Time continues to tick by and millions of 99ers grow more and more desperate with each passing moment.  The bright side is we are seeing more organization in our ranks every day.  Many of us are ready and willing to promote and further our cause.  However at the moment all our efforts are being stifled through blatant violations of our most basic freedoms and rights. 

Today we are going to address Lloyd Doggett, a Democrat from Texas and a ranking member of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the House Ways and Means where HR 589 sits in limbo.  Doggett, like the rest of the members of the subcommittee has taken the position that he will refuse to hear our voices, which begs the question, if not us, who does he represent?
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Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi is vowing to go down fighting and if necessary die as a martyr.  It is our natural instincts as Americans to always side with the people in rebellion against a dictatorial government.  But after listening to what was revealed by Lindsey Williams on the Alex Jones show yesterday I am left wondering as to what I should or should not believe in reference to all of the anti-government activities going on in the Middle East.

Mr. Williams stated that he had learned via inside sources inside the oil industry that all of the turmoil we have been witnessing in the Middle East has been planned and paid for by international oil interests.  The fact is we have vast reserves of oil within the United States.  Shockingly the largest oil field on the planet is in Alaska and has remained untapped on purpose. 
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The United States State Department is telling all nonessential embassy employees in Libya to get out now.  Also travel warnings have been issued telling Americans not to go to Libya and that if you are an American already in Libya you need to leave as soon as possible. 

Libya leader, Moammar Gadhafi has declared war on his own people, labeling them as traitors.  Gadhafi has ruled Libya since 1969.  He has declared that his forces will fight to the last man and the last bullet.
Continue reading “Events Turn Bloody in Libya – Truths to be Revealed Today”

The 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees our people the right to redress of grievances.  This is to say we have the right to take our issues to our government in order to have them resolved.  Evidently the Congress persons making up the subcommittee in the House Ways and Means that will be deciding HR 589 seem to have taken the position that our 1st Amendment guarantee is conditional and only applies to them as federal employees in reference to their own constituents. 

The members of the committee who are deciding an issue that will affect U.S. citizens in every district across this country are saying they will only listen to input from their constituents in their individual districts.  This is a blatant violation of every other U.S. citizen’s right to equal access under the 14th Amendment and our right to redress of grievances under the 1st Amendment.
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The demonstrations being conducted by the public sector unions, coupled with the battle over the budget are serving to remove the issue of the 99ers and HR 589 from the realm of the thoughts of everyone but the 99ers.  The news blackout in reference to the 99ers has been effectively reinstated, just in time for Congress to take another well deserved vacation.  As we 99ers struggle to stay warm and keep from starving to death our so called representatives are once again retiring to the comforts of their multimillion dollar homes. 

After the one week vacation the Congress will be returning to face an emergency.  No it is not the 99ers but rather the possibility of a government shutdown.  I don’t think we 99ers are really too concerned about the prospect of the government shutting down as it might as well not even exist as far as we are concerned.
Continue reading “99ers – HR 589 – Push the Legislation”

The fact that the lives of the average Americans have changed over the past thirty years is the epitome of understatement.  The various alterations we have gone through cannot be calculated.  Through the course of these changes the buzz word has been “Change is good” and “You cannot stop progress.”  It is undeniable that progress is unstoppable.  But has the change it has resulted in really been for the better? 

We now have a whole generation of citizens who were raised in day care, as progress and change forced both parents into the workplace, not so much as a matter of survival, but as the most feasible avenue to prosperity.  There have been some positive accomplishments as a result of the change, such as the advancement of women’s rights and prestige in the workplace.  But at what cost? 
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Violence in Libya is escalating as their government is making an attempt to stifle all reporting on the situation there.  This being the case the reports coming out of Libya are unconfirmed as eyewitness accounts.  The unconfirmed reports are saying that the government security forces are attacking protesters using vicious and deadly tactics.  There are reports of funeral processions being fired on.  And one report said a helicopter opened up on a crowd with machine gun fire. 

Best estimates have the death toll at two hundred with scores more injured, causing hospitals to be overrun to the point that they cannot provide adequate care for the casualties.
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Many 99ers seem baffled by the fact that the public workers unions so easily brought their issue to the streets.  Many 99ers seem to think that they possess magic that we just do not have.  And the fact is they do.  The public workers unions spent $30 million to organize the protesters and get them into action.  The sad fact is most 99ers can’t afford to go a mile from their house and back. 

The thousands of public sector workers who were on the streets yesterday were met by counter protesters composed of Tea Partiers who had been bused in.  Well I have a message for those Tea Partiers.  You have just gone against your own people for those who have been robbing you blind.  I   think it was in the movie, “Gangs of New York” where the rich man said, “You can always pay one half the poor to kill the other half.” 
Continue reading “Tea Partiers Turn Against Their Own in Wisconsin”

There have been a series of comments coming into our site from another 99er site identifying themselves as Displaced American Workers United.  When these commenters first appeared I took them to be genuinely concerned about those 99ers who feel they have reached the end of their rope.  This being the case I allowed them to promote their site on ours.  After which they began attacking our stance on reality, even going so far as to insult us.  Well we are not here in The Trenches because we allow others to walk on us and these socialist mental midgets from DAWU are no exception.

I put up and run From the Trenches World Report but it belongs to the 99ers that are making it a growing reality that is putting forth the most unexpected adversary to those who would see the 99ers swept under the rug. 
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 Not Because They Pity Us but Because They Fear Us”

It is a well known fact that President Obama is an undisputed expert at talking out of both sides of his mouth and it appears he is going to need this skill in addressing a U.N. resolution put forth by the Lebanese government.  The resolution calls for condemnation of Israel’s further building of settlements in the West Bank.  The resolution apparently has the backing of more than a hundred countries and is predicted to pass whether the United States backs it or not.

Obama has stated that the United States will abstain from the vote in an effort to block it, which further emphasizes the precarious situation the United States finds itself in reference to the Muslim world. 
Continue reading “Will Obama Block UN Resolution against Israel?”

Violence continues to spread throughout the Middle East.  Some of the worst has been seen in the small country of Bahrain, once again a country headed by a dictator supported by the United States for the past 60 years.  Apparently the United States has a naval facility at the island nation of Bahrain where our 5th fleet is stationed, and we wonder why we’re broke.

It is reported that Bahrain’s riot police fired live rounds at protesters, some of which were said to be sleeping in a protester encampment set up in Manama, Bahrain.  Four have been killed and many more wounded.  Thousands are protesting the killings today.  It is beginning to look as though there may be more deaths.  It is reported that a doctor was killed and paramedics wounded when they tried to assist some of the victims. 
Continue reading “Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, More Protests”

HR 589 was swept aside using Clause 2 (c) of Rule XXI as the legislation would have created new unfunded law as an attachment.  I was the first to blame Barbara Lee for not knowing the rules but in all truth and fairness, I’m sure she did.  The fact is these rules are routinely waived for issues, oh like, defense expenditures.

Though the House Resolution 589 is not completely dead in the Ways and Means Committee it certainly must be considered to be in its death throes. The bill at present has 67 backers but would require 283 to bring it forward. 

Thursday’s jobs report showed 410,ooo new jobless claims indicating that all the talk about job recovery is just more lies.
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HR 589 is shot down this morning.  Apparently the House Resolution violated a rule which says any legislation that changes existing law or creates new law cannot be added as an amendment.  Unbeknownst to us Barbara Lee tried to attach HR 589 to the Fiscal Year 2011 Continuing Budget Resolution, a stopgap measure that will continue to fund the federal government. 

The point of order was initiated by Congressman Denny Rehberg, a Republican from Montana.

The only way the bill can go forward now is through overwhelming support which would require republican support, which is not going to happen.  It is disturbing to find out that our greatest advocate Barbara Lee evidently either does not know the House rules or somehow thought she was exempt from them.
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Italy’s Premier, Silvio Berlusconi, evidently likes to party, which can tend to get you into trouble if you are not careful.  Berlusconi is at present facing charges that he had sex with an underage prostitute, a 17 year old Moroccan girl named Ruby.   

Nicole Minetti, the madam involved in the case, claims that the relationship amounted to no more than affection, though it is reported that Berlusconi got Ruby out of some trouble with the police a while back. 

Amid the allegations of from having sex with a minor to state sponsored orgies, Berlusconi is emphatically stating, “I did not have sex with that woman.”  Now where have I heard that before? Cigars anyone? 
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It has been 45 days since the 112th Congress took over and in that time nothing has been done to address the needs of the 15 million long term unemployed.   All this new Congress seems to be interested in is making up lost revenues, which in theory is not a bad thing.  But let’s look at the problem in fact. 

The mortgage derivative collapse, by admission, was the final consequence of a massive Ponzi scheme perpetrated by the banksters.  They stole $22 trillion from the rest of us.  Think about that number because it is the sole reason that we have lost our jobs, are suffering from a $14 trillion debt, and a $4 trillion budget deficit.  

The fact of this reality is unarguable and every member of Congress knows it to be true.  They also know that this massive debt must be eliminated or our country is going to go bankrupt.  So will these self-proclaimed patriotic Americans arrest the thieves, retrieve the monies, and put our country back a right?  Noooo. 
Continue reading “99ers Water-Board the Banksters”

Imagine a person owning a business and that person, out of necessity to run the business, has hired employees and given them responsibilities.  One day your employees tell you they all need new cars.  You say that’s not unreasonable as the business is doing well.  And then you find out that the person writing the paychecks has been paying out amounts in excess of anything you ever intended.  You go to your employees to enquire as to what is going on.  They tell you that they had a meeting and raised their pay and gave themselves more benefits. 

You are then alerted so you start looking at the books.  It takes you days to decipher as they have been compiled in a manner designed to deceive.  At the end of the day you find out that your business is in big trouble as your employees have been milking and defrauding your business through relationships they have established with other businesses. 
Continue reading “99ers HR 589 – Unemployed Have Rights”

Two United States Immigration Service Agents were shot in Mexico Tuesday.  The agents were apparently based in Mexico City where about two dozen other agents are based.  (Why are our ICE Agents stationed in a foreign country?) The two agents who were shot were driving from Mexico City to Monterey when they were attacked by unknown assailants.  One of the agents is dead and the other is said to be stable. 

The area where the incident occurred is apparently a war zone wherein the drug cartels and Mexican police have been doing battle for some time.  Twenty Mexican police have been killed in this area this year and last year over seventy killed.
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As promised, I tried to contact the Congresspersons sitting on the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources who will be deciding the fate of HR 589. Eleven calls – eleven press secretaries away from their desks, out of the office, or speaking on a conference call.  I left a lot of messages with only one return call and one lady even hung up on me when I told her she was my employee and I wanted to know her name.  In short, I was denied access most likely because so many 99ers have been emailing and calling the members of the committee since we released their names here on From the Trenches.

The one person that did call me back was from Lloyd Doggett’s office.  However she became agitated and distressed when I pushed her to answer one simple question.  Mind you, she did not even know what the question would be.  She gave me the number to the press person for the Democratic side of the Committee and of course I got voice mail. 
Continue reading “99ers – HR 589 to be Decided by 7 Republicans and 4 Democrats – Does it stand a Chance? Let’s Find Out”

How will the Iranian government react as Green Movement protesters take to the streets of Tehran today?  The Green Movement was formed in Iran in response to the 2009 elections which they believed were rigged in favor of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 

Iranian reformist leader Mehdi Karroubi has been placed under house arrest after seeking government permission to hold the anti-government rallies.  He is reportedly being denied access to communication, although a statement did come out on his blog proclaiming that the rally would go forth.

Some are accusing the Iranian government of hypocrisy as it has openly praised the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. 
Continue reading “Iranians Take to the Streets in Step with Egypt and Tunisia”