From the Trenches World Report

Washington Post

John Paul Stevens, a moderate Republican and former antitrust lawyer from Chicago who evolved into a savvy and sometimes passionate leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing and became the third-longest-serving justice on the court before he retired in 2010, died July 16 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 99.

The cause was complications from a stroke he suffered Monday, according to an announcement from the Supreme Court. The only justices who served longer were William O. Douglas, whom Justice Stevens replaced in 1975, and Stephen J. Field, a nominee of President Abraham Lincoln who served for much of the late 19th century.  Continue reading “John Paul Stevens, longtime leader of Supreme Court’s liberal wing, dies at 99”

The Weather Channel

The remnants of what was once Hurricane Barry brought widespread flooding into southwestern Arkansas overnight Monday and early Tuesday.

Floodwaters rose over the hoods of cars in the parking lot of the Nashville, Arkansas, Police Department. A spokeswoman for the department told weather.com water was also getting into the building. A video showed a steady stream of water flowing by the Nashville City Hall and the road in front of it.  Continue reading “Barry Impacts: Flooding Swamps Arkansas Police Station and Animal Shelter; Washes Out Highways”

Yahoo News

LOS ANGELES – Federal racketeering, murder and other charges were filed against 22 suspected MS-13 gang members who law enforcement officials believe are linked to a series of grisly killings involving baseball bats, machetes and other tools of “medieval-style” violence, authorities said Tuesday.

Nineteen of those indicted are considered illegal immigrants, and most of the group’s members arrived in the U.S. in the past four years from Central America. All but two are under the age of 24, Nicola Hanna, the U.S. Attorney for Los Angeles, announced at a news conference. Most, he added, participated in the “killing spree.”  Continue reading “MS-13 gang members indicted after ‘medieval-style’ killing spree in Los Angeles”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

There is a reason James Simons’ RenTec is the world’s best performing hedge fund – it spots trends (even if they are glaringly obvious) well ahead of almost everyone else, and certainly long before the consensus.

That’s what happened with Deutsche Bank, when as we reported two weeks ago, the quant fund pulled its cash from Deutsche Bank as a result of soaring counterparty risk, just days before the full – and to many, devastating – extent of the German lender’s historic restructuring was disclosed, and would result in a bank that is radically different from what Deutsche Bank was previously (see “The Deutsche Bank As You Know It Is No More“).  Continue reading “Bank Run: Deutsche Bank Clients Are Pulling $1 Billion A Day”

Natural News – by JD Heyes

A series of incidents that have occurred in close proximity to each other over the past several days are leading many to believe that technology is failing society and that U.S. infrastructure is collapsing faster than previously believed.

On Saturday, a wide swath of Manhattan’s West Side was plunged into darkness for several hours, and the electric company officials responsible for providing the power — Con Edison — are not sure why the failure occurred.  Continue reading “It’s all CRUMBLING… NYC power outages to continue; GPS satellites fail; tech is collapsing at an increased rate”

KBTX TV

FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) – A man has been fighting for his life in the hospital after his wife says a day kayaking with their kids left him with a terrifying infection.

Cassey Rutherford has been by her husband’s bedside at the North Alabama Medical Center in Florence. Ricky Rutherford, 41, is in the intensive care unit.  Continue reading “Ala. man contracts flesh-eating bacteria from river”

Gateway Pundit – by Joe Hoft

Far Left Communist Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s father and other Somalian war crimes perpetrators are currently living illegally in the United States.

No wonder she supports communists, terrorists and illegal aliens!  Continue reading “Report: Ilhan Omar’s Father and Other Somalian War Crimes Perpetrators Now Living Illegally in the US”

AmmoLand – by Alan Gottlieb

BELLEVUE, WA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Declaring that so-called “gun-free zones are shooting galleries for maniacs,” the Second Amendment Foundation today is calling for an end to such designations by launching an advertising campaign aimed at print and online publications.

“Without a self-defense option,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “we are all at greater risk.”

Continue reading “Gun-Free Zones Are Shooting Galleries For Maniacs; End Them”

Sputnik

Last week, a Washington-based think tank warned of “potentially devastating economic consequences” for the US and global economies if Congress didn’t pass a debt limit extension in the weeks to come.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has confirmed that the US could default on its obligations in as little as two months if emergency measures are not taken.  Continue reading “Treasury Secretary Confirms US Risks Defaulting On Its $22 Trillion Debt in as Little as Two Months”

RT

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has compared Europe’s attitude to Iran with the 1930s appeasement of Nazi Germany, after the EU foreign policy chief said Tehran’s enrichment breach wouldn’t trigger the Iran deal’s dispute mechanism.

The EU’s high representative Federica Mogherini said on Monday that the bloc did not regard Tehran’s recent breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal as being “significant” enough to set an official dispute in motion.  Continue reading “Netanyahu compares EU approach to Iran with ‘appeasement’ of Nazi Germany before WWII”

RT

Sailing through the Strait of Hormuz, an Emirates-based oil tanker has vanished (from the radar). With the strait a flashpoint for US-Iran tensions, is Tehran to blame?

The Panamanian-flagged oil tanker ‘Riah’ usually transits oil from Dubai and Sharjah to Fujairah, a trip of just under 200 nautical miles that takes a tanker like this just over a day and a half at sea. it reported its position off the coast of Dubai on July 7.  Continue reading “Mystery in the Persian Gulf: Vanishing oil tanker near Iran fuels speculation”

CBS News

Federal prosecutors won’t bring civil rights charges against a New York City police officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, a person familiar with the case confirmed to CBS News on Tuesday. The decision not to bring charges against Officer Daniel Pantaleo comes a day before the statute of limitations was set to expire, on the fifth anniversary of the encounter that led to Garner’s death.

Officers were attempting to arrest Garner on charges he sold loose, untaxed cigarettes outside a Staten Island convenience store. He refused to be handcuffed, and officers took him down.  Continue reading “NYPD officer won’t be charged by feds in Eric Garner’s chokehold death”

USA Today

RAPID CITY, S.D. – A Nebraska woman has been fined $1,000 for climbing the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.

Authorities say Alexandria Incontro scaled the massive granite sculpture Friday with bare feet and no rope. She made it to about 15 feet from the top.  Continue reading “Nebraska woman arrested after scaling Mount Rushmore with bare feet and no rope”

Argus Leader

The Oglala Sioux Tribe has become the first tribe in South Dakota to legalize same-sex marriage.

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council passed a same-sex marriage ordinance July 8 in a 12-3 vote with one abstention — which amends the marital and domestic law that hasn’t changed since 1935 on Pine Ridge Reservation. Two days later, the Oglala Sioux Tribe Law and Order Committee passed a resolution recommending that the tribe adopt a hate crime ordinance modeled on the Matthew Shepard Act, which provides federal protections for sexual orientation and gender identity.  Continue reading “Oglala Sioux Tribe legalizes same-sex marriage”

Daily Mail

The rocketing number of children seeking to change sex has become a national scandal, a powerful coalition of whistleblowers, academics and medical experts warns today.

In a dramatic intervention marking a watershed in the transgender debate, they have come together to express fears about the dire consequences faced by thousands of youngsters changing gender – including infertility and long-term health problems.  Continue reading “Experts reveal psychologists are scared to question transgender ideology”

Press TV

A senior Iraqi parliamentarian warns that the US embassy in Baghdad is involved in “suspicious activities,” saying agents of the Israeli spy agency Mossad and the Daesh terrorist group have been spotted regularly visiting the diplomatic mission.

“The US embassy in Baghdad has turned into a center for Israel’s Mossad and ISIS (Daesh) terrorists,” Hassan Salem was quoted as saying by the Iraqi Arabic-language al-Sumariya news website.  Continue reading “US mission in Baghdad serves as Mossad, Daesh headquarters: Iraqi MP”