From the Trenches World Report
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The South Carolina House has approved a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds, and the flag could be removed within days.
The move early Thursday came after more than 13 hours of debate.
The House approved the Senate bill by more than a two-thirds margin. The bill now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who supports the measure. Continue reading “South Carolina House Approves Bill to Remove Confederate Flag”
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday that in order to grow the economy “people should work longer hours” — a comment that the Bush campaign argues was a reference to underemployed part-time workers but which Democrats are already using to attack him.
During an interview that was live-streamed on the app Periscope, Bush told New Hampshire’s The Union Leader that to grow the economy, “people should work longer hours.” Continue reading “Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours”
Dennis Hof, owner of the Bunny Ranch chain of brothels in Nevada, wants to go to Washington.
The business owner and star of the HBO series “Cathouse” said he has formed an exploratory committee to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by the powerful Democrat Harry Reid. The senator said he is retiring and will not seek re-election in 2016. Hof recently joined the Libertarian Party and said he would run as one if he commits to a run. Continue reading “Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof considers US Senate run”
Curry Coastal Pilot – by Jane Stebbins
If the citizens of Cedar Valley — illegally sprayed with herbicides in October of 2013 — felt invalidated and ignored after a settlement with the aerial sprayer was announced last week, they were even more stunned Tuesday when State Sen. Jeff Kruse (R) denounced their characters, as well.
His statement came during the third hearing of House Bill 3549 — the so-called baby buffer bill — that would require pilots to avoid homes and schools when they spray poisonous chemicals. Continue reading “Citizens “illegally sprayed with herbicides” denounced by Sen. Kruse”
The United States Air Force is taking steps to update the Cold War-era B61 nuclear bomb to Mod 12 ‒ or twelfth iteration ‒ completing tests with a mock up version of the weapon in Nevada’s Great Basin Desert.
The B61 has been a top weapon in the US nuclear arsenal since its development at the height of the Cold War in 1963. The intermediate-yield thermonuclear weapon can be delivered by a supersonic aircraft. It is designed to cause a two-stage radiation implosion, but it is a “gravity bomb” – which just means that it’s unguided. Continue reading “US Air Force drops (expensive) mock nuclear bomb in Nevada”
In a significant doctrinal shift, the U.S. military is relegating full metal jacketed (FMJ) pistol bullets to a training role, and will be adopting modern hollowpoint designs similar to those used by most domestic law enforcement agencies and citizens who carry handguns for self-defense.
The stunning announcement was made at the U.S Army’s Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey yesterday during the military’s two-day “industry day” for the Modular Handgun System (MHS), which will conclude today. Continue reading “U.S. Military Makes Monumental Shift To Hollowpoint Pistol Ammunition”
Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe
Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operations exercise that spawned a wave of conspiracy theories about a government takeover, will open next week without any media allowed to observe it, a military spokesman said.
Embedded reporters won’t be permitted at any point during the exercise, in which military officials say that secretive Special Operations troops will maneuver through private and publicly owned land in several southern states. Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command, said his organization is considering allowing a small number of journalists to view selected portions of the exercise later this summer, but nothing is finalized. Continue reading “Jade Helm 15, heavily scrutinized military exercise, to open without media access”
I don’t have cable. I almost never watch TV. I never see cable news unless someone points me to a clip online. Yet apparently, with the extended holiday weekend this past weekend, cable news went absolutely bonkers with vague, unsubstantiated claims from government officials about how everyone should be on heightened alert for an attack from ISIS:
CNN has led the pack in whipping Americans into a panic over the Isis threat, running story after story with government officials and terrorism industry money-makershyping the threat, played against the backdrop of scary b-roll of terrorist training camps. Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell ominously told CBS last week that“I wouldn’t be surprised if we weren’t sitting here a week from today talking about an attack over the weekend in the United States.” MSNBC and Fox joined in too,using graphics and maps right out of Stephen Colbert’s satirical “Doom Bunker,”suggesting World War III was just on the verge of reaching America’s shores.
Bloomberg – by Caroline Chen, Zachary Tracer
U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals got $6.49 billion from drug and medical-device makers in 2014, according to new government data on the financial links between the companies and the people who prescribe their products.
The data released Tuesday range from the royalties paid to hospitals to help develop products to fees provided to medical experts to speak at a dinner with colleagues. The payments are listed in two broad categories: money to fund research and payments to entertain doctors or compensate them for consulting or other non-research purposes. Continue reading “Doctors Got $6.5 Billion From Drug, Device Makers In U.S.”
The Daily Caller – by Blake Neff
Tech giant Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will be laying off approximately 7,800 employees worldwide, bringing a denunciation from a federal lawmaker who says the firings expose the company’s calls for more immigration.
The firings, which will eliminate about 7 percent of the company’s workforce, are concentrated in Microsoft’s troubled mobile phone business, and will eliminate most of the remaining employees from its purchase of Nokia’s phone operation in 2013. Only some of the layoffs are in the U.S., with Finland being hit especially hard with over 2,ooo jobs lost. The firings follow up on the 18,000 layoffs the company made last year, which were also concentrated in the phone business. Continue reading “Microsoft Lays Off Thousands While Demanding More H1-B Visas”
Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown
Dr. Kent Hovind, a Christian apologist who was wrongfully charged and found guilty on multiple accounts, served just shy of a ten year prison sentence, was released on Wednesday and provided his first interview from freedom to FreedomOutpost.com.
If you are unfamiliar with Dr. Hovind’s case, he recommends going to Lonestar1776‘s YouTube channel in order to get the full story on what he has had to endure at the hands of the Internal Revenue Service. He faced three main charges: Not withholding taxes from employees, “structuring” (taking money out of the bank that’s less than $10,000, and obstructing and IRS agent), Continue reading “Dr. Kent Hovind Released from Prison – “I’m So Excited about Going Home!””
Unless you worship the Leftist Beast – you will be unable to make a living in America and you will be set upon to be destroyed.
The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. – Revelation 13:15-17
Continue reading “The New Totalitarians In America Pushing The Mark Of A Beast”
The graves of Confederate war dead buried at federal cemeteries will likely no longer be decorated with Confederate flags following a vote Tuesday night by the House of Representatives.
The House passed an amendment that prohibits the controversial banners from being placed on any graves in federal cemeteries, The Hill reported. The matter must still be approved by the Senate. Continue reading “Congress votes to ban Confederate flags at federal cemeteries, national parks”
Sent to us by Joe from the Carolinas.
What’s a GMO?
A GMO (genetically modified organism) is the result of a laboratory process of taking genes from one species and inserting them into another in an attempt to obtain a desired trait or characteristic, hence they are also known as transgenic organisms. This process may be called either Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM); they are one and the same. Continue reading “GMO Label Reading Guide”
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, the mayor’s office said on Wednesday.
Batts will be replaced on an interim basis by Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis, the mayor’s office said in a statement. Continue reading “Anthony Batts, Baltimore Police Commissioner, fired”
Thanks to Cavmedic.
The Cubic Lane – by Aiman Diaz
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. has called for the removal of the statue and remains of the Confederate General and once Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, from the city park.
The Mayor believes that Nathan Bedford Forrest wanted to be buried somewhere else in the beginning.
Wharton’s belief comes from Forrest’s own will and testament which states he wanted his self and wife to both be buried in Elmwood Cemetery. Continue reading “Memphis City Council Unanimously Approves Removal of Nathan Bedford Forrest Remains from Municipal Park”
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said technical problems reported on Wednesday by United Airlines and the New York Stock Exchange were apparently not related to “nefarious” activity.
“I have spoken to the CEO of United, Jeff Smisek, myself. It appears from what we know at this stage that the malfunctions at United and the stock exchange were not the result of any nefarious actor,” Johnson said during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Continue reading “United, NYSE technical troubles not caused by ‘nefarious’ actor: U.S. Homeland Security chief”
