From the Trenches World Report

Daily Mail

George Soros, in a rare moment of candour, once confessed to being driven by what armchair psychiatrists would call a Messiah complex.

‘I have always harboured an exaggerated view of my self-importance.’

He wrote: ‘To put it bluntly, I fancied myself as some kind of god…as I made my way in the world, reality came close enough to my fantasy to allow me to admit my secret. Needless to say, I feel much happier as a result.’   Continue reading “GUY ADAMS on George Soros who ‘broke the Bank of England’”

The Organic Prepper – by J. G. Martinez D

I want to share some insights that have been bouncing inside my head these last few weeks about the situation in Venezuela.

I am not particularly fond of TV shows, to be honest. I have plenty of things to do these days to make the ends meet in a new country: writing, consulting, private math/English lectures, and generally getting my daily income. But from time to time, I like to watch some of the recent post-apocalyptic stories. There is a lot we can learn from the imagination of those writers.   Continue reading “Daily Life in Venezuela Is Like a Post-Apocalyptic TV Show”

The Hill – by Timothy Cama

The two-year budget deal reached by congressional leaders would set up the biggest sale in history from the nation’s emergency oil stockpile.

In an effort to partially pay for new spending, the budget agreement would sell 100 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in the next decade.

Taken with sales Congress authorized last year to pay for other spending, the deal would leave the Department of Energy-managed reserve with just over 300 million barrels, or about half its previous size.   Continue reading “Budget deal envisions largest oil stockpile sale in history”

Global Research – by Prof. James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya

This pathbreaking analysis, which is currently the object of controversy and debate, was first published by Global Research in July 2016

The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of ‘premature deaths’ – a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic.  There have been quiet studies and reports peripherally describing this trend – but their conclusions have not yet entered the national consciousness for reasons we will try to explore in this essay.  Indeed this is the first time in the country’s ‘peacetime’ history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline – and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.     Continue reading ““Genocide by Prescription”: Drug Induced Death in America”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved swiftly early Friday to reopen the federal government and pass a $400 billion budget deal, overcoming opposition from both liberal Democrats and tea party conservatives to endorse enormous spending increases despite looming trillion-dollar deficits.

The 240-186 vote came in the pre-dawn hours, putting to bed a five-and-a-half hour federal freeze that relatively few would notice. Many who did quickly labeled it a pointless, head-scratching episode. The shutdown was the second in three weeks.   Continue reading “Congress votes to reopen government, passes budget deal”

CBS News – by Len Ramirez

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – The number of people packing up and moving out of the Bay Area just hit its highest level in more than a decade.

Carole Dabak spent 40 years living in San Jose and now she’s part of the mass exodus that is showing no signs of slowing down.

The retired engineer’s packing up and calling it quits about to move to the state of Tennessee.   Continue reading “San Francisco Bay Area Experiences Mass Exodus Of Residents”

The New Observer

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has confirmed that it is in discussions with the Israeli government to ship the African invaders facing deportation from the Jewish ethnostate to “safe western countries,” which will likely include the US and Canada, rather than allowing them to be sent back to Africa.

According to a report in the Jerusalem-based Times of Israel, Sharon Harel, the external relations officer at the UNHCR office in Israel, confirmed the existence of the deal, which will halt Israel’s current campaign to deport thousands of Africans to Rwanda.  Continue reading “UN Wants to Ship Africans from Israel to “Safe Western Countries””

The Daily Caller – by Peter Hasson

George Soros helped tip another district attorney’s race with more than $100,000 in support of his preferred candidate — and he did it without anybody finding out until after the campaign.

A Soros-funded national political action committee (PAC), Justice & Public Safety, spent more than $100,000 on behalf of Portsmouth, Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Stephanie Morales between Sept. 9 and Nov. 4, the PAC’s FEC filings reveal. Soros’s support for Morales’s campaign has not been previously reported.   Continue reading “George Soros Quietly Poured $100K Into Local DA Race Without Anybody Knowing”

Daily Mail

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at police in a rare attack with detectives reportedly on the verge of recommending his indictment for accepting bribes.

Pressure has built on Netanyahu as police investigating him in the long-running probe reportedly prepare to submit their recommendations to the attorney general next week.

Israeli media have reported that police are expected to recommend his indictment for bribery, fraud and breach of public trust.   Continue reading “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashes out at police with detectives ‘on the verge of recommending his indictment for accepting bribes’”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

– Juvenal   Continue reading “Donald Trump’s Superficial Patriotism at the Twilight of U.S. Empire”

Military Times – by Tara Copp

The approximately 800 service members whose military service was put in limbo by President Donald Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program will not be deported, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday.

Congress has been at an impasse over DACA, which provides a protected status for some younger undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.   Continue reading “Troops, veterans are now ‘protected’ from deportation”

Breitbart – by Joel B Pollak

A California court has ruled that a Christian baker cannot be forced to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple because it would violate her First Amendment rights — a decision that runs against a national trend of cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Kern County Superior Court Judge David Lampe ruled Monday that it would have been impermissible for baker Cathy Miller, who operates the Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, to refuse to sell a cake that was already made to a same-sex couple. However, forcing her to bake a new cake would have been an impermissible form of coercion, he ruled.  Continue reading “California Court Allows Bakersfield Baker to Refuse to Bake Cake for Lesbian Wedding”

RT

The US-led coalition’s attack on pro-government forces in Syria has again proven that Washington’s true goal is to capture “economic assets” instead of fighting terrorism, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The MoD was referring to an incident which took place on Tuesday in Deir Ez-Zor province, as a Syrian militia unit was moving against a “sleeper cell” of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). The operation was prompted by a surge in shelling of the positions of Syrian government forces in the area over the past few days, attributed to the covert activities of IS terrorists, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.   Continue reading “True US goal in Syria is control over resources, not fighting ISIS – Russian MoD”

Global Research – by Dr. Gary G. Kohls

“More than 50 conditions can cause or mimic the symptoms of dementia.” but “Alzheimer’s (can only be) distinguished from other dementias at autopsy.” — from a Harvard University Health Publication entitled “What’s Causing Your Memory Loss? It Isn’t Necessarily Alzheimer’s”

“Medications have now emerged as a major cause of mitochondrial damage, which may explain many adverse effects. All classes of psychotropic drugs have been documented to damage mitochondria, as have statin medications, analgesics such as acetaminophen, and many others.” – Drs Neustadt and Pieczenik, authors of “Medication-induced Mitochondrial Damage and Disease”   Continue reading “Big Pharma Prescribed Drugs’ or Vaccine-Induced Dementia Is Not Alzheimer’s”

UPI

Feb. 8 (UPI) — Syria’s foreign ministry appealed to the United Nations Security Council Thursday to condemn a U.S. assault that killed more than 100 government troops.

The U.S. military said the overnight airstrike in Deir el-Zour was retaliation for an “unprovoked attack” against the U.S.-led coalition occupying Syria.

The Syrian government, though, called the act a “barbaric aggression” and said the real purpose of the “so-called international coalition” was to support the Islamic State terror network.   Continue reading “Syria slams deadly U.S. strike as ‘war crime’”

Common Dreams – by Jessica Corbett

Peace advocates are denouncing the new bipartisan budget deal, which was produced to prevent another government shutdown, because of an “outrageous” decision to boost military spending while education, infrastructure, an urgent renewable energy transition, and other programs remain underfunded.   Continue reading “‘Another Giant Spending Spree’: Budget Deal Denounced as Wasteful Gift to War Profiteers”