From the Trenches World Report

American Partisan – by NC Scout

Originally written a year ago, I continue to return to the piece due to its importance as well as prophetic warning. Leftist militias are not only on the rise but currently incredibly active in both an underground function and an overt direct action phase. But that said, again, I wrote it a year ago, and encountered a bit of flak from guy in the ‘militia’ crowd who said I was wrong.    Continue reading “So, What Role Will Militias Play In The ‘Upcoming Unpleasantness’, Anyway?”

Epoch Times

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration froze all Venezuelan government assets Monday after he cited foreign involvement in supporting the illegitimate socialist administration of Nicolás Maduro by Russia and China on Aug. 1 and hinted at further action.

The ban blocking American companies and individuals from doing business with the Maduro regime and its top supporters, which takes effect immediately, is the first of its kind in the western hemisphere in over three decades, following an asset freeze against Gen. Manuel Noriega’s government in Panama and a trade embargo on the Sandinista leadership in Nicaragua in the 1980s.  Continue reading “Trump Moves Ahead to Freeze Maduro Regime’s Assets After Citing Billions from Russia, China”

Epoch Times – by Rick Fisher

While some experts assume that China and Russia would never enter a formal military alliance against the United States and its friends and allies, the two nuclear neighbors are now actively increasing the depth and scope of their military cooperation in ways that are improving their joint capacity to threaten U.S. security.

In less than a year, China and Russia have engaged in ground force, naval, and aerial exercises, that while relatively small in scale, have established the basis for more sophisticated joint-force exercises in the future.  Continue reading “Chinese-Russian Military Cooperation Targets US Security”

Bloomberg – by Emily Chasan

To help battle global warming, companies around the world are expected to spend billions of dollars over the next decade building devices aimed at sucking carbon from the atmosphere. The thing is, Mother Nature already made one. While each acre of most tree species can capture and store 1.1 to 9.5 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year, an acre of empress trees can absorb 103. “The tree has a very Jack and the Beanstalk energy to it,” says Wendy Burton, whose 15-year-old Mesa, Ariz.-based timber company, World Tree, has planted more than 1,000 acres of empress.  Continue reading “We Already Have the World’s Most Efficient Carbon Capture Technology”

Green Med Info – by Sayer Ji, Founder

Recently, Google was caught red-handed manipulating its search results to serve a not-so-hidden agenda, both by scrubbing its results clean of natural health and vaccine skeptical information, and by rigging its autocomplete keyword phrases to disparage complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and promote an exclusively pro-vaccine agenda.

Now, a new investigation reveals that Bing (Microsoft’s search engine launched in 2009 which has 9% of the global markeshare) is targeting the so-called “vaccine hesitant” with preprogrammed search suggestions that bully, disparage, and ultimately characterize this increasingly marginalized group as dangerous and violent against others.  Continue reading ““Antivaxxers Are Killers” Programmed Into Microsoft’s BING Autosuggest – Is this Hate Speech?”

Lobe Log – by Mitchell Plitnick

The staunchly militaristic Jewish Institute for the National Security of America (JINSA) has proposed a mutual defense pact between the United States and Israel. JINSA frequently publishes papers and analyses around strategies that it would like to see pursued by the United States, Israel, or both, but this one is a little different. In this case, JINSA has enlisted Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to help them sell the idea in both Israel and the United States.  Continue reading “Graham And Neocons Push For A U.S.-Israeli Defense Treaty”

Daily  Mail

The company also experienced an uptick in interest for its cloud services, Amazon Web Services, which separately reported a 77 percent uptick in the number of subpoena requests over the last six-month period.

According to data released in the company’s latest report, Amazon’s response varied depending on the type of requests.  Continue reading “Spike in government demands for Amazon customer data”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Following the plunge in the yuan overnight, The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday designated China as currency manipulator, a historic move that no White House had exercised since the Clinton administration.

“Secretary Mnuchin, under the auspices of President Trump, has today determined that China is a Currency Manipulator,” the Treasury Department said in a release. Continue reading “For The First Time In 25 Years, US Treasury Just Designated China A Currency Manipulator”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

China’s Global Times — the communist country’s hawkish, belligerent state tabloid — has responded to the Pentagon’s Friday announcement stating the US is looking to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles to Asia “within months,” warning “it will certainly trigger an intense arms race in the region.”   Continue reading ““New Cold War” Unleashing “Geopolitical Chaos”: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia”