From the Trenches World Report

ABC News – by SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press

One of the first states to adopt Common Core standards became the first state to formally abandon the national benchmarks, as Indiana’s State Board of Education voted overwhelmingly Monday for a replacement that will guide student learning for years.

The board voted 10-1 to endorse the new benchmarks to guide what students in kindergarten through 12th grade should learn in math and English, which were created by a panel of faculty from Indiana universities and representatives from science and technology industries. The vote came ahead of the state’s July deadline and could end months of heated debate.   Continue reading “Indiana Approves Common Core Replacement Standards”

Truth Revolt – by Yehuda Remer

Erika Soto Lamb, Communication Director for Everytown for Gun Safety, admitted to conservative radio and television journalist Dana Loesch that the anti-gun group (which includes Mayors Against Illegal Guns) has armed security while in Indianapolis.

When asked by Loesch why her group is employing armed security, Lamb said, “We have armed security because other people on your side of the debate threaten our lives.  I wish it weren’t the case, but it is.”   Continue reading “Anti-Gun Group Admits They Use Armed Security”

I remember when they used to say that the best way to improve the economy of america was to start a war and put people to work making bombs and military supplies.

WSWS – by Nick Beams

Former Australian Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has been given prominent coverage in the Fairfax-owned press for his view that Australia should revise its interpretation of the ANZUS alliance with America, shut down US bases, including the crucial communications base at Pine Gap in central Australia, and end the stationing of US marines in Darwin.   Continue reading “Former Australian prime minister warns of US-provoked war danger”

Deadly Silences

The authorities grossly understated the death toll from hurricane Andrew, the worst natural disaster in US history, and left thousands of survivors to die in a zone contaminated by radiation.

Editor’s Note: This article is based on excerpts reprinted in The Unopened Files, issues 17 & 18, 2000, originally published in k.t. Frankovich’s book, Where Heavens Meet (Language of Souls Publications, Inc., USA).   Continue reading “The Hurricane Andrew Coverup”

The Daily Caller – by Michael Bastasch

The federal government now consumes 31 percent of the U.S. economy due to trillions in spending and thousands of pages of costly regulations, according to a new report.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a free-market think tank, put out a report on Tuesday saying that the regulatory costs of federal rules amounts to $1.863 trillion per year, or 11.1 percent of the U.S. economy. Combine this with the $3.454 trillion in federal spending last year and the U.S. federal government consumes 31 percent of the economy.   Continue reading “The Federal Government Now Consumes 31 Percent Of The US Economy”

The Feral Irishman

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

Increasingly, land and water resources will drive war and warfare.  I’ve said more than once, that the next war will be over natural resources. Those who can defend their own resources will be at war with “bigger fish” and those who can not defend their own borders and maintain their own water, land and resources will be at the mercy of global resource pirates.

As I noted in an earlier article, private copanies in the US and around the world are buying up local water resources. National and global players are consolidating their hold on the world’s water supplies.   Continue reading “Chinese-US Oligarchs Benefit From Population Cleansing War: Land And Water Resources Dwindling”

21st Century Wire

Few will dispute that careerist politicians often demonstrate psychopathic behavior. 

In the article, Who Controls our Government? The Psychopathic Corporate Elites of America, Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null attempt to answer several fundamental questions:

 “Is the problem, therefore, we the people? Are we at fault for having been seduced by those in power to sell us blank bill of goods, drugs, products and policies that are more harmful than beneficial? Continue reading “The Establishment Plagued with Sociopaths, Psychopaths and Useful Idiots”

Yahoo News – by Kate Brumback

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — A shooter described as being armed with an assault rifle and having bullets strapped across his chest “like Rambo” opened fire Tuesday morning at a FedEx station outside Atlanta, wounding at least six people before police found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.

Police rushed to the center after someone called to report an active shooter at 5:54 a.m. After surrounding the perimeter and working to clear the building, officers found the suspect dead, Cobb County police spokesman Michael Bowman said. He said there were no immediate reports anyone else had been killed.   Continue reading “Shooting at FedEx center wounds 6, suspect dead”

Continue reading “Kerry Munster: Needs a Caption”

The Daily Beast

The United States has proof that the Russian government in Moscow is running a network of spies inside eastern Ukraine because the U.S. government has recordings of their conversations, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a closed-door meeting Friday.

“Intel is producing taped conversations of intelligence operatives taking their orders from Moscow and everybody can tell the difference in the accents, in the idioms, in the language. We know exactly who’s giving those orders, we know where they are coming from,” Kerry said at a private meeting of the Trilateral Commission in Washington. A recording of Kerry’s remarks was obtained by The Daily Beast.   Continue reading “Kerry: U.S. Taped Moscow’s Calls to Its Ukraine Spies”

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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Submitted by Pam Martens and Russ Martens of Wall Street On Parade,

It doesn’t get any more Orwellian than this: Wall Street mega banks crash the U.S. financial system in 2008. Hundreds of thousands of financial industry workers lose their jobs. Then, beginning late last year, a rash of suspicious deaths start to occur among current and former bank employees.  Next we learn that four of the Wall Street mega banks likely hold over $680 billion face amount of life insurance on their workers, payable to the banks, not the families. We ask their Federal regulator for the details of this life insurance under a Freedom of Information Act request and we’re told the information constitutes “trade secrets.”   Continue reading “Guest Post: Suspicious Deaths Of Bankers Are Now Classified As “Trade Secrets” By Federal Regulator”

WND – by Aaron Klein

If two Democratic lawmakers have their way, Barack Obama’s Justice Department will submit a report for action against any Internet sites, broadcast, cable television or radio shows determined to be advocating or encouraging “violent acts.”

This according to the text of a new bill from Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.   Continue reading “Big chill: Feds want to scour Net, media for ‘hate speech’”

Lew Rockwell – By The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA)

For some people, allergy season begins as early as January, when cedars are pollinating.  For most people, the prime season is spring (trees) or summer (grasses). It is not necessary to be crippled by pollen attacks. In our experience, the first natural solution offered below, even taken alone, will enable most people to put the problem behind them.   Continue reading “More Natural Solutions for Spring Allergies”