From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Northeast Intelligence Network- by Douglas J. Hagmann
Presented here is a five-minute video of one man’s spirit and determination to stand up to governmental tyranny. This video should accompany the behind the scene report by guest contributor Catherine Crabill, who was present just after this display of true American spirit was displayed by this young man. Continue reading “Confronting tyranny”
Australia’s Northern Territory has a serious drink problem and has introduced some of the world’s harshest measures to deal with it. Drunks can now be forced into rehabilitation – and jailed if they drop out.
Like many Aboriginal people, Alison Ferber doesn’t drink. But there’s no part of her life that isn’t touched by alcohol. Continue reading “Forced rehab: A solution for Australia’s grog addicts?”
In response to the Obama Administration’s announcement last week that it will be restructuring US military aid to Egypt in light of the ongoing military crackdown, officials in Cairo have hired a well-known lobby group to improve the image of Egypt’s coup, according to a US newspaper.
The Hill, a political newspaper based in Washington DC, has revealed that documents filed with the US Justice Department on Friday confirm that Egypt’s interim authorities are employing the Glover Park Group to “provide public diplomacy, strategic communications counsel and government relations services” for Egypt’s post-coup government. Continue reading “Egyptian coup leaders hire US lobbyist with ties to Israel”
Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson
Chase Bank has moved to limit cash withdrawals while banning business customers from sending international wire transfers from November 17 onwards, prompting speculation that the bank is preparing for a looming financial crisis in the United States by imposing capital controls. Continue reading “Chase Bank Limits Cash Withdrawals, Bans International Wire Transfers”
The kick the can down the road approach to the American deficit did nothing about the 915 billion dollars the US adds every month to its total of unfunded liabilities which was 221 trillions dollars just a few months ago. The Republican attempt to either delay Obamacare for a year or to repeal it altogether failed. An Internet radio host with good sources within the Republican party was told the party folded because the American people are not quite bright enough to see how bad Obamacare will be. The leadership decided to wait until January when the people get their new insurance bills with reduced coverage, higher deductibles, IRS fines and premiums 60% or more higher. Then the Republicans think they will be able to score points with an enraged public in an election year. Continue reading “Will The NSA, The IRS, Obamacare And An Army Of Hackers = a Cypriot Style Bail-In?”
A brand-new type of botox has been discovered that’s being called “the deadliest substance known to man,” but scientists are keeping secret its DNA sequence because an antidote is not yet known.
The botulinum toxin, known as Clostridium Botulinum, is so poisonous that injecting just 2 billionths of a gram, or inhaling 13 billionths of a gram, will kill an adult. Continue reading “‘Deadliest Substance Known to Man’ Discovered”
“It started with a coffee date. Now I’m married with kids. How the heck did that happen?”
How indeed? Life sneaks up on us. Change occurs in tiny increments. Before you know it, the order of life has been inverted.
It’s the same with the law. Aristotle knew what he was talking about when he wrote “Jealously maintain … the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.” Continue reading “California: Living Proof of the Slippery Slope of Rational Apathy”
A Mexican Standoff was created last month when the Tea Party pushed GOP leaders to use the threat of shutdown to block a possibly fatally flawed expansion of federally funded health coverage – you can’t even register for it on the govt website.
We still don’t know what was happening behind the smoke screen, though. All we know is that campaign succeeded mainly in undermining popular support for half of the War Party, the Republicans. By late Wednesday, dozens of anxious GOP lawmakers were ready to give President Obama almost exactly what he requested months ago: a bill to fund the government and increase the Treasury Department’s borrowing power with no strings attached. Continue reading “Obama Signs Bill to Raise Debt Limit, Reopen Government with Over 100% Debt-To-Gdp Ratio”
Georgetown University Medical Center researchers say a compound derived from cruciferous vegetable such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli protected rats and mice from lethal doses of radiation.
Their study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests the compound, already shown to be safe for humans, may protect normal tissues during radiation therapy for cancer treatment and prevent or mitigate sickness caused by radiation exposure. Continue reading “These Vegetables Can Protect You From Fukushima Radiation”
Huffington Post – by JAMES MacPHERSON
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Scientists who helped calculate oil spilled from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico are questioning the methodology used to estimate the amount of crude that recently leaked from a ruptured pipeline into a wheat field in northwestern North Dakota.
Tesoro Corp. said it came up with its more than 20,000-barrel spill estimate using ground analysis. But oil spill experts say a more accurate assessment likely would come from calculating how much crude went into the pipeline versus what was supposed to come out at its terminus. Continue reading “North Dakota Pipeline Spill Estimates ‘A Guess’ At Best After 20,000 Barrels Spill Into Field”
Legitimate revolution takes time, patience and fortitude. Unfortunately, this is a strategic concept that is lost on many Americans today who suffer from a now common ailment of attention deficit disorder and an obsession with immediate gratification. Even some who have their hearts in the right place and who work to defend and resurrect our nation’s founding ideals seem to believe that any action to defeat corrupt oligarchy must be effective immediately, otherwise, it’s not worth the attempt. History, of course, teaches us the opposite. Continue reading “Non-Participation As An Effective Weapon Against Tyranny”
The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges
The internet chatter which states that Obama is going to get Congress to impose a 1% transaction tax is going viral on the internet. When this news arrives in your email box, delete this erroneous email the same as you would any other spam. The email would have you believe that while you were sleeping, the government planned to introduce a 1% transaction tax which would tax every single transaction in the United States from direct deposit to ATM withdrawals to social security payments. The bill, labeled HR 4646 did indeed propose to impose this requirement upon all financial transactions in the United States. The fact of the matter is that this bill was proposed in 2010 and it died in committee without ever being voted on. This concept was resurrected in 2011 and it, too, died in committee without ever being voted on. Continue reading “The Importance of October 17”
Despite the government shutdown, the Obama administration has continued secret negotiations to complete what is known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP.
The expansive plan is a proposed free-trade agreement between the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Continue reading “Obama Secretly Signing Away U.S. Sovereignty”
Louisiana Supreme Court justices are considering the residual and likely unintended effects of the constitutional amendment that voters overwhelmingly approved last year to make gun ownership a “fundamental” right. The question is whether the amended Constitution now lets convicted felons possess firearms, an act that is forbidden by the state criminal code.
Just how far Louisiana’s new gun right, one of the strongest in the country, should extend was a central theme of argument that lawyers gave Monday, on the constitutionality of Louisiana’s law against felons possessing firearms. As Associate Justice John Weimer of Thibodaux framed it, in weighing a public safety policy against the constitutional demands, should the state let people on probation — even people still in prison — have guns? Continue reading “Louisiana’s new gun rights law considered by state Supreme Court”
Let’s assume you’re both a very intelligent, and very responsible person. You probably paid close attention to your teachers, did all your homework, all the required reading, scored very high on the S.A.T.s, and went to a good college.
After work you might peruse the websites of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and possibly the Wall Street Journal, because as a responsible citizen, you’re well aware of the importance of being well-informed, so nothing less than America’s “papers or record” will do. Continue reading “Everything You Know”
SAN ANTONIO – Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a gun-toting Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is to headline a gun-rights rally Saturday on the state-owned Alamo grounds, where demonstrations historically have been banned — until Patterson’s office took over the shrine.
The rally, billed as “Come and Take It San Antonio!” will be held on the 4.2-acre Alamo complex, which has been under the custodianship of the Texas General Land Office since 2011. Continue reading “Gun rally on Alamo grounds triggers debate”
Midwest Energy News – by Kari Lydersen
Community activists on Chicago’s Southeast Side are always on the lookout for signs of new pollution, dumping or other threats to the environment and quality of life in this heavily industrialized swath of the city.
In recent years community opposition helped torpedoproposals for a coal gasification plant, a police shooting range and new landfills. Continue reading “First it was Detroit, now ‘PetKoch’ piling up in Chicago”
As more details continue to surface, the NYPD’s activities are beginning to make the NSA’s surveillance programs look like the paragon of restraint. We’ve already detailed how the NYPD (with help from a former CIA official) placed entire mosques under surveillance and infiltrated the Occupy movement.
Having effectively neutered the Handschu guidelines in 2003 (which placed severe restrictions on monitoring political activity), the NYPD was free to surveill all sorts of non-criminal, politically-focused gatherings. Continue reading “The NYPD: Making New York Safer By Spying On Bicyclists, Relief Efforts And Republicans”
BBC News – by James Fletcher
Middle East Monitor
WND – by JOE KOVACS
Cal Gun Laws – by CD Michael 
Before It’s News
Natural Blaze
Alt-Market- by Brandon Smith 
WND – by AARON KLEIN
NOLA – by Paul Purpura 
My SA – by SCOTT HUDDLESTON