From the Trenches World Report

21st Century Wire – by Andrew McKillop

More than any other technological development, the internet has revolutionised the concept of ‘plurality of opinion’, which is essential for any free and advanced society.

The rise and rise of independent media online is certainly one of the most positive social developments in all of modern times, but like a bumb steer in the pen, the big networks and papers will still be kicking up dirt for a while to come. Continue reading “Pass Me the Twinkies and the AK47: Mainstream Media Lost in a ‘D-Generation’”

Police State USA

MIAMI, FL — A torturous “punishment” session turned fatal for a mentally-ill prisoner, when prison guards forced him to stand in a tiny shower stall while being blasted by scalding hot water until his skin began to shrivel away from his body and he died.  Fellow inmates say he begged for his life before collapsing in the shower.   Continue reading “Man Cooked To Death In Scalding Shower As Punishment By Prison Guards”

Lew Rockwell – by Roger Stone

The Main Stream media interpretation of the Watergate episode is a fantastic and grotesque distortion of historical truth. Now, in my new book with my co-author Mike Colapietro, I correct the historical record to show how a weakened Nixon was taken down in a coup de ‘etat led by Gen. Alexander Haig, You will learn who really planned, pushed and executed the Watergate break-in and why there is no “deep throat”. Also revealed is how Nixon brokered a pardon from Gerald Ford before Nixon resigned and what was said in the famous 18 ½ minute erasure in the White House Tapes.   Continue reading “Secrets of Watergate Revealed”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

Once secret video recordings of a Guantanamo detainee being force-fed by his U.S. captors must be released to lawyers for review, a U.S. federal judge ordered on Wednesday.

The ruling marks the first time the US government has been ordered to give detainees’ lawyers videotapes of force-feedings and follows a protracted battle by the legal teams trying to defend those imprisoned at the off-shore prison against abuse.   Continue reading “Judge to US Govt: Hand over Secret Video of ‘Torturous’ Force-Feedings”

The Daily Mail – by RICHARD SHEARS and TARA BRADY

The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his mobile phone while the aircraft flew low over the west coast of Malaysia, it was revealed today as the U.S. denied reports the plane landed at a military base on the remote island of Diego Garcia.

Investigators have learned that the call was made from Fariq Abdul Hamid’s mobile phone as the Boeing 777 flew low near the island of Penang, on the north of Malaysia’s west coast.

The New Straits Times reported the aircraft, with 239 people on board, was flying low enough for the nearest telecommunications tower to pick up Fariq’s signal.   Continue reading “Investigators reveal MH370 co-pilot tried to make a call from his mobile phone after the aircraft ‘vanished’ but ‘was abruptly cut off’ as U.S. deny reports the plane landed at their remote military base”

Washington’s Blog

Senate: Which Groups Are We At War With? Admin: That’s Classified

The Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations held a hearing today on renewing the Authorization for the Use of Force (AUMF) in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Senators repeatedly asked representatives from the Department of Defense which groups we are at war with.  And the DOD refused to answer.   Continue reading “Defense Department Refuses to Tell Senate Which Groups We’re At War With”

Lew Rockwell – by Andrew P. Napolitano

What if the federal government is shameless? What if it personifies the adage of do as I say and not as I do? What if it does the very things it prosecutes others for doing? What if it has written laws and enacted procedures so that it can spy and kill, while it charges others with doing just that?

What if the feds recently indicted five low-level Chinese military officers for spying on American corporations? What if the feds accused these officers of using their computers in Beijing to hack into computers in Denver that are not owned by the federal government but by well-known and wealthy American corporations? What if these corporations are rich enough to install digital protections and procedures to insulate themselves from hackers? What if when Google and Apple and Facebook were hacked, they protected themselves from their hackers at no expense to the taxpayers?   Continue reading “Another Week of Government Lawlessness”

Freedom in Our Time – by William Norman Grigg

The right to buy weapons is the right to be free. – A.E. van Vogt, “The Weapon Shops of Isher”

The presence of a single, non-violent citizen openly carrying a firearm is sufficient to cause panic in people habituated to the evil idea that only state functionaries should be armed. So acutely alarmed  do such people become that their first reaction is to call the police, thereby inviting the intervention of additional armed strangers who – owing to the indoctrination they’ve received, and the “qualified immunity” they enjoy – are immeasurably more dangerous than the first.    Continue reading “Eeek! An Armed Citizen!”

Politico – by Josh Gerstein

The Central Intelligence Agency has the right to keep secret a draft history of its involvement with the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion more than five decades ago, a split federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled, 2-1, that the CIA can withhold the volume about the 1961 operation against Cuba in its entirety under a Freedom of Information Act exemption that protects government agencies’ interest in receiving candid advice.   Continue reading “CIA wins secrecy for Bay of Pigs history”

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Be Your Own Leader – by Dana Gabriel

As an extension of the North American Leaders Summit which was held in February, the defense ministers from the U.S., Canada and Mexico quietly met last month to discuss continental security issues. During the conference, they addressed shared defense and security challenges. This includes threats posed by cyber attacks and transnational criminal organizations. The North American security relationship has evolved with Mexico being increasingly viewed as a valued part of the continental defense team. The U.S., Canada and Mexico are building the framework for greater cooperation on common security issues. They are expanding security arrangements and are further establishing new institutions at a continental level. The trilateral defense ministers meeting, which received very little media attention is part of the process of integrating military planning and coordination into a North American security perimeter.
Continue reading “Trilateral Defense Ministers Meeting Continues to Build North American Security Framework”

These intellectual midgets cannot win a debate on the weight of its merit. Nor can they convince their opponents of which they speak is correct. So it always boils down to attacking the opponent with baseless attacks. So as to deflect the obvious, that their ideas, or ideologies, are moot.

These creatures will stop at nothing to have their way.  All the more reason for us to pull out ALL the stops, at finishing them off. When the time comes …and it can’t come soon enough for me, as I am sure you’d agree. When the “race card” is played, it’s a sign of desperation, and weakness.   Continue reading “Do You Oppose Gun Control? Eric Holder Knows That You are a Secret Racist”

The Free Thought Project

The NYPD is the biggest police force in the country, with over 34,000 uniformed officers patrolling New York’s streets, and 51,000 employees overall — more than the FBI. It has a proposed budget of $4.6 billion for 2013, a figure that represents almost 15 percent of the entire city’s budget.

NYC’s population is a little over 8 million. That means that there are 4.18 police officers per 1,000 people. By comparison, Los Angeles, the second largest city in the U.S. with 3.8 million people, has only 9,895 officers–a ratio of 2.6 police per 1,000 people.   Continue reading “Nine Terrifying Facts about America’s Biggest Police Force”

Huffington Post – by Gerry Smith

Rense.com – by Devvy Kidd

Here we go again. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal all want to be the next U.S. president. The only problem is, just like the impostor in the White House, Barack Obama (known aliases used: Barry Soetoro, Barry Obama, Barack Dunham and aka Barry Dunham), all three are constitutionally ineligible, contrary to declarations from their campaign managers, ignorant journalists and partisan mouth pieces.

Jonathan Tilove, The Times-Picayune: “They (Jindal’s parents) arrived Feb 1, 1971, and a bit over four months later, on June 10, 1971, Piyush Jindal was born at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, a natural-born U.S. citizen, who like every other child born in America, could, constitutionally, grow up to be president.”   Continue reading “Prez Run: Rubio, Jindal & Cruz All Constitutionally Ineligible”