From the Trenches World Report

Washington Post – by Craig Whitlock and Bob Woodward

The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.

Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.   Continue reading “Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste”

New York Times – by Christopher Surpun

DALLAS — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States. Since the election, people have asked me to change my vote based on policy disagreements with Donald J. Trump. In some cases, they cite the popular vote difference. I do not think president-elects should be disqualified for policy disagreements. I do not think they should be disqualified because they won the Electoral College instead of the popular vote. However, now I am asked to cast a vote on Dec. 19 for someone who shows daily he is not qualified for the office.   Continue reading “Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump”

Do you have the reflexes of an 18 year old?

Daily Caller – by Kerry Picket

WASHINGTON — A Republican congressman is prepared to introduce national concealed carry legislation in the next Congress after Donald Trump is sworn in as president.

North Carolina Republican Rep. Richard Hudson introduced a similar bill in February 2015, H.R. 986.   Continue reading “GOP Congressman Preps National Concealed Carry Bill For Next Congress”

ABC News

The November election put Republicans in full control of a record number of state legislatures around the country, a level of power that gives the party an unprecedented opportunity: change the U.S. Constitution.

Republicans already control Congress, the White House and more governors’ offices than they have in nearly a century. But it’s the state legislatures that hold perhaps the greatest promise for lasting change.   Continue reading “Republican success opens door to amending US Constitution”

Independent – by Harriet Agerholm

A sniper has shot dead a local council official and two journalists outside a restaurant in Imatra, a small Finnish town near the Russian border.

Police confirmed a 23-year-old local man has been detained following what is thought to be a random attack.   Continue reading “Sniper shoots dead council official and two journalists in Finland”

Washington Examiner – by Sean Higgins

President-elect Trump’s promise of vastly stepped-up immigration enforcement doesn’t have just foreign-born communities worried about what’s next. Many in business are apprehensive, too.

Any policy that promises to stop illegal immigration will have to also strictly police the people who are the main reason why immigrants come to the U.S.: employers.   Continue reading “Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration worries businesses”

Jon Rappoport

“When you see a problem defined as ‘a threat to all humans’, you can be sure Globalists are using that fake or real problem to impose control on all humans.” (The Underground. Jon Rappoport)

With the election of Donald Trump, climate change and global warming have come back into the spotlight. In a different way.

“The science is settled” isn’t good enough now.   Continue reading “Is the global-warming hustle finally falling apart?”

Technocracy News – by Patrick Wood, November, 2005

Who are the central/core perpetrators of globalistion and the New World Order? To truly understand globalization you must have a firm grasp on who the real movers and shakers are… and pass by myriads of wannabe big-shots. Members of the elite core are not hard to spot, once you know what to look for.   Continue reading “The Global Elite: Who Are They?”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As the “fake news” narrative grows, and The House quietly passes a bill to “counter Russian propoganda” websites, one alleged ‘fake’ news wesbite – as defined by the farcical PropOrNot organization – has struck back. Naked Capitalism’s Yves Smith has threatened The Washington Post with a defamation suit and demanded a retraction.   Continue reading ““Fake News” Site Threatens Washington Post With Defamation Suit, Demands Retraction”

Reuters

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a rival-turned-supporter of Donald Trump, overcame his stated qualms about a lack of government experience on Monday to accept the president-elect’s nomination to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Carson, a popular writer and speaker in conservative circles, has been a close adviser to Trump since dropping out of the 2016 Republican presidential primary contest.   Continue reading “After hesitation, Carson accepts Trump’s offer to head U.S. housing department”

SiteProNews – by Jennifer Cowan

The European Commission has put U.S. tech companies Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google-owned YouTube on notice: Clean up the hate speech on your platforms or face some stringent new laws.

The European Union agency’s warning comes some seven months after the companies agreed to support a new code of conduct drafted by the European Union to help curb the spread of online abuse via social media. As part of the agreement, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are responsible for developing internal procedures and training staff to ensure all valid notifications for removal of illegal hate speech are dealt with in less than 24 hours.   Continue reading “EU Demanding U.S. Tech Firms Do More to Remove Online Hate Speech”