From the Trenches World Report
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Politico – by Sabrina Rodriguez
MEXICO CITY — Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s campaign rhetoric can make him sound like a Mexican Donald Trump.
The left-leaning front-runner in Mexico’s presidential race is overtly nationalistic, pushes “Mexican people first” policies and peppers his speeches with anti-establishment slogans that thrill the working-class Mexicans who flock to his rallies. Continue reading “Mexico’s Trumpian populist could mean trouble for Donald Trump”
The Hill – by Jacqueline Thomsen
Jared Kushner’s family’s business received a $30 million investment from a major Israeli financial institution shortly before Kushner traveled to the country as part of President Trump’s state visit to Israel in May, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Kushner Companies received about $30 million from Menora Mivtachim, an executive from the company told The Times.
The investment was for Maryland apartment complexes owned by the family business. Continue reading “Kushner family business got $30M investment from Israeli firm prior to Trump’s state visit: report”
“I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device.” — Nikola Tesla, Brooklyn Eagle (10 July 1931)
This is a “what if” story. But it’s also based on decades of experience analyzing propaganda and cover stories. Continue reading “UFOs, Tesla, DeLonge, ETs, covert ops”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
White Plains, NY – A police officer who shot and killed an innocent 68-year-old mentally ill veteran who accidentally hit the medical emergency button in his home, will face no consequences after acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim determined that there was insufficient evidence to press charges.
The victim, Kenneth Chamberlain, accidentally triggered a medical alert through “Life Aid,” which prompted police to visit his home. When the officers arrived unexpectedly, Chamberlain told the responding officers that he was OK and did not need any help. He refused to answer his door, and instead called Life Aid and told them that he did not need the police at his home. Continue reading “Elderly Vet Accidentally Trips His Medical Alert System, Cops Show Up and Kill Him—No Charges”
Police in Cyprus have arrested an Israeli man described as the ringleader of a world-wide organ trafficking network that operated out of the tiny Balkan country of Kosovo several years ago.
Moshe Harel is accused of luring donors from eastern Europe, Turkey and the former Soviet Union to Kosovo, promising to pay them €12,000 ($14,500) for a kidney. He then allegedly charged people (most of them Israelis) in need of a kidney as much as €100,000 for the implant. Continue reading “Israeli mastermind behind organ trafficking ring is arrested in Cyprus”
Free Thought Project – by John Vibes
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that they will be holding a briefing which is designed to instruct the public on how to prepare for a nuclear war. A post on the agency’s website said that the briefing will be taking place on January 16th at the Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium in Atlanta Georgia. The briefing will be hosted by a number of CDC representatives including Dan Sosin, Robert Whitcomb, and Betsy Kagey. Continue reading “Time to Pay Attention: CDC Begins Instructing Public on How To Survive Nuclear War”
Considering that Wikileaks made its name by leaking confidential and/or hard to find documents and information, and also considering the reversal in the Trump administration vis-a-vis Julian Assange, whom it first lauded only to threaten with incarceration in recent months, it is perhaps not surprising that moments ago the official Wikileaks twitter account published Michael Wolff’s controversial – and largely sold out – book, “Fire and Fury” in pdf format. Continue reading “Wikileaks Publishes Michael Wolff’s Entire Sold Out Trump Book As A PDF”
Our Angel in New York (Anna) reported on the comment section last night that her beloved husband, Randy, passed away at 7:29 yesterday morning.
Angel is among the original Trenchers and has been here since before the beginning.
Our hearts are aching for her here in the Trenches.
So. The US economy is just fine. The post-recession 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation has cured all. Banks have lots of cash. Congress is your friend and that certain-to-pass Tax Cut and Jobs bill will finally allow you, your family and America to… MAGA.
Really?!
“I’m sorry, Sir. We are unable to cash this check,” were the ominous words delivered to me by a fresh-faced, none-too-friendly, Wells Fargo Bank manager. He had just kept me waiting ten minutes while in consultation about my requested transaction. Returning to his cubicle he sat down quickly, now looking at me intently through narrowed eyes. Continue reading “When Your Bank Fails, Don’t Walk …Run!”
An estimated 7,795 U.S. retail store closures were announced in 2017, according to a new research note from UBS, setting a new record. Continue reading “A staggering amount of U.S. retail stores closed in 2017”
Apparently surging violent crime, massive tax hikes and insolvent public pensions are bad for attracting new residents…who knew? On the other hand, 364 days of sunshine per year, minimal crime, brand new infrastructure and some of the lowest tax rates in the country seems to be, to our complete shock, somewhat appealing to folks looking to relocate.
But that is just a couple of many interesting takeaways to be gleaned from the latest annual “U.S. Migration Report” from North American Moving Services which found that Illinois was the most ditched state in 2017. Continue reading “Americans Are Ditching These Five States In Record Numbers”
President Donald Trump has hit out at “very weak” libel laws in the US as he branded an explosive new book detailing the inner workings of the White House as “fiction”.
Suggesting he would like to see tougher laws on speech, Mr Trump said that if libel laws “were strong… you wouldn’t have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes into your head” – referring to Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Continue reading “Donald Trump suggests he wants US law to limit free speech in wake of publication of explosive new book”
Authorities in Oregon said they successfully detonated a live “World War II-style mortar shell” uncovered on a woman’s property.
The military weapon was found Thursday in the shed at a woman’s home in Gold Hill, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The release said it had been there for more than 30 years, as long as she’d lived there. But the history of the shell was otherwise murdy. Continue reading “Active ‘World War II-style mortar shell’ turns up in, of all places, an Oregon woman’s shed”
Sent to us by Peter.
SHELBURNE, Vt. (AP) — Police say a man in Vermont has used a machete to attack a woman in her 70s as she delivered meals to a motel being used as emergency housing for the homeless. Continue reading “Woman delivering meals to the homeless attacked with machete”
New York Daily News – by Andrew Keshner
O.J. Simpson could be sprinting to court to sue a Las Vegas casino that permanently bounced him from the premises, according to a letter from his lawyer.
Simpson’s attorney told The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas to hold on to all sorts of evidence — because he’s planning to sue for at least $100 million after stories that the Juice was banned for being drunk and disruptive. Continue reading “O.J. Simpson to sue Las Vegas casino that banned him for at least $100M”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Orange Park, FL — The Clay County Sheriff’s Department is receiving heavy backlash on social media this week after making a video of a SWAT raid in which hundreds of thousands of dollars of police resources were used to bust a handful of kids who had some marijuana.
In the ominous video that looks more like a terrorist organization threatening its enemies than public servants solving crimes, Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels taunts his massive militarized police army and how it was just used to kidnap a bunch of young people for having marijuana. Continue reading “Sheriff Makes Ominous Video Bragging About Using a Small Army to Bust Kids With Weed”
Washington, D.C. — The pervasive problem of cops shooting dogs throughout the United States has been part of the conversation about police brutality for some time. From chihuahuas and pit bulls to cocker spaniels and Labrador retrievers, police officers have developed a reputation for overreacting to family pets with their firearms. Continue reading “DC Police Release Guidelines for Residents to Follow So Cops Don’t Kill Their Dogs”
Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Like many years before, 2017 proved to be a deadly and dangerous year for those who found themselves on the other side of the badge. During 2017, 1,188 people lost their lives to the judges, juries, and executioners known as the American police. Everyone from children to the elderly were killed by police this year as most Americans watched football and looked the other way. Police brutality has become so prominent that it is now recorded on video—repeatedly—for the world to see. Continue reading “The Top 5 Most Disturbing Police Brutality Videos From 2017”