From the Trenches World Report

NBC News – by Andrew Blankstein

A relic from the Cold War appears to have triggered a software glitch at a major air traffic control center in California Wednesday that led to delays and cancellations of hundreds of flights across the country, sources familiar with the incident told NBC News.

On Wednesday at about 2 p.m., according to sources, a U-2 spy plane, the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago, passed through the airspace monitored by the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif. The L.A. Center handles landings and departures at the region’s major airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), San Diego and Las Vegas.   Continue reading “Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX”

It Ain’t Holy Water

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

A few days ago, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) called in San Antonio police to arrest some vocal activists who wanted to be heard at a National Organic Standards Board Meeting (NOSB). The NOSB was discussing the integrity of organic foods which are currently jeopardized by the USDA and Obama’s political appointee’s that are working to undo over 20 years of congressionally-mandated standards for keeping organic food safe.   Continue reading “USDA Calls Police to Arrest Organic Activists”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

In the aftermath of several recent events such as i) the issuance of new mega batch of $12 billion in bonds by a suddenly domestic-cash strapped Apple, ii) the repatriation of $9 billion in offshore profits (and payment of $3 billion in taxes) by eBay, iii) the flurry of pharma M&A deals and reverse mergers in which US companies are redomiciled offshore (in low corporate tax hosts like Ireland) to avoid paying US taxes, and iv) the outright use of offshore funds to buy offshore companies such as the GE-Alstom deal which bypasses the US treasury entirely, two questions emerge: who has the most offshore cash, and who is most likely to be the next US corporation to engage in one or all of the above listed transactions which merely seek to optimize a company’s offshore cash holdings.   Continue reading “These Are The 15 US Companies With The Most Offshore Profits”

AOL

John LaDue, a 17-year-old from Minnesota, has been arrested both in connection with the March discovery of explosive devices at a local elementary school, and for another, even more sinister plot.

KARE mentions “The plan that LaDue laid out in a journal police now have would have included bombs in the schools, murdering the school resource officer and then shooting at will until he was taken out by a SWAT team. LaDue planned to die.”
Continue reading “Attack thwarted: Teen planned massive assault”

St. Louis Tribune – by Thomas Burr

Washington » Just south of Canyonlands National Park, the redrock wonders merge into a scrubland oasis with a peak that juts 11,000 feet into the sky. Mesas and buttes provide panoramic views and canyons, and ancient cliff dwellings offer a unique retreat.

It’s a region that holds sacred and historic value to the Navajo Nation, which has pitched Congress on creating the Diné Bikéyah National Conservation Area to protect the 1.9 million acres in San Juan County from development. But as with most things involving Congress, inaction has been the order of the day.   Continue reading “Westerners fear Obama preparing monuments land grab”

Would this trade corridor be going through the Bundy Ranch? 

I11 & Intermountain West Corridor Study

To explore the role of a potential I-11 corridor, the Arizona and Nevada Departments of Transportation are working together on the 2-year I-11 and Intermountain West Corridor Study. It will include detailed corridor planning of a possible Interstate link between Phoenix and Las Vegas (the I-11 portion), as well as high-level visioning for potential future extensions of the Corridor north to Canada and south to Mexico. Through the recent transportation authorization bill, (MAP-21) Congress recognized the importance of the portion of the Corridor between Phoenix and Las Vegas and designated it as future I-11, intended to be a new high-capacity, multimodal transportation facility connecting the two cities. Extended, it has the potential to become a major multimodal north-south transcontinental Corridor through the Intermountain West, connecting cities, trade hubs, ports, intersecting highways, and railroads.   Continue reading “A Visionary Transportation Corridor”

The anchor baby clause, and all entitlements, must be done away with. Not only are we being “changed”, from within by outsiders, but we’re being bled dry by people who don’t care one flip about this Republic. Other than what’s in it for them, for the asking. They’ll never assimilate; they’re here for the Free Stuff. Just like all the other socialist minded freaks.

 I’ll never forget seeing a banner, twenty feet wide, held by illegals, marching in a protest. On it read, “ Socialism Now !” The nerve of these brigands, demanding anything. More or less the destruction of this Republic. These freaks are a fifth column that is, and will be, used by TPTB to cause unrest, when they’re told to act up.   Continue reading “Dear Americans, Time to Come Out of the Shadows”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

In the latest stunning assault on Americans’ right to grow their own food, the freedom-crushing state of Michigan has ruled that local governments (cities, towns, counties) can now ban any animal they wish from small residential farms. The move opens the door to the mass criminalization of backyard farms and small, residential farming operations where people might keep a few goats or honey bees for food security.

According to Michigan Public Radio (1), the ruling could ban all chickens, goats, honey bees and other animals from farms which have another residential house less than 250 feet away.
Continue reading “Right to farm being stripped from Americans: Michigan to criminalize small family farms with chickens, goats, honey bees and more”

ABC News – by Dina Abou Salem

The ex-wife of a disgraced Texas police officer who has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years probation for framing her on drug charges said today she is glad the “nightmare” is over but said, “I will always be looking over my shoulder.”

“If anyone would have ever told me I would have drugs planted on me by my ex-husband, another police officer and a local criminal, I would have never believed them,” Laura Covington told ABC News today.   Continue reading “Mom ‘Looking Over Shoulder’ After Cop-Husband Convicted of Framing Her”

The New American – by William F. Jasper

“Domestic terrorists.” That is how U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid referred to the hundreds of supporters who had come to Bunkerville, Nevada, to stand with the besieged ranch family of Cliven and Carol Bundy against the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

While most critics of the Bundys and their supporters have veered short of the verbal excesses of Nevada’s senior senator, they have nonetheless showered the 67-year-old rancher and his adherents with venom and ridicule. “Welfare rancher,” “deadbeat,” “crackpot,” “redneck teabagger,” “fools,” “fanatics,” “wackos” — those are some of the more printable epithets. Elias Isquith at Salon.com delivers the typical “liberal” analysis, describing Bundy as “wingnut rancher” and his allies as “anti-government extremists.” Over at the Huffington Post, college student Brian Jecunas was given column space to pontificate that Bundy is a “dangerous knave” and a “selfish radical.” “Hopefully,” Jecunas wrote, “Bundy and his followers will end up where criminals belong — a cramped prison cell.”    Continue reading “Showdown on the Range”