From the Trenches World Report

The Mind Unleashed – by Derrick Broze

Even if you disable GPS, deactivate phone location tracking, and turn off your phone, it’s still possible for Google and the NSA to monitor your every move.

Over the last two decades, cell phone use has become an everyday part of life for the vast majority of people around the planet. Nearly without question, consumers have chosen to carry these increasingly smart devices with them everywhere they go. Despite surveillance revelations from whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, the average smart phone user continues to carry the devices with little to no security or protection from privacy invasions.  Continue reading “Google Tracks Your Location and Shares It With Police, Even When Your Phone is Off”

RT

In its crusade against ‘fake news’, Facebook has vowed to fight for impartiality. However, when it comes to fact-checking, it seems to rely on sources, which have links to the US government, and renowned political meddlers.

For more than two years, the social media giant has been seeking to convince the public that it does its best to take a stand against malicious disinformation spread through its network and presented a whole bunch of instruments aimed at revealing and countering false narratives.  Continue reading “Who checks the fact-checkers? Facebook leaves verification to groups funded by Soros, US Congress”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

New Orleans, LA — Earlier this month, news reports across the country ran with headlines about a police officer being shot in New Orleans, LA during an apparent struggle in front of a gas station. That suspect in the shooting, 18-year-old Michael Baker was promptly arrested at the scene and charged with attempted murder of a police officer. The case was open and shut and police had their man — that is until they reviewed the surveillance footage and found that Baker didn’t pull the trigger — the cop did.  Continue reading “Murder Charges Dropped Against Man After Video Showed the Cop Shot Himself”

Reuters

The leader of a paramilitary group that has detained undocumented migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border is expected to appear in court in New Mexico on Monday to face federal weapons charges.

Larry Hopkins, commander of the United Constitutional Patriots, has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm after the FBI said it found guns during a 2017 visit to his home.  Continue reading “Leader of armed border group to appear in court in New Mexico”

Overdrive – by Jason Cannon

When Tesla debuted its electric Semi tractor in late 2017, the company set a production target of 2019.

After posting first quarter financial losses of more than $700 million Wednesday, the company says it now plans to kickstart production of its Class 8 in 2020.  Continue reading “Tesla bumps production of all-electric Semi to 2020”

Star Tribune – by Libor Jany

In open defiance of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, the union that represents the city’s roughly 900 rank-and-file police officers announced that it is partnering with a national police organization to offer free “warrior-style” training for any officer who wants it.

According to a news release posted to the Law Officer website, the free online training — valued at $55,000 a year — is offered to officers for as long as Frey remains mayor. The training, which covers a range of issues, from “officer survival” and leadership to fitness and de-escalation, was designed to ensure that officers could “return home each day to their family regardless of the dangers that they may face and the ignorance of some politicians,” the release said.  Continue reading “Minneapolis police union offers free ‘warrior’ training, in defiance of mayor’s ban”

Activist Post – by Catherine Frompovich

What one learns as the most important and irreversible axiom of U.S. law is that FACT or TRUTH is the ultimate legal defense, which cannot be nullified!  However, that principle apparently does not apply to pharmacological science where FRAUD and corporate vested interests reign supreme, especially in vaccinology, a science rendered as “consensus” not actual and factual, as has been divulged by numerous whistleblowers over the last several years.  Even U.S. federal health agencies, i.e., the FDA, are known for their fraudulent ways.  Continue reading “Can There Ever Be A Sensible Discussion About Vaccines & Why They Are Not Safe?”

CNN

James Madison High School in Houston has implemented a dress code targeted toward parents that has riled some people up.  Continue reading “A Houston high school has implemented a dress code — for parents”

Video Rebel’s Blog

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think there are 22 Democrat candidates for President. I admire some for their resistance to the Jewish Lobby. But not one of them is opposed to cutting our wages and pensions 50% or more.  Continue reading “Senator, Why Do You Want to Cut Our Wages and Pensions 50%?”

ABC News

A standoff with the federal government is putting the future of Burning Man at risk.

The problems started when the event’s organizer, Burning Man Project, applied for a permit from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to hold the event in northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for another 10 years.  Continue reading “Government squaring off with Burning Man organizers over barriers, lasers and trash cans”

Business Insider – by Aria Bendix

American cities are divided. While a few large, coastal cities have seen their populations grow, economies skyrocket, and major industries expand, other cities in the northeast and Midwest look increasingly like ghost towns.

Go back more than a few decades and that divide wasn’t nearly as stark.  Continue reading “Cities across the US are selling abandoned homes for $1, and it’s a sign that the wealth gap is getting worse”

American Trucker – by Catherine Conway

Instructional Technologies Inc. (ITI), a provider of training solutions for the transportation industry, has released the name of its new training program for drivers wanting to obtain a CDL: On Ramp Entry-Level Driver Training (ELDT). This new system adopts new requirements demanded by FMCSA and will be fully operational by February 2020 for state, public, and private CDL schools.  Continue reading “FMCSA’s new requirements for entry-level driver training”

The Great Recession

You may be worried my prediction that a recession will start sometime this summeris not looking too good. So was I after first-quarter corporate earnings started coming in better than what economists expected. Except that barely “beating expectations” is kind of pathetic when expectations are dumbed down as far as they were.  Continue reading “US GDP Not All it was Cracked up to be”

Natural Health 365 – by Sara Middleton

Do you remember the last time you went to the DMV to renew or update your driver’s license?  Chances are, you were able to check a box indicating that you would be willing to ‘participate’ in the organ donation program – in the event (Heaven forbid) you were involved in a fatal accident.

However, in a newly proposed bill, New York lawmakers are now suggesting that adults in the state should be automatically be enrolled in the organ donation program and subjected to organ harvesting by default.  Continue reading “New proposal wants to automatically enroll citizens into an organ donation program”

USA Today

At least 85,000 law enforcement officers across the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade, an investigation by USA TODAY Network found.

Officers have beaten members of the public, planted evidence and used their badges to harass women. They have lied, stolen, dealt drugs, driven drunk and abused their spouses. Continue reading “We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records.”