From the Trenches World Report

Business Insider – by Michelle Mark

Last week’s deadly shooting at a Florida high school has renewed calls for gun-control legislation — but some finance-industry titans could take the issue into their own hands.

The New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote on Monday that he had spent several days speaking with “a handful of chief executives” to discuss how banks and credit-card companies could intervene in gun sales. Sorkin said he found universal enthusiasm, though none of the executives would speak on the record.   Continue reading “Banks are mulling a creative way to enforce gun control even if the US government doesn’t make a single change”

Wall Street Journal

Syrian regime forces backed by Russian warplanes pounded a rebel-held suburb of the capital, intensifying months of attacks in catastrophic scenes reminiscent of the scorched-earth campaign that flattened much of Aleppo.

Some 160 people, including women, children and a rescue worker, have been killed in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, over the past two days, activist and medical groups said—one of the highest death tolls in years there.  Continue reading “Syrian Forces Backed by Russia Bombard Hard-Hit Suburb of Capital”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a constitutional challenge brought by gun rights activists to a California law imposing a 10-day waiting period for the purchase of firearms, intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.

Signaling its continued reluctance to step into the growing national debate over gun control, the nine justices left in place a lower court ruling that upheld the waiting period put in place in the Democratic-governed state that has some of the broadest U.S. firearms restrictions.   Continue reading “Top court rejects challenge to California gun waiting period”

Hawaii raises fist!! Yea!! (for now anyway, jeez)

Hawaii News Now

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – After receiving nearly 1,000 pieces of testimony, state Sen. Kai Kahele requested that his bill requiring background checks for parents who home-school their children be withdrawn.

Senate Bill 2323 was deferred by the Education Committee late Wednesday afternoon.  Continue reading “Senator yanks bill requiring background checks for parents who home-school their children”

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The Anglo-American Establishment – Carroll Quigley

Jerusalem Post

Israel will receive $3.3 billion in funding from the United States under President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget request for the Department of State, a US official announced at a department briefing on Monday.

Hari Sastry, the Director of the Office of US Foreign Assistance Resources at the State Department, noted that Israel will receive a bump of $200 million in aid under the proposed budget.   Continue reading “Trump’s 2019 budget request includes $200 millon increase to Israel”

The Duran – by Alex Christoforow

I am certain that Mueller and his team of cracker jack investigators are making shit up as they go along, in this entire “Russia collusion” (or is it now “meddling”) investigation…all the while sitting back and collecting million dollar paychecks from American taxpayers…laughing all the way to the bank at the hysteria they are purposefully creating.

Case in point, Mueller and his team completely lifted the pathetic ’13 Russian troll’ indictment from a propaganda article published on Ukraine’s Radio Free Europe web site way back in 2015.   Continue reading “Robert Mueller’s ’13 Russian trolls indictment’ is a COPY + PASTE job from 2015 Ukrainian Radio Free Europe post”

MassPrivateI

Everywhere you turn politicians and corporations are trying to convince the public we need to convert our cities into ‘smart cities’.

Last week AnyVision and Nvidia announced that they are working together to put facial recognition cameras in cities across the globe.   Continue reading “AnyVision’s facial recognition cameras are being installed in ‘smart cites’ everywhere”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Edmonton, CA — Two Edmonton police officers were found guilty this week for running a highly profitable steroid ring—selling anabolic steroids to fellow cops.

Edmonton Police officer Greg Lewis was tried and convicted on multiple counts of trafficking a controlled substance while he ostensibly protected the people of Edmonton.

“Given (the) convictions on two of those charges, disciplinary proceedings under the Police Service Regulation will now be initiated,” said EPS spokesperson Carolin Maran.  Continue reading “Cops Busted Running Major Steroid Ring—Selling Roids to other Cops for Years”

Lohud – by Peter D. Kramer

Editor’s note: The implementation of cashless tolling in the Lower Hudson Valley has brought howls of complaints from drivers who have told us horror stories. Some say they’ve never received bills, only to face thousands of dollars in late fees. Others told us about strong-arm tactics of collection agencies, about a faceless system that didn’t seem to care. Here are two of their stories.

Janet Berg considers herself a reluctant E-ZPass expert who came by her expertise one grueling, frustrating, bureaucratic encounter after another over the course of more than a dozen years.   Continue reading “Cashless tolls horror stories: ‘I wept,’ woman says as she takes from IRA to pay bill”

RT

Singapore-based fintech company HelloGold has received certification for its gold-backed virtual currency that entirely complies with Sharia law.

The company has been granted permission to operate its cryptocurrency product GOLDX by Malaysia-based Islamic finance consultancy Amanie Advisors. The new digital currency was introduced by HelloGold at the end of 2017.  Continue reading “Singapore firm to mint Islamic cryptocurrency backed by gold”

RT

A government minister involved in Seoul’s regulatory crackdown on digital currencies was found dead at his home on Sunday, reportedly from a heart attack.

Jung Ki-joon, 52, was head of economic policy at the Office for Government Policy Coordination. The official coordinated measures for developing new legislation to curb cryptocurrency speculation and illicit activities, according to a South Korean government spokesman, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. The police launched an investigation into the death.  Continue reading “S. Korean official in charge of cryptocurrency crackdown found dead”

Mail.com

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A hundred Stoneman Douglas High School students are busing 400 miles to Florida’s capital Tuesday to urge lawmakers to act to prevent a repeat of the massacre that killed 17 students and faculty last week.

The students plan to hold a rally Wednesday in hopes that it will put pressure on the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature to consider a sweeping package of gun-control laws, something some GOP lawmakers said Monday they would consider. Shortly after the shooting, several legislative leaders were taken on a tour of the school to see the damage firsthand and they appeared shaken afterward.   Continue reading “Students going to state capital to push for gun law changes”

Mail.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The suspect in the fatal shooting of two Ohio police officers is being held without bail as the potential death penalty case proceeds. Thirty-year-old Quentin Smith is charged with aggravated murder in the Feb. 10 shootings of Westerville officers Eric Joering and Anthony Morelli. They were responding to a 911 hang-up call at Smith’s home in the Columbus suburb.

Prosecutors requested that the court deny bail for Smith, characterizing him as a danger to the community. A public defender represented Smith during his initial appearance Tuesday in Franklin County Municipal Court and didn’t object to him being jailed without bail.   Continue reading “Suspect in slaying of 2 police officers jailed without bail”