From the Trenches World Report

Tallahassee Democrat

Fired Jackson County Deputy Zach Wester was arrested Wednesday on racketeering and numerous other charges for allegedly planting meth and other street drugs on unsuspecting motorists before hauling them off to jail.

Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, who have been investigating Wester for more than nine months, arrested him in Crawfordville and took him to the Wakulla County Jail, where he is being held without bail. Wester, expected to make his first court appearance on Thursday, invoked his right to remain silent and declined to speak with investigators.  Continue reading “‘Something we’re not proud of’: Fired deputy Zach Wester arrested in drug planting probe”

“The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; only mobilizing the masses and relying on them can wage it.” – Mao

Tuesday, July 9 2019, Hong Kong’s Chinese anointed leader of the Legislative Council, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-Ngor, assured protesters that the controversial extradition bill was ” dead.” Previously she had assured the protesters that the same bill was “suspended.” The protesters ain’t buying it.  Continue reading “Hong Kong: The Truth Walks the Streets! Or….Tiananmen Redux?”

Political Insider

Sen. Chuck Schumer has called for Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign and has even said President Trump should “answer” for his relationship with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

But there’s one thing Schumer hasn’t talked about: He received thousands in donations from Epstein over a number of years during the 1990s.  Continue reading “Chuck Schumer Received Thousands in Donations from Jeffrey Epstein”

New York Post – by Elizabeth Rosner, Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Bruce Golding

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days — and the NYPD says it’s fine with that.

After being labeled a worst-of-the-worst, “Level 3” sex offender in 2011, Epstein should have reported in person to verify his address 34 times before he was arrested Saturday on federal child sex-trafficking charges.  Continue reading “NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins”

Mint Press News – by Miko Peled

JERUSALEM, PALESTINE — While Israel tries to portray a friendly face to the outside world, internally it is promoting racism and violence at levels that are more alarming than ever before. A course to prepare young high school students traveling overseas to be good “ambassadors” stands in contrast to racist policies and the advancement of a military that is encouraged to exercise unprecedented violence against civilians.  Continue reading ““Go Forth and Lie” Israel Rolls Out Mandatory Course for Students Travelling Abroad”

The Unz Review

Despite a moderate economic recovery, President Emmanuel Macron’s government continues to flounder in unpopularity. A recent poll found only 1 in 4 people had a positive view of the French president and his government, while 66% had an outright negative view. Every regime under siege has a choice: improve its performance and unify the country or . . . crack down on critical opposition. The Macron regime has decidedly opted for the latter, proposing yet another law to destroy that pesky last bastion of free speech in France: the Internet.   Continue reading “Dark Days in France”

Fox News

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., signed a bill into law on Tuesday making young illegal immigrants eligible for the Medicaid program in California, making it the first state to offer such taxpayer-funded health benefits to low-income adults age 25 and younger regardless of their immigration status.

State officials said they expected the plan to cover about 90,000 people and cost taxpayers $98 million. California already covered children 18 and younger regardless of immigration status.  Continue reading “California becomes 1st state to give taxpayer-funded health benefits to illegal immigrants”

The Guardian

Sir Keir Starmer says he wants to see Labour’s rulebook changed so that in a clear case of antisemitism a member is automatically expelled.

The shadow Brexit secretary’s comments, which follow a similar call earlier this week from Gordon Brown, come as the party braces itself for Wednesday night’s broadcast of a potentially damaging BBC Panorama investigation into its handling of the issue.  Continue reading “Labour needs exclusion rule for antisemitism, says Keir Starmer”

Haaretz

Israel’s education minister has likened intermarriage among diaspora Jews, and particularly North American Jews, to the Holocaust in a recent cabinet meeting. A spokesman for Education Minister Rafi Peretz confirmed Tuesday that Peretz said that “assimilation is like a second Holocaust.”

Peretz, of the Union of Right-Wing Parties, made the statement, first reported by Barak Ravid of Israel’s Channel 13 News, during a session on the state of world Jewry, where ministers discussed the global threat of anti-Semitism and other issues concerning diaspora Jews.  Continue reading “Intermarriage Among Diaspora Jews Is ‘Like a Second Holocaust,’ Israel’s Education Minister Says”

Next Gov

With scant public notice, federal immigration officials are relying on databases run by foreign police and militaries to check whether migrants crossing the United States border have gang affiliations, which would allow officials to detain and eventually deport them.

The information is being provided through a new “fusion” intelligence-gathering center in El Salvador that is funded by the State Department and works in tandem with the Homeland Security Department.  Continue reading “Immigration Officials Use Secretive Gang Databases to Deny Migrant Asylum Claims”