From the Trenches World Report

The Hill

A South Dakota bill set to be heard on the House floor would require transgender student athletes to participate on sports teams based on the gender listed on their birth certificates.

House Bill 1225 would override the statewide policy currently in place that allows student athletes to play on sports teams “in a manner consistent with their gender identity,” according to CNN.   Continue reading “South Dakota bill would force transgender students to play on teams based on birth certificate gender”

Sputnik

Earlier, a media investigation found that housing for military families at bases across the US was plagued by serious deficiencies, including faulty construction and poor maintenance, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars paid to private contractors to manage the estates.

Troops and family members at Fort Hood, Texas face deplorable housing conditions and issues including everything from infestations of snakes and cockroaches, to major housing defects such as to lead paint and mold, the Austin American-Statesman has reported, citing a list of public complaints heard at a recent a town hall-style meeting at the base. Continue reading “Troops at Texas Base Fed Up Sharing Moldy Homes With Snakes, Cockroaches”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

A survey on cannabidiol (CBD) usage found that women are more likely than men to use CBD; and once they start using it they quit traditional forms of big pharma painkillers like Tylenol, ibuprofen, and Vicodin, Forbes reported.

Brightfield Group, a cannabis market research organization, and HelloMD, an online community that brings together doctors and cannabis patients, studied 2,400 of HelloMD’s community of 150,000 members by monitoring their usage of CBD products and their overall effectiveness.   Continue reading “Study: More Than Half Quit Using Prescription Drugs After Using Cannabis and CBD Products”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

A shocking new report from the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women paints a disturbing picture of law enforcement and their role in sex trafficking. The report found that instead of preventing child and adult sex trafficking, many police officers are participating in it.

The report is titled “Sex Trafficking in Hawaii: The Stories of Survivors,” which detailed the testimonials from multiple victims. One particularly disturbing part of the report was the fact that almost half of all the victims interviewed reported that police officers participated in their abuse and victimization.   Continue reading “Study Finds Nearly Half of Child and Adult Sex Trafficking Victims Were Abused by Police”

Press TV

The leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says Yemeni women and children are being brutally killed by US and Western-made munitions in the ongoing Saudi-led military campaign against the impoverished Arab country.

Delivering a televised speech broadcast live from the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Monday afternoon, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said, “The main goal of the enemies of Islam from the ongoing aggression against Yemen is to get full control over us. However, the most important outcome of Islam … is to protect us against slavery and exploitation.”  Continue reading “Yemeni women, children slaughtered by US-made ammunition: Houthi”

For the past week, a number of towns and settlements in Idlib province including Saraqib, Qasabiya and Abdin were actively shelled by the various terrorist groups, competing for the influence and power in the region. The local activists say, dozens of civilians, among them women and children were killed or badly wounded. Unfortunately, similar reports are coming from Idlib de-escalation zone regularly.   Continue reading “Disagreement between various terrorist groups provokes mass human sacrifice in Idlib”

The Hill

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) on Monday issued an executive orderwithdrawing the state’s National Guard troops from the southern border.

Evers said in a tweet that there is not evidence of a crisis at the border and there is thus “no justification” for having troops there.   Continue reading “Wisconsin governor issues order pulling National Guard troops from border, citing no ‘crisis’”

Steemit – by James Corbett, The Corbett Report

As a well-known adage holds: “To the victor go the spoils.” But it might well add: “Meanwhile, the losers go to the gallows.”

This is the logic of victor’s justice. It is the logic of the Treaty of Versailles, which demanded unpayable reparations from the vanquished German nation. It is the logic of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, where perpetrators of war crimes pronounced judgement on the war crimes of the defeated. It is the logic of Abu Ghraib, where the US military tortured and killed its enemy captives.   Continue reading “Victor’s Justice: The Truth About the International Criminal Court”

Moon of Alabama

Richard Haass is the president of the Council of Foreign Relations. On Friday, before the failed delivery of fake “humanitarian aid” to Venezuela, he opined that the rejection of the “aid” would justify an intervention based on the dubious doctrine of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P):   Continue reading “Venezuela – No, The “Responsibility To Protect” Does Not Apply”

MassPrivateI

Arizona State University (ASU) which spent $307 million to renovate Sun Devil Stadium has learned a lot about Smart City surveillance.

ASU used facial recognition to spy on alumni, students, faculty and families. And now they want to share what they learned by bringing it to a stadium or city near you.   Continue reading “ASU Law School wants cities around the world to use facial recognition”

The Organic Prepper – by Meadow Clark

“As vehicles get smarter, your car will be keeping eyes on you,” a recent Reuters report threatened. New backseat driver tech aims to monitor you inside your car.

Gary Numan once sang in the song “Cars,” which sounded futuristic in its time:  Continue reading “A.I. Take the Wheel: Backseat Driver Technology Will Monitor You INSIDE Your Car”

The Great Recession

In my last article, “The Bears Have it Right: Economy went Polar Opposite of Bullish Predictions,” I laid out my first prediction for 2019 — a recession by summer. I don’t want the following revelations and facts that I have since come across to get lost in comments I recently posted to that article, so I’m bringing them all together here.   Continue reading “More Evidence that the Bears Have it Dead Right”

The Organic Prepper

Writing an article about “what makeshift weapons can you use when you do not have weapons” sounds completely out of the prepper realm. Because when the SHTF and you find yourself in your home without any real weapons, that usually means you are not a prepper or survivalist in the first place. But there are situations when people don’t have or cannot have guns.

Given my experience writing about this topic might help you in a way that you understand what people did in those cases. It may help you to know how human psychology works when something bad happens and you are not prepared.   Continue reading “Selco’s Principles of Successful Makeshift Weapons When You Don’t (or Can’t) Have a Gun”