From the Trenches World Report

USA Today

ALBANY, N.Y. — A collective approach to fighting gun violence could help states in the Northeast, governors said Thursday.

Democratic governors of Northeastern states announced they have formed a coalition, “States for Gun Safety” to work together in the battle against gun violence.

The governors of Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island said they would sign a memorandum of understanding to develop ways the states can jointly address the scourge of illegal guns and develop shared law-enforcement efforts.  Continue reading “Gun violence: Northeast governors form coalition to fight illegal guns”

Ars Technica – by Cyrus Farivar

Last November, a 74-year-old rancher and attorney was walking around his ranch just south of Encinal, Texas, when he happened upon a small portable camera strapped approximately eight feet high onto a mesquite tree near his son’s home. The camera was encased in green plastic and had a transmitting antenna.

Not knowing what it was or how it got there, Ricardo Palacios removed it.   Continue reading “Man removes feds’ spy cam, they demand it back, he refuses and sues”

SHTF Plan – by Brandon Smith, November 13, 2013

It is natural for a society to search for explanations and motivations in the wake of a man-made tragedy. It is also somewhat natural for people to be driven by their personal biases when looking for someone or something to blame. In recent years, however, our country has been carefully conditioned to view almost every criminal event from an ideological perspective.

The mainstream media now places far more emphasis on the political affiliations and philosophies of “madmen” than it does on their personal disorders and psychosis. The media’s goal, or mission, if you will, is to associate every dark deed whether real or engineered to the political enemies of the establishment, and to make the actions of each individual the collective shame of an entire group of people.  Continue reading “Is It Wrong To Be ‘Anti-Government’?”

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”

H. L. Mencken

US Embassy in Cambodia

More than 20 representatives from U.S. colleges and universities will be available to speak with Cambodian students about degree programs, admission requirements, and scholarship opportunities in the United States at the EducationUSA Fair in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Other exhibitors at the fair will provide information about student visas, U.S. government exchange programs, and EducationUSA advising.

In Siem Reap, EducationUSA Fair 2018 will take place on March 13, 2018 at Somadevi Angkor Resort & Spa from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. In Phnom Penh, the event will be held at the Grand Ballroom of InterContinental Hotel on March 15, 2018 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Continue reading “EducationUSA in Cambodia”

Daily Mail

Parkland massacre gunman Nikolas Cruz was able to escape the Florida campus undetected because security guards were watching surveillance footage on a 20-minute delay.

The confusion caused police to believe that Cruz was still on school premises, even though he had already left and was on the way to Subway and McDonald’s.

Police searched for the gunman for 26 minutes using security cameras before realizing he wasn’t inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  Continue reading “Security footage on delay let Florida shooter escape”

Breitbart – by Penny Starr

‘Dreamers’ are dreaming of a nationwide amnesty for all 12 million illegals, according to a co-founder of the United We Dream advocacy group, which claims to represent illegals who were brought into the United States as children by their parents.

The United We Dream group is “advocating for Congress to really get to a breakthrough on this issue and provide a solution that will protect people like my brother and millions like him,” Cristina Jimenez, a co-founder of the group, told NPR.  Continue reading “‘Dreamer’ Group Pushing for Amnesty of 12 Million Illegals”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

In the United States, there are one million children under the age of six on psychiatric drugs. This number is particularly disturbing, considering the horrifying side effects and ineffectiveness of a good number of these types of harmful drugs.

One in six Americans overall regularly take some type of medication in this category. However, children are now being swept up in Big Pharma’s desire to make money, not improve health. Mental health watchdog group Citizens Commission on Human Rights is drawing attention to the concerning fact that more than a million kids younger than six in our nation are currently taking these psychiatric drugs.  Continue reading “Big Pharma’s War On Our Children: 1 Million Kids Under Age 6 On PSYCHIATRIC Drugs”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo, February 22, 2018

Today is school exclusion day in Oregon.  The public school district will be banning children from attending their classes if they are not fully vaccinated.

The word they are looking for here is “segregation.” But Oregonians are calling it “School Exclusion Day.”  As noted by the state’s Health Authority, “parents must provide schools, child care facilities with kids’ vaccine records”. If their “records on file show missing immunizations”, their “children will not be able to attend school or child care” from this date forth.   Continue reading “Oregon’s ‘School Exclusion Day’ Bans Unvaccinated Kids From Schools”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to announce on Friday what is being billed as the largest package of sanctions yet against North Korea to increase pressure on Pyongyang for its nuclear and ballistic missile tests, a senior administration official said.

President Donald Trump is expected to talk about the new sanctions during a mid-morning speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, and the Treasury Department will get into the details later in the day.   Continue reading “Trump administration to target North Korea with new sanctions on Friday”

Check this out, and special attention to question 7.  I actually used this to run off the last Census worker.

WVMiners

Public Law 93-579 states in part: “The purpose of this Act is to provide certain safeguards for an individual against invasion of personal privacy by requiring Federal agencies . . .to permit an individual to determine what records pertaining to him are collected, maintained, used or disseminated by such agencies.”

The following questions are based upon that act and are necessary for this individual to make a reasonable determination concerning divulgence of information to this agency.  Continue reading “Public Servant Questionnaire”

WGN TV 9 News

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said President Donald Trump’s idea to arm teachers is “upside down and inside out.”

His remarks came after a White House forum on school safety in which the president suggested arming trained teachers.   Continue reading “Mayor Emanuel responds to president’s proposal to arm teachers”

RT

An estimated 77 million Americans have a debt that has been transferred to a private collection agency. Thousands have ended up in jail over debts as small as $28, with African-Americans and Hispanics the most affected.

The findings come from a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) spanning 26 states and Puerto Rico, published on Wednesday. The practice violates many US state and federal laws, which prohibit the jailing of debtors.   Continue reading “Thousands of Americans jailed for debts chased by private collectors”

The Oregonian – by Maxine Bernstein

Federal prosecutors next week will seek a nearly 31/2-year sentence for Oregon refuge occupier Ryan Payne, the longest prison term yet for a defendant convicted in the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

They described Payne as a central figure who helped orchestrate the armed occupation of the federal wildlife sanctuary, described by Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Barrow as “one of the most extensive criminal activities in Oregon history.”   Continue reading “Prosecutors to seek nearly 3 1/2-year sentence for refuge occupier Ryan Payne”

Miami Herald

One week after a mass shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Broward’s top cop on Thursday revealed a stunning series of failures by the sheriff’s department.

A school campus cop heard the gunfire, rushed to the building but never went inside – instead waiting outside for another four agonizing minutes as Cruz continued the slaughter.   Continue reading “Douglas school cop who ‘never went in’ during shooting has resigned”

LA Times

Continue reading “Trump’s order to ban ‘bump stocks’ is a good thought, but Congress has to do the job”