From the Trenches World Report

Middle East Eye

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”

Dallas Morning News

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”

Daily Mail

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”

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”

Breitbart – by Amy Furr

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”

Fox News

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”

Natural News – by Ethan Huff

A New Jersey police department recently implemented new technology that allows 911 operators in the area to stream live video from callers’ smartphones with the touch of a button.

While callers will still have to give their consent to such monitoring, some media outlets have dubbed the technology a slippery slope towards automatic surveillance, whereby Big Brother will one day have immediate access to people’s smartphones without their consent.  Continue reading “The government can now activate your phone camera to stream live video of whatever you are seeing”

Washington Examiner – by Anna Giaritelli

Border Patrol agents working along the United States-Mexico border took into custody approximately 851,000 people in the U.S. government’s fiscal 2019, marking the highest number of arrests since 2007, according to federal data exclusively obtained by the Washington Examiner.

But the 40,000 people taken into custody in September is less than one-third of the 132,000 arrests made in May at the height of a surge of illegal immigrants. Continue reading “Most illegal crossings in 12 years: Border Patrol took 851,000 into custody during fiscal 2019”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

The White House issued a presidential proclamation on Friday night requiring many future immigrant visa applicants to show they can afford health care, a move that could make it harder for poor migrants to enter the U.S.

The action, which is set to take effect in 30 days, would require applicants, including people with ties to family members in the U.S., to show they have health insurance or prove their financial ability to pay for medical care before being issued a visa that could lead to a green card. Continue reading “Immigrant-Visa applicants will be required to show they can afford health care before being issued a visa”

Yahoo News

HOUSTON (AP) — A Jewish death row inmate who was part of the “Texas 7” gang of escaped prisoners and faced execution in less than a week won a reprieve on Friday after claiming the former judge at his trial was anti-Semitic and frequently used racial slurs.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution for Randy Halprin, who had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Oct. 10. The appeals court ordered Halprin’s case be sent back to the Dallas County court that convicted him, so it can review his claims that his trial judge was biased against him because he is Jewish. Continue reading “Texas execution halted over claims judge was anti-Semitic”

KWTX

TONEY, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) – According to Limestone County deputies, a Toney woman was worried her methamphetamine was unsafe, so she called the sheriff’s office.

Deputies say Jennifer Hall called dispatch, and when deputies arrived, she pulled out a bag of meth.  Continue reading “Alabama woman calls sheriff’s office to test her meth, deputies say”

Daily Mail

New York City authorities said four men, who are believed to be homeless, were beaten to death with a ‘metal object’ while they were sleeping.

Officers responded to a 911 call for a person being assaulted in the vicinity of 2 Bowery in Manhattan’s Chinatown district around 1.49am Saturday morning.  Continue reading “Four homeless men are battered to death in their sleep in New York’s Chinatown ‘by 24-year-old man with a metal object’”

Boing Boing

You may have already heard about Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little St. James, and its mysterious temple. Now, the Miami Herald has a report on the apparently nefarious means Epstein used to buy a second island called Great St. James Cay. Per the report, the owner was determined not to sell to Epstein in light of Epstein’s 2008 conviction. Epstein was undeterred: Continue reading “Epstein’s other island”