From the Trenches World Report

Daily Mail

A 3-mile (5 km) wide asteroid, named 3200 Phaethon, will comes ‘close’ to Earth this week, bringing with it the stunning Geminids meteor shower.

The shower will peak this Wednesday night, December 13th, when up to 120 shooting stars could tear through our skies every hour.

The much-awaited shower is one of the most spectacular celestial events of the year and the shooting stars are bright and easy to spot from all over the world.    Continue reading “Geminids meteor shower is set to peak with up to 120 shooting stars every hour”

Mises Institute – by Tho Bishop

On Wednesday, the Republican controlled house voted to further federalize gun laws in this country. While Ryan McMaken has noted the danger in further centralizing gun legislation, there is another deeply troubling aspect to this bill: it expands the ability of the Federal government to restrict Americans’ right to bear arms.
Continue reading “NRA-Republican Backed Bill Makes it Easier for Feds to Disarm Citizens”

Breitbart – by Thomas D Williams, PhD

The bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, is urging congress to pass the DREAM Act, insisting that the U.S. immigration system is “unjust.”

Some forty percent of the Des Moines diocese is of Hispanic origin, according to local Bishop Richard Pates, who recently visited ICE detainees in Iowa’s Polk County Jail before holding a press conference in which he called for passage of the DREAM Act.   Continue reading “Iowa Bishop Urges Passage of DREAM Act, Dreamers Are ‘Americans’”

Jon Rappoport

As I indicated in a recent article, the B-team, or even the C-team, is now heading up the national evening news in America. These anchors’ faces and voices (Muir, Glor, and Holt) are not even faint reminders of the so-called Golden Age, when father figures like Cronkite and Reasoner fed official truth into the brains of viewers. The new C-team is vague gloss from a paint job on a used car. This is an ominous sign for the news bosses in the upstairs suites. They can’t find adequate hypnotists anymore.   Continue reading “The collapse of major media”

Market Ticker – by Karl Denninger

Has the light come on yet?

Why do you think the US Congress passed the Sexual Assault Taxpayer Bailout Act by unanimous vote in 1995 — and Bill Clinton signed it?  Why has it not been repealed — and in fact, even today there is no bill on the floor of either House or Senate to repeal it, nor has Trump called for it to be repealed and stated he will refuse to sign any other bill (which is within his power) until it is?   Continue reading “Got It Figured Out Yet?”

ABC 13

Emergency personnel are responding to an incident at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.

Police sources describe the situation as involving a possible pipe bomb detonated in a passageway below ground at Port Authority.   Continue reading “Police responding to explosion at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan”

RT

Communism failed in the 20th century, but is allowing the super-rich to dictate to the rest of humanity the only alternative system? Perhaps we need to design a socialist system, which also recognizes achievement.

Bill Gates, the second-richest person on Earth, has repeatedly criticized capitalism. Back in 2015 he explained his reasoning was based on a simple ecological calculation: the use of fossil fuels has to be radically reduced if we are to avoid a global catastrophe, and the private sector is too selfish to produce clean and economical alternatives to fossil fuels, which means humanity has to act outside market forces. Gates himself plans to spend $2 billion of his own money on green energy, even though there’s no fortune to be made from it, and he called on fellow billionaires to help make the US fossil-free by 2050 with similar philanthropy.   Continue reading “Is it true that only progressive billionaires can save humanity?”

RT

Following Donald Trump’s controversial Jerusalem move, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has told EU leaders there is no other place for the capital – and that the Bible proves it. As protests continue, he also urged the Palestinians to embrace “reality.”

During his visit to Brussels on Monday, Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and relocate its embassy, saying that it was based on the recognition of reality. The controversial decision triggered protests in the Middle East and across the globe, and was met with international condemnation. Nonetheless the Israeli Prime Minister said that the decision promotes peace, and called on EU states and the Palestinians to follow suit.   Continue reading “‘Where else?’ Netanyahu cites Bible to justify Trump’s Jerusalem move, urges EU to follow suit”

RT

A former Oklahoma City mayor has drawn the ire of the LGBTQ community after controversial comments made on a political talk show. He not only stated that homosexuality is “wrong” but that its acceptance is a tacit endorsement of pedophilia.

During a heated discussion on Sunday about the slew of sexual harassment and assault allegations within the world of US politics, Co-Chairman of Oklahoma University’s Board of Regents Kirk Humphreys challenged guest co-host, and Democratic representative, Emily Virgin.   Continue reading “‘If homosexuality is OK, so is pedophilia,’ former Oklahoma City mayor tells TV show”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — The first-ever bitcoin future jumped after it began trading Sunday as the increasingly popular virtual currency made its debut on a major U.S. exchange. The futures contract that expires in January surged more than $3,000 to $18,580 eight hours after trading launched on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The contract opened at $15,000, according to data from the CBOE.

The CBOE futures don’t involve actual bitcoin. They’re securities that will track the price of bitcoin on Gemini, one of the larger bitcoin exchanges. The start of trading at 5 p.m. CST overwhelmed the CBOE website. “Due to heavy traffic on our website, visitors to www.cboe.com may find that it is performing slower than usual and may at times be temporarily unavailable,” the exchange said in a statement. But it said the trading in the futures had not been disrupted.   Continue reading “Bitcoin futures rise as virtual currency hits major exchange”

WBOC 16 News

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.- An archeological study years in the making has revealed a wealth of new information about some of Delaware’s earliest colonial settlers and shed new light on what life would have been like in the region three centuries ago.

The discovery of numerous artifacts as well as 11 well-preserved burial sites dating to the late 1600s fills in gaps in Delaware’s early history, telling the story of the colonists’ physical health, diet, family life, and how they made their living. Three of the burials, one a young child, were determined to be of African descent, constituting the earliest known discovery of remains of enslaved people in Delaware.   Continue reading “Archeological Discovery Writes New Chapter in Delaware’s Early Colonial History”

Vermont Public Radio – by Peter Hirschfeld

Backers of the latest proposal for a carbon tax in Vermont say lawmakers can increase the price of gasoline and home heating oil without inflicting financial stress on residents and businesses.

A coalition of lawmakers, environmental advocates and business leaders has introduced what they’re calling the “Economy Strengthening Strategic Energy Exchange.”  Continue reading “New Carbon Tax Bill Would Increase Gas Prices, But Lower Electricity Rates”

Washington Times – by S A Miller

President Trump has been willing to accept almost anything to close the deal on his giant tax cut bill before Christmas, including staying mum about a measure that would allow illegal immigrants to pocket the more generous child tax credit included in the package.

Illegal immigrants have been collecting the payoff from the “refundable” tax credit for years because of an IRS interpretation of how the rule was drafted. The Republican-controlled Congress this fall had a chance to correct that in the tax code overhaul that in the Senate version doubled the child tax credit to $2,000 and expanded eligibility.  Continue reading “Trump may get tax cut bill with more generous credits for illegal immigrants”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

After decades of waste, overpayments, trillions of missing or improperly accounted for dollars, and most recently losing track of 44,000 US soldiers, the Pentagon is about to undergo its first audit in history conducted by 2,400 auditors from independent public accounting firms to conduct reviews across the Army, Navy, Air Force and more – followed by annual audits going forward. 
Continue reading “Pentagon To Undergo First Ever Audit After Decades Of Sloppy Accounting And Missing Trillions”