From the Trenches World Report

RT News

Swiss bank Credit Suisse pleaded guilty Monday to the charge that it facilitated wealthy Americans who sought to commit tax evasion, becoming the first major bank to admit criminal wrongdoing in over 20 years and agreeing to pay $2.6 billion in fines.

The settlement announcement Monday included an acknowledgement from bank officials that they knowingly and intentionally helped thousands of US citizens put their money into offshore accounts, allowing them to hide financial assets from the US Internal Revenue Service. US Attorney General Eric Holder, who has been criticized for being too slow to go after major banks, told reporters that the admission of guilt was a major step forward for prosecutors investigating financial institutions.   Continue reading “Swiss bank admits to helping wealthy Americans avoid taxes, fined $2.6 bn”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

In the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre hoax, the Obama regime and Congressional Democrats made every effort to effectuate gun control on the federal level — to no avail.

So the POS is now going the stealth route by driving gun manufacturers and retailers out of business via choking off their sales and bank credit.   Continue reading “Obama’s stealth gun-control by driving gun sellers out of business”

RT News

A top aide to the Turkish PM, Ysuf Yerkel, has been given a week’s sick leave for “leg trauma” he sustained after kicking a mourner following Turkey’s worst mining disaster in history.

A picture of Yerkel kicking a protester who was being restrained by two security force members emerged last week following the official visit of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to the town of Soma in the wake of the mining disaster on May 13.    Continue reading “Turkish PM’s aide granted sick leave for ‘trauma’ after kicking mine tragedy mourner”

This girl obviously has head issues.

Mail.com

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — What happens when you invite Vice President Joe Biden to your high school prom? For one student he couldn’t make it, but he sent a personal reply.

Talia Maselli reached out to Biden last fall, knowing his dance card likely would fill up. Biden sent a handwritten card and a corsage — baby’s breath, white roses and red, white and blue ribbons. Biden’s office says he was touched by the invitation and personally picked out the corsage so Maselli would feel special.   Continue reading “Biden turns down prom invitation but sends corsage”

21st Century Wire

Before Federal trolls or indoctrinated government “true believers”, starts spreading their slurs, you had better gauge the sentiment in the real America.

Seventy-two percent of Americans, in a Gallop poll say big government is a greater threat to the U.S. in the future than is big business or big labor, a record high in the nearly 50-year history of this question. Yet the “so called” authorities would have you accept that only a conspiracy theorist thinks that the great protectors of law and order are capable of routing out Christians, 2nd Amendments advocates, ’911 Truth’ proponents, Tea Party members, Patriot-Liberty groups or ‘Global Warming deniers’, and confining them to prison gulags (bear in mind, it wouldn’t be the first time in history this has happened by government). So when the House introduced HR 645, in 2009 that directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers on military installations, every citizen should feel threatened by its own government. Continue reading “Martial Law Feasibility Study for the ‘Homeland Security Society’”

Police State USA

CHICAGO, IL — An investigation regarding the in-custody death of a mentally ill man has revealed that police tasered him a total of 16 times while shackled.  Video shows that police used the taser as a compliance tool in a jail cell and were laughing during the incident.  The man was also tased repeatedly as he was taken to court and then to the hospital, until he died.   Continue reading “Chicago jailers laughed while fatally tasing mentally ill man 16 times”

Department of Defense – by Terry Moon Cronk

WASHINGTON, May 19, 2014 – U.S. forces along with those from more than 20 other nations will begin military exercises in Jordan next week.

Pentagon Spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said today Eager Lion 14 will begin May 25 in what will be Jordan’s fourth annual, large-scale multilateral military exercises.   Continue reading “U.S. Troops to Take Part in Jordanian Exercise”

Reuters

TOKYO May 19 (Reuters) – Japanese utility Tohoku Electric Power Co said on Monday it would buy more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the U.S. Cameron project, increasing its purchase to 570,000 tonnes per year, using U.S. Henry Hub natural gas-linked prices.

Tohoku said it signed a basic pact with GDF Suez, which holds a 16.6 percent stake in the Cameron LNG project, to buy 270,000 tonnes per year of LNG for 20 years from 2018 or 2019.   Continue reading “Japan’s Tohoku to buy more LNG from US Cameron project”

Huffington Post- by Zach Carter and Kate Sheppard

WASHINGTON — The European Union is pressing the Obama administration to expand U.S. fracking, offshore oil drilling and natural gas exploration under the terms of a secret negotiation text obtained by The Huffington Post.

The controversial document is an early draft of energy policies that EU negotiators hope to see adopted under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal, which is currently being negotiated. The text was shared with American officials in September. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative declined to comment on the document.   Continue reading “Read The Secret Trade Memo Calling For More Fracking and Offshore Drilling”

E&E News – by Mike Lee, May 16, 2014

People who disclose confidential information about hydraulic fracturing chemicals in North Carolina would be subject to criminal penalties and civil damages, under a bill in the state Legislature.

The “Energy Modernization Act,” which was introduced yesterday, would make it a Class I felony to disclose trade secrets related to hydraulic fracturing, while spelling out how the information is supposed to be provided to emergency workers. Class I is the lowest-level felony, punishable by a few months’ imprisonment.   Continue reading “N.C. bill would make it a felony to disclose fracking chemicals”

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Two Ice Floes – by Mrs. Cog

If you are one of the many people who have a home with a lawn, but know something wicked this way comes, you may have said to yourself, “I have plenty of room in the yard, so I can grow my own food if I need to.” I have heard this from a number of people lately.

Should this be your ‘Plan B’ for extreme food inflation or shortages, you might want to get a jump start on the work involved because it is not easy and involves a number of factors you may not have considered. I know because we are currently undertaking just such a task.   Continue reading “Is Plan B to Turn Your Lawn into a Garden?”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

According to new NSA revelations at the The Intercept on Monday—reported by Ryan Devereaux, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras—the U.S. National Security Agency “is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.”

Based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the surveillance program in the Caribbean nation, known as much in the U.S. as home for off-shore banking and shell corporations as for its luxurious resorts, “is part of a top-secret system – code-named SOMALGET” which has been executed without the knowledge of the Bahamian government.   Continue reading “NSA in the Bahamas: ‘Data Pirates of the Caribbean’”

US Border Patrol Retiree Blog

President Obama has taken extraordinary steps to restrict immigration law enforcement in our nation’s interior.  Ex-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was all too willing to support Obama’s anti-enforcement ideology by implementing enforcement policies that effectively gifted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have had their hands tied to such an extent that an illegal alien who slips past the Border Patrol now faces little risk of being arrested and deported.   Continue reading “Demonizing The Border Patrol Is Part Of Comprehensive Immigration Reform”

Theo Spark

I don’t carry a gun to kill people.
I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people.
I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid.
I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
Continue reading “People Ask Why I Carry A Gun”