From the Trenches World Report
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Another day, another Obama administration regulation blocked nationwide by a federal court in Texas.
A federal judge in Beaumont issued an order Monday night halting enforcement of new rules requiring many U.S. government contractors to disclose labor law violations, including workplace safety violations, when bidding for contracts. Continue reading “Judge blocks Obama contracting rules nationwide”
A new report from the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) concludes that the Obama administration’s Department of Justice has been extorting fines from major banks, which are then used to fund leftist groups that push the Democratic vote.
The report notes that while community organizing groups have been using aggressive, “terrorist” tactics for decades to force banks to provide funding for their operations, the Obama administration has brought the power of the federal government to bear on their behalf. Banks are threatened with lawsuits for racial discrimination based on the controversial “disparate impact” theory, and offered incentives to settle by paying left-wing groups directly, beyond the review or oversight of Congress. Continue reading “Report: Justice Department Extorts Companies to Fund Left-Wing Activists”
[As winter sets in on the old and poor.]
The Daily Caller – by Alex Pappas
Taxpayers shelled out millions of dollars in 2013 when the golf-addicted President Obama took Air Force One to Florida on vacation and played a round of golf with Tiger Woods, according to a new government study.
From Feb. 15-18 in 2013, the president went on a four day trip that included an official speech in Chicago and some leisure time in Palm Beach, Florida. Continue reading “Taxpayer Tab For Obama Trip That Included Golf With Tiger Woods: $3.6 Million”
Wade has informed me that his mom passed on this day. Wade’s words were: “She is with God now.” Our heartfelt condolences to our brother.
May your healing be a swift one accommodated by the good memories. You are in our thoughts.
God bless the Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we the free American nationals will prevail.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he does not want to see any foreign troops in his country, and that the United States should “forget” a defense pact with Manila.
Duterte told reporters on Tuesday at the airport in the capital of Manila before leaving for Japan that if he stayed longer, he would not sign the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) with the US. Continue reading “Philippine president tells US to forget about defense pact”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
Muckleshoot Tribal Lands, WA – A 23-year-old Native American woman who was 5 months pregnant, was shot and killed by police during a “wellness check” at her home Friday night. Victim Renee Davis has recently been struggling with depression and texted a friend to vent about the rough time she had been going through. Unfortunately, the friend notified police, not knowing that police often make situations like this far worse, and that is exactly what happened in this case. Continue reading “Cops Kill Pregnant Woman While Conducting a “Wellness Check””
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes
If you already thought the Executive Order system falls somewhere between problematic and completely unconstitutional, this takes it to a whole new, never before seen level of corruption.
Thanks to all the leaks, America now knows our government is essentially one giant pay-for-play operation. That’s how it works. That’s how the DNC works. That’s how the Clinton Foundation works. Continue reading “Executive Orders For Sale? Leaked Email Shows Hillary Camp Answering Wealthy Donor’s Questions About How Executive Orders Work”
Over 60 civilians have been killed and at least 200 injured during three days of US-led coalition airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul, the Russian military reported.
“There were numerous attacks of the US-led coalition targeting residential areas, schools, and other civilian objects both in Mosul and in other parts of the Iraqi Nineveh Governorate,” Gen. Sergey Rudskoy, head of Operations in the Russian General Staff, told journalists on Tuesday. Continue reading “60 civilians killed, 200 injured as US-led coalition strikes Mosul residential areas – Russian MoD”
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy in the southwestern city of Quetta overnight, killing 61 people, mostly police cadets and recruits, and waging a ferocious gunbattle with troops that lasted into early hours Tuesday.
The four-hour siege — one of the deadliest attacks on Pakistan’s security forces in recent years — also wounded 123, mainly police trainees but also some paramilitary troops, according to Wasay Khan, a spokesman for the elite Frontier Corps. Some of the wounded were reported to be in critical condition. Continue reading “Militants attack Pakistan police academy, killing 61”
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Members of Congress and veterans leaders on Monday called for federal action to absolve the debts of nearly 10,000 soldiers in California alone who have been ordered by the Pentagon to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lawmakers from California expressed outrage, including Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat. Continue reading “Guard seeks federal aid for soldiers told to return bonuses”
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities have been hunting for more than 24 hours for an Oklahoma man they say posted live videos to social media while running from police during a violent rampage that included shooting two police officers, armed car thefts and killing his aunt and uncle, apparently attempting to cut off their heads.
Michael Dale Vance Jr., a 38-year-old man from Chandler, Oklahoma, is wanted on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. Police say he was last seen early Monday about 30 miles from the Texas border in western Oklahoma — 165 miles away from where the manhunt began Sunday night in Wellston. Continue reading “Man on lam after attempted decapitations, violent rampage”
The interesting thing about working in alternative economics is that inevitably you will become the designated buzzkill. You may be presenting the facts on the ground and the reality behind the numbers, but most of what you have to report will not be pleasant. Alternative economists are doomed to be labeled “doom and gloomers.” And that’s okay…
The truth is what it is, and sometimes it hurts people obsessed with undue positivism and bull market naivety. However, as bad as we seem to be when it comes to a negative outlook, we do not necessarily present the most ugly options on the table. Continue reading “East vs. West Division Is About The Dollar – Not Nuclear War”
According to an article in the Associated Press (AP), the Texas Department of Public Safety, (DPS) considers alleged drunk drivers, pot smokers and child support evaders to be “high-threat criminals.”
You read that right, Police State America is now turning low-level criminals into “high-threat” criminals. Continue reading “Meet America’s “high-threat” criminals: drunk drivers, pot smokers and child support evaders”
The Washington Standard – by Tony Elliot
It appears Bill and Hillary Clinton are making plans to flee the country in the event Donald Trump wins this election. Reports are circulating that the Clintons have transferred 1.8 Billion dollars from the Clinton Foundation to the Qatar Central Bank, via a facilitation/abatement of JP Morgan Chase & Company for reasons not revealed.
This move of such a large sum of money to the country of Qatar says in itself, Hillary Clinton knows she is going to lose the election, and she doesn’t plan to allow herself to be prosecuted for various high crimes and treason under a Trump Administration. Continue reading “Are the Obamas, the Clintons and the Bushes going to seek refuge in Countries that don’t Extradite to the US if Trump Wins?”
Waking Times – by Dylan Charles
If there’s one thing we’ve learned so far from election 2016 it’s that the American people do not understand their government.
The perception is that we have a democracy, and that in this democracy we the people have vested power in our government which we exercise through the act of voting. ‘Throw the bastards out,’ has long since been the war cry of the impotent democrat, yet we no longer even have a democracy to cling to, and although most people choose to ignore it, this fact of life has been visible for decades. Continue reading “In an Oligarchy, Voting is a Tool to Manufacture the Illusion of Consent”