From the Trenches World Report
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Evil creeps up unobserved. Its plans are conceived in secret; the first furtive moves are made, and then it is ready to attack. Unless we turn to spot it approaching we can be quickly overwhelmed.
The latest approach of evil might not seem much – apparently, just some boring trade agreement. But, in reality, it is Evil Incarnate. Continue reading “Corporate Evil Creeps Up Unobserved”
A term coined in 1985 by an unnamed staffer of the Reagan administration was “Starve the Beast”. This referred to a fiscally conservative political strategy to cut government spending by paying less in taxes. So, in the original sense, “the Beast” was the government, and people were to starve the beast by spending less and using loopholes, therefore paying less in taxes.
These days the Beast has a lot more tentacles than just the government. The system now consists of the government and all aspects of Big Business. Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, Big Food, Big Banking and Big Oil, to name a few. It seems that now it’s the Beast doing the starving, as small businesses close because they can’t compete with Wal-Mart, the family farm is on it’s way out because it can’t compete with the huge, subsidized Monsanto mega-farms, people are going bankrupt because they can’t pay the outrageous medical bills… Continue reading “50 Ways to Starve the Beast”
Upper Michigan’s Source – by Ty Czarnopis
HUMBOLDT TOWNSHIP — The Michigan State Police say a 50-year-old Humboldt Township woman was shot and killed after officers responded to a domestic dispute.
According to police, Lori Lee was armed with a rifle when police arrived at the residence on County Road FS in Champion. Lee pointed the rifle at the officers and refused their commands to put the firearm down, according to the Michigan State Police. Continue reading “Woman, 50, Shot by Police in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula”
Good for Beretta! I am currently looking for another side arm. I know now: IT WILL BE A BERETTA.
The people of Maryland who feel strongly about the draconian gun laws passed by the legislator can help further punish Maryland by doing their shopping in neighboring states. The majority of Maryland residents are near enough to state lines that the added cost to transportation would not be prohibitive. Make Maryland an example to the other states who are contemplating draconian laws that benefit only abusive cops and other predatory criminals. Continue reading “Boycott Maryland!”
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We are soliciting your help in getting this accomplished by getting the word out to as many people as possible. Continue reading “Surviving Survivalism – How to Avoid Survivalism Culture Shock”
Over the last two thousand years, the Jews have been expelled from more than a hundred different countries around the world. It would be obviously absurd to claim that all these evicting rulers and peoples, from all these different cultures and centuries, all decided to expel the Jews because they were “anti-Semites”, but instead it would only be sensible to look toward the Jews themselves for a possible motive for these drastic measures, and in fact, common sense demands it.
First consider that it’s no easy decision or task for any nation to force a segment of their population to pack up and leave, and in the case of the Jewish expulsions, we’re talking about nations who had already accepted their transient and ghettoized presence. If anything resembling “anti-Semitism” were the reason for their expulsion, they never would have been allowed to reside there in the first place. I believe we can logically conclude that the Jews have been thrown out of a hundred different nations as a result of actions taken by themselves, which actions they continually repeat, and that these same actions are among those that the rest of the human race finds intolerably offensive. Continue reading “Never Again?”
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-cutting deal with Republicans.
The proposal aims for a compromise on the Fiscal 2014 budget by combining the president’s demand for higher taxes with GOP insistence on reductions in entitlement programs. But the plan was already encountering negative reviews from top Republicans for insisting on revenue and from liberals for its effect on the social safety net. Continue reading “Obama seeks deal, proposes cuts to Social Security”
What seemed like good news in Friday’s jobs report was a little less than that — the unemployment rate fell, but not because more people found work.
Instead, the rate was lower because the Labor Department estimated that there are nearly half a million fewer people in the labor force — the group that includes people with a job or looking for one. Continue reading “Unemployment rate falls for all the wrong reasons”
Thousands of Medicare cancer patients are being denied treatment at clinics nationwide because of federal budget cuts related to the so-called sequester, according to a published report.
The mandated cuts took effect April 1, and cancer clinic administrators say they can no longer afford to provide expensive chemotherapy drugs to many Medicare patients, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people 65 and older and certain others with disabilities. Continue reading “Cancer Patients Denied Treatment Due to Sequester”
White House mouthpiece Jay Carney says that the Obama administration will “conduct a thorough review” of the UN’s newly enacted gun control pact “to determine whether to sign the treaty.” The suspense is hardly unbearable, given that the UN treaty would codify the proposition that national governments should have a monopoly on weapons.
The announced objective of the treaty is to regulate the sale and transfer of small arms and light weapons, a category that includes all civilian-owned firearms. According to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, the treaty “will help to keep warlords, pirates, terrorists, criminals and their like from acquiring deadly arms.” Continue reading ““State Control”: What the UN Firearms Treaty is All About”
CNN – by Chandler Friedman and Joe Sutton
A veteran detective and the murder suspect he was interviewing were killed Thursday in a shooting inside the Jackson, Mississippi, police headquarters.
The detective was talking with the suspect when the shots were fired, Othor Cain, a spokesman for the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department, told CNN. Continue reading “Detective, murder suspect dead after shooting in Mississippi police station”
The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
On Tuesday, April 2, representatives of the United States of America joined the delegations of 154 other nations in voting to approve the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty.
By a vote of 155-3 (with 23 abstentions), the UN General Assembly adopted the treaty, overcoming last week’s failure to adopt the global gun control agreement by consensus. Continue reading “UN Approves Gun Grab; Civilian Disarmament in the Works”
The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith
As I had hoped, Beretta isn’t full of windbags and liars. They are honest folk. They said they would leave Maryland, and they are.
New legislation is forcing gun manufacturing company Beretta to uproot and take their business elsewhere. Continue reading “Beretta To Leave Maryland”
ALBANY, N.Y. – Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel, making it hard for stores nationwide to keep shelves stocked and even putting a pinch on some local law enforcement departments.
At a 24-hour Walmart in suburban Albany, the ammunition cabinet was three-fourths empty this week; sales clerks said customers must arrive before 9 the morning after a delivery to get what they want. A few miles away, Dick’s Sporting Goods puts up a red rope after ammunition deliveries so buyers can line up early to get a number, averting races up the escalator to the gun counter. Both stores are limiting ammunition purchases to three boxes a day. Continue reading “Ammunition flies off store shelves amid new restrictions, fears”
Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel
The new understanding of physics since September 11, 2001, that limited fire damage can cause buildings to implode at almost free fall speed into their own footprints, was confounded once again as a 40-story skyscraper in Chechnya was engulfed with flames for hours yet did not collapse.
The blaze consumed an apartment building in Grozny, the Chechen capital yesterday evening before it was eventually put out in the early hours of Thursday morning. Fires burned on every single floor of the structure apart from the ground floor. Continue reading “Chechnya Skyscraper Engulfed By Fire, Does Not Collapse”
Yahoo News – by CHRISTINA NG | ABC News
A Washington prosecutor who is charging two boys aged 10 and 11 with conspiracy to commit murder concedes that it is “very rare” to try someone so young, but said the felony charges were necessary because the boys’ crime was premeditated and experts determined they were “a danger to others.”
The fifth graders from Colville, Wash., were arrested in February and Steven County Superior Courtjudge ruled recently that the boys are competent to stand trial on murder conspiracy charges, witness tampering and juvenile possession of a firearm. Continue reading “Fifth Graders Charged With Murder Conspiracy Are ‘Danger to Others’”
Yahoo News – by DYLAN LOVAN | Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A soldier apprehended Thursday in Tennessee was charged with murder in the shooting death of a civilian employee at Kentucky’s Fort Knox a day earlier.
The FBI said in a court filing that Marquinta E. Jacobs fired a .45-caliber handgun at the victim, “striking him several times.” Jacobs is charged with murder, according to the criminal complaint. Continue reading “Soldier charged with murder in Fort Knox shooting”
Three Indian smoke shops must pay more than $10 million to New York City for trafficking untaxed cigarettes off a Long Island reservation, a Brooklyn federal judge ruled.
Judge Carol Amon also prohibited the bootleg smoke sellers — which operated on the Poospatuck Reservation in Mastic — from ever selling untaxed cigarettes again. Continue reading “Cough up $10M! Cigarette shops on L.I. reservation burned for untaxed sales”
Such a humanitarian. I’d rather see his head on a platter.
Huffington Post – by JOSH LEDERMAN
WASHINGTON — Sharing a bit of budget pain, President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers smarting from government-wide spending cuts. Continue reading “Obama To Return 5 Percent Of His Salary In Solidarity With Furloughed Federal Workers”
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