From the Trenches World Report

Anti-War – by Jason Ditz

Four years into the Saudi War in Yemen, the invasion has turned the poorest country in the Middle East into one constantly on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe. This is in no small part driven by a Saudi naval blockade, which has severely limited food imports.

In the past year, food imports were down some 60% from pre-war levels. Given that Yemen, before the war, had to import about 90% of its food, there isn’t exactly a way for locals to get around this lack of imports.  Continue reading “Yemen’s Food Prices Soar as Saudi Blockade Limits Imports”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack is a member of Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety, part of Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety.

Stack is also an active supporter of Congressional Democrats’ efforts to criminalize private gun sales via gun control bill H.R. 8.  Continue reading “Dick’s CEO a Member of Michael Bloomberg’s Gun Control Group”

RT

The annual income gains of Petro Poroshenko, who is currently fighting for a second presidential term in Ukraine, saw a nearly hundredfold surge in 2018, the president’s tax documents reveal.

According to the Ukrainian unified register of asset and income declarations, Poroshenko’s fortune totaled 1.56 billion hryvnia (US$57 million) over 12 months through March 31, which is 95 times as much as he reported in the same period a year ago. In 2017, Poroshenko’s gains reportedly reached 16.3 million hryvnia ($600,000).  Continue reading “Taxes of Ukraine’s Poroshenko show his income jumped 10,000% thanks to Rothschild Trust”

Strategic Culture – by Robert Bridge

Venezuela is home to the largest oil deposits in the world, which makes the political stakes involved much higher than they would be otherwise. Enter Juan Guaidó, Washington’s puppet leader in Caracas, who will be attempting to rally the country against legitimate (i.e., democratically elected by the people) President Nicolas Maduro next month.

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has announced that April 6 will kick off a nationwide “tactical actions” as part of the so-called Operation Freedom protests, which are designed to oust President Nicolas Maduro.  Continue reading “Is Washington Preparing the Groundwork for a Maidan Scenario in Venezuela?”

Reuters

HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. investigators hope this week for the first time to enter the site of a massive fuel fire and chemical spill outside Houston to begin the hunt for a cause and to determine whether the operator followed safety regulations.

The blaze, at Mitsui & Co’s Intercontinental Terminals Co (ITC) storage facility in Deer Park, Texas, began March 17 and released toxic chemicals into the air and nearby waterways. Shipping along the largest oil port in the United States remained disrupted on Monday, as did operations at two nearby refineries.  Continue reading “U.S. investigators to begin hunt for cause of Texas petrochemical disaster”

Yahoo News

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The country’s largest electric company was ordered Monday to excavate coal ash from all of its North Carolina power plant sites, slashing the risk of toxic chemicals leaking into water supplies but potentially adding billions of dollars to the costs consumers pay.

Duke Energy Corp. must remove the residue left after decades of burning coal to produce electricity, North Carolina’s environmental agency said. The company had proposed covering some storage pits with a waterproof cap, saying that would prevent rain from passing through and carrying chemicals through the unlined bottoms and would provide a quicker and cheaper option.  Continue reading “North Carolina orders Duke Energy to excavate all coal ash”

Medium – by Caitlan Johnstone

Our predicament is simple to describe.

Since the dawn of civilization, powerful individuals have controlled the stories people tell themselves about who they are, who’s in charge, how a good citizen behaves, what groups should be loved, what groups should be hated, and what’s really going on in the world. When you study what we call history, you’re mostly just reading the ancient proto-propaganda of whatever kingdom happened to win the last war during that period of time. When you study what we call religion, you’re mostly reading stories that were advanced by ancient governments explaining why the people should be meek, forgiving taxpayers instead of rising up and killing their wealthy exploiters.  Continue reading “People Will Never, Ever Rebel As Long As They’re Successfully Propagandized”

Liberty News Now – by Shane Cory

Following the botched no-knock drug raid that left Dennis Tuttle and his wife Rhogena Nicholas dead in their Houston home, the narcotics officer who lied to obtain the warrant, Gerald Goines, has been allowed to retire.

Other officers that took part in the raid have also been granted retirement.  Continue reading “HPD Killers Get Lifetime Pensions for Murdering the Tuttles”

Ammo.com

Hollywood has a clever way of distorting our perspective on history, and a great example of this is Western film – a movie genre we’ve all come to love. Cattle rustlers, guns blazing, outlaws running loose, and vigilantes dishing out vengeance indiscriminately. These scenes have become more synonymous with the American Frontier than Winchester and their “Cartridge That Won the West.” But these fictional tales have produced more than entertainment for over a century; they’ve also contributed to an ongoing, subtle push for gun control, all while making Hollywood millions.  Continue reading “The American Old West: How Hollywood Made It “Wild” to Make Money & Advance Gun Control”

NZ Herald – by Derek Chang

People with military-style semi-automatic (MSSA) weapons and assault rifles have until the end of September to hand them over to police or face five years’ jail.

And Police Minister Stuart Nash has issued a stern warning to gangs who have said they will keep their MSSAs: hand them in or face a new penalty of up to five years’ jail.

The Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines and Parts) Amendment Bill has been introduced to Parliament and will have its first reading tomorrow, Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters and Nash announced today.  Continue reading “New Zealand: Government to gangs: Hand in your military-style semi-automatics or face 5 years’ jail”

The Great Recession

Laughable Larry Kudlow, as high priest of the Laffer Curve, has long been servant of “King Dollar,” as Larry has often reverently referred to US currency. The Laffer Curve is the central creed of trickle-down economics. It’s a bell-curve that demonstrates how lowering tax rates actually increases tax revenue to a certain point by stimulating the economy and then, beyond that point, lowering taxes lowers tax revenue. (If the latter were not true, the highest tax revenue would come in at a tax rate of zero, which is ludicrous. So, logically, you know at some point tax-rate reductions start to result in diminishing returns for revenue.)  Continue reading “The Two Stooges of Finance: Larry and Moore”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update (8:25 am): The FAA said the system outages have ended.

• FAA SAYS AIRLINE SYSTEM ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED

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Update (7:41 am): We’re seeing reports that some of the outages have been resolved. Meanwhile, reporters have confirmed that almost every US airline was impacted. Continue reading “Flights Grounded Across US As Airlines Report Mass System Outages”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

New York City officials are forking over an additional $1.6 million to city public defenders to represent illegal aliens who are facing deportation, officials announced Thursday.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson agreed Thursday to provide the extra $1.6 million towards the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP), a city government-funded program that supports lawyers defending illegal aliens going through deportation proceedings.  Continue reading “NYC to Allot Extra $1.6M to Lawyers of Illegal Aliens Facing Deportation”