From the Trenches World Report
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BURNS, Ore. – The FBI has checkpoints surrounding the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, where militants are still holed up as a standoff enters its 27th day.
Law enforcement has made eleven arrests over the last two days, including militia leader Ammon Bundy. Continue reading “Militia presence remains at refuge; leader’s lawyers to deliver message Thurs.”
Behind the scenes, the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign is building a foreign policy and national security advisory structure that is meant to help her win the presidency. And among this large group, the jockeying for jobs in her potential administration is already well underway.
Team Hillary is in the process of setting up formal advisory teams and working groups divided into regional and thematic subjects, similar to the structure of the National Security Council, several participants in the project told me. Unlike in 2008, when Clinton and Barack Obama competed for advisers, this time around all the Democratic foreign-policy types are flocking to her team because Clinton is the only game in town. Continue reading “Clinton Quietly Building Her Own National Security Council”
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident’s 30th anniversary, there’s a new voice to address the crowd.
June Scobee Rodgers — widow of Challenger commander Dick Scobee and longtime spokeswoman for the group — is passing the torch to daughter Kathie Scobee Fulgham. Fulgham — not Rodgers — will be on the stage for Thursday morning’s ceremony at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. And making a rare appearance in the audience will be schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe’s son, Scott, with his own family. Continue reading “30 years since Challenger: New voice at astronauts’ memorial”
WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional probe finds that inadequate screening endangered migrant children in the government’s care.
Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio says the department of Health and Human Services was overwhelmed by children crossing the border and weakened its child protection policies, leaving the children vulnerable to human trafficking. Portman chairs a Senate subcommittee holding a hearing Thursday on weaknesses in the department’s placement of migrant children. Continue reading “Senate probe faults gov’t for migrant child abuse”
DENVER (AP) — Seeking a safe haven in Colorado’s legal marijuana marketplace, illegal drug traffickers are growing weed among the state’s sanctioned pot warehouses and farms, then covertly shipping it elsewhere and pocketing millions of dollars from the sale, according to law enforcement officials and court records consulted by The Associated Press. Continue reading “Drug traffickers seek safe haven amid legal marijuana”
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — If you want to improve your sense of well-being, leave the Lower 48.
A new report ranking all 50 states based on residents’ sense of well-being puts Hawaii at No. 1, followed by Alaska, which held the top spot last year. Hawaii has been No. 1 in the poll five times since 2008. Continue reading “Want to feel better? Move to Hawaii, Alaska”
WEB Notes: This has always been an important topic. The COMEX is simply the “Commodity Exchange”. Gold is traded on the COMEX via paper contracts. There have always been far more paper ounces of gold than physical ounces of gold to back up those paper contracts. Just like our paper currency, paper gold simply becomes worthless at that point. This article points out there are 40,000,000 ounces of paper gold in circulation while there are only 74,000 ounces of physical gold. If those who hold paper gold called their contract and requested physical gold in exchange there would never be enough. Can you imagine what would happen that day… With that said, if you are able, keep a little silver and/or gold around for a rainy day. It might come in handy during the Tribulation. All we can do is prepare to the best of our ability, stand strong in the Lord and let Him do the rest.
Continue reading “Comex Gold Vault Almost Empty As Price Reaches 3-Month High”
As the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon dragged on for most of January, local law enforcement was spread thin and federal agents were nowhere to be seen.
Behind the quiet facade, however, the FBI was running surveillance on the occupation and recording the activists’ public statements, mostly drawn from media reports and the activists’ use of social media, while FBI agents encouraged locals to report their experiences with the new strangers in town. Continue reading “Where was the FBI during the armed standoff in Oregon? Out of sight, but listening and watching”
With 11 militants now arrested – including their leader, Ammon Bundy – and another dead, federal agents are trying to get the remaining occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to leave, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
As for the situation inside the refuge, when the network spoke to militant David Fry late Wednesday night, he said five people are still holding out – and he’s one of them. Continue reading “FBI Is Negotiating With Militants Still Inside Oregon Wildlife Refuge”
Town Hall – by Kurt Schlichter
I have never, ever had anyone tell me that he had too much ammunition. Not in a combat zone, not in a civil disaster, not even in peacetime. Never. Nor have I lived through a time where our governing class was so deeply corrupt, so utterly foolish, and so dangerously focused on the perpetuation of its own power that it risked bringing down everything we have built not merely in the United States but in the entire West.
Right now, if you are watching the news, you have questions about the future. And the answer to all of them is to buy ammo. Continue reading “Buy Ammo”
New York Post – by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
The NYPD hopes a more potent pepper spray will lead to fewer police shootings — but some critics say the upgraded aerosol is a recipe for disaster.
More than 19,000 cops so far have been given canisters of Sabre 5.0, a spray with a .67% concentration of major capsaicinoids, the chemicals that make peppers hot. Continue reading “NYPD hopes more potent pepper spray will lead to fewer police shootings, some critics say upgrade is recipe for disaster”
Hysteria sells and…
It’s hysteria time again. Let me run it down for you.
This is the word: The dreaded Zika virus! Watch out! It’s carried by mosquitos! It can cause birth defects—babies are born with very small heads and impaired brains! Continue reading “Is the dreaded Zika virus another giant scam?”
A couple who hosts occasional wedding ceremonies on their New York farm have lost an appeal to overturn the $13,000 in fines levied against them by the state’s human rights agency, which ruled that their refusal to host a wedding for two women was discriminatory.
On Jan. 14, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, upheld the agency’s order and the fines, a decision the Alliance Defending Freedom – which represented Robert and Cynthia Gifford – said amounted to confirming, “that the government can punish the Giffords for declining to coordinate a ceremony that conflicts with their conscience.” Continue reading “NY Court: Farmers to Be Re-Educated, Pay Fines for Not Hosting Homosexual Wedding”
Rundown Live – by Kristan T. Harris
It’s no secret that the United States government is collaborating with businesses to collect meta data on its citizens. In a recent article it was proclaimed that Fresno law enforcement was using technology that gathered information from “arrest reports, property records, commercial databases, deep Web searches” and “social- media postings” to assess a citizen threat score according to the Washington Post. Continue reading “Why We All Should Be Concerned Over “Citizen Rankings” and How Scores are Calculated”
BURNS, Ore. – The FBI arrested three more people Wednesday in connection with the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, including the self-proclaimed new leader of the group.
The FBI and Oregon State Police set up a series of checkpoints at major roads in and out of the refuge Wednesday morning. Continue reading “FBI arrests 3 more armed occupiers”
Five people suspected of involvement in the escape of three maximum-security jail inmates in California were arrested on Wednesday, but the fugitive prisoners – including one accused of the mutilation torture of a kidnap victim – remained at large, authorities said.
Additional arrests were expected by Thursday, as investigators continued to focus on street gang members tied to the three fugitives, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said. Continue reading “Five arrests made in connection with California jailhouse escape”
Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- The Air Force, at least, has finally seen the light!
USAF Base Commanders have been authorized to implement the carrying of guns (presumptively openly or concealed) by “selected” personnel, on and off-duty. Smart airmen, naturally, already have state-issued CCW permits, when and where possible. Continue reading “U.S. Air Force Allows “Selected” Airmen to Go Armed, Ending Gun Free Bases”