From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Stumpy and his wife Martha went to the state fair every year. Every year Stumpy would say, “Martha, I’d like to ride in that there airplane.” And every year Martha would say, “I know Stumpy, but that airplane ride costs ten dollars, and ten dollars is ten dollars.”
One year Stumpy and Martha went to the fair and Stumpy said, “Martha, I’m 71 years old. If I don’t ride that airplane this year I may never get another chance.” Continue reading “The Value of Money”
It was just yesterday when we documented the continuing slide in the loonie, which is suffering mightily in the face of oil’s inexorable decline.
As regular readers are no doubt acutely aware, Canada is struggling through a dramatic economic adjustment, especially in Alberta, the heart of the country’s oil patch. Amid the ongoing crude carnage the province has seen soaring property crime, rising food bank usage and, sadly, elevated suicide rates, as Albertans struggle to comprehend how things up north could have gone south (so to speak) so quickly. Continue reading “Canadians Panic As Food Prices Soar On Collapsing Currency”
The Washington Post – by Andrea Peterson and Matt McFarland
William Merideth had just finished grilling dinner for his family when he saw a drone hovering over his land. So he did what he said any Kentuckian would do — he grabbed his Benelli M1 Super 90 shotgun, took aim and unleashed three rounds of birdshot.
“The only people I’ve heard anything negative from are liberals that don’t want us having guns and people who own drones,” said the truck company owner, now a self-described “drone slayer.” Downing the quadcopter, which had a camera, was a way to assert his right to privacy and property, he said. Continue reading “You may be powerless to stop a drone from hovering over your own yard”
I posted this back in 2013 to clear up any misunderstanding of unalienable vs. inalienable, there is a marked difference in these terms.
Activist Post – by Susan Boskey, June 23, 2013
This July 4th Americans celebrate their 237th Independence Day. The Declaration of Independence, signed during the midst of the American Revolution in 1776, was not just a statement of grievances against the British monarchy but also a declaration of freedom from it, citing unalienable rights of self-governance. I said un-alienable, not in-alienable rights. Most believe there is no real difference between the two words. But not so fast. When unalienable was replaced with inalienable it diminished the original intention of personal rights; among which are “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Continue reading “How The Declaration Of Independence Got Hijacked”
A guy walks into a crowded bar waving his unholstered gun wildly and yells
“I got a .45 Colt automatic with 8 rounds in the clip and one in the chamber, and all I want to know is who’s been sleeping with my wife?” Continue reading “.45 Colt”
Rense From Wolfgang Halbig, 1-12-16
This is Monte Franks response to me after filing our CT FOIA requests on Feb 1, 2015.
This is Monte Frank at his best lying for the Newtown School Board.
Wolfgang Continue reading “Halbig On The Latest Lies Out Of Sandy Hook”
Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden, January 11, 2016
The continued collapse of The Baltic Dry Index remains ignored by most – besides we still have Netflix, right? But, as Dollar Vigilante’s Jeff Berwick details, it appears the worldwide ‘real’ economy has ground to a halt!!
Last week, I received news from a contact who is friends with one of the biggest billionaire shipping families in the world. He told me they had no ships at sea right now, because operating them meant running at a loss.
Continue reading ““Nothing Is Moving,” Baltic Dry Crashes As Insiders Warn “Commerce Has Come To A Halt””
We have received a preliminary copy of one of the most dangerous pieces of anti-gun legislation we have ever seen.
While the concept was first floated by Ginny Burdick, there may be other legislators behind it.
This bill eviscerates due process and turns Oregon into a Soviet style collection of secret snitches. Continue reading “Oregon: The Most Dangerous Gun Bill Ever?”
Try as Obama might – as he did during his televised town hall meeting on CNN– to dissuade people from the notion that he has undertaken a massive conspiracy to confiscate guns from the American people and disarm their right to keep them, there is every sense that great powers for gun control could be seized. There is every sense our rights are under threat from within by a force never before seen in our system of government.
Would the president really evoke martial law to satisfy his hunger for destroying the 2nd Amendment? Will he stop at anything in undermining the right to keep and bear arms, and civil rights like due process in general? Continue reading “Victim’s Father Demands Obama Use Martial Law Powers: “Declare State of Emergency for Gun Epidemic””
San José (AFP) – The first 180 Cuban migrants, of nearly 8,000 stranded in Costa Rica, flew to El Salvador to continue an arduous journey through Central America and Mexico to new lives in the United States.
The Cubans are part of a big wave of migrants leaving their Communist-ruled island over the past year for America, in the wake of a diplomatic thaw between Washington and Havana. Continue reading “After Central America slog, Cubans can expect US welcome”
I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.
I’ve also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there..
I have, however, been in Sane. They don’t have an airport; you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my friends, family and work. Continue reading “My inconclusive travel plans for 2016”
The Free Thought Project – by Andrew Emmet
Between incessant waves of applause breaks and standing ovations, President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday night. Boasting about economic growth and military prowess, the president made several misleading statements while failing to disclose numerous politically inconvenient facts.
“Let me start with the economy and a basic fact,” Obama stated on Tuesday. “The United States of America right now has the strongest, most durable economy in the world.” Continue reading “7 Lies From Obama’s Last State of the Union Address that the Media is Ignoring”
Activist Post – by Kevin Samson
If there is ever a perfect example of dual-use technology, it is WiFi connectivity. I’ve already covered the mounting evidence that our ubiquitous gadgets and wireless connections are doing irreparable physical harm, especially to the young and to pregnant women, but the concern about surveillance is running a parallel track.
Recent announcements in the UK and in New York City have shown that governments are working with private corporations to blanket entire cities with WiFi connectivity. Naturally they are appealing to people’s love of technology for entertainment and business to push this agenda forward. Continue reading “How WiFi Will Be Used To Erase Civil Liberties”
On the 10th day of an armed standoff on federal property near Burns, Oregon, the leader of a rancher militia, Ammon Bundy, said he and his supporters “are breaking codes and regulations, but we are not breaking the supreme law of the land.”
RT’s Simone Del Rosario took a tour around the Malheur National Wildlife Preserve with Bundy, who led militia members and anti-government activists in a takeover on January 2. They believe that the federal ownership of the land is unconstitutional and that it should belong to the local community. Continue reading “‘We may be breaking codes, but not supreme law of the land’ – Bundy”
The pension fund for the United Methodist Church has blocked five Israeli banks from its investment portfolio in what it describes as a broad review meant to weed out companies that profit from abuse of human rights.
Senior officials in Israel’s Foreign Ministry said they are still examining the decision, but added that Israel will make quiet efforts to convince the leaders of the church to change or soften the measure ahead of the Methodist General Conference in May. Continue reading “U.S. Church Puts Five Israeli Banks on Investment Blacklist”
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the report released today by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) regarding the Hillary Clinton email scandal and the mishandling of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the State Department: Continue reading “Judicial Watch Statement on IG Report Confirming FOIA Violations by Hillary Clinton and Obama State Department”
Americans who ask why the legal age for going to war is lower than that for buying alcohol could finally get a break: three states are considering lowering the drinking age, believing it will go a long way to combatting accidental deaths and bingeing.
New Hampshire, Minnesota and California have been reviewing pieces of legislation that would bring their state laws in line with much of the rest of the world’s – which would mean lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18. The overarching logic concerns curbing underage binge drinking and getting teens to relax about fake IDs and to drink socially, the way Europe does. Continue reading “3 of the United States could soon lower drinking age to 18”