From the Trenches World Report

The Oregonian – by Everton Bailey Jr.

A Portland man who offered four times to pay a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent thousands of dollars to have his estranged wife and daughter deported last year was sentenced Monday to four months in prison.

Antonio O. Burgos, 48, and his wife were in the process of divorcing when he followed an ICE deportation officer from the agency’s Portland office to Vancouver last May, offered the agent money to deport his family to El Salvador after the officer pulled over and confronted him and gave the officer his contact information after he was turned down, federal prosecutors said.  Continue reading “Portland man who offered ICE agent $4,000 to deport estranged wife, child gets 4 months in prison”

American Herald Tribune – by Philip Giraldi

Increasingly, groups and even foreign governments have pandered to Israel and its supporters in the United States because they have come to understand that success in dealing with Washington can be dependent on Jewish support. Last week, Raed Saleh, the leader of the so-called White Helmets, also referred to as the Syrian Civil Defense, a terrorist-affiliated group, was in the United States to “…receive the Elie Wiesel Award from the Holocaust Memorial Museum for his organization’s work in Syria.” He was also dropping by to pick up a check for $5 million courtesy of the U.S. government “…to help us with acquiring ambulances and help us with search and rescue operations.  Continue reading “Israel’s Terrorists: The White Helmets Receive an Award”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Nearly 12 million Americans remain out of the United States labor force as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) approved 30,000 more foreign workers  businesses can bring to the country to take blue-collar U.S. jobs.

As Breitbart News reported, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said this week that he would approve an additional 30,000 H-2B foreign visa workers to be brought to the U.S. by businesses to take blue-collar, non-agricultural jobs. This comes as former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen approved an additional 30,000 H-2B foreign workers in March.  Continue reading “12M Americans Out of Workforce as DHS Approves 30K More Foreign Workers”

AP

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — A former emergency medical services chief in New Jersey has admitted falsifying patient care records in order to bilk insurance companies to collect money for services that were not billable.

Donald Horner on Tuesday pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and tampering with public records. Under terms of a plea agreement, the 67-year-old must make restitution, forfeit his emergency medical technician certification, perform community service and pay a $1,300 fine.  Continue reading “EMS chief admits falsifying reports to dupe insurers”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

The Trump administration is scrambling to deploy troops, warships, and bombers into the Middle East this week, with top officials talking up the possibility of attacking Iran, and analysts saying the US appears closer to such a war than any time since Trump took office.  Continue reading “Trump Inches Toward Attacking Iran”

Middle East Monitor

The main points of US President Donald Trump’s much-derided plan for the Middle East, the so-called “deal of the century,” were leaked by a Hebrew-language news outlet in Israel yesterday. Israel Hayom published the main points of the deal from a leaked document circulated by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

The US has said it will reveal its deal after the Muslim month of fasting comes to an end in early June.  Continue reading “Israel newspaper publishes terms of ‘Deal of Century’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The Trump Administration is looking into altering how it determines the national poverty level, which may put some Americans at risk of losing access to welfare programs, according to Bloomberg. The move might occur from changing how inflation is calculated in the “official poverty measure” according to a regulatory filing by White House Office of Management and Budget. That formula has been used for decades to try and determine where the poverty line is and what people qualify for social programs and federal benefits.   Continue reading “Trump Plans To Redefine Poverty, Cutting Americans From Welfare”

Wired – by Megan Molteni

BY NOW, YOU’VE probably been taught to gird your sun-starved skin for battle with cancer-causing cosmic rays every time you go outside. Choose a spray, choose a lotion, but by heavens, choose something! Legions of doctors, parents, and YouTube beauty influencers are unanimous on this point. But with sunscreen application evolving from a week or two at the beach every year to a constant daily slather, US health regulators want to know more about how all those photoprotective chemicals interact with people’s skin. Continue reading “Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All the Way Into Your Bloodstream”

USA Today

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — A “juvenile female” was identified as the second suspect in a shooting rampage at a suburban Denver school that left one student dead and eight others wounded, authorities said Wednesday.

Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said Devon Erickson, 18, and the unnamed girl opened fire in two classrooms Tuesday at STEM School Highland Ranch, igniting chaos as students ran for cover and hid in closets and under desks.  Continue reading “Second suspect in Colorado school shooting is a girl, sheriff says”

NBC News

A senior at the Colorado school where two fellow students opened fire Tuesday, killing one and injuring eight, recalled the moment one of the shooters, a male classmate, pulled out a gun in her English class.

Nui Giasolli, a student at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a K-12 school in a Denver suburb, was in her British literature course when the shooting occurred.  Continue reading “‘Next thing I know he is pulling a gun’: Colorado student on school shooting that killed 1, injured 8”

I’ve just finished reading about another shooting in Denver, Colorado. Supposedly, another 18 year old teen shooter was one of two suspects involved in a Highlands Ranch, Colorado school shooting, 1 dead 7 injured. To me, this rings hollow. This type of thing has been going on for years, so much so that we just breeze over the headlines. As I was reading this I starting thinking to myself, what kind of video games do these supposed shooters play at home with their friends?    Continue reading “True Patriotic Video Games About The Bill of Rights?”