From the Trenches World Report

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

A twice-deported illegal alien who re-entered the U.S. illegally at least three times is accused of murdering a homeless woman in New York, immigration officials announced Thursday.

Jose F. Olmos—a Mexican national who also goes by the name Jose Olmos-Torres—was arrested on July 28 and charged with murdering Nurten Seljuk, 66, in downtown New Rochelle, New York, on July 27, the hyper-local news site Talk of the Sound reported.  Continue reading “ICE: Twice-Deported Illegal Alien Suspected of Murder in New York”

Reuters

At least 40 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend during the seven hours from midnight Saturday to early Sunday morning, with four fatalities, city police said on Sunday, a stark violent streak in a city where authorities say gun violence has been decreasing this year.

“These were both random and targeted shootings on our streets,” said Fred Waller, Chief of the Patrol Division of the Chicago Police Department, in a press conference.   Continue reading “At least 40 shot and four killed in a night of Chicago gun violence”

Courthouse News – by Edward Ericson, Jr.

BALTIMORE (CN) — Blaming police corruption in Baltimore for the death of a father of a 10, a family claims in federal court that the 86-year-old patriarch died in a car crash because officers were preoccupied with planting drugs at the scene.

They say Davis had been driving with his wife on April 28, 2010, when they were struck by a car driven by Umar Burley, who was fleeing members of the city police department’s Gun Trace Task Force.The firm Azrael Franz brought the Aug. 2 complaint in Baltimore on behalf of the nine living children of Elbert Davis Sr., as well as a son of the 10th child, who is deceased.   Continue reading “Baltimore Accused of Eluding Payouts on Police Corruption”

Blacklisted News – by Chris Lentino

Nearly a third of property tax revenue in Chicago is diverted into 143 TIF districts controlled by the mayor, nearly half of which are located in affluent neighborhoods.

Tax increment financing, or TIF, districts in Cook County generated a record $1 billion in 2017, up nearly 18 percent from 2016, according to the Cook County clerk. Chicago accounted for most of these gains by generating $660 million, an 18 percent increase from 2016. As long as these TIF districts exist, however, struggling school districts in those districts won’t see a dime of this revenue. This comes at a time when Cook County and Chicago face budget shortfalls up to $95 million and $812 million, respectively, by 2020.   Continue reading “Chicago Funnels A Third Of Property Taxes To Mayor-Managed Slush Funds”

Fox 8

CLARE COUNTY, Mich. — An 80-year-old grandmother was jailed for the first time in her life because she had a small amount of cannabis at home, but her Michigan medical marijuana card expired.

Delores Saltzman and her son Mark told FOX 17 cannabis saved her life: it worked up her appetite when she was sick; helped her heal after surgeries; and eases her pain from ongoing health conditions. They are disturbed a deputy jailed her overnight for using her medicine.   Continue reading “80-year-old grandmother who uses medical marijuana put in jail for small amount of cannabis after card expires”

MSN

A months-long search for a 3-year-old led police to a compound buried under New Mexico scrubland. After authorities raided the compound on Friday, they did not recover the toddler but found his alleged abductor and 11 other children — all of whom had been living in what the Taos County sheriff described as “the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen.”

The search began nine months earlier and nearly 1,500 miles east — in Jonesboro, Ga., where a mother told police that her husband had taken little Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj to a park and never returned.   Continue reading “11 kids rescued from armed ‘extremists’ at buried compound, New Mexico sheriff says”

Mish Talk

Mosa Meat receives $8.8 million in investment as the race to produce lab-grown meat ramps up.

The Wall Street Journal reports Startup Producing Cell-Grown Meat Raises New Funding. Continue reading “Yummy: Lab-Grown Hamburger”

Daily Mail

Wells Fargo has apologized  on Friday for a error they made that caused hundreds of customers to lose their homes over a five-year period.

The San-Francisco based bank claimed that a calculation error utilizing the company’s mortgage underwriting tool caused 625 customers to be effected.    Continue reading “Wells Fargo APOLOGIZES and admits error that caused hundreds of people to lose their homes because of a computer malfunction”

CBS News

Hurricane Hector strengthened to a Category 4 storm on Saturday as it churned toward the Central Pacific. The National Hurricane Center said the Hawaiian Islands should monitor the storm’s progress.

As of 11 p.m. ET Saturday, Hector was located 1,395 miles south of Hilo, Hawaii. It had maximum sustained winds of 130 mph and moving at 12 mph. Continue reading “Hurricane Hector becomes Category 4 storm, heads toward Hawaii”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

A 20-year-old man with Down syndrome was shot and killed by police this week as he walked down the street with a toy gun. Police claimed the young man — who, according to his mother, had the mentality of a 3-year-old — created a threat that needed to be dealt with with deadly force.

According to the victim’s father, Richard Torell, his son Eric grabbed a toy gun from his toy pile and disappeared overnight.   Continue reading “Young Man with Down Syndrome and Mentality of 3-year-old, Killed by Cops for Holding Toy Gun”

Collective Evolution – by Arjun Walia

Is Donald Trump’s administration really Donald Trump‘s administration? Was the Obama administration really the Obama administration? Was the Bush administration really the Bush administration? The answer by now should be an obvious ‘no’, as so many examples abound where corporate dominance influences and controls the political will of their puppets. Yes, this includes Donald Trump, even though he’s not an insider the same way the Bushes, the Clintons and Obama were.   Continue reading “The Trump Administration Just Lifted The Ban On Bee Killing Pesticides & GMO’s”