From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Real Clear Politics – by Thomas K. Lindsay
After the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia concluded, a woman asked delegate Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Last Friday, Texas governor Greg Abbott announced at the annual meeting of the Texas Public Policy Foundation that he intends to fight to keep it. Continue reading “Amendments to Restore the Rule of Law”
The Corbett Report – by James Corbett
Historians of the future will note Yellen’s smiling press conference in December of 2015 to announce the long-awaited rate hike as the beginning of the end for the dead cat bubble of the Global Financial Crisis. In some ways this has been a 20 year long Fed bubble that leads in a straight line from the “irrational exuberance” of the Dot Com bubble to the Dot Com bust and 9/11 to the Greenspan bubble and the subprime housing run-up to the Global Financial Crisis to QE1/2/3 and ZIRP to the rate hike to today. And what do we have today? Continue reading “Government Sachs Gets Golden Wrist Slap For Global Financial Crisis”
The two volcanoes are thousands of miles apart but are on the edge of the same tectonic plate – the Phillippine Plate – sparking fears of a major seismic shift, more volcanic activity and even earthquakes and tsunamis.
More than 1,200 people have been evacuated from within a 1.9-mile containment zone around Mount Egon in Kupang, eastern Indonesia – one of the most volcanic parts of the globe. Continue reading “Two volcanoes EXPLODE simultaneously causing mass evacuation”
After this happens I’m going to sue Linn County for MY SHARE.
SALEM — Hoping a bump in logging on state lands adds millions of dollars to its coffers, Linn County is preparing a $1.4 billion lawsuit accusing Oregon officials of mismanaging forest policy by failing to promote timber harvests. Continue reading “Linn County plans $1.4 billion lawsuit over Oregon logging rules”
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes
It is being referred to as Cthulhu-geddon.
Squid have washed up on Santa Maria Island off Chile this week in what some have described as biblical proportions. Thousands of dead and dying squid are piled up on the shore. While some squid normally do wash up this time of year, it’s never been in this large of a quantity. Continue reading “Fukushima? 10,000 Dead Squid Wash Up On Chile Beach”
The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens
A newly-published report shows that almost 10 percent of America’s college graduates think Judge Judy is a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Among other lowlights, the report shows that almost 60 percent of college grads have no idea how to amend the Constitution. Also, nearly half of the people who have earned bachelor’s degrees in this country don’t realize that U.S. senators serve six-year terms while members of the U.S. House of Representatives serve two-year terms. Continue reading “Shock Poll: Almost 10% Of US College Grads Think JUDGE JUDY Is On The Supreme Court”
Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish
From a glut in the U.S. supply to fears concerning what will happen now that sanctions on Iran have been lifted, the market for oil is tanking considerably — so much so that one supplier of crude in North Dakota finds itself in the odd position of paying people to take its product.
North Dakota Sour, a high-sulfur crude that’s more expensive to refine than other varieties, has now been listed at -$0.50 per barrel — down from $13.50 per barrel a year ago and $47.60 per barrel in 2014,Bloomberg reported. Continue reading “Oil Prices Slide so Far Some Crude Is Now Worth Literally Less than Nothing”
WebMD is the most visited health site on the web. While the general belief is that it’s a trustworthy source of “independent and objective” health information, it’s become quite clear that WebMD is a shill, using its influence to primarily promote corporate-backed health strategies and products.
Partnerships and sponsorships1 color WebMD’s recommendations across the board, and “passive” promotion techniques, where advertisements are designed to look more like editorials, have become commonplace.
Continue reading “WebMD — The Latest Shill for Monsanto”
Yahoo News – by Ransdell Pierson
(Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) said on Tuesday it would cut about 3,000 jobs within its medical devices unit over the next two years, or about 4 to 6 percent of the struggling division’s global workforce, to generate annual cost savings of up to $1 billion and focus on more innovative products.
The job cuts relate to J&J’s orthopedics, surgery and cardiovascular operations, although there are no immediate plans to eliminate specific products, said company spokesman Ernie Knewitz. Continue reading “J&J to cut 3,000 jobs in struggling device division”
BEIJING (AP) — China’s economy cooled further in the latest quarter, dragging 2015’s full-year growth to a quarter-century low and deepening a slowdown that has fueled anxiety over its impact on the global economy.
The world’s second-largest economy grew 6.9 percent in 2015, the government said Tuesday, down from 7.3 percent in the previous year. For the October-December quarter, growth inched down to 6.8 percent, the weakest quarterly expansion in six years. Continue reading “China’s economic growth wanes to 25-year low in 2015”
HONOLULU (AP) — Teams searching the waters off Hawaii where two Marine helicopters crashed have had no luck so far in their hunt for 12 missing crew members.
Three of the four life rafts aboard the helicopters have been recovered and efforts were being made to retrieve the fourth. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers said Monday that some of the rafts were inflated, but it was unclear how they got that way. Continue reading “Still no luck in hunt for 12 Marines after Hawaii crashes”
The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Nashville, TN — In May of 2014, Ronnie and Lisa Hankins were driving back from his grandfather’s funeral in Virginia when they were targeted by a gang of police officers in search of cash.
As Lisa drove the couple westbound down I-40, they saw an officer, who happened to be with the 23rd Judicial District Drug Task Force, and Hankins correctly predicted that they were about to be pulled over. Continue reading “It’s Like “Nazi Germany” — Federal Police Officer Furious After Cops Attempt to Rob Him & His Wife”
Bomb threats were phoned in to at least nine schools in New Jersey on Tuesday, forcing evacuations or lockdowns, a spokesman for the Bergen County Sheriff said.
Four of the schools were soon given the all clear but searches were still underway at five others, the spokesman said. Continue reading “Bomb threats received at nine northern New Jersey schools”
