “Biden Brags About Importing ‘Record’ Foreign Workers to Compete Against Americans for Jobs”
Tuesday on FNC’s “Your World,” White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said the COVID-19 vaccines did not perform “over well” against infection of the virus. Continue reading “Fauci: Vaccines Don’t Protect ‘Overly Well’ Against Infection”
ALBION, MI – The search for an alligator in the Kalamazoo River continues, though Albion College’s nature center, which first reported the sighting of the reptile is ready to reopen with posted warnings. Continue reading “Alligator hunt continues in Kalamazoo River near Michigan college”
Virologists have voiced concerns about the emergence of another fast-spreading Omicron variant that is rapidly gaining ground in India and has already arrived in the United Kingdom. Continue reading “Centaurus: virologists express concern at new Covid subvariant”
As the war in Ukraine heads into its sixth month, military aid from the West has become routine, with the US leading the way after so far sending $7 billion in aid to Kiev since February. Continue reading “US Is Paying $1.7 Billion To Health Care Workers… In Ukraine”
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday demanded a return to strict anti-coronavirus measures including masks, mass vaccination programs, and social restrictions because the pandemic is “nowhere near over.” Continue reading “W.H.O. Chief Tedros Demands Return to Masks Alongside ‘Tried and Tested’ Social Restrictions”
Daily Wire – by Virginia Kruta
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador jabbed at President Joe Biden during an Oval Office meeting on Tuesday, noting that American citizens had been crossing the southern border in order to buy gas at a cheaper price. Continue reading “Mexican President Brags About Letting Americans Cross The Border For Cheaper Gas — During Oval Office Meeting”
More than 80% of Americans have a widely used herbicide lurking in their urine, a new government study suggests.
The chemical, known as glyphosate, is “probably carcinogenic to humans,” the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer has said. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, a well-known weed killer. Continue reading “Weed killer glyphosate found in most Americans’ urine”
WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) – John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries. Continue reading “Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics minutes ago released the June inflation numbers. They are not good.
The BLS shared: Continue reading “Inflation Explodes to 9.1% – The Largest 12-Month Increase Since the Period Ending November 1981”
Airport staff refused to stamp the passport of Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday, preventing the soon-to-be ex-president from leaving the country for Dubai, AFP reported. Driven from office by mass protests, Rajapaksa is reportedly looking for other means of escape. Continue reading “Sri Lankan president caught fleeing country – media”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gun makers and dealers in California will be required to block firearms sales to anyone they have “reasonable cause to believe is at substantial risk” of using a gun illegally or of harming themselves or others, under a new law that Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that he had signed. Continue reading “California blocks gun sales to those at risk of breaking law”
Reclaim the Net – by Didi Rankovic
It’s no secret, and the World Economic Forum (WEF) certainly isn’t trying to keep it a secret, that this Davos-based group has a special interest in the development of the metaverse, and in making sure the key role in shaping it should be had by the elites. Continue reading “World Economic Forum calls for the metaverse to have rules and standards”
Mexico on Tuesday agreed to contribute $1.5 billion to a joint initiative with the U.S. to improve infrastructure along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a person familiar with the commitment. Continue reading “Mexico to pay $1.5 billion for US border security and processing, source says”
The gunman walks into Robb Elementary School unimpeded, moments after spraying bullets from his semi-automatic rifle outside the building and after desperate calls to 911 from inside and outside the Uvalde school. Continue reading “Watch Uvalde school shooting video obtained by Statesman showing police response”
A Philadelphia man was seen on dramatic video turning the tables on two would-be armed robbers as he wrestled a gun away from one suspect and shot a second suspect who rushed him at gunpoint on Monday afternoon. Continue reading “Philadelphia man turns table on robbery suspects, shoots after getting shot twice: police”
Breitbart – by Jack Montgomery
Britain’s woke University of Bristol has banned a raft of supposedly offensive terms, including “gendered” words like “manpower” and “mankind” and age-related nicknames like “millennial” and “baby boomer”. Continue reading “Woke University Bans ‘Offensive’ Terms Including ‘Manpower’, ‘Able-Bodied’, ‘Baby Boomer’”