From the Trenches World Report

CBS Austin

Nearly 200 immigrants are suffering from mumps at detention facilities across Texas, according to a state health agency.

The Texas Department of State Health Services says 178 detainees had confirmed cases of mumps as of Feb. 21. Another five cases were reported among detention facility employees. Texas detention centers account for 76 percent of mumps cases at such facilities nationwide, according to federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.  Continue reading “Nearly 200 immigrants in Texas detention facilities have mumps”

21st Century Wire – by Shawn Helton

It’s been just over a year since America was stricken with a high-profile mass shooting on Valentine’s Day, yet despite a confession and the presentation of largely circumstantial evidence, there’s still a number of lingering questions concerning the Parkland school shooting. To many, it was just another in a long line of spectacular mass shootings in America, but this event was amplified to entirely new level, where media and political forces were suddenly mobilized, rapidly eclipsing the crime itself.   Continue reading “PARKLAND REVISITED: Known Wolves, Astroturfing and the Politics of Mass Shootings”

Fox 2 Now

Amazon has apparently started removing anti-vaccine documentaries from its Amazon Prime Video streaming service. The move came days after a CNN Business report highlighted the anti-vaccine comment available on the site, and hours after Rep. Adam Schiff wrote an open letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, saying he is concerned “that Amazon is surfacing and recommending” anti-vaccination books and movies.   Continue reading “Anti-vaccine movies disappear from Amazon after CNN Business report”

Independent

Officials in the German town of Ahlen have seized a family’s pet pug and sold it on eBay, prompting a storm of criticism.

Edda the pug was taken from her owners after they allegedly failed to pay debts owed to the town, including a dog tax.   Continue reading “Debt collectors seize family pug to sell on eBay after first trying to take owner’s wheelchair”

Mint Press News – by John Kiriakou

You may remember that last year some nut was arrested for mailing bombs to prominent Democrats, media outlets, and opponents of Donald Trump. Less than a week after the bombs went out, a suspect was arrested. Almost immediately, video turned up of him at a Trump rally, wearing a “Make America Great Again” hate and chanting for the camera. He was soon tried, convicted, and jailed.   Continue reading “Former CIA Whistleblower: Yes, Even the US Post Office Is Spying on You”

USA Today

In the Netflix era, many Americans are managing their finances based on their monthly subscription payments, often with little regard to the total they’ll pay in the long run.

That paradigm benefits the automotive industry and the lenders that finance car loans, as auto sales remain near record levels.   Continue reading “Why Americans are suddenly paying $550 per month for new cars”

Yahoo News

A generous Oregon couple stepped in to pay for 45 hotel rooms for the homeless on Tuesday night as snow coated the ground. Amberly Batten and her husband Ryan had come across Facebook posts from volunteers with the local nonprofit Compassion Highway Project and knew they needed to help.

“I had seen some posts about some people who were homeless that were contemplating suicide because they were cold and didn’t have anywhere to go, and that hit something in my core. I had to do something,” Amberly told local NBC affiliate KOBI-TV.   Continue reading “Oregon couple pays for 45 hotel rooms to house homeless on snowy night”

Strategic Culture – by Eric Zuesse

Here are America’s recent targets for regime-change (against which have been used economic sanctions, invasion, and enormous destruction) — and all of them are nations that never invaded nor threatened to invade America:

Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria 2011-2018, Yemen 2015-now, Ukraine 2014, and Venezuela 2017-now.    Continue reading “Lies America’s News-Media Tell”

ABC 7 News

UPLAND, Calif. (KABC) — Like many kindergarteners, 5-year-old Kyler has plenty of hobbies and interests – and one of his dreams is that he wants to be a policeman.

At least he wanted to be one until an incident last week at Foothill Knolls Elementary School.    Continue reading “Upland school calls police on 5-year-old boy”

Health Impact News

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering approving Johnson & Johnson’s (J&Js) new nasal spray antidepressant, esketamine (Spravato[1]) after an FDA advisory committee voted on February 12, 2019 in its favor.[2]

The drug is a chemical mirror of ketamine, a potent “dissociative anesthetic” that is abused as the illegal “club drug,” Special K, and generates an intense high and euphoric effects, and hallucinations.   Continue reading “FDA is Mind-Numbing America: Psychotropic Drugs and Electroshock Approval Boosts $35B Industry”

Chuck Balwin

The influence of America’s evangelical churches has been in steep decline ever since the two administrations of professed evangelical Christian President George W. Bush at the beginning of this century. Again and again on my radio talk show and in this column, I tried to warn Christians about the way the Bush presidency was distorting Christ’s teaching and how millions of our countrymen were being turned off to Christianity as a result. For the most part, of course, my appeals fell on deaf ears. But I Pollyannaishly thought we had seen the worst of it with Bush. Boy was I wrong! Donald Trump has taken up where Bush left off—in spades.   Continue reading “Evangelicals Unwittingly Pushing America Toward Atheism And Paganism”