From the Trenches World Report
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Another day, another reversal of a legacy Obama policy.
Moments ago, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed an Obama-era memo to phase out the use of private prisons, signalling his support for federal use of such facilities and advising that the Bureau of Prisons will “return to its previous approach to the use of private prisons.”
Continue reading “DOJ Reverses Obama-Era Decision To Phase Out Private Prisons”
The various U.S. military branches are reportedly drafting proposals to expand in response to President Donald Trump’s pledge to rebuild America’s “depleted” fighting force.
Fox News has learned:
The Air Force wants to expand its forces by 30,000 airmen over the next five-to-six years. The Army wants to expand by roughly that amount by October, according to a defense official who shared the plan with Fox News but was not authorized to do so.
Continue reading “Report: U.S. Military Branches Preparing to Expand Under Trump”
The city council of Richmond, California — a relatively poor, industrial community on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay — voted unanimously on Tuesday evening in favor of a resolution calling for President Donald Trump to be impeached. Continue reading “California City Passes Unanimous Resolution to Impeach Trump”
Last September, when the price of oil was well below where it had been trading for the bulk of the past several years, we reported that NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was probing why Exxon Mobil hasn’t written down the value of its assets, two years into a pronounced crash in oil prices. The complaint was simple: out of the 40 biggest publicly traded oil companies in the world, Exxon – then still led by now Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – was the only one that hasn’t booked any impairments in the prior 10 years. Continue reading “Exxon Cuts Reserves By A Record 3.3 Bilion Barrels As Oil Crash Finally Takes Toll”
When Philadelphia became the first US city to pass a soda tax last summer, city officials were eagerly looking forward to the surplus-tax funded windfall to plug gaping budget deficits (and, since this is Philadelphia, the occasional embezzlement scheme). Then, one month ago, after the tax went into effect on January 1st we showed the tax applied in practice: a receipt for a 10 pack of flavored water carried a 51% beverage tax. And since PA has a sales tax of 6% and Philly already charges another 2%, the total sales tax was 8%. In other words, a purchase which until last year came to $6.47 had overnight become $9.75. Continue reading “Philadelphia Soda Tax Leads To 30-50% Plunge In Sales, Mass Layoffs”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
While I did appreciate a report by the NRA that debunked NBC’s claim that criminals buy gun parts online and can easily assemble them to build an untraceable “ghost gun,” neither NBC nor the NRA got at the root of the issue and that is the Second Amendment does not allow for government to track, trace, regulate or restrict our right to keep and bear arms. That includes buying and making them.
First, take a look at the report by NBC reporter Jeff Rossen. Continue reading “Both NBC & the NRA missed the point about building “Ghost Guns””
Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area and Philadelphia were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
It was not clear how widespread the issue was or how significantly it affected daily functions at DHS, a large government agency whose responsibilities include immigration services, border security and cyber defense. Continue reading “U.S. Homeland Security employees locked out of computer networks: sources”
A stunning new poll conducted by Harvard-Harris, exclusively for The Hill, found that the overwhelming majority of Americans, 80% in fact, believe that illegal immigrants arrested for crimes should be turned over to federal immigration authorities rather than being harbored in so-called sanctuary cities. Imagine that, Americans believe that local, state and federal law enforcement officials should actually enforce the law…shocking. Continue reading “New Poll Finds That 80% Of Americans Oppose Sanctuary Cities”
Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville
As the bee population in the United States continues to decline, some scientists are working on a backup option which many people are calling the Robobee.
A recent announcement coming out of the journal Chem, in an article by Eijiro Miyako, a chemist that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, involves the combination of a drone and a gel to create a robot version of the endangered pollinators. Continue reading “As Bee Population Continues Decline Scientists Introduce Robobee”
(Reuters) – Protesters near the site of the Dakota Access pipeline are bracing for a stand-off with law enforcement as they face orders to evacuate a camp that has served as the base of their opposition to the multibillion-dollar project.
Native Americans and environmental activists have lived at the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota for months, fighting the construction of the pipeline that they say threatens the water resources of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and sacred land. Continue reading “Demonstrators vow face-off against North Dakota pipeline”
Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange called “very, very, very inaccurate” corporate presstitutes “opportunistic snipers” in an interview over the weekend, accusing newspapers of printing “weaponized text.”
And the outspoken publisher isn’t at all dissatisfied with the current propaganda of “fake news” — because, as Assange explained to Australian comedian Chas Licciardello, according to CNET, Continue reading “Assange Exposes the Truth About Corporate Media: ‘You Are Reading Weaponized Text’”
The Department of Homeland Security released on Tuesday documents translating President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and border security into policy, providing details on how it will prosecute undocumented immigrants and criminal immigrants, repealing nearly all of the Obama administration’s guidances, and bringing a major shift in the way the agency enforces the nation’s immigration laws.
As the WSJ notes, “almost everybody living in the U.S. illegally is now subject to deportation, and more undocumented arrivals at the southern border would be jailed or sent back to Mexico to await a hearing rather than released into the U.S.” according to the new guidance. Continue reading “New DHS Memos Reveal That Almost Anyone Living In The US Illegally Is Now Subject To Deportation”
Whittier, California police officer Keith Boyer was shot dead today in an ambush attack by a gang member.
The suspect, who was released from prison two weeks ago, shot Boyer dead and injured another police officer after a traffic accident. Continue reading “LA Police Officer Shot Dead by Gang Member Two Weeks After His Release from Prison”
TUCSON – Mayor Jonathan Rothschild was carjacked on Saturday just before 11 a.m., according to Tucson Police spokesperson Sgt. Pete Dugan.
He was walking to his car in the area of Tucson Blvd. and 5th St. when he was approached by a man with a gun. Continue reading “Mayor Rothschild carjacked at gunpoint”
Russia gold buying returned in January with the Russian central bank buying a very large 1 million ounces or 37 metric tonnes of gold bullion.
The increase in the gold reserves came after Russia did not buy a single ounce in December – a move seen as potentially a signal or an olive branch to the U.S. and the incoming Trump administration. Continue reading “Putin Gold Buying Is Back – Buys One Million Ounces In January”
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes
No matter where you think Trump stands — a puppet controlled by the Deep State or a victim of Deep State sabotage — what has become crystal clear this week is that the Deep State has zero regard for the will of the people and will keep control over this nation by whatever means necessary. Continue reading “5 Examples Which Prove The Deep State Doesn’t Care Who You Vote For”
A request by a Birmingham church to establish its own police force has advanced through the Public Safety Committee of the Alabama legislature. Some lawmakers are concerned about what they call a potentially dangerous precedent.
The Briarwood Presbyterian Church requested to establish its own police department in order to “create a safer campus in a fallen world,” WBMA reported. The church has a campus in Jefferson County and runs a high school in Shelby County. Continue reading “Alabama church wants to set up its own police”
Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns
When pepper spray was invented, it was, in the words of one of its creators, to be “used to avoid confrontation or injury.” But in the hands of so-called law enforcement, it is increasingly being used as a device of torture, especially when the subject getting pepper sprayed is already in four-point restraints to a chair.
Increasingly, it seems, law enforcement feels it is within their rights to pepper spray individuals who are already restrained. But one victim of apparent police brutality isn’t taking the abuse sitting down. Charles Wade, a resident of Montgomery County, in Dayton Ohio, had been arrested in October 2016, on drunk driving charges. Continue reading “Horrifying Video Shows Cops Torture Man With Mace Who’s Strapped to a Chair”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Nashville, TN — Last Friday, Jocques Scott Clemmons, 31, was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign near his home at Cayce Homes public housing development. Less than 1 minute after the stop begins, however, Clemmons would be shot in the back, dying a painful and slow death.
How exactly did a routine traffic stop turn into a police-involved shooting death? Well, if you listen to the Nashville police department’s original story, Clemmons charged at officer Joshua Lippert, causing a physical confrontation, who then had no choice but to shoot him. However, a video from the nearby housing development, released two days after the killing, tells a different story — a story in which Clemmons was shot as he ran away. Continue reading “Video Exposes ‘Official’ Account as False, Shows Cop Kill Man as He Ran Away”
Breitbart – by Warner Todd Huston
Mexican presidential hopeful Andres Manuel López Obrador held a mass rally in Los Angeles on Sunday to criticize American President Donald J. Trump’s plans to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The populist López Obrador hoped to rally supporters against his country’s ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and to capitalize on resentment over Trump’s border wall proposal, wire service Reuters reported. Continue reading “Mexican Presidential Candidate Holds Anti-Trump Rally in L.A.”