From the Trenches World Report

Tech Crunch – by Danny Crichton

Who would have thought that the president who writes in 140-character missives would suddenly be interested in 70 Gbps wireless internet access?

The White House released its congressionally-mandated National Security Strategy report (warning: PDF) yesterday. Tucked away in a section on improving America’s infrastructure was this action item: “We will improve America’s digital infrastructure by deploying a secure 5G Internet capability nationwide.” Other than natural gas, 5G wireless service was the only area of technology to get a specific calling out for infrastructure.   Continue reading “Ultra-fast 5G wireless service declared national security priority by White House”

Boston Globe – by Alyssa Meyers

A homeless woman in Framingham attempted to shoplift more than $1,000 in products from a Target store filled with at least 50 police officers participating in their annual “Shop with a Cop” event Tuesday evening, Framingham police said.

As officers waited in line to check out items for the numerous local children they joined on a holiday shopping spree, a charity event sponsored by the department in an effort to give back to the community, an employee notified them the store had caught a shoplifter, Officer Stephen O’Rourke wrote in a police report.   Continue reading “Framingham woman tries to shoplift during ‘Shop with a Cop’ event, police say”

Utility Products

Smart meter report: The Institute for Electric Innovation’s (IEI’s) new report, “Electric Company Smart Meter Deployments: Foundation for a Smart Grid,” identifies the innovations, benefits, and capabilities enabled by smart meters, and summarizes the deployments of smart meters to date.   Continue reading “Smart meter report finds 76 million smart meters deployed across U.S.”

The Organic Prepper

The situation in Venezuela is grim and not getting any better. A socialist government has destroyed what used to be one of the healthiest economies in the world and turned it into something for which few were prepared. As we get ready for the holidays here in America, with our usual spending frenzies and feasts, Christmas in Venezuela is looking a lot different than it did a mere decade ago. Maybe some of the young people who think socialism is the answer to all our societal woes will read this and realize that this form of government doesn’t work – it destroys all hope.   Continue reading “Christmas in Venezuela: What It’s Like After Socialism Destroyed the Country”

Republic Broadcasting – by Ken

Not one American in a million will know the real significance of this monumental decision yesterday by President Donald Trump.

So I thought I’d pass it on to you in the US for the purpose of stirring up some of your residents in the local lunatic asylum!

As you will be aware, I’ve previously written books about how the British Monarchy rules the world, including the United States and Europe, through a whole host of secret organisations linked to the City of London.   Continue reading “Secret Reason Why President Trump Appoints Marshall Scholar Neil Gorsuch As Supreme Court Justice”

Breitbart – by Victoria Friedman

Global free movement and “safe”, orderly mass migration should be a right for all poor and unskilled migrants from the third world, according to the director general of the United Nations’ Migration Agency.

Penning an article for International Migrants Day entitled, “Our Right of Passage Should Be Safe Migration”, International Organization for Migration (IOM) chief William Lacy Swing opined that the right of “safe migration” should not be limited to the “global elite” – of which the “privileged” caste he believes to include tourists, students, and legal migrant workers – but should be extended to those who would “have no chance of getting a visa or work permit”.   Continue reading “Global Free Movement: UN Chief Calls Migration a ‘Right’ in a ‘World on the Move’”

Breitart – by John Carney

AT&T plans to invest an additional $1 billion in the U.S. in 2018 and pay a special bonus of $1,000 to more than 200,000 U.S. employees once the Republican tax reform bill is signed into law.

“If the President signs the bill before Christmas, employees will receive the bonus over the holidays,” AT&T said in a press release Wednesday.   Continue reading “AT&T Announces $1 Billion in Capital Spending and $1000 Bonuses for More Than 200,000 U.S. Employees”

Breitbart – by Ian Mason

The Boeing Company, America’s largest aerospace firm, tweeted Wednesday that the just passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will allow them to spend $300 million on “employee-related and charitable investment.”   Continue reading “Boeing to Spend $300M on Workers and Charity”

Breitbart – by Sean Moran

Comcast announced on Wednesday that they will distribute $1,000 bonuses to more than one hundred thousand frontline and non-executive employees and invest more than $50 billion in infrastructure investment over the next several years to celebrate Republicans passing tax reform.

Comcast announced in a statement:   Continue reading “More Tax Winning: Comcast Announces Employee Bonuses, $50 Billion in Investment”

The Hill

President Trump on Wednesday issued his first commuted sentence for a federal prisoner, freeing Sholom Rubashkin, the former owner of the country’s largest kosher meat-processing plant who in 2009 was sentenced to 27 years in prison for a litany of financial crimes.

The commutation had bipartisan support from lawmakers and had become a cause among many leading voices in the legal community, petitioning the Obama and Trump administrations to draw attention to a sentence they said was wildly disproportionate to the crime that had been committed.
Continue reading “Trump issues first commuted prison sentence”

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Citing the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, South Carolina’s capital city approved a ban on “bump stock” devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to mimic fully automatic guns.

The measure was approved by Columbia City Council on Tuesday night. Mayor Steve Benjamin has said he thinks the city of 134,000 people is the first to ban bump stocks.   Continue reading “South Carolina capital city bans bump stock rifle attachment”

Jerusalem for Public Affairs – by Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah

The Syrian conflict has an endless capability to surprise analysts as seemingly every other day a new element, unprecedented in the Syrian civil war, comes to the surface. Such is the case with the arrival of the first Chinese Army special forces unit, “the Night Tigers,” to Syria’s Tartous port on the Mediterranean, according to reports in Arab media close to the Assad and Tehran regimes (the Al-Mayadeen TV channel).² The Night Tigers were dispatched by Beijing to fight the Uyghurs, the Muslim Chinese ethnic group fighting with the rebel forces against the Assad regime.   Continue reading “Chinese Troops Arrive in Syria to Fight Uyghur Rebels”

Jon Rappoport

“To handle all that [pig-farm feces] waste, farmers in North Carolina use a standard practice called the lagoon and spray field system. They flush feces and urine from barns into open-air pits called lagoons, which turn the color of Pepto-Bismol when pink-colored bacteria colonize the waste. To keep the lagoons from overflowing, farmers spray liquid manure on their fields nearby. The result, says Steve Wing, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is this: ‘The eastern part of North Carolina is covered with shit’.” —National Geographic, 10/30/14   Continue reading “The medical CIA: how environmental destruction magically becomes a medical disease”

Seeking Alpha – by John Engle

With every tax bill there are winners and losers. Given the complexity of any major tax overhaul, it can take months or even years to figure out who those winners and losers actually are. Yet there is one indisputable winner we can point to immediately: commercial real estate investment.

On a range of points, real estate makes out like a bandit under the new law. Let’s take a look at a few of the provisions that will likely fuel the ongoing boom in commercial real estate.   Continue reading “The Big Winner Of The Tax Bill: Commercial Real Estate”

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