From the Trenches World Report
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Continuing a decades-long downward trend, fewer than one-fourth of Americans have confidence in newspapers, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The percentage of Americans saying they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers dropped to 23 percent this year from 25 percent last year, according to a report on the poll, which was released Monday. Continue reading “Majority of Americans Don’t Trust Newspapers and Television News”
“CBO said average wages would decline through 2025 as a result of the bill, and that unemployment would go up slightly.” <—- Gee, ya think?!? We could have a whole lot more money by throwing these illegals onto deportation barges and shipping them off to Somalia! Is anyone else tired of criminal trespassing invaders being rewarded for their crimes? Continue reading “CBO: 8 million to gain legal status in Senate bill”
To add further drama and confusion to the story of Edward Snowden, NSA Spying and Central Intelligence Agency involvement, a passenger on a U.S. bound flight out of Hong Kong Monday claimed that intelligence agents had detained him, were going to kidnap him, take him to a safe house, and that they planned to kill him because of his knowledge about the recently released leaks.
According to witnesses, passenger Daniel M. Perry relayed to other passengers aboard the plane that he was a government worker, a claim that was later confirmed by sources. Continue reading “Real Life Spy Drama On U.S. Bound Plane: “I’m Dead Already, They’re Gonna Kill Me””
NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents with jackhammers and shovels were digging Tuesday under a New York City house once occupied by a famed gangster who inspired Robert De Niro’s character in the movie “Goodfellas.”
James Burke, the late Lucchese crime family associate, is said to have buried victims in familiar places — including under the nearby saloon he ran. On Monday, FBI investigators descended on the Queens neighborhood that was also home base for the late mobster John Gotti and his Gambino crime family. It’s from here that Burke allegedly masterminded a nearly $6 million robbery at New York’s Kennedy Airport in 1978 — one of the largest cash thefts in American history. Continue reading “FBI digging at former home of famed NY mobster”
Small business owner Justin Krauss explains how the National Internet Sales Tax Mandate burdens small businesses:
Each of this country’s 10,000 different taxing jurisdictions has its own laws for applying sales tax to all sorts of goods — including food, prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, software, clothes and much more. Plus, within the same zip code, even on the same street, different tax rates can apply. I manually downloaded and printed the sales tax rates by zip code for all of the states. It’s over 38,000 lines long and 811 printed pages. Continue reading “Internet Sales Taxes: a headache for small business owners”
Stop the Drug War – by Phillip Smith
New Hampshire is about to become the 19th state (unless the Illinois governor strikes first) to allow for the medicinal use of marijuana, as Gov. Maggie Hassan (D) Tuesday announced that she intends to sign a bill after House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise on language that would ease her expressed concerns. Continue reading “Medical Marijuana is Coming to New Hampshire”
In our ongoing quest for cell phone coverage and network access at all times, companies must erect cell phone towers across the land. While their presence often signifies coverage for our beloved phones, some people see them as eyesores that painfully stick out and ruin landscapes. To combat this, some companies have attempted to ‘disguise’ cell phone towers to better blend in with their surroundings. This initiative has resulted in varying levels of success. Continue reading “25 Examples of Cell Phone Tower Disguises”
Freedom Outpost – by Leon Puissegur
“We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.”
– Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959. Continue reading “Rep Cummings & Americans For Democratic Action Push Us Towards Communism”
End of the American Dream – by Michael
There seems to be a lot of confusion about what the NSA is actually doing. Are they reading our emails? Are they listening to our telephone calls? Do they target American citizens or is it only foreigners that they are targeting? Unfortunately, the truth is that we aren’t going to get straight answers from our leaders about this. The folks running the NSA have already shown that they are willing to flat out lie to Congress, and Barack Obama doesn’t exactly have the greatest track record when it comes to telling the truth. These are men that play word games and tell lies for a living. Continue reading “21 Facts About NSA Snooping That Every American Should Know”
Waking Times- by Stefanie Spear
“Enough is enough,” said Michael Bishop during our phone conversation Saturday morning after he found out TransCanada and its vendor, Michels, are planning to dig up buried pipe, part of the 485-mile southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, on his property in the east Texas rural community of Douglass. Continue reading “Opposition Escalates Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline”
As many as 200,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities on Monday in a swelling wave of protest tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption. Continue reading “BRAZIL BURNS – Protesters SET FIRE TO LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY in Rio de Janeiro BraziL. POLICE FIRING AT PROTESTORS WITH ASSAULT RIFLES”
The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith
Via David Codrea, N.C. Sheriffs on purchasing weapons:
The North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA) is pressuring both House Speaker Thom Tillis(R, Mecklenburg, GRNC ****) and NC Governor Pat McCrory (R, GRNC-***) to oppose GRNC’s repeal of the antiquated pistol purchase permit system that has been in place since 1919. Continue reading “North Carolina Sheriffs On Purchasing And Carrying Weapons”
Authorities are investigating an alleged arson at the Palisades Mall parking lot in Rockland County.
It appears two American flags attached to a 2003 Dodge Ram pickup truck were set on fire around 11 p.m. Monday night, police said. Continue reading “Police: Car Fire At Palisades Mall Caused By Burning American Flags”
Global Research – by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As far as Washington is concerned, the people are nothing but chaff in the wind. Continue reading “Fake WMD “Intelligence” and Orwellian Double-speak : Washington Is Insane”
The Economic Collapse – by Michael
All over the United States, frustrated homeowners are banding together, arming themselves and patrolling their own streets. One of the primary reasons this is happening is because police budgets all over the nation are being slashed at a time when violent crime rates in the United States are increasing and many our our largest cities are being transformed into crime-infested war zones. So instead of waiting for government to come up with a solution, many Americans are taking matters into their own hands. Continue reading ““This Is A Glock Block” – Frustrated Homeowners All Over America Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands”
Global Research – by Larry Chin
The US government is a criminal syndicate, openly committing atrocities on a global scale. The rule of law is a memory, buried in the rubble left by the false flag terror attack of 9/11, the manufactured “war on terrorism”, and the monstrosity of the Patriot Act.
The legacy of the 9/11 crime—the greatest intelligence success in history (not an intelligence “failure”)—is a permanent state of emergency, a criminal military-intelligence-war apparatus (exemplified by the CIA, the NSA) of unimaginable scope and unlimited power, and endless war. Continue reading “9/11 and the Military-Intelligence-Security Machine: Towards a Permanent State of Emergency in America”
Gothamist – by Christopher Robbins
Ernest Hemingway kept a submachine gun in his 38-foot fishing boat in case he came across a German U-boat or an armed marlin, so it’s likely that he would appreciate the utter lack of nuance displayed by the members of the NYPD’s Queens Warrant Squad who wear his words. A tipster passes along this “disturbing” photo taken outside Queens Criminal Court showing members of the squad on-duty, shortly after escorting a woman into court for a misdemeanor charge.
Aside from taking a moronic view of public service culled straight from The Running Man, the shirts appear to violate department policy. NYPD Interim Order P.G. 203-06, “Performance on Duty – Prohibited Conduct,” which was obtained by DNAinfo’s Murray Weiss last year, prohibits NYPD employees from wearing Continue reading “NYPD Officers Caught Wearing T-Shirts Professing Their Love For “Hunting Of Man””
Imagine this grisly scenario: You’re driving down the interstate with the cruise control set at the speed limit. Without warning, your car accelerates. The speedometer pushes past 100 miles per hour. Suddenly, the car turns left and crashes into the concrete median.
If you are lucky enough to survive, you emerge from your wrecked vehicle and see crashes all along the highway. Hundreds of identical, high-speed accidents have taken place at the same time. Continue reading “The Scary Truth Of How Terrorists Could Crash Your Car”
US News – by ALLIE BIDWELL 
SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo 
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AOL – by Pete Bigelow