Year: 2020

ABC News

A former Los Angeles Police Department officer was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the murder of a 23-year-old man.

Henry Solis said he was acting in self-defense while attempting to arrest Salome Rodriguez on March 13, 2015, in Pomona, California, for an alleged assault and robbery, according to court documents.  Continue reading “Ex-police officer sentenced to 40 years to life for murder of a man outside a bar”

NBC 10

Drastic measures are being taken to curtail the spread of the new coronavirus in Montgomery County after it became the epicenter for COVID-19 cases in Pennsylvania.

All schools, universities, gyms, entertainment venues and community centers in the populous county just outside Philadelphia must close for two weeks starting Friday, Gov. Tom Wolf ordered.  Continue reading “Montgomery County Pennsylvania on Lockdown: Governor Closes Schools, Gyms, Daycares”

Buzz Feed

The US health system is “failing” at providing adequate testing for the coronavirus as the outbreak begins to grip the country, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told Congress on Thursday.

“It is a failing. Let’s admit it,” Fauci, a top-ranking member of the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force, told the House Committee on Oversight and Reform during a hearing on US coronavirus preparedness and response.  Continue reading “A Top Health Official Said The US Is “Failing” At Testing For The Coronavirus”

Health Impact News – by Dr. Robert J. Rowen

In case you plan to rush out and get a flu vaccine, you might want to read this abstract, and also share with your pro vaccine friends. It appears that getting a flu vaccine will make you more prone to coronavirus infection. This is hot off the press.

My interpretation of this is that when you receive (or your child) a vaccination, your immune system is artificially deranged by the vaccine so that it will not respond normally to secondary challenge.  Continue reading “Dr. Rowen: Flu Vaccine May Make you more Susceptible to Coronavirus”

The Local

There have been reports of chaotic scenes at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport as Americans scramble to get back to the USA ahead of the planned travel ban from Europe.

US president Donald Trump announced on Wednesday night that all travel from Schengen zone countries – including France – would be banned from 11.59pm on Friday, in an attempt to stop the spread of coronavirus.  Continue reading “‘Some Americans are paying up to $20,000 for last-minute flights out of France’”

EFF – by Joe Mullin

Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle such messages wouldn’t be allowed to securely encrypt them, or they’d lose legal protections that allow them to operate.

That’s what the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed and hopes to pass into law. The so-called EARN IT bill, sponsored by Senators Lindsay Graham (R-GA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), will strip Section 230 protections away from any website that doesn’t follow a list of “best practices,” meaning those sites can be sued into bankruptcy. The “best practices” list will be created by a government commission, headed by Attorney General Barr, who has made it very clear he would like to ban encryption, and guarantee law enforcement “legal access” to any digital message.  Continue reading “The EARN IT Bill Is the Government’s Plan to Scan Every Message Online”

Federalist Papers – by Erin Coates

Police officers launched pepper balls into a crowd of disorderly University of Dayton students who had flooded neighborhood streets after the school announced it was canceling in-person classes until at least early April in response to the coronavirus.

Dayton Police and the University of Dayton Police had responded to a report of a crowd of over 1,000 people who refused to leave Lowes Street late Tuesday, WHIO-TV reported. Continue reading “Dayton Students Flood Streets After Campus Shut Down Over Coronavirus, Police Shoot ‘Pepper Balls’”

Stars and Stripes

The coronavirus outbreak is taking a deep toll on the U.S. economy, prompting hundreds of layoffs over the past week alone and halting a historic 11-year bull market in stocks.

Strong job growth and soaring financial markets have fueled the U.S. economic expansion over the past decade. Now the rapid market decline and initial layoffs are heightening fears that the longest economic expansion in U.S. history could come to a sudden end, just a month after unemployment stood at a half-century low.  Continue reading “The first US layoffs from the coronavirus are here”

Daily Caller – by Christian Datoc

White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro confirmed Wednesday the administration is working on an executive order to eliminate the government’s reliance on foreign-made medical supplies.

The “Buy American” order comes on the heels of concerns expressed by senators during their Tuesday meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill.  Continue reading “‘Buy American’ — White House Confirms Executive Order That Will End Medical Supply Chain Reliance On China”

There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today, we had an unexpected chore come up.

I will be back up tomorrow.

Western Journal – by Jason Hopkins

The Supreme Court delivered a win for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, blocking a federal court injunction that would have limited a program that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.

The nation’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that the White House’s Remain in Mexico program, also known as Migrant Protection Protocols, can remain effective for the entire southern border while a legal challenge continues on.  Continue reading “Trump Scores Major Supreme Court Win as ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy Allowed To Stay in Effect”

Fox News

ICE’s chief said Wednesday that it would take 140 years to remove all of the illegal immigrants who came into the country during the border surge of the past two years at current deportation rates.

Matt Albence, acting director of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, said the border surge of the past two years had added 900,000 non-detained cases to ICE’s docket, bringing the total to 3.3 million. Continue reading “ICE chief: It will take 140 years to clear ‘backlog’ of illegal immigrants after US-Mexico border surge”

UPDATE: All 90 Catholic schools close in SF, Marin and San Mateo counties after a student tested positive for the #coronavirus.https://t.co/weguv17ojS

— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) March 10, 2020

Investment Watch Continue reading “90 Schools to Close in San Francisco”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

After increases its repo bailout facility twice this week already (from $100billion to $150billion to $175billion per day) and added some longer-term facilities, The New York Fed just went full-retard, with $1 trillion of liquidity in 3-month repo.

For some context of how that compares to what they have been doing… Continue reading “Bazooka Fired: Fed To Conduct $1 Trillion Repo Over 2 Days, Expands “Not QE” To QE4″

Breitbart – by Victoria Friedman

The European Commission has said that the European Union “disapproves” of President Donald Trump’s decision to protect his citizens from further foreign exposure to coronavirus by banning entry from most of the bloc’s countries without having consulted with Brussels, first.

President Trump announced the 30-day ban on Wednesday which will go into effect on Friday. The ban is limited to mainland Europe, specifically the countries in the visa-free travel area known as the Schengen Zone, like France, Germany, and Sweden.  Continue reading “‘The EU Disapproves’: Brussels Angry Trump Acted on Coronavirus Without Their Permission”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

California gun sales are surging as Asian Americans arm up to defend themselves, should they be targeted by people angry over the existence of the Corona virus.

CBS LA reports that gun stores in San Gabriel Valley are seeing gun sales skyrocket. Stores such as Arcadia Firearm & Safety are seeing “10 times” as many customers as usual, and store owner David Liu says it is because of fears caused by the Corona virus.  Continue reading “CA Gun Sales Surge for Asian Americans Fearing Attacks over Corona Virus”