From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago teenager will be sentenced Wednesday for using a gun given to her by an uncle to kill another girl in what started as a Facebook feud over a boy, ending a chapter in a case that came to symbolize how the gun violence that plagues parts of the city passes from one generation to the next.

The teen, who turns 19 next month, pleaded guilty in January to first-degree murder in the April 2014 killing of Endia Martin, when both were 14 years old, and attempted first-degree murder in the wounding of Lanekia Reynolds, the girl she went to fight that day.  Continue reading “Chicago teen to be sentenced in 2014 Facebook feud slaying”

AP

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some critics of the forced separation of Latino children from their migrant parents say the practice is unprecedented. But it’s not the first time the U.S. government has split up families, detained children or allowed others to do so.

Throughout American history, during times of war and unrest, authorities have cited various reasons and laws to take children away from their parents. Here are some examples:   Continue reading “AP Explains: US has split up families throughout its history”

Antonius Aquinas

Fed Chair Jerome Powell apparently doesn’t see the pernicious effects of inflation

At one time, the Federal Reserve’s sole mandate was to maintain stable prices and to “fight inflation.”  To the Fed, the financial press, and most everyone else “inflation” means rising prices instead of its original and true definition as an increase in the money supply.  Rising prices are a consequence – a very painful consequence – of money printing.   Continue reading “The Fed’s “Inflation Target” is Impoverishing American Workers”

Breitbart – by John Binder

An illegal alien from El Salvador has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder for allegedly stabbing a woman while she was caring for a racehorse in Nassau County, New York.

Jose Franco-Martinez, a 53-year-old illegal alien, is accused of stabbing Maria Larin, 51, to death while she was caring for a racehorse at the Belmont Park racetrack, according to the New York Post.   Continue reading “Illegal Alien Accused of Stabbing Woman While She Cared for Racehorse”

ArsTechnica – by Jonathan M Gitlin

The most important safety feature on your car isn’t its airbag or even the seat belts—it’s the tires. This should be obvious; those four round black things are the only part of the vehicle to actually touch the road, after all. Sadly, most American drivers fail to take care of their tires, with 35 percent of drivers not able to tell if their tires are bald. When you consider that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that vehicles with worn out tires were three times more likely to end up in a crash, you can see the problem.  Continue reading “More than one in three drivers doesn’t know when their tires are bald”

PJ Media – by Tyler O’Neil

No fewer than 60 organizations branded “hate groups” or otherwise attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are considering legal action against the left-wing smear factory, a Christian legal nonprofit leader confirmed to PJ Media on Tuesday. He suggested that the $3 million settlement and apology the SPLC gave to Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam Foundation on Monday would encourage further legal action.

“We haven’t filed anything against the SPLC, but I think a number of organizations have been considering filing lawsuits against the SPLC, because they have been doing to a lot of organizations exactly what they did to Maajid Nawaz that’s part of the settlement,” Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, told PJ Media on Tuesday.   Continue reading “‘About 60 Organizations’ Are Considering a Lawsuit Against the SPLC Following $3M Nawaz Settlement”

RT

Both chambers of the Canadian parliament have voted to approve the bill, paving the way for recreational use of marijuana and its cultivation, including home growth. To become law, it needs a largely formal royal approval.

The Canadian non-elected Senate passed the bill, commonly known as the Cannabis Act, on Tuesday, with 52 votes in favor and 29 against. The long-awaited piece of legislation, which has been in the works for several years, will now require a royal assent, a formal consent of the Queen, to approve the law, granted by the governor general.   Continue reading “First in the West: Canada votes to legalize recreational cannabis, lifting 95yo ban”

The Local

New research shows there are an estimated 2,332,000 firearms in civilian possession in Switzerland, or 27.6 weapons per hundred inhabitants.

This puts the country 16th overall in terms of ownership of civilian firearms, according to data just published by the Geneva-based NGO Small Arms Survey.
Continue reading “Switzerland ranks 16th for civilian firearms: survey”

Bearing Arms – by Tom Knighton

In my neck of the woods, people get rather squirrely about alcohol. They don’t want it to be sold in certain places like near schools, churches, or other such places. People who support these laws forget that there’s literally nothing stopping people from bringing said alcohol as close to the church as they want–they also forget that not all faiths have a prohibition against alcohol, but that’s another topic for another time.

A town in New Jersey is looking to start treating gun stores the same as liquor stores are treated here.   Continue reading “New Jersey Town To Require Distance Between Gun Stores, Schools”

Bloomberg

The Trump administration withdrew from the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, making good on a pledge to leave a body it accused of hypocrisy and bias against Israel.

“For too long, the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers, and a cesspool of political bias,” Nikki Haley, the American ambassador to the UN, said Tuesday at the State Department in Washington. She said the decision was an affirmation of U.S. respect for human rights, a commitment that “does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”  Continue reading “U.S. Quits UN Human Rights Council, Saying It’s Anti-Israel”

Bloomberg

Americans’ long-running joke about a Starbucks on every corner may be nearing its end.

The coffee behemoth is retrenching in its home market as it contends with sales growth that Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson acknowledges isn’t fast enough. The cafe chain said Tuesday it expects comparable sales to rise just 1 percent globally for the current quarter—the worst performance in about nine years. That’s well below the 2.9 percent analysts were expecting, according to Consensus Metrix.   Continue reading “Starbucks Pumps the Brakes in Its Home Market”

US Breaking News

THE DEMOCRATS ARE HAVING SELECTIVE MEMORY…The faux outrage is such a joke if you remember back in 2015 when photos and videos of illegal alien kids were scant. The politicians and reporters were mostly not allowed to enter the camps holding children. Republican lawmakers attempted to enter but were prohibited. Now we have Democrats practically busting the doors down to get into these detention facilities. Hypocrites and liars all!   Continue reading “Dems Using Illegal Kids As Midterm Pawns But Said Nothing During 2015 Border Surge”

Collective Evolution – by Richard Enos

(Note: If you have not read part 1 of this article, my strong recommendation is to follow the link and read it first, because it provides an essential context for the discussion here.)

As we described in Part 1, Lucifer is considered to be a highly evolved ‘group soul’, having reached 6th density, while our world is currently in 3rd density transitioning to 4th density. The concept of ‘group soul’ is important here, as it suggests that, as individual souls evolve towards reunion with the One Creator, they gather into ever larger sub-groups of consciousness from which they came.   Continue reading “Who Lucifer Actually Is & Why They Are Here (Part 2: Bloodline Families)”