From the Trenches World Report

Middle East Monitor

Israel is planning to settle some 250,000 settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights over the next 30 years, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) revealed yesterday.

According to Anadolu, the report comes one week after US President Donald Trump signed a presidential decree recognising the Golan Heights as “Israeli territory”. Continue reading “Israel to house 250,000 settlers to occupied Golan Heights”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Williamston, SC — In 2017, the former police chief for Williamston, South Carolina walked into a bank of America with a gun, handed the teller a note, and then walked out of the bank with a sack of cash. He was later arrested and found guilty for committing armed robbery—a felony, according to 16-11-330— that imposes a penalty of 10 to 30 years. However, he received no jail time. Now, after receiving his blue privilege in the form of a wrist slap for robbing a bank, this former top cop has struck again.

Richard Edward Inman, 47, was arrested late last month for robbing yet another Bank of America—this time, in Pawleys Island. Inman was apparently on a mission to get away and as he tried to escape, he was shot.  Continue reading “Police Chief Who Wasn’t Jailed for Robbing Bank, Just Robbed Another Bank and Got Shot”

The Daily Sheeple – by Sean Walton

House Bill 206, designed to restore Second Amendment rights in Idaho to 18-20-year-old adults in Idaho cities, has passed both the House and the Senate. Is on the way to Governor Brad Little for his signature. It is expected that Governor Little will sign it.

Under current law, an Idaho resident 21 years old or older can carry a concealed handgun anywhere in the state without a permit. A nonresident over the age of 21 or an Idaho resident between 18 and 21 years of age cannot carry a handgun within city limits without having a concealed carry permit.  Continue reading “Idaho to restore Second Amendment rights to 18 year olds.”

Breitbart – by Matthew Boyle

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is pressing the IRS to investigate the tax-exempt status of leftist group Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization that has been mired in scandal.

Cotton argues that a series of recent reports regarding the leftist group’s patently political activities are troubling, and in a letter to the head of the IRS provided to Breitbart News exclusively ahead of its public release questions whether these actions warrant removal of the group’s status as a nonprofit organization.  Continue reading “Tom Cotton Pushes IRS to Investigate Southern Poverty Law Center’s Tax-Exempt Status”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Speaking Tuesday in the House of Commons, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt issued a critique of US policy and stern rebuke to President Trump’s recent controversial move to bestow formal US recognition on the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory.

Hunt’s words, which he said represents long-standing UK policy, came during a question and answer session in reaction to a fellow Conservative MP member, who raised the “matter of the greatest regret that our allies, the United States, are in clear contravention of UN Resolution 497.”  Continue reading “UK Condemns Trump’s Recognition Of Golan Heights As Israeli Territory”

Common Dreams – by Julia Conley

Lawyers for an American journalist who believes he was placed on the government’s infamous “kill list” warned Tuesday that the rights of all U.S. citizens are at stake if the country’s drone assassination program is allowed to continue.

The organization’s comments came as part of a response to the U.S. government’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit regarding its use of the list. Reprieve is representing Bilal Abdul Kareem, a journalist and U.S. citizen who claims he was repeatedly targeted —and nearly killed on five separate occasions—by drone and missile attacks in 2016 when he was reporting on the ongoing conflict in Syria. Continue reading “US Government’s Refusal to Confirm or Deny It Put American Journalist on Drone Kill List Called ‘Chilling’”

The Weather Channel

A wilderness area tucked into a corner of northwestern Nevada near the borders of California and Oregon has become only the seventh place in the world to be designated an International Dark Sky Sanctuary.

The Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area in Nevada’s Washoe County received the designation from the International Dark-Sky Association.  Continue reading “Nevada Wilderness Area Designated as One of the World’s Darkest Places”

The Organic Prepper – by Dagny Taggart

A robot walks into a bar and takes a seat. The bartender says, “We don’t serve robots.”

The robot replies, “Someday – soon – you will.”

Because the inevitable reality of robot overlords eventually taking over isn’t troubling enough, we now have another reason to be concerned about artificial intelligence. Continue reading “Robots Have No Sense of Humor and Might KILL You Over a Joke”

Yahoo News

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh City Council gave final approval Tuesday to gun restrictions proposed after last year’s synagogue massacre, inviting a legal challenge by gun-rights activists who have long tangled with the city over firearms.

After taking an initial vote last week, the all-Democratic council voted 6-3 to send the legislation to the desk of Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto, who is expected to sign the bills into law.  Continue reading “Pittsburgh approves gun restrictions; lawsuits expected”

Yahoo News

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump’s threat to shut down the southern border raised fears Monday of dire economic consequences in the U.S. and an upheaval of daily life in a stretch of the country that relies on the international flow of not just goods and services but also students, families and workers.

Politicians, business leaders and economists warned that such a move would block incoming shipments of fruits and vegetables, TVs, medical devices and other products and cut off people who commute to their jobs or school or come across to go shopping. Continue reading “Trump’s threat to close border stirs fears of economic harm”

Reuters

MALVERN, Iowa (Reuters) – The Black Hawk military helicopter flew over Iowa, giving a senior U.S. agriculture official and U.S. senator an eyeful of the flood damage below, where yellow corn from ruptured metal silos spilled out into the muddy water.

And there’s nothing the U.S. government can do about the millions of bushels of damaged crops here under current laws or disaster-aid programs, U.S. Agriculture Under Secretary Bill Northey told a Reuters reporter who joined the flight.  Continue reading “U.S. disaster aid won’t cover crops drowned by Midwest floods”

Right of the Right

Belgium’s anti-immigration New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party proposed a bill on migration and integration on Saturday, ahead of Europe’s May parliamentary vote, suggesting to ban dual citizenship:

“Those who want to be granted our [Belgian] citizenship will have to give up their original citizenship. Belgian citizenship is not a right, it is a reward. It symbolizes a successful full integration”, the bill reads. Continue reading “Belgium’s ‘Far Right’ Party Proposes Banning Jews from Being Dual Israeli Citizens?”

New York Post – by Emily Saul

A Nxivm cult member who secretly pleaded guilty last week to charges of racketeering conspiracy admitted to keeping her own personal slave locked in a room for two years, newly unsealed court documents reveal.

“I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York,” said Lauren Salzman to Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis last week.  Continue reading “Nxivm member admits enslaving woman in a locked room for 2 years”

AP News

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he threatens to shut down the southern border, President Donald Trump is considering bringing on a “border” or “immigration czar” to coordinate immigration policy across various federal agencies, according to four people familiar with the discussions.

Trump is weighing at least two potential candidates for the post: former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, according to the people, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the conversations publicly.  Continue reading “Trump considering naming an ‘immigration czar’”