From the Trenches World Report

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

Daniel Drezner has a fairly incredible short blog post over at Foreign Policy magazine about his experience visiting the NSA as the organization is seeking to ramp up its PR campaign about how it’s not actually evil. We’ve already covered the 60 Minutes debacle, but in many ways this piece is just as enlightening, as he notes just how incredibly tone deaf NSA officials appear to be — unable to understand why people are upset about what they’re doing.   Continue reading “Tone Deaf NSA Officials Tell Reporter It’s Time To Reform The First Amendment”

Levant Report

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh wrote an extensive investigative piece last week featured in the London Review of Books, which details the Obama administration’s “cherry-picking” of intelligence related to the August 21 Damascus chemical attack. “Whose sarin?” was originally intended for the Washington Post, but neither the Post nor Hersh’s usual New Yorker Magazine published it – presumably because its allegations and conclusions are too explosive and embarrassing for those already heavily invested in the accepted narrative of D.C. official sources. Read the following bombshell revelation from the first paragraph:   Continue reading “Confirmed in mainstream sources: Syrian rebels possess and have used Chemical Weapons”

Mediaite – by Noah Rothman

On Friday, Colorado’s Arapahoe High School was put on lockdown while a student armed with a shotgun took over the school in an attempt to confront a teacher who he believed had wronged him. The student, identified as 18-year-old Karl Pierson, took his own life before he could be taken into custody.

In a profile on the shooter in the Denver Post which focused on his “strong political beliefs,” several of Pierson’s classmates offered their impressions of the shooter. One of the shooter’s classmates described him as a “very opinionated socialist.” Shortly after that post was published, however, that description was edited out. The current copy simply describes him as “very opinionated.”   Continue reading “Denver Post Stealth Edits Out ‘Socialist’ from Profile of Arapahoe School Shooter”

Tenth American Center

A strand of fiber has a certain strength. It can hold a given weight or withstand a given amount of force before snapping. But when you take multiple strands and braid them together into a rope, you create something even stronger than the sum of the parts.

This is known as synergy, and we see it in many different settings. The U.S.A. hockey team that won the 1980 Olympics was actually not the most talented team. In fact, if you made a player by player comparison between the Americans and the Soviets, the Russians would come out on top in almost every matchup. Really, talentwise, it wasn’t even close.   Continue reading “There is strength in numbers”

Militia News

A good place to start in determining how to enforce the Constitution is with the guy who’s commonly referred to as the “Father of the Constitution.” While there’s some debate that James Wilson was actually far more fitting of that title, Madison was obviously quite influential.

The essential question: When the federal government violates the constitution, what do you do about it?   Continue reading “James Madison On How To Enforce The Constitution.”

Craig, whose broadcast is Forbidden Knowledge every Wednesday at 4:00 Pacific, 7:00 Eastern on Liberty Tree Radio, will be joining us today on The Word From the Trenches to debate our own  JD, US Marine Fighting Tyranny.

The subject matter to be debated is the spread of radiation from Fukushima.  As we all know, JD believes the spread of the radiation across the United States and around the world is extensive whereas Craig contends the failed reactors have had minute to no affect upon the United States and the rest of the world.    Continue reading “Trenchers – Don’t miss THE GREAT DEBATE today on The Word From the Trenches”

Visible Origami

It is a weary landscape for the heart to travel in these days. Because of impossible expectation, ubiquitous perversity and poisonous and inadequate diet (of all kinds), men and women are not often an ideal interactive for each other. You see it in the divorce rates and you see it in the private life scenarios, well, you may not see that end of it but you probably are aware of it, through people you know or in your own life. This is all a part of the Tribe assisted, Satanic elite program of disunity, in the family unit. Continue reading “A Choreographed Comedy of Errors in Search of the Mark.”

Hot Air – by MARY KATHARINE HAM

My, this is an unpleasant consequence of Obamacare. I’m not going to call it unintended because in its current form, it potentially earns a bunch of money for states, so I’m pretty sure that’s intentional. What I think is unintentional is anyone noticing this is what they’re up to.

But the Seattle Times noticed:   Continue reading “Fine print: State can seize your assets to pay for care after you’re forced into Medicaid by Obamacare”

Mail.com

NEW DELHI (AP) — The arrest and alleged strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York City escalated into a major diplomatic furor Tuesday as India’s national security adviser called the woman’s treatment “despicable and barbaric.”

Devyani Khobragade, India’s deputy consul general in New York, is accused of submitting false documents to obtain a work visa for her Manhattan housekeeper. Indian officials said she was arrested and handcuffed Thursday as she dropped off her daughter at school, and was kept in a cell with drug addicts before posting $250,000 bail.   Continue reading “Indian official: Diplomat’s arrest in NYC barbaric”

Ingenious Press

Max Velocity Tactical

It turned out to be a great weekend, despite some challenges getting everyone up to the site on the Saturday morning. Here are some far from professional photos, to give you a flavor, taken on phones. We can, and will, train in bad weather!

As usual, a great group, several of whom were returning students.   Continue reading “Dec 14/15 CRCD Photos – Snowmageddon!”

The Examiner – by SUSAN FERRECHIO

The federal government this year made significant cuts to important services and programs while at the same time wasting $30 billion on frivolous expenditures like the “pillownauts” study NASA conducted to learn the effects of lying in bed all day, a new watchdog report shows.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Tuesday released his fourth annual “Wastebook,” a catalog of questionable government spending that is, at best, pretty wacky (funding for “Popular Romance Project” — $1 million) and, at its worst, infuriating (continuing pay for Army Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter — $52,000).   Continue reading “From the wacky to the infuriating, Sen. Tom Coburn’s annual Wastebook catalogs government waste in lean times”

BuzzFeed – by Cate Sevilla

On Tuesday morning, the Folha de S. Paulonewspaper in Brazil posted the following “open letter to the people of Brazil” from Edward Snowden.

In the letter, Snowden says he’s been impressed by the Brazilian government’s criticism of the massive National Security Agency.   Continue reading “Edward Snowden’s Open Letter To The People Of Brazil”

Henry Makow

We are all affected by “Diversity” but few understand its true nature.

Warning: It isn’t pretty.

“Diversity” is a massive long-term behavior modification program that uses minorities to disinherit the majority.    Continue reading “The Truth About Diversity”

Taipan Magazine – by Randy Harris

The years following World War Two found every major military in the world looking to upgrade their current battle rifles. This was no big surprise, as many nations were still fielding bolt action rifles. The United States was the only country fielding a reliable semi auto main battle rifle in the M1 Garand. The Garand had performed admirably during WWII, but by the 1950s many new designs clearly eclipsed the Garand.   Continue reading “Battle Rifle Breakdown”