From the Trenches World Report

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Albany, NY — In the land of the free, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech. However, we’ve seen citizens pepper-sprayed, assaulted, and arrested for there acts of free speech, showing just how little law enforcement cares about upholding the oaths they swore to this very Constitution. Now, a new piece of legislation that is quickly passing through the legal process in New York goes one step further.  Continue reading “New Legislation Will Throw People in Jail for Disrespecting Cops—Seriously”

Homeland Security Today

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday released its updated Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (AR Threats Report) indicating that antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths in the United States each year. That means, on average, someone in the United States gets an antibiotic-resistant infection every 11 seconds and every 15 minutes someone dies. When Clostridioides difficile, a bacterium which is not typically resistant but can cause deadly diarrhea and is associated with antibiotic use, is added to these, the U.S. toll of all the threats in the report exceeds 3 million infections and 48,000 deaths. Continue reading “More People in the United States Dying from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Than Previously Estimated”

RT, October 2018

A US military program dubbed ‘Insect Allies’ could be used as a biological weapon, a group of European scientists warns. The Pentagon’s research arm claims they are intended to defend crops, but doesn’t deny ‘dual-use’ potential.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the University of Freiburg in Germany, as well as the University of Montpellier, France, have published a critique of the program, dubbed “Insect Allies,” in the October 5 edition of Science.  Continue reading “Defensive bioweapon? DARPA wants insects to spread genetically modified viruses… to ‘save crops’”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Democrat presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren used the Thursday’s California school shooting as an opportunity to push for more gun control laws.

They did this despite the fact that California already has some of the most stringent gun controls in the nation, none of which prevented the shooting at Santa Clarita’s Saugus High School from taking place.  Continue reading “Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren Use California School Shooting to Push Gun Control”

Daily Mail

This week, amazing video showed protesters on the streets of Chile teaming up to bring down a police drone with what appear to be simple pocket lasers.

The footage shows a huge group of people aiming around 40 or 50 green handheld lasers at a police drone hovering overhead.  Continue reading “Amazing video shows protesters in Chile using dozens of pocket lasers at the same time to crash a police drone”

The Blaze – by Nate Madden

Anti-gun rhetoric on the campaign trail seems to be helping out gun sellers once again.

A Thursday story at the Washington Free Beacon reports that gun sales from October were up 10 percent over the same month last year, citing numbers from Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).  Continue reading “Months of gun control talk have led to months of increased gun sales”

Reuters

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (Reuters) – California police on Friday were working to identify what motivated a 16-year-old to open fire on his fellow high school students a day earlier, killing two and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head.

Detectives worked through the night to follow up on tips related to Thursday morning’s attack at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, about 40 miles (65 km) north of Los Angeles. The shooting, which was caught on video, unfolded in 16 seconds, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office said.  Continue reading “For California police, what motivated deadly school shooting is question of the day”

The Blaze – by Giancarlo Sopo

The “Epstein didn’t kill himself” memes are not going away any time soon.

Within 24 hours of news breaking that disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison, his brother, Mark Epstein, hired two renowned forensic pathologists to observe his brother’s autopsy. Having reviewed their reports, Mark Epstein told the Miami Herald that he is convinced his brother was murdered.  Continue reading “Mark Epstein says his brother Jeffrey was murdered: He ‘knew a lot of stuff about a lot of people’”

The Blaze – by Nate Madden

More than 600 children were “recycled” by human traffickers looking to exploit loopholes in the American immigration system during the past fiscal year, a federal immigration official told lawmakers Wednesday.

At a hearing to evaluate border statistics during fiscal year 2019, which ended Sept. 30, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting Deputy Director Derek Benner told the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee that the figure was a result of a DHS initiative called “Operation Noble Guardian” to identify situations “where fraudulent families were released into the interior, and then the children were separated from those unrelated adults and they were taken to an airport and flown back” to Central America.  Continue reading “ICE official says feds identified over 600 migrant children being ‘recycled’ at the border by traffickers”

Zero Hedge – by Bill Blain of Shard Capital

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”

As it’s a Friday I am contractually entitled to have a rant and whine about whatever I want to write about. Which, today, isn’t really the cut and thrust of markets.  Continue reading “Blain: There Is Too Much Money Pushing up Prices, And It All Ends With A Guillotine”

Daily Mail

Prince Andrew has finally broken his silence on his controversial friendship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in a prime time BBC special to be shown tomorrow evening after six months of planning.

The Duke of York was interviewed by Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis at Buckingham Palace last night and the show: ‘Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal’ will be broadcast on BBC 2 at 9pm on Saturday.  Continue reading “Prince Andrew will speak publicly about relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein”

The College Fix – by Jennifer Kabbany

When Antifa scholar Mark Bray, known for advocating political violence, gave a guest lecture in September at Bucknell University on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, it was met with little resistance.

The talk was hosted by the Humanities Center and largely welcomed on campus. A few wary scholars did not object to his speech, only how he was championed by organizers “as some kind of morally serious person courageously challenging evil.”  Continue reading “Blacklisting, vandalism, picket line: Outrage erupts at Bucknell ahead of Heather Mac Donald talk”

Middle East Eye

A large hole now stands where, only one day earlier, two homes were torn to the ground by Israeli air strikes. Looking over the debris, dozens of relatives and neighbours gathered to remember the eight members of the al-Sawarka family, who were killed in the attack.

The two adjacent shabby houses with tin ceilings were located in a marginalised area of the Deir al-Balah refugee camp on the southern Gaza Strip.  Continue reading “‘All that’s left are their school uniforms’: Israeli air strike kills eight Palestinian relatives”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

Hours after meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday blocked a resolution that would have condemned the Armenian genocide of 1915.

Graham stated he blocked the resolution because he did not want the Senate to “sugarcoat history or try to rewrite it.” Whatever its other merits or drawbacks might be, condemning the Armenian genocide would seem to be the opposite of sugarcoating history. Graham’s office did not respond to a request from Fox News for elaboration of the senator’s thinking.  Continue reading “Lindsey Graham Blocks Recognition of Armenian Genocide After Meeting with Turkey’s Erdogan”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Cross-border transmissions of African swine fever is becoming a significant issue across Asia.

Just last week, we warned about China exporting the hog-killing disease to Russia. Now it appears North Korea, a country that borders China, has already exported the virus to South Korea.  Continue reading “South Korea Slaughters 380,000 Pigs After China’s Pig Ebola Crosses Border”