From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Albert Einstein is famously quoted: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting something to change.”
This is not, of course, the actual definition of insanity. It also turns out Einstein never said this. It actually comes from an Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlet from the 1980s. Continue reading “Donald Trump and The Definition of Insanity”
Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner
The legacy of death and misery from the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan continues today, and, once again, Dick Cheney plays a central role. A new book by Joseph Hickman, a former U.S. Marine and Army sergeant, titled “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” details how soldiers and local civilian populations were exposed to constant streams of toxic smoke from the burning of waste. Continue reading “Dick Cheney Poisoned Hundreds of US Troops in Iraq — They’re Dying — And the Media is Silent”
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. plans to send two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year as it continues to work with NASA for a planned crewed mission to the International Space Station.
The passengers, who each paid a “significant deposit,” will undergo health and fitness tests and begin initial training later this year, the company said in a blog post Monday. SpaceX didn’t identify the two citizens or say how much they spent to book the trip that will use the Falcon Heavy, a new rocket in development that SpaceX has yet to fly. Continue reading “Musk’s SpaceX Plans 2018 Flight Circling Moon With Civilians”
Israel has sent its troops on repeated spying missions to a village located half a kilometer inside Syria’s territory in an incident caught on camera, a Tel Aviv-based TV says.
Israel’s Channel 2 carried the report, saying the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps had dispatched its Ait (Eagle) 595 Battalion on back-to-back incursions early Sunday. Continue reading “Video shows Israeli spies sneaking into Syria”
Univision senior anchor Jorge Ramos declared on Friday that the United States belongs to Latino migrants, emphatically stating to a Spanish-speaking audience that “it is our country, not theirs.”
Ramos took an unusual tack, pivoting from talk of diversity and togetherness into boasts of conquest. Mass immigration, particularly illegal immigration, was a fait accompli. There is nothing the U.S. can do about it, and they must accept that America is “not their” country and that illegal aliens, particularly Latinos, “are not going to leave,” he said. Continue reading “Jorge Ramos: America Is ‘Our Country, Not Theirs’—‘And We Are Not Going to Leave’”
Most taxpayers will never pay $10,000 in flights for an overseas trip, but in the year prior to the 2016 election, taxpayers paid for 557 such trips that each cost more than $10,000 for a member of Congress or a staffer.
Those five-digit global itineraries made up 40% of all individual congressional trips for which travel costs were publicly reported. By comparison, less than 0.2% of tickets purchased by the general public through U.S. travel agencies in 2015 and 2016 were more than $10,000, according to the Airlines Reporting Corp. Continue reading “Taxpayers fund a first-class congressional foreign travel boom”
The Guardian – by Olivia Solon
I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” said a Twitter employee in his early 40s who earns a base salary of $160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a family in the Bay Area.
The biggest cost is his $3,000 rent – which he said was “ultra cheap” for the area – for a two-bedroom house in San Francisco, where he lives with his wife and two kids. He’d like a slightly bigger property, but finds himself competing with groups of twentysomethings happy to share accommodation while paying up to $2,000 for a single room. Continue reading “Scraping by on six figures? Tech workers feel poor in Silicon Valley’s wealth bubble”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Pentagon-led preliminary plan to defeat Islamic State has been delivered to the White House and U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will brief senior administration officials later on Monday, a Defense Department spokesman told reporters.
Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis told reporters that it was the framework for a broader plan and looked at Islamic State around the world, not just Iraq and Syria. Continue reading “Pentagon delivers draft plan to defeat Islamic State to White House”
Former President George W. Bush said that the power of the presidency can be addictive and that an independent media is necessary to keep things in check.
“I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy,” Bush said in a “Today” show interview Monday morning. “We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it’s important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere.” Continue reading “George W. Bush: A free press checks the ‘addictive’ power of the presidency”
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea executed five senior security officials with anti-aircraft guns because they made false reports that “enraged” leader Kim Jong Un, South Korea’s spy agency said Monday.
The comments by the National Intelligence Service in a private briefing to lawmakers come as Malaysia investigates the poisoning death of Kim’s estranged elder half brother, Kim Jong Nam. That investigation is still going on, but South Korea says it believes Kim Jong Un ordered the assassination, which took place Feb. 13 at Kuala Lumpur’s airport. Continue reading “Seoul says North Korea executes 5 senior security officials”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump are holding rallies in towns and cities across the country on Monday, partly as a rebuttal to waves of anti-Trump protests that have taken place since the Republican’s election last November.
Trump is not scheduled to appear at any of this week’s rallies, which are being held in cities small and large, from coast to coast. The venues range from a park in the small town of Gravette, Arkansas, to the plaza outside the Georgia State Capitol building in downtown Atlanta. Continue reading “After anti-Trump protests, the president’s fans organize their own rallies”
Two weeks after David Stockman warned that “the market is apparently pricing in a huge Trump stimulus. But if you just look at the real world out there, the only thing that’s going to happen is a fiscal bloodbath and a White House train wreck like never before in U.S. history” and exclaimed that, when looking at markets, “what’s going on today is complete insanity” he is back with another interview, this time with Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog in which he, once again warns, that a giant fiscal bloodbatch is coming soon, and urges listeners to pay especially close attention to the March 15, 2017 debt ceiling deadling, at which point everything could “grind to a halt.”
Continue reading “Stockman: “After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt””
UPDATE 2/272017:This is an update to my 2015 article. This isn’t just about cussing.
I’ve been to federal court on this issue and had a state police agency admit wrongdoing in writing and punish and retrain their officers because of 4th amendnent violations. I know what I am talking about.
So when others, in this case arrogant DHS feds, keep doing it with impunity and costing me and thousands of others tons of money, it gets very irritating. Continue reading “Maybe It’s Time To Just Cuss Them Out”
President Trump’s recommendations from the Pentagon are starting to trickle in, and they seem to everywhere involve more escalations of US involvement and increased flexibility for the Pentagon to order airstrikes in various countries to target “apparent threats.”
And while it’s not as high profile as recommendations expected later this week in places like Syria, that’s the case for Somalia as well, where the Pentagon is seeking increased aid for the Somali Army, moving US special forces closer to the front lines, and loosening up restrictions on airstrikes. Continue reading “Pentagon Seeks to Expand US Involvement in Somalia Fight”
Another week, another record for U.S. crude exports.
Producers and traders shipped out 1.21 million barrels of crude a day from the U.S. in the week that ended February 17, the most in Energy Information Administration data going back to 1993. Domestic output increased to 9 million barrels per day last week, the fastest pace since April, while U.S. refiners used the least crude since October 2015. Continue reading “U.S. Crude Exports Surge to a Record”
WEB Notes: This article was a good read, a couple highlights are below. What they point out here is what we said several months ago as well and I think people lose sight of that. Whatever means are used to control immigration will be used to control the citizens as well. So while you wave your flag for more oppressing laws against ‘illegals’ remember you will be policed by the same laws. Government will continue to oppress as long as we allow it. All we need to do is enforce the laws already on the books to control the illegal immigration problem. We do not need additional laws.
Continue reading “Welcome Aboard, But First US Marshals Will Scan Your Retina”
I was pleased as punch to see an Immigration and Customs Enforcement Border Patrol Vehicle driving down the 10 freeway in RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. a few days ago, HUNDREDS of miles from any border. So I couldn’t resist filming this. Go Trump! Continue reading “Welcome to Trump Nation!! La Migra Patrolling HUNDREDS Of Miles From ANY Border! LMAO!”