From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
The Daily Caller – by Perry Picket
Republican Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill Friday establishing August 4 as “Barack Obama Day.”
The 44th president received the honor from his home state on his 56th birthday. The bill passed through both chambers of the state legislature without any dissenting votes. Continue reading “Illinois Establishes ‘Barack Obama Day’”
New York Post – by Melkorka Licea
Cocky “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli drew a weird parallel between jail and 9/11 Saturday, saying living through the terrorist attacks would prepare him for a stint in the slammer.
“A few months of jail doesn’t scare me. I saw 9/11,” Shkreli, 34, strangely bragged to a Boston Herald reporter while live-streaming on YouTube.
Shkreli was 18 years old at the time of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Continue reading “‘Pharma Bro’ says witnessing 9/11 prepared him for jail”
Fox News anchor Eric Bolling has been suspended pending an investigation into lewd messages he is accused of sending multiple female coworkers at Fox News and Fox Business Channel.
In a statement, Fox News confirmed Bolling’s suspension Saturday afternoon.
“Eric Bolling has been suspended pending the results of an investigation, which is currently underway,” a Fox spokesperson said. Continue reading “Eric Bolling suspended from Fox amid lewd message allegations”
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday including a ban on coal and other exports totaling more than $1 billion — a huge bite in its total exports, valued at $3 billion last year.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley praised the new sanctions, telling council members after the vote that it is “the single largest economic package ever leveled against the North Korean regime.” Continue reading “UN imposes tough new sanctions on North Korea”
Monsanto is facing over 100 lawsuits in a Federal district court in San Francisco brought by people who attribute their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma to exposure to glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup weed-killer, and as part of the discovery process, it submitted internal documents to the court that detailed shenanigans in the company’s internal science and its dealings with regulators and the press.
Then Monsanto’s lawyers neglected to a motion seeking continued protection of the confidential documents, believing that a “a standing confidentiality order” was in place, something that the plaintiff’s lawyers disagree with, which is why they released a huge tranche of damning memos. Continue reading “Monsanto’s lawyers forgot to ask a court to suppress damning evidence about cancer and corrupt science”
The Drive – by TYLER ROGOWAY AND JOSEPH TREVITHICK
very unique USAF surveillance aircraft has been flying highly defined circles over Seattle and its various suburbs for nine days now. Nobody at the DoD seems to know who the aircraft belongs to or what exactly it is doing flying so many missions over the Seattle area. But based on its visibly exotic configuration, and information collected by open source flight tracking websites, we can get a good idea of its capabilities and guess as to what it’s up to.
The aircraft, which goes by the callsign “SPUD21” and wears a nondescript flat gray paint job with the only visible markings being a USAF serial on its tail, is a CASA CN-235-300 transport aircraft that has been extensively modified for the surveillance mission. You can see more pictures of the aircraft here.
Continue reading “This Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle For Days”
New Mexico — A small community in New Mexico is learning firsthand the consequences of relying on corporate industry to fuel your economy. In the case of Torrance County, it’s the private prison industry. From a July 25 article by the Santa Fe New Mexican:
“The company that has operated a private prison in Estancia for nearly three decades has announced it will close the Torrance County Detention Facility and lay off more than 200 employees unless it can find 300 state or federal inmates to fill empty beds within the next 60 days, according to a statement issued Tuesday by county officials.” Continue reading “Private Prison Demands Small Town Give It 300 More Prisoners or It Will Close Down”
One reason I started my own economics blog was because of how tired I was of reading government-regurgitated half truths about the economy. Nothing has changed. As Newsmax and other publications report this week that July was a bumper month for lower-wage earners, I continue to have to sift for myself through all the glitter to find the globs of buried ugly truths. First, the DayGlo report: Continue reading “Continue to Beware the Job Numbers (Is it the Bureau of Labor Statistics or Bureau of Lying Statistics?)”
The United States is preparing for all options to counter the growing threat from North Korea, including launching a “preventive war,” national security adviser H.R. McMaster said in an interview that aired Saturday on MSNBC. The comments come after North Korea carried out two tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the past month and after the president said he has been clear he will not tolerate North Korea’s threats to attack the U.S. with nuclear weapons. Continue reading “McMaster: U.S. Preparing For “Preventive War” With North Korea”
Illegal immigrant families received nearly $1.3 billion in Los Angeles County welfare money during 2015 and 2016, nearly one-quarter of the amount spent on the county’s entire needy population, according to data obtained by Fox News.
The data was obtained from the county Department of Public Social Services — which is responsible for doling out the benefits — and gives a snapshot of the financial costs associated with sanctuary and related policies. Continue reading “LA made $1.3B in illegal immigrant welfare payouts in just 2 years”
I found this case interesting.
United States District Court
Virginia COULTER, Plaintiff,
v.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, Transportation Safety Administration, and Patricia Lamb, Defendants. Continue reading “Suing the TSA”
Freedom Works – by Adam Brandon
The fix is in. Did you know, Congress only works 33 percent of the year?
The base salary for all rank-and-file members of Congress is $174,000, more than triple the median household income of the United States. In exchange for that generous salary, members of Congress work one out of three days. Continue reading “The Best Part-Time Job in America”
WEB Notes: The modern era has brought about much confusion. Those either wicked or foolish enough to confuse our children about their identity know if they work on the children, future generations will be that much easier to fool. Isaiah 5:20 tells us, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Preschoolers know if they are a boy or a girl. Boys and girls typically like different things, you can see it in them. We all know this, it is common sense, but some want to confuse our children. What did Christ say about this?
Continue reading “Planned Parenthood’s Gender Identity Guide For Preschoolers Says Some Girls Have Penises”
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POLICE OFFICER? THAT MAKES HIS “JOB” ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL. THERES SOME TRUTH FOR YOU. YOUR “PUBLIC POLICY” IS NOT GREATER THAN THE BILL OF RIGHTS. SHOW AIRS 2;00 PM CENTRAL.http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/
Continue reading “Standing up for the Bill of Rights”
The owner of a Dunkin’ Donuts plans to meet with two police officers who say they were denied service at his franchise in Brooklyn so that he can apologize in person, according to a police union and a statement from the global doughnut company.
The two officers, who are members of the 73rd Precinct’s detective squad, were in plain clothes but had their badges and pistols on their belts when they entered the Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins location at 1993 Atlantic Ave. on Sunday, according to the Detectives’ Endowment Association, a police union. Continue reading “Dunkin’ Donuts Apologizes After Brooklyn Franchise Refuses to Serve Cops”
Survival Saturday is a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared.
This Week in the News
This week, it seems inevitable that we are headed straight to war. When Trump was elected, the fact that he seemed committed to getting along with Russia gave many people hope that a global conflict could be averted. That and the repeal of Obamacare seemed like the light at the end of the tunnel of a contentious election. Continue reading “Is World War 3 Inevitable?”
Since Wikileaks began releasing classified CIA documents back in March as part of its “Vault 7” series of leaks, purportedly the largest document dump in the agency’s history, it has publicly unveiled programs with innocent sounding names like “Marble”, “Scribbles” and “Archimedes” that the agency employs to help execute its operations, or to cover its tracks.
On Thursday, the group released the 19th installment in its series by publishing a series of documents detailing how the agency uses a custom-designed hacking exploit called “Dumbo” to destroy, or manufacture, evidence during field operations, according to a Wikileaks press release.
Continue reading “Wikileaks Reveals “Dumbo”: Tool That Allows CIA To Shut Down Cameras And Microphones”