From the Trenches World Report

Vox – by Alexia Fernández Campbell

President Donald Trump’s businesses don’t seem too concerned about “America First.”

A Vox analysis of hiring records for seasonal workers at three Trump properties in New York and Florida revealed that only one out of 144 jobs went to a US worker from 2016 to the end of 2017. Foreign guest workers with H-2B visas got the rest.  Continue reading “3 Trump properties posted 144 openings for seasonal jobs. Only one went to a US worker.”

Truth Command

A new proposed legislative amendment would ban the practice of childhood circumcision, making circumcision of a child illegal, and punishable by up to six years of prison time.

The bill, which is supported by members from at least five different political parties (including, among others, the Pirate Party, the Left Green, and the Progressive Party), calls for amendments to the current criminal code in the country.   Continue reading “Iceland to Ban Boys’ Circumcision, Introduces 6-year Jail Term for Offenders”

Washington Examiner – by Susan Ferrechio

What was supposed to be an open-ended debate on immigration reform stalled on Tuesday when Democrats objected to the Republican’s first amendment, which would punish so-called sanctuary cities.

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., blocked a request by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to start by debating the sanctuary city language. Without Schumer’s consent, the debate cannot begin until either late tonight or tomorrow morning.   Continue reading “Senate immigration debate stalls after Democrats block first GOP amendment”

The Organic Prepper – by Cat Ellis

If the general public understood how vulnerable our reliance on global shipping made us, they’d all become preppers overnight. Trucks, planes, and cargo ships are responsible for just about everything modern life depends upon. This reliance on global goods and long-distance shipping puts us all at risk.   Continue reading “How Our Dependence on Global Shipping Will Come Back to Bite Us”

Anti-Media

South Africa — An unidentified man suspected of being a poacher was killed and eaten by a pack of lions over the weekend near the Kruger National Park in South Africa, according to local media reports.

What little remained of the man was found in a private game reserve in the northern province of Limpopo. Authorities initially believed the deceased to be an employee who had gotten stuck while driving a tractor, but that individual has since been verified to be alive.   Continue reading “Lions Eat South African Poacher, Leaving Just His Head”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Homestead, FL — An elderly Korean War veteran was gunned down by four police officers in his home on Monday. Raymond Bishop, 84, died inside his home at the Hidden Grove apartments after the veteran had become suicidal over an eviction notice he received because of his service dogs.

“They were throwing him out. He had nowhere to go,” said neighbor Jonathan Rodriguez, who often fed Bishop and took him to the veterans hospital for medical treatment, according to the Miami Herald.
Continue reading “Cops Shoot and Kill 84yo Veteran Facing Eviction Over His Tiny Service Dogs”

Free Thought Project –  by Rachel Blevins

As the city of San Francisco attempts to build new government housing on a former nuclear test site, an investigation has revealed that the contractors who were supposed to clean up the area intentionally botched the work, even going as far as to swap soil samples from contaminated sites with clean ones.

NBC Bay Area reported that the U.S. Navy is now admitting that the work completed by Tetra Tech, the contractor it hired to clean up the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, resulted in “evidence of potential data manipulation and falsification.”   Continue reading “California Gov’t Caught Building Housing on Contaminated Nuclear Test Sites”

The Organic Prepper

When you hear the word “patriot” do you think of someone who stands for the national anthem, perhaps serves in the Armed Forces, and loves their country?  Well, “patriot” may become a dirty word if the new Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018 becomes a law. (And it probably will – we’ve seen the unPatriot Act and the NDAA repeatedly pass with little more than a rustle of dissent.   Continue reading “YOU Might Be Considered a Domestic Terrorist If This New Bill Passes”

RT

As the wealthy continue sucking the country dry, the question now isn’t if the US will cease to provide a decent standard of living for its people. Rather it is how many people will be sacrificed on the way down.

In America, the richest nation in the world when measured by raw GDP, children are getting sick from living by open pools of raw sewage. This was one of many shocking findings by the United Nations late last year, following a two-week investigation into extreme poverty in the US.   Continue reading “American decline: Open pools of raw sewage in the richest country in the world”

Mail.com

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers are expected on New Orleans streets for parades and rowdy fun as Mardi Gras caps the Carnival season in a city with a celebration of its own, its 300th anniversary.

The anniversary of this Louisiana port city will feature prominently in Fat Tuesday’s festivities. Rex, New Orleans’ oldest parading Carnival group, is celebrating the tricentennial with 21 of its 28 floats commemorating its history from those who lived in the area before Europeans settled it in 1718 to the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Other floats in the Rex parade include one for St. Louis Cathedral, the descendant of a church built the year of the city’s founding, and the yellow fever, which killed more than 41,000 people between 1815 and 1905.   Continue reading “Mardi Gras parade honors New Orleans’ tricentennial”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — A terrorist who set off small bombs in two states, including a pressure cooker device that blasted shrapnel across a New York City block, is set to be sentenced Tuesday to a mandatory term of life in prison.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, who was born in Afghanistan but lived in New Jersey, injured 30 people when one of his bombs exploded in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on a September night in 2016. A second bomb planted nearby did not detonate.   Continue reading “Bomber faces life in prison for New York, New Jersey attacks”

Mail.com

KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — Bill and Melinda Gates, as the world’s top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider their unsatisfactory track record on schools, the country’s growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the couple said they’re concerned about President Donald Trump’s “America first” worldview. They’ve made known their differences with the president and his party on issues including foreign aid, taxes and protections for immigrant youth in the country illegally.   Continue reading “Bill, Melinda Gates turn attention toward poverty in America”

Off the Grid News – by Kathy Bernier

I once heard a story about a young woman proudly showing off her new kitchen to her grandmother.  The kitchen had the latest and greatest of everything—high-end range, refrigerator with water and ice through the door, gentle-glide drawers, and granite countertops.

As the older woman admired the kitchen, her granddaughter asked her, “Grandma, what is the thing you like most about it?”   Continue reading “55 Things Your Grandparents Lived Without — Can You?”