From the Trenches World Report

RT

The US Senate has voted 61-36 to kill the amendment, proposed by Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) which would repeal the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force (AUMF) in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Senate can’t repeal the AUMF without replacing it with a new authorization, said Senator John McCain (R-Arizona).

“It would mean that we would immediately need to start winding down” US forces abroad, said Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee), who also opposed Paul’s amendment.  Continue reading “US Senate votes against amendment to stop ‘endless’ war in Iraq & Afghanistan”

Breitbart – by Charlie Nash

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared to misinterpret the message behind George Orwell’s 1984 in her new book What Happened.

In her book, Clinton references Orwell’s classic dystopian novel to argue that American citizens should rely on, and not question, their “leaders, the press [and] experts.”   Continue reading “Hillary: ‘1984’ Teaches Public Should Trust ‘Leaders, The Press, Experts’ Who Know What’s Good for Them”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Did the doomsday clock on the petrodollar (and implicitly US hegemony) just tick one more minute closer to midnight?  Continue reading “De-Dollarization Spikes – Venezuela Stops Accepting Dollars For Oil Payments”

By Adel Karin

Several power centers were formed in Libya as a result of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the destruction of the statehood. None of them has a national legitimacy. The pursuit of personal interests by some political leaders to the detriment of the general state is intertwined with territorial fragmentation. The historic regions – Tripolitania, Cyrenaica and Fezzan – have de facto separated from each other. The Libyan phenomenon of the city-state arose (Misrata, Al-Zintan, Sirte, etc.). The separatist tendencies of the tribes grew stronger.   Continue reading “Libyan chessboard: whom should you rely on in the cause of peace and salvation of statehood?”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing its policies over how it prosecutes corporate white collar crimes and may be making some changes “in the near future,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said on Thursday.  Continue reading “U.S. Justice Department mulls changing corporate prosecution policy”

Yahoo News

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii said Tuesday that it aims to be the first state to have marijuana sales handled without cash, saying it wanted to avoid robberies and other crimes targeting dispensaries.

All of Hawaii’s eight licensed dispensaries have agreed to go cashless by Oct. 1, the governor’s office said. The dispensaries will ask patients to use a debit payment app to buy their pot instead of cash. The app is already an option for marijuana transactions in six states, including California and Colorado.   Continue reading “Hawaii says it’s 1st state to go cashless for pot sales”

BBC

Somaliland, a self-declared republic in East Africa, faces high illiteracy and has an economy ravaged by a civil war. But it might just become the first cashless society on Earth.

Half a dozen men crowd round one of the many small colourful wooden shacks off a main street in Hargeisa, Somaliland, shouting and arguing over the quality of khat – a mild narcotic that has been likened to both coffee and cocaine – that they’ve just been hastily handed by the vendor.   Continue reading “The Surprising Place Where Cash Is Going Extinct”

The Last Refuge – by Sundance, September 12, 2015

The “Benghazi Brief” remains the most controversial research report we have ever produced. The brief contains over two years of research and hundreds of very specific citations supporting it.

The Brief has also been challenged and with extensive vetting factually withstood all scrutiny. The report, while exhaustive in detail, remains the strongest summary of events surrounding the two years leading up to the Benghazi Libya attack on 9/11/12.   Continue reading “The Benghazi Brief”

CBS Sacramento – by Angela Greenwood

FOLSOM (CBS13) — Controversy erupts at Vista Del Lago High School in Folsom over students chanting “USA.”

It’s a popular way to for students to show pride during sporting events and rallies, but school and district officials are now warning students that the chants could appear inappropriate and intolerant.   Continue reading “Folsom School Warns ‘USA’ Chant Could Send ‘Unintended Message’”

News Channel 5 Network – CNN

Hillary Clinton told CNN on Wednesday that it is time to abolish the Electoral College, part of a sweeping interview where the former Democratic nominee sought to explain why she lost the 2016 election.

Clinton, in the interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, displayed her animus for fired FBI Director James Comey, reflected on her love for the people — namely former President Bill Clinton — who helped her get through the crushing loss and blasted the arcane election body that she believes helped Donald Trump win the presidency.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton says it is time to ‘abolish’ the Electoral College”

RT

Convicted fraudster and former pharmaceuticals company CEO Martin Shkreli, once dubbed the “most hated man in America,” is headed to jail after having his bail revoked over a Facebook post in which he offered $5,000 for a strand of Hillary Clinton’s hair.

US District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto ruled on Wednesday that Shkreli’s post on September 4 showed he posed a danger to the public.

In that post, the 34-year-old offered a generous bounty to anyone who could steal a hair from former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton while she was on her book tour.   Continue reading “‘Pharma Bro’ Shkreli sent to jail after offering $5k for Clinton’s hair in cloning joke”

Mail.com

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Emergency crews around hurricane-scarred Florida worked Thursday to make sure elderly residents were safe, after eight people died in a sweltering nursing home that lost its air conditioning in the storm and multiple other facilities were evacuated.

In one of the latest actions to protect older residents, firefighters helped relocate 122 people late Wednesday from two assisted living centers near Orlando that had been without power since Hurricane Irma hit. Elsewhere, facilities lacking electricity statewide tried to keep residents cool with dampened cloths and urged utilities to work quickly.  Continue reading “Florida nursing home deaths spur efforts to protect elderly”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room.

Soon came the hearing loss, and the speech problems, symptoms both similar and altogether different from others among at least 21 U.S. victims in an astonishing international mystery still unfolding in Cuba. The top U.S. diplomat has called them “health attacks.” New details learned by The Associated Press indicate at least some of the incidents were confined to specific rooms or even parts of rooms with laser-like specificity, baffling U.S. officials who say the facts and the physics don’t add up.   Continue reading “Attacked in bed, safe a few feet away: Cuba mystery deepens”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was “fairly close” to a deal with congressional leaders to preserve protections for young immigrants living illegally in America but he’s insisting on “massive border security” as part of any agreement.

Trump, speaking to reporters before surveying hurricane damage in Florida, pushed back against Democratic leaders who claimed there was a deal on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. He also said his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border would “come later.”   Continue reading “Trump says he’s ‘fairly close’ to deal on young immigrants”