From the Trenches World Report

Courant – by DAVE ALTIMARI

CBS Sacremento

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — New regulations passed by the Sacramento City Council will require taxi drivers in Sacramento to speak English.

Raheem doesn’t speak much English, but he says he’s good at his job driving a cab in Sacramento for years. He fears he may soon be out of a job.   Continue reading “New Regulations Bring English-Only Requirement To Sacramento Taxicabs”

Yahoo News

Hermosillo (México) (AFP) – An American singer of narco-corridos — a musical genre extolling the glories of the drug trade — has been fatally shot in a northern Mexican town, officials said Friday.

Tomas Eduardo Tovar, 33, was gunned down late Thursday while dining at a restaurant in Ciudad Obregon, in Sonora state, according to law enforcement officials.

Tovar, who performed under the stage name Tito Torbellino, was killed by two gunmen who stormed into the establishment firing multiple rounds.    Continue reading “US singer of narco-corrido drug ballads killed in Mexico”

Humanity Awakens

HUGE US SILVER EAGLE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

If you’ve followed my work for long enough you know that I have railed against the US Mint and the US Treasury for putting Silver Eagles on limited allocation. At first they did it illegally and then they changed the law to make it legal and subject to the whim of the US Treasury Secretary.

Today they just announced the END OF ALLOCATION!!!   Continue reading “Bix Weir Today”

GeoEngineering Watch

The letter posted below just hit my desk. I have not yet had time to do any objective investigation but appears to be credible. Certainly it is a matter of time before more such fires begin to burn. As people from all professions realize they are going down with the ship and climate engineering is fueling the fire, they will join our critical cause. All of us need to make this fight our priority, every day matters.   Continue reading “Legal Wheels May Be Beginning To Turn In the FIght Against Geoengineering”

RT News

Online computer hackers have infiltrated and exposed the personal information of 110 million Americans – nearly half of the US adult population – over the last year alone, according to an alarming new report.

The study – formulated by researchers at the Ponemon Institute, which measures data collection and information security in the public and private sectors – also determined that the number of hacked accounts belonging to those individuals numbered at or near 432 million.   Continue reading “Staggering figures: Half of all US adults hacked in last 12 months”

Yahoo News

ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) – Maryland police early on Friday killed a 20-year-old man armed with a pellet gun that officers mistook for an assault rifle, a police spokeswoman said.

The officers had responded at about 2 a.m. EDT to a dispute between two men, one of them holding what officers thought was an assault rifle.   Continue reading “Maryland police mistake pellet gun for assault rifle, kill 20 year old man.”

Chron – by Mike Ward

AUSTIN – In a surprise legal about-face, Attorney General Greg Abbott on Thursday ruled that state prison officials no longer have to tell the public where they obtain drugs used to execute condemned criminals.

Abbott’s decision falls in line with other states that have sought to keep secret the source of their lethal drugs, to keep death-penalty opponents from pressuring suppliers to quit selling to execution chambers. His decision reversed three rulings since 2010 that had mandated the information about the suppliers be made public.    Continue reading “Abbott switches mind on death drug secrecy”

AmmoLand – by Mary “Dynk” McDonald

USA –-(Ammoland.com)- Returning to the justification for increased legislation based on comparing firearms to cars, the arguments stated are easily debunked.

Rationalizing the need to own a particular type or quantity of a firearm or ammunition is without merit, a prejudicial justification as a means of placing limits on ownership.

Each vehicle has a purpose, from a small electric car in a congested town to a large pickup used to move equipment on a job. The only limits involved in who may purchase one over the other, used or new, are financial in nature. A small caliber derringer is equivalent to the small electric car, a shotgun an equivalent to the pickup. Some vehicles will hold more people, some are better suited to driving in rough terrain, yet each has a need and purpose that is not questioned by the general public.

Continue reading “Limiting Firearms Ownership Is A Baseless Argument”

AmmoLand

Washington, DC –-(Ammoland.com)- No one hates guns more than California.

They came close to banning most semi-autos and do register all guns.  They have moved to regulate ammunition.  They have just established a $24 million program to send SWAT teams to people’s homes to confiscate their guns.  They are using microstamping and pushing gun-insurance requirements as a mechanism for banning guns nationwide.

Continue reading “Obama-Bloomberg Minions Renew National Effort to Take Away Your Guns”

CNN – by Evan Perez, Hamdi Alkhshali and Salma Abdelaziz

Washington (CNN) — The truck was loaded with munitions, then driven up a hillside in northern Syria. Moments later, there was a massive blast followed by cries of “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great” in Arabic, and the rattling of gunfire.

The suicide attacker in the bombing depicted in this online video was an American jihadi, radical Islamists claiming responsibility for the blast have said.   Continue reading “U.S.: Jihadi featured in suicide bombing video in Syria grew up in Florida”

My Nephew brought this poster home from school today. Do you see the message?

Police State USA

ALPINE, TX — Federal agents violently raided a tobacco shop, unnecessarily broke down a door, tampered with surveillance cameras, and allegedly cracked a woman in the neck with a rifle stock.  In the process, they also raided a neighbor’s home, only to later cover their tracks by acquiring a warrant retroactively.  The carnival of injustice was completed when witnesses were ordered to recant their stories under penalty of law.   Continue reading “DEA retroactively gets warrant after violent, botched raid on wrong address”

Alakhbar – by Suhaib Anjarini

The Turkish government recently cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water crisis. Al-Akhbar found out that the water level in Lake Assad has dropped by about six meters, leaving millions of Syrians without drinking water.

Two weeks ago, the Turkish government once again intervened in the Syrian crisis. This time was different from anything it had attempted before and the repercussions of which may bring unprecedented catastrophes onto both Iraq and Syria.   Continue reading “A new Turkish aggression against Syria: Ankara suspends pumping Euphrates’ water”

Huffington Post – by Ron Dicker

A Fresno, California, Salvation Army volunteer in need of his own turn of fortune found $125,000 that fell from a Brinks truck on Tuesday — and he gave it back.

Joe Cornell, who told outlets he’s in rehab and had just $1 for lunch that day, told the Fresno Bee he began to shake when he came upon the loot.   Continue reading “So A Guy With Just $1 For Lunch Finds $125,000 That Fell From A Brinks Truck..”

Common Dreams – by Tom Engelhardt

Internet Class of 2014, I’m in awe of you! To this giant, darkened auditorium filled with sparkling screens of every sort, welcome!

It would, of course, be inaccurate to say, as speakers like me once did, that after four years of effort and experience you are now about to leave the hallowed halls of this campus and graduate into a new and adult world.  The odds are that you aren’t.  You were graduated into that world long ago.  I’m not sure that it qualifies as adult at all, but a new world it surely is, and one I grasp so little that I feel I should be in the audience and you up here doing what graduation speakers normally do: offering an upbeat, even inspirational, explanation of our world and your place in it.   Continue reading “The Big Brotherness of It All”