From the Trenches World Report
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Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan
Is there a point at which frothing at the mouth and screaming mere conjecture is “fact” makes it so?
Confidence trickster Keith Olbermann, formerly of MSNBC and now at GQ where he produces similar videos, seems to believe there is. Continue reading “Keith Olbermann: Trump Is Putin ‘Puppet’ And Anyone Who Disagrees Is A ‘Traitor’”
Carnival Cruise Line’s slogan is ‘Fun for all, all for fun’, but its employees aren’t having a good time after reportedly being told their positions will be replaced by foreign workers – and that they will be responsible for training them.
Although the holidays are a time when many workers expect a few perks from their employer, that wasn’t the case for between 200 and 300 IT workers who were told they soon wouldn’t have a job with Carnival. Continue reading “Carnival Cruise Line forces fired employees to train foreign replacements – reports”
A New Jersey state trooper has been criminally charged and suspended without pay after investigators learned he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates.
Thirty-seven-year-old Marquice Prather was arrested last Friday on charges that he falsified and tampered with public records to cover up his behavior. Continue reading “New Jersey state trooper arrested for pulling over female drivers and asking them out on dates”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is expected to raise its key interest rate for the first time in a year when its policy meeting ends Wednesday. The move would lift the rate by a quarter point to a range between 0.5 percent and 0.75 percent, likely nudging up the cost of some consumer and business loans. The Fed last increased rates in December a year ago, when it hiked its benchmark rate from a record low set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis. Continue reading “Fed expected to raise rates for first time in a year”
BEIRUT (AP) — A cease-fire deal between rebels and the Syrian government in the city of Aleppo effectively collapsed on Wednesday, with fighter jets resuming deadly air raids over the opposition’s densely crowded enclave in the east of the city.
The attacks threatened to scuttle plans to evacuate rebels and tens of thousands of civilians out of harm’s way, in what would seal the opposition’s surrender of the city. The evacuation was supposed to begin at dawn but shelling resumed in the morning hours and buses meant to be used in the pullout of rebels and civilians returned to their depots empty. Activists and fighters trapped in the opposition’s last sliver of territory in Aleppo said pro-government forces had struck their district with dozens of rockets since mid-morning. Continue reading “Aleppo cease-fire collapses, threatening evacuation plans”
My San Antonio – by Guillermo Contreras
A former Army recruiter from San Antonio has admitted he funneled dozens of assault rifles to operatives of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel last year by organizing other soldiers to help him buy the weapons.
Sgt. Julian Prezas, who is facing a disciplinary discharge from the military, pleaded guilty in two separate cases Monday to a total of five counts of lying on federal firearms forms and attempting to export defense articles to Mexico. Continue reading “Army recruiter admits funneling guns to drug cartel”
WEB Notes: Why does this not come as a surprise? Do you honestly think your Father in Heaven is okay with this? Do you think your Father in Heaven is okay with homosexual acts (Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:27)? I would urge caution to those who lean on men to fix their problems. Learn to stand and fix your own problems by speaking out and lean on your Father in Heaven.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had selected ExxonMobil’s Rex Tillerson to serve as secretary of state, a move that some Christians have found to be concerning as Tillerson was considered a “key leader” in ending the ban on open homosexuals in the Boy Scouts and runs a company whose employee gift matching program includes donations to Planned Parenthood. Continue reading “Trump’s Pick For Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, ‘Key Leader’ In Ending Boy Scout Ban On Open Homosexuals”
Under the leadership of various Communist Chinese agents within the United Nations, the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) met in Mexico last week and concluded with calls for greater international controls and more “global governance” of the World Wide Web. Another key item on the agenda was exploiting the Internet to promote the UN’s deeply controversial “Agenda 2030” Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), essentially a UN road-map toward global totalitarianism that Beijing played a “crucial role” in developing. Continue reading “UN Internet Summit Run By Beijing Pushes “Global Governance””
Campus Reform – by Elias Atienza
A University of Southern California professor is asking students not to use the term “illegal immigrants” on their final exams.
The instruction was issued by a teaching assistant in Prof. Alicia Chavez’s AMST 301 course, “America, the Frontier, and the New West,” a general education course that is described as “an interdisciplinary study of American political, cultural, and social life with a particular emphasis on the Western United States as a region.” Continue reading “Prof bans the term ‘illegal immigrants’ on final exams”
Journal Sentinel – by Gina Barton
Nearly 3,000 people in Wisconsin were sent back to prison last year even though they were not found guilty of new crimes, according to a report released Tuesday.
Some were on probation when the violations occurred. Others had been released from custody but were still being supervised by the Department of Corrections. About 70% of them were suspected of criminal activity, the department says. But because they were not formally charged, they did not have due process rights in court. Continue reading “3,000 sent to prison without new convictions in 2015”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Technology leaders are about to come face-to-face with President-elect Donald Trump after fiercely opposing his candidacy, fearful that he would stifle innovation, curb the hiring of computer-savvy immigrants and infringe on consumers’ digital privacy.
On Wednesday, Silicon Valley luminaries and other technology leaders are headed to Trump Tower in New York to make their peace — or press their case — with Trump and his advisers. The CEOs planning to attend include Apple’s Tim Cook, Alphabet’s Larry Page, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Intel’s Brian Krzanich, IBM’s Ginni Rometty, Oracle’s Safra Catz and Cisco Systems’ Chuck Robbins. Continue reading “Tech leaders couldn’t beat Trump; they’ll meet him instead”
An order to keep residents indoors has been issued in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and specific neighborhoods are being evacuated, after a commercial vehicle carrying swimming pool cleaning supplies crashed into another truck, officials said.
The truck carrying pool cleaning supplies like chlorine tablets, oxidizers, and corrosives caught fire on the side of the highway near the tree line, according to a Rutherford County 911 dispatcher and the Tennessee Highway Patrol, sending the the toxic plume into the air. Continue reading “Authorities Warn of Toxic Air After Semi Crash Spills Hazardous Materials in Tennessee”
Though construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline has halted for now, the lessons for law enforcement and protesters are still percolating. For the former, they’ll likely find themselves one day studying the event as they prepare for future mass gatherings, maybe in a guide just like the one distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to North Dakota law enforcement in September. Continue reading “FEMA Field Force manual offers protesters insights into the future of crowd control”
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that intermittent fasting inhibits the development and progression of the most common type of childhood leukemia.
This strategy was not effective, however, in another type of blood cancer that commonly strikes adults. Continue reading “Fasting kills cancer cells of most common type of childhood leukemia”
The entire organic community of the United States just won a massive victory that many may not yet even realize. Even though the DARK Act was passed by Obama and some Senate goons to prohibit labeling of GMOs nationwide, the US Court of Appeals just passed a law that enables states and counties to completely ban genetically engineered crops from ever being planted in the first place. Think about that for a minute. You see, back in the year 2000, Monsanto undermined all US organic and conventional farming by claiming that manipulating genomic material of plants did not introduce dangerous bacteria or even plant “pests” into the equation, but their noxious “Frankenfoods” prove otherwise. So biotechnology giants figured a way to not have their cancer-causing, Alzheimer’s-causing, pesticide-laden plants classified as a risk to the environment or humans. But now, none of that really matters anymore.
Continue reading “US Court of Appeals: States and counties can ban GMO crops despite federal laws”