From the Trenches World Report

Sputnik

Florida’s prison system has given the green light for the Church of Scientology to operate a “betterment program” for inmates via its Criminon rehabilitation program. The group is in 120 Florida prisons, and the most recent class of graduates finished their course last Thursday.

Criminon might at first seem an unlikely group to be admitted to any prison system, given its extensive criticism of the conditions in which inmates are housed, including opposing psychiatric care and anti-psychotic drugs, which it describes as keeping inmates “forcibly drugged to keep them under control.”   Continue reading “Florida Prisons Host ‘Betterment Program’ Run by Church of Scientology”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Achieving another breathtaking win for the American people while fighting against a criminal, corrupt establishment, President Donald J. Trump just legalized industrial hemp nationwide by signing the new Farm Bill into law. The hemp legalization provision was spearheaded by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), further demonstrating that Republicans support hemp legalization and agricultural freedom.   Continue reading “President Trump just ended hemp prohibition across America, legalizing industrial hemp farming nationwide”

Henry Makow

Obituary for a sacred, uplifting, unifying social ritual.

A vicious, implacable cancer — Satanism — is eating the vital organs of society. Satanism is the worship of evil — greed, lust, violence and ugliness. It is the worship of Death.    Continue reading “Christmas R.I.P.”

NHPR – by Sarah Gibson

The New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth, and Families wants to hire 57 more child protection service workers over the next two years.

The budget request comes after a steady increase in the number of investigations the agency is handling, and the number of children it is placing in foster care.   Continue reading “DCYF: More Staff Needed to Handle Increase in Child Abuse and Foster Care Cases”

The Guardian

An Amazon customer got a grim message last year from Alexa, the virtual assistant in the company’s smart speaker device: “Kill your foster parents.”

The user who heard the message from his Echo device wrote a harsh review on Amazon’s website, Reuters reported – calling Alexa’s utterance “a whole new level of creepy”.   Continue reading “Alexa’s advice to ‘kill your foster parents’ fuels concern over Amazon Echo”

South China Morning Post

A team of Chinese researchers have turned cheap copper into a new material “almost identical” to gold, according to a study published in peer-reviewed journal Science Advances on Saturday.

The discovery will significantly reduce the use of rare, expensive metals in factories, said the authors.

Continue reading “Chinese scientists turn copper into ‘gold’”

Forbes

It was a turbulent year for many investors around the world, as stock markets were shaken by events from Brexit to U.S.-China trade tensions. Amid the uncertainty, many billionaire fortunes shrunk in size. The biggest loser in the world was Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who had a terrible year amid internal scandals and damaging publicity. He was the only American among the ten biggest billionaire losers, half of whom were from Asia.   Continue reading “The Biggest Billionaire Winners And Losers Of 2018”

CNBC

Continue reading “Nothing worked for investors this year — nearly every major asset class is in the red for 2018”

Yahoo News

(Reuters) – More than 200 people from across the United States have fallen ill, 84 of them hospitalized, from an ongoing salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey products that prompted a second voluntary recall on Friday, the U.S. government said.

The latest food-safety advisory from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta came as millions of Americans planned their Christmas holiday menus, updating a notice for contaminated turkey issued in early November.   Continue reading “Salmonella outbreak linked to raw turkey leaves over 200 sick across U.S.”

Health Impact News

This article is GOOGLE TRANSLATED from LA NACION

In order to renew the DNI, passport and registration, the complete vaccination card must be presented.

The Senate approved on Wednesday a law that establishes the obligatory nature and free of vaccination against preventable diseases for all the inhabitants of the country, and stipulates that the complete vaccination card will be required at the time of processing the DNI, passport and driving record , among others.   Continue reading “Argentina Creates Mandatory Vaccination Law For Passport, ID, Driver’s License, School & More”