From the Trenches World Report

RT News

The wealth gap in the US has been widening since the Great Recession despite the 2008 financial crisis destroying billions of dollars in wealth. The recovery saw the richest restore much of their losses – unlike average Americans, researchers found.

The wealthiest 5 percent of Americans had 24 times the wealth of the average household in 2013, up significantly from 16.5 times as much in 2007, AP said, quoting a study by the University of Michigan.   Continue reading “US wealth gap widens since Great Recession – study”

Mail.com

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge moved closer Wednesday to indicting Princess Cristina, the sister of newly proclaimed King Felipe VI, in a corruption and embezzlement investigation centering on her husband.

Wrapping up a four-year pre-trial investigation, Palma de Mallorca investigative magistrate Jose Castro kept her on a list of suspects he thinks should stand trial. He said Cristina is suspected of two counts of cooperation in tax fraud and one of money-laundering. The judge said her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, is accused of embezzlement and fraud. Neither has been formally charged.   Continue reading “Court moves closer to indicting Spanish princess”

Common Dreams – by Peter Hart

With Iraq in crisis, many corporate news accounts treat the US war there as if it was something that was done to us, and the ensuing chaos proof that the good intentions of a US superpower cannot overcome tribal grievances.

Michael Crowley‘s cover story for Time (6/19/14), “The End of Iraq,” might be the quintessential example. He writes:   Continue reading “TIME on Iraq War: What Did We Do to Deserve This?”

Philly.com – by Stephanie Farr

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

In an appalling attempt to patent yet another seed, Monsanto has resorted to fraud to try to gain rights to a tomato which contains a naturally occurring resistance to a fungal disease called botrytis. The tomato is not genetically modified, but Monsanto manipulated documents to make the plant look ‘invented’ by biotech when the plant’s true maker is Mother Nature, herself.

Representatives of No Patents on Seeds! have called attention to this shady play of the biotech industry to try to outrun their failing genetic experiments. The original tomatoes used for this patent came from the international gene bank in Gatersleben, Germany, and they have shown this resistance for ages, well before biotech started monkeying with our food supply.   Continue reading “Monsanto Tries to Patent & Control Natural, Non-GMO Tomatoes”

AOL

Florida veteran Larry Murphree has been charged by his homeowners association for displaying an American flag in his flower pot, Fox News reported.

“When I first moved here, I loved it. … But it’s just gotten more … nitpick more and more,” Murphree told WAWS.

WTLV reported that each day Murphree keeps the flag in the pot is a $100 fine. The homeowner is now being billed $8,000 for violation and attorney fees. Continue reading “Florida man may lose home over display of American flag”

MassPrivateI

This is the most disturbing story I’ve had the displeasure to write about, not only does Big Brother spy on us, our families & kids they’re collecting their Iris’s!

Worcester, MA – It takes less than a minute to enter a child’s information into a national missing person’s database. All it takes is a photo, some general information like height and weight, and a quick scan of your eyes.

It’s happening across the country! Continue reading “Police/DHS are entering kids Iris’s into a NATIONAL DATABASE”

Huffington Post – by Nigel Duara

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has affirmed the legality of the U.S. government’s bulk collection of phone and email data from foreign nationals living outside the country — including their contact with U.S. citizens — in denying a man’s motion to dismiss his terrorism conviction.

It was the first legal challenge to the government’s bulk data-collection program of non-U.S. citizens living overseas after revelations about massive, warrantless surveillance were made public by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden.   Continue reading “Federal Judge Rules Warrantless Bulk Surveillance Is Legal”

Town Hall – by Michelle Malkin

Imagine how much better off America’s veterans would be if the federal government spent more time delivering actual care and less time compiling tyrannical lists. The death-inducing secret waiting lists for patients are just the tip of the iceberg.

Did you know, for example, that the VA keeps a database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets that results in arbitrarily restricted care?   Continue reading “Exposed: How the VA Red-Flags ‘Disruptive’ Vets”

USA Today – by Jim Michaels

WASHINGTON – The first contingent of U.S. military advisers arrived in Iraq Tuesday to assess conditions and begin assisting Iraqi security forces after Islamist militants have seized several key cities.

The Pentagon said 90 American personnel arrived from outside the country, and 40 were already in Iraq as part of the U.S. Embassy’s defense staff.

The advisers are part of up to 300 military personnel authorized by President Obama last week in response to the crisis in Iraq, where a Sunni extremist group, called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has taken control of Mosul, Iraq’s second-biggest city, and other towns in recent weeks.   Continue reading “U.S. military advisers begin work in Iraq”

Govt Slaves

(Pamela Wood)  Michael Anthony Peroutka and David Whitney, who are vying for the same seat on the Anne Arundel County Council, are members of the League of the South, an organization whose stated goal is the secession of Southern states.

Peroutka also believes elected officials should return to a “Biblical worldview” of the founding fathers, and Whitney preaches at his Pasadena church that God is essential in government and that current political leaders are “wicked and corrupt.”   Continue reading “SPLC Labels Two “Constitution Teaching Candidates” Extremists”

Has anyone got a land patent for their property?  If so, is it really worth it?

Defend Rural America – by Kirk MacKenzie

Private property was created in the United States of America through the issuance of land patents that transferred title of public lands to named individuals, and to their heirs and assigns forever. Each patent was signed by the President of the United States in office at the time. These transfers were direct from the national government to the individual. The States were not involved. Present-day parcels can be traced back to their original patents. Every private parcel, ranch, or farmland in the country has a land patent associated with it.   Continue reading “Land Patents – The Perpetual Creation of Private Property”

CNN – by Danielle Dellorto

The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground.

“The epidemic is out of control,” Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement.

There have been 567 cases and 350 deaths since the epidemic began in March, according to the latest World Health Organization figures.   Continue reading “Ebola epidemic in West Africa ‘out of control’”

Breitbart- by Brandon Darby

MCALLEN, Texas—In one weekend, the U.S. Border Patrol prevented murder suspects, multiple sex offenders, and an MS-13 gang member from entering the interior of Texas after they illegally entered into the U.S. from Mexico. The arrests occurred in the Rio Grande Valley sector, ground zero of the current border crisis.

The murder suspect was caught approximately 85 miles from the border in Texas, near the town of Falfurrias. He is a Guatemalan who is wanted for alleged murder in the State of Florida.   Continue reading “Murder Suspects, Sex Offenders, and MS-13 Gangster Caught at Texas Border”