Strange Sounds

After millions of dead calves in Nebraska, now thousands of tons of grain lost in Iowa! Flood waters are causing havoc in some mid-western states – Iowa; Illinois; Missouri; Kansas; South Dakota; Minnesota; and Nebraska – and have resulted in an estimated $3 billion in damages so far. The video below by Iowa resident Gracie Newman shows just a fraction of the losses that have been incurred as a result of the unprecedented flooding.

As can be seen from the video, at this location alone, at least five bins have burst, destroying thousands of tons of grain.   Continue reading “Let’s talk about food SHORTAGE: US grain bins collapse under catastrophic Iowa floods”

Haaretz

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Russian soldiers needed to leave Venezuela, days after a Russian military contingent arrived just outside of Caracas, saying “all options” were open to make that happen.

“Russia has to get out,” Trump told reporters during a meeting with the wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido – who he called “the first lady of Venezuela.” Asked how that could be accomplished, Trump said: “We’ll see. All options are open.”  Continue reading “Trump Says Russian Military Must Leave Venezuela: ‘All Options Are Open’”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

U.S. geopolitical power needs a steady supply of fresh immigrants to serve as soldiers and workers, according to a pro-migration op-ed in Bloomberg news.

“A large working-age population serves as a source of military manpower,” says the op-edby Hal Brands, the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He continues:  Continue reading “Bloomberg Op-Ed: Immigrant Soldiers, Workers Needed for Geopolitical Power”

BBC 

Google has launched a global advisory council to offer guidance on ethical issues relating to artificial intelligence, automation and related technologies.

The panel consists of eight people and includes former US deputy secretary of state, and a University of Bath associate professor.

The group will “consider some of Google’s most complex challenges”, the firm said. Continue reading “Google announces AI ethics panel”

The Mind Unleashed – by Derrick Broze

Due to a literal black out of all news related to the ongoing wars waged by the U.S. military, most Americans cannot name the nations in which the military is currently engaged in conflict or dropping bombs. The average American does not realize the U.S. is still involved in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. A new report from Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization focused on human rights, attempts to provide a little more clarity regarding what exactly is happening right now in Somalia.  Continue reading “US Killed at Least 14 Civilians in a Country Most Americans Don’t Know the US is Bombing”

So sorry to inform everybody that our sister Ruth passed away yesterday evening.

Her sister informed us this morning.  She said Ruth was a very private person and would not want a spectacle made of her passing, but of course we have to let everybody know and giving your goodbyes in the comments for this notice would be okay with her and show how much we cared for her.  Continue reading “Trencher Alert: Ruth has passed”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

During Tuesday’s hearing on confiscatory red flag laws, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “every right has limits.”

Graham supports red flag laws, and in early March, he told CNN the confiscatory laws represent a place Republicans and Democrats can “come together” on gun control. Ironically, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was able to use the hearing as a venue in which to promote her “Extreme Risk Protection Order of 2019.” Continue reading “Lindsey Graham on Gun Confiscation Laws: ‘Every Right Has Limits’”

Strategic Culture – by Tim Kirby

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization may be headed south, all the way down to Brazil. The President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, who in order to demonstrate his independent stance in the world decided to stop by CIA headquarters in Washington D.C. before having a chat with President Trump. This is very reminiscent of Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko making sure US forces march on their “independence” day parade or when he has to meet visiting US counterparts on their boat of the coast of “his” country.

Since the CIA is in many ways the king maker of Latin America this seems like an unwise PR choice unless he is very certain that foreign support is vastly more important than seeming to be an independent nationalist Brazilian figure like he claims to be. Continue reading “Is NATO Going South?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

A Sprint cell phone tower will be removed from a California elementary school after four students and three teachers were diagnosed with cancer. 

Weston Elementary School in Ripon, CA went on high alert after the controversy erupted two years ago – with some parents even pulling their children from school over the tower which Sprint has been paying the school $2,000 per month to place on its property.   Continue reading “Cancer Cluster At California Elementary School Results In Removal Of Sprint Cell Phone Tower”

The College Fix – by Christian Schneider

Amherst College president quickly rescinds document after publication 

Amherst College’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion last week issued a 40-page glossary of terms officials said they had created to spell out a common agreement on how to define words and phrases often used at the small liberal arts campus.

The “Common Language Guide,” emailed to the roughly 1,900 undergrads at the private college, broke down pages of terms under categories such as “isms,” “race and ethnicity, “gender identity,” “class,” “politics and policy,” “global power and inequality” and “disability.”  Continue reading “College diversity office releases 40-page speech code”

RT

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal died an ignominious death on the Senate floor, without one ‘yes’ vote – but the congresswoman says she told senators to vote ‘present’ after it was ‘rushed’ to the floor without a hearing.

The vote, called by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, was a resounding 57-0 against, with 43 Democrats voting “present.” Ocasio-Cortez said she advised her party to vote that way because McConnell was trying to rush the bill through, ensuring its demise without so much as a hearing on the issues involved.  Continue reading “AOC’s Green New Deal smacked down after forced ‘bluff vote’ in Senate”

MassPrivateI

The push to turn America’s cities into Chinese-style surveillance networks has found a new partner in Detroit, Michigan.

The only difference between what is happening in San Diego and what is happening in Detroit is, they are not using the same smart street lights to spy on everyone. Detroit uses Intellistreets a company known to have strong ties to Homeland Security. Continue reading “Detroit To Become America’s Second Chinese-Style Surveillance City”

The Organic Prepper – by Dagny Taggart

What if a robot decides it hates you?

That might seem like a silly question, but according to research, developing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be exhibited by robots and other artificially intelligent machines.  Continue reading “AI Can HATE With No Human Input”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Any “reporters” who were fired during the mass layoffs last year at Vice, the Huffington Post and Buzzfeed might want to think about sending a resume Google’s way (though it’s highly probable that the search behemoth has them all on file already).

According to Axios, Google is partnering with McClatchy to launch a new local news venture under the auspices of its Google News Initiative.  Continue reading “Google To Launch Local News Startups In 3 ‘Mid-Sized’ American Cities”

North Jersey

On Tuesday, a sixth Paterson police officer was arrested at city police headquarters, the latest Paterson cop swept up in a more than two-year federal probe.

The officers are accused of — and some have pleaded guilty to — crimes including beating up a hospital patient and a string of illegal traffic stops in which officers allegedly stole money and drugs.  Continue reading “Six Paterson cops arrested in FBI probe: Who are they?”