From the Trenches World Report

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice on Thursday that landmark 2015 U.S. open-internet rules will cease on June 11, and new rules handing providers power over what content consumers can access will take effect.

The FCC in December repealed the Obama-era “net neutrality” rules, allowing internet providers to block or slow websites as long as they disclose the practice. The FCC said the new rules will take effect on June 11.   Continue reading “U.S. ‘net neutrality’ rules will end on June 11 -FCC”

The Weather Channel

With dozens of Missoula homes already evacuated, forecasters were concerned that additional rainfall would worsen flooding as water levels continued to rise at swollen rivers in western Montana.

Evacuation orders were issued Tuesday for about 60 homes in the Orchard Homes neighborhood of Missoula, according to KPAX.com. Some of the worst impacts from the flooding occurred along the Clark Fork River, which runs through the center of the town of more than 70,000.   Continue reading “Montana Floods Could Be Worsened by Additional Rainfall, Forecasters Say”

RT

Meeting with Donald Trump would be pointless because the deep state – not the president – controls the US, Bashar Assad said in an interview. He noted that the agenda of the deep state is to create conflict aimed against Russia.

In an exclusive interview with Athens daily Kathimerini, Assad said there was no reason to meet face-to-face with Trump, since the US president “says something today, and does the opposite tomorrow,” and is likely not even being in control of policy decisions.  Continue reading “Assad: Why talk to Trump if he doesn’t control the US?”

The Organic Prepper

You’ve probably heard some horror stories about MRSA infections lately. It’s a superbug that is difficult to treat because it is resistant to most of our antibiotics. This, to me, makes it of particular concern in an SHTF world.

The CDC explains:

MRSA is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a type of staph bacteria that is resistant to several antibiotics. In the general community, MRSA most often causes skin infections.  In some cases, it causes pneumonia (lung infection) and other issues.  If left untreated, MRSA infections can become severe and cause sepsis – a life-threatening reaction to severe infection in the body.  (source)

Continue reading “A Prepper’s Guide to MRSA (and a Cautionary Tale)”

The New Observer

The Middle East has inched closer to yet another full-out Jewish-caused war with a direct attack by Iran on illegal Israeli occupation forces in Syria’s Golan Heights in revenge for over 100 Israeli attacks on Iranian anti-ISIS forces—and a retaliation bombing by Jewish jets and missiles on the Syrian capital of Damascus.   Continue reading “Iranians Fire Missiles at Illegal Israeli Occupiers in Golan Heights and Jews Bomb Damascus”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr Eowyn

While we were sleeping, the United Kingdom had morphed into a tyrannical police state.

Here are four recent cases of police tyranny:

(1) Breitbart reports that on April 28, 2018, Scott Walker, 39, was arrested in Dunfermline, Scotland, for carrying a potato peeler in a public place “without reasonable excuse” and faces up to four years in prison.  Continue reading “UK Police State: man arrested for carrying potato peeler; another gets 8 months for giving middle finger to traffic camera”

RT

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to end a long-running probe into its actions in the lead-up to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis.

Under the agreement, the bank will pay a penalty of $4.9 billion. RBS boss Ross McEwan called the settlement “a milestone moment.”   Continue reading “RBS agrees to $5bn settlement with US over sale of toxic mortgages”

Mail.com

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The verdict in the invasion-of-privacy case against Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens could come down to the technical workings of the iPhone, the definition of “transmission,” and the whereabouts of a photo that may or may not exist.

Jury selection in the felony case against the 44-year-old Republican is expected to start Thursday and last at least two days, and testimony is scheduled to begin Monday. Greitens is accused of taking an unauthorized photograph of a blindfolded and partially naked woman while she was bound to exercise rings in his basement in 2015, before he was elected. The woman, a hairdresser with whom Greitens has admitted having an affair, told investigators she saw a flash through the blindfold and heard what sounded like a photo being taken.   Continue reading “Jury to be picked for Greitens’ trial stemming from affair”

Mail.com

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Kevin Kamenetz, a Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland and longtime leader in local politics, died early Thursday at age 60. Kamenetz, Baltimore County’s two-term executive, died following a cardiac arrest, according to a news release from Baltimore County authorities.

Kamenetz was at home in Owings Mills when he awoke around 2 a.m., complaining of feeling ill, the news release said. He was hospitalized at St. Joseph Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 3:22 a.m.   Continue reading “Maryland gubernatorial candidate, county exec dies at 60”

Mail.com

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — One of three bikers indicted on murder charges Wednesday stemming from a chaotic 2015 shooting outside a Texas restaurant is accused of killing a man who was also shot twice by police, according to ballistics evidence reviewed by The Associated Press.

The indictments against Glenn Walker and two fellow members of the Bandidos motorcycle club mark the first murder charges filed in connection to the melee that left nine bikers dead, 20 wounded and nearly 200 arrested outside a Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.   Continue reading “Texas biker accused of killing man who was shot by police”

CBC News

When hundreds of white supremacists staged a march in Charlottesville, Va., last August, most of the attention was on the counter-protester killed when a vehicle, believed to have been driven by one of the marchers, plowed into a crowd of pedestrians, and on the controversial statementsmade about the event by U.S. President Donald Trump.

There was little news coverage, however, of an armed group called the Three Percenters, whose members, dressed in paramilitary gear and carrying guns, attended the rally, acting as a self-styled security detail independent of law enforcement.   Continue reading “Three Percenters are Canada’s ‘most dangerous’ extremist group, say some experts”

The Oregonian

A state board’s apparent retaliation against an Oregon man who investigated why his wife got a red-light traffic ticket made a national list highlighting outrageous breaches of free speech rights.

It’s one of seven “2018 Jefferson Muzzles” – an annual focus by the Thomas Jefferson Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, that celebrates “the birth and ideals of its namesake by calling attention to those who would censor free expression.”     Continue reading “Red-light camera critic’s case makes national list of free speech violations”

Computer World – by Lucas Mearian

Law enforcement interest in iPhone encryption-cracking hardware from two new companies is a strong indication that Apple no longer claims the mobile security high ground.

“What this means, if it’s true, is that people who thought all of their communications were totally secure shouldn’t feel so confident going forward,” said Jack Gold, principal analyst with J. Gold Associates. “But, then security has always been a tug of war between the ones implementing it and the ones trying to break it.”   Continue reading “Two vendors now sell iPhone cracking technology – and police are buying”

USA Today

YORK, Pa. — Joe Kirby was at work in Maryland when he got the phone call. He drove back to his Pennsylvania home, texting his boss that there was an emergency.

His wife, Christina, was hysterical. There was a member of the York County Sheriff’s Office going through every room of their house, taking inventory of their property to eventually put up for sale. The deputy sheriff told her he’d already done it with the cars in the driveway: a 2002 BMW 3 Series and 2007 Volkswagen GTI.  Continue reading “A deputy sheriff came to inventory family’s property — over a $160 trash bill”

Campus Reform – by Toni Airaksinen

Leandra Westbrook, a junior at Kent State University, claims she was wrongfully detained by campus police after students overheard her talking about her concealed carry license.

Westbrook, a junior studying political science, told Campus Reform that she had a phone conversation with a friend on the afternoon of April 27, during which she lamented “how it is a shame that I cannot carry a gun on campus, considering I have my carry license.”   Continue reading “Student reported to police for talking about concealed carry”

New Jersey 101.5 – by Michael Symons

Continue reading “NJ Already Taking Financial Aid Applications from Undocumented”

Yahoo News

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. (AP) — Staging a made-for-TV, still-of-the-night arrival ceremony, President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

Speaking early Thursday on an air base tarmac with the former detainees by his side, Trump called it a “great honor” to welcome the men to the U.S., but said “the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons.”   Continue reading “Trump gives freed Americans flag-waving, wee-hours welcome”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

O.F. Mossberg & Sons has become the second gunmaker to sever ties with Dick’s Sporting Goods, and its subsidiary, Field & Stream, in response to their hiring of multiple gun control lobbyists in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

“The lobbying records show Dick’s hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC-based government affairs firm, for ‘[l]obbying related to gun control’,” reported The Fedrealist in May.   Continue reading “Mossberg Becomes Second Firearms Co. To Cut Off Dick’s”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been alerted to an outbreak of Ebola.  In the past five weeks, there have been 21 cases of the infection reported, and 17 of those are now deceased.

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo declared the outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, a rare and deadly disease, on Tuesday, the World Health Organization reported.  The declaration of an outbreak came after laboratory results confirmed two cases of the disease in the province of Bikoro in the northwestern part of the country. Bikoro is situated on the shores of Lake Tumba near the border with the Republic of the Congo. The new cases were reported from a small health facility about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Bikoro.   Continue reading “EBOLA’S BACK! OUTBREAK ALERT After 21 Cases And 17 Deaths Reported In Last 5 Weeks”