Year: 2015

Godfather Politics – by Tad Cronn

The Republican Party leadership must be having a lot of trouble sleeping these days.

With two political outsiders — Donald Trump and Ben Carson — leading the presidential pack by tapping into voters’ justified anger at the GOP, these are some desperate times, at least according to the Washington Post.

One of the surest signs of desperation is the simmering movement to draft Mitt Romney to make a late entry into the race. GOP strategists have gone so far as to lay out plans for a challenge at the GOP convention.   Continue reading “Will You Vote for Romney if RINOs Make Him the Nominee?”

Geeky Gadgets – by Conner Flynn

It’s no secret that Microsoft wants users to upgrade to Windows 10. It is a free upgrade within the first year, and more users adopting the platform is what they are after. Well, according to a report from Forbes,Microsoft is being really, really shady about how they try to get you to upgrade.

It seems that some users have discovered that Microsoft had attempted to secretly install Windows 10 on the computers of Windows 7 and 8 users without their knowledge or consent. That’s just not cool at all.   Continue reading “Windows 10 Tried To Install Itself On Computers Secretly”

CBS San Francisco – by Julie Watts

(KPIX 5) — This might come as a surprise to California natives in their 20s and early 30s: The state owns your DNA.

Every year about four million newborns in the U.S. get a heel prick at birth, to screen for congenital disorders, that if found early enough, can save their life.   Continue reading “DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties”

Last Day!

Mark Schumacher, Mary, and Swifty Lomax are sponsoring a drawing for From the Trenches World Report.

The prizes are listed in the order they came in.  Some are equal in value, so we will just draw them in the order they were donated to us.  They are as follows:   Continue reading “Big Very Necessary From the Trenches Drawing”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Having exposed the world yesterday to the 2-mile long line of tankers-full’o’crude heading from Iraq to the US, several weeks after reporting that China has run out of oil storage space we can now confirm that the global crude “in transit” glut is becoming gargantuan and is starting to have adverse consequences on the price of oil.

While the crude oil tanker backlog in Houston reaches an almost unprecedented 39 (with combined capacity of 28.4 million barrels), as The FT reports that from China to the Gulf of Mexico, the growing flotilla of stationary supertankers is evidence that the oil price crash may still have further to run, as more than 100m barrels of crude oil and heavy fuels are being held on ships at sea (as the year-long supply glut fills up available storage on land). The storage problems are so severe in fact, that traders asking ships to go slow, and that is where we see something very strange occurring off the coast near Galveston, TX.   Continue reading “Something Very Strange Is Taking Place Off The Coast Of Galveston, TX”

RT

A Hispanic man accused of running over a Dallas policeman twice, was deported from the US three times in the past 11 years. However, he was living in Texas illegally after sneaking back into the US. The man faces charges of aggravated assault.

Eduardo Gonzalez-Rios, a 29 year-old Mexican national has now been moved to Dallas County jail from a hospital where he was treated after being shot in the arm by police.   Continue reading “Mexican man accused of running over policeman twice was deported 3 times”

RT

Federal authorities say a Secret Service agent sent obscene images and texts to someone he thought was a young Delaware girl, sometimes even doing it while on duty at the White House.

According to the complaint that was unsealed on Thursday, Agent Lee Robert Moore, 37, engaged in online chats while on duty, once asking the 14-year-old girl to send him something “exciting” on a day when he was checking IDs at the White House building entrance.   Continue reading “Secret Service Agent arrested for ‘sexting’ teenager from White House”

Common Dreams – by Abby Zimet

Convincingly arguing they’ve lost enough of their lives and limbs and peace of mind to earn the right to seek relief from their ensuing pain – physical or psychological – however they damn choose, veterans and their advocates are increasingly demanding freedom from toxic, addictive, often-calamitous prescription meds and access to medical weed. Several national protests this week around Veterans Day culminated in a march on Washington, D.C., where  protesting veterans dumped a mountain of pill bottles in front of the White House to make their harrowing point. “Here’s what the over-medication of our veterans looks like,” one declared. “We don’t want it.”   Continue reading “Weed For Warriors”

AOL

The 2016 presidential race has already seen the rise of a number of “outsider” candidates with no political experience, but the biggest outsider of them all may have just joined Wednesday as Grammy-nominated stand-up comedian Ron White took to the AOL BUILD stage to announce that he is running for president of the United States as an independent.

The 58-year-old Scotch-drinking, cigar-smoking comic is best known for his “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” — but he’s looking to change that with a brisk move into politics.   Continue reading “‘Blue Collar’ comedian Ron White announces he’s running for president”

Ammoland – by AWR Hawkins

USA – On October 3 2015, Mark Carman posted a YouTube video ( youtu.be/YN6rjamk0Q0 ) in which he equated gun rights with motorcycle ownership–arguing that the licensing requirement for the latter provides some standard to guide licensing requirements for the former–and the White House responded by inviting him to come visit on November 16 and 17 2015..?!?

While there Carman is scheduled “to meet one-on-one with Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to President Obama,” and to address Congress in a bid to secure more gun control.   Continue reading “Misinformed Man Equates Gun Rights With Motorcycle Ownership, Gets White House Invite”

Ammoland – by AWR Hawkins

USA – On November 12 2015 a CBS News report focused on Everytown for Gun Safety’s efforts to secure more gun control revealed that President Obama has “assigned White House lawyers” to look for a way that executive action can be used to expand background checks to include private gun sales or at least some sales by private gun owners.

Breitbart News previously reported that Obama was weighing the use of an executive order to expand background checks in the wake of the Umpqua Community College attack. The gunman in that attack passed a background check for the weapons he used.   Continue reading “With EveryTown Gun Banners Egging Him On Obama Targets Private Gun Sales for Checks”

CBC News

British Columbia man Arthur Topham has been convicted of promoting hatred against Jews through his website, RadicalPress.com, which the Crown said demonized Jews and forwarded anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

On Thursday, a jury in Quesnel, B.C. agreed, convicting Topham of one count of communicating statements that wilfully promote hatred against Jews.   Continue reading “Arthur Topham convicted of promoting hatred against Jews on website”

We went to breakfast at a restaurant where the ‘seniors’ special’ was two eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast for $2.99.

‘Sounds good,’ my wife said. ‘But I don’t want the eggs..’

‘Then, I’ll have to charge you $3.49 because you’re ordering a la carte,’ the waitress warned her.   Continue reading “$2.99 Special Breakfast”

Rense.com – by Stephen Lendman

Throughout four-and-a-half years of conflict, Russia has gone all-out to resolve it diplomatically – in stark contrast to Washington, wanting endless war continued, no matter the devastating human toll.

Obama bears full responsibility for horrific carnage and mass displacement, using ISIS and other takfiri terrorists, imported foot soldiers from scores of countries, supplemented since September 2014 by US air attacks on Syrian infrastructure and other government targets, aiming to replace Assad with a Western-controlled puppet, eliminate an Israeli rival and isolate Iran.   Continue reading “US Rejects Russia’s Syrian Peace Proposal”

Anti-Media – by Cassius Methyl

At 10 months of age, Kalel Santiago of Puerto Rico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called neuroblastoma. He endured chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and surgery for two years—and survived. Then he was diagnosed with something permanent: severe autism that disabled him from speaking.

“While he was in the hospital, we noticed he didn’t speak at all and had some behavior that wasn’t right, like hand flapping, and walking on his toes,” his father Abiel Gomez Santiago told Yahoo News. “But we waited until he was 3 and cancer-free to look at his behavior.”   Continue reading “Autistic Boy Gains Ability to Speak After Just 2 Days of Cannabis Oil Treatment”

Press TV

America’s unconditional support for Israel is driven largely by its influence on the US electoral process, a  political activist from California says.

“The military assistance and the economic aid and the help that the United States gives in the United Nations to protect Israel with its veto power… comes largely from domestic politics, not because this benefits the United States,” Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Palestine Movement, said on Thursday.   Continue reading “Israel largely controls US electoral process: Activist”