From the Trenches World Report

The Real Agenda – by LUIS R. MIRANDA

The European Union is about to make its threat to punish Russia for invading the Crimea a reality. Community experts are now working on penalties that will realize the warnings shouted out on Thursday by the Heads of State and Government meeting in Brussels.

If Moscow shows no signs of wanting to ease the tension “other sanctions could be imposed this week ,” warned Tuesday the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius. The measures will be prepared for next Monday, according to EU sources report.   Continue reading “European Union Prepares more Sanctions against Russia”

Guerrilla America – by Steven Barry

Individual underground and resistance operatives expected to cope with sophisticated law enforcement practices or security organizations are often at a singular disadvantage in their efforts to understand systematized techniques and practices of clandestine behavior. The varieties of this behavior, known collectively as “tradecraft,” are a traditional province of secret intelligence and special operations; fields reluctant to shed light on operational methods and procedures. There is a dearth of reliable material in the literature of underground and resistance intelligence and unless the operative has an appropriate background, attempts to obtain useful extracts from the broader open literature will prove difficult indeed.   Continue reading “Principles of Clandestine Behavior”

DC Clothesline – by Paul Joseph Watson

Officer who couldn’t wait to “bang down your door and come for your gun” still under investigation

The second amendment activist who brought light to a Facebook conversation in which a Connecticut police officer said he couldn’t wait to “bang down your door and come for your gun,” says he has received threats after the story gained national media attention.   Continue reading “Gun Activist Who Exposed ‘Bang Your Door Down’ Cop Receives Threats”

Mashable – by Amanda Wills

An oil rig worker working off the south-eastern coast of Vietnam claims to have witnessed the crash of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

In a email sent to his employer, which was acquired, confirmed, and then shared by the ABC journalist Bob Woodruff, the man says, “I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down. The timing is right.”   Continue reading “Oil Rig Worker: ‘I Saw the Malaysia Airlines Plane Come Down’”

Fool at work was arguing with me. I looked this up.

Harvard School of Public Health- by Marge Dwyer

July 25, 2012 — For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment. In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.   Continue reading “Impact of fluoride on neurological development in children”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

We’ve entered Mel Brooks level government comedy. Can someone play a sad song on the world’s smallest violin for this woman?

In the ultimate dictionary definition act of hypocrisy, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is complaining that the CIA violated her committee’s Fourth Amendment rights when she claims the agency removed several key documents from committee computers.   Continue reading “Rep. Amash to Sen. Feinstein: ‘Hypocrites Like You Are Why the Public Doesn’t Trust Congress’”

All Outdoor – by Major Pandemic

After the harassment I took for publishing the Leupold VX-R Hog optic review and not following up immediately with the review of the full Ultimate Hog Hunter Build, I thought I had better get to posting what can be only described as gun porn.   Continue reading “Ultimate Lightweight .308 AR Hog Rifle”

AOL

Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, was robbed of more than half a million dollars Sunday.

Authorities say $600,000 in cash, checks and credit card donations were discovered missing and presumed stolen sometime between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.

KRIV reports all $600,000 in donations were collected during church services Saturday and Sunday and then placed in a safe. But online donations are safe – the theft did not include any online data breaches.   Continue reading “$600K stolen from Joel Osteen’s Lakewood church in Houston”

America’s Freedom Fighters – by Clark Kent

AMERICAS FREEDOM FIGHTERS RECEIVES MANY LETTERS FROM MILITARY MEMBERS-ACTIVE DUTY AS WELL AS RETIRED VETERANS FROM ALL BRANCHES EXPRESSING THEIR CONCERNS ON THE CURRENT STATE OF AMERICA AND THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. WE FEEL IT IS OUR DUTY TO RELEASE SOME OF THESE LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC AND TRUST YOU WILL FIND THIS VERY INTERESTING.

To: Connecticut, DC, and the United States of America From: An American, a patriot, and a former US Marine.   Continue reading “Anonymous Letter from a Former Marine All Americans Need to Read”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The tit-for-tat sabre-rattling and rhetoric continues to build ahead of this weekend’s planned referendum in Ukraine’s Crimea region. This morning has seen 3 new threads beginning with Ukraine’s “live-fire” exercises involving T-64B tanks. This was then followed by warnings from Russia of “consequences” of “unconditionally indulging radical elements” in Ukraine calling US financial aid “illegal” which was swiftly responded to by the State Department exclaiming it “unacceptable” that Russian forces take matters into their own hands and “do not create the right environment for diplomacy.” Not positive…   Continue reading “Russia Warns US Against “Illegal” Ukraine Bailout; Ukraine Commences Live-Fire “Drill” With Tanks”

SF Gate – by Kevin Fagan, Jaxon Van Derbeken, Victoria Colliver and Vivian Ho

A fast-moving fire that consumed a large apartment building under construction in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood burned into the night Tuesday, but firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading to nearby structures.

The five-alarm fire engulfed the building on Fourth Street near China Basin Street just before 5 p.m., sending black smoke thousands of feet into the sky. Scaffolding melted as chunks of the six-story, 80-foot-tall building fell away. Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White called it the city’s largest blaze in several years.   Continue reading “Huge fire destroys Mission Bay construction project”

Stop the Drug War – by Philip Smith

The District of Columbia Board of Elections announced this morning that it had approved a marijuana legalization initiative for signature-gathering. That means voters in the nation’s capital could vote to free the weed in November.

The Board rejected warnings from the city’s attorney general, who said that the initiative would put DC in conflict with federal law if it passed.   Continue reading “DC Marijuana Legalization Initiative Approved for Signature-Gathering”