From the Trenches World Report

Henry Makow – by Anthony Migchels

After five years, the verdict is out on Bitcoins: they represent a ‘free market’ Globalist dream, paving the way for a global cashless currency.

Its rise in value is quite stunning. Bitcoin started trading in early 2009 at just a few cents. Later in 2011, a Bitcoin was worth $6 and today people pay about $650. Recently, it reached $1000, when Chinese buyers started weighing in but took a big hit when the Chinese Government clamped down, citing ‘lack of consumer protection’. Bitcoin has crashed a couple of times on the way up, but has always rebounded.    Continue reading “Bitcoins – Trial Run for Cashless Currency”

Duh Progressive – by Nancy Pelosi [SATIRE]

Dear Fellow Americans,

Among the many fears people are expressing about the Affordable Care Act is the supposed extra hours it will force people to spend if they have the misfortune of having to go to hospital emergency rooms.   Continue reading “Nancy Pelosi: ‘‘Waiting hours longer in the emergency room will allow you to make new friends!’’”

The Organic Prepper

Finally, after 3 years of the driest conditions in the state’s history, California Governor Jerry Brown has declared an emergency.

On Friday, the governor took the formal step of officially declaring this an emergency situation.

“Today I’m declaring a drought emergency in the state of California, because we’re facing perhaps the worst drought that California has ever seen since records began being kept about 100 years ago.”   Continue reading “California Governor Declares Drought Emergency: Conservation Measures are Voluntary…For Now”

NBC New York

Hundreds of people are searching for a missing 55-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter who left his New Jersey home for a walk on Saturday and never came back.

Sources close to the family told NBC News Thursday that the missing man’s credit card was used in Mexico Wednesday night. The family believes that his coverage of OPEC may be related to his disappearance.

The Journal said 55-year-old David Bird covers energy markets for the paper. He has also worked for The Associated Press and the Trenton Times.   Continue reading “Wall Street Journal Reporter Goes Missing in New Jersey, Credit Card Mysteriously Used in Mexico”

Daily Mail

The Obamas’ summer break on Martha’s Vineyard has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple arrived four hours apart on separate government jets.

But according to new reports, this is the least of their extravagances.

White House sources today claimed that the First Lady has spent $10million of U.S. taxpayers’ money on vacations alone in the past year.   Continue reading “First Lady accused of spending $10m in public money on her vacations”

Talking Points Memo – by CAITLIN MACNEAL

Breitbart

DEMING, N.M., Jan. 17 (UPI) —  Authorities in Hidalgo County, N.M., have settled a lawsuit for $1.6 million with a man who claims they illegally made him undergo colonoscopies and enemas.

David Eckert, 54, filed a lawsuit against the county and its police department in 2013, for allegedly violating his constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures during a 12-hour ordeal early in January 2013, CNN reported.   Continue reading “Man forced by police to have enemas, colonoscopy settles lawsuit”

Voice of America -by Daniel Schearf

SEOUL — A recent geological study indicates North Korea could hold some 216 million tons of rare earths, minerals used in electronics such as smartphones and high definition televisions.

If verified, the discovery would more than double global known sources and be six times the reserves in China, the market leader.

British Islands-based private equity firm SRE Minerals Limited announced the study results in December, along with a 25-year deal to develop the deposits in Jongju, northwest of the capital, Pyongyang.   Continue reading “North Korea’s Rare Earths Could be Game Changer”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

As we previously explained numerous times (here originally and here most recently) Africa is a crucial region in the world…

As Western economies start to regress in earnest following decades of failed and destructive monetary inflation and debt accumulation, as we warned previously, yield-starved investors are allocating real capital to the one industrially untapped continent in the world: Africa. However, we’re not seeing industry moving to Africa to set up shop. Rather, politically-directed capital flowing into the African resources sector is fueling and financing the strongest consumer boom in the world. It’s a vendor financing model for Asia, and it portends a major boom and bust cycle for the African continental economy.   Continue reading “How Erik Prince, Founder Of Blackwater, Will Help China Subjugate Africa”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

Northeast Intelligence Network – by Douglas J. Hagmann

A few days ago, I was given a gift of sorts. It arrived in a plain  manila envelope with no return address. Inside was a note that stated that I would know precisely what to do with the information this anonymous source provided. That source was indeed correct.

According to this benefactor of inside information, the electric bills  of certain companies for the next billing cycle and employee overtime costs for the next pay schedule will be particularly high due to the cost of operating shredders and paying people to use them. Continue reading “Shredding the layers of the ObamaCare onion”

Militia News – by Jack Wheeler

The O-man, Barack Hussein Obama, is an eloquently tailored empty suit. No resume, no accomplishments, no experience, no original ideas, no understanding of how the economy works, no understanding of how the world works, no balls, nothing but abstract, empty rhetoric devoid of real substance.   Continue reading “The Best Description Of Barack Obama”

My Budget 360

There is always a trade-off in economics.  The adage about a free lunch comes to mind to the rise of low wage capitalism in America.  It is a complicated web driven by financial cronyism and a system largely driven by ignoring the plight of the working class.  The story of US manufacturing is probably one tiny example of how we exported our middle class in exchange for cheaper goods and a massive amount of income inequality at the top.  Yet there is a winner here as well.  Continue reading “The biggest export from America? The middle class. The trade-off for cheap goods and financial cronyism is coming back in a big way.”