From the Trenches World Report

AmmoLand – by Rob Morse

Southern California –-(Ammoland.com)  District Court Judge Catherine Blake said military style rifles are unusual and dangerous.  That wasn’t an easy decision to reach.  Judge Blake concluded the government needs guns for its protection, but you don’t.  It is her conclusion that doesn’t make sense.  She said our modern semi-automatic magazine fed rifles are unusual.  Maybe we shouldn’t expect much acuity from her given that she was appointed by President Clinton.   Continue reading “A Judge Distorts Gun-Facts”

CNN – by Ralph Ellis, Jason Hanna and Shimon Prokupecz

Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Saturday declared a state of emergency and implemented a midnight to 5 a.m. curfew in Ferguson, where the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager sparked a week of protests and sporadic looting.

“I’m committed to making sure the forces of peace and justice prevail,” Nixon said at a community meeting. “If we’re going to achieve justice, we first must have and maintain peace.”   Continue reading “Missouri governor imposes curfew in Ferguson, declares emergency”

USA Today – by Niraj Warikoo

DETROIT — A Detroit-area school district with a growing Arab-American population has agreed to improve its programs for students with limited English skills and to potentially hire more educators of Arab descent.

In a 31-page agreement with the Department of Justice, the Crestwood School District in Dearborn Heights says it “shall take appropriate action to overcome language barriers that impede equal and meaningful participation by” students with limited English skills.   Continue reading “Mich. district to boost programs for immigrant students”

Yahoo News

Mexico City (AFP) – Mexico’s foreign ministry late Friday protested Texas Governor Rick Perry’s deployment of National Guard troops to the southern US border to halt the surge of child migrants.

Mexico “reiterates, in a firm and categorical way, its rejection of this measure,” read a statement from the foreign ministry.

“No circumstance at all or change in border security exists that justifies this measure taken by the state.”   Continue reading “Mexico protests Texas National Guard troops on US border”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

A Texas rancher who spends $20,000 a year repairing damage that illegal immigrants do to his land says his biggest fear is getting sued by illegal immigrants who may get hurt or killed trespassing on his private ranch.

Presnall Cage, a Brooks County rancher who has found numerous dead illegal immigrants on his ranch, told the Guardian that he and other landowners were angered by “a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a neighbor” in 2007 by the family of illegal immigrants.    Continue reading “TX Rancher: Biggest Fear Is Getting Sued By Illegals Trespassing on Land”

Yahoo News – by Jason Sickles

FERGUSON, Mo. — Six months before he shot and killed an unarmed teenager, police Officer Darren Wilson earned a commendation for his “extraordinary effort in the line of duty.”

Yahoo News confirmed the award through the February 11 Ferguson City Council meeting minutes and photos Wilson’s father posted to his Facebook page.

“Very proud of my son, Darren Wilson on his receiving a Commendation from his Police Department,” John Wilson wrote on February 11. “Congratulations Son.”   Continue reading “Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson earned police honor before fatal shooting”

IJReview – by Justen Charters

 April, U.S. policymakers authorized a Crisis Support Package for Ukraine. While the White House had previously released information on what the package would cover, it wasn’t until Thursday that the government published a report detailing how the U.S. would help fund a project for a border fence to help separate Ukraine and Crimea.

From Fedbizopps.gov, here is a screenshot of the contract awarded:   Continue reading “The Federal Government Bought A Border Fence…For A Country Nearly 6,000 Miles Away”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Based on reports, police officers in Ferguson, Missouri have drastically scaled back their response to violent protests, rioting and looting.

Likely, criticism from the media and the public about the military gear and tactics being used by officers has forced them to scale back their level of force.

This lack of police presence and response created one of the worst nights of looting in Ferguson last night. Even the convenience store Michael Brown is accused of robbing was looted.   Continue reading “Last Night in Ferguson: Lack of Police Response Forces Business Owners to Arm Themselves”

RT

A scientist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declined to tell superiors that a worker had mixed a lethal strain of bird flu with a more benign one, even though that mixed strain was shipped out to another laboratory.

According an internal investigation into the matter, the dangerous bird flu cocktail was then administered to chickens as part of a US Department of Agriculture (USDA), in which all of the chickens ended up dying. As a result, USDA officials took another look at the bird flu samples in May and notified the CDC that a deadly strain of the virus was detected inside.   Continue reading “Lethal bird flu cocktail sent out of lab accidentally, went unreported – CDC”

RT

Pop-up advertisements seem to have been irritating users online since the dawn of the World Wide Web. Now the man responsible for creating the code that ushered in an age of internet whack-a-mole is apologizing for the lack of privacy he brought about.

“I wrote the code to launch the window and run an ad in it. I’m sorry. Our intentions were good,” Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT and principal research scientist at MIT’s Media Lab, wrote in an essay for The Atlantic.   Continue reading “Creator of pop-up ads apologizes for inventing ‘internet’s original sin’”

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Germany’s foreign intelligence agency intercepted at least one phone call made by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to German media reports. Her phone was tapped “accidentally” while she was on a US government plane.

Daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and regional public broadcasters NDR and WDR said they learned of the hacking from documents that were passed to the CIA by one of its moles inside the German intelligence network. It is unclear when Clinton’s phone call was intercepted, as no date was given.   Continue reading “Turnabout’s fair play? Germany intercepts Hillary Clinton phone call”

Mail.com

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Islamic extremists in Iraq killed 80 Yazidi men and abducted their wives and children, officials and eyewitnesses said Saturday, insisting the religious community is still at risk after a week of U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes on the militants.

Airstrikes meanwhile targeted insurgents around Iraq’s largest dam, which was captured by the Islamic State extremist group earlier this month, according to nearby residents. It was not immediately clear who carried out the strikes.   Continue reading “Strikes on militants at Iraq dam after ‘massacre’”

Mail.com

CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — A couple accused of kidnapping two young Amish sisters were prowling for easy targets and may have also planned to abduct other children, a sheriff said Saturday.

Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey, both of Hermon, were arrested Friday on charges they snatched the 7-year-old and 12-year-old girls from a roadside farm stand in front of their home near the Canadian border.   Continue reading “Charges: Couple took, intended to hurt Amish girls”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Maybe brand recognition isn’t always such a good thing – especially when you are one of the most hated companies on the planet. Monsanto has a new marketing plan, though. The company’s latest GMO cotton seed will be sold in India under the brand name Deltapine.

This isn’t the first time that Monsanto has hidden the extent of its seed monopoly by hiding behind other company names. Monsanto currently owns 100% of the Indian subsidiary operating under the ‘Paras Brahma.’ The GMO cotton seeds sold under this front were once delivered to struggling farmers under Emergent Genetics India Ltd, a firm Monsanto acquired more than a decade ago.   Continue reading “Monsanto To Sell GMO Cotton Seed Under Brand Name ‘Deltapine’”

The Hollywood Reporter – by Eriq Gardner

Current TV co-founders Al Gore and Joel Hyatt have launched a fraud and breach-of-contract lawsuit claiming that Al Jazeera is withholding money from its $500 million purchase of the cable news network.

The complaint was filed under seal in the Delaware Court of Chancery, but information provided reveals that the plaintiffs are seeking $65 million held in escrow.   Continue reading “Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera for Withholding Money from Sale of Current TV”

The Organic Prepper

You may have enough weapons and ammo stashed away to fight the next World War all by yourself…

You may have fortified your home and have 3 different routes mapped out to get to your bug-out retreat…

You may have a food stockpile that will see you, your family, heck, the whole darned neighborhood, through until the Second Coming…

You may tirelessly watch militant YouTube videos that show you how to take down your opponent in 3 easy maneuvers…    Continue reading “It’s Time for a Prepper Reality Check”