This past week I found myself in the city of Eugene, Oregon, taking care of some personal business, when a chance encounter occurred, which truly brought the magnitude of our current situation front and center.  We had lunch at an Arby’s restaurant and as we were leaving, I saw a lady standing on the sidewalk.  She had two cloth bags with what appeared to be her clothes, hastily packed therein.  She looked confused and this caught my notice.

In the city of Eugene, you will see countless homeless people, carrying signs and pan handling.  For some it has become a way of life, but the lady I encountered was different.  She was obviously brand new to the streets.  I asked my wife, is she homeless?  To which she replied, I think so.  She was not asking for money from anyone.  She was just standing there, scared, cold, and hungry.  She knew the food and warmth were right there and she was desperately in need of both.  But that was apparently as close as she could get.   Continue reading “Facing the Homeless in America”

National Review – by Wesley J. Smith

My wife, the syndicated San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders, has learned that at least 500,000 Californians may lose their health insurance next year — and that’s a conservative estimate. From her Token Conservative blog:

According to this link as of December 2012, there were 491,977 covered lives in individual health care plans regulated by the state Department Insurance that are not grandfathered under the Affordable Care Act. (If they bought a plan after March 2010, their coverage is not grandfathered.) This is a 2012 number, but if the number of people with private coverage hasn’t changed much in the last ten months, that’s half a million Californians who will lose their coverage.   Continue reading “500,000 Californians Lose Health Policies”

While the vets couldn’t get to their monuments and we couldn’t take pictures of our national parks, while they were threatening to turn off the EBT cards and veteran’s benefits, what was really important and who ordered that the fight over the debt ceiling be put to the end?

US Foreign Aid to Israel – by Jerome M. Sharp

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II.  To date, the United States has provided Israel $118 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance.  Almost all U.S. bilateral aid to Israel is in the form of military assistance, although in the past Israel also received significant economic assistance.    Continue reading “Who is First in Line at the Trough? Oy”

On October 26, 2001 the Patriot Act (an injunction on the people’s 4th Article for the u. S. Bill of Rights) was declared as an open act of insurrection as the government has never had any authority to define, alter, or regulate the people’s God given rights.

On December 31, 2012, just before midnight, the National Defense Authorization Act with Sections 1021 and 1022 for the military arrest and indefinite detention of American nationals without any due process of the law was signed as an act of open sedition against we the people and our Republic.   Continue reading “American Nationals Can No Longer Hide behind Ignorance and Stupidity”

Syrian President Bashar Assad during an interview with an Italian TV-channelRIA Novosti

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – In an interview with a German magazine, Syrian President Bashar Assad has accused the West of lies about the use of chemical weapons in Syria and said Russia understands the reality of the conflict in his country “much better,” than the United States.

“We did not use chemical weapons,” Assad said in an advance version of an interview with Der Spiegel to be published on Monday. “This is a misstatement. So is the picture you paint of me as a man who kills his own people.”   Continue reading “Assad Says ‘West Is More Confident in Al-Qaida than Me’”

The drive to raise $2000 for the Live 365 for Liberty Tree Radio has been a success.  This labor has been accomplished via the unselfish contribution of free individual US nationals and indeed freedom loving listeners in other countries around the world.  The success in our endeavor is no doubt causing aggravation and worry among our enemies as they see our power through unity, increasing exponentially day by day.

Liberty Tree Radio is becoming very powerful as is From the Trenches World Report, and we have accomplished this status as free individuals advocating for our Bill of Rights.  No one has joined any collective and is not bound by any collective ideology, as our absolute assertion is individual freedom and liberty, possessed and maintained through the assertion of individual will.  Continue reading “A Salute to the Individuals Fighting in the Trenches”

The Guardian – by Conal Urquhart

The United States and Russia have agreed that Syrian chemical weapons will be placed under international control and destroyed in a process that will begin with a week.

International inspectors from the Organisation of the Prevention of Chemical weapons must be given “immediate and unfettered” access to Syrian chemical weapons, said the US secretary of state, John Kerry, while Syria must give a “comprehensive list” of its chemical weapons within one week.   Continue reading “Syria crisis: US and Russia agree chemical weapons deal”

I talked to Mark just a little while ago and he is finally feeling better.  He is eating and up and moving around.  He opened a closet and there were all the cards you people had been sending.  He said the stack was about a foot thick and he was very happy that so many of you cared enough to send him a card.

I can’t give you a room number right now because Mark is once again in a transition phase.  But I can tell you his condition is greatly improved and he is in the highest of spirits, asserting confidently that he will beat the cancer.   Continue reading “Update on Mark Schumacher”

In the past two weeks, we have seen the so called immigration debate disappear from the false reality being presented by the elite through the mainstream propaganda.  Indeed until this issue of an attack on Syria is settled and things are allowed to quiet down, I would think the issue will remain, not on the back burner, but in fact completely off the stove.

We the American people have stood up in unison and in defiance of the self-proclaimed dictator Obama and his elitist controllers.  We are seeing the mainstream media scrambling to retain the minutest amount of credibility in trying to emulate the free information machine that the internet has morphed into.    Continue reading “What Happened to Immigration Reform?”

This proposal to attack Syria is unthinkable, as none of those planning it thought it was possible that it could fail so miserably…but it has.  The propaganda campaign to sell another war failed completely as each false assertion was immediately picked apart on the internet and proven absolutely false upon its release.  In fact, the so called mainstream media had to switch their support to condemnation so fast they have been tripping over their own words.  Some even changed their position it seemed, in mid sentence.

Whatever became of that fraudulent opinion poll put out by ABC News and Washington Post?  What was that?  36% of American people support a strike on Syria?  I guess they missed that one by a little bit more than the 3% margin for error.  Just another blatant, bold face lie.   Continue reading “US Attack on Syria – “Unthinkable””

On Monday morning Mark Schumacher, a writer and contributor to this site, suffered an attack and was transported via ambulance to Loveless Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.   He is now undergoing surgery to remove eleven feet of his intestine.  The doctors were not sure if it is a tumor or diverticulitis.  We will update this as we get more information.

Mark is a long haul truck driver who lives in his truck and has no permanent home.  We here in the Trenches are Mark’s only family.    Continue reading “Get Well Soon, Mark!”

Obama, in a surprising, or maybe not so surprising development, has backed away from his absolutism in his posing as a dictator, saying he will now seek congressional approval for the proposed illegal attack on Syria.  Of course the mainstream propagandists are putting forth the notion that the reason Obama backed off was because of a few “good guys” in the US House and Senate and concern for his legacy.

Obama backed off because the American people once again got right up in his face and let him know that we, as the only true power in this sovereign country, do not give him the authority to act unilaterally as the dictator he would like to be.    Continue reading “Does Obama Fear for his Legacy or his Neck?”

I’ll let Obama speak first and then I will answer his assertions.

Excerpt of Obama’s remarks on US military strikes against Syria:

I have had my military and our team look at a wide range of options.  We have consulted with allies, we have consulted with Congress, been in conversations with all the interested parties and in no event are we considering any kind of military action that would involve boots on the ground, that would involve a long term campaign.  But we are looking at the possibility of a limited, narrow, act that would help make sure that not only Syria, but others around the world understand that the international community cares about maintaining this chemical weapons ban and norm.   Continue reading “US Soviet Premier Obama Addresses the Homeland”

It was recently revealed that foreign nationals entering the United States as guest workers will not be subject the mandates and penalties to be implemented through Obamacare, which is to say businesses cannot be forced to provide coverage and individuals cannot be fined for refusing to purchase healthcare insurance.

This revelation comes on the heels of a rash of exemptions for big labor unions and huge international corporations based in the United States.  It has also been revealed that the Native American population, consisting of 11 million individuals, is also exempt from the dictates contained in the socialist Obamacare.  Our legislators and their staff are exempt.  And one last aspect, the impoverished have also been declared exempt.   Continue reading “Obamacare Revealed as Exclusive Tax on the Middle Class”

On May 2, 2012, J.T. Ready, a militia volunteer and candidate for Pinal County Arizona Sheriff, along with his girlfriend, his girlfriend’s daughter, her fiancée, and their child were murdered by a drug cartel assassination squad at Ready’s home in Gilbert, Arizona.  The mainstream media immediately reported that Ready, who they identified as a white supremacist, had killed his family and himself.

This is probably how the situation would have stood except for the fact that unbeknownst to the media putting out the propaganda, one of Ready’s girlfriend’s daughters had survived the assassination squad by hiding underneath a bed.  The retractions were short and went literally without notice within the general public.    Continue reading “Have the Mexican Drug Cartels Captured Maricopa County Arizona?”