From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
French finance officials have raided the Paris offices of US internet giant Google as part of a tax fraud investigation.
Reports say about 100 tax officials entered Google’s offices in central Paris early in the morning.
Police sources confirmed the raid. Google said: “We comply with French law and are co-operating fully with the authorities to answer their questions.” Continue reading “Google’s Paris HQ raided in tax probe”
By “BRUTUS”
When a building is to be erected which is intended to stand for ages, the foundation should be firmly laid. The Constitution proposed to your acceptance is designed, not for yourselves alone, but for generations yet unborn. The principles, therefore, upon which the social compact is founded, ought to have been clearly and precisely stated, and the most express and full declaration of rights to have been made. But on this subject there is almost an entire silence. Continue reading “Anti-Federalist Paper No. 84 – On The Lack Of A Bill Of Rights”
Police in riot gear and mounted patrol units faced off against a violent crowd of protesters outside a Donald Trump campaign event in Albuquerque Tuesday night.
Hours after Trump and some 4,000 of his supporters left the Albuquerque Convention Center, approximately 100 demonstrators remained in downtown. Smoke grenades were used in an effort to disperse the crowd, while protesters threw rocks, plastic bottles, burning T-shirts and other items at officers. Continue reading “Protests turn violent outside Trump New Mexico event”
The Wall Street Journal reports on May 14 that Democratic Party presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is “ramping up her fundraising schedule” with prominent supporters now hosting $100,000-per-head events.
Two individuals cited among Clinton’s inner fundraising circle are Maureen White and Steve Rattner, who oversaw one of the money soirees on May 12 at their Manhattan residence. (A second fundraiser was hosted that day by Lynn Forester de Rothschild.)
Continue reading “Francine Wheeler Was Personal Assistant to DNC National Finance Chair”
Trump Will Not Lose Because He Was Set Up To Win
Therefore, the real question is: Who is doing all the setting up?
First, it’s critically important to understand that: Continue reading “Hillary Will Not Win Because She Was Set Up To Lose”
The Intercept – by Lee Fang and Steve Horn
BACK IN APRIL, just before the New York primary, Hillary Clinton’s campaign aired a commercial on upstate television stations touting her work as secretary of state forcing “China, India, some of the world’s worst polluters” to make “real change.” She promised to “stand firm with New Yorkers opposing fracking, giving communities the right to say ‘no.’”
The television spot, which was not announced and does not appear on the official campaign YouTube page with most of Clinton’s other ads, implied a history of opposition to fracking, here and abroad. But emails obtained byThe Intercept from the Department of State reveal new details of behind-the-scenes efforts by Clinton and her close aides to export American-style hydraulic fracturing — the horizontal drilling technique best known as fracking — to countries all over the world. Continue reading “Hillary Clinton’s Energy Initiative Pressed Countries to Embrace Fracking, New Emails Reveal”
One Oregon family’s viral Facebook post begging for justice for their abused son has people raising serious questions about the legal system.
Alicia Quinney and her boyfriend, Joshua Marbury, went on a date back in March, leaving their 1-year-old son Jacob in the care of a family friend, KATU reported.
But upon returning home, the couple discovered Jacob was distraught, crying alone in his room, while the unnamed man who was supposed to be taking care of him was asleep on the couch. Continue reading “Parents outraged that babysitter may not face charges for allegedly beating their 1-year-old”
International Man – by Nick Giambruno
Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay?
I would say that you don’t.
You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an important distinction. Continue reading “Property Rights and Property Taxes—and Countries That Don’t Have Them”
New Jersey’s first royal governor, a first cousin of Queen Anne, took office in 1706, and quickly gained the dubious distinction of being one of our state’s most loathed leaders.
Edward Hyde, Viscount Cornbury, (1661–1723) had already rubbed Americans the wrong way during his years as governor of New York. The people there had come to view both him and his wife as leeches after they’d repeatedly helped themselves to that colony’s wealth, asking for large special allowances, throwing sumptuous parties (for which they’d charge admission), and simply taking things they liked from citizens’ homes. New Yorkers were likewise disgusted by the governor’s atypical sexual fetishes; including his penchant for ears. At one meeting of the New York Assembly, the royal appointee digressed into a speech about the beauty of his fair Lady’s ears, at the end of which he invited all present to fondle her lovely lobes for themselves. Continue reading “A Governor In Queen’s Clothing”
SALEM — Sparks flew Monday during a hearing attended by ranchers and environmentalists in the state Capitol on a proposal to turn 2.5 million acres of canyonlands and desert in southeastern Oregon into a federally protected monument.
Cattlemen said their livelihoods could be threatened.
Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe told a panel of state lawmakers that he was worried armed outsiders would exploit the situation, with families in the remote area having been involved in cattle business for generations and being suspicious of the federal government and what restrictions it might impose. Continue reading “Another Oregon standoff? Sheriff warns lawmakers over Owyhee Canyonlands plan”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – by Diana Nelson Jones
Posters at the Squirrel Hill Health Center advertise childbirth classes in Nepalese, warn in Spanish about eating too much sugar and offer words of “welcome” in multiple languages. The center can call on translators who speak 120 tongues.
With more than 500 immigrants settling in Allegheny County each year, the health center, established in 2006, has almost 5,000 patients, half of whom speak English as a second language if they speak English at all. Continue reading “Stress, anxiety common among Pittsburgh’s newest refugees”
MRC TV – by Brittany M. Hughes
The recent surge of illegal aliens flooding across the Southwest U.S. border continues undeterred as U.S. Customs and Border Protection set a new FY2016 apprehension record in April, catching a grand total of 38,135 illegal aliens over the 30-day period – an average of about 1,271 per day.
April’s apprehension total is 1,121 aliens higher than those reported in December, which until last month was the record-holder for apprehensions so far in FY2016. Continue reading “April Sets FY2016 Alien Apprehension Record, Surges Past FY2014 Numbers”
GMO giant Monsanto rejected a $62 billion takeover bid by the German pharmaceutical Beyer, saying the price was too low but adding it remained “open to further talks.”
Monsanto can “see the logic” of combining with the German corporation, and believes the merger could get the required approval from regulators, sources familiar with the talks told Reuters. However, the St. Louis, Missouri-based company believes its shareholders deserve a better offer. Continue reading “Monsanto rejects $62 billion bid from Bayer”
The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning told the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program in an exclusive interview.
The company hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel from 2021, the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) chief of decommissioning at Fukushima, Naohiro Masuda, revealed. Continue reading “600 tons of melted radioactive Fukushima fuel still not found, clean-up chief reveals”
HONOLULU (AP) — Five people died after a skydiving tour plane crashed and caught fire in Hawaii, one of two plane crashes reported Monday in the islands. It happened about 9:30 a.m. on the island of Kauai, the county fire department said. The pilot, two skydive instructors and two tandem jumpers were believed to be on the plane.
Four of them were pronounced dead at the crash site, just outside Port Allen Airport. One man was taken to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The group was believed to have been part of a tour operated by SkyDive Kauai, county firefighters said. The company offers tours from Port Allen. Continue reading “5 dead after skydiving tour plane crashes in Hawaii”
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The parents of a New Jersey boy who was 4 when he fatally shot a 6-year-old neighbor have been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 to the slain youth’s family.
Anthony and Melissa Senatore will also have to pay punitive damages to Brandon Holt‘s parents under the ruling issued Monday. But that amount hasn’t been determined. Continue reading “Family of boy slain by young neighbor gets nearly $600,000”
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Police are looking for two suspects in a robbery at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Port Authority Police spokesman Joe Pentangelo says two masked men bound two employees and fled with an undetermined amount of cash from the Smart Carte office in the prescreening area inside Terminal B on Sunday. Continue reading “2 employees bound during robbery at Newark airport”