From the Trenches World Report

RT News

Elon Musk, the inventor and technology billionaire who recently debuted a rocket that he hopes will travel to Mars, has filed suit against the US Air Force claiming the military currently relies on an unfair billing process that costs taxpayers millions.

Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, first announced that he would file suit during a press conference last month in which he said he was launching an effort to change what he perceives as a process that has essentially created a monopoly for United Launch Alliance (ULA), one of SpaceX’s principal competitors. ULA is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which won a combined 36 launches from the Air Force over a five year span ending in 2012.   Continue reading “SpaceX sues US Air Force, citing unfair contractor monopoly”

RT News

Though the US Central Intelligence Agency may use Facebook, Twitter, and the like to keep tabs on targets of interest, the spy agency has only now officially joined social media–a move hastened by an imposter who was using the agency’s name online.

The agency’s first tweet, which earned the CIA nearly 200,000 Twitter followers in just a few hours, was the appropriately sarcastic, “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.” There were already 40,000 followers after just a single hour online, with the agency’s debut on Facebook sparking a similar conversation on that platform.   Continue reading “CIA joins social media, is immediately trolled”

Mail.com

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was critically injured in a fatal six-vehicle pileup on the New Jersey Turnpike on Saturday, hours after performing a standup routine at a show in Delaware, authorities said.

A limousine bus carrying the former “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” cast member and six others overturned near Cranbury Township at about 1 a.m., Sgt. 1st Class Greg Williams told The Associated Press.   Continue reading “Tracy Morgan in intensive care after 6-car crash”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy has finally regained the jobs lost to the Great Recession. But go easy on the hallelujahs. The comeback is far from complete.

Friday’s report from the government revealed an economy healing yet marked by deep and lasting scars. The downturn that began 6½ years ago accelerated wrenching changes that have left many Americans feeling worse off than they did the last time the economy had roughly the same number of jobs it does now.   Continue reading “US job market recovers losses yet appears weaker”

Yahoo News – by Charlene Sakoda

New Kensington first grader Darin Simak realized on Wednesday that he had something in his backpack that was not allowed at Martin Elementary School. It was a toy gun that was in the outside pocket of the bag. Darin was unaware of the toy because, as his mom, Jennifer Mathabel, told WTAE Action News 4, she packed her son’s bag which was a backup because he left his normal school bag in a friend’s car the night before, and she missed the toy gun.   Continue reading “First grader suspended and facing expulsion after finding toy gun in backpack and even turning himself in”

With all our “high hopes” for this investigation, due to the fact that we thought Trey Gowdy was the person who could bring forth all the illusive Benghazi answers. Well, that hope has been dashed, as we should have suspected of occurring. 

Friends, “We’ve been fooled again!”

Apparently, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE in the rightly named area of real estate, called the district of criminals, can be trusted, at all. But we’ve known this for some time. Occasionally, someone enters from stage right, and gives us a glimmer of hope.   Continue reading “Rep.Trey Gowdy (R-SC) says “politics should not play a role” when appointing a Soros affiliate in the Benghazi investigative probe”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Last week, the Washington Times mentioned the fact that the Obama administration seriously considered using military force against Cliven Bundy and his supporters during their standoff back in April. This should come as no surprise after we reported that there was word that the Defense Department had approved a drone strike.

Apparently, the Obama administration considered a strike on protesters, exercising their First Amendment rights, which ironically, are supposed to be protected by the same administration under the US Constitution.   Continue reading “Obama Considered Using Military Force against Cliven Bundy Supporters”

90 Miles From Tyranny

Aries A good day to use children as props for, well leftist project you are looking to promote, Global War…errr Climate Change is a good one. Hug the children as you sell their futures to Socialism and suck their souls from them.

Taurus Discuss how to steal err.. redistribute income from the middle class with your caucus by using class warfare to justify your zeal to destroy hope.  Tonight: keep your manicure scissors nearby in case your mistress gets her braces caught in your hair again.   Continue reading “Socialist Guide Stones”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

General George S. Patton recognized the .30-’06 M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle as “the greatest battle implement ever devised,” and the rifle accompanied American Marines and soldiers up the beaches of Normandy against the Germans, across the islands of the Pacific against the Japanese, and through the brutal cold of the Korean winter. It served America as our primary battle rifle through two wars, and is still prized today by collectors and shooters for itls timeless design and reliability.

Now Century Arms International is having to lay off workers because the Obama Administration has refused to allow these pieces of American history to be re-imported from South Korea.   Continue reading “Gun Company Lays Off Workers As Obama Administration Blocks Re-importation Of The Rifle That Won World War II”

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New York Times- by Kirk Simple

The Obama administration said Friday that it was starting a program to provide lawyers for children facing deportation as it scrambles to deal with the soaring number of unaccompanied minors illegally crossing the border from Mexico.

Under the plan, the federal government will issue $2 million in grants to enroll about 100 lawyers and paralegals to represent immigrant children making their way through the immigration court system.   Continue reading “Youths Facing Deportation to Be Given Legal Counsel”

The Center for Public Integrity – by Susan Ferriss

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — She was barely 15 and scared at the prospect of being in court. She agreed to plead guilty to truancy. But when Judge Tim Irwin announced what he planned to do with her, the girl known as A.G. screamed in disbelief.

Guards forced the sobbing teen out of the Knox County Juvenile Court and clapped shackles on her legs. She had been struggling with crippling anxiety and what she said was relentless bullying at school. Now she was being led through a county juvenile detention center to a cell with a sliver of a window and a concrete slab with a mattress. For truancy.   Continue reading “Juvenile injustice: truants face courts, jailing without legal counsel to aid them”

Forbes – by Nick Sibilla

Texas law enforcement are continuing to enrich themselves using a little-known legal doctrine known as civil forfeiture, according to a new series of investigative reports. Under civil forfeiture, property can be forfeited even if its owner has never been charged with a crime. In these proceedings, accused criminals have more rights than innocent owners and the government sues the property, not its owner. These cases can be so baffling, one Texas Supreme Court Justice recently compared civil forfeiture to Alice in Wonderland and the works of Franz Kafka. But civil forfeiture isn’t just a quirky curiosity—it’s a powerful incentive for law enforcement to take millions.   Continue reading “Cops In Texas Seize Millions By ‘Policing for Profit’”

Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

It can be overwhelmingly confusing, figuring out which foods to focus on or avoid with the glut of specialized diets promoted and proselytized today. Obviously, some thrive on these diets or they wouldn’t be so fanatical, but there are those whose health worsens with any of these diets. Truth is, there is no one diet size that fits all.

There is also an index that provides metabolic typing practitioners worldwide who can be consulted by email or phone here. Or you can do an online test to determine your metabolic type here.   Continue reading “The Difference Between Healthy Grains and Unhealthy Grains”

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The Daily Dot – by Dell Cameron

Sitting inside a medium-security federal prison in Kentucky, Jeremy Hammond looks defiant and frustrated.

“[The FBI] could’ve stopped me,” he told the Daily Dot last month at the Federal Correctional Institution, Manchester. “They could’ve. They knew about it. They could’ve stopped dozens of sites I was breaking into.”   Continue reading “How an FBI informant orchestrated the Stratfor hack”

NBC Bay Area – by Bob Redell and Scott Budman

Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration agents, hazmat crews and fire trucks descended on a residential home near downtown San Jose on Friday morning, causing a stir in the neighborhood and yielding at least one arrest.

The suspect wasn’t immediately identified.   Continue reading “Homeland Security, DEA Descend on San Jose Home”