From the Trenches World Report

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

It’s the stuff of libertarian dreams. The IRS admits that it wrongfully took money from innocent citizens, and it gives the money back.

This is actually happening to victims of a little-known form of civil asset forfeiture carried out by the IRS on the premise of “structuring” violations. In case you didn’t know, depositing or withdrawing just under $10,000 from your bank account multiple times is viewed as suspicious and possibly criminal activity.   Continue reading “IRS Just Admitted it Stole Millions From Innocent People — Here’s the Catch — They’re Giving it Back”

World Events and the Bible

Under the guise of “reform,” President Obama is dismantling Medicare — dooming seniors to needless pain and disability and shortening their lives.

The stakes are high, because Medicare and the access it gives patients to medical innovations have transformed aging. Before Medicare, older folks languished in nursing homes or wheelchairs with crippling illnesses. Now, seniors dodge that fate, thanks to hip and knee replacements, cataract operations and heart procedures — all paid for by Medicare.   Continue reading “Obama Is Gutting Medicare”

Seattle Times

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s trash day for the International Space Station.

A large Cygnus cargo ship filled with Space Station trash that was released from the station last week is set to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean east of New Zealand about 9:20 eastern time Wednesday morning and disintegrate.   Continue reading “Capsule full of Space Station junk set to burn up over Earth”

RT

Imposing federal regulations on fracking – one of the Obama administration’s most ambitious targets – has been struck down by a judge because Congress won’t allow it. The rules would have gone a long way to reducing the harm associated with the practice.

Hydraulic fracturing as a way of extracting oil and gas has been proven to cause damage to both the environment and people’s health, and new studies keep coming in, linking fracking to the rising incidence of earthquakes. However, the practice has also been key to the United States’ recent oil and gas boom, so several states and powerful lobby groups have been doing everything they can to keep it going.
Continue reading “Obama-appointed judge destroys chances of federal regulation on fracking”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Surging wildfires on Tuesday forced new evacuations of hundreds of homes across the West, while firefighters began beating back a pair of big adjacent blazes looming over suburban Los Angeles.

Near the U.S.-Mexico border southeast of San Diego, a two-day-old, 9-square-mile wildfire moved toward a new community and forced the evacuation of about 600 homes and more than 1,500 people in Lake Morena Village. Previously only about 75 people had evacuated from that fire. It was 10 percent contained.   Continue reading “Hundreds of new evacuations across West as wildfires surge”

CBS

ORLANDO (CBSNewYork) — The alleged male lover of Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen claims he did the shooting as “revenge” against Latino men.

The man, who spoke to Univision on the condition of anonymity, said Mateen held a grudge against Latino men he met at the gay nightclub Pulse because he felt used by them.

“I’ve cried like you have no idea. But the thing that makes me want to tell the truth is that he didn’t do it for terrorism. In my opinion he did it for revenge,” the man who said he was Mateen’s lover for two months told Univision.   Continue reading “Omar Mateen’s Alleged Male Lover: ‘He Did It For Revenge’ Against Latino Men”

RT

After claiming responsibility for infiltrating the Democratic National Committee’s database, hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ has now published research allegedly compiled by the DNC on ways to protect presidential candidate Hillary Clinton from political attacks.

The anonymous hacker (or hackers), who goes under name Guccifer 2.0, revealed Tuesday what he called the “Dossier on Hillary Clinton from DNC” that includes “a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server.”    Continue reading “Hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0’ publishes DNC campaign docs with strategies for defending Clinton”

Trump meets with concerned Judeo-Christian Dirty Church Leaders.

Fox News

Donald Trump sat down with hundreds of evangelical and social conservative leaders Tuesday, in what was billed as an effort to address “long-standing concerns” about his candidacy, including on issues such as abortion and transgender rights.

The effort to heal any lingering rifts in the party comes at a pivotal time, just after he ousted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and as a number of polls show him slipping against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.   Continue reading “Trump meets with concerned evangelical leaders in NYC”

Fox News Latino – by Elizabeth Llorente

Immigration officials arrested 331 undocumented migrants in a month-long sweep that ensnared people who had ignored deportation orders, who had criminal convictions and who had re-entered the country after being expelled, among others.

The operation, which began May 9 and ended on Monday, was carried out in six Midwestern states: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri.   Continue reading “Feds arrest more than 300 immigrants in 6 Midwestern states in month-long sweep”

Huffington Post – by Jessica Schulberg

WASHINGTON — Two psychologists who helped the CIA develop and execute its now-defunct “enhanced interrogation” program partially admitted for the first time to roles in what is broadly acknowledged to have been torture.

In a 30-page court filing posted Tuesday evening, psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen responded to nearly 200 allegations and legal justifications put forth by the American Civil Liberties Union in a complaint filed in October. The psychologists broadly denied allegations that “they committed torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, non-consensual human experimentation and/or war crimes” — but admitted to a series of actions that can only be described as such.
Continue reading “CIA Psychologists Admit Role In ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ Program In Court Filing”

Healthy Child Wealthy World

Michigan residents lost their “right to farm” this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the news changes “effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers of animals.”

Backyard and urban farming were previously protected by Michigan’s Right to Farm Act. The Commission ruled that the Right to Farm Act protections no longer apply to many homeowners who keep small numbers of livestock.   Continue reading “Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers”

BATR – by James Hall

Money and guns, often goes together. Sometimes used for the protection of cash, other times made on the sales and use of guns and ammo. Manufactured and sold openly, weapons of every description are a stable in the marketplace. Yet, firearms seem especially targeted for ownership extinction by law-abiding citizens. Ironically, the public purchases of personal pistols, rifles and shotguns are systematically restricted and regulated, while law enforcement officials add the latest in advanced ordinances to their arsenals. The obvious message is that the government is preparing for war against their own citizens.   Continue reading “Economics of Gun Control”

Michigan Capital Confidential – by Derick Draplin

A faculty committee has proposed adding a three credit hours requirement in diversity to the general education curriculum at Wayne State University. It also recommended that WSU drop its university-wide requirement in mathematics, an idea that was carried out on June 13.

“We are proposing the creation of specific ‘Diversity’ courses, with students required to take one course in this designation,” said a document from the General Education Reform Committee, which is recalibrating what the university will expect from all students who earn a degree from the state university. It released the proposal in May.   Continue reading “Wayne State University Drops Math As General Requirement, Will Replace It With “Diversity””

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Tax Revolution Institute – by Alejandro Vidal

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Tax Revolution Institute (TRI), whose mission includes promoting transparency, accountability, and integrity in our tax system, has been educating legislators on Capitol Hill for several weeks and is now alerting the public: The only oversight organization identified by the IRS as “independent,” the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board (IRSOB), does not have a quorum, and as a result has suspended operations.
Continue reading “The IRS Has No Independent Oversight This Tax Season”

Plata – by Hugo Salinas Price

I. Russia: Leadership Through Better Ideas

A presentation by Hugo Salinas-Price, President of the Mexican Civic Association, A.C., offered to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, June 16-18, 2016, at the generous invitation of Mr. Sergei Prikhodko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.   Continue reading “The Silver Ruble Coin for Russia”