From the Trenches World Report

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”

Oil Price – by Tsvetana Paraskova

A Singaporean buyer of a U.S. cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has canceled the loading, the company told Reuters on Tuesday, as both Asia and Europe are facing an LNG glut as the winter heating season starts to set in.

Pavilion Energy, a Singapore-based natural gas importer and trader, has canceled the loading of a U.S. cargo but will still pay for it, industry sources have told Reuters. The company was originally scheduled to load the cargo from the Cameron LNG plant in Louisiana, according to the sources.  Continue reading “Asian Gas Glut Forces Key Buyers To Cancel Orders”

Daily Mail

An Ohio woman accused of suffocating her three sons has pleaded guilty in the boys’ deaths and was sentenced to 37 years in prison.

Brittany Renee Pilkington, 27, had been scheduled for trial early next year. The guilty pleas on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter and murder took the death penalty off the table. Continue reading “Ohio mom is sentenced to 37 years for killing her three infant sons”

Yahoo News

Two former Houston police officers were indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday in connection with a January drug raid that left two people dead and five officers injured.

Gerald Goines, 55, and his partner, 46-year-old Steven Bryant, were both taken into custody by the FBI on several charges stemming from a civil-rights investigation into the Jan. 28 narcotics raid at a Harding Street home.  Continue reading “Two Former Houston Police Officers Arrested by Feds for Deadly Drug Raid”

Taking today off from the broadcast.

I had yesterday’s broadcast all prepared and have been trying to take it easy, but when the piece on the 9^th Article showed up around 11:00, there was no choice in the matter.  I had to read it, separate the propaganda and the deliberate attempts to mislead, and nail it down to the simple absolute law that it is.  I then had to create the narrative for reading the article on air to accomplish the aforementioned.  I knew the task was far from taking it easy, but there was no way I could let the opportunity pass by.  Continue reading “No Word From the Trenches today”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Joe Wolverton, II

U.S. Attorney General William Barr was in Memphis last Wednesday to announce the launch of a new federal gun control program, Project Guardian. The AG promises to enforce federal gun regulations “with a vengeance.”

As President Trump is facing mostly manufactured charges of committing impeachable offenses, his attorney general is committing actual offenses against the Constitution, namely infringing on the right of the people to keep and bear arms, as protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Continue reading “AG Barr Announces Project Guardian to Prevent Unapproved Gun Purchases”

Lew Rockwell – by Gary D. Barnett

This once great country of America has gone through many changes, and these changes, while implemented by the design of its true rulers, are not understood by the huddled masses that have been taught to accept mediocrity as desired normalcy. The ruling class fully understands that the only way to control people, and to finally control the world, is to stifle individual excellence by creating a society that refuses to think. This has been accomplished through planned conflict, the instilling of fear, the total control of education by the puppet state, by building dependence through public welfare, and by dominating most all positions of power in a myriad of state, corporate, and important intellectual appointments.  Continue reading “The Elite Controllers Fear the Individual and Individual Intelligence”

Reuters

(Reuters) – Shares of marijuana companies rose on Thursday after a U.S. congressional committee passed a legislation to decriminalize cannabis, taking it a step closer to being approved by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.

The bill, which was passed 24 to 10 in the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, sent shares of Canopy Growth (WEED.TO), Aurora Cannabis (ACB.TO), Aphria Inc (APHA.TO) and Tilray Inc (TLRY.O) up between 8% and 15%.  Continue reading “Pot stocks soar as U.S. House committee clears bill on federal weed legalization”

Reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s attorney general indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges on Thursday, heightening uncertainty over who will ultimately lead a country mired in political chaos after two inconclusive elections this year.

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced the decision, the first of its kind against a serving Israeli prime minister, in a statement and said the charges included bribery, breach of trust and fraud.  Continue reading “Israel’s attorney general indicts PM Netanyahu on corruption charges”

The Great Recession

Consider this a travelogue in pictures (graphs and charts really) that presents a rather striking and comprehensive image of a nation journeying into recession. Our decline is steeper now than it was even in my retelling of economic turns during the summer and early fall.

While the stock market has continued to rise (and I never said it wouldn’t rise this year until and unless recession begins and takes it down), earnings — upon which stock valuations used to be based in times long ago — have gone down quarter after quarter — both actual earnings and projected.  Continue reading “The Relentless Road to Recession Continued”