From the Trenches World Report

New York Post – by Nadine DeNinno

Walt Disney Studios has issued a warning that “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” could trigger seizures in photosensitive people with epilepsy.

The company is working with the Epilepsy Foundation to promote the alert, Variety reports, as well as to give tips on how fans can still enjoy the movie, which contains “several sequences with imagery and sustained flashing lights.”  Continue reading “Disney warns ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ could trigger seizures”

CNN

Pictures of the Nazi death camp complex were used on a variety of tree ornaments, a mouse pad and a bottle opener, which the Auschwitz Memorial described as “disturbing and disrespectful.”  Continue reading “Amazon pulls Christmas ornaments showing Auschwitz concentration camp”

Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

With all the “measles outbreaks” that brought national headlines earlier this year, and resulted in many states introducing legislation to force vaccinate the public and remove vaccine exemptions for school-age children, one thing the national corporate-sponsored “mainstream” media failed to report, is that the only vaccine available in the U.S. for measles has been involved in an 9-year long legal battle for fraud, due to Merck’s own scientists who helped develop the vaccine becoming whistleblowers. Continue reading “Is Merck’s 9-Year Long Whistleblower Fraud Lawsuit on the MMR Vaccine Finally Coming to a Resolution?”

The Atlantic – by Matthew Shaer

One evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through channels on the television, when she happened to catch a teaser for an upcoming news segment on KHOU 11, the local CBS affiliate. She leapt to her feet. “I scared the kids, I was screaming so loud,” Batie told me recently. “I said, ‘Thank you, God!’ I knew that all these years later, my prayers had been answered.”

Continue reading “The False Promise of DNA Testing”

Texas Tribune

The grandson of the late President George H.W. Bush, nonprofit executive Pierce Bush, announced Monday morning that he is running for Texas’ 22nd Congressional District.

Bush enters a crowded GOP primary to replace U.S. Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, whose seat was a national Democratic target even before Olson announced his retirement earlier this year. Bush made his bid official in a video playing up his experience as the Houston-based CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star. Continue reading “Pierce Bush announces bid for suburban Houston congressional seat”

Independent – by Bel Trew

Israel’s state prosecutor has plans to indict prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cousin and personal lawyer, alongside six other people, on charges related to a possible conflict of interest over a $2bn purchase of German submarines.

Shai Nitzan said in a statement on Thursday the seven would be charged on various corruption offences, including money laundering, bribery and fraud – pending a hearing. Continue reading “Netanyahu’s personal lawyer to be charged with money laundering”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

Buckingham, VA — An 8-year-old girl was forced to strip completely naked to be able to enter the Buckingham Correctional Center to see her father, an inmate being housed there. Making matters worse for not only the child but the prison system, the child’s mother was not present in order to give consent to the search.  Continue reading “8yo Girl Stripped Naked by Officers, Telling Her It’s The Only Way She Can See Her Daddy”

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”