From the Trenches World Report

ABC News

Thousands of people who were crowded into a packed Times Square fled in panic late Tuesday after a motorcycle backfired and caused fears over a possible active shooter. The response came just days after two mass shootings in Texas and Ohio killed 31 people.

The Crossroads of the World was packed with tourists and revelers at about 10 p.m. on a warm night in New York City, when a few passing motorcycles backfired and people thought they were hearing gunfire.  Continue reading “Panic erupts in Times Square when motorcycle backfiring causes false alarm”

The Epoch Times – by Clifford Humphrey

On July 31, the New York State Board of Regents initiated a cultural revolution. The politically progressive board—which supervises all public schools in the state—voted unanimously to declare war on the “complex system of biases and structural inequities … deeply rooted in our country’s history, culture, and institutions.”

They concluded from a swath of social science studies that traditional methods of education perpetuate a culture of racism and a system of inequity. The only solution, they believe, is to incorporate into education an emphasis on “sociopolitical consciousness” that will lead to “sociocultural responsiveness” in order to supplant the dominant framework.  Continue reading “New York’s Cultural Revolutionary Education Reforms”

Middle East Eye

Battle plans for a possible future invasion of Gaza have been partially revealed, with the Israeli military outlining a strategy for a high-intensity campaign to damage civilian infrastructure and weaken Hamas, while still leaving it able to govern.

Israeli army chief Aviv Kochavi’s predecessor, Gadi Eizenkot, presided over the killing of nearly 200 Palestinian protesters in Gaza’s Great March of Return, but was still criticised as being too leftist.  Continue reading “Gaza battle plans show the Israeli military is on a dark path”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It was almost ten years ago that we first profiled the most important trading desk in the world: not one situated in any of the (increasingly empty) massive trading floors of the world’s commercial banks located in either the financial district, midtown or Connecticut, but the one inside the 9th floor of 33 Liberty Street, the home New York Fed, the one which is also known in trader folklore as the “Plunge Protection Team.”   Continue reading “Meanwhile, Inside The Plunge Protection Team: Chaos”

NBC News

The FBI will join Dayton police in investigating this past weekend’s mass shooting, with authorities focused on the killer’s “violent ideologies,” officials said Tuesday.

Federal and local authorities have thus far stopped short of calling the murder of nine people, in Dayton’s downtown entertainment district early Sunday morning, a terrorist act by Connor Betts, 24.  Continue reading “FBI investigating the ‘violent ideologies’ of Dayton shooter”

AOL

Walmart (WMT) CEO Doug McMillon said the retailer will be “thoughtful and deliberate” in its responses following the mass shootings and the renewed debate around gun violence.

“As it becomes clear that the shooting in El Paso was motivated by hate, we’re more resolved than ever to foster an inclusive environment where all people are valued and welcomed. Our store in El Paso is well known as a tight-knit community hub, where we serve customers from both sides of the border. Continue reading “Walmart CEO responds to shootings: ‘We’ll be thoughtful and deliberate in our responses’”

Press TV

Marking the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan’s Hiroshima, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States’ legacy of targeting civilians lives on 74 years after it became the only country to ever drop a nuclear bomb.

“74 yrs after US became first & ONLY regime to deploy a nuclear weapon—on a city, designed to maximize casualties—it is STILL targeting civilians,” Zarif tweeted on Tuesday.  Continue reading “US legacy of targeting civilians alive since Hiroshima: Zarif”

The Advocate – by Lea Skene

First it was an active shooter situation inside a Baton Rouge Walmart, then a shooting that left one person injured near the customer service counter — but ultimately, authorities said, it was just an argument between two store patrons that involved guns drawn but no shots fired.

With the country “on edge” after recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, law enforcement officers swarmed the store amid the panic Tuesday in case the incident turned out to be something far worse, East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said.  Continue reading “Sheriff: No gunfire at Baton Rouge Walmart, but argument prompts panic in ‘nation on edge’”

MassPrivateI

Slowly but surely fire departments are being turned into surveillance centers all in the name of public safety.

Fire departments from Iowa to New York are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on security packages that are designed to restrict public access and monitor the public. Continue reading “Firehouses Are Being Turned Into Surveillance Centers”

Today is 74th anniversary of the holocaust in city of Hiroshima by 33rd degree Freemason Harry Truman. By definition Hiroshima was a holocaust (“wholly consumed by fire” – Oxford Dictionary), but the media will not refer to it truthfully, due to the Zionist monopoly on language. pic.twitter.com/Z5aPJv6QCk

— Michael Hoffman (@HoffmanMichaelA) August 6, 2019

Middle East Monitor

US President Donald Trump is under pressure from officials and experts calling for more state resource to be directed at fighting terrorism committed by white-supremacist and to realign national security priorities which since 9/11 has dis-proportionally focused on the threat posed by radical Muslims.  Continue reading “US under pressure to target white supremacist terrorists, not just Muslim extremists”

Business Insider

Switzerland hasn’t had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself.

The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 attempted homicides with firearms. The country’s overall murder rate is near zero.  Continue reading “Switzerland has a stunningly high rate of gun ownership — here’s why it doesn’t have mass shootings”

Jim Stone

This is the most important 15 seconds of video you will ever see in your life. This proves the deep state is doing the shootings. In the video a FOX news announcer for a local station in the city a third shooting was supposed to happen in on Saturday (at another Wal Mart) announces the next shooting by accident, BEFORE IT HAPPENED, and she checks her twitter and re-checks, looks a little confused, and then says “that hasent happened yet”.  Continue reading “Fox Reporter Reports Next Shooting 23 Minutes Before It Happened: Another Building 7!!!”

USA Today

Fifty-nine people were shot in Chicago, including seven fatally, over the weekend in mostly poor, black neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides.

But as the nation grieved over the mass shooting rampages in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that left 31 dead, the daily tragedy of gun violence in the nation’s third largest city – which recorded 42 homicides in the first 28 days of July – made hardly a blip with national news outlets and cable networks.  Continue reading “El Paso, Dayton, Chicago: Media doesn’t treat all gun violence the same”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Late Monday President Trump signed an executive order imposing a full economic embargo against Venezuela after a week ago the White House began signaling it could seek to “quarantine” and fully “blockade” the Maduro regime if the president doesn’t immediately hand over power of his own accord.

The executive order freezes all government assets in the United States and prohibits all transactions by any Venezuelan officials, in what constitutes the first major expansion of sanctions targeting a nation in the western hemisphere in over three decades.  Continue reading “Trump Imposes Total Economic Embargo On Venezuela”

Washington Times – by Mark Meckler

A new survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico’s Reforma newspaper shows that Mexicans are sick and tired of migrants traveling through their nation in an attempt to get to the United States. As people from Central America flood their nation, more than 6-in-10 Mexicans complain these migrants are stealing jobs and benefits from Mexicans. A majority wants to deport them.  Continue reading “Migrant troubles in Mexico”