From the Trenches World Report

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

After a lengthy battle it appears that the people of Florida have managed to pull out a victory against Oxitec and its plan to release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key Haven, Florida.

Typically, the FDA approved the release without adequate testing for potential impacts to humans, animals or the environment. Oxitec had planned to go ahead with the plans of their release against the objections of most of the Florida community and a coalition of groups who had come together to oppose the release.   Continue reading “GE Mosquitoes Will Not Be Released In Florida … For Now”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Hot on the heels of China gold import restrictions, and India’s demonetization and gold confiscations, The European Commission proposed tightening controls on cash and precious metals transfers from outside the EU under the guise of shutting down one route for funding of militant attacks on the continent, following the Berlin Christmas attack.   Continue reading “Europe Proposes Confiscating Gold In Crackdown On “Terrorist Financing””

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

At first, the 2016 murder figures for gun-controlled Chicago drew attention by hitting 500, which was 32 higher than the total number of murders in 2015. Then the number of murders rose to 700, followed by a Chicago Tribune report that the number of murders between January 1, 2016, and December 6, 2016, hit 731.

Think about it–731 murders had been committed in Chicago with 25 days remaining in 2016.   Continue reading “Gun-Controlled Chicago Fast-Approaching 800 Homicides for 2016”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

On December 21, Hempstead, New York, children were asked to hand over their toy guns in exchange for a toy that was not associated with firearms.

The “Toy Gun Turn-In” was spearheaded “by Manhattan philanthropist Jean Shafiroff,” with help from the Hempstead Heights Civic Association and Hempstead Mayor Wayne Hall (D).  Continue reading “Anti-Second Amendment Grinches Hold Christmas ‘Toy Gun Turn-In’”

Gun Watch – by Dean Wiengarten

On April 7, 2015, Donna L. McKay voluntarily admitted herself into mental health unit at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Penn Yan, NY, for a variety of reasons, including taking some newly prescribed prescription medication and anxiety due to recent events that raised the stress level in her life. A doctor had suggested the possibility of a voluntary admission in the event of another panic attack. Some time after her admission, the treating physician, Dr. Marino, made an online report in compliance with the infamous “SAFE” act.   Continue reading “New York Woman Files Suit for Due Process when Denied Second Amendment Rights”

Yahoo News

Carrie Fisher, who will forever be known for playing Princess Leia Organa in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died, family spokesman Simon Halls has confirmed to ABC News. She was 60.

The actress was rushed to the hospital after going into into cardiac arrest while aboard a flight from London to Los Angeles Friday.   Continue reading “‘Star Wars’ Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60”

The Organic Prepper

The Snowball Method is a snazzy little trick that can help you pay off debt as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Many Americans owe so much money that they have no idea how they’ll manage to pay it off, and Christmas just made it worse. Even though the bills haven’t come rolling in yet, a survey from T. Rowe Price speculated that average spending this year would be $422 per child. (Which means half of Americans intended to spend more than that.) Because many Americans have little cash to spare, it’s a safe bet that these Christmas gifts were directly added to credit card debt.   Continue reading “How to Use the Snowball Method to Get Out of Debt Quickly”

Daisy Luther

When you think of “political resistance” what comes to mind? For me it’s things like this:

Marches and protests.

Civil disobedience.   Continue reading “Anti-Trump Comics by “Triggered” Feminists Are “an Act of Political Resistance””

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

First, it was China which lodged a protest against the US defense bill, which was signed by Barack Obama late on Friday and which, among other things, contained a provision to establish as US “ministry of truth” and media propaganda. On Sunday, China lodged “stern representations” with the United States after Obama signed the NDAA into law which suggests a plan to conduct high-level military exchanges with self-ruled Taiwan. Part of the $618.7 billion National Defense Authorization Act “expresses the sense of Congress that (the U.S. Department of Defense) should conduct a program of senior military exchanges between the United States and Taiwan“.   Continue reading “Russia Warns Any Attempt By Obama To Arm Syrian Rebels Will Be Seen As A “Hostile Act””

Mediate – by Justin Baragona

Shortly after President-elect Donald Trump took to his phone to take a shot at President Barack Obama for claiming that he could have won if he ran in the election, the incoming POTUS also used his Twitter account to rail against a newfound favorite target.  Continue reading “‘So Sad!’: Trump Thinks UN Has ‘Great Potential’ But Now ‘Just a Club’ to ‘Talk and Have a Good Time’”

CounterPunch – by Mike Whitney

Trump’s economic plan has sent stocks ripping higher for six weeks straight. But what’s going to happen to stock prices when Congress gives Trump’s plan a big thumbs down? Has anyone thought about that yet?

And what about the Fed? Does anyone seriously think that Fed chairman Janet Yellen is going to sit on her hands while Trump launches a $1 trillion fiscal stimulus package that triggers a sudden burst of growth followed by a sharp uptick in inflation?
Continue reading “Trump’s Economic Plan is a Betrayal of the People Who Voted for Him”

Common Dreams – by Nika Knight

In another demonstration of President-elect Donald Trump’s blatant conflicts of interest, a Trump family vineyard filed a request this month for six temporary foreign worker visas—visas which Trump’s administration will soon have the power to approve.

The U.S. Labor Department posted the request (pdf) that was submitted earlier this month online on Wednesday.   Continue reading “Trump’s Vineyard Looks to Hire Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs”

Rense.com – by Stephen Lendman

Jason Greenblat is Trump’s executive vice president and chief legal officer – an orthodox Jew, educated at the Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, Yeshiva University and NYU’s School of Law.

He and David Friedman, another zionist zealot Trump picked as ambassador to Israel, served as his legal advisors on the Jewish state while campaigning.   Continue reading “Trump Picks Zionist Zealot As International Negotiator”

USA Today

RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian President said Tuesday that he hopes the upcoming Mideast conference in France will set a timetable to end settlements, as Israel moves ahead with new housing unit construction in east Jerusalem, despite the recent U.N. Security Council resolution condemning construction there.

The developments came just days after the United States broke with past practice and allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation” of international law.   Continue reading “Israel plans more settlements; Abbas looks to Paris summit”

RT

Six inmates at the Cocke County Jail escaped custody after removing a toilet from its bearings and climbing through the hole in the floor, according to local reports. Two escapees have been captured.

Early on December 25, the six inmates exploited rusted bolts holding down a toilet of a county jail cell in downtown Newport, Tennessee, and escaped, according to the Cocke County Sheriff’s Office.    Continue reading “Christmas jail break: Inmates escape Tennessee prison after removing cell toilet”

Mail.com

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe laid wreaths at various cemeteries and memorials Monday ahead of a visit to the site of the 1941 bombing that plunged the United States into World War II.

Abe landed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and then headed to National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, where he laid a wreath. He stood for a moment of silence at the cemetery near downtown Honolulu, which is known as Punchbowl.   Continue reading “Japanese prime minister lays wreaths at Hawaii cemeteries”