From the Trenches World Report
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicated an “assault weapons” ban and other gun controls would be “front and center” when the Senate reconvenes in September.
The Courier-Journal reports that McConnell was a guest on the Louisville, KY, Terry Meiners Show where he said, “What we can’t do is fail to pass something,” adding, “The urgency of this is not lost on any of us.” Continue reading “Mitch McConnell: ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban ‘Front and Center’ in Senate”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
As politicians and anti-gun rights activists continuously chant, “we don’t want to take your guns,” behind the scenes — in just months — politicians have been working overtime to limit and remove your right to bear arms. These laws all started as a reaction to the tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida last year and with every shooting since, they have sped up. And, like most politicians always do, they are not letting these tragedies go to waste. The problem has gotten so out of control that one US Congressman thinks there may be nothing we can do to stop the gun grabbers from abolishing the entire Second Amendment. Continue reading “US Congressman Warns of Political Conspiracy to Overturn the 2nd Amendment In Its Entirety”
About 40,000 migrants who have reached the US border with Mexico are on waiting lists for an initial attempt to seek asylum or are waiting for a court hearing in the US after being sent back, AP reported.
The figure, based on Mexican government calculations, represents a dramatic increase since the start of the year. Continue reading “40,000 migrants waiting at US border with Mexico – report”
Nancy Pelosi and a delegation of Democrat lawmakers are currently in Central America visiting future voters.
Pelosi promised the people of Guatemala economic opportunity and security. Continue reading “Pelosi and Democrats Are Currently Campaigning in Central America — Promise Economic Opportunity and Security for Guatemala”
Guns America – by Jordan Michaels
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody stood her ground on Monday when asked whether in the wake of the weekend’s mass murders she’d reconsidered her opposition to a constitutional amendment banning “assault weapons” that could appear before voters on the 2020 ballot.
Calling the proposal “far-reaching” and “misleading,” she explained that the ban’s language would go far beyond the guns commonly used in mass murders to include firearms like those her grandfather gave her father and his brother 60 years ago. Continue reading “Florida Attorney General Calls Proposed Assault Weapon Ban ‘Far-Reaching’ and ‘Misleading’”
New York City police officers made headlines last month when videos hit social media showing people repeatedly dumping water on cops in the streets and chucking a bucket at an officer’s head — and police either didn’t react or simply trudged off.
Joseph Imperatrice, an NYPD sergeant and founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC, told Fox News that the cops were “bullied” and resorted to “walking away with their tail between their legs.” It all made him “sick to my stomach,” he said while adding that “this is how cops get killed.” Continue reading “Last month, water was dumped on humiliated NYPD officers. Now concrete, bottles are thrown at them.”
Common Dreams – by Eoin Higgins
Police in Boston Tuesday night reportedly destroyed three wheelchairs belonging to homeless city residents in a garbage truck compactor as part of a crackdown targeting the city’s transient population.
“Operation Clean Sweep” began August 2 after a county corrections officer was allegedly struck during a fight involving a number of people on “Methadone Mile,” a stretch of the city near Massachusetts Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard where there are a number of clinics and treatment centers. The area has a high homeless population, many of whom have been the target of the operation in the five days and counting it has continued. Continue reading “‘Heartbreaking’ Scene on Boston Streets as Police Destroy Wheelchairs Belonging to Homeless Residents”
The following is my recent argument with yet one more market analyst who can’t see straight, even when his article overall was admitting it was time to bail out of stocks. Correcting the market mantras that dominate the bullheaded is partly why I am here.
I’m not going to call this one out of the herd by name because sometimes his writing is sensible. It is the group-think herd mentality of the bulls, which he expresses, that I am challenging. His writing is in quotes and my responses to his way of thinking follow each quote. Continue reading “When will we win? Chinese trade victory is a mirage”
If you enjoyed the global corporatocracy’s original War on Islamicist Terror, you’re going to love their latest spinoff, The War on White Supremacist Terror. It’s basically just like the old War on Terror, except that this time the bad guys are all white supremacists, and Donald Trump is Osama bin Laden … unless Putin is Osama bin Laden. OK, I’m not quite sure who’s Osama bin Laden. Whatever. The point is, the Terrorists are coming! Continue reading “The War on White Supremacist Terror”
Breitbart – by Charlie Speiring
President Donald Trump again indicated Friday that Republicans to lead the way to expand background checks for Americans purchasing firearms.
“I think that Republicans are going to be great and lead the charge along with the Democrats,” Trump said. Continue reading “Donald Trump: Republicans Can ‘Lead the Charge’ on Expanding Background Checks”
As clashes between Hong Kong police officers and protesters escalate, authorities recently announced they would be utilizing a new tagging tactic that stains skin and clothes, making it easier for authorities to identify law-breaking demonstrators.
In a video posted to Facebook Sunday, Hong Kong Police Force Superintendent Louis Lau Stu-Pong informed the public that area police now have a “portable spraying device” that dispenses a dye or “liquid color” to help them distinguish problematic protesters from the normal public. Continue reading “Hong Kong Police Force Introduces Liquid Dye to Mark, Track Protesters”
The Federalist – by Jesse Kelly
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken
Name the civil liberty that has ever been returned to the citizens after government took it away. Let me save you some time: It does not exist. Governments take away liberties and never return them outside of a political revolution. Continue reading “We Don’t Need Red Flag Laws, We Need More Good Americans To Get Guns”
Police in Texas are searching for a gunman who opened fire on a freeway in Houston during the evening rush hour Thursday, killing a driver and his passenger.
Houston Police Department Assistant Chief Bobby Dobbins told reporters that vehicle rear-ended another on Interstate 10 East shortly before 6 p.m. causing the vehicle in front to spin out. Continue reading “Suspect at large after shooting on Texas freeway during rush hour kills 2”
Cook County’s top public defense attorney called for the immediate removal of a new Chicago Police Department website that broadcasts adult gun-related criminal charges, citing what she described as inaccurate data and a “blatant intrusion” of defendants’ privacy.
“This is another example of police using a list of people who are presumed innocent as a red herring to distract from the real issue of the day: the CPD’s failure to arrest the individuals who are shooters and who continue to wreak havoc in Chicago,” county public defender Amy Campanelli said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Automatic Earth – by Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The US government has to come up with very very strong legislation for social media, and it has to do that very soon. Because if it doesn’t, it risks those same social media inciting a civil war (that’s no hyperbole, that is real) on American soil.
And beyond as well, but as Donald Trump said about European efforts to curtail Twitter, Facebook et al’s activities, they’re American companies and hence America’s responsibility. Well, cool, but that means you have to do your job, and you ain’t doing it. Those EU efforts by the way were all about financial issues, tax paying etc., not inciting civil wars or being undemocratic. In short, Brussels doesn’t get it yet either. Continue reading “Social Media Civil War”
Hey, SCOTUS says it’s OK so it must be OK. Via Greg Doucette comes another WTF decision[PDF] — one that gives North Carolina cops the green light to engage in retaliatory arrests over protected speech.
It’s not like there’s no case law to work with. The Eighth Circuit Appeals Court denied immunity to an officer who arrested someone for shouting “Fuck you!” at him as they drove by. Other federal courts have come to the same conclusion: flipping the bird/dropping f-bombs in the direction of police officers is protected speech and cannot form the basis for traffic stops or arrests. Continue reading “North Carolina Court Says Retaliatory Arrests Over Protected Speech Are Cool And Legal”
The apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry fell by more than 24 percent from June to July. Despite the decrease from the high point in May, apprehension numbers are still up from July 2018 by 130 percent.
U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 71,999 migrants in July. This is down from 94,908 in June — a decrease of 24.1 percent. Apprehensions by category of migrant are down across the board, according to the July Southwest Border Migration Report released Thursday. Continue reading “July Border Apprehensions Drop 24 Percent — Still Up 130 Percent Over 2018”