From the Trenches World Report

Reuters

The central banks of Germany and China signed an agreement on Friday to facilitate transactions in the Chinese currency in Frankfurt, the Bundesbank said, making Germany’s financial capital the first hub for such payments in Europe.

The Bundesbank and the People’s Bank of China signed a memorandum of understanding during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Germany on Friday, ahead of a similar agreement between China and Britain expected on Monday.   Continue reading “Frankfurt becomes Europe’s first renminbi payment hub”

The Intercept – by Glenn Greenwald

Over the last 40 years, the U.S. government has relied on extreme fear-mongering to demonize transparency. In sum, every time an unwanted whistleblower steps forward, we are treated to the same messaging: You’re all going to die because of these leakers and the journalists who publish their disclosures! Lest you think that’s hyperbole, consider this headline from last week based on an interview with outgoing NSA chief Keith Alexander:   Continue reading “NSA Blows Its Own Top Secret Program in Order to Propagandize”

Ready Chimp – by Code Breaker

What happens to a society when thinking outside of the box or being righteously enraged about your government going in the wrong direction becomes an excuse to be sedated and re-educated? It seems we don’t have to go too far back in history to find out.

The Soviet Union used new mental illness for political repression. People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a new type of schizophrenia. They suffered from the delusion of believing communism was wrong. They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive “therapy” to bring them back to sanity.   Continue reading “Creativity and Non-Conformity Now listed as a Mental Illness by Psychiatrists”

KOAT 7 News – by Mike Springer

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —A protest over the Albuquerque Police Department’s use of force stretched late into Sunday night.

The protest finally ended just before midnight.

Around 9 p.m., police used tear gas in an attempt to put an end to the demonstration.   Continue reading “APD protest ends after 12 hours, tense moments”

Global Research – by Umberto Pascali

Russia “forced” by the sanctions to create a currency system which is independent from the US dollar.  

Russia announces that it will sell (and buy) products and commodities – including oil – in rubles rather than in dollars. The move is towards the development of bilateral.

Putin has been preparing this move — the creation of a payment system in rubles completely independent and protected from the Dollar and the “killer speculations” (e.g. short-selling) of the big Western financial institutions — for a long time.   Continue reading “Putin Flushes the US Dollar: Russia’s Gold Ruble Payments System Delinked from Dollar?”

Food Storage and Survival – by Angela

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ProgressNow NM, March 5, 2014

With two major law enforcement agencies under criticism for their uses of force – including the Albuquerque Police Department under DOJ investigation – the state board responsible for police training has hired a new “paramilitary” director who dumped responsible use of force training in favor of more “shoot first” scenarios.

A New Mexico State Police officer made national news in October when he opened fire on a van full of children after the mother drove away from a rural traffic stop.   Continue reading “New militarized police training introduces “shoot first” policy for New Mexico cops”

Zero Hedge- by Tyler Durden

As we reported last night, Japan’s economy may once again be relapsing into a slowing phase, perversely well in advance of the dreaded sales-tax hike which many expect will catalyze Japan’s collapse into another recession as happened the last time Japan had a tax hike, but that doesn’t mean its population should be prevented from enjoying the heavily energized local atmosphere buzzing with the hope and promise of imminent paper-based “wealth effects” for those long the daily pen Nikkeistock rollercoaster…. and just as buzzing with copious gamma rays of course. Which is why for the first time in over three years, since Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, residents of a small district 20 km from the wrecked plant are about to be allowed to return home. Because if the honest Japanese government says it is safe, then so it must be.   Continue reading “Japan Gives Residents All Clear To Return To Fukushima Disaster “Hot Zone””

All Gov – by Steve Straehley

Although all federal contracts are supposed to be put out to bid, more than a third of them are non-competitive, that is there is only one vendor bidding on the chance to sell U.S. taxpayers goods and services.

The General Accounting Office (GAO) said that in fiscal 2013, the federal government agreed to $459 billion in contracts to purchase goods and services. Of that total, about $164 billion, or 35.7%, was in noncompetitive contracts.   Continue reading “U.S. Government Gives Out $164 Billion in Non-Competitive Contracts in One Year”

William Shakespeare once wrote, “All the world’s a stage”. Words can never ring more true than where we are at today.

In the NWO black and white, West corner of the ring, we have the 6 foot 2 inch tall Manchurian Candidate, Barry Soetoro, the illegal, narcissistic, foreign, homosexual, Communist rat from Kenya, weighing at a tiny 165 pounds, with a 13 ½ shoe size and afraid to break a nail, swaggers in a third world, cocky way and who cannot say anything without his teleprompter and is more than happy to take credit for something good, but runs away like a sissy and searches for a scapegoat when something falls apart.    Continue reading “Putin and Obama: The Staged Wrestling Match of the World!”

Political Outcast – by Mark Horne

Just to review, in Kansas you can be SWAT-raided and never be permitted to learn the basis for the warrant. This means the police can get a warrant for bogus reasons and reasonably expect that, if their victims are innocent, they will never be able to call them into an account.

So naturally, the Kansas state legislature has decided to add official protections to the police so that they are still more invulnerable to public scrutiny.   Continue reading “Kansas Considers A “Punish Complainers & Silence Critics” Bill”

YJN – by Aryeh Savir

NSNBC

AD : The long-awaited municipal elections are complete in Turkey, under the shadow of the alleged widespread infractions by the AKP throughout the entire night of 30 March. A great number of official reports by the supervisors of ballot boxes, were issued against the AKP, who allegedly generated faked ballots and registered Syrian opposition members as Turkish citizens.   Continue reading “Turkey: Cheats Triumph in Election – Wide Spead and Systemic Fraud”

Western Journalism – by B. Christopher Agee

A recently released internal document shows what type of group Homeland Security believes poses a serious cyber terrorism threat. The lengthy report was intended for “Trusted Agents Only” and included information the agency stipulated could be “disseminated only on a need-to-know basis.”

The entire document was leaked, however; and a passage near the very end reveals a training exercise that might explain the perceived need for such stringent secrecy. According to directives, even those directly involved in the mission were not to be allowed access to the files.   Continue reading “You’ll Never Guess Who Homeland Security Considers A Terrorist Threat…”