From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
The 19th-century lawyer and abolitionist Lysander Spooner made heads explode when he said the Constitution bound no one, since nobody alive in his day had signed it.
Whenever we undertake any significant endeavor — buying a house, for example — we fill out countless forms spelling out exactly what we are agreeing to and indicating our express consent. Continue reading “SMASHED: “You Live Here, So You’ve Consented to the System””
Will Trump play the video clip of his TV interview on the morning of 9/11?
Trump KNOWS the buildings couldn't have been brought down by jet fuel.
It must have been done by a Controlled Demolition with explosives in the buildings.#SOTUpic.twitter.com/ir4lc0gWqv— Ian56 (@Ian56789) February 5, 2019
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Houston, TX — Four Houston police officers were shot on Monday during a drug raid on an alleged heroin dealer’s home. Luckily, the officers are all expected to survive. Now, neighbors who knew the slain couple that lived in the house are speaking out and the picture they paint is drastically different than the official story.
According to the official police account, on Monday afternoon, around 5:00 pm, a dozen SWAT team members with Houston’s narcotics department, along with six other patrol officers descended on a Pecan Park home to serve a search warrant. According to police, a tip from a neighbor led to an investigation in which black tar heroin was allegedly purchased from the couple’s home and the search warrant was executed on Monday. Continue reading “‘They Did Not Deal Drugs’: Neighbors of Slain Couple Who Shot 4 Cops Refute Official Story”
Six months after he washed up on a Siberian beach, John Martin III is back in the United States.
In July, Martin, an Anchorage fringe figure and homeless activist, set out from Emmonak in an attempt to sail an 8-foot dinghy across the Bering Sea. He planned to get to China to reunite with his wife and son, he said.
Continue reading “Russia deports Anchorage man who sailed dinghy across the Bering Sea”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Swain County, NC — The Free Thought Project has reported on some utterly ridiculous wastes of taxpayer dollars so police can lock people up for tiny amounts of weed or some other victimless crime. Police once spent tens of thousands of dollars undercover at a Burger King to make a $75 pot bust. Ridiculous, we know. However, the story below has to be the most ridiculous waste of taxpayer money on an undercover ‘sting’ we have ever seen.
Last week, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation concluded a six-month long joint undercover sting operation with the Bryson City Police Department and North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement to bust a gas station for selling glass pipes. Their entire mission for six months was to stakeout a single gas station who had a glass display case which contained the pipes. Continue reading “Cops Brag About 6-MONTH Undercover Sting to Seize Glass Weed Pipes—Internet Destroys Them”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Houston, TX — Four Houston police officers were shot on Monday during a drug raid on a suspected heroin dealer’s home. Luckily, the officers are all expected to survive although two of the officers are in critical condition. The two suspected drug dealers were both shot and killed during the raid.
On Monday afternoon, around 5:00 pm, a dozen SWAT team members with Houston’s narcotics department, along with six other patrol officers descended on a Pecan Park home to serve a search warrant. According to police, their undercover agents had purchased black tar heroin from the home several times before the raid. Continue reading “After 4 Cops Shot in Houston, Police Promise to Go After and ‘Track’ Those Who Criticize Police”
The United States has officially started to produce a new low-yield nuclear warhead following President Donald Trump’s order last year to equip the Pentagon with tactical weapons that could be used in more realistic combat scenarios.
The US National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) confirmed Monday that the first production unit of the W76-2 warhead was in production at the Pantax Plant in Texas and would be delivered to the military by the end of 2019 fiscal year. Continue reading “US begins production of Trump’s low-yield nuclear warhead”
More than 65 percent of adults in Britain believe that the Holocaust, the alleged genocide of Jews during the Second World War, has not taken place in the way that historians claim, a new study shows.
The study, covering 2,000 adults in the UK and conducted by The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, showed more than two-thirds of British adults “grossly” underestimated the number of people believed to be killed in the historic process. Continue reading “Two-thirds of UK adults dispute number of Holocaust victims: Study”
A state of emergency was declared on Friday in the western US state of Washington following a measles outbreak that has affected more than two dozen people, the majority of them children.
The disease was declared eliminated in the US in 2000 but has since made a comeback that is tied to imported cases and the rise of the anti-vaccine movement. Continue reading “State of emergency declared in US measles outbreak”
US President Donald Trump announces a deal with the Democrats to temporarily reopen the government which has been shut down since December 22.
“I am very proud to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and reopen the federal government,” Trump said on Friday. Continue reading “Trump announces deal with Democrats to temporarily end government shutdown”
The US embassy in Switzerland has issued a security alert after reports of an explosion near its consular agency in the Swiss city of Geneva.
The US alert issued on Wednesday afternoon read, “There are reports of an explosion in the area around the Consular Agency. Avoid the area and seek shelter if in vicinity. Follow advice of security personnel.” Continue reading “Explosion hits US diplomatic mission in Geneva”
Yemeni army snipers have killed 14 Saudi troops and injured two others in retaliatory operations in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan.
Video footage released on Saturday by the military media of the Yemeni army showed the moment when the Saudi-backed militants were killed and injured in the attacks that targeted several sites of the southern border front of Jizan. Continue reading “Yemeni snipers kill 14 Saudi troops in retaliatory attack”
Influential Zionist historian Benny Morris, professor of the Middle East studies department of the Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has foreseen a bleak future for the Zionist establishment.
“Already today there are more Arabs than Jews between the [Mediterranean] sea and the Jordan. The whole territory is unavoidably becoming one state with an Arab majority,” said Morris in an interview published by the Israeli Haaretz newspaper on Thursday. Continue reading “‘Jewish state’ will soon cease to exist, Israelis may flee to West: Zionist historian”
Social media users and Press TV viewers have voiced their frustration with the imprisonment and ill-treatment of an anchor for Iran’s English-language Press TV by federal agents in the United States, saying the arrest mocks the US claims of democracy and respect for human rights.
Marzieh Hashemi, American-born journalist based in Iran, was detained and jailed by US federal agents for unspecified reasons while on a visit to the country on Sunday. Continue reading “Press TV anchor’s imprisonment mocks US claims of democracy, human rights: Social media users”
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell and CEO Elon Musk choked up breaking bad news about layoffs at an all-hands meeting in Hawthorne, California, last Friday, according to three people who attended or viewed the meeting via video.
Musk and Shotwell acknowledged that the broad restructuring at SpaceX meant the company would have to lay off some employees with whom they’d rather not part ways. The company still employs about 6,400 people, according to two people who were laid off. Continue reading “Here’s how Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell announced hundreds of layoffs at SpaceX”
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances is asking a court to invalidate more than $6 billion worth of debt issued by the U.S. territory, a move that would hit bondholders.
The board said late Monday the debt includes all general obligation bonds that were issued in 2012 and 2014 in “clear violation” of debt limits established by Puerto Rico’s Constitution. A group of unsecured creditors that joined the motion also said the debt violates balanced budget requirements because the money was used to finance deficit spending. Continue reading “Board seeks to invalidate $6B worth of Puerto Rico’s debt”