From the Trenches World Report

Activist Post – by Catherine Frompovich

Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Blue Care Network of Michigan publishes online a shameless and bold report of how much cash they reward physicians for performing certain tests, and which apparently acts as an incentive to over-prescribe, thus inflating the costs of U.S. healthcare, which should be illegal.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield published the 2016 Performance Recognition Program, a 28-page report indicating how medical insurance companies actually increase the costs of healthcare!   Continue reading “The Unknown Reasons Doctors Push Vaccines”

Fox 31 Denver

DENVER — Police responded to an explosion at East 28th Avenue and Dahlia Street in Denver Thursday afternoon.

A Denver police spokesperson said there was an explosion in the intersection. It was apparently caused by homemade fireworks in a trash can.  No injuries were reported.  Continue reading “Homemade fireworks in a trash can explode at 28th and Dahlia in Denver”

Daily Mail

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’ and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the epidemic.

‘The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it’s a national emergency.

‘We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,’ Trump told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session ahead of a security briefing Thursday at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.   Continue reading “Trump declares opioid crisis a ‘national emergency’”

Secure Arkansas

Secure Arkansas mentioned in our last article that we would be writing an alert very soon about Amazon and their illegal collection of the UNconstitutional internet state sales tax, so here is a brief introduction followed by our thoughts and plenty of documentation (as always).    Continue reading “Amazon Took Over Collecting Illegal Sales Tax for the States”

The Daily Caller – by Tim Pearce

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke proposed opening and expanding hunting and fishing access on 10 national wildlife refuges Wednesday, according to a Department of the Interior (DOI) press release.

The refuges are located across eight states: Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will take comments on the proposal for 30 days, ending Sept. 8.   Continue reading “Interior Secretary Opens More Federal Lands To Hunting And Fishing”

NPR – by Chris Arnold

Every day, more than 10 Americans suffer amputations on what is by far the most dangerous woodworking tool: the table saw. Regulators in Washington, D.C., are moving closer to adopting a rule that would make new saws so much safer that they could prevent 99 percent of serious accidents.

But even after more than a decade of study, and the existence of a proven technology that all sides agree works astoundingly well to prevent injuries, it’s unclear whether the Consumer Product Safety Commission will finally pass a rule requiring all new saws to have an active injury prevention monitoring system built into them.  Continue reading “Despite Proven Technology, Attempts To Make Table Saws Safer Drag On”

Fox 10 News

PHOENIX (KSAZ) – As threat of a nuclear war with North Korea continues to increase, some people in the Valley are already preparing for nuclear attack, with some local surplus stores saying customers have been asking for things like gas masks and radiation detectors.

“15 minutes to total destruction,” said Warren Jones, General Manager of the  U.S. Surplus Corporation, referring to how much time experts say people have to take cover, once a nuclear weapon is launched in your direction.  Continue reading “Surplus stores seeing increased business, as nuclear war threat looms”

EIS – EARTH EX

August 23, 2017

Mission: EARTH EX is designed to improve community resilience to large scale, long duration power outages through multi-sector exercises

Today’s lifeline infrastructures are interconnected and resourced on unprecedented scales, with supply chains spanning the nation and, increasingly, the world.  With this growing integration and global reach, they have brought us remarkable capabilities.

At a price.     Continue reading “Emergency All-sector Response Transnational Hazard Exercise”

Tickle the Wire – by Allan Lengel

During his colorful career with ATF, which spanned more than three decades, James Cavanaugh found himself in the thick of some of nation’s biggest cases: The D.C. sniper murders, the Unabomber, white supremacist Eric Rudolph, church burnings and the deadly shootout at the Branch Davidian in Waco, Tex. involving leader David Koresh.

“Ninety-nine percent of him thought he was David Koresh, but the 1 percent of him really knew he was Vernon Wayne Howell, just a two-bit thug from the country in Texas,” said Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the ATF Nashville office, commenting on Koresh during a lengthy interview in October 2009 with ticklethewire.com. He was one of the negotiators during the standoff.  Continue reading ““One of a Kind” James Cavanaugh –Head of ATF’s Nashville Office — Retires”

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

Contradicting the rulings of six others federal courts, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals annihilated free speech rights in upholding a district court decision stating citizens do not have the right to film public officials — politicians, police, and others — in public.

In affirming the decision of the lower court to dismiss, the Eighth Circuit effectively ended free speech activist Matthew Akins’ challenge to the Columbia, Missouri, Police Department, which he accuses of unlawfully stopping and arresting him on multiple occasions — though nearly all charges were later dropped — as he filmed their encounters with the public, in public.   Continue reading “Federal Court Rules Citizens Have No Right to Film Politicians & Police in Public”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

Mozilla, the non-profit organization which runs the Firefox internet browser, said Wednesday it was launching an effort against “fake news,” as fact-checking software backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and George Soros got its first run-out in public to shape our Orwellian nightmare of future truth arbiters.

Mozilla said it was “investing in people, programs and projects” in a new initiative to “disrupt misinformation online” calling for a “Mozilla Information Trust Initiative,” or MITI for short, Business Insider reported.   Continue reading “Mozilla Joins George Soros’s Efforts In Launching A Strike Against “Fake News””

Breitbart – by Bob Price

Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector arrested three child sex offenders re-entering the U.S. in less than 72 hours. All three previously received convictions for sexual crimes against children before being deported to their home countries.

In a three-day period ending on Monday, Border Patrol agents arrested three men from Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras after they illegally crossed the Texas/Mexico Border. All three of the men had criminal records that include convictions for sexual crimes against young children, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.   Continue reading “Border Patrol Agents Bust 3 Child Sex Offenders Illegally Re-Entering U.S.”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Perhaps The Burning Platform summarized the idiocy of Philadelphia’s soda tax better than anyone to date:

In a shocking development, the Philadelphia soda tax is a big fucking fail. Who could have predicted that. Democrat government drones and their brain dead minions are so desperate for money to fund their gold plated union pensions and bloated salaries, they lie, cheat and tax the poor into oblivion. Result: lost jobs, further impoverished poor people, no help for children, more closed businesses, and a further hole in the city budget. But at least the city union workers can keep their gold plated pensions – for now. Maff is hard for liberals, but it always wins in the end. 

Continue reading “From Coke To Coors: Philly Soda Tax Leading To Alcoholism As Beer Now Cheaper Than Soda”