From the Trenches World Report

The Guardian

What do a Republican candidate, a military veteran, a civil rights activist and a professor have in common? They are all American Muslims – and all have been subject to pervasive surveillance by the NSA and FBI.

A report published by The Intercept on Wednesday reveals that the two agencies used secretive procedures designed to catch terrorists and spies to monitor the email accounts of prominent American Muslim leaders. Among the documents supplied by Edward Snowden, a spreadsheet titled “FISA recap” contains 7,485 email addresses apparently monitored between 2002 and 2008. (The report also clearly documents how biased training by the FBI leads to biased surveillance, and that calling Muslims “ragheads” is everyday lingo at federal law enforcement agencies.)   Continue reading “Don’t be shocked that the US spied on American Muslims. Get angry that it justifies spying on whomever it wants”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

A study released by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows the murder and violent crime rate has fallen significantly while concealed carry in this country surged 130 percent.

According to the CPRC, concealed carry permit holders in the U.S. rose from 4.6 million in 2007 to 11.1 million during the time period of 2007 to 2013.   Continue reading “Study: Murder, Violent Crime Fall as Concealed Carry Rises 130 Percent”

Mint Press News – by Hayes Brown

Just days before its international debut at an airshow in the United Kingdom, the entire fleet of the Pentagon’s next generation fighter plane — known as the F-35 II Lightning, or the Joint Strike Fighter — has been grounded, highlighting just what a boondoggle the project has been. With the vast amounts spent so far on the aircraft, the United States could have worked wonders, including providing every homeless person in the U.S. a $600,000 home.   Continue reading “Americans Have Spent Enough Money On A Broken Plane To Buy Every Homeless Person A Mansion”

AOL

PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – More than 80 tanks amassed by a Stanford University-trained engineer are set to go up for sale in the San Francisco Bay Area in what is being billed as one of the largest auctions of military vehicles ever.

The auction on Friday and Saturday in Portola Valley will also include gun parts and miscellaneous military equipment, including a nearly 42 ton surface-to-surface missile, according to Auctions America, the company handling the auction.   Continue reading “Military tanks to be auctioned in California”

Investor’s Business Daily

Immigration: Border Patrol sources say some of the thousands of “children” flowing across the Texas frontier are Mara Salvatrucha’s gangster enforcers. It figures: No one benefits more from Obama’s open-door policies.

At the Murrieta town hall meeting last week, hundreds of illegals in Mexican soccer jerseys protesting the town’s refusal to take busloads of illegal immigrants had an odd man among them, wearing a suit with a sign around his neck saying he was an illegal.   Continue reading “Child Border Surge Includes Mara Salvatrucha Gang Elements”

Washington’s Blog

Spying On – and Blackmailing – Politicians, Generals, Judges, Lawyers and Citizens

The newly-published revelations from Edward Snowden show that the NSA and FBI spied on anAmerican citizen running for political office:

The NSA also surveilled a U.S. citizen while he ran for political office:https://t.co/UzFya8ltmjpic.twitter.com/3jZdsYxQRG

Continue reading “High-Level NSA Official: the NSA Has Become “J. Edgar Hoover On Super Steroids””

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

I am presently vacationing at Ground Zero, the location of the greatest pandemic threat in American history and it is all related to unscreened immigrants.

I am reading and watching the local news and gathering information in a manner that most across the country are not seeing because of the national censorship in the MSM. This week alone, I have referenced related immigration stories from San Diego’s Channel 5, 10 and 15. When contrasted to the national media, the crickets are chirping.   Continue reading “The CDC and HHS Are Planning for Mass Casualties in the United States”

Washington Post – by Eugene Volokh

So argued a U.S. Patent & Trademark Officer examiner, in refusing to register the mark. Fortunately — though more than four years after the application was filed, and nearly two  years after the initial hearing on appeal — the decision was reversed. (This happened late last fall, but I just ran across the case in a recent Westlaw query, and hadn’t seen any reference to it before.)

Federal trademark law provides that people can’t register trademarks that contain “immoral, deceptive, or scandalous matter” or that “may disparage … persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs, or national symbols, or bring them into contempt, or disrepute.” The examining attorney concluded that the mark was indeed “scandalous” and “disparag[ing].” To quote the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board,   Continue reading “Can’t register trademark with Statue of Liberty holding silenced gun because that would be ‘shocking, offensive and disparaging’?”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

The Los Angeles Police Department has obtained tons of data over the past several years and that amount of data increases exponentially every year. In addition to its criminal databases, it also collects thousands of license plate time-and-location data points every day and has deployed other forms of surveillance (like Stingray devices), gathering even more data surreptitiously.

Of course, the LAPD feels it can be trusted with all of this data. It claims to have controls in place to prevent unauthorized access to information related to non-criminal Los Angeles citizens. Working with Palantir, the LAPD has instant access to a vast amount of gathered data — a database so impressive it spent a bit of time bragging about it to a CNN reporter. (via Lowering the Bar)   Continue reading “LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN”

Now the End Begins

The southern border states of America are in tremendous chaos as hordes of hundreds of thousands of disease-carrying illegal aliens have been streaming in by the trainload. Any other president that I could think of – Republican or Democrat – would be attending all-night-strategy sessions to come up with a way to solve the problem, and that right quick.

But not this president, not Barack Obama. Instead of attending to this most pressing emergency, what does he do? He jets off to the pot capital of America, Denver, and shoots pool with the mayor, and pounds back some brew. Border crisis? What border crisis?   Continue reading “Amid Horrific Border Meltdown, Obama Jets to Denver to Drink Beer and Shoot Pool”

Examiner – by Dave Gibson

On Monday, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina held a joint press conference in Playas de Catazaja, Mexico, to officially announce an agreement to make it easier for those making the illegal journey to the United States from Central America, to cross into Mexico.

The Southern Border Program to Improve Passage, will provide for more border checkpoints along Mexico’s border with Guatemala, and offer more protection and even emergency medical care to those making their way north. The illegal aliens will receive a so-called Regional Visitor’s Card, according to El Universal.   Continue reading “Mexico made deal to send more illegal aliens to the U.S.”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

American citizens already have a hard enough time affording a home. Squeezed out by financial oligarchs buying tens of thousands of properties for rental income, and faced with real wages that haven’t budged since the mid-1970s, the demographic of U.S. citizens that historically dominated the new home market has been forced to live in their parents’ basements. Just to kick em’ when they’re down, Americans now face the impossible task of competing with laundered Chinese money.   Continue reading “Chinese Purchases of U.S. Real Estate Jump 72% as The Bank of China Facilitates Money Laundering”

Noisy Room – by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

The EPA is totally out of control and has become a fascist threat to all Americans. Under the radar, the EPA has whispered evil somethings into being by floating a new rule that extends their power even more and gives them the wherewithal to garnish bank accounts of those they deem to have violated their regulations. They are claiming the authority to bypass the courts and unilaterally garnish paychecks.  Continue reading “A Raging, Out Of Control EPA – Sanctioned Theft From Americans”

Waking Times – by Sigmund Fraud

The mainstream media is aging and collapsing under the weight of its own hubris and arrogance. Now entirely formulaic in presentation and predictable in substance, the ‘major’ outlets of news, which are monopolized under only a small handful of corporations, serve the purpose of misleading the public on important issues and manufacturing consent for government and the oligarchs.

The public is still largely numb to this reality, and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man, many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them. The tide is turning, however, and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 14 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus, divide, conquer, ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our world.    Continue reading “14 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy”