From the Trenches World Report

The Great Recession

Clear back in June I made the following easy prediction about Trump’s negotiations with the Chinese leader whose face can only be improved by a caricature:

The market finally fell in May after months of rising because it started to become clear there will be no Chinese trade deal in the near future. (It was always clear here, but most of the market willingly believed the president’s every tweet because it wanted to believe.) Prior to May, the market had been rising for months on Trump’s hot air about the Chinese deal coming soon because it had little other reason to rise. Continue reading “No-Deal Trade Deal, Not a Done Deal!”

My dearest Trenchers,

This is Jill in OKC, partner/caregiver for Koyote. I have some bad news. Koyote had a few seizures yesterday after a day of feeling poorly. When I got up this morning, he was no longer breathing and already cold. He passed away sometime during the night. He always assured me he had no fear of dying because he would go to be with our savior, Jesus Christ. As I type this I am still in shock. I am waiting for his son and the coroner to help me from here.  Continue reading “Trencher Alert: Koyote has passed”

Yahoo News

Users of Amazon’s popular Ring surveillance cameras have reported people hacking into the devices to spy on their homes and harass them.

Multiple families in different states have reported that hackers have spoken to them through the devices.  Continue reading “Ring Camera Hacker Brags of Watching Unsuspecting Homeowners and Taunts Police Officer”

Reuters

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Saturday extended a state of emergency due to a measles outbreak which has killed 72 people, mostly infants, as New Zealand announced NZ$1 million ($640,700) to help combat measles in the Pacific.

Samoa said a state of emergency will be extended to Dec. 29 with 5,154 cases of measles now reported since the outbreak started in October. Samoa has a population of only 200,000.  Continue reading “Samoa extends measles state of emergency, NZ to fund Pacific vaccination campaign”

Ammo.com

The ATF isn’t all bad. In fact, they had a policy of letting illegal gun purchases go between 2006 and 2011. It ended up getting U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killed on December 14, 2010, and let Mexican criminals get enough guns that they were found at over 150 crime scenes where Mexican citizens were either killed or maimed. And some of the guns were used in the November 2015 terrorist attack in Paris at the Bataclan. But other than that, it turned out just fine.  Continue reading “Operation Fast and Furious: The Forgotten History of the ATF’s Notorious Gunwalking Scandal”

The Guardian

Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater and prominent supporter of Donald Trump, made a secret visit to Venezuela last month and met Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez – one of Nicolás Maduro’s closest allies.

The visit, described by one source as “outreach” to Maduro’s government, came just eight months after Prince floated a plan to deploy a private army to help topple the Venezuelan leader. Continue reading “Blackwater founder Erik Prince secretly met Venezuela vice-president”

AP

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he’d be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a daily basis.

But with hundreds of Brazilians crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, each week, the Motel 6 by the airport has become a stepping stone for thousands of the Portuguese speakers on a 6,000-mile (9,500 km) journey from Brazil to El Paso to America’s East Coast. Continue reading “Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border”

National Justice – by Paul Mieczysław

The history of PiS (Law & Justice party) is almost entirely unknown outside of Poland. During the final year of communism the “round table talks” were held at Magdalenka, a small village near Warsaw, in 1989. The participants have controlled Poland since, regardless of whether they are on the right or on the left. Many Poles believe they conspired at these talks to share power over the country indefinitely while excluding nationalistic right-wing parties like Konfederacja. There are rumors that many of these participants, including the Kaczyńskis, are freemasons, but this is largely speculation. Continue reading “Law & Justice: The Zionist Offensive Against Poland”

Jewish Telegraph Agency – by Ben Sales

CHICAGO (JTA) — The Reform movement, the country’s largest Jewish denomination, declared its support for reparations for African-Americans at its biennial conference.

The resolution, which was approved Friday by voice vote at the 5,000-person gathering of the Union for Reform Judaism, calls for “a federal commission to study and develop proposals for reparations to redress the historic and continuing effects of slavery and subsequent systemic racial, societal, and economic discrimination against Black Americans.”  Continue reading “Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans”

Bearing Arms – by Cam Edwards

Democrat Congressman Donald McEachin’s comments about using the National Guard to enforce Governor Ralph Northam’s proposed gun control laws in Virginia has caused a storm of controversy in the state, to the point that the Adjutant General of the Virginia National Guard has issued a statement, after scores of phone calls and emails from concerned citizens and curious media figures. WSLS-TV in Roanoke was the first to report on the comments by Major General Timothy P. Williams.  Continue reading “VA National Guard Issues Statement Over Calls To Enforce Gun Control”

CIDRAP

President Donald Trump yesterday issued an executive order directing the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to overhaul seasonal flu vaccine production and urge more Americans to be vaccinated.

The executive order, titled “Modernizing Influenza Vaccines in the United States to Promote National Security and Public Health,” promotes new vaccine manufacturing technologies to support more robust vaccines and advances the development of vaccines that provide longer lasting coverage against a broad range of flu viruses.  Continue reading “Trump signs executive order to improve flu vaccines”

Jon Rappoport

The people who run society are engaged in bringing systems and structures into interlocking alignment, in order to create larger and larger machines of control.

I keep returning to this territory, because the whole thrust of modern civilization is making the individual extinct.  Continue reading “Exit From The Matrix: Free Individual vs. Deep State”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

In December of 2019, a long time friend, missionary, and adventurer was standing in line to be checked for entry into Tajikistan, at the airport. Some of the adventures he has had over the years have been worthy of fictional men of action. In this case, he exercised discretion, and did not become involved. The conversation he overheard is worth relating. Here is his account:  Continue reading “Overheard at Tajikistan Airport Security Checkpoint, Second Amendment”

Yahoo News

Christopher Dionne, a former host of an HGTV home remodeling pilot, has been sentenced to three years in jail for molesting a 10-year-old girl in his Connecticut home, PEOPLE can confirm.

The sentence was passed down on Wednesday at the New London Superior Court, according to court documents.  Continue reading “Former HGTV Host Christopher Dionne Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Molesting 10-Year-Old Girl”