From the Trenches World Report

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KSFY) UPDATED: 5:52 p.m. Tuesday

A 44-year-old man was shot by a Minnehaha County sheriff’s deputy after authorities say he charged officers with a knife Tuesday afternoon at the Minnehaha County Jail.

Authorities said the subject entered the Minnehaha County Jail’s front lobby, creating a disturbance. Deputies and corrections officers were dispatched to address the situation. Shortly after, authorities said the suspect began hitting the glass door of the lobby with an object, and an officer attempted to keep the doors shut. The door shatters in the process, causing the officer to suffer minor injuries.  Continue reading “Subject shot in deputy involved shooting at Minnehaha County Jail”

Government Financial Officers Association

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The Great Recession

The graph here shows the point at which I said early last summer housing sales had turned over (for the worst) and would remain on a downtrend indefinitely, and it shows how that prediction has panned out.

Existing home sales were down again nationally (4.4%) in April (fourteenth month in a row of declining sales year on year). That is the longest stretch without a single positive month since the housing-market collapse that brought on the Great Recession.  Continue reading “Housing Collapse 2.0 Continues as Predicted Here … as does everything else!”

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NEW YORK (AP) — After Eric Garner’s death following a confrontation with New York City police five years ago, one officer involved in the struggle wrote up paperwork that exaggerated the seriousness of the dead man’s suspected crime, that officer testified Tuesday.

Officer Justin Damico said that after riding in an ambulance with the dying Garner, he filled out arrest papers listing a felony tax charge that would have required prosecutors to prove Garner, a small-time street hustler, had sold 10,000 untaxed cigarettes. Continue reading “NYPD officer says he inflated charge against Eric Garner”

KBTX 3 News

CALDWELL, Tex. (KBTX)- A Somerville man remains on life-support one month after he was released from the Burleson County jail and his family is still left wondering how and why he ended up in critical condition.

Chester “CJ” Jackson, Jr., 30, was arrested by the sheriff’s office on April 19 in front of his home and booked into the county jail on one charge of public intoxication. Continue reading “Local man ends up on life support following arrest in Burleson County”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Due to a surge in migrants filling California detention facilities to capacity, US Border Patrol agents in El Centro began dumping detained border crossers three hours north at the San Bernardino Greyhound Station last Wednesday, after the agency ran out of room to house them.

“It was a decision that was made because they couldn’t take any more families and obviously we cannot keep them in custody for much longer because we are at capacity,” said acting assistant chief patrol agent Miguel Garcia, according to Reuters.  Continue reading “Go Greyhound: California Border Agents Dropping Illegal Migrants At Bus Station”

Breitbart – by Tom Ciccotta

A professor at the University of California, San Diego, told his students that unborn babies are “parasites” during a class lecture. Now, a scientist from LSU is pushing back against this absurd claim.

Breitbart News reported in April that University of California San Diego Professor Pascal Gagnuex told students that fetuses are a “legitimate parasite.” The lecture then compared fetuses to a “cancer” that “rapidly grows,” and “invades” the body.  Continue reading “Scientist: Professor’s Claim that Unborn Babies Are ‘Parasites’ Is ‘Borderline Satanic’”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

The massive numbers of families crossing the southwestern border continues to pull agents from their security missions to care for migrants. The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council recently told Fox News, “We’ve lost control of the border.”

“Our Border Patrol chief has mentioned that over 50 percent of our agents are not securing the border and they’re now actually processing, transporting, and caring for some of these asylum seekers,” U.S. Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, in his role as vice-president of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner. “But I would challenge that percentage. I would put that percentage somewhere in the range of 75 percent.”  Continue reading “Closed Immigration Checkpoints Are ‘Green Lights’ for Cartels, Says NM Sheriff”

Seattle Times –  by Brendan Kiley

On Tuesday morning, Gov. Jay Inslee signed bill 5001, titled “concerning human remains,” making Washington the first state in the U.S. to legalize human composting.

The new law, which takes effect May 1, 2020, recognizes “natural organic reduction” and alkaline hydrolysis (sometimes called “liquid cremation”) as acceptable means of disposition for human bodies. Until now, Washington code had permitted only burial and cremation.  Continue reading “Washington becomes first state to legalize human composting”

National Post – by Jen Gerson

Under the guise of a religious movement that abstains from the sins of the modern world, Mexican Mennonites with connections to some of the world’s most vicious cartels have established a drug smuggling pipeline near the Alberta border.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) indicted seven people and seized 11,000 pounds of marijuana destined for the midwest states. It also confiscated 30 kilograms of cocaine that was bound for several small towns in Alberta. Investigators say the drugs were ultimately destined for Calgary, where dealers can turn a higher profit than in the United States.  Continue reading “Mennonites linked to Mexican cartels established cocaine smuggling pipeline near Alberta border: police”

Common Dreams – by Jake Johnstone

Sparking outcry from indigenous tribes and environmental groups, the Texas state Senate on Monday passed industry-backed Republican legislation that would hit pipeline protestors with a third-degree felony and up to ten years in prison.

“Here in Texas, members of the legislative body are looking to pass laws that harshly criminalize free speech and the right to protest,” Juan Mancias, Tribal Elder with the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, said in a statement. Continue reading “Outrage as Texas Senate Passes ‘Unconstitutional’ Bill That Would Hit Pipeline Protestors With Up to 10 Years in Prison”