From the Trenches World Report
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There are future scenarios which, with enough exposure before they happen, can be stopped—or at least analyzed correctly when they occur.
A staged bioterror event is one of those.
The primary fact is: no matter what kind of germ you’re talking about or where it came from, releasing it intentionally does not guarantee predictable results. Far from it. Continue reading “The basics of a staged bioterror event”
Zero Hedge – by Soeren Kern, The Gateway Institute
Continue reading “Germans Scramble To Buy Weapons Amid Nationwide Spike In Migrant-Driven Crime”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Dallas, TX — When feeding the homeless becomes an act of civil disobedience, Americans have been asleep for far too long.
Luckily, however, there are still good people who are willing to defy such arbitrary and ill-conceived laws and ordinances.
The folks over at the aptly named organization Don’t Comply, took to the streets just outside the Austin Street Shelter in Dallas this weekend to perform, what has now become a revolutionary act – feeding the homeless. Continue reading “Well-Armed Activists Openly Defy Texas Law to Feed the Homeless – Hundreds Clothed and Fed”
Michigan conservative Justin Amash (R-MI) took to Facebook to blast the establishments of both parties, explaining that the Omnibus bill is the perfect example of why Americans hate Congress.
Speaking of a story from Roll Call about the passage of the Omnibus bill, Rep. Amash said,“The story below illustrates the brokenness of Washington, where only a few individuals negotiate nearly $2 trillion in provisions and tell the rest of Congress to take it or leave it. I voted no on this disgusting omnibus bill that harms Americans and bankrupts the next generation.” Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi Takes Sick Victory Lap after Getting Omnibus Passed”
USA Carry – by Michael Jenkins
On December 16th at roughly 11:30 in the evening, Sheriff Mike Johnstone of Des Moines County, Iowa,injured himself while attempting to clean a loaded handgun. Sheriff Johnstone was taken to a local emergency room initially, and later transferred to another facility for treatment by a surgeon specializing in hand injuries. Johnstone’s injuries were not life-threatening, according to a press statement released by the Sheriff’s office. At the time of this writing, no further information on his progress or recovery is available. Continue reading “Anti-Gun Sheriff Negligently Discharges Weapon, Shoots Himself”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
In March of this year, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) introduced HR1205: American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2015, which was assigned to a congressional committee. The bill would effectively end the united States’ membership in the United Nations, but why is there no push to advance it forward?
“The U.N. continues to prove it’s an inefficient bureaucracy and a complete waste of American tax dollars,” Rogers said in a statement. “Although the United States makes up almost a quarter of the U.N.’s annual budget, the U.N. has attempted a number of actions that attack our rights as U.S. citizens.” Continue reading “If Americans are Sick of the United Nations, Why are They Not Backing this Bill to Get Us Out of it?”
A Taliban suicide bomber has killed six NATO troops at the Bagram base outside Kabul. The militant group has also conducting a broad offensive in the Helmand province, in south-eastern Afghanistan.
The attacks targeting foreign troops happened in a village near the Bagram airbase. A suicide bomber on a motorbike approached a joint US-Afghan patrol and set off an explosive device. Local authorities and NATO confirmed that six of its troops were killed, with six more wounded, including several local policemen. Continue reading “Taliban attacks: 6 NATO troops killed in Afghanistan, part of Helmand province seized”
SHENZHEN, China (AP) — Rescuers were searching Monday for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
China’s official Xinhua News Agency said the landslide buried or damaged 33 buildings in the industrial park in Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center in Guangdong province across the border from Hong Kong that makes products used around the world ranging from cellphones to cars. Continue reading “91 missing from landslide that buries buildings in China”
PARIS (AP) — A retired French police officer traveling on Air France was detained Monday after a fake bomb hidden in a lavatory forced his Paris-bound flight to make an emergency landing in Kenya, according to prosecutors.
The hoax — the fourth against Air France in recent weeks — comes amid heightened concerns about extremist violence in many countries, and aggravated passenger jitters around the holidays. The man in custody is a former police officer who was detained upon arrival Monday at Charles de Gaulle Airport, according to an official in the prosecutor’s office in the nearby Paris suburb of Bobigny. The official, who is not authorized to be publicly identified speaking about an ongoing investigation, did not release the suspect’s name or information about what he is suspected of. Continue reading “Retired French policeman detained after fake bomb found”
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military says aviation experts so far have failed to retrieve information from a flight data recorder from a Russian warplane downed by Turkey last month.
Turkey shot down the Russian Su-24 bomber at the border with Syria on Nov. 24, saying it violated its airspace for 17 seconds despite repeated warnings. Russia insists the plane never entered Turkish airspace. Continue reading “Black box from Russian jet downed by Turkey damaged”
“I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” -President Theodore Roosevelt
The American public and the world have long since been warned of the dangers of allowing the military industrial complex to become such an integral part of our economic survival. The United States is the self-proclaimed angel of democracy in the world, but just as George Orwell warned, war is the health of the state, and in the language of newspeak, democracy is the term we use to hide the reality of the nature of our warfare state. Continue reading “The 239 Year Timeline of America’s Involvement in Military Conflict”
Is it me, or is this becoming a new trend? I’m stunned at the level of cowardice in this country.
All public schools in Nashua, New Hampshire, will be closed Monday after the district received a “detailed threat of violence” directed at its two high schools.
Continue reading “Nashua, New Hampshire, closes schools after threat of violence”
Courthouse News Service – by Izzy Kapnick
ATLANTA (CN) – A Florida law prohibiting doctors from prodding patients about their gun ownership does not tread on the First Amendment, the 11th Circuit ruled.
Passed in 2011, Florida’s Firearm Owners Privacy Act prohibits doctors from asking patients questions about their gun-toting habits, unless the physicians believe that the answers will be relevant to their patients’ medical care and safety, or the safety of those around them. Continue reading “First Amendment Yields to Second in Florida”
Off the Grid News – by Savannah H.
When it comes to long-lasting survival foods for emergency situations, most pantries are filled with dried or canned foods and emergency meal kits. These foods tend to last for a few years with proper storage, which is impressive. But did you know there are other foods that can last for even longer — even past your lifetime?
In fact, there are a few stories of certain foods remaining safely edible for upwards of 100 years. While the majority of these claims have been merely anecdotal, there is no doubt that some foods can easily last decades or more under the right conditions. Continue reading “Recipes From History: Foods That Can Last 100 Years”
Think Progress – by Kira Lerner
William Porter, one of six Baltimore City police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray to face trial, will find out his fate this week when a jury issues its first ruling. The jury deadlocked Tuesday and continued deliberating Wednesday. Whether or not there’s a conviction, all of Porter’s lawyers’ fees are being paid for by the Baltimore police union.
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, the police union in the city, is “taking ultimate responsibility for all the officers,” Jim Pasco, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, told the Wall Street Journal last month. Continue reading “Why Is It So Hard To Convict Police Officers? The Answer Is In The Fine Print.”
Last year, more than 848 million people boarded airplanes departing or arriving within the United States. Barring any special security clearance, virtually all of them were filtered through the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a federally-operated branch charged with screening passengers to ensure they’re complying with the rules of safe air travel.
Some travelers believe the TSA’s policies are burdensome and ineffectual; others acknowledge that individual employees are doing their best to conform to a frequently confusing, ever-changing set of procedures. We asked some former TSA officers about their experiences, and here’s what they had to say about life in blue gloves. Continue reading “14 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of TSA Agents”