From the Trenches World Report

The American Dream – by Michael Snyder

As the Ebola death toll rises and as images of bodies being abandoned in the streets of Liberiaare broadcast around the globe, there has been a growing outcry for the scientific community to “do something” about this deadly virus.  And as luck would have it, there is an “experimental Ebola vaccine” that is ready to be tested on humans next month.  If Ebola starts to spread outside of Africa, and especially if it starts spreading inside the United States, people will be absolutely clamoring to get this vaccine.  But will it be safe?  And there will certainly be millions of people that do not want to take this vaccine under any circumstances.  If the outbreak gets bad enough, will it be made mandatory at some point?  If they do make it mandatory for all Americans to take an Ebola vaccine, what will you do?    Continue reading “What Will You Do If They Make It Mandatory For All Americans To Take An Ebola Vaccine?”

Continue reading “Mark of the beast on front cover of the Readers Digest”

Jon Rappoport’s Blog – by Jon Rappoport

On the far side of the border, in Central America, where the bulk of the children are coming from, we have another story—and a far-reaching plan for the future.

Let’s start with a recent statement uttered by Obama’s court jester, Joe Biden.

CBS/DC August 7, 2014: “Border Patrol Agent: Federal Government Releasing Murderers Into US”:    Continue reading “Children at the US border: the big picture”

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Deaths from West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, the deadliest outbreak in history, continue to rise as more people become infected everyday – so what are countries able to do about it?

Well, starting in West Africa – they’re closing borders. According to Guinéenews, ​the afflicted nation announced Saturday its closing its borders with Sierra Leone and Liberia in an attempt to stymie the influx of infected people in and out of the country.

Al Jazeera quotes the country’s health minister as saying: “We have provisionally closed the frontier between Guinea and Sierra Leone because of all the news that we have received from there recently.”  

Continue reading “International response to Ebola: Travel bans, funding”

PR Watch – by Ruth Conniff

If you are not in the Chicago media market, you might not know much about Bruce Rauner, the Mitt Romney-like candidate for governor in Illinois, who is running ahead in the polls against Democratic Governor Pat Quinn.

If Rauner wins, Illinois will have a lot more in common with its neighbor, Wisconsin. Politically, Rauner resembles union-basher and school privatizer Scott Walker. Only Rauner is much, much richer.

In an interview with the Chicago Sun Times, Rauner talked about his career at GTCR, the Chicago-based private equity firm he founded.    Continue reading “Tax Dodger Running for Governor in Illinois”

Common Dreams – by Lauren McCauley

The United States’ renewed airstrikes in Iraq will likely be a “long term project,” President Barack Obama told reporters on Saturday.

In remarks made following his weekly address before leaving for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, the President said, “I don’t think we’re going to solve this problem in weeks,” adding, “This is going to be a long-term project.”

The comments came one day after the Pentagon confirmed that the U.S. warplanes had dropped bombs on Iraq, targeting fighters affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) rebel group. According to reports, the U.S. military launched three rounds of airstrikes throughout the day on Friday.    Continue reading “Obama: U.S. strikes on Iraq will be ‘long-term project’”

Detroit Free Press – by  Gina Damron andKatrease Stafford

Fukushima Update

via NHK World / August 8, 2014 / The Japanese government plans to provide a subsidy of about three billion dollars over 30 years for regional development in Fukushima Prefecture. The grant is to be offered when local communities agree to build temporary storage facilities for highly radioactive waste.

Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara (pictured) and Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto will explain on Friday the grant for the local governments to Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato and the mayors of Futaba and Okuma towns.   Continue reading “Japanese Government To Provide $3 bil. For Fukushima”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

It looks like former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is going after any pro-gun politician he possibly can. Bloomberg’s anti-gun political action committee just bought $150,000 in ads to target outspoken gun rights activist Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.

According to JSOnline,

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s political action committee, Independence USA, has purchased $150,833 in television ads in an effort to defeat Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. and support his opponent, Milwaukee police Lt. Chris Moews. Continue reading “Anti-Gun Bloomberg Group Going After Pro-Gun Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke”

This weekend an edition of La Voz de Houston was delivered gratis to my address. Circulation of this twice weekly publication is claimed to be approximately 400,000, targeting Latinos of the area.

I don’t speak Spanish, but looking at the front-page headline, “Texas Milicias en la frontera: arma de doble filo,” I realized I had been given an instructive piece of mixed fact and propaganda aimed at the Houston metro Latino population and with it the opportunity to share it with the FTTWR community.

Using online translation, with some editing and sentence recasting, here is the article in English for all to read, and although I cannot verify the complete accuracy of this translation, I do think it’s very, very close.   Continue reading “WEAPONS Militias on the border create concern”

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News 4 St. Louis is reporting “at least 100 cop cars and numerous officers armed with M-16’s in the area” after an incident on Saturday.

Police have confirmed that one person is dead after a officer-involved shooting at the Canfield Green apartment complex, according to Fox 2 Now.

Though very few details have been confirmed at this point, Twitter is exploding with reports of a 17-year-old boy being shot dead by police — with this picture making the rounds of an unidentified male holding a sign that reads: “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!”   Continue reading “Multiple police agencies descend on reported Ferguson, Missouri shooting”

Yahoo News – by Emily Schmall

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — One of the largest ranches in the U.S. and an icon for Texas horse and cattlemen has been listed for $725 million, marking the end of a decades-long courtroom battle among the heirs of cattle baron W.T. Waggoner, who established the estate in 1923.

The estate includes the 510,000-acre ranch spread over six North Texas counties, with two main compounds, hundreds of homes, about 20 cowboy camps, hundreds of quarter-horses, thousands of heads of cattle, 1,200 oil wells and 30,000 acres of cultivated land, according to Dallas-based broker Bernie Uechtritz, who is handling the sale along with broker Sam Middleton of Lubbock.   Continue reading “Waggoner Ranch, among US’ largest, listed for sale”