From the Trenches World Report

DC Gazette

Somehow, we all knew this had to be lurking in the background somewhere when it comes to Michelle Obama and the inedible school lunch disaster:

Moochelle Obama has been working the food circuit since 2005, when she (because of her vast experience as a nutritional expert) was named to the corporate board of Wall-Mart processed foods supplier, TreeHouse Foods Inc. For her valuable input, she received $45,000 in 2005, $51,200 in 2006, plus 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $216,000. Continue reading “Following The Money: Origins Of Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program”

Breitbart – by Pam Key

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Secretary of State John Kerry when asked if any nations have volunteered to supply combat troops to fight ISIS on the ground said, “We’re not looking to put troops on the ground.”

Bob Schieffer asked, “Mr. Secretary, you’ve gotten any specific commitments for military help? For example, have you found anybody that is willing to put troops on the ground in to this fight?”   Continue reading “Kerry: We’re not looking to put any counties troops on the ground”

The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

When her mother and father came outside after hearing her cries for help she was desperately holding a tree with one arm while plainclothes officers were beating her in the head, neck and throat.

Dymond Milburn, now 20-years-old, was an honor student attending advanced classes at Austin Middle School, when her life would be forever scarred by Galveston police.

On the night of August 22, 2006 at 7:45 PM, Emily Milburn was preparing her children for school the next day, when a breaker broke, cutting off electricity to the family’s home. Emily asked her daughter, Dymond, to go outside and hit the switch, located downstairs and outside the house.   Continue reading “Cops Beat & Kidnap 12-yo Girl in Front of her Home, Claiming She was a Prostitute”

Essential Opinion – by Nat Perry

The great American tradition of bombing Iraq – now in its third decade – has recently been revived by the “hope and change” presidency of Barack Obama, the fourth consecutive U.S. Commander-in-Chief to launch strikes against the beleaguered Middle East nation. Iraq may be alone in the world in being able to claim such a dubious distinction.

I remember the first time the U.S. bombed Iraq, in January 1991. I was a sophomore in high school and Wilson Phillip’s “Hold On” was at the top of the charts. I didn’t really know what to think about it, but a lot of people were tying yellow ribbons to trees and wearing “Operation Desert Storm” t-shirts with bald eagles and American flags on them, so it seemed like a good idea. Plus, there was the whole babies-being-pulled-from-incubators story, which turned out to be a complete fabrication, but we didn’t know that at the time, so the war’s justification seemed pretty solid.   Continue reading “The U.S.’s Benevolent Bombing of Iraq and the Terror That It Spawns”

Deep.Dot.Web – by Nathan Wold

If you needed another reason to hate Comcast, the most hated company in America, they’ve just given it to you: they’ve declared war on Tor Browser.

Reports have surfaced (Via /r/darknetmarkets and another one submitted to us) that Comcast agents have contacted customers using Tor and instructed them to stop using the browser or risk termination of service. A Comcast agent named Jeremy allegedly called Tor an “illegal service.” The Comcast agent told its customer that such activity is against usage policies.   Continue reading “Comcast Declares War on Tor Users, Because Wanting Privacy Is Suspicious”

ABC News

The family of a 22-year-old black man who was fatally shot by police in Utah is disputing investigators’ statements that he was shot after he lunged at officers with a sword and that race played no role in the shooting.

Randall Edwards, an attorney for the family of Darrien Hunt, said an independent autopsy requested by the family shows Hunt was shot “numerous times, all from the rear” in Saratoga Springs, about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City.   Continue reading “Man’s Family Disputes Police Version of Shooting”

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The Daily Bell – With Anthony Wile

Introduction: Ron Holland is a contributing editor to several newsletters dealing with political and investing topics and author of several books, including Escape the Pension Trap. Originally from North Carolina, Ron lived in Geneva from 2003 to 2004 and divided his time between the US and Europe until 2012 when he moved to Toronto. Ron has developed and introduced several innovative investment products to investors in the US, including the first Swiss-franc denominated variable annuity portfolio licensed in the US.    Continue reading “For Freedoms Sake, No More Mr. Nice Guy”

Natural News – by J.D. Heyes

“Papers, please?” That’s a question you might hear from authorities trying to verify who you are if you lived in an authoritarian police state. It’s not likely that Americans will be asked to prove who they are anytime soon because, after all, we’ve got a Constitution, and it protects us against unjustified invasions of our privacy.

The same is true of a so-called “national ID card,” right? That could never happen in America. Only it has happened — or will happen, depending upon which state you currently reside in.   Continue reading “National ID card being covertly rolled out under ‘enhanced’ driver’s license programs”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Obama has done it again. He is threatening war against Syria, Russia’s main ally in the Mediterranean. Obama had been funding a proxy war against Syria. He hired Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Nusra and those fun loving cannibals in the FSA to wage war against Syria. This was all strategized years ago by Richard Perle, a Bilderberg Steering Committee member. He wrote it down in A Clean Break, a document written for Benyamin Netanyahu. The plan was to use proxy armies to attack Syria over the issue of chemical weapons. Obama’s proxy army used chemical weapons several times to  kill innocent civilians while blaming it on the Syrian government. The lapdog media and the US and even the UK governments accepted these lies as true.   Continue reading “Obama Undone: Will The Joint Chiefs Walk The Plank?”

Activist Post – by Brandon Turbeville

Only hours after delivering his ridiculous address to the American people regarding his strategy to combat an organization that is entirely the product of the United States and NATO and one that is still under complete control of these powers, Obama conducted a meeting with “foreign policy experts,” former government officials, and journalists.

The meeting, of course, is nothing more than round two in the volley of propaganda coming from the White House in its attempt to drum up more support from the American people for direct military intervention in Syria and an open use of U.S. military forces against the secular government of Bashar al-Assad. All of those within an ear’s reach of the reports regarding Obama’s meeting should be firmly aware that it is nothing more than an attempt to milk the original speech for more propaganda against Assad’s Syria and provide a since of inevitability about the coming conflict there.   Continue reading “Obama: If Assad Defends Against US Attack, US Will Attack”

Breitbart – by ILDEFONSO ORTIZ

PATAGONIA, Arizona – Agents along the South Texas Border arrested close to 6,800 illegal immigrants including 19 convicted rapists and three fugitives wanted for sexual abuse of children and child pornography within a two week span. During that time frame agents also seized more than $15.5 million in marijuana.

In the Rio Grande Valley sector from August 28 to September 11, agents arrested 6,800 immigrants with 4,300 of those being from countries other than Mexico. Among the arrests, agents arrested three criminal aliens who had sexually related warrants for their arrests and 19 convicted sexual predators half of which had victimized children, information released to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Border Patrol shows.   Continue reading “Among Over 6k Immigrants Arrested in Texas, 22 Sexual Predators”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A man armed with a machete and two others are accused of stealing a cash register from a restaurant in Chelsea.

As WCBS 880’s Jim Smith reported, the owners of the Mexican restaurant Crema on West 17th Street near Sixth Avenue were busy Saturday searching through security video for any clues as to who the suspects are.   Continue reading “Police: Man With Machete, 2 Others Rob Restaurant In Chelsea”

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

STOURBRIDGE, England – A school is implementing a biometric system to better track what students are eating each day.

The Express & Star reports students at Redhill School in Stourbridge, England will be fingerprinted in an attempt to reduce lunch lines and “monitor pupils’ diets.”

The system requires pupils to press a finger against a machine which converts the print into biometric data.   Continue reading “School to fingerprint students to ‘monitor their diets’”

New York Times – by Matt Apuzzo

WASHINGTON — In his first year in office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. put new limits on when the government could dismiss lawsuits in the name of protecting national security. Now, in what he has said is likely his final year, Mr. Holder has claimed broad authority to do just that in a case unlike any other.

The Justice Department intervened late Friday in a defamation lawsuit against United Against Nuclear Iran, a prominent advocacy group that pushes for tough sanctions against Tehran. The government said the case should be dropped because forcing the group to open its files would jeopardize national security.   Continue reading “Holder Says Private Suit Risks State Secrets”

The Washington Post – by David A. Fahrenthold

Sen. Rand Paul wanted to eliminate aid to Israel. Now he doesn’t. He wanted to scrap the Medicare system. Now he’s not sure.

He didn’t like the idea of a border fence — it was expensive, and it reminded him of the Berlin Wall. Now he wants two fences, one behind the other.

And what about same-sex marriage? Paul’s position — such marriages are morally wrong, but Republicans should stop obsessing about them — seems so muddled that an Iowa pastor recently confronted him in frustration.   Continue reading “Shifting his views, Rand Paul seeks broader appeal — but may risk his outsider image”

DW Ulsterman

Just a few hours before he gave a prime time address to the nation regarding his plan to “take out ISIL”, sources indicate the president was dropping considerable hints at how the war on ISIS/ISIL will be used for a much broader effort to re-organize much of the Middle East – starting with the overthrow of Syria’s Bashar Assad.

A longtime Congressional source said the following:   Continue reading “D.C. Whispers: Obama Remarks, “We’re Using ISIL To Take Out Assad””