Anti-Media – by Anon Watcher

In early 2015 state legislatures convened across the United States proposing further drug testing for applicants applying for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or welfare. The countries participating, with the Bill passed included Montana, West Virginia, Texas, Maine, Michigan, and Mississippi.

The intention behind the proposal was to drug test applicants for food stamps and also unemployment benefits in a hope to save money by “getting drug users off the dole and [other benefits].” But according to ThinkProgress, data collected hasn’t displayed such results to back up the savings claim.   Continue reading “After 7 States Began Drug Testing Welfare Recipients, 1 Thing Became Stunningly Clear”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The war on cash is escalating faster than many had imagined. Having documented the growing calls from the elites and propagandist explanations of the “benefits” to their serfs over the last few years, with China, and The IMF entering the “cashless society” call most recently, International Business Times reports that Norway – suffering from its own economic collapse as oil revenues crash – has joined its Scandi peers Denmark and Sweden in a call to “ban cash.”   Continue reading “Norway’s Biggest Bank Demands Cash Ban”

The Anti-Media – by Derrick Broze

United States — One of the major purported selling points for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a supposed increase in new jobs as a result of the controversial trade deal. The deal involves 12 nations, including the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Malaysia and more. However, two recent economic reports have contradicted the claims that jobs will increase. They have shown that, more than likely, the deal will lead to a loss of jobs.   Continue reading “TPP Trade Deal Will Cost US 448,000 Jobs, Say Researchers”

OPB – by Kristian Foden-Vencil

Armed occupiers in Harney County are moving forward with efforts to change the legal system.

Occupiers say they’ve voted to ask Joaquin Mariano DeMoreta-Folch, a long-time Tea Party activist, to convene a common law grand jury.   Continue reading “Armed Occupiers Convene Common Law Grand Jury Against Local Officials”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Flint, MI – As the water crisis in Flint deepens, it is becoming apparent that the effects of the lead-infested water are not just a health hazard, but the situation has the potential of ruining many more lives outside of the poison issue. There is no denying that the water in Flint is undrinkable and that it is contaminated with lead and other substances, and it is clear that the government of Flint is responsible for the problem.   Continue reading “Flint Residents Told That Their Children Could Be Taken Away If They Don’t Pay For City’s Poison Water”

Chron

BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon plans to have a ceremony Saturday for ranchers to renounce federal ownership of public land and tear up their federal grazing contracts.

Midday on Saturday, a small counter-protest gathered on an overlook about five miles from the refuge, chanting for the group to go home.   Continue reading “Armed group plans event to renounce federal land policy”

Reuters

The gunman suspected of killing four people and injuring several others in Canada’s worst school violence in a decade first shot his two brothers at home before opening fire at the remote community high school, a family friend and the town’s acting mayor said on Friday.

Police said a suspect was arrested after the shooting in La Loche, Saskatchewan, an impoverished community about 600 km (375 miles) north of the city of Saskatoon.   Continue reading “Four dead in worst Canada school shooting in decade, suspect caught”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Whether it was the carrot of the promise of their own Syrian Kurdistan or the stick of the threat to work with Turkey to start bombing and killing the YPG forces if they did not cooperate with NATO, the United States has apparently brought the YPG around to its way of thinking.

According to reports from a number of media outlets, most notably Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy, the United States has now taken control over the Rmeilan Airbase in Northeastern Syria, in the Hasakah Province.   Continue reading “U.S. Takes Over Rmeilan Airbase In Syria, Violates International Law”

Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emmet

Orlando, FL – Accused of assaulting a police officer, a homeless man was recently found not guilty after a jury reviewed the body cam video of the arresting officer. Instead of charging him with resisting arrest, the jury agreed that the unarmed man had a right to defend himself against an overzealous cop.

On August 26, 2015, Terre Johnson, 44, was sitting on the curb when Officer James Wilson confronted him for no apparent reason. After threatening to give Johnson a citation for asserting his civil rights, Officer Wilson questioned whether the homeless man could even afford to pay the bullshit ticket. On his own body cam video, Wilson threatened and insulted the surrounding homeless people willing to defend Johnson’s constitutional rights.   Continue reading “Jury Rules Innocent Man Had Right to Defend Himself Against Cop Who Assaulted Him for No Reason”

Project Nsearch

January 14, 2016 – Mechaele Loraffe of Buchanan, Michigan witnessed something amazing on her way to work during sunrise and had to pull over. What she witnessed was so astonishing that she had to pull over to take a photo of this magnificent sunrise. She noticed a “beam coming straight up from the sun” and then later noticed a glowing cross in the clouds.   Continue reading “A Sign from God or Blue Beam?”

Memory Hole – by James Tracy

NEW! ANOTHER HIT FROM MOON ROCK BOOKS!

A detailed investigation of the Boston marathon bombing that reveals that it, too, was another drill with Hollywood special effects, where none of the purported victims died and the two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were framed for a crime they did not commit. The Boston police were calling out on bullhorns, “This is a drill! This is a drill!” The Boston Globe was tweeting that a demonstration bomb would be set off for the benefit of bomb squad activities.   Continue reading “AND NOBODY DIED IN BOSTON, EITHER: State-sponsored terrorism with Hollywood special effects”

Waking Times – by Arjun Walia, Collective Evolution

One of the largest studies of its kind recently examined the link between diet drinks and cardiovascular issues such as heart attack and stroke in healthy, postmenopausal women. The research took place at the University of Iowa, and the findings were presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 63rd Annual Scientific Session in Washington, D.C.

60,000 women participated in the study, and it found that women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day are 30 percent more likely to experience a cardiovascular event, and 50 percent more likely to die from a related disease. (source)   Continue reading “The End Of Diet Soda? Huge Study Links Aspartame to These Major Health Problems”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Cocoa, FL — At 5 am on Wednesday morning, 58-year-old Wendell Joyner awoke to his house ablaze. However, after he ran from his home, he quickly realized that his three dogs were still inside.

“I got out of the house, and then I realized, ‘Oh, wait a minute, my dogs are in there,” Joyner told WKMG-TV. “So, I went back inside to look for my dogs.”   Continue reading “Man Beaten and Arrested by Police for Trying to Save His 3 Dogs from His Burning Home”

Free Beacon – by Mary Lou Byrd

A Second Amendment group and a New York state senator are opposing legislation that would prohibit those on the federal terrorist watch list from obtaining or renewing a license to carry firearms in the state.

The bills, introduced by state Sen. Jeffery Klein (D.) and Assemblyman Thomas Abinanti (D.), prohibit “persons named on the consolidated terror watch list from obtaining or renewing a license to carry, possess, repair and dispose of firearms,” according to a joint statement by state Sen. Robert Ortt (R.) and the Second Amendment group Shooters Committee on Political Education.   Continue reading “New York Bills Would Prevent No-Fly List Members From Obtaining Carry Licenses”

Media Co-Op

Durham, NC – A man incarcerated in the Durham County Detention Facility died in his cell on Tuesday, January 19 at approximately 5:30 am. The sheriff’s office has not made this death known to the public. According to those who were incarcerated with the man, his name is Matthew McCain. Eyewitnesses have reported that other inmates in Pod 3D were aware of McCain’s physical distress and pressed the emergency buttons in their cells several times, but their calls for help were ignored by Officer Boria, the detention officer on duty in Pod 3D that morning. McCain was not given medical attention and died as a result. His body remained in the cell for two hours until the coroner arrived at approximately 7:40 am.   Continue reading “Inmate Dies in Durham County Jail After Medical Neglect by Detention Staff”

ABC News

Attorney General Loretta Lynch defended President Barack Obama’s executive actions curbing guns before Congress on Wednesday, telling lawmakers that the president took lawful steps to stem firearms violence that kills and injures tens of thousands of Americans yearly.

“I have complete confidence that the common sense steps announced by the president are lawful,” Lynch told the Senate Appropriations Committee panel that oversees the Justice Department. Early in an election year in which both parties seem ready to make guns a political issue, Lynch called Obama’s moves “well-reasoned measures, well within existing legal authorities, built on work that’s already underway.”   Continue reading “Attorney General Defends Executive Actions on Guns as Legal”

My fellow Trenchers,

Over the years I’ve commented on thousands of articles on numerous subjects on FTT. We tend to agree the majority of the time, mainly because for those who are awake (Trenchers), most of what we discuss is fairly easily discernible, at least as far as being able to fathom the truth behind the ‘official’ b.s. It’s what we do, and we’re damn good at it.   Continue reading “Trencher’s 9/11 ‘no planes’ poll”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Deming, NM — 74-year-old Roger Charlet recently died in a hospital just a week after police used a taser on him during a traffic stop. On January 4th, Charlet was pulled over by police on Interstate 10 and was accused of being drunk. He was quickly ripped from his car and tased without being given any chance to comply and leave willingly. Police claim that he was “resisting arrest,” however, the video clearly shows that he was not a threat and had no chance of getting away.

Peter Simonson, Executive Director for the ACLU of New Mexico told KRQE that the video clearly shows the officer was in the wrong.   Continue reading “Appalling Video Shows Cowardly Cop Taser a Non-Violent 74-Year-old Man, Leading to His Death”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Dykes

For its failed lawsuit against Lucky Gunner and other online ammunition dealers in the wake of the Aurora movie theater shooting in 2012, federal Judge Richard Matsch has ordered the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence to pay the ammo dealer’s legal fees in the case.

The center was attempting to hold the ammunition manufacturer legally responsible for the mass shooting during the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises for which James Holmes has been convicted and been sentenced to 12 life sentences.   Continue reading ““Propaganda”: Anti-Gun Brady Center Ordered To Pay Ammo Dealer’s Legal Fees In Aurora Shooting Lawsuit”