From the Trenches World Report

End of American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Cases of the chikungunya virus are appearing in the United States at a level that is far higher than anything health officials have seen in recent years, and now there are two confirmed cases of people that have not even traveled out of the country getting the virus.  That means that the chikungunya virus is starting to spread in America, and once it starts spreading it is really hard to stop.  Instead of spreading human to human, this virus actually spreads “person-to–mosquito-to-person”.  If you live in an area of the country where there are a lot of mosquitos, you should pay close attention to this article.  You do not want to get the chikungunya virus.  According to Slate, the name of this virus “comes from a Makonde word meaning ‘that which bends up,’ referring to the contortions sufferers put themselves through due to intense joint pain.”  That does not sound fun at all.  Continue reading “Possible Epidemic? The Chikungunya Virus Is Starting To Spread In America”

Miami Herald – by Carol Rosenburg

In the latest installment of the Guantánamo war court’s most mysterious legal filings — two motions so secret that the public can’t know their titles — an Army judge has issued a classified order to prosecutors that even the defense lawyers can’t see.

The Pentagon disclosed the existence of Army Col. James L. Pohl’s judicial order dated June 4 in a recent website notation in the capital case of the accused USS Cole bomber. Continue reading “Guantánamo judge’s secret order on secret motion is so secret defense lawyers can’t see it”

New York Times – by Stanley Reed

LONDON — Severstal, the Russian steel maker, said on Monday that it had agreed to sell two steel facilities in the United States to two of its American rivals, Steel Dynamics and AK Steel, for more than $2.3 billion.

Severstal invested heavily in the two locations in an international expansion drive before the financial crisis and is now trying to cut costs in an effort to stem losses.   Continue reading “Russia’s Severstal to Sell U.S. Plants to American Steel Makers”

NBC News

Two people were injured and more than a hundred homes were evacuated due to a diesel spill from a train derailment in Wisconsin, according to fire officials.

Slinger Fire Department Chief Rick Hanke said three engines and 10 railcars derailed Sunday night. He said trains from Canadian National Railway Co. and Wisconsin & Southern were involved and that officials are investigating the cause.   Continue reading “More Than 100 Homes Evacuated After Wisconsin Train Derailment”

Brownsville Herald – by JACOB FISCHLER

Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to activate the Texas National Guard, he’ll announce at a 2 p.m. news conference in Austin today, state Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, said.

Hinojosa did not have details of the effort, but an internal memo from another state official’s office said the governor planned to call about 1,000 National Guard troops to the Rio GrandeValley — at a cost of about $12 million per month.   Continue reading “Perry to send National Guard troops to border”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

The border is completely safe. So say President Barack Obama, Representative Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid and others who support the wave of illegal immigrants entering the United States.

A new report from the southern border, however, suggests otherwise.

Shots rang out Friday night in Rincon Peninsula, Texas, forcing U.S. border patrol agents to take cover. The shots originated from south of the Rio Grande River and according to Border Patrol sources they came from a high-powered .50 caliber rifle.   Continue reading “Report: Mexican Drug Cartels Lay Down High Powered Suppressing Fire For Crossing Immigrants”

ABC News – by TAMI ABDOLLAH and SARAH RANKIN

Max Steinberg and Nissim Sean Carmeli grew up in America. But they both developed a passion for Israel.

The young men’s love of Israel ultimately led them to join the Israel Defense Forces, and they ended up fighting for the Jewish state in the Gaza Strip this week.

On Sunday, Steinberg, 24, and Carmeli, 21, were killed there. They were among 13 Israeli soldiers and 65 Palestinians killed Sunday during the first major ground battle in two weeks of fighting between Israel and Hamas.   Continue reading “2 Americans Killed in Fighting in Gaza Strip”

StoryLeak – by Michael Thomas, June 21, 2014

US/EU Misadventure In The Ukraine Has Triggered Economic/Financial Word War III

With the CIA-coordinated coup d’état executed in Kiev came the very real prospect of a World War III. However, the much greater war is not being waged on the urban battlefields of Eastern Ukraine or on the Russian border; rather, it’s being prosecuted in various national economies and by the world’s largest central and commercial banks, transnational corporations and market exchanges.  What is at stake is the very future and viability of the US Petrodollar as the reserve currency of the planet.   Continue reading “US Dollar Under Grave Threat: Russia Plans Global Retaliation For Ukraine”

Wake Up World – by Ethan Indigo Smith

“Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty five percent would rather die than think.” ~ Thomas Edison

To examine the world today, politically and socially, is complex task. There are indeed so many complexities to the postmodern world that it is as if the more you learn, the less sure you become. It’s difficult to define exactly what postmodern even is.   Continue reading “The United States of Apathy”

Left Hook by Dean Henderson

(Part three of a five-part series excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families: Big Oil & Their Bankers…)

According to former British intelligence agent John Coleman’s book, The Committee of 300, the Rothschilds exert political control through the secretive Business Roundtable, which they created in 1909 with the help of Lord Alfred Milner and South African industrialist Cecil Rhodes. The Rhodes Scholarship is granted by Cambridge University, out of which oil industry propagandist Cambridge Energy Research Associates operates.   Continue reading “The Federal Reserve Cartel: The Roundtable & the Illuminati”

Survival Sherpa – by Todd Walker

Doing the Stuff of self-reliance takes time, resources, tools, and want to. More important than any of these is ACTION! With only 24 hours in a day, you can’t always trek to your personal space in the woods to practice wilderness survival skills. Hectic schedules and time constants eat away at your availability.

You’re family needs quality time… and no, staring at the TV or computer screen doesn’t count. No better way to hang out with your loved ones, even the indoors lover, than to introduce them to outdoor self-reliance skills in a controlled setting. Your adventures await one step over your door sill – no wilderness required!   Continue reading “Backyard Bushcraft Skills: No Wilderness Required”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  A July 16th 2014 column describing the gun-banning efforts of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America reveals that a Moms Demand chapter was kicked out of San Antonio’s Park North Target when they tried to hold a “Stroller Jam” in the store.

Store management kicked the gun control group out for “wielding signs and petitions in a ‘distraction-free’ shopping environment.”   Continue reading “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense Kicked Out of San Antonio Target Store”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- Florida recently passed a law making it harder to prosecute people who are defending themselves with firearms.

The law builds on a trend started with an Arizona law that codified the defensive display of a firearm as legal.

The Arizona law had been prompted by criminals use of the criminal justice system to punish people who had foiled their crimes by displaying a firearm in self defense.   Continue reading “Attackers Call 911 on Defender with Shotgun”

West Bloomfield Patch – by Beth Dalbey

A healthy 58-year-old Michigan woman has died after she was bitten by a brown recluse spider – a species that most experts don’t believe to be indigenous to the state – in what experts are calling a “rare death.”

Betty Ann Strickland of Tustin, a rural area east of Manistee National  Forest, noticed an what appered to be an insect bite of some sort on the top of her right foot on June 30, her husband, Charles, told WWJ.   Continue reading “Experts: ‘Rare Death’ After Spider Bite”