From the Trenches World Report

World Events and the Bible

(Source: SHTF Plan) – On Tuesday morning my good friend Ed Thomas and I sat down for breakfast at the local IHOP in Killeen, TX about 10 minutes from the entrance gates of the Fort Hood military base.

Ed, who is one of the folks behind The Daily Sheeple news web site, is a retired Army veteran who spent nearly two years in the middle of it all while in Baghdad, Iraq. As is generally the case when Ed and I get together, we discussed a whole host of topics, one of which happened to be the 2009 Fort Hood shooting involving Nidal Hasan.   Continue reading “Outrage Over Gun Free Zone: “The Very People Trained To Take Out Armed Attackers… Are Disarmed.””

Stan Deyo – by Holly Deyo

WHY ARE FOOD PRICES SO HIGH?

Everyone is complaining about sky high food prices. Why are they going nuts? The fault is mostly due to harsh weather conditions of drought, vicious storms, floods, soggy soil, hail, frost and ice, and ferocious winds. Escalating extremes have beaten fruits, vegetables and farm animals to death around the world and we’re paying for it – literally. In the last 3 years, America was slammed with 32 multi-billion dollar disasters that for the most part, hit during crop-growing seasons. The 2012 Drought / Heatwave alone took a $30 billion bite out of peoples’ pockets.   Continue reading “Garden Like Your Life Depends on It!”

Not a joke. He actually believes that they desreve more money.

WTOP

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress make $174,000 a year, but retiring Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., says that’s not enough.

Moran tells CQ Roll Call that members need bigger paychecks because they have to maintain two residences — one in their home district, and one in Washington.   Continue reading “Moran: $174K a year is not enough for members of Congress”

RT News

Rep. Mike Pompeo will introduce legislation backed by powerful trade groups to prevent states from passing laws requiring the labeling of genetically-modified foods, according to reports. The bill is linked to biotech giant Monsanto and Koch Industries.

Pompeo will offer the bill in the US House before Congress leaves for Easter recess later this month, The Hill newspaper reported, citing industry sources. Politico also reported on the impending proposal. Pompeo’s office would not comment on the congressman’s intentions for a labeling restriction.   Continue reading “Koch ally to introduce Monsanto-backed bill to bar state GMO labeling laws”

The Guardian – by Emma Graham-Harrison

An Afghan police officer has shot dead a foreign photographer and badly injured another in the country’s violent east, as they were covering preparations for the country’s presidential election.

The man opened fire on Anja Niedringhaus and Kathy Gannon from theAssociated Press in a police headquarters in Khost province, after the women arrived with a convoy of election materials on Friday.   Continue reading “Two Associated Press journalists shot in Afghanistan”

Crime File News

Los Angeles, CA—I have a deep and unending love for Europe especially, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and of course Switzerland.  The culture, art and elegance of Europe are only matched by their terrific and productive people.

The 18 months I spent in Aschaffenburg, Germany in my youth serving as an Army medical corpsman as part of my compulsory military service was nothing less than pure joy for me.    Continue reading “My Dear European Friends Have Grave Concerns About Gun Liberty”

Fox News – by Jay Sekulow

Our “pen and phone” president is at it again.

The Department of Commerce, in a Friday night release, signaled that it was going to give up American control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which assigns and maintains domain names and web addresses for the Internet.   Continue reading “Why would Obama risk Internet freedom? Time for Congress to step up”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger

It appears the U.S. government is doing its best to ensure that nobody anywhere in any corner of planet earth will ever trust American technology again (or U.S. aid for that matter). This process of distrust first really got going with the Edward Snowden revelations, which demonstrated that essentially all major U.S. tech firms are mere wards of the state with little to no privacy protections, and absolutely zero backbone.   Continue reading “Conspiracy Fact – How the U.S. Government Covertly Invented a “Cuban Twitter” to Create Revolution”

The Kansas City Star – by TONY RIZZO

Global Research – by Colin Todhunter

The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) between the US and EU aims to ‘protect’ investment and remove ‘unnecessary regulatory barriers’. Corporate interests are driving the agenda, the public have been sidelined and unaccountable, pro-free-trade bureaucrats are facilitating the strategy (1). 

 There is growing concern that the negotiations could result in the opening of the floodgates for GMOs and shale gas (fracking) in Europe, the threatening of digital and labour rights and the empowering of corporations to legally challenge a wide range of regulations which they dislike.   Continue reading “The US-EU Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). Devastating Social and Environmental Consequences”

AOL –  by Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld

(Reuters) – U.S. attorneys general have launched a multi-state investigation into a breach in which criminals gained access to a repository of some 200 million social security numbers through a unit of data provider Experian Plc.

“We are investigating,” said Maura Possley, a spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. “It’s part of a multistate investigation.”   Continue reading “U.S. states probing security breach at Experian unit”

 

Continue reading “Caught in the Crossfire”