From the Trenches World Report

Law and Crime – by Jerry Lambe

The real estate firm owned by Jared Kushner’s family received approximately $800 million in federally-backed funding to purchase $1.1 billion Mid-Atlantic apartment portfolio in a deal that closed Thursday. Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, the commercial lending company owned by Warren Buffet, provided Kushner Companies with the 10-year $800 million debt package backed by government-owned Freddie Mac, according to a report from Bloomberg.  Continue reading “‘He Is Walled Off’: Kushner Companies’ $800M Federally-Backed Deal Raises Ethical Questions”

Yahoo News

In a new interview, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban proposed an “update” to the Second Amendment that would protect the rights of gun owners and bolster the authority of states to dictate firearm policy within their borders.

“I would go to change the Second Amendment in ways that people probably wouldn’t expect,” says Cuban, who backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and is mulling a 2020 bid as an Independent.  Continue reading “Mark Cuban wants to change the Second Amendment in these three ways”

Sputnik

The past year has reportedly seen a further increase in anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, leaving some elements of the Jewish community concerned about expressing their faith in public.

Felix Klein, the German government’s top official against anti-Semitism, has urged Jews not to wear kippahs in some parts of the country.  Continue reading “Jews Warned Not to Wear Kippahs in Some Parts of Germany Amid Anti-Semitism Rise”

Daily Mail

Secret FBI tapes that accuse Martin Luther King Jr of having extramarital affairs with ’40 to 45 women’ and even claim he ‘looked on and laughed’ as a pastor friend raped a parishioner exist, an author has claimed.

The civil rights hero was also heard allegedly joking he was the founder of the ‘International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters’ on an agency recording that was obtained by bugging his room, according to the sensational claims made by biographer David Garrow – a Pulitzer prize-winning author and biographer of MLK.  Continue reading “Secret FBI recordings accuse Martin Luther King Jr of watching and laughing as a pastor raped a woman”

Daily Mail

A frail businessman was arrested and charged with the same crime as Jussie Smollett, and admitted his crimes straight away to save Chicago police an investigation, but now has a criminal record.

Robert Racky pleaded guilty to filing false police report last month, after calling the cops in August 2018 saying he been carjacked. In fact, he had been booted by the city for unpaid parking tickets.  Continue reading “How Robert Racky got a criminal record and Jussie Smollett didn’t”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 23, 2019) – On Tuesday, the California Senate passed a bill that would establish limited state-chartered banks to serve the cannabis industry. Final passage of this legislation would remove a major federal roadblock in front of the developing industry in the state and further nullify federal prohibition in practice.

Sen. Bob Hertzberg, (D-Van Nuys), along with a bipartisan coalition of eight cosponsors, filed Senate Bill 51 (SB51) on Dec. 4.  The legislation would create a self-contained banking system for the cannabis industry in California.  Continue reading “California Senate Passes Bill to Create Banking Alternative for Cannabis Industry, Bypass Federal Reserve”

Unz Review – by Andrew Joyce

By almost every metric, Jews are the most protected ethnic group on earth. At the frontline of this protection, Jewish institutional security is heavily subsidised by taxpayers throughout the West. In Germany, the government provides an annual stipend of $15 million to the Central Council of Jews. In the UK, the government spends around $20 million annually on both security for Jewish institutions and “Holocaust education” designed to combat “anti-Semitic ideas.” Continue reading “Thoughts on the Protected Race”

Daily Mail

Martin Scorsese’s daughter has launched a GoFundMe asking for donations to house her many pets while her $1.2million apartment is repaired despite her movie legend father being worth $100million.

Catherine Scorsese lives in a one-bedroom loft duplex in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which she bought in 2007 for $800,000.  Continue reading “Martin Scorsese’s daughter, 53, launches a GoFundme asking for people to donate $30,000 to help her house her pets because her $1.2million Brooklyn loft is flooded – despite her father being worth $100m”

ABC News

Vice President Mike Pence told the most diverse graduating class in the history of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that the world is “a dangerous place” and they should expect to see combat.

“Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq,” he said.  Continue reading “Mike Pence: West Point grads should expect to see combat”

RT

The US Army probably expected an influx of patriotic replies when it asked for testimonies about people’s service. Instead, Twitter offered disturbing stories of debilitating injuries, mental health problems and suicide.

It all began with a a video of a soldier who told the camera he joined to serve “something greater than myself.” The army, the featured soldier said, had given him the opportunity to “give to others” and better himself “as a man and a lawyer.”   Continue reading “You REALLY want to know? US Army asks members how serving ‘impacted’ them, gets schooled in replies”

AP

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Nearly two decades after the Aryan Nations’ Idaho compound was demolished, far-right extremists are maintaining a presence in the Pacific Northwest.

White nationalism has been on the rise across the U.S., but it has particular resonance along the Idaho-Washington border, where the Aryans espoused hate and violence for years.  Continue reading “Hate makes a comeback in the Pacific Northwest”

Newshub – by Vita Molyneux

A hilarious video of a man with an unusual passenger has surfaced online.

The video, thought to be shot in rural Pakistan, shows the man speeding along the road with what looks like a bundle of blankets. 

As a person filming from pulls up alongside the motorbike, the bundle of blankets turns out to be a well wrapped up cow – and not a small one either.  Continue reading “Man rides motorcycle with cow as passenger in Pakistan”

On May 19, 2019, several Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (ex. Jabhat al-Nusra) militants reported on the use of the chemical weapons in settlement of Al-Kabina by the Syrian Army (SAA). The mainstream media immediately replicated this news and a number of states brought charges against Damascus. Thus, the State Department’s new spokeswoman, Morgan Ortagus, said there had been indications of new use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. She also warned that if Assad uses chemical weapons, the United States and its allies will respond quickly and appropriately. Then on May 23, Ortagus announced that the American leadership would not rush to conclusions until the end of its own investigation.  Continue reading “New Chemical Attack Reports Fostered Divisions Among U.S. Allies”

The Future of Freedom Foundation – by Gary D. Barnett

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.
— Isabel Paterson

Compulsory schooling is a travesty. To call it education is absurd. Real education is lifelong learning as an individual, while compulsory public schooling is the indoctrination of children as a collective exercise to bring all down to the lowest level. Continue reading “The Ongoing Destruction of the Minds of Children”