From the Trenches World Report

The Great Recession

The market’s last chaotic day closed in a way that befit the entire year. Up, down, up harder, down harder, and done!

It looked like the violence of the day may have come from the Plunge Protection Team attempting to push the market up in the middle of the afternoon, except that the middle of the afternoon doesn’t fit the PPT’s MO because the birthing-sized push didn’t come in the PPT’s usual obvious final-hour press. So, what was the push in the penultimate hours all about?   Continue reading “It’s Up, It’s Down, It’s Done — a Day in a Year of the Dow.”

CNS News – by Terrence P. Jeffrey

The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.

Included in this arsenal, according to the GAO, were 15 “fully automatic firearms” and 56,000 rounds of ammunition for those fully automatic firearms.   Continue reading “GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition”

WTNH 4 News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – Connecticut state law is making flu shots for Pre-K students between the ages of 2 and 4 mandatory. Kids have until Monday to get the vaccine or they won’t be able to go back to school.

To protect you and your kids from the flu, the city of New Haven wll hold a flu clinic at the Health Department building on 54 Meadow street from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.     Continue reading “Connecticut law states mandatory flu shot for Pre-K students before the new year”

Campus Reform – by Jon Street

America’s second oldest women-only college will begin accepting admission applications from transgender and “non-binary” candidates.

Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. made the announcement in a recent email to students. The college had been discussing the policy change since 2014, according to KOMU-TV.    Continue reading “Second oldest women’s college accepts transgender students”

The Monroe Doctrine and the Marshall plan has been conveniently turned upside down to ruin our country in which our forefathers have fought to elevate. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers have fought and died  for absolutely seemingly nothing, as our freedoms have vanished. Bill of Rights ignored, turned into nothing more than a piece of paper according to past and present presidents of the United States.   Continue reading “Guatemala and Honduras Given $180 million a Year From America To Do Nothing More Than Promote Communism And Socialism Throughout America To Fit The Globalization’s Directive.”

AOL

Bre Payton, a staff writer at the right-wing website The Federalist, died on Friday at age 26 after a brief and sudden illness.

The news was reported on Twitter by Payton’s good friend, San Diego politician Morgan Murtaugh, who found the 26-year-old Payton unconscious in her room Thursday morning before rushing her to a San Diego hospital for treatment.   Continue reading “Bre Payton, staff writer for The Federalist, dies at 26”

WCAX

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) Should criminal action be forgiven if it’s done for the greater good? That’s the case nine disorderly conduct defendants are making following a summer protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration policy.

“I would absolutely do this all again,” said Rachel Siegel, who along with he 14-year-old daughter was arrested in late July. They were among a group of people that blocked a road outside a Williston U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement facility. “It’s important in the great tradition of civil disobedience to follow our higher moral code and that sometimes it’s contrary to the law of our government.”   Continue reading “Vermont ICE protestors use ‘necessity defense’”

Daily Mail

California authorities have arrested the illegal immigrant suspected of killing a cop on Christmas day, local authorities say.

Suspect Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 32, was arrested in Bakersfield on Friday morning for killing Newman Police Department Corporal Ronil Singh, 33, on the morning of December 25, according to the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department.     Continue reading “California cops arrest illegal immigrant member of Mexico’s notoriously violent Sureños gang who ‘shot dead a 33-year-old police officer during a traffic stop in California on Christmas day’”

Daily Mail

A Southern California mayor is defending his city’s decision to destroy old police shooting and internal investigation records.

The city of Inglewood made the decision to shred the records at a City Council meeting earlier this month, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.   Continue reading “California city to destroy more than 100 police shooting records before new law allows public access”

Ready Nutrition – by Jeremiah Johnson

Mullein is a pretty easy herb to come by. It grows in “waste” places; that is to say, in arid, rocky, or sandy soil without many nutrients. It is a pretty common sight all over the United States and is actually considered a nuisance by many, although it was brought to the U.S. from Europe in the 1700s for its medicinal value. Its scientific name is Verbascum thapsus,and it is a biennial, meaning that it takes two years to complete its life-cycle.   Continue reading “The Healing Properties of Mullein – Especially During the Cold and Flu Season”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Following a string of stories published this year about its work for autocratic regimes in Saudi Arabia (including work that helped the Saudi government crack down on dissidents living abroad), China and elsewhere, vaunted consulting firm McKinsey has endured a firestorm of criticism. But a story published Friday by the Wall Street Journal revealed that a former partner for the consulting firm has languished in a Saudi prison since Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s now-infamous “anti-corruption purge” cash grab/political crackdown.   Continue reading “McKinsey Partner Imprisoned And Beaten By Saudi Arabia”