ObamaCare Will Lead to Insurance “Death Spiral,” Study SaysThe New American – by Michael Tennant

Is the health insurance market headed for a “death spiral” of increasing premiums, fewer beneficiaries, and less competition under ObamaCare? A recent study from the National Center for Public Policy Research answers that question in the affirmative.

The study, by healthcare policy analyst David Hogberg, finds that the individual mandate’s carrots and sticks will probably be insufficient to induce large numbers of currently uninsured “young invincibles” — healthy, childless 18- to 34-year-olds — to buy coverage. Yet these people are the ones who must enter the market en masseif the healthcare law’s mandates on insurers are not to overwhelm them with older, more sickly — and therefore much more costly — beneficiaries.   Continue reading “ObamaCare Will Lead to Insurance “Death Spiral,” Study Says”

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LAS VEGAS –  A couple spent hundreds of hours over four months plotting to abduct, torture and kill Las Vegas police officers as a way to attract attention to their anti-authority “sovereign citizens” movement, police said.

David Allen Brutsche and Devon Campbell Newman attended training sessions about sovereign citizen philosophy, shopped for guns, found a vacant house and rigged it to bind captives to cross beams during interrogation, and recorded videos to explain their actions and why officers had to die.   Continue reading “Police in Vegas say ‘sovereign citizen’ plot to kill officers thwarted”

The Press Democrat – by Clark Mason

Gun-control advocates failed this week to convince the Windsor Town Council to support a federal ban on assault weapons when a majority of council members abstained from voting on the matter.

Windsor so far is the only municipality in Sonoma County to break ranks on the issue. Seven cities have endorsed a ban while Rohnert Park is yet to take up the issue.   Continue reading “Windsor council won’t back assault weapons ban”

To call what is happening to our beloved Republic anything less than a tragedy would be nothing short of denial.  Here at From the Trenches, we work tirelessly at getting out the information necessary to evaluate the situation and formulate solutions.  We have always promoted other patriot sites as we would have every voice of every true patriot heard by every other patriot.  In our attempt to keep this site pure to its intent, the purity itself has become a problem.  Like anything else in this country, if there is something pure there arises a group of pimps who would whore it for material profit.

The following is a series of comments and emails chronicling one such situation:   Continue reading “Dittos Rush and the Pimping of the Cause of Liberty”

WND

In a move that’s being described as chasing “the whims of political correctness,” the Disney Channel reportedly will feature a “married” lesbian couple on a popular kids sitcom in the coming season.

“It’s a disappointment to millions of Americans that Disney would choose to become a groundbreaker in immorality,” commented Movieguide, the organization headed by Christian media critic Ted Baehr. “New concepts of morality have had a very negative impact on marriage, families, and children.”   Continue reading “Disney brings lesbian moms to TV”

Janet Napolitano / APThe Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

Obama administration and Mexican government officials recently discussed creating a three-tier security system designed to protect Mexico’s southern border from drug and human traffickers, according to U.S. officials.

The border control plan calls for U.S. funding and technical support of three security lines extending more than 100 miles north of Mexico’s border with Guatemala and Belize. The border security system would use sensors and intelligence-gathering to counter human trafficking and drug running from the region, a major source of illegal immigration into the United States.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Considers Plan to Bolster Mexico’s Southern Border”

UnknownSHTF Plan – by Survival Pulse

This informative article has been contributed by Survival Pulse.

The signs that a SHTF event is headed to the U.S. have become so overwhelming that I felt a responsibility to write this. In this article, I will talk about economic warning signs that are signaling a collapse. I will touch on the recent government activity that hints they are preparing for something big. I’ll talk about the reality of what might happen in a true crash, and finally provide some basic steps you can take to quickly prepare for what is coming.   Continue reading “Preparing for What is Coming”

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BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck a target south of Beirut early Friday, a day after militants fired four rockets into northern Israel, the Israeli military and a Palestinian official said.

The Israeli military said that the aircraft targeted “a terror site located between Beirut and Sidon in response” to the rocket attack. It was the first air raid on the area since the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group.   Continue reading “Israeli warplanes strike area near Beirut”

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TOKYO (AP) — Deep beneath Fukushima’s crippled nuclear power station, a massive underground reservoir of contaminated water that began spilling from the plant’s reactors after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami has been creeping slowly toward the Pacific.

Now, 2 1/2 years later, experts fear it is about to reach the ocean and greatly worsen what is fast becoming a new crisis at Fukushima: the inability to contain vast quantities of radioactive water. The looming crisis is potentially far greater than the discovery earlier this week of a leak from a tank that stores contaminated water used to cool the reactor cores. That 300-ton (80,000-gallon) leak is the fifth and most serious from a tank since the March 2011 disaster, when three of the plant’s reactors melted down after a huge earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant’s power and cooling functions.   Continue reading “Radioactive groundwater at Fukushima nears Pacific”

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EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — A sinister warning dangles above the burned-out hulk of a minibus in this sprawling sister city to Bolivia’s capital: A faded effigy tied to a power line as if it had been hanged.

“Death dolls,” made of old clothes stuffed with rags, have become a common sight in this impoverished city plagued by crime. They are often accompanied by hand-scrawled signs. “The thief who is caught will be burned,” say many.   Continue reading “Bolivians dangle ‘death dolls’ to warn off thieves”

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More than 30 towns in West Texas will soon be out of water as a direct result of diverting their underground water supplies for use in hydraulic fracking.

Largely unregulated fracking, it should be said. Largely unregulated fracking that is definitely putting arsenic into the ground it happens to be drying out. Before you start acting horrified, though, consider: this is exactly what Texas’ mental-midget teabillies voted for.   Continue reading “Texas towns to be out of water due to fracking”

This story has been sent in by a number of contributors but all had copyrights ‘do not republish’ on them.  I have found this most recent account.

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A suspect in the brutal beating of a World War II veteran who later died from his injuries has been arrested, as police in Spokane, Washington continue to search for a second attacker.   Continue reading “Police arrest one suspect, seek another after World War II veteran dies following parking lot beating”

The Age of AluminumBefore It’s News – by Zen Gardner

It’s hard to believe that the majority of people are not aware of or don’t care about the information regarding the harmful effects of aluminum.  People are in denial about aluminum in cookware, aluminum used to can food, in deodorant, among other things,  and worst of all the aluminum that is in the air from the incessant chemtrail aerosol spraying.  Following is a great study on the terrible health effects of aluminum.  This article first appeared on gaia-health.com.   Continue reading “Aluminum And Eugenics”

The Ulsterman Report

The Obama “Justice” Department has decided to take on Texas.  Following the passage of popular voter ID laws intended to make certain elections were both fair and honest, Texas now finds itself having to defend itself against Eric Holder and his legion of Justice Department lawyers who, for some reason, want elections to be available to anyone, be they a legal citizen, non-felon, or not…   Continue reading “Eric Holder Announces Federal Lawsuit Against Texas”

wall streetIntelliHub – by JG Vibes

A 37-year-old managing director at Goldman Sachs named Jason Lee wasarrested for allegedly raping a young woman at an East Hamptons pool party in a vacation house that he rented with his wife.  Soon after his arrest he was released on $25,000 bail and immediately hired a high profile lawyer.[1]

“He adamantly denies these allegations,” Edward Burke Jr., his attorney, told Justice Cahill. Mr. Burke did not mention his employers by name, saying only that he worked “at 200 West Street” in Manhattan, which is better known as the Goldman Sachs Tower.[2] Continue reading “A Goldman Sachs banker has been charged with sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman while he was on vacation in the Hamptons”

Smoke is seen above people gathering outside a mosque on the site of a powerful explosion in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on 23 August, 2013.Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

The Lebanese Red Cross says more than 20 people have been killed by two blasts in the northern city of Tripoli.

As Friday prayers ended, a blast hit the al-Taqwa mosque, usually attended by prominent Sunni cleric Sheikh Salem Rafii. His fate is not clear.   Continue reading “Twin Explosions Kill 42, Wound 500+ In North Lebanon While Israel Sends Airstrikes In South Lebanon”

“But, we only broke the law 56,000 times.”

Naked Security – by Lee Munson

Court opinions declassified and released yesterday by James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, have revealed how the National Security Agency (NSA) collected tens of thousand of emails from American citizens who had no known terrorism links.

These latest revelations about the NSA surveillance culture come two months after President Obama asked Clapper to release more information about the nation’s information gathering programs.   Continue reading “NSA ‘technology glitch’ violated US Constitution, nabbed 56,000 emails per year from non-terrorists”