From the Trenches World Report
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Oregon Live – by Carli Brosseau
Blaine Cooper, a member of the core group that took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge on Jan. 2, was arrested Thursday in southwestern Utah.
He was booked into jail in Washington County, Utah, which includes the city of St. George, online jail records show. The arresting agency was listed as the FBI. Continue reading “Occupier Blaine Cooper arrested in Utah”
Cliven Bundy, the father of Malheur national wildlife refuge occupiers Ammon and Ryan Bundy, has been charged with six federal crimes stemming from his confrontation with the federal government in 2014.
The charges, filed on the same day that the final four occupiers of Malheur surrendered to law enforcement officials and one day after his arrest in Portland, Oregon, marked a stunning turn in a two-decades-long dispute over Bundy’s illegal grazing of cattle on federal land. Continue reading “Oregon standoff: Cliven Bundy faces six federal charges over 2014 confrontation”
SIMFEROPOL, February 10 /TASS/. Israel’s parliamentary delegation has visited Crimea.
It is led by Yaakov Margi, the head of the Knesset Committee for Education, Culture and Sports, the press service of Crimea’s Head Sergey Aksyonov reported on Wednesday. Continue reading “Israeli lawmakers visit Crimea”
While testifying in favor of Washington’s HB 2460, the ban of self defense in public parks, retired King County sheriff’s deputy David Hellene says “We look foolish! I’ve got family in Europe, and they can’t understand how this gun violence continues and how we do nothing about it and don’t speak out about it.” He rambles on to say “We change traffic laws incrementally over the last 40 years to prevent DUI deaths, and I think we need to do something incrementally here to prevent these kinds of deaths from happening.” Continue reading “Sheriff Says We Need Incremental Gun Control Laws”
“You’re trying to be too logical,” says Oregon state Rep. Lew Frederick, after a woman rants about “multi automatic guns”, challenging the 2nd Amendment in court, wanting licensing for guns like we do with cars.
Rep. Frederick goes on to say that the issue has been “Hijacked by an effort to get as many guns as possible into the community. Where you have people believing that that is the only way that they can be safe. So they’ve got that message, we’ve gotta break that message.” He then goes on to mock people who study the Constitution, and ends by saying we need “enough people, frankly, in elected office who are willing to take on this issue.” Continue reading “When Anti Gunners Ramble… Misinformed Drivel Happens”
Despite all the public hoopla, all the cases of microcephaly being discovered in Brazil have never been scientifically linked to the Zika virus. A group of doctors from South America are now saying the brain deformations the world is witnessing are caused by the mass fumigation of low-income Brazilian people with a chemical larvicide, not by mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus. Continue reading “Zika HOAX exposed by South American doctors: Brain deformations caused by larvicide chemical linked to Monsanto; GM mosquitoes a ‘total failure’”
(Kris Turner) Carrier is shuttering its manufacturing facility in western Indianapolis and moving its operation to Mexico, eliminating about 1,400 jobs during the next three years.
The heating, ventilating, air conditioning manufacturer announced Wednesday that it would begin eliminating its Indianapolis workforce in 2017 and continue the layoffs through 2019. The company’s plan is being discussed with United Steelworkers Local 1999, which represents the employees who face termination. Continue reading “Another US Company To Lay Off All Employees, Move To Mexico”
BURNS, Ore. — All four holdouts at the Malheur refuge have surrendered.
Three of the four remaining occupiers had surrendered around 9 a.m. but David Fry was holding out. He surrendered around 11 a.m. and is in custody of the FBI.
For two hours after the three surrendered, Fry was on a phone call with the FBI, a blogger and supporters of the occupation. He described himself as suicidal and that his grievances have not been heard and acted upon. Continue reading “Last remaining occupier surrenders at Malheur Wildlife Refuge”
Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish
Los Angeles, CA — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca shocked everyone Wednesday when he pled guilty to lying to federal investigators — reversing years of insistence he had been unaware of the corruption and civil rights abuses which were once rampant throughout the county jail system he headed for 15 years.
In return for an agreement with prosecutors that they would not seek a prison sentence longer than six months, Baca admitted he had willfully made a number of false statements during the corruption probe and agreed not to contest a number of other allegations against him. Continue reading “National Sheriff of the Year Pleads Guilty, Rats Out Deputies, Exposing Rampant Corruption”
Microsoft has been accused of pushing Windows 10 rather aggressively, and the company’s latest move is going to do nothing to silence these accusations. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 just became a ‘recommended update’ in Windows Update. Continue reading “Microsoft makes Windows 10 a ‘recommended update’ for Windows 7 and 8.1 users”
Granting the ACLU and the public access to staffing, budgetary, and statistical information about the Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and FBI would mean “the public would know where the FBI was putting its resources,” warned an Assistant US Attorney in oral argument in a Boston federal court last week. The government apparently doesn’t want the public to know anything about how the FBI and JTTF spend public money, staff its offices, or conduct investigations. Continue reading “Feds: We Can’t Disclose FBI Records Because Then Public Would Know How FBI Works”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Flint, MI – Activist Christopher G. Wahmhoff, 37, is facing charges after he made a Facebook post referencing the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
Wahmhoff was already on probation for an act of civil disobedience two years ago. He crawled into an Enbridge pipeline and stayed in there for ten hours to protest the expansion of a recently ruptured oil pipeline that had already damaged the local environment. Ever since that protest, Wahmhoff has been on probation and faces regular scrutiny from his probation officer. Continue reading “Activist Arrested For Making Facebook Post Criticizing Gov. Snyder Over Flint Water Crisis”
A federal grand jury in New York has begun hearing evidence in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose chokehold death at the hands of a white police officer sparked widespread protests, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation of Garner’s death in December 2014, after a grand jury in the borough of Staten Island declined to bring criminal charges against the officer, Daniel Pantaleo. Continue reading “Federal grand jury hearing evidence in NYC police killing of Eric Garner: source”
An Impenetrable Fortress That’s NOT A Storage Container
That’s right, we’re going to show you how you can make your own custom bullet proof, fireproof & earthquake resistant buildings with 100% recycled materials! The walls are made from used plastic bottles, filled with sand and coated with a moderate amount of mud and cement to smooth the wall and make it appealing. Continue reading “How To Make A Bullet Proof & Fire Proof House From Fire And Heat Resistant Materials”
In response to the federal government raids announced at the beginning of this year to apprehend undocumented Central American immigrants, public schools in Los Angeles, where about 50 percent of the student body is Hispanic, will not allow immigration authorities to enter the campuses.
The decision taken on Tuesday by the Los Angeles Unified School District board is for all schools, from kindergarten through high school, to be declared “safe zones” and resource centers for students and families threatened by the enforcement of immigration laws. Continue reading “Los Angeles schools close their doors to immigration agents”
TEL AVIV – A new bill introduced in Congress Wednesday supports the rights of U.S. states to cut ties with companies that are engaged in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.
Lawmakers from both houses of Congress presented the Combating BDS Act of 2016, which is aimed at combating economic warfare against Israel, Tablet magazine, which obtained a preliminary copy of the bill, reported. Continue reading “New Bipartisan Congressional Bill Supports States Fighting Boycotts of Israel”
Two US Air Force A-10 warplanes carried out airstrikes on Aleppo Wednesday, destroying nine facilities, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported. The same day, the Pentagon accused Moscow of bombing two hospitals, despite no Russian flights over the city.
“Yesterday, at 13:55 Moscow time (10:55 GMT), two American A-10 assault aircraft entered Syrian airspace from Turkey, flew right to the city of Aleppo and bombed targets there,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Thursday. Continue reading “US A-10s bombed city of Aleppo on Wednesday, shifted blame onto Moscow – Russian military”
CLEVELAND (AP) — The city of Cleveland is asking Tamir Rice’s estate to pay $500 for ambulance and medical services he received after being shot by a police officer.
The city requested the money as the 12-year-old boy’s “last dying expense” in a creditor’s claim filed Wednesday in Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Probate Court. The claim states the money is overdue. Continue reading “$500 bill sent to Tamir Rice’s estate for EMS services”
PAJU, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Thursday ordered a military takeover of a factory park that had been the last major symbol of cooperation with South Korea, calling Seoul’s earlier suspension of operations at the jointly run facility as punishment for the North’s recent rocket launch a “dangerous declaration of war.” Continue reading “N. Korea orders military takeover of inter-Korean factories”
PACIFICA, Calif. (AP) — Sonja Thompson lives so close to the edge of an 80-foot bluff above the Pacific Ocean that when paragliders fly by “you can almost high-five them.”
Having the Pacific as your backyard has its benefits, and its dangers. Crumbling cliffs have forced dozens to leave their homes and others like Thompson may have to join them as EL Nino-fueled storms batter the coast. Continue reading “California residents live on the edge of crumbling cliffs”