From the Trenches World Report

Yahoo News

BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Monday confirmed that it will participate for the first time in a major U.S.-hosted naval drill this month, sending four ships including a destroyer and frigate, even as deep military distrust persists between the two countries.

Beijing’s agreement to join the drills comes at a moment of heightened tension in the disputed East and South China Seas, and growing unease in the United States over China’s rapid military buildup and its cyber capabilities.   Continue reading “China confirms attendance at U.S.-hosted naval exercises in June”

Lew Rockwell – by Butler Shaffer

    There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or

   disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of

   pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the

   real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

–   Jane Jacobs

If I were a member of any discrete group – such as might be identified by the kinds of racial, ethnic, religious, lifestyle, or cultural uniqueness that would provide a target for violence from others – I would become the most vocally insistent advocate of the principle of privately owned property. Continue reading “Only the Property Principle Can Civilize Us”

Papers, Please!

Since late last year, we’ve gotten several inquires from readers wondering why they got a boarding pass marked “TSA Pre-Check” or were sent through the “Pre-Check”lane at a TSA checkpoint even though they hadn’t participated in the “TSA Pre-Check Application Program”.

The confusion stems from the TSA’s own misleading publicity about the program, which tries to persuade travelers “voluntarily” to provide additional information to be used by the TSA, in exchange for the hope of being subjected to slightly less intrusive searches at TSA checkpoints.   Continue reading “TSA includes all air travelers in pre-crime profiling”

Las Vegas Review Journal

Two Las Vegas police officers were killed Sunday in what appears to be a politically motivated ambush in a pizza restaurant that spilled over to a nearby Wal-Mart, where the two shooters committed suicide after killing a woman in the store.

Details are sketchy, but Metropolitan Police Department sources close to the investigation say the shooters shouted that “this is the start of a revolution” before opening fire on the officers, and draped their bodies with cloth showing a Revolutionary War-era flag. Investigators have also found paraphernalia associated with white supremacists.   Continue reading “Shooters in Metro ambush that left five dead spoke of white supremacy and a desire to kill police”

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With the recent capture of “El Chapo,” the richest drug cartel leader in the world, let’s take a look at what he was known for — a global drug trade.

It’s a big question.
There’s a world of drugs out there:
Methamphetamine
Amphetamines
Cannabis
Heroin
Opium
Cocaine
Ecstasy
Hallucinogens
Continue reading “How Big Is the Drug Trade?”

Huffington Post – by Andy Campbell

A Maryland dad likely won’t see any charges after he struck a local teacher with a baseball bat.

Police say the dad saw a series of texts on Thursday between the 42-year-old teacher and his daughter, a 15-year-old student. The girl’s mother deemed them “inappropriate for a teacher and a student” to be sharing, News Net 5 reports. Investigators didn’t agree and never charged the teacher with a crime, but the situation took a downturn later that day when the unidentified teacher showed up at the girl’s house.   Continue reading “Dad Hits Teacher With Baseball Bat After ‘Inappropriate’ Texts Sent To Daughter”

International Business Times

Grieving relatives of passengers on board missing flight MH370 is offering a $3 million (£1.8m) reward for a whistleblower to come forward and give key information into the flight’s investigation.

After three months of failed search efforts, families have become convinced the authorities are concealing the truth about the disappearance of the Boeing 777 and will launch the crowd-funding campaign Indiegogo in a bid to get answers.   Continue reading “Malaysia Airlines Plane MH370: Grieving Families Launch $3 Million Whistleblower Reward Fund”

Las Vegas Review Journal – by Lawrence Mower, Alan Maimon, and Brian Haynes©

Shortly before midnight on a warm night in May 1996, officer George “Gregg” Pease pulled his Las Vegas police cruiser into the desert behind a storage yard off Dean Martin Drive. In his car was a notebook with the name Henry Rowe scrawled inside.

Both men had seen their share of recent troubles. Rowe, 50, was living in a wash behind the building. Pease, 31, dogged by controversy in his eight years with the Metro­politan Police Department, had killed two men in 21 months and had been disciplined for seeing a prostitute while off-duty.   Continue reading “Analysis: Many Las Vegas police shootings could have been avoided”

Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter

Cancer is a deadly disease—there is no denying it, but there is some controversy where conventional cancer treatments are involved, many of them suspected of being more harmful than the cancer itself. A new study from Dana Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center found that children with a certain type of brain tumor who were treated with radiation had a lower survival rate than those who weren’t, offering additional evidence that some of these treatments could do more harm than good.   Continue reading “More Evidence that Conventional Cancer Treatments Are More Deadly than Cancer”

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Supplements and Health – by Rolf Hefti

The Background To This Issue Of Mammogram Screening

“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.” (William Blake, 1757-1827, Engraver, Artist, and Visionary) Continue reading “The Mammogram Letter The BMJ (British Medical Journal) Did NOT Publish -Unlike All Of My Prior Letters”

Press TV

“She wants to remove debris from her path to the White House in two years,” Franklin Lamb, an international lawyer, said in an interview with Press TV.   Continue reading “Clinton seeks to clear way into White House: Analyst”

The New York Times – by Amy Chozick

A “super PAC” supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton’s possible presidential campaign is reaching out to some of New York’s most powerful and wealthy gay and lesbian donors.

The group, Ready for Hillary, has built a name for itself with small-dollar grass-roots outreach and the selling of clever items like an iPhone case with the well-recognized image of Mrs. Clinton texting in dark sunglasses. But on April 7 the group will hold a higher-dollar event hosted by Jon Stryker, a billionaire philanthropist and Clinton donor, and featuring Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California and former mayor of San Francisco.   Continue reading “Pro-Clinton Group Plans Event Focused on Gay and Lesbian Donors”

The Organic Prepper

Every flu season, many medical personnel, hospital staff, and educators are faced with a choice: get the flu shot or get fired.

Most folks cave to the pressure, because in an economy like the current one, you can’t really afford to lose your job. Finally, a nurse from Hackettstown Regional Medical Center in New Jersey has won a lawsuit after being terminated for refusing the toxic injection.   Continue reading “Victory: Nurse Fired for Refusing Flu Shot Wins Lawsuit”

Las Vegas Review Journal

Two Las Vegas police officers and a civilian were reportedly killed Sunday in an apparent ambush attack at a pizza store that spilled over to a nearby Walmart store, where the two shooters killed themselves.

Details are sketchy and police have not yet confirmed the death of the officers, but sources within the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department say the officer and another were shot and killed by a man and a woman who approached them as they ate lunch at the CiCi’s Pizza at 309 N. Nellis Boulevard at about 11:20 a.m.   Continue reading “Five reported dead in northeast Las Vegas police ambush”