From the Trenches World Report

The Daily Caller – by Evie Fordham

A woman in Texas was arrested Friday for allegedly selling her 7-year-old son to two men.

Texas Department of Public Safety officials took Esmeralda Garza, 29, into custody while she was allegedly in the process of selling two other children, her 2-year-old and 3-year-old daughters, officials said according to KIII-TV. Authorities were in her home with a warrant to search for drugs when they came upon the alleged sales of children.  Continue reading “Texas Mother in Custody For Selling Young Children”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to drain the swamp in Washington, DC and claims to be for the people, so much so that he just encouraged imposing yet another tax on American citizens’ backs which will result in raising corporate retail prices online. A new Internet collection tax will allow states to collect — (steal, rob, plunder) [taxation is theft] you get the point — from any retailer across the U.S. who sells products online. In short, the newly approved law will kill small businesses.   Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court Silently Passes Law — Internet Tax Collection — Will Kill Small Businesses”

Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston

The United States Postal Service has been hit with a $3.5 million judgment for putting an image of the wrong Statue of Liberty on a postage stamp, a report says.

Federal Judge Eric Bruggink, of the Washington DC-based United States Court of Federal Claims, sided with Las Vegas sculptor Robert Davidson who charged the Post Office with using an image of his homage to the Statue of Liberty on its 2011 Forever stamp, according to the New York Times.   Continue reading “U.S. Post Office Hit with $3.5 Million Fine for Putting Wrong Statue of Liberty on Stamp”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In its latest push to contain a recent surge in violent crime in the Bronx and other outerboroughs, New York City is spending nearly $2 million to deploy “mobile trauma units” featuring counselors and peacekeepers – or what the city calls “violence interrupters” – to try and calm worried locals and work with local gangs to try and reduce incidences of violence, according to the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading “NYC Is Sending Buses Of ‘Peacekeepers’ To Crime-Plagued Neighborhoods”

ATT.net

July 05– WASHINGTON-Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, one of the most scandal-plagued Cabinet officials in U.S. history, is leaving the agency, President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday.

“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,” Trump said in a tweet. “Within the agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this.”   Continue reading “Embattled EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Resigns Amid Scandals”

The Hill

In the ongoing saga between the United States and Chinese telecom giant ZTE, President Donald Trump has directed Secretary Wilbur Ross and the U.S. Department of Commerce to grant a temporary, 30-day reprieve for ZTE, enabling it to procure vital American parts and software so it may resume its operations.

In essence, this latest action is nothing less than a stay of execution. The seven-year export ban imposed by the Commerce Department’s Security and Enforcement Bureau on April 18 plunged the company into crisis resulting in the immediate shutdown of its assembly lines and curtailment of its operations.   Continue reading “Trump gave the giant Chinese cellphone maker a stay of execution”

Antonius Aquinas

Two recent articles* have again demonstrated that the greatest “terrorist” entity on earth is not the bogymen – Russia, China, Iran, North Korea – so often portrayed by Western presstitudes and the American government, but the United States itself!  Ever since World War II, the US has been the most militaristic, far surpassing all of the Communist and dictatorial regimes combined.   Continue reading “The United States of Terror!”

Thomas Paine National Historical Association

If by “socialist” we mean a state-supported welfare system to ensure the poor and working poor lead comfortable lives, then yes. Paine supported a social welfare state.

If by “socialist” we mean that wealth is produced by the working classes (in his day the farmers and the mechanics) and that they should reap the benefits of that wealth, then yes as well. (Paine had a labor-theory of value).   Continue reading “Was Thomas Paine a socialist?”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Actor James Dean of Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and Giant, died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, when he was only 24 years old.

Dean’s untimely death romanticized him into a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. Hollywood celebrated him by making him the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him the 18th best male movie star of Golden Age Hollywood in AFI’s 100 Years…100 Stars list.  Continue reading “James Dean faked his death? – died at age 95 in Canada”

Telegraph

Illegal immigrants, now estimated to make up a fifth of the population of Seine-Saint-Denis, north-east of Paris, are severely straining public services and creating social tensions, according to a parliamentary report.

Seine-Saint-Denis has long been the French department with the highest proportion of immigrants, but the report warns that the number of illegal migrants may have risen as high as 400,000.   Continue reading “Illegal migrants in Paris suburb soar to 400,000 as hundreds of migrant children sleep on streets”

RT

Tehran will close the Strait of Hormuz, effectively blocking all the oil shipments from the Persian Gulf if Washington succeeds in its attempts to reduce Iranian oil exports, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said.

“Any hostile attempt by the US [to impede Iran’s oil trade] will be followed by an exorbitant cost for them,” Esmail Kowsari, a deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ Sarollah base in Tehran told the Iranian Young Journalists Club, which is linked to the national broadcaster controlled by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  Continue reading “Iran threatens to block Strait of Hormuz in response to US attempts to stop its oil exports”