From the Trenches World Report

The Blaze – by Giancarlo Sopo

New guidelines from Portland, Oregon’s Planning and Sustainability Commission have sparked a major controversy in the city.

Under a proposal introduced to the PSC on Nov. 12, the building design process would require owners to “provide opportunities” to the homeless population “to rest and be welcome.” Many are interpreting the vague language—specifically the “rest and be welcome” requirements—as potentially forcing owners of new commercial and residential real estate to build “spaces” for homeless men and women to camp out on private property, even in apartment buildings.  Continue reading “Portland Could Start Forcing Apartment Owners To ‘Make Room’ For Homeless Campers ‘Whether They Like It Or Not’”

Breitbart – by John Binder

A South African man was able to become a naturalized American citizen weeks after allegedly murdering two native Alaskan women, Breitbart News has learned.

Brian Smith, a 48-year-old native of South Africa, was indicted in October for the murders of 30-year-old Kathleen Henry and 52-year-old Veronica Abouchuk in Anchorage, Alaska, in separate incidents. Henry was allegedly strangled to death, while Abouchuk was allegedly shot and killed.  Continue reading “South African Man Given U.S. Citizenship After Allegedly Murdering Alaskan Women”

Ammo.com

The Culpeper Flag is often mistaken as a modern variation of the iconic “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden Flag – and rightly so. What many don’t know is that the Culpeper Flag was inspired by its Gadsden counterpart, and both have become touchstones of the Second Amendment Movement.  Continue reading “The Culpeper Minutemen Flag: The History of the Banner Flown by a Militia of Patriots”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Paul A. Volcker, who helped shape American economic policy for more than six decades, and who will forever be etched in the history books for leading the Federal Reserve’s brute-force campaign to subdue inflation in the late 1970s and early ’80s, has died on Sunday in New York, the NYT reported. He was 92. Continue reading “Paul Volcker, Central Banker Who Defeated Inflation, Dead At 92”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

Neo-Con Republican strategist and Never Trumper Rick Wilson has suggested that anti-vaxxers should be put in re-education camps and have their children taken away.

Yes, really. Continue reading “Rick Wilson Suggests Putting Anti-Vaxxers in “Re-Education Camps””

ProPublica – by Ken Armstrong

The police gave Ricky Joyner a pen and a nine-page questionnaire.

Write what you did, beginning to end, on the day Sandra Hernandez disappeared, one question asked.  Continue reading “Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?”

The Guardian – by Peter Beaumont

Hundreds of confidential interviews with key figures involved in prosecuting the 18-year US war in Afghanistan have revealed that the US public has been consistently misled about an unwinnable conflict.

Transcripts of the interviews, published by the Washington Post after a three-year legal battle, were collected for a Lessons Learned project by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (Sigar), a federal agency whose main task is eliminating corruption and inefficiency in the US war effort.  Continue reading “Afghan papers reveal US public were misled about unwinnable war”

RT

The embattled Prime Minister wants Washington to approve of Israel’s further expansion into the Jordan Valley, just days after he urged Donald Trump not to miss a rare chance to back Tel Aviv’s territorial appetites.

Benjamin Netanyahu, who fiercely fights for re-election, believes that “the time has come to extend Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley,” a swath of land spanning between the occupied West Bank and neighboring Kingdom of Jordan. On their part, Israel’s closest ally should give a final nod to the move. Continue reading “Netanyahu demands US backing of Jordan Valley ‘annexation plan’ after Washington denies he ever spoke of it with Pompeo”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Tulare, CA — Two California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officers, one retired and one on active duty, were arrested last month and charged with sex crimes dating back to the 1990’s. Steven Arey,48, and Kevin Sandoval, 56, were both charged with molesting children when they worked as youth pastors in their church.  Continue reading “Two Officers Arrested for Molesting Children While Working as Pastors at Church”

Daily Signal – by Kevin Mooney

No one told Jack LaPant that he could be in violation of the Clean Water Act for farming his own land.

That’s mostly because the federal law includes a clear exemption for “normal” farming activities. But it’s also because the government officials LaPant consulted didn’t view overturned dirt that has been tilled and plowed as pollution.  Continue reading “Feds Sue California Farmer For Growing Wheat”

Yahoo News

NEW YORK — At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian people as “soft targets” and urged them to instead go after blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile, a half-dozen officers said in sworn statements.

“You are stopping too many Russian and Chinese,” one of the officers, Daniel Perez, recalled the commander telling him earlier this decade. Continue reading “‘I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People’”

Food Freedom – by J. Holcombe, D. Jacobson, and T. Ruhl

“Farbenfabriken Bayer’s worldwide efforts had left few places lacking aspirin. In the United States, Bayer’s giant factory produced aspirin under “American” management. After Bayer executives were charged with violating the Trading with the Enemies Act in August 1918, advertisements encouraged confidence in aspirin.” Karen Starko

The world has believed for almost a century that a new and virulent virus came out of nowhere worldwide and killed millions in 1918.  Two reports, one published in 2008 and the second in 2009, lay that myth to rest for good. Continue reading “Bayer and Death: 1918 and Aspirin”

National Interest – by Kyle Mizokami

Israel’s submarine corps is a tiny force with a big open secret: in all likelihood, it is armed with nuclear weapons. The five Dolphin-class submarines represent an ace in the hole for Israel, the ultimate guarantor of the country’s security, ensuring that if attacked with nukes, the tiny nation can strike back in kind.  Continue reading “Are Israel’s Mini Dolphin-Class Submarines Nuclear-Armed?”

Millions of dollars a month in salary, a sheep following that would make a Chinese sheep herder envious; throw in a Fox News side act named Sean Hannity and you have the perfect propaganda storm.

For years now American Nationals have had to suffer through the propaganda shit storm that comes out of these two clowns mouths, amazed at how when their gums slap together, they manages to herd the sheeple into a tighter and tighter group. Seemingly giving the impression America is in good hands and doing strong financially. Always agreeing with the assumption that all is good and we are progressing in a legal manner, never addressing the wrongs and treason hundreds of millions of Americans have had to deal with. Continue reading “Well Paid Circus Clowns – Rush Limbaugh And Sean Hannity”

MSN

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos said it would support the U.S. Department of Defense as technology companies vie for more defense contracts and the Pentagon seeks to modernize itself.

“We are going to support the Department of Defense, this country is important,” Bezos said at an annual defense forum at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. Continue reading “Jeff Bezos says Amazon wants to work more with the Pentagon”

Firearms News

In response to the wave of proposed anti-gun legislation in Virginia, many of its cities and counties have declared themselves Second Amendment Sanctuaries. One county, in particular, took it a step further at their December 3rd County Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting.  Continue reading “Tazewell County Forms Militia in Response to New Virginia Gun Laws”

Sun Sentinel

Continue reading “First person to be convicted under Florida’s ‘Red Flag’ firearms law faces up to 5 years in prison”