From the Trenches World Report

The Virginia Land Rights Coalition – by Albert V. Burns

More and more, we are seeing citizens being invited to “participate” in various forms of meetings, councils, or boards to “help determine” public policy in one field or another. They are supposedly being included to get ”input” from the public to help officials make final decisions on taxes, education, community growth or whatever the particular subject matter might be.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, surface appearances are often deceiving.   Continue reading “The Delphi Technique: Let’s Stop Being Manipulated!”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

A U.S. Army base outside San Antonio may have doubled as a secret weapons depot for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) going back to the height of the Cold War.

Allen Thomson, who worked for the CIA as an analyst from 1972 to 1985, says in a report (pdf) he compiled that the spy agency used Camp Stanley, located in Boerne, Texas, for decades to store guns, explosives and other munitions.   Continue reading “Is the CIA Storing Weapons in Texas?”

Yahoo News – by Ken Thomas

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the nation’s gun culture has gotten “way out of balance” and the U.S. needs to rein in the notion that “anybody can have a gun, anywhere, anytime.”

The former secretary of state and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said the idea that anyone can have a gun is not in the “best interest of the vast majority of people.” But she said that approach does not conflict with the rights of people to own firearms.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton: Gun culture ‘way out of balance’”

Politico – by JAKE SHERMAN and LAUREN FRENCH

Speaker John Boehner is tapping South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy to chair a House select committee which will investigate the attack in Benghazi.

Gowdy, a second-term Republican, is a former federal prosecutor and has been a key figure in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s probe into the attacks.   Continue reading “Trey Gowdy picked to lead Benghazi panel”

US Crow

After reviewing 123survivalplan, a video that is supposed to provide the public with 37 critical food items that are considered ‘must have’ for any prepper, doomsday and survivalist plan. However, it turned out to be a 10 minute long commercial to influence you to pay for it. Yes, we love capitalism but it doesn’t bode well for our sense of patriotism to charge Americans for information about survival. So, in response we will provide our own list.   Continue reading “Critical Items for Survival Shelters”

Natural News – by Julie Wilson

Thanks to greater awareness surrounding the dangers of food that’s processed and doused with pesticides, consumer attitudes have blossomed from an interest to a demand when it comes to knowing what’s in our food and understanding what’s healthy.

However, consumers aren’t the only ones who’ve changed their attitude toward “conventional” food. Large food manufacturers have also transformed their tactics in regard to producing and labeling food products (mostly labeling), but instead theirs is driven by money rather than concern for consumer health.
Continue reading “Conventional ‘yogurt’ is junk food disguised as health food”

Mail.com

GENEVA (AP) — The Vatican revealed Tuesday that over the past decade, it has defrocked 848 priests who raped or molested children and sanctioned another 2,572 with lesser penalties, providing the first ever breakdown of how it handled the more than 3,400 cases of abuse reported to the Holy See since 2004.

The Vatican’s U.N. ambassador in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, released the figures during a second day of grilling by a U.N. committee monitoring implementation of the U.N. treaty against torture.   Continue reading “Vatican: 848 priests defrocked for abuse since ’04”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Three skydivers spent about four hours atop the World Trade Center’s signature skyscraper taking in sights before parachuting off it, they said Tuesday in detailing a surreptitious stunt that raised questions about security and left them facing felony charges.

James Brady, Marko Markovich and Andrew Rossig acknowledge making the Sept. 30 leap from the unfinished 1 World Trade Center, the nation’s tallest building and one of its most security-conscious. But they pleaded not guilty Tuesday to burglary, reckless endangerment and other charges.   Continue reading “Parachutists: We spent 4 hours atop trade center”

The Guardian – by Molly Knefel

The verdict in the biggest Occupy related criminal case in New York City, that of Cecily McMillan, came down Monday afternoon. As disturbing as it is that she was found guilty of felony assault against Officer Grantley Bovell, the circumstances of her trial reflect an even more disturbing reality – that of normalized police violence, disproportionately punitive sentences (McMillan faces seven years in prison), and a criminal penal system based on anything but justice. While this is nothing new for the over-policed communities of New York City, what happened to McMillan reveals just how powerful and unrestrained a massive police force can be in fighting back against the very people with whom it is charged to protect.   Continue reading “Cecily McMillan’s guilty verdict reveals our mass acceptance of police violence”

The Lone Star Watchdog

I am becoming more and more convinced that protesting without any liberty teeth bearing arms to back up what the message is useless at this point. Every time there was unarmed peaceful demonstrations protesting unjust government policy. The system sends in agent provocateurs throwing rocks at the police so the thugs in uniform can beat up and abuse defenseless people at will to demonize the opposition.

The method of unarmed non violent marches are coming to the end unless there is firepower and the willingness to use force in self defense against a rogue government be the deterant to keep the peace. Remember at Waco and Rudy Ridge and all the protest at the WTO in Seattle,WA and the G20 in Pittsburgh,PA . The government will not hesitate to use deadly force against its own people, especially when unarmed. Mothers pushing strollers and old ladies returning from the store shopping were indiscriminately abused by the police who had nothing to do with the protesting.    Continue reading “12 Reasons and Suggestions Why We Should Stay Home and Not Attend the DC March May 16, 2014”