From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Washington Post – by Keith L. Alexander
Prospective jurors who take the subway to D.C. Superior Court and exit near the National Building Museum see these words: “Good jurors nullify bad laws” and “You have the right to ‘hang’ the jury with your vote if you cannot agree with other jurors.” Continue reading “Billboard advocating jury nullification concerns local prosecutors”
Business Insider – by JIM EDWARDS
This is a picture of what is allegedly another Google shipping-container barge being towed into port off the coast of New England. It was taken by the Portland Tugboat company, and posted Facebook with the caption “ROWAN towing the ‘mystery barge’. Entering Portland harbor.”
We recently told you about the mysterious barge Google built which floats in San Francisco Bay. It is surrounded by secrecy, and is either a floating data center or a marketing stunt for Google Glass, depending on which rumor you prefer. Continue reading “Google Has Reportedly Built Another Mystery Barge — This One Is Floating Off The Coast Of Maine”
Later this week, the House of Representatives will be voting on a bipartisan bill to repeal financial bailout protections that Congress passed in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The bill, H.R. 992 or the “Swaps Regulatory Improvement Act,” would severely limit the reach of Sec. 716 in Dodd-Frank, which requires banks that are eligible for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or Federal Reserve lending discounts to spin off their derivatives activities into separate corporate entities that would not be eligible for federal assistance. Continue reading “House to Vote on Derivatives Bill That Was Written by Citigroup Lobbyists”
Food storage calculators recommend 300 pounds of grains per person for a one year supply. For a family of four, that is a whopping 1200 pounds of food that you should store if you are trying to build a one year pantry!
That sounds like a really daunting number until you remember that it is divided over many different items. To name a few: Continue reading “The Pantry Primer: Stockpiling Grains”
It’s quite simple really, and as the WaPo explains, the NSA “has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and interviews with knowledgeable officials. By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from among hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. The NSA does not keep everything it collects, but it keeps a lot.” Continue reading “How The NSA Spies On Your Google And Yahoo Accounts”
Common Dreams – by Lauren McCauley
Regulators with Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority gave the final OK Wednesday for the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to begin to remove the 1300 spent fuel rods from the badly damaged Unit 4 pool, thus initiating a decommissioning process which anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman describes as “humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Continue reading “Japan Greenlights ‘Perilous’ Cleanup at Fukushima’s Reactor 4”
Six people, including two children, were shot to death in a South Carolina home on Tuesday in what police believe is a murder-suicide involving members of a family, authorities said.
Investigators in Greenwood County, where the shootings took place, did not immediately release the identity of the shooter. Continue reading “Six people killed in apparent murder-suicide in South Carolina”
While on active duty I was stationed in many places. I was in Desert Storm and OIF 2003-2004. I have trained until I thought I couldn’t go any more. But the best training I ever had was one event at Ft. Polk in the late 80s.
We had a system called P1 and P2. P1 was field time (two weeks, generally) P2 was recovery and prep for field time. I thought it sucked more than anything I had ever done, but looking back it was some of the best training ever. I was young, dumb and full of crap. Continue reading “The best training I ever got”
ABC takes a glimpse into The Trenches. LOL
What was going on in Slidell last Friday? A lot of folks were freaking out on social media about the military presence in the Eden Isle area. Continue reading “Navy conducts training exercise in Louisiana: social media erupts with rumors of military takeover”
This is getting way out of control, it seems Florida and Texas are hot spots for police thuggery or is this “To Serve and Protect” at its finest. This seems to be more and more frequent in the news and make me wonder how much of this is really going on?
A man with special needs is speaking out after he was left badly bruised by police. Twenty-two-year-old Gilberto Powell, who has Down Syndrome, is left with horrible bruises and scars on his face after he had an encounter with police outside his home. Continue reading “22 Year Old With Down Syndrome Beaten By The Police For “Bulge In Pants” That Was His Colostomy Bag”
Having failed to convince Washington to launch a military strike against Iran, the powerful Israel lobby in the United States is now focusing its efforts to “sabotage” the nuclear talks between Tehran and the world powers, an American professor says.
“In the face of that problem of not being able to mobilize the United States to go to war with Iran, they’re focusing on strangling the economy,” James Petras, Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, told Press TV on Wednesday. Continue reading “Israel lobby trying to ‘sabotage’ Iran-US nuclear talks: James Petras”
Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from medical marijuana advocates, requesting the classification of marijuana as a Schedule I substance be reconsidered. With that denial, the Supreme Court said lower courts were right in upholding the DEA’s determination that the Food and Drug Administration must be the ones with the final say. In other words, marijuana is still considered a highly dangerous and addictive drug with no medical applications. Continue reading “Appeal for Marijuana Reclassification Rejected: Still Deemed “Dangerous” and Medicinally Uselss”
CNS News – by Patrick Goodenough
Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his frustration Tuesday with the fact that even in the United States, “a very educated country,” there are those who do not recognize the urgency of combating global warming.
Addressing the D.C. Greening Embassies Forum, which encourages the “greening” of foreign mission in Washington, Kerry took aim at those who challenge the notion that the science is settled when it comes to climate change. Continue reading “Kerry ‘Amazed’ That Some Americans Still Don’t Grasp Urgency of Global Warming”
American taxpayers have been frustrated by the failures of the Obamacare Healthcare.gov website – wrong responses, no responses, messages to just wait or come back later – but a headline in Digital Trends perhaps best captures the outrage over the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the unsuccessful project.
“We paid over $500 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404 (error code),” it states. Continue reading “Healthcare.gov Most Expensive Website Ever”
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 Did you see the Detroit FD movie “Burn”? If so, you know the story of FF Brendan Milewski, who on August 13, 2010, had his lie change forever. He was operating at a building fire and was hit with a massive chunk of limestone, and that basically exploded his seventh thoracic vertebra. He now lives the rest of his life as a T6 Paraplegic. Fortunately, his city takes care of Firefighters injured in the line of duty….forever. Nope. Continue reading “THEY HAVE YOUR BACK? Don’t Count On It.”
Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel
Last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave orders to the Defense Ministry to shoot down any foreign drones that ignore warnings to leave Japanese airspace.
Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng responded on Saturday. According to Chinese state-run media Xinhua, “Geng said that if Japan took the so-called moves, it would be a severe provocation to China and an act of war, and China will take resolute measures to strike back.” Continue reading “China Vows War If Japan Follows Orders To Shoot Drones”
A parent of a ten year old was shocked to discover a grammar and writing test paper that their child brought home from school reads more like document from an authoritarian country such as China.
The parent sent a portion of the test paper to Infowars, revealing that it contains sentences such as “The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all.” Continue reading “School Test Teaches Kids: “Commands Of Government Officials Must Be Obeyed By All””
Map Light – by Donny Shaw
The Organic Prepper 
Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden
Reuters – by Harriet McLeod
Press TV
WND – by Bob Unruh 
Firefighter Close Calls 
Infowars – by Steve Watson