From the Trenches World Report

CBS News

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Nearly 30,000 pounds of Jimmy Dean sausage links was recalled after five people complained about finding metal in their meat.

CTI Foods made the sausage links and packaged them in August, then shipped them to a facility in Tennessee and to retail stores, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Monday in a news release.   Continue reading “Food Recall: Jimmy Dean Sausage Links May Have Metal Inside”

South Tahoe Now

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – It was a normal day of skiing in South Lake Tahoe on Friday, December 7, 2018 for a couple from Oakland, California. They had parked their car on the top floor of the five-story parking garage at Heavenly Village, left their two dogs Titan and Comet inside and hit the slopes for three hours.

Upon return to their car they let the dogs out and played with them for a while, then stopped to remove their ski gear. Other people in the garage were playing with the dogs as well when, for unknown reasons, Comet jumped off the garage and fell five stories below. The couple grabbed Titan and ran to the edge of the garage and looked down to see Comet. Titan jumped out of their hands and also jumped.   Continue reading “South Lake Tahoe police jump in to assist two dogs who jumped from 5th floor of parking garage”

The Sacramento Bee – by Dale Kasler

PG&E has acknowledged to regulators that it found bullet holes, a broken transmission-tower hook and other flaws with equipment at sites where the catastrophic Camp Fire is believed to have started last month.

In its most detailed accounting yet of the problems that might have led to the Nov. 8 wildfire that consumed most of Paradise, the beleaguered utility told state officials that its inspectors have found a “broken C-hook” on a high-voltage tower near the community of Pulga, northeast of Paradise. Lawyers for Camp Fire survivors suing PG&E have suggested the broken hook might have allowed a live “jumper” cable to make contact with the tower itself, showering the dry ground below with sparks.  Continue reading “Camp Fire: PG&E finds bullet holes, broken equipment at sites where blaze likely started”

Newsweek

A high school teacher in Virginia has been fired after refusing to refer to one of his students using his preferred pronoun.

Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point High School, was fired after the School Board voted 5-0 in favor of terminating his role.   Continue reading “Virginia Teacher Fired For Refusing To Use Transgender Student’s New Pronoun: ‘I Miss The Female Version Of The Student’”

Daily Mail

Drivers in parts of the South face another day of dangerous road conditions and black ice after a wintry snowstorm walloped several Southern states, officials have warned.

While sunny skies helped North Carolina thaw on Tuesday, temperatures dropped again overnight, putting a winter weather advisory in effect for western parts of the state through late Wednesday morning.    Continue reading “Deadly black ice still threatens drivers in the wake of Winter Storm Diego”

Natural News – by Tracey Watson

No longer content to tinker with the genetic design of crops and humans, scientists – at the behest of the U.S. Military – are now turning their attention to the world’s oceans. As reported by Defense One, the Pentagon is looking at various ways in which to genetically engineer marine microorganisms into living surveillance equipment capable of detecting enemy submarines, divers and other suspicious underwater traffic.

The Military is also looking at using genetic engineering to create living camouflage in which creatures react to their surroundings to avoid detection, along with a host of other potentially nefarious applications.   Continue reading “U.S. Navy to release genetically engineered organisms into the ocean, unleashing mass genetic pollution with devastating consequences”

Fox News

A 4.4-magnitude earthquake was reported in Tennessee early Wednesday, officials said.

The quake hit about six miles north of Decatur around 4:15 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The shaking was felt by residents as far away as Atlanta — about 149 miles south of the epicenter.   Continue reading “Earthquake, magnitude 4.4, rattles Tennessee, Georgia”

Fox News

Two groups of Central American migrants marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a list of demands, with one group delivering an ultimatum to the Trump administration: either let them in the U.S. or pay them $50,000 each to go home, a report said.

Among other demands were that deportations be halted and that asylum seekers be processed faster and in greater numbers, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.  Continue reading “Migrant group demand Trump either let them in or pay them each $50G to turn around: report”

The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark

More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt its controversial project called Dragonfly.   Continue reading “DRAGONFLY: Google Employees Publicly Rebel Against Building a Dystopian New Search Engine”

The Mises Institute – by José Niño

James Bovard notes the threat to private gun ownership posed by the “deep state,” the “officials who secretly wield power permanently in Washington, often in federal agencies with vast sway and little accountability.” Continue reading “The Deep State Wants Your Guns”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

South African lawmakers passed a proposal to change the country’s constitution to make land grabs legal.

The government voted in agreement to take land from white farmers without compensation.

This same plan turned South Africa’s neighbor Zimbabwe from a state of plenty to a starving state.   Continue reading “South African Government Sets Date for White Farmers to Give Up Land without Compensation”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene in the Justice Department’s case against a top executive at China’s Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] if it would serve national security interests or help close a trade deal with China.

Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada Dec. 1 and has been accused by the United States of misleading multinational banks about Iran-linked transactions, putting the banks at risk of violating U.S. sanctions.   Continue reading “Trump says he could intervene in U.S. case against Huawei CFO”

Minot Daily News – by Jill Schramm

The regional cloud-seeding project saw a busy June, although it had an overall average season and came in under budget, according to information provided the Ward County Commission Tuesday.

Darin Langerud, director of the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project, told commissioners the program flew just over 444 hours in District 2, which is similar to the 10-year average for flight hours during the June through August season.  Continue reading “Cloud-seeding season sees average year after busy start”

Sputnik

The Israeli government discussed Sunday its readiness to accept a new wave of immigrants amid an increase of antisemitism in France, Ynet reported.

Following the outcome of a government meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the creation of a national program to encourage the repatriation to Israel of Jewish refugees from France. According to local media, this blueprint program will also be introduced to an inter-governmental commission on integration.   Continue reading “Israel Will Accept 200,000 Refugees From France – Reports”

ABC News

A sheriff’s deputy and two officials from the Texas attorney general’s office were shot while trying to serve a felony warrant at a home in Houston, authorities said.

The three victims were hospitalized but are “are awake and alert” and expected to survive, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez tweeted.   Continue reading “3 law enforcement officers shot while trying to serve warrant: Sheriff”

Business Insider – by Kieran Corcoran

A senior former Google employee who quit over its controversial plans to launch a search engine in China painted a picture of a company whose upper echelons are obsessed with stopping leaks, to the exclusion of almost anything else.

Jack Poulson, a former researcher at the company, said that senior managers consider the prevention of leaks to be their “number one priority.”   Continue reading “A former senior Google employee says a frantic quest to stop internal info getting out is now management’s ‘number one priority’”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

In a new report that warns that the electric grid is the “prime target” of terrorists, Americans are being urged prepare for the up to six months without electricity, transportation, fuel, money, and healthcare.

“People no longer keep enough essentials within their homes, reducing their ability to sustain themselves during an extended, prolonged outage. We need to improve individual preparedness,” said a just-published report to President Trump.   Continue reading “Start prepping! Electric grid ‘prime target’ of terrorists, ‘profound threat,’ says council”