From the Trenches World Report

WND – by Leo Hohmann

The Obama administration, shortly after taking control of the federal bureaucracy, changed student privacy laws so that government can track their progress from “cradle to career,” monitoring everything from math and reading skills to values, opinions and attitudes.

More and more people don’t like that. And they are just saying “no” to the government.

It is the amount of student data being collected that ballooned under the new Common Core national education standards, fueled fears of abuse and sparked a growing backlash against the testing system used to scoop up highly personal information.   Continue reading “Education? No, It’s About Data-Mining”

Breitbart – by Wynton Hall

A devastating new McKinsey & Co. report finds that Obamacare’s purported purpose – providing coverage for the previously uninsured – has failed.

The report concludes that 74% of Obamacare enrollees at the end of the first open enrollment period already had insurance; just 26% reported being previously uninsured. Of those who were previously uninsured, the figure drops to only 22% when considered alongside whether the individual has activated his plan by paying his first month’s premium.   Continue reading “Revealed: 74% of Obamacare ‘Enrollees’ Already Had Insurance”

Fox News

The government has failed to inspect thousands of oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination and other environmental damage, congressional investigators say.

The report, obtained by The Associated Press before its public release, highlights substantial gaps in oversight by the agency that manages oil and gas development on federal and Indian lands.    Continue reading “BLM failed to inspect higher risk oil wells”

Carol Bundy email: Hi,

We need some support in Salt Lake City, Utah.  State Rep. Ken Ivory will be debating the Transfer of Public Lands with former BLM Director Pay Shay.

As you may know Rep. Ken Ivory spearheaded a Utah Law to force the Federal Government to turn over control of all public lands in the State of Utah.  
Continue reading “Please attend: TPL Debate in Salt Lake Utah Wed May 14 7PM”

Common Dreams – by David Cole

Supporters of the National Security Agency inevitably defend its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records on the ground that it is only collecting so-called “metadata”—who you call, when you call, how long you talk. Since this does not include the actual content of the communications, the threat to privacy is said to be negligible. That argument is profoundly misleading.    Continue reading “‘We Kill People Based on Metadata’”

Albuquerque Journal

The water is drying up, making every stream worth a fight.

Ranchers in Otero County are wrangling with the Forest Service over a patch of land where a creek called Agua Chiquita runs.

The Forest Service says it built a new, sturdy fence to keep cattle away from a recovering river habitat, but cattlemen say the new fence and locked gates infringe on long-standing water rights.   Continue reading “NM ranchers confront feds over water”

Rense.com – by Jim Kirwan

While the wars continue in the Middle-East and in Ukraine; all those wars are still being directed and controlled by the Siren-calls that emanate from inside the Stazi Israeli State of USI, the corporations and Zionists worldwide.

I was censored today while trying to connect to a two hour radio interview on the web that would have had open phone-lines to the public to discuss current realities in the world. That was a first!   Continue reading “Asymmetrical War In The U.S.”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

In a new policy directive from the Obama administrative, national security and other government officials will no longer be allowed to publicly discuss or even reference news reporting that is based on “unauthorized leaks.”

President Obama once promised the American people that his administration would be the most transparent in history, but after years of fights with civil libertarians trying to obtain legal memos used to justify the president’s overseas assassination program, an unprecedented pattern of prosecuting government whistleblowers, the targeting of journalists, and all the secrecy and obfuscation related to the NSA’s mass surviellance programs made public by Edward Snowden, that claim is now met with near universal laughter, if not scorn, by critics.   Continue reading “Obama Directive Makes Mere Citing of Snowden Leaks Punishable Offense”

Huffington Post

(Reuters) – A police officer who shot and killed a 93-year-old woman as she brandished a firearm in a small Texas town was fired on Saturday, a police official said.

Officer Stephen Stem fatally shot Pearlie Golden in Hearne, Texas, on Tuesday after responding to an emergency call about a woman with a gun, the Robertson County District Attorney’s Office said earlier this week.   Continue reading “Stephen Stem, Officer Who Shot, Killed 93-Year-Old Fired From Force”

USA Today – by Gary Strauss

Dozens of snowplows took to the streets of Denver early Monday, after a powerful spring storm made a wet, cold mess of Mother’s Day in parts of Colorado and Wyoming, while powerful thunderstorms moving through Nebraska produced damaging tornadoes.

More than a foot of snow fell on parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for most of northern Colorado and parts of southern Wyoming for all of Sunday and for Monday morning.   Continue reading “Snow, severe storms barge into West, central USA”

Israel National News – by Ari Yashar

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reportedly revealed at a Likud conference on Wednesday some remarkable facets of the Basic Law he submitted last Thursday, which would enshrine Israel’s status as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Netanyahu told the head of Likud’s hareidi division Yaakov Vider at the conference that he intends to make the Hebrew calendar, which is based on Jewish law, the official calendar of Israel, reports Kikar Hashabat.   Continue reading “Report: Netanyahu Promises Talmud Will Be Israeli Law”

Bluegrass Pundit

The military’s main focus is defense and winning wars, not diversity. Our military leaders have lost focus of what is important.

Via HuffPo:

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Sunday he believes the military’s ban on transgender Americans serving in the armed forces “should be reviewed.”

Continue reading “Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel open to idea of transgender troops”

Haaretz

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has accepted an Israeli offer to assist in the efforts to find hundreds of schoolgirls who were kidnapped by the extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, AFP reported.

The offer was made on Sunday by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who spoke with Jonathan by phone. “Israel expresses deep shock at the crime against the girls,” Netanyahu told the Nigerian president, according to the prime minister’s bureau. “We are ready to help in finding the girls and fighting the cruel terrorism inflicted on you.”   Continue reading “Nigeria accepts Israeli offer to help find abducted schoolgirls”

IntelNews – by JOSEPH FITSANAKIS

It has been nearly a year since British newspaper The Guardian unveiled the identity of American defector Edward Snowden, whom Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg has called the source of the most significant leak in the history of the United States.

The case of Snowden, a former computer technician for the United States Intelligence Community, who is currently under Russian protection, continues to divide Americans. His defenders see him as a heroic whistleblower who sacrificed his comfortable life and promising career in order to expose the government’s encroachment into the private lives of American citizens. His detractors want him to account for stealing nearly 2 million classified documents and sharing American secrets with Moscow. Continue reading “Pattern of leaks suggests Snowden ‘may have been a Russian spy’”

Press TV

Hundreds of American privates soldiers from a security company with a record of alleged atrocities in Iraq are fighting along with the Ukrainian army against the pro-Russian activists in southeast of Ukraine, according to media reports.

Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, citing country’s federal intelligence agency BND, reported on Sunday that 400 heavily-armed troops working for Academi security company, formerly known as Blackwater, are deployed in Ukraine.
Continue reading “US private troops fighting alongside Ukrainian army against pro-Russians”

Video Rebel’s Blog

Zero Hedge had an article the other day on the decline of the middle class. I would like to include in my discussion the working class because America used to have a skilled work force that was as highly paid as many members of the middle class.

I have dedicated myself to preventing World War III and to the abolition of poverty for the working poor. Today I will address the latter though I believe it will form the basis of saying No to war. Frankly, Americans have the lost the ability to say No to Wall Street and to wars for Israel.   Continue reading “Reversing The Decline Of The Working And Middle Classes”

Police State USA

HONOLULU, HI — A man seeking help during a period of mental instability had his life ended shortly thereafter by police officers who sat on him so long in his driveway that he died of asphyxiation.  The death was officially ruled a homicide, yet no one was ever charged.

The incident took place the morning of February 20th, 2012.  Aaron Torres, 37, called 9-1-1 emergency services himself seeking help.  Torres, who happened to be the transportation captain for the TV series “Hawaii Five-O,” was suffering from a state of delirium caused by substance abuse.   Continue reading “Mentally unstable man seeks help, police suffocate him in his driveway”

The Excavator

Fresh from killing Syrian Christians in Syria, President Obama’s Al-Qaeda terrorist mercenaries are now being deployed to Ukraine alongside Blackwater to kill Eastern Orthodox Christians. And yet the group’s founder, Erik Prince, claims to be a Christian. These mercenaries and murderers, whether they claim to be Muslim or Christian, in reality have no faith, no country, and no conscience.   Continue reading “A Mercenary’s World: Blackwater & Al-Qaeda Are On The Same Team In Ukraine – #BringBackOurTerrorists”