From the Trenches World Report
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Yahoo News – by Imtiyaz Delawala | ABC News
Glenn Greenwald, the reporter for The Guardian who broke stories last week on the National Security Agency’s phone and internet surveillance programs, blasted calls for the prosecution of his sources for leaking classified information, saying they “deserve our praise and gratitude and not imprisonment and prosecution.” Continue reading “Guardian Reporter Glenn Greenwald Blasts Calls for Leak Prosecutions”
The Western World is on the brink. That means the whole World is. An energy like no other is coursing through the veins of those who have opened their hearts and minds and is producing an energy ‘return’ that is steadily undermining even the best laid plans of the scheming gobal elite. It is happening because the Masonic manipulators’ energy output is an inverted and distorted form of the energy output of those who are awake and awakening. As long as a large majority of people act according to the inverted energy plan the elite cabal gets its way – but once a critical mass cuts into the true expression of Universal energy – the inverted one gets into the slip stream of its own turbulence – and its fear based energy weapons start jamming. Continue reading “World On The Brink”
The National Security Agency pushed for the government to “rethink” the Fourth Amendment when it argued in a classified memo that it needed new authorities and capabilities for the information age.
The 2001 memo, later declassified and posted online by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, makes a case to the incoming George W. Bush administration that the NSA needs new authorities and technology to adapt to the Internet era. Continue reading “NSA memo pushed to ‘rethink’ 4th Amendment”
What Really Happened – by Michael Rivero
Obama insists that secret surveillance helps prevent terrorist attacks. Boston proved this claim is false.
Indeed, I have to wonder, with all the phone calls and internet traffic being monitored since 2006, why aren’t American drug lords being arrested? Continue reading “The Multi-Billion Dollar Total Surveillance System Doesn’t Seem to be Working”
We must say we admire the chutzpah of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He presides over a city that has copious gunplay despite supposedly tough gun control, yet he presumes to tell New Hampshire and the rest of the country how to deal with guns.
That is, he does this when he isn’t telling the citizens of Gotham how big a soda cup they can purchase. Continue reading “Bloomberg’s chutzpah: Awesome, but NH isn’t buying it”
Common Dreams – by Lauren McCauley & Jon Queally
Responding to the revelations detailing the US government’s massive surveillance programs in recent days, President Obama on Friday said the two programs—one which allows the collection of virtually all phone records produced in the United States and the other which allows the National Security Agency to search through the private digital data of the world’s most popular internet systems—are merely a “modest encroachment” on personal privacies. Continue reading “Obama Deems Massive Domestic Spying Program ‘Modest Encroachment’”
Truth Dig – by Alexander Reed Kelly
The 179,000 jobs created in May and boasted about by the Obama administration are no more than “the usual lowly paid non-exportable domestic service jobs—the jobs of a third world country,” former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts writes.
According to Roberts’ number crunching, here’s how the bulk of those jobs break down: retail, 27,700; wholesale trade, 7,900; ambulatory health care services, 15,300; servers and bartenders, 38,100; local government, 13,000; amusement, gambling and recreation, 12,500; temporary help, 25,600; business support services, 4,300; services to buildings and residences, 6,400; accounting and bookkeeping, 3,100; architecture and engineering, 4,900; computer systems and related, 6,000; management and technical consulting, 3,200. Continue reading “‘Another Phony Jobs Report From a Government That Lies About Everything’”
CNN – by Stan Wilson, Michael Martinez and AnneClaire Stapleton
Santa Monica, California (CNN) — The suspect in a shooting spree that left four people dead in Santa Monica has been identified as John Zawahri, sources told CNN.
Authorities say he killed his father, Samir “Sam” Zawahri, and brother, Chris Zawahri, in a Santa Monica house before carjacking a woman and firing at a public bus on Friday. Continue reading “Santa Monica shooting suspect ID’d; father, brother among victims”
Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry
As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools.
A recent report in Education News states that, since 1999, the number of children who are homeschooled has increased by 75%. Though homeschooled children represent only 4% of all school-age children nationwide, the number of children whose parents choose to educate them at home rather than a traditional academic setting is growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K-12 every year. Continue reading “Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster than Public School Enrollment”
A fascinating article from the New York Times is just making the rounds, detailing for the first time the means by which the tech companies cited in the PRISM program negotiated government access to their data. It also gives context to their denials of providing the government with “back-door access” to their servers: Continue reading “NYT: Tech Companies Concede on Participation in NSA Scandals”
World Events and the Bible – by Brandon T. Ward
The drums of war beat louder by the day. The entire middle east is a lit fuse at this point. How long is the fuse is the question? The honest answer is no one truly knows. Rumors of a U.S. led war against Iran have been swirling for years.
During that time the United States has been racing to improve its bunker buster bombs which are capable of destroying facilities deep beneath the earth’s surface. The Pentagon recently announced they have made more improvements to the 30,000 pound Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP). This is the famed bomb that will most likely be used against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities which are buried deep beneath the earth. Continue reading “U.S. Destroys Replica Iranian Nuclear Facility in Test of Latest “Bunker Buster” Bomb”
Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan
The 4th Annual Hemp History Week still has a couple days left, and you still have time to join in some events. That isn’t to say hemp happenings don’t take place at other times of the year.
I stumbled on the blog of an actress who once played a fashion-savvy valley girl in a popular ’90s movie. A lot of sarcasm is aimed at celebrities, maybe even more so when they join causes. But this one gets a lot of flak for her attachment parenting beliefs and organic vegetarian lifestyle. I just had no idea how she felt about hemp. Continue reading “Actress Stands With Farmers and Hemp History Week”
American Thinker – by Jeannie DeAngelis
Plan B is not just a controversial morning-after pill; it’s also an effort on Michelle Obama’s part to paint anyone who doesn’t agree with her husband’s restrictive gun measures as people who are willing to force children to live their lives in terror. Michelle attempted to paint that picture during an interview with Lee Cowan on “CBS Sunday Morning,” when she dredged up sob stories from her gun violence visit to Chicago last month. Continue reading “Michelle Obama’s ‘Plan B’ Gun Control Effort”
Raw Story – by Agence France-Presse
Syria’s main opposition coalition reiterated on Saturday its refusal to participate in proposed international peace talks, saying recent developments in the civil war had “closed the doors” to any political initiative.
“What is happening in Syria today completely closes the doors on any discussions about international conferences and political initiatives,” George Sabra, interim head of the National Coalition, told a press conference in Istanbul. Continue reading “Syrian opposition again rules out peace talks”
Once again, we have a shooter who takes aim at innocent civilians, dressed in all black BDU’s, like VA Tech,
Giffords AZ Shooter, Aurora Theater, Newtown School. Also, there were reports of second and third shooters, different weapons used, inconsistent casualty counts, secrecy surrounding the shooters identity, etc… Continue reading “Santa Monica Shooting: Another False Flag?”
Real Unemployment Rate: 11.3%
In short: this is merely a favorite BLS gimmick to push the unemployment rate lower for purely political reasons (to the benefit of the administration that makes the content of your emails the most transparent to NSA workers, ever). Continue reading “Real Unemployment Rate: 11.3%? Nope. 29%!”
Colorado Watchdog – by Calvin Thompson
Despite Gov. John Hickenlooper’s repeated denial that the new gun control policies had nothing to do with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s harsh anti-gun rhetoric, phone records indicate that the two politicians exchanged personal phone calls at least twice during the Colorado gun control debates.
Todd Shepherd, an investigative reporter at theIndependence Institute and editor-in-chief ofCompleteColorado.com, reported yesterday that Hickenlooper got a phone call from Bloomberg on March 2, just two short days before the gun-control bills went to Senate committee hearings. Continue reading “Bloomberg called Hickenlooper during gun control debate”
Saturday marks the 46th anniversary of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, a Naval spy ship in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack killed 34 American crew members and wounded 171 others.
The incident came during the Six-Day War of 1967, during which Israeli occupied large chunks of territory from its Arab neighbors. The attack on the USS Liberty was America’s only involvement in the conflict. Continue reading “On 46th Anniversary, Survivors of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty Demand Congressional Inquiry”
Zen Gardner – by Julian Rose
Politico – by PHILIP EWING
Daily Policy Journal – by Jay
Anti-War – by Jason Ditz