From the Trenches World Report

Airsoft Station

If you’re like a lot of people, you probably think Airsoft guns and BB guns are one in the same. Sorry to burst your bubble, but there are significant differences between the two. The confusion usually revolves around the fact that Airsoft guns are often mistaken as BB guns. However, as mentioned earlier, they are not the same thing. Let’s jump into a brief history lesson to help us better understand the differences between Airsoft guns and BB guns.  Continue reading “Airsoft Gun vs. BB Gun – What’s the Difference?”

EFF – by Joe Mullen

Unless Congress stops it, foreign police will soon be able to collect and search data on the servers of U.S. Internet companies. They’ll be able to do it without a probable cause warrant, or any oversight from a U.S. judge. This is all happening because of a new law enforcement deal between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. And while it seeks to exclude purely domestic correspondence between U.S. citizens and residents, plenty of Americans’ data will get swept up when they communicate with targeted individuals located abroad. Continue reading “Congress, Remember the 4th Amendment? It’s Time to Stop the U.S.-UK Agreement.”

Middle East Eye – by Morgan Strong

Israel is around the same size as New Jersey, one of the smallest US states and which contributes nearly $30bn to the US federal budget – very little of which is returned through federal programmes.

A portion of that money ends up in Israel. Indeed, all 50 states rely on some return of their federal taxes for infrastructure, highways, healthcare, education and other programmes. When a portion of that money is used for other purposes – such as aid to Israel – the citizens suffer the consequences.  Continue reading “US underwrites Israel’s economy, while Americans suffer”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The American Farm Bureau (AFB) warned Wednesday that farm bankruptcies are entering a parabolic move.

The farm crisis, as we’ve pointed out, is only accelerating and will likely be on par with the farm disaster that was seen in the early 1980s.  Continue reading “The Next Shoe In The Farm Crisis Drops: Bankruptcies Soar 24%”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – A suspected undocumented immigrant was shot and killed in Sunland Park, New Mexico on Monday after he fired at the U.S. patrol officers who were investigating a possible illegal border crossing, officials said.

The Customs and Border Protection officers were investigating in an area close to the border between the United States and Mexico, which is when they encountered the suspect and chased him on foot, the New Mexican state police said in a statement posted online. Continue reading “U.S. border patrol officer kills suspected undocumented immigrant”

The Great Recession

This Cat apparently does have nine lives, and it’s already used seven of them. After six consecutive quarters in which Caterpillar’s earnings failed to meet plummeting expectations, Cat’s stock started to die each time then took a dead-cat bounce back to life. After its seventh quarterly fail in October, it only climbed higher. Continue reading “Caterpillar Keeps Climbing Even on a Downgrade”

Yahoo News

Mexico City (AFP) – At least three women and six children from an American Mormon community based in northern Mexico have been killed in an ambush, a relative of the victims said on Monday.

Julian Lebaron said his cousin was on her way to the airport when she was attacked and shot in her car along with her four children in Rancho de la Mora, an area notorious for drug traffickers and bandits of all kinds.  Continue reading “At least nine American Mormon community members killed in Mexico”

Independent

Scientists in China have been condemned for using live pigs as crash test dummies, leaving them dead or painfully injured.

Seven young animals were killed after being strapped onto sleds and slammed into a wall at 30mph.  Continue reading “Live pigs killed and ‘mangled’ as scientists in China use them as crash-test dummies”

Yahoo News

A black activist who took control of one of the nation’s largest neo-Nazi groups — and vowed to dismantle it — has died amid a legal fight over who would lead the group.

James Stern died Oct. 11 after getting hospice care for cancer, according to one of his attorneys, Bob Ross, and a friend, Arne Edward List. Stern, 55, died at home in Moreno Valley, California, List said.  Continue reading “Black man who led neo-Nazi group dies amid bid to destroy it”

The Epoch Times – by Matthew Vadum

To settle a civil rights lawsuit that was backed by the Trump administration, the University of Michigan has agreed to change politically correct policies that were alleged to have chilled students’ free speech on campus.

The settlement comes as conservatives in the United States are growing increasingly concerned about ideological intolerance in the nation’s institutions. They say universities, which used to be bastions of free speech, are now hotbeds of far-left orthodoxy that drown out opposing voices and stifle independent thought.  Continue reading “University of Michigan Agrees to Roll Back Restrictions on Speech”

Daily Mail

A heavily pregnant woman used an AR-15 to kill a home intruder after two masked men entered her home in Florida, pistol whipped her husband and violently grabbed their daughter.

Jeremy King, 34, was at his home in Lithia, Florida with his 31-year-old wife when the two armed men stormed in last Wednesday at about 9pm before pointing a gun at his head and demanding money.  Continue reading “Heavily pregnant mother uses an AR-15 to kill a home intruder after two men burst into her Florida home”