From the Trenches World Report

The Great Recession

Here is a journey in photos and facts to compare the present Great Recession with the past Great Depression to gain perspective on where we might be headed.

Just as we had two great world wars, we might have two great depressions, the last of which we started out calling “The Great Recession” because, at the time, we didn’t know where it would end up or how long it would continue. Remember that World War I did not start off being called WWI. It was originally called “The Great War.”  Continue reading “Reading the Next Recession: Will the Great Recession 2.0 become The Great Depression II?”

Hawaii News Now

Continue reading “New Hawaiian law makes it illegal to start walking on the countdown timer”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has reached a conclusion that defies easy summation. But here’s an attempt: it is not well-established that cops shouldn’t shoot children they’ve ordered to lie prone on the ground while trying to shoot a dog that posed no threat to officers.

In reversing the lower court’s denial of qualified immunity to Officer Michael Vickers, the Appeals Court has opened the door to preventing the stupidest, most-inept cops from being held responsible for their careless blunders.  Continue reading “Appeals Court Says No Rights Were Violated When A Cop Shot At A ‘Non-Threatening’ Dog But Hit A Kid Instead”

ABC News

A storm system that brought damaging winds and flash flooding has moved off the East Coast and attention turns to the West, where there is high fire danger, and the Southwest, where monsoon flash flooding possible.

Evacuations and a state of emergency have been declared for the Museum Fire near Flagstaff, Arizona.  Continue reading “Dozens of large wildfires burning in West as California feels the heat”

LA Times

Panorama High School was already on edge after a 10th grader went missing.

Then, six students were detained in February 2018 with no explanation. There were whispers that the missing boy had been murdered, but the campus was in the dark about a possible motive and suspect.  Continue reading “How MS-13 gang’s bloody campaign spilled into a San Fernando Valley high school”

RT

The world’s favorite artificial sweetener may pose severe health risks, University of Sussex researchers have found. They claim that the European food authority has been bottling up the alarming data for a while.

The study focused on aspartame, an artificial sweetener used worldwide in everything from diet soft drinks to chewing gum, and sold under brand names including NutraSweet, Candarel and Equal.   Continue reading “No sweet deal: EU food authority found hiding health risks of world’s top sweetener”

NBC News

Jeffrey Epstein, the millionaire financier who is being held on federal sex trafficking charges, was found injured and in a fetal position in his cell at a New York City jail, sources close to the investigation told NBC News on Wednesday night.

Epstein, 66, was found semi-conscious with marks on his neck in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan some time in the last two days, the sources said. Epstein is on suicide watch, two sources said.  Continue reading “Jeffrey Epstein found injured with marks on his neck in New York jail cell, sources say”

Daily Mail

A California entrepreneur pleaded guilty on Wednesday to paying $250,000 to get his son into to the University of Southern California as a fake volleyball recruit.

Jeffrey Bizzack of Solana Beach, California, was the 51st person to be charged in a sweeping scheme that involved rigging test scores and bribing coaches to get students into elite schools including Georgetown, Stanford and Yale universities.    Continue reading “Entrepreneur Jeffrey Bizzack pleads guilty as part of the college admissions bribery scandal”

AmmoLand

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)-  On Monday, July 22 2019, CRPA with support of NRA, filed a motion requesting an injunction against enforcement of California’s recently implemented ammunition laws. The injunction is part of the case Rhode v. Becerra, filed in April of 2018, where lead Plaintiff and gold medal Olympian shooter Kim Rhode and other Plaintiffs have asked the court to halt enforcement after a dubious roll out of the new law on July 1st.  Continue reading “California: Injunction Filed to Stop California Ammunition Sales Restrictions”

IMEMC News – by Zena Agha on July 21, 2019 for Al Shabaka Palestinian Policy Network

Bipartisan legislation passed by the US Congress in 1997 limits the quality and availability of aerial photography of Palestine-Israel. The Kyl-Bingaman Amendment (KBA) to the US National Defense Authorization Act was passed under the pretext of protecting Israel’s national security. It prevents US satellite operators and retailers from selling or disseminating images of Palestine-Israel at a resolution higher than that available on the non-US market. The amendment’s interpretation has been confusing and contradictory in terms of meaning, geographical scope, and legal implications. Its result has been over two decades of limited access to clear aerial photography of Palestine-Israel.  Continue reading “The US Law Restricting Satellite Imagery of Palestine-Israel”

Break the Matrix

The clip is from 2013, exactly 100 years after the income tax became law, and the Federal Reserve Banking Cartel came into existence.  Continue reading “Former IRS Head Steve Miller Repeatedly States That Income Taxes are Voluntary”

If Americans Knew – by Alison Weir

According to a just published report in the Atlantic and a previous article by a former CIA officer, an Israeli-born individual is at the center of U.S. policies targeting Iran.

The Atlantic reports that financial sanctions are the “key tool” the United States has been using against Iran during  “the past three presidential administrations.” And Treasury official Sigal Mandelker” is the one with her hand on the lever.”  Continue reading “Israel-born Treasury official is at the center of U.S. policies on Iran”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Hopefully it doesn’t lead to a let’s roll! moment at the White House, where super-hawk national security adviser John Bolton has no doubt been itching for escalation: moments ago Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister announced military forces will “secure” the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran will “not allow disturbance in shipping in this sensitive area” Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was quoted as saying in state media, while leading a delegation to Paris, Reuters reports. However, it’s unclear at this point how far Iran is willing to go in this escalating game of chicken with the US and UK – both of which have warships and other military assets in the gulf region.  Continue reading “Iran Announces Military Will “Secure” Contested Strait Of Hormuz”