388,000 more workers filed new unemployment claims this week and this is being hailed as a sure sign that we are in a recovery.  Question: What are we recovering from?  Remember we have been out of the recession since June of 2010.  Corporations have been and are making record profits.  Again, what are we recovering from?

Weren’t we in a recovery this time last year?  Has recovery become like a season?  Every fall during the harvest and Christmas commerce season we recover and then in the spring we have to pay for the recovery, you know, for all the Christmas gifts charged on credit cards.  And of course all the temporary jobs have ended and these people who will re-file for unemployment will have their numbers used to hide the fact that another million have lost their unemployment benefits at 99 weeks.
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Today marks the two month anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street protests.  Occupy protests will be held throughout our country and indeed around the world today.  Considering the corporate elite ordered attempts to shut down the protests for the Christmas season, every person who is able should be out on the streets today.  The corporate elite have flexed their money muscles, now it is time for us to flex our numbers.

I was amazed to see that every town in Oregon wherein I know somebody had a protest planned within fifty miles.  I will be marching on Wall Street and Esplanade in Klamath Falls, Oregon this afternoon and I am taking some people with me.  There is no excuse for anyone not doing something today.
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At 1:00 am EST Tuesday morning, New York Police attacked the Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park, acting on orders from Mayor Bloomberg.  The protesters were removed from the park and the police set up a perimeter.  The protesters’ possessions were removed.

At 6:30 am New York Supreme Court Judge Lucy Billings issued a restraining order against the owners of the park, the police, and Mayor Bloomberg, ordering the parties to cease and desist and allow the protesters back into the park with their tents and sleeping bags.

The order was ignored and the police held the park.  Mayor Bloomberg stated that our Constitution, though it allows freedom of speech, does not allow tents and sleeping bags as a part of that freedom of speech.
Continue reading “Lawless Actions of New York Mayor Bloomberg Sanctioned by Corporate Elitist Judge Stallman”

These petitions were sent to us by Angel.  She also reports that the arrests are still going on. NYPD seems to be keeping them out of all parks. They showed up in riot gear to keep them out of Trinity Park (private, but fenced off for renovations) and right now they’ve arrested dozen+ at a park in Tribeca. They’re trying to return to Liberty Park (major gathering @ 11am EST) but are still being kept out (more arrests).  Bloomberg canceled his trip to DC today in order to block the court order at the hearing this afternoon.
Continue reading “Petitions in Response to Bloomberg Evicting Zuccotti Park”

Mayors in cities across the nation are ordering crackdowns on the Occupy protesters.  One talking head in the mainstream media said, “The Oakland police are working to keep people off of the public grounds.” We need to look at this situation.  Under our Constitution we are all supposed to be equal.  This means the dirtiest, stinkiest protester is supposed to have every right and consideration that George Soros does.  But what we see occurring is the officials, who are supposed to represent all of us equally, are sending street thugs to abuse the 99% majority of us in enforcing the dictates of the 1%.

The propagandists are citing as cause for the actions against the protesters, health and security issues.  They say crime has gone up 10% in and around the protest zones.  Could it be that crime is rising naturally as a result of a million more citizens running out of unemployment benefits?
Continue reading “Occupy Wall Street Movement – Time for a Counter Attack”

The GOP debate in South Carolina on Saturday evening was centered on US foreign policy and as Dr. Ron Paul is the only candidate advocating for an end to the foreign wars and the return of our troops from 139 countries around the world, he was practically removed from the proceedings.

The mainstream propagandists on both the phony left and the phony right are pronouncing Mitt Romney as the GOP candidate in 2012, though not a single primary has yet been held.  Well I guess that is their reality.  Unfortunately for them they only represent 20% of the population.

Many are outraged over the fact that Dr. Paul was limited to a mere 89 seconds of speaking time during the debate.  We have to realize that the more egregious the media exemptions become, the surer we can be that Dr. Paul’s popularity is growing exponentially.
Continue reading “CBS GOP Debate Shows Desperation by the Elite”

Peace through mutually assured destruction.  This is the theology that fostered the Cold War.  The United States spent $5.5 trillion to assure the destruction of the Soviet Union which bankrupted itself to assure our destruction.  Both countries now possess enough nuclear weapons to destroy the entire planet many times over.

And what is the current threat that could lead us to that eventuality?  One hypothetical nuclear bomb in Iran.  Israel possesses over 120 nuclear warheads.  There can be no question that the Israelis possess the nuclear capability to completely destroy Iran.

After the US bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the Soviet Union scrambled to develop their own nuclear capability.  Why?  Because they had been put at a disadvantage.  We have to remember that in those days the US was decidedly anti-communist and the people of the Soviet Union saw US nuclear capability as a decisive threat to their belief system and way of life.
Continue reading “Israel, Iran, the United States, and the Soviet Union – Mutual Assured Destruction”

The jails and prisons of the United States are literally jammed full of US citizens who have harmed no other person for so called victimless crimes, like possession of marijuana.  One of the cornerstones of our justice system, before the Patriot Act and the takeover of our court system by the corporations, was the great writ; that is habeas corpus, which is Latin for “produce the corps” which is to say you cannot have a crime without a victim.

Now let’s talk about some crimes with victims.  Just in the State of Illinois alone, a hundred fugitives, facing charges of murder, rape, and other serious felonies, have fled across the border back to where they came from, Mexico.  These illegal aliens are coming into our country and committing violent felonies, some capitol, and then returning home to live out their lives, unhampered by the past.
Continue reading “Obama Continues to Facilitate the Illegal Invasion”

Barack Hussein Obama AKA Barry Soetoro AKA Barry the Rat is going to be the Democratic candidate in 2012.  The Rat has shown himself to be the leader of a foreign insurgency hell bent on the destruction of the Republic and the enslavement of the American people of the American race.  Barry Soetoro is counted among the 1%.

Now who is going to run against the Rat in 2012?  Who will the Republican candidate be?  For too many years now, about 30% of our population, which has been successfully manipulated by the top 1%, have orchestrated and decided our elections.  These pompous pukes in the 1% actually believe that this country and the election process belongs to them and they consider it an affront when the 99% step forth to assert themselves as equal.
Continue reading “Who Will Decide the 2012 Election, the 99% or the 1%?”

A man was shot and killed Wednesday night near the Occupy Oakland protests.  All accounts indicate that the shooting had nothing to do with the protests and indeed was just one of around a hundred murders that occur in Oakland, California each year.  Now Oakland Mayor, Jean Quan, folding to pressure from the corporate elite, says she now wants the protesters to leave and that the risks the protests represent are just too great.

The talking heads of FOX News jumped right in step in backing Quan’s assertion that the protests must be stopped, citing as one cause a negative effect the protests are having on local businesses.  Tell me this.  How many small businesses have been utterly destroyed as a result of the actions of the corporate elite on Wall Street and indeed in Oakland, California?
Continue reading “Corporate Elite Pushing for Force to be Used Against Occupy Protesters”

The new jobless claims came in at 390,000 for the week and of course this number is yet another lie.  Our enemies will continue to play this game right through Christmas and into the New Year, and come next Spring the books will have to be balanced, at which time, having falsely dropped the phony unemployment number down to a fraudulent 8.7%, it will raise to 8.9%, which considering the amount of people who will be out of work by then, is laughable.

And then we will have another “Summer of a Recovery that is Not” followed by one more fraudulent drop in the unemployment number to 8.7% as a result of the fall harvest and this is the number that the low life scum bag, Barack Hussein Obama AKA Barry Soetoro AKA Barry the Rat, thinks he can win the election with.
Continue reading “390,000 New Jobless Claims, Herman, and Newt”

From the Trenches World Report came under attack Tuesday by Active-Domain.com. Active-Domain.com allowed our domain name to expire in spite of the fact that all fees are current and in fact were paid in advance.  I do not believe this was an act of incompetence but rather a purposeful act, designed to hurt our site.

Since beginning the live broadcast in October the numbers for From the Trenches had begun to climb again.  There is probably no way to find out just who did what when, but I believe if such a thing was possible it would be found that the attack originated from the ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, or Obama’s internet hit squad out of Chicago, Illinois.

This is not just an attack on my 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech, but an attack upon your right to freedom to access of information.  Every dirty deed that can be perpetrated against a site has been exercised upon From the Trenches.
Continue reading “From the Trenches World Report Under Attack Again”

A record number of US citizens have fallen into extreme poverty as the CEOs on Wall Street are reporting more record breaking profits.  In fact in the three years Obama has been President the rate of Wall Street’s profit has increased more than it did during the eight years under Bush.  And that is saying something.

In spite of these incredibly alarming numbers, the neo-cons continue to push for elimination of capital gains taxes on the profits of the rich, stating the need for the corporate elite to be secure in their futures before they begin to create jobs.  Tell me, if you continue to make record profits in every quarter, where would any insecurity come from?
Continue reading “Corporate Elite on Wall Street Make Record Profits for another Quarter”

The neo-cons have become insistent in their rudeness toward the Occupy Wall Street protesters.  The talking heads are now staging phony debates among themselves in reference to shutting the protests down because individuals within the protest have been breaking laws, saying people have been raped, drugs have been dealt, and some have defecated on the streets.  “Can’t there be some way these protests can be stopped in the name of law and order?”

Well I’ll tell you what neo-con, as no protester charged with any crime on Wall Street or at any other protest in this country has been convicted yet, you have committed an offense against our justice system in stating the crimes as facts.  And every person held under accusation should be immediately released because the mainstream media has reported that they are guilty, thus they cannot receive a fair trial.
Continue reading “Propagandists Intensify Attacks on Occupy Protesters”

The obvious gunrunning and drug dealing the US government is involved in, and has been involved in for many years, can no longer be denied.  No thinking person could put forth the assertion that Operation Gunrunner/Fast and Furious was just a case of a government foul up.  The more the situation comes to light, the more obvious the obvious becomes.

We are now being told that the gunrunning and drug dealing has been tracked back to 2007 with Operation Gun Walking under the Bush administration.  This is blatant felonious crime and it is all right out in the open.

In the world of we the people, if one gun could be found that led back to any one of us, there would be no delay.  We would be arrested and held incarcerated while the authorities built a case against us.
Continue reading “Operation Gun Walker/Gunrunner/Fast and Furious – What?”

Israel’s Prime Minister and apparently many of the Israeli Ministers are pushing for a strike on Iran.  The Israeli’s are speculating that though the US government is portraying itself as against the strike, they will quickly bring the Americans onboard as soon as they can get a war started.

God’s personal representative in the United States, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, came out in full support of an Israeli attack on Iran, saying that unlike the cold war era when Russia, he says, only wanted nuclear war heads to insure that America did not use nuclear war heads against them, Huckabee says Iran wants a bomb because they want to use it.
Continue reading “Israel will Destroy the US through Invasion of Iran”

(Reuters) – Ron Paul was declared the winner on Saturday of a weeklong Republican presidential straw poll in Democratic President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois.

Texas Congressman Paul won 52 percent of the combined 3,649 online and in-person votes cast between October 29 and Saturday evening. He won 66.5 percent of the votes cast over the Internet and 8 percent of those cast in person.
Continue reading “Ron Paul Declared Winner of Illinois Republican Straw Poll”

It has been 307 days since the 112th Congress convened.  Not only has not one job been created, but we have seen net job losses that can only be considered staggering.  Many want to portray the 112th Congress as dysfunctional, but I think this should be qualified.  When working on the issues of the 99%, the Congress is definitely completely dysfunctional.  However when taking up the legislation of the 1%, the one party system works like a well oiled machine.

Legislation for unemployment extensions cannot even make it out of the Ways and Means Committee.  However legislation for a new trade agreement to send more of our jobs and industry to Panama, Columbia, and South Korea is shot through Congress and made law within the space of two days.
Continue reading “$68 Billion to IMF for Foreign Bank Bailout – As for the 99%, Let Them Eat Cake”

The international corporate mafia continues to steal hand over fist as its propaganda machine continues to put forth lies designed to justify the continuation of the theft.  Yesterday I predicted that the unemployment rate would fall to 8.9% based on false numbers in reference to long term unemployed being removed from the percentage.  Well my prediction was completely wrong as I missed the number by an astounding one tenth of one percent.

The propagandists say 80,000 jobs were created in October.  They also say that 125,000 jobs per month are needed just to keep up with the population growth.  In explaining how the percentage dropped in spite of this fact, the propagandists said that more long term unemployed stopped looking for work.  This is a pure unmitigated lie.  To say that someone stops looking for work because their unemployment runs out is the definition of unreality.
Continue reading “Socialism, Communism, Isolationism – A Reality Check”