From the Trenches World Report

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

A former Arkansas state senator, Linda Collins-Smith was found murdered in her home last week in Pocahontas, Arkansas. According to reports, Collins-Smith was closing in on a child trafficking ring which was being run by the Arkansas government.

According to police, last week, Collins-Smith was shot and killed outside of her home in Pocahontas, about 130 miles northeast Little Rock. She died of a gunshot wound and her body was found wrapped in a blanket. Her death is being investigated as a homicide. No other information has been publicly presented.  Continue reading “Fmr Senator Murdered in Her Home After Reportedly Uncovering Gov’t Child Trafficking Ring”

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Two years ago, Los Angeles began testing an alternative to homeless shelters called safe parking, giving people living in their cars a secure spot to sleep at night.

The first site was quickly deemed a success, so the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority agreed to fund nine more lots in the pilot program, with promises to expand.  Continue reading “More Than 16,000 People in L.A. Now Live in Cars, Vans and RVs, But Safe Parking Remains Elusive”

Daily Mail

Grocery giant Walmart is offering free college tuition to its high school employees in a bid to recruit more staff in a struggling jobs market.

The group, which turned over more than $500bn last year, is offering the scheme to its current staff who are in high school as well as future employees of high school age.  Continue reading “Walmart to offer free college tuition to its high school employees in bid to recruit more staff”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The total number of honey bee colonies across Europe plunged 16% over the winter 2017–18, according to COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes), an international, non-profit organization based in Switzerland, tasked with the goals of protecting honey bees.

Allison Gray, the lead researcher on the study, sent a COLOSS questionnaire to 25,363 beekeepers in 36 countries: 33 in Europe, plus Algeria, Israel, and Mexico.  Continue reading “Honey Bee Colonies Across Europe Plunge 16%, Says Study”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Documents leaked to Project Veritas by a Pinterest insider reveal that the San Francisco-based social media company has blocked links from Zero Hedge and several conservative or religious-based websites – adding them to a ‘porn domain block list’ originally intended to keep the platform free of sexually explicit material.  Continue reading “Pinterest Bans Zero Hedge By Adding To “Porn Domain Block List” Used To Target Conservatives”

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If you thought the TAPS Act was bad, wait until you read this.

Our politicians are hard at work introducing bills that promise to turn America into a mirror image of China.

Rep. Kathleen Rice’s H.R. 3374 bill, otherwise known as the End Drunk Driving Act, would put breathalyzers and ignition interlock devices in every new car. Continue reading “New Cars To Be Equipped With Breathalyzers, Drivers Given Mental Health Assessments”

Madhouse News

Anita Whitney (Better known as Al Whitney) lived in Central Ohio. She had a diverse background which included health care, environmentalism, child advocacy, and community viability. She was a Respiratory Therapist for many years and was married to a retired physician.

In 2009, Al founded “For Ohioans” (now Parents Against Mandatory Vaccines) as a response to the bogus swine flu pandemic. Her research led her to discover that our so-called government is really a franchised network of corporate entities all listed on Dun and Bradstreet.  Continue reading “RBN Al Whitney Has Passed Away”

Slate – by Fred Kaplan

America’s European allies are finally spending more on defense, but the Trump administration is raising hell about it because some of the allies want to spend the money on weapons made in their own countries.

The irony is immense. Throughout his presidency, and even before, Trump has been browbeating the NATO allies to boost their defense budgets, even threatening to leave the alliance if they didn’t pony up. Now that they’re doing so in a politically viable way—by investing in their own companies—top U.S. officials are complaining.  Continue reading “The Trump Administration Has a New Problem With Europe”

Times of Israel

Jerusalem will host next month an unprecedented trilateral meeting of top security officials from Israel, Russia and the US, the White House announced on Wednesday.

“In June, United States National Security Adviser Ambassador John Bolton, Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, and Russian Secretary of the Security Council Nikolay Patrushev will meet in Jerusalem, Israel, to discuss regional security issues,” the White House press secretary said in a statement issued minutes before the Knesset voted to disband and to set new elections for September 17. Continue reading “Jerusalem to host ‘unprecedented’ Israel-Russian-US security summit”

Breitbart – by Simon Kent

Hong Kong’s government will push ahead with new extradition laws despite massive protests Sunday that convulsed the former British dependent territory.

Striking a defiant tone Monday after the city’s largest protest since the 1997 UK handover, chief executive Carrie Lam said the legislature would debate the bill on Wednesday as planned, rejecting protests that highlighted fears about Beijing’s’s growing hold over the semi-autonomous region.  Continue reading “Beijing Is Obeyed: Hong Kong to Push Ahead with China Extradition Bill”

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The Trump administration is again changing the way it vets people who want to sponsor minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone in an effort to speed up the release of thousands of migrant children currently in U.S. custody.

Under the change, announced to staff on Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which houses unaccompanied migrant children, will no longer require an immigration records check on potential sponsors already backgrounded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  Continue reading “Trump administration moves to release migrant children faster from U.S. custody”

Daily Mail

In a year when Bernie Sanders is making his second run for president and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a political Twitter star eclipsed only by Donald Trump, socialism is on the rise among Americans – especially women.

A Harris Poll conducted for Axios found that 55 per cent of U.S. women between the ages of 18 and 55 would rather live in a socialist society than a capitalist one.  Continue reading “MAJORITY of American women age 18-54 would prefer it to living in a capitalist country”