From the Trenches World Report

Huffington Post

Continue reading “Trump Personal Assistant Reportedly Fired Over Security Issue”

Jon Rappoport

In the 1990s, I watched a federal trial in a Los Angeles courtroom. The defendant was charged with selling medical drugs without a license to practice medicine.

The defendant was prepared to argue that a) the substance he was selling was naturally produced in the body and b) it was effective.  Continue reading “Would the government let Jesus cure cancer?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update 3:

Some more soundbites out of Russia, via Reuters:

• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS OPTED FOR FURTHER ESCALATION BY EXPELLING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS BRITISH PM STATEMENT IS A FLAGRANT PROVOCATION
• RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYS BRITISH GOVERNMENT HAS CHOSEN CONFRONTATION WITH RUSSIA

Continue reading “UK Expels 23 Russian Diplomats, Freezes Russian Assets, Suspends High-Level Contacts”

The Organic Prepper – by J. G. Martinez D.

Dear fellows, I want to tell a little story of this last week.

My son had a rash in his little armpits and other parts. So his mom took him to the doctor, within walking distance from our subdivision (our SUV is still busted). After the subsequent blood test (according to my wife it was a real spectacle. He is a strong kid and a task force between my wife, the doctor and a nurse was needed to get the blood sample…well at least we know he is able to defend himself.) The lab result (freaking expensive because the reactants are scarce) was salmonella.   Continue reading “Venezuela Faces the Return of Forgotten Diseases”

Forbes – by George Leef

In the first century or so of our national existence, one of the Constitution’s provisions that was most often at issue was the Contract Clause. But following New Deal era decisions that eviscerated it, hardly any cases have since centered on it. The clause has been so forgotten that few Americans even know it’s there, in Article I, Section 10, reading, “No state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.”

The Constitution’s drafters had good reason to include that language, meant to assure people that contracts would be inviolate. During the years under the Articles of Confederation, the states frequently undermined the confidence in contracts by enacting debt relief laws and revoking business charters. The first state law to be declared invalid by a federal court was a Rhode Island statute that let a politically connected state businessman out of his debts. Unless contracts were reliable, the Founders knew, the new nation’s commercial development would itself be impaired.  Continue reading “The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide: Uphold The Contract Clause Or Let It Die?”

Fox News

An airport security guard was caught stealing 4,000 Chinese yuan ($628) from a passenger’s carry-on luggage right before it goes through the X-ray machine.

Busakorn Somkwamdee was recorded by a surveillance camera at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, rifling through a tourist’s bag right in front of another passenger. The luggage had been placed on the conveyor belt to pass through the security check.  Continue reading “Airport security guard caught stealing $600 from passenger’s luggage”

RT

The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) has announced it is bringing home the country’s 100,000 ounces (3 tons) of gold reserves from London.

The decision to repatriate gold reserves, in total worth some 33 billion Hungarian forint (US$130 million), was also explained as being for safety reasons, in case of a potential geopolitical crisis.   Continue reading “Economic crisis looming? Hungary latest country to repatriate gold”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Trump administration plan to crack down on people who lie to buy guns faces a giant hurdle: It relies on federal agents and prosecutors who are already overwhelmed with other responsibilities.

Prosecutors and officials from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have historically preferred to use their limited resources to deal with violent crimes rather than aggressively pursue people who give false information on background check forms. Lying on the forms is a felony, and prosecutors sometimes struggle to win convictions.   Continue reading “Prosecuting more who lie to buy guns could strain resources”

Mail.com

Young people in the U.S. walked out of school to demand action on gun violence Wednesday in what activists hoped would be the biggest demonstration of student activism yet in response to last month’s massacre in Florida.

More than 3,000 walkouts were planned across the U.S. and around the world, organizers said. Students were urged to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes — one minute for each victim in the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.   Continue reading “US students stage school walkouts to protest gun violence”

Mail.com

SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s motorcade Tuesday zipped past demonstrators who both jeered and cheered him and his plans for a “big beautiful border wall” after he inspected prototypes. The president’s first visit to the California border amid a contentious battle with state officials over his immigration policies was peaceful. Hundreds of people participated in scattered rallies on both sides of the border dividing San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico.   Continue reading “Trump’s visit to California sparks protests, rallies”

Fox News

It’s one thing to get caught texting while driving, but getting caught texting while driving about texting while driving? That’s a new one.

It happened to a truck driver in Kent, U.K., on Tuesday after police pulled him over for using his smartphone behind the wheel.   Continue reading “Truck driver caught texting about texting laws”

Fox News

A high school teacher in Northern California accidentally fired a gun inside a classroom Tuesday afternoon and injured at least one student.  Continue reading “High school teacher accidentally fires gun in classroom, injures student: police”

Fox News

Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist who defied a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to live virtually his entire adult life with the disease – in a wheelchair and paralyzed but making constant contributions to a world few could understand – has died at age 76, a family spokesman said.

Although Hawking may have been incapacitated physically, he managed to write books, including the best seller “A Brief History of Time,” teach physics and mathematics, deliver speeches and even float in zero gravity, all while working in the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity.   Continue reading “Stephen Hawking, famed physicist, dead at 76”