From the Trenches World Report

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

San Antonio, TX — A disturbing lawsuit was filed last year in federal court detailing a horrifying nightmare endured by an innocent woman at the hands of San Antonio police. The victim, Natalie D. Simms had her tampon pulled out by police who then conducted a vaginal cavity search—in public and on video—all to search for non-existent drugs. Now, according to her attorney, we are learning that the local government has been spending thousands of taxpayer dollars to protect the officers involved.  Continue reading “City Protecting Cops Who Publicly Raped Innocent Woman on Video in Sickening Roadside Search”

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Amid talk of a never-ending exodus of civilians from underground in the Syrian village of Baghouz, the Kurdish SDF is waiting on a final push into the last ISIS-held village. The US, however, is not so patient.

On Monday, US warplanes attacked Baghouz, killing at least 50 people. Details on what the intended target was is unclear, but the reports suggest that the dead were mostly women and children.  Continue reading “US Airstrikes Kill at Least 50, Mostly Civilians, in Eastern Syria”

Detroit Free Press – by Paul Egan

LANSING — If you’ve never been arrested, it’s highly unlikely your fingerprints are on file with the Michigan State Police.

But if you’ve ever gotten a Michigan driver’s license or a state ID card, it’s almost certain the State Police has your mug shot.  Continue reading “Never arrested? Michigan State Police still likely has your photo in its database”

Reuters

The U.S.-China trade impasse will have to end for U.S. crude exporters to find enough buyers to absorb dramatic annual growth of 1 million barrels per day in U.S. exports over the next few years, a top oil trading executive at commodities trader Trafigura AG said at an energy conference on Tuesday.

As markets adjusted to the U.S.-China trade war and U.S. crude shipments to China plunged in recent months, U.S. exports to Europe and India have surged.  Continue reading “US crude exporters need China, Trafigura exec says”

The Organic Prepper – by Dagny Taggart

Does free will truly exist?

According to a new study, maybe not. It appears that we may have less control over our personal choices than we think. Unconscious brain activity seems to determine our choices well before we are even aware of them.  Continue reading “The Reality of Mind Reading: These Neuroscientists Can Predict Your Choices 11 Seconds Before You Make Them”

KSAT 12 – by Deven Clarke

SAN ANTONIO – Residents in an East Side neighborhood are outraged after they said a San Antonio police officer shot and killed a chihuahua in someone’s yard.

“It’s a little Chihuahua, no harm to anybody. A little Chihuahua, I don’t understand,” said Sabrina Lopez, whose young daughter owned the dog named Trixie.  Continue reading “SAPD officer shoots, kills chihuahua, residents claim”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

The promises cannot be met, and so society decays into warring elites and competing constituencies.

There is a grand, majestic tragedy in the inevitable collapse of once-thriving states and empires: it all seemed so permanent at its peak, so godlike in its power, and then slowly but surely, too many grandiose, unrealistic promises were made to too many elites and constituencies, and then as growth decays to stagnation, the only way to maintain the status quo is to appear to meet all the promises by creating money out of thin air, i.e. debauching the currency.  Continue reading “How States/Empires Collapse in Four Easy Steps”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

The Southern Poverty Law Center is fabulously wealthy and getting richer and richer by the year according to their latest tax forms.

From the Free Beacon:

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left nonprofit known for its “hate group” designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has $121 million parked offshore, according to the group’s most recent financial statements. Continue reading “Southern Poverty Law Center Amasses $518M War Chest, $121M Now Offshore”

New York Post – by Tamir Lapin

A former New Jersey priest was shot dead in his Nevada home — a month after his name appeared on a list of Garden State priests credibly accused of sexual abuse, authorities said.

John Capparelli, 70, was found with a fatal gunshot wound to his neck in the kitchen of his home in Henderson, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.  Continue reading “Ex-priest accused of sex abuse found shot dead in home”

AOL

Shares of Dick’s Sporting Goods beat Wall Street expectations on its top and bottom lines in its 2018 Q4 earnings report on Tuesday, but shares sank more than 10% on a decline in same-store-sales and disappointing guidance for 2019.

And Dick’s is ditching two key parties in 2019: hunting and Reebok.  Continue reading “Dick’s will remove hunting rifles from 125 stores”

Wired – by Noam Cohen

FOR THOSE OF us who worry that Facebook may have serious boundary issues when it comes to the personal information of its users, Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comments at Harvard should get the heart racing.

Zuckerberg dropped by the university last month ostensibly as part of a year of conversations with experts about the role of technology in society, “the opportunities, the challenges, the hopes, and the anxieties.” Continue reading “Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine”

Reuters

BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) – Islamic State faced imminent defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday as hundreds of jihadist fighters and their families surrendered and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said the battle was as good as over.

A Reuters journalist in Baghouz saw hundreds of people surrendering to the SDF, which launched its final attack to capture Baghouz on Sunday, backed by U.S.-led international coalition air strikes after weeks of siege. Continue reading “Hundreds surrender as Islamic State nears defeat in last enclave”

The Organic Prepper – by Dagny Taggart

Today is the World Wide Web’s 30th birthday, and its father has some serious concerns about his brainchild.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, – “the Father of the World Wide Web” – published an open letter on the World Wide Web Foundation website (an organization he also founded), in which he reflected on how far the web has come, and how far it has yet to go.  Continue reading “The World Wide Web Is 30, but It Still Has a Lot of Growing Up to Do”

Global News

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department is reviewing a number of military bases to find a location that can house up to 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children as the U.S. braces for a surge of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally this spring.

The Department of Health and Human Services submitted the request for space late last week, as Homeland Security leaders warned that tens of thousands of families are crossing the border each month. That flow, said Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, will grow worse this spring as the weather gets better.  Continue reading “Pentagon looking for military base to house 5,000 unaccompanied migrant children”

Ammoland – by David Codrea

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “If you post it on social media, that’s probable cause for us to come get the guns out of your house,” Democrat Florida State Senator Jason Pizzo proclaimed in a Facebook video three years ago. “That’s it. It’s now on you to explain why you have a gun in your house and why it’s on social media…”

He was stumping at the time to change the law to deny the right to keep and bear arms to young adults old enough to vote, marry, sign binding contracts and serve in the military. Pending that, he wanted parents to call the police on their children if they saw them posting pictures and videos with guns online.  Continue reading “Proposed Ban on Social Media Gun Pictures Proves Gun Control is Total Control”