From the Trenches World Report

Priceonomics – by Zachary Crockett

In 2007, during a business school lecture at UCLA, Roberto Sequeira had a revelation. What if I could design the perfect business? he asked himself, something niche, high-margin, scalable. He ran through a rolodex of potential consumer items — watches, food, clothing — before arriving at his moment of clarity: he’d start an ice cube company. But not just any ice cube company — one that sold its wares at $8 a piece. Today his brainchild, Gläce Luxury Ice, caters posh events at the Playboy Mansion and L.A. Fashion Week; for the mere price of $325, 50 Gläce cubes are all yours — complete with an “elegant” resealable bag.   Continue reading “The Rise of the $8 Ice Cube”

RT News

The Pentagon has reportedly placed an order for 500 high-tech wearables that will give Google Glass a run for its money.

According to Defense One technology editor Patrick Turner, the United States Department of Defense is acquiring a cache of the state-of-the-art X6 glasses from San Francisco’s Osterhout Design Group that will “give spooks in the field an intelligence edge over everybody else.”   Continue reading “Pentagon orders 500 new state-of-the-art spy glasses”

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President Barack Obama has said that tens of thousands of kids illegally migrating from Central America have created a “humanitarian crisis,” and called for parents to stop sending their children north as they might not even reach the US.

“We don’t even know how many of these kids don’t make it, and may have been waylaid into sex trafficking or killed because they fell off a train,” Obama stated in an interview with ABC.   Continue reading “Obama tells Central America to stop sending migrant kids”

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The test launch of an Angara space rocket automatically aborted due to “technical issues,” Russian officials said. While the second attempt is scheduled for Saturday, President Putin has ordered the reasons for the launch failure be detailed in one hour.

The would-be historic launch was automatically terminated just few minutes before the countdown, the Defense Ministry declared. “Technical issues” are blamed for the incident, said sources in the Russian space agency Roscosmos.   Continue reading “Russia calls off launch of newest space rocket Angara”

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For the first time ever Chinese warships are taking part in the world’s largest naval drills: the Rim of the Pacific Exercise (RIMPAC), biannual US-led training of Asia-Pacific regional navies traditionally conducted off the Hawaiian Islands since 1971.

RIMPAC will last for over a month, from June 26 to August 1.

The ongoing drill involves 47 surface ships, six submarines, over 200 aircraft, and 25,000 troops from 22 countries.   Continue reading “Chinese Navy near Hawaii: First time participation in US-led RIMPAC drills”

Mail.com

LONDON (AP) — Before the fast, let there be a shopping feast.

From Harrods in Knightsbridge to the glittering diamond stores in Mayfair, London has long attracted big spenders. But every year around the holy month of Ramadan, which starts this weekend, a wave of spectacularly rich Middle Eastern shoppers arrives and takes retail therapy to a whole new level — complete with an entourage of bodyguards, chauffeurs, and Gulf-registered Rolls-Royces and Ferraris flown in just for the occasion.   Continue reading “Ramadan rush: Mega-rich shoppers descend on London”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Before a unanimous Supreme Court weighed in, the White House had brushed off claims that President Barack Obama was exceeding his executive authority as just so much grousing from frustrated partisans.

Then, in a 9-0 decision Thursday, the high court ruled that at least in one case Obama had gone too far. For Republicans, the court’s decision that Obama violated the Constitution in 2012 when he appointed members to the National Labor Relations Board without Senate confirmation validated their argument that Obama has acted against the law when he has taken matters into his own hands.   Continue reading “Court ruling comes as Obama’s use of power tested”

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The disappearance of a Minnesota mother of seven was just a missing person case when it landed on the desk of Detective Sgt. Lee Hollatz. Seven months later, her body and that of another woman were found stuffed in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway, and the former police officer whom Hollatz had long considered his top person of interest is now suspected in their deaths.

Steven M. Zelich is scheduled to appear in court in Wisconsin on Friday afternoon on two counts of hiding a corpse. Authorities say Zelich, a 52-year-old security guard from West Allis, Wisconsin, met his victims online, bound and killed them and kept their bodies for months, either in his vehicle or his home, though he has not yet been charged in their deaths.   Continue reading “Ex-cop suspect in deaths of 2 women in suitcases”

It Ain’t Holy Water

Center for Immigration Studies – by Karen Zeigler, Steven A. Camarota 

Number of U.S.-born not working grew by 17 million

Government data show that since 2000 all of the net gain in the number of working-age (16 to 65) people holding a job has gone to immigrants (legal and illegal). This is remarkable given that native-born Americans accounted for two-thirds of the growth in the total working-age population. Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.    Continue reading “All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants”

CBS Las Vegas

TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas) — Border Patrol agents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border.

KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico.   Continue reading “Report: Mexican Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents”

Continue reading “Poor Ol’ Hillary”

Tehran Times – by Catherine Shakdam

Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children … If you want peace and democracy, I will support you. If you want formal Apartheid, we will not support you. If you want to support racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, we will oppose you—wrote Nelson Mandela in a letter to Thomas Friedman, a prominent journalist and writer for the New York Times.   Continue reading “Israel’s ethnic cleansing: The real face of terror”

Bloomberg Businessweek

ROME (AP) — The European Union is warning its citizens and companies against doing business with Israeli settlements. It says they run legal, economic and reputational risks by making deals in what the EU considers illegally occupied territory.

The Italian Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday on behalf of the EU, the presidency of which it takes over next week. It said financial transactions, investments, purchases, contracts and tourism in Israeli settlements only benefit the settlements.   Continue reading “EU warns against business in Israeli settlements”

Rudaw – by Raed asad ahmed

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death is alive and well, contrary to international media reports he was executed by the jihadi-led insurgents blazing across Iraq, a Kurdish official and a family member told Rudaw.

A spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Justice in Erbil said he had personally spoken to Rauf Rashid Abdulrahman, the judge who sentenced Saddam to death by hanging in 2006, and that reports he had died were false.   Continue reading “Kurdish Judge Who Ordered Saddam Hanged is Alive and Well”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

A veteran has contacted Infowars to inform us that his son’s combat unit was told they are being deployed to Iraq in February 2015, contradicting President Obama’s vow not to send U.S. troops back into the stricken country.

The veteran, who served in the U.S. Navy with honor in the 1990′s, was shocked when his son relayed what his Virginia-based unit had been told by superiors.   Continue reading “Combat Troops Being Sent Back to Iraq?”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This is big news. If the Federal Reserve raises the interest rate you can bet the wicked ones have decided it is time to collapse the world’s economic system. The illusion of our world has been held together for the past seven years due to money printing and negative interest rates. The problem from 2008 never went away, but it has become much worse.

(Source: Breitbart) -Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard predicted the central bank will raise interest rates starting in the first quarter of 2015, sooner than most of his colleagues think, as unemployment falls and inflation quickens. Continue reading “Bullard Predicts Fed Rate Increase in First Quarter of 2015”