From the Trenches World Report
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Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack told CBS News that his company destroyed $5 million worth of “assault-style rifles” to keep them out of private hands.
Dick’s announced a halt to “assault-style rifles” two weeks after the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting. Continue reading “Dick’s Destroyed $5 Mil. Worth of ‘Assault Rifles’ to Keep Them ‘Off the Street’”
“Racism is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.”
— Albert Einstein, 1946
“The Germans as an entire people are responsible for these mass murders and must be punished as a people if there is justice in the world and if the consciousness of collective responsibility in the nations is not to perish from earth entirely.”
— Albert Einstein, 1944
“I get most joy from the emergence of the Jewish state in Palestine. It does seem to me that our kinfolk really are more sympathetic (at least less brutal) than these horrid Europeans.”
— Albert Einstein, 1919
PORTLAND, Ore. — U.S. authorities said Wednesday they completed drug-trafficking busts in Oregon that involved an international network of couriers, dealers and stash-house operators who smuggled methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine worth about $15 million from Mexico to Portland.
Federal, state and local law enforcement conducted raids and arrested 20 people, U.S. Attorney Billy Williams said. Ten people were already in custody in the case, and 11, including the two suspected top leaders, remained at large after being indicted. Continue reading “Feds bust Mexico-to-Oregon drug ring; 20 arrested”
Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez
A search-and-rescue team discovered a dog alive under a pile of debris in the Bahamas, more than three weeks after Hurricane Dorian struck the islands.
Big Dog Ranch Rescue, which is a South Florida-based rescue operation, used a drone with infrared heat-seeking technology to find the animal hidden under piles of air conditioning units in Marsh Harbour in the Bahamas. Continue reading “Dog Rescued Under Debris Three Weeks After Hurricane Dorian”
As the death toll nears 100 people killed and with thousands injured in a week of intense demonstrations, the Iraqi government on Saturday announced the lifting of a curfew in Baghdad as calls came for it to resign.
In the worst violence seen since the declared defeat of the Islamic State group in March, security forces fired live ammunition into crowds of people protesting across Iraq against corruption, unemployment and a lack of services. Continue reading “Nearly 100 dead as calls grow for Iraqi government to resign over protest response”
The Watchdog loves it when folks get involved in their government by becoming fellow watchdogs and keeping a sharp eye on their leaders’ doings. I need the help.
That’s why I’m pleased to tell you about a new state law that will change the face of all local governments in Texas. Continue reading “A cool new Texas law you never heard of means they can’t shut you up at government meetings anymore”
Four people have been killed and five others injured in a shooting at a bar in Kansas City, Kansas, early Sunday morning.
Gunfire erupted at the Tequila KC Bar at 1.27am local time, according to police spokesman Thomas Tomasic. Continue reading “Four people are killed and five injured in shooting at Kansas City bar as police search for suspect”
Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel
The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition technology to access the internet (which is already highly fire-walled.)
This is all a part of China’s social credit system that will take effect on Dec. 1st. After the law is in effect, Chinese citizens who want to have the internet installed at their houses or on their smartphones will be required to undergo a facial recognition process by Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to the new regulation. Continue reading “Chinese Citizens Will Be Required To Scan Their Faces To Use The Internet”
New York Post – by Tamar Lapin
A key witness who testified for the prosecution in the trial of killer Texas cop Amber Guyger was shot to death in an ambush outside his apartment, according to a report on Saturday.
Witness Joshua Brown, a neighbor of Guyger’s victim Botham Jean, was found on the ground, his body riddled with bullets, Friday around 10:30 p.m. outside his building in a Dallas neighborhood, The Dallas Morning News reported. Continue reading “Key witness in trial of killer cop Amber Guyger shot to death”
An air of menace and a cloud of controversy accompany the arrival of the new ‘Joker’ movie with the portrayal of the most famous villain in comic book history being arguably the most chilling twist on the character in 50 years.
‘Joker,’ starring Joaquin Phoenix, opened in movie theaters worldwide this week after winning the top prize at the Venice Film Festival last month. Continue reading “Critics SLAM the new, brutally violent Joaquin Phoenix movie as a viewing experience of ‘rare, numbing emptiness’ as it hits theaters today”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
Homestead, FL — Ask any police officer anywhere what happens to suspects when they run from police. Most, if they’re honest, will tell you the perpetrator will most likely get a beat down by the boys in blue for fleeing. But one fleeing suspect’s only crime was not having a legal license plate cover and for running away from police he received a beating which placed him in the hospital. Continue reading “Cops Hold Man at Gunpoint, Beat Him Nearly to Death Over License Place Cover”
It took 215 New York City Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters to quell a blaze in a Bronx apartment building on Friday evening.
Reports said one civilian and seven firefighters were injured during the five-alarm fire that started on the sixth floor of the building located on the Grand Concourse by East 172nd Street. Continue reading “Over 200 Firefighters Battle Blaze at Bronx Apartment Building”
More than 100 people, including a medical doctor and a church youth director, were arrested as part of a massive human trafficking and child sex sting operation based in central Ohio, according to a report.
Those arrested included 24 men caught when they showed up at an undisclosed location with the intention of meeting a child for sex, Maj. Steven Tucker of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said. Continue reading “Ohio child sex trafficking sting nabs more than 100, including church leader, ER doctor: report”
