From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
An Indiana sheriff says he would ignore orders issued by President Obama calling for gun confiscation.
Elkhart County Sheriff Brad Rogers made his stance on the Second Amendment clear during an interview on a local PBS broadcast, in which he supported the right of Americans to possess firearms free of additional infringements. Continue reading “Indiana Sheriff to Obama: I Will Disregard Executive Order Calling for Gun Confiscation”
Las Vegas Sun – by Barbara Rodriguez
Two top aides to Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign knowingly concealed payments to an Iowa lawmaker who agreed to endorse their boss ahead of the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of a trial in which the former Texas congressman is set to testify.
“This case is about a cover-up,” said Justice Department attorney Jonathan Kravis during opening statements in the Des Moines trial of Jesse Benton and Dimitri Kesari. Continue reading “Prosecutor: 2 ex-aides to Ron Paul involved in ‘cover-up’”
As should be abundantly clear by now, The Kremlinis adopting a “slightly” different strategy when it comes to combatting terror in the Mid-East than that adopted by the US and its Western and regional allies.
The strategy of the US and its allies seems to go something like this: 1) covertly arm and train groups who you know might ultimately become terrorists because arming and training these groups may be a way to destabilize unfriendly regimes, 2) wait for blowback, 3) launch serious effort to combat terror if unfriendly regime has been “successfully” replaced by puppet government, or launch half-hearted effort to combat terror if situation still fluid and regime still clings to power. Continue reading “Russia Sends Its Only Aircraft Carrier To Syria, Signals It Is Just Getting Started”
The Obama administration is spending $75 million a year arming EPA special agents with drones, night vision goggles, guns and assault ships.
The EPA special force was formed to take out US polluters.
The Spectator reported: Continue reading “EPA Spends $75 Million to Equip 200 Special Agents With Drones, Night Vision Goggles, Guns and Assault Ships”
Lew Rockwell – by Laurence M. Vance
If there is one thing that the smelliest, most down-and-out, most destitute, most forsaken homeless guy who sleeps under a bridge has in common with Donald Trump it is that they both own their own bodies. That may be all the homeless guy owns, but he owns it free and clear and should be able to do what he wants with it.
And so should we—as long as our activities are peaceful, our interactions are consensual, and our associations are voluntary. Continue reading “Do You Own Your Own Body?”
If you want compensation, then the USA is definitely the place to be! The lawsuit capital of the world has seen a robber sue police for shooting him while holding up a bank, and a New York woman sue her eight-year-old own nephew for knocking her over… Continue reading “5 craziest lawsuits in America in 2015”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian military intervention to prop up Syria’s government has brought new scrutiny of the CIA’s secret support to Syrian rebels fighting Bashar Assad. But how far is the U.S. willing to go to empower its proxies to take on Vladimir Putin’s allies?
The answer seems to be: not very far. “Countering Russia’s involvement in Syria doesn’t rate nearly as high on the scale” as battling the Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday. Continue reading “Little US protection anticipated for Syrian rebels”
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three times Dayton Leroy Rogers has been sentenced to death, and three times his sentence has been overturned.
Rogers, one of Oregon’s most prolific serial killers, returned to an Oregon City courtroom Tuesday to yet again face jurors who could send him to death row. Though that is an option, the past two governors have placed a moratorium on executions, and the state has not executed anyone since 1997. Continue reading “Serial killer sent to death row 3 times faces 4th sentencing”
MAZAMARI, Peru (AP) — It happens about four times a day, right under the nose of Peru’s military: A small single-engine plane drops onto a dirt airstrip in the world’s No. 1 coca-growing valley, delivers a bundle of cash, picks up more than 300 kilos of cocaine and flies to Bolivia.
Roughly half of Peru’s cocaine exports have been ferried eastward on this “air bridge,” police say, since the rugged Andean nation became the world’s leading producer of the drug in 2012. Peru’s government has barely impeded the airborne drug flow. Prosecutors, narcotics police, former military officers and current and former U.S. drug agents say that while corruption is rife in Peru, the narco-flight plague is the military’s failure because it controls the remote jungle region known as the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valley. Continue reading “Peru military fails to act as narco planes fly freely”
Anti-Media – by Claire Bernish
San Bernardino National Forest — “The Story of Stuff Project, the California-based Courage Campaign Institute, and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit this week against the U.S. Forest Service for allowing Nestle to continue to bottle millions of gallons of water from the San Bernardino National Forest with a permit that expired 27 years ago,” the just-released press brief states.
If you’ve been following the Anti-Media’s investigation (spurred by Ian James’ articles in The Desert Sun) into Nestle’s irresponsible tapping of Arrowhead Spring — and all the questionable circumstances surrounding that, including censorship by Reddit of our exposé articles — you have some idea how exciting the announcement of this lawsuit is. It continues: Continue reading “Forest Service Being Sued to Stop Nestle from Drawing Water in National Forest”
The Last Great Stand – by Voice of Reason
RIGHT NOW, 150,000 VOLUNTEER RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE ADVANCING INSIDE SYRIA, THEY ARE BACKED UP ON THE GROUND BY IRAN, AND CHINA HAS AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER FLEET OFF THE COAST BACKING ALL OF THEM UP!
WHERE IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORTING ANY OF THAT? Continue reading “150,000 Russian Troops in Syria with Chinese Aircraft Carrier and Iranians Backing Them”
Courthouse News Service – by Kevin Lessmiller
(CN) – The U.S. government’s criminal prosecution of corporations has dropped over the last decade despite statements from top Obama administration officials about stopping corporate fraud, a new study found.
Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, found that corporate prosecutions declined by 29 percent from 2004 to 2014. TRAC’s study was based on hundreds of thousands of U.S. Justice Department records obtained through a 17-year Freedom of Information legal fight, according to a press release. Continue reading “Study Finds Drop in Corporate Prosecutions”
Chicago Sun Times – by Frank Main
Michael O’Neil was racing his dad to the hospital for a heart attack when he saw a state trooper in the rearview mirror with his lights flashing.
He thought the trooper was going to escort them to Good Samaritan Hospital in west suburban Downers Grove.
