From the Trenches World Report
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is going into the medical marijuana export business — if its Cabinet agrees.
The Knesset has passed legislation that would have Israel join the Netherlands and Canada as nations allowing the legal export of medical cannabis. Continue reading “Israeli lawmakers legalize export of medical marijuana”
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A former Israeli armed forces chief who opinion polls show poses the toughest challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid for reelection next year formally established a political party on Thursday.
Details about Benny Gantz’s Israel Resilience Party, leaked to local media after it was registered, gave little indication of its ideological tilt. Continue reading “Israeli ex-general, polling closest to Netanyahu, joins 2019 election race”
The Bush political family dynasty began with Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr. who helped Hitler’s rise to power. Prescott also became the Director of Union Banking Corporation when it was suspected of concealing Nazi gold during the Second World War. Both Prescott’s son, George Herbert Walker Bush, and grandson, George Walker Bush, became the 41st and 43rd Presidents of the United States, respectively, who both initiated wars with Iraq that profited companies with Bush family ties, such as Halliburton and KBR. Continue reading “Prescott Sheldon Bush is a traitor.”
More than two years after Governor Andrew Cuomo declared victory in the Fight for $15 campaign, an initial group of New York City’s lowest paid workers will finally see the promised figure reflected in their paychecks.
Starting on December 31st, employees at New York City businesses with more than 10 workers will be the first to reach the full $15 minimum wage, which is being implemented in phases throughout the state. The city’s smaller businesses still have another year to offer the hourly wage, while all employers on Long Island and in Westchester get until 2021. The remainder of workers in the state will see the wage floor lifted to $12.50 in two years, at which point the minimum wage will increase at a schedule to be determined by the state, until it hits $15…eventually. Continue reading “NYC’s Full $15 Minimum Wage Kicks In On New Year’s Eve”
In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. Digital advertisers tend to want two things: people to look at their ads and “premium” websites — i.e., established and legitimate publications — on which to host them. Continue reading “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.”
In 1983, Utah was the first state to lower its blood alcohol limit from 0.10 to 0.08 for impaired driving. It would take nearly two decades for every state to follow suit, but as they did, the nation’s rate of alcohol-related traffic deaths dropped 10 percent. Now, Utah is pioneering the move to lower it once again.
Beginning Dec. 30 — yes, the day before New Year’s Eve — Utahns will have to be extra careful about drinking and driving. On Sunday, the state’s blood alcohol content limit will drop from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent, marking the strictest DUI law in the country. Continue reading “Utah First In The Nation To Lower Its DUI Limit To .05 Percent”
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — About 518 migrants are expected to be released by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, according to the Annunciation House.
That makes more than 1,000 migrants released in the past three days. Continue reading “About 500 migrants released by ICE Wednesday, over 1,000 released past few days”
As we bid farewell to another year, it looks like we’ll also be saying goodbye to some iconic pieces of cultural history along with it. Songs, fairy tales, hand gestures; for the PC-police, nothing has been off limits in 2018.
Here’s a look at some of the things we’ll miss as we trudge wearily on toward a heavily-sanitized world where nobody ever feels offended again. Continue reading “PC gone wild: Traditions that will never be the same after 2018”
Note from Daisy: It’s the Christmas season and that means it’s time for Washington, DC to try and sneak some draconian measures past us. James Wesley Rawles posted the following article on his website, Survival Blog, on Christmas Day, outlining how the new bill, the 3D Firearms Prohibitions Act, will infringe on our rights in at least 8 different ways. (And if you think this will ONLY affect those with a 3D printer, you’re quite mistaken.) Continue reading “This New Gun Bill Is Unconstitutional In at Least 8 Different Ways”
On September 10, 2001 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld went on CBS Evening News and admitted that the Pentagon (under the Clinton regime) had spent $2.3 trillion but had no idea where the money went. He promised the American taxpayers that the money was well spent but we just didn’t know where it was. And he promised to improve both the bureaucratic and accounting procedures at the Pentagon so they taxpayers would know their money was being well looked after. Continue reading “Stealing Money From The Voters: Won’t Last Much Longer.”
So, the bull market bounced back, right? Not so fast. When one appreciated reader suggested there would be a huge plunge the day after Christmas, given how badly the market plummeted the day before Christmas, I cautioned against that tempting thought. Herein are some warnings about bull traps in a bear market and how they work and how much they look exactly like what we just saw…. Continue reading “Beware the Bear’s Bull Traps!”
Institute for Historical Review
Is Revisionism a Threat to National Security?
American military service personnel are now being told that skepticism toward the official history of Europe’s Jews during World War II is not permissible. A recently published Department of Defense booklet tells armed forces members that revisionist criticism of the Six Million extermination story is nothing less than a threat to national security. Continue reading “Defense Department Booklet Targets Holocaust Revisionism”
The Eagle – by Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
When the new year begins next week, President Donald Trump will have an acting chief of staff, an acting secretary of defense, an acting attorney general, an acting EPA administrator, no interior secretary, and no ambassador to the United Nations. The officials originally in all those positions have either been fired or have quit in various measures of disgust or scandal. His former campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, national security adviser and personal lawyer have all pleaded guilty to crimes. Continue reading “This is what we were afraid of”
On Friday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Privacy International and Civil Liberties and Transparency Clinic at the University of Buffalo filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against seven federal criminal and immigration enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
According to a press release by the ACLU, the lawsuit demands that the agencies reveal “which hacking tools and methods they [these agencies] use, how often they use them, the legal basis for employing these methods and any internal rules that govern them.” It also calls for internal audits or investigations of the agencies. Continue reading “‘Shine a Light’: ACLU Sues 7 US Federal Agencies to Expose Government Hacking”
Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8] (Introduced 12/10/2018)
Committees: House – Natural Resources; Armed Services; Agriculture; Transportation and Infrastructure
Latest Action: House – 12/11/2018 Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness. Continue reading “H.R.7232 – Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2018”
Former television star Roseanne Barr says she will travel to Israel in January to learn more about Jewish history and address the country’s parliament.
Barr’s longtime friend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, first announced her plans this week on social media. Boteach’s pro-Israel organization, the World Values Network, said it is sponsoring the trip. Continue reading “Roseanne Barr plans to visit Israel, address its parliament”