From the Trenches World Report

Penn Live

HARRISBURG — People convicted of theft for such minor issues as overdue library books or plumbing bills may not realize they have a record because a district judge in northwestern Pennsylvania misclassified civil claims against them, a state official said Thursday.

Former District Judge Brenda Williams Nichols misclassified more than 800 civil claims as theft of services violations while serving in office from 2014 through 2017, Democratic Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said.  Continue reading “Hundreds in Pa. wrongly got criminal record for unpaid bills: audit”

DC Clothesline – by Dean Garrison

On July 18, 2019, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed S. 1273, the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (CASE Act), legislation that will provide U.S. creators with a viable means for defending their copyrighted works through the creation of a small claims tribunal within the U.S. Copyright Office.  Continue reading “Media BLACKOUT: If Senate Bill 1273 Passes You Could Be Fined $15,000 for Sharing Memes on Social Media”

The Weather Channel

Urban explorer and abandoned sites photographer Liz Roll has compiled a collection of decommissioned U.S. forts throughout the East Coast.

While some are now public parks, like Maryland’s Fort Washington and New Jersey’s Fort Hancock, others are left abandoned and barely noticed like Topsail Island’s towers in North Carolina.  Continue reading “Abandoned U.S. Forts Throughout the East Coast”

Yahoo News

Washington (AFP) – The US military said on Thursday it had arrested 16 Marines on human trafficking and drug-related charges.

The group was taken into custody during a battalion formation at Camp Pendleton, a major Marine base in California about 65 miles (90 kilometers) north of the Mexican border.  Continue reading “Sixteen US Marines arrested on human trafficking, drugs charges”

Times of Israel

JTA — More than 1,400 Jewish clergy from across the United States have signed a letter that calls on government officials to protect the legal right to seek asylum in the United States.

HIAS, an immigrant advocacy and aid group formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, organized the petition. It calls on elected officials to “act immediately to provide a just and humane asylum process for those seeking safety in our country, wherever they come from and however they arrive.”  Continue reading “Over 1,400 US Jewish clergy sign letter supporting asylum seekers”

Times of Israel

Six Iranians fighting for the Syrian regime were among those killed in reported Israeli missile strikes in southern Syria this week, a war monitor said Thursday.

Israeli missiles targeted “military positions and intelligence facilities belonging to Iran and [pro-Iranian] militias” in the southern provinces of Daraa and Quneitra early on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.  Continue reading “6 Iranians among 9 dead in Israeli strike on Syria, monitor says”

Overdrive

The American Trucking Associations on Wednesday asserted that the gap between the number of available, qualified drivers and the number of drivers needed by fleets is widening. The ATA report forecasts what it considers a “driver shortage” will reach 160,000 by 2028, if current trends continue.

ATA estimates there will be a driver shortfall of 59,500 this year, down slightly from its estimate of 60,800 for 2018, but well above the 2017 estimate of 50,700.  Continue reading “ATA casts ‘driver shortage’ as worsening”

RT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that all standing agreements with the state of Israel will be suspended indefinitely, following the bulldozing of homes in the occupied West Bank.

President Abbas announced the decision on Thursday afternoon, and said it would take effect by Friday. The move comes in response to the Israeli government’s demolition of homes in Wadi Hummus, a Palestinian community in southeast Jerusalem.  Continue reading “Palestine’s Abbas suspends ALL agreements with Israel”

Henry-Makow—Illuminati—-(2008)

CBR – by LD Nolan, June 23, 2019

Former Walt Disney Company executive Michael Laney has been sentenced to 81 months in prison for four counts of first-degree sexual abuse involving a 7-year-old girl.

According to WTKR, Laney, who is 73-years-old, “will have to register as a sex offender and pay a $4,000 fine.”  Continue reading “Former Walt Disney VP Sentenced to Prison in Child Sex Abuse Investigation”

Chuck Baldwin

It is official: The Tea Party is dead. Writing for National Review, Brian Riedl rightly sums it up:

President Trump and congressional leaders are nearing a deal that would raise the discretionary-spending caps by $320 billion over two years and offset less than one-quarter of those costs (and even those offsets would take a decade to materialize). The budget deal would essentially repeal the final two years of the 2011 Budget Control Act and raise the baseline for future discretionary spending by nearly $2 trillion over the decade.  Continue reading “The Tea Party Is Dead And So Are The Patriot Movement And The Evangelical Church”

Jewish Telegraph Agency

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israeli Embassy in Finland has been vandalized by neo-Nazi and far right extremists for at least the 15th time in the last year and a half.

The glass front door of the embassy in Helsinki was shattered over the weekend, and images of swastikas and Adolf Hitler were hung in the entrance to the building, Ynet reported.  Continue reading “Israeli Embassy in Finland attacked for 15th time in past 18 months”

LifeSiteNews – by Lisa Bourne

July 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The Minnesota mother whose son was maneuvered through a “sex change” by county officials has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review her case. She is charging the government with usurping her parental rights when its agents provided her son with transgender services and narcotic drugs against her wishes.

The Thomas More Society petitioned the High Court Wednesday on behalf of Anmarie Calgaro, arguing that Calgaro’s due process rights were “trampled on” when St. Louis County and its referred health providers “ended her parental control over her minor son without a court order of emancipation.”  Continue reading “Mom sues county for giving her minor son sex change without her consent”

New York Daily News

Continue reading “Deputy in Georgia shoots and kills canine, not realizing it was a police dog”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

India’s government and companies are openly pushing for the U.S. Senate passage of a bipartisan “country caps” bill that would reward 100,000 Indian graduates per year with green cards if they take technology jobs in America.

“I must compliment the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants bill which removes country caps on the H1B visas,” Indian ambassador Harsh Shringla told a D.C. meeting of lobbyists and advocates on Tuesday.  Continue reading “India Ambassador Praises House for Outsourcing U.S. College Jobs to Indians”