From the Trenches World Report

Foreign Policy – by Lara Siligman

MANAMA, Bahrain—Since May, the Pentagon has dispatched 14,000 additional U.S. troops, an aircraft carrier, and tens of thousands of pounds of military equipment to the Middle East to respond to what it says are alarming new threats from Iran. But despite the stepped-up U.S. military posture, the top U.S. general in the region believes the Iranian threat continues to rise—and Tehran is likely to continue lashing out.  Continue reading “Top U.S. General: It’s ‘Very Possible’ Iran Will Attack Again”

Mises Institute – by Ryan McMaken

The US federal government is divided up into a variety of institutions, with the three main “branches” of government designed to compete against each other. Theoretically, these three branches were initially thought to place checks on the other branches of government, thus minimizing abuses of power by the federal government overall.  Continue reading “Which Branch of Government Is the Worst? A Ranked List”

AOL

AUSTIN, Texas — “Ghost guns” like the one a 16-year-old boy used to kill two classmates and injure three others at a California high school last week are self-assembled, virtually untraceable – and completely legal.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department confirmed that the .45-caliber pistol that Nathaniel Berhow used in the shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, on his 16th birthday was made from a kit. He then shot himself and died a day later in the hospital.  Continue reading “California school shooting shines light on murky ‘ghost gun’ world”

The Johnston County Report

The US Attorney’s Office announced Thursday a federal grand jury in Raleigh  returned an indictment against Felix Antonio Juarez-Antunez.  The 35 year-old man who is from Honduras and most recently living on Barbour Road in Smithfield, was charged with illegal reentry of a deported alien.  He had previously been deported twice.  Continue reading “Driver Accused Of Killing 2 People Indicted By Federal Grand Jury On Illegal Reentry Charges”

I need another day, but the article AG Barr Announces Project Guardian to Prevent Unapproved Gun Purchases I cannot let stand without addressing.  So this is the best I can do today.

What this article fails to document is that the states are also prohibited from any infringement upon the 2^nd Article by the 10^th Article.    Continue reading “No Word From the Trenches today”

Yahoo News

OZARK, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of an Alabama police officer. (all times local):

7:50 p.m.

A jury is expected to begin deliberating soon in the trial of an Alabama police officer facing a murder charge for the 2016 shooting of an unarmed man.  Continue reading “Jury to deliberate in officer’s murder trial”

Lew Rockwell – by Charles Burris

There is an ever-growing scholarly consensus among presidential historians, distinguished political analysts, and JFK assassination researchers that on November 22, 1963, an insidious coup d’état by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the highest echelons of the National Security State was accomplished with the brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy.  Continue reading “Remembering The November 22, 1963 Deep State Coup d’état”

Health Impact News – by Brian Shilhavy

This week the Murrieta Unified School District in Southern California saw hundreds of parents turn out for a school board meeting to protest the loss of parental rights when it comes to the issue of mandatory vaccines and the sexualization in sex education of their children without parental approval.  Continue reading “California Parents Flood School Board Meeting – Demand Parental Rights Sanctuary Regarding Vaccines and Sex Education”

Free Thought Project – by Jack Burns

For over two decades, a former cop has been allowed to claim he was dying all to avoid going to prison for being a pedophile.

Leonard Forte, a now 78-year-old former detective with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, allegedly raped and sexually molested his daughter’s 12–year-old best friend. That woman is now 45 and she has teenage children of her own. She has been deprived of justice for decades now, all because her rapist has avoided prosecution by claiming he’s dying.  Continue reading “Alleged Pedophile Cop Has Escaped Jail By Faking His Own Death For 25 Years”

Middle East Monitor

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the Israeli Attorney General’s decision Thursday to criminal indict him, calling it an attempted coup, Anadolu reports.

In a televised speech shortly after the indictment was announced, Netanyahu claimed the investigation was biased by the police and investigators.  Continue reading “Netanyahu slams indictment against him as ‘coup’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The major Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun revealed this week that Chinese officials issued a stern to warning to Japan and South Korea against any move to host intermediate-range missiles on their soil.

Citing both Japanese and US sources, the newspaper said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi issued the message to his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in August — an action apparently triggered by President Trump’s announced official withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia. Continue reading “China Gives Japan, Korea Ultimatum On Hosting US Missiles After INF Collapse”

Wired – by Lily Hay Newman

For well over a decade, identity thieves, phishers, and other online scammers have created a black market of stolen and aggregated consumer data that they used to break into people’s accounts, steal their money, or impersonate them. In October, dark web researcher Vinny Troia found one such trove sitting exposed and easily accessible on an unsecured server, comprising 4 terabytes of personal information—about 1.2 billion records in all.  Continue reading “1.2 Billion Records Found Exposed Online in a Single Server”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Elizabeth, PA — In the land of the free, there are two sets of justice systems — one for all those connected to that system, and one for everyone else. Time after time, we’ve seen police officers and politicians alike accused of terrible crimes and they escape with little to no jail. As the following case illustrates, police chiefs can betray everything they stand for, steal tens of thousands of dollars in heroin from their own department and face no jail. Continue reading “NO JAIL for Police Chief Caught Stealing 3,000 Bags of Heroin from Evidence Room”

Yahoo News

The declining health of the millennial generation could have a serious impact on the U.S. health care system, according to experts.

“Millennials are seeing their health decline faster than the previous generation as they age,” a Moody’s Analytics report analyzing Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Index data stated. “Without intervention, millennials could feasibly see mortality rates climb up by more than 40% compared to Gen-Xers at the same age.” (Pew Research defines millennials as Americans born between 1981 and 1996.)  Continue reading “Millennials ‘are seeing their health decline faster’ than Gen X, worrying experts”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to federal charges in the “Healthy Holly” book scandal, reported WJZ Baltimore.

Pugh pleaded guilty to four of the 11 charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the US, and two counts of tax evasion. The disgraced mayor faces up to 35 years in federal prison, sentencing is expected in late February 2020.  Continue reading “Former Baltimore Mayor Pleads Guilty To Fraud, Tax Evasion, Faces Decades In Prison”

Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A 16-year-old boy who opened fire at his Southern California high school, killing two classmates and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head, used a “ghost gun” built from parts, the local sheriff said on Thursday.

Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow pulled the .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol from his backpack on Nov. 14, his birthday, and shot students at Saugus High School in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita seemingly at random before turning the gun on himself. He died of his wounds the next day.  Continue reading “Teen in California high school shooting rampage used ‘ghost gun’ made from parts”

RT

The nuclear scientists killed in a blast at a secret military range in northern Russia were developing a unique weapon critical for the country’s sovereignty, President Vladimir Putin said, vowing to keep improving the technology.  Continue reading “Victims of Russian rocket blast that caused radiation scare were working on weapon ‘unequalled in the world’ – Putin”