From the Trenches World Report

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Less than two weeks after Mexico recorded its deadliest year on record, the Interior Minister of Mexico has decided to call it quits amid the out of control violence and soaring homicides.

Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said Wednesday he was resigning from his post with intentions to seek a Senate seat in the upcoming July elections. President Enrique Pena Nieto appointed Chong to the position in 2012, where he oversaw government tasks including security, migration and human rights.The president applauded Chong for his public service, despite the eruption of death and despair through most Mexican states. The president announced Labor Secretary Alfonso Navarrete, of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), would be the next in line as the Interior Minister.   Continue reading “Mexican Interior Minister Resigns Amid Soaring Murders; US Warns “Do Not Travel” To Mexico”

The Hill – by Timothy Cama

The GOP chairman overseeing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says the agency is partly to blame for the failure of the prosecution against Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who heads the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a letter that he wants Trump administration leaders to investigate what he sees as major problems in the BLM’s enforcement programs that led to the Bundy mistrial, including withholding evidence.   Continue reading “GOP chairman slams federal agency involved in Cliven Bundy case”

Middle East Monitor

A three-year-old Palestinian was shot in the head during an Israeli “military training” session in the northern occupied West Bank city of Tubas.

According to a statement by the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health, the child was hit in the head with live bullets. He was taken to Rafidia Surgical hospital in Nablus.  Continue reading “Israel ‘accidently’ shoots Palestinian toddler in the head”

MassPrivateI

A start-up company called ELUCD makes money by measuring public sentiment towards law enforcement.

According to an article in TechCrunch, Michael Simon a former Obama campaign manager, purchases ads on apps like Candy Crush which the NYPD uses to gauge public sentiment in real-time.  Continue reading “Police are using 50,000 apps to influence public sentiment”

Guns America – by S.H. Blannelberry

Posing as prohibited persons or out-of-state buyers, what happened when government agents tried to purchase guns online?

The short answer.  Unless they went to the dark web, they were rejected.

Findings in a two-year study, conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), tell the tale.   Continue reading “What Happened When Undercover Agents Tried to Illegally Purchase Guns Online”

Siskiyou Daily News – by David Smith

The United States Supreme Court has effectively killed a lawsuit aimed at reversing California’s rules regarding suction dredge mining in the state.

The suit was filed by a miner by the name of Brandon Rinehart, who appealed his 2012 conviction for using suction dredging equipment without a permit and using said equipment within 100 yards of a waterway closed to suction dredging by the state.  Continue reading “Supreme Court will not hear Calif. suction dredge mining suit”

Fox News

The CEO of fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box said “it just makes sense” to replace cashiers with robots due to the minimum wage increase in California.

“As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense” to swap cashiers with kiosks where customers can order their food themselves, CEO Leonard Comma said Tuesday at the ICR Conference in Orlando, Fla., Business Insider reported.   Continue reading “Jack in the Box CEO: Swapping cashiers for robots ‘makes sense’ due to minimum wage increase”

The Siskiyou Daily News – by David Smith

A federal bill spurred by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on targets in the United States will soon be going into effect in California, and it will mean changes for anyone over the age of 18 looking to fly domestically.

The impending change is traced back all the way to May 11, 2005, when President George W. Bush signed House Resolution 1268, titled the “Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief.”  Continue reading “California preps for issuance of new, federally approved IDs”

Breitbart – by Neil Munro

President Donald Trump shot down an amnesty plan offered by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and several GOP Senators, prompting amnesty-advocates to wreck the amnesty talks by leaking Trump’s Oval Office “sh*thole” description of undeveloped countries.

The report said:  Continue reading “Democrats Use Trump’s ‘Shithole’ Comment to Blow Up Amnesty Talks”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Santa Fe, NM — In a move that would be a near death blow to the police accountability movement, New Mexico’s governor, Susana Martinez is pushing legislation through the house that would grant legal immunity to cops for their actions while on duty. Clearly ignoring the fact that New Mexico is notorious for killer cops, the legislation has many supporters.

“I don’t believe that police officers should be under this constant threat of lawsuits that will often cause them to pause,” Martinez recently told the Albuquerque Journal. “If they’re following their training, there should be something that protects them.”  Continue reading “State Notorious for Killer Cops to Give Police Full Immunity For Brutality Committed on Duty”

The Organic Prepper

You know the feeling. Your throat is dry. You feel tired, and perhaps a little stuffy. Then, a little cough starts, followed by that unmistakable taste in the mouth that screams “respiratory infection!” How do you know when that stuffy nose and scratchy cough is just a cold, and when it is something more serious, like influenza? Cold or flu? Here’s how to tell the difference.   Continue reading “Cold or Flu? Here’s How to Tell”

The Newspaper

A police officer’s exaggerated testimony can still be used to convict a motorist of a traffic offense, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled last week. The justices overruled a three-judge panel of state Court of Appeals that had previously tossed the evidence gathered by Bloomfield Police Sergeant George Rascon, whose description of events of November 11, 2008, failed to match what the judges saw from dashboard camera footage. Sergeant Rascon said motorist Jennifer Martinez raced to the intersection of Sycamore and North Third.   Continue reading “New Mexico Supreme Court Upholds Exaggerating Cop”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update 3: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has been renewed by the House of Representatives. Originally enacted in 1978, the act outlines the lawful procedure for collecting foreign intelligence. FISA Section 702 allows the US government to pull in communications from foreign nationals but does not permit surveillance of US citizens, even if they are suspected of criminality or terrorism. Ahead of a vote to extend FISA for six years, US President Donald Trump initially hit out at the key intelligence provision, although later updated his stance through a tweet declaring that the country needs FISA.  Continue reading “House Passes Legislation Renewing Controversial NSA Surveillance Program”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As the world seemingly marches closer to global conflict, hypersonic aircraft and missiles are being developed and tested by the United States, Russia and China at an accelerating pace. Other, less belligerent nations are developing hypersonic technologies to a lesser degree. According to Rand Corporation, “France and India are the most committed, and both draw to some extent on cooperation with Russia.” Nevertheless, “Australia, Japan, and European entities” have hypersonic programs in early stages.   Continue reading “Google Earth Spots Mysterious “Hypersonic Aircraft” In Florida”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

After several decades of nation-building and trillions of dollars missing or improperly recorded, the long-awaited audit of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has finally begun. On Wednesday, the Defense Department Comptroller David Norquist told lawmakers in Washington that the DoD’s first-ever department wide audit will cost about $367 million in 2018 and an additional $551 million to fix the problems.   Continue reading “Army Finds $830 Million In “Missing” Helicopters As First Ever Audit Begins”

The National Interest – by Matthew Moss

The U.S. Marine Corps has picked the Heckler & Koch M27 as its new infantry rifle. Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller confirmed the selection in an interview with Military.com.

[Heckler and Koch is a German defense manufacturing company]

The new rifle is part of a wider overhaul of the Marines’ infantry gear. Jarheads are also getting new communications equipment, body armor, suppressors and night-vision optics.  Continue reading “The Heckler & Koch M27 Is the Marines New Rifle”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Wal-Mart was quick to make a media splash with the news that it was raising the starting hourly wages to $11/hour, expanding employee benefits and offering worker bonuses of up to $1000 in response to the Trump tax cuts; it was far more covert, however, with the news that on the very same day it was also closing hundreds of Sam’s Club stores nationwide and laying off thousands of workers according to numerous media reports.

Jessica Buckner, an audit team lead at a Sam’s Club location in Anchorage, told local TV station KTVA that all Alaska stores are closing as part of a larger downsizing across the U.S. “From what I heard, there’s over 260 stores that have been closed down,” she said according to CBS News.  Continue reading “Walmart Abruptly Closing Dozens Of Sam’s Club Stores, Firing Thousands On Same Day It Raised Minimum Wages”

I despise Donald Trump and his hair, but when he said, “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”, he spoke a fact and I’ll tell you why.

I look east, I look west, I look north, I look south, and I see with my own eyes my country being invaded by foreign nationals from ‘shithole countries’.     Continue reading “Trump: “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?””