From the Trenches World Report

Argentina Independent – by Lillo Montalto Monella

Uruguayan President José Mujica is the poorest president in the world, according to the news website Infobae.com: he earns US$12,500 per month and donates 90% of it to charities.

“His only property is his old Volkswaken, and he lives in an humble ranch in the outskirts of the capital,” the website writes. “But there are others who live with less,” Mujica said.

The donated 90% of the presidential salary goes to NGOs involved in social housing and to the Fondo Raúl Sendic, a fund that administrates Mujica’s political movement, the MMP (Movivimento de Participación Popular) and collaborates with many local charities.   Continue reading “Uruguay: President Donates 90% of His Salary to the Poorest”

Alarabiya News

Visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in New Delhi on Saturday he no longer “trusts” the United States, accusing the Americans of saying one thing and doing another in his troubled homeland.

Karzai’s statement to journalists came a day after he insisted he would not be “intimidated” into signing a security pact allowing U.S. troops in Afghanistan to stay on after next year.    Continue reading “Afghan president says he does not ‘trust’ U.S.”

The Organic Prepper

Aside from the gifts under the tree, one of the big expenses of the holidays is the food.  Nearly everyone finds that their grocery bill is up this time of year.  You’re hosting parties, putting together a no-holds-barred Christmas morning breakfast, and making a gigantic feast for friends and family.

Stop!  You don’t have to go broke to enjoy the holidays!  It doesn’t matter what the neighbors are putting on their table this year.  Particularly if the money is stretched thin, there are lots of ways to make your dinner frugal, but still festive.   Continue reading “How to Make a Frugal and Festive Christmas Dinner from the Pantry”

An excellent perspective and well written article, however, one must get beyond the proper use and misspelling of: “leaf, border, and propaganda”, in order to realize the intent of the author.

Information Clearinghouse – by Anthony Evans

After reading a large number of well expressed and passionately motivated comments relating to the subject of war and the injustices and atrocities happening on a daily bases, an analogy I once heard of a sick and dying tree always comes to mind.    Continue reading “Human Farms – Global Leadership – It’s Broke and it Needs Fixing”

Political Film

Here’s your Holy Shit moment of the day:

That’s because the detailed 35-page affidavit supporting the request for a search warrant of Don and Bill Whittington’s air charter company filed at the United States District Court in Grand Junction Colorado has been sealed.   Continue reading “Huge Drug Cover-Up in Ft. Lauderdale”

The Washington Times – by Shaun Waterman

A program that gives coveted immigrant green cards to wealthy foreign investors was so susceptible to fraud and abuse that it was used by an Iranian network that sought to send banned high technology home and spread terrorism abroad, federal investigators said.

The EB-5 program was used by “a network involved in a series of international assassinations and terrorism operations” that also was “procuring a variety of goods for Iranian entities,” states an unsigned memo from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made public Thursday. The memo was written in response to questions asked by Janet A. Napolitano as homeland security secretary.   Continue reading “Senator’s memo shows Iran links in Homeland Security’s troubled immigration program”

WND – by Michael Volpe

The Internal Revenue Service, the one single federal agency that probably engenders more fear than any other, is backing down.

And it took the veterans of the American military to make it happen.

The American Legion is reporting on its website that a regulation which was costing that organization thousands of dollars, dozens of man-hours for compliance, and plenty of headaches, is being changed.   Continue reading “IRS Retreats from Attack on Veterans”

ENE News

Asahi Shimbun, Dec. 14, 2013: Fire engines were used in a desperate, and ultimately futile, attempt to pump water to cool overheating reactors during the early phase of the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant disaster, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. According to a Dec. 13 report by the operator of the crippled facility, water was pumped in sufficient quantity to avert core meltdowns in the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors, but much of it strayed into irrelevant pipes and ended up elsewhere. […] water failed to cool it and the other reactors efficiently, and could not stop the core meltdowns in the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors. […] TEPCO officials said they knew as early as late March 2011 […] “We should have shared the finding with the public in the belief it would help promote universal safety, but failed to do so,” said [a] TEPCO Managing Executive Officer […]   Continue reading “Tepco: We should have told public this sooner… we failed to cool molten fuel after meltdowns began — Experts: Fukushima cesium release could be more than triple Chernobyl”

Charleston Voice

Will you be one of those Americans on the list to be given advance notice of the US “Confiscation Day”?

ADDENDUM: Cyprus President’s Family Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Haircuts      Continue reading “List of 132 Names Released of Cyprus Elites and Companies Who Emptied Bank Deposits Ahead Of “Confiscation Day” for Commoners”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

I really wish I didn’t have to write this post, but these execrable ”journalists” covering the Arapahoe High School shooting are giving me little choice but to confront their deception head-on.

As we now know, the shooter yesterday in Centennial, CO,  was an 18-year-old male. He was presumably angry with the school librarian (who was also the coach of the debate team). The shooter took the debate team very seriously, and there was some sort of  change in his status on the team, though it remains unclear at the moment whether he was kicked off the team, suspended from it, or merely demoted.   Continue reading “Lying to protect “the big lie” of gun free zones”

III Percent Patriots

I have been criticized by referring to our federal masked men as ‘ninja’ … Let us reflect upon the fact that a man who covers his face shows reason to be ashamed of what he is doing.

A man who takes it upon himself to shed blood while concealing his identity is a revolting perversion of the warrior ethic.   Continue reading “A Quote from Jeff Cooper”

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

AlterNet – by Emily DePrang, Texas Observer

Sebastian Prevot watched helplessly as three police officers advanced on his wife. Prevot was handcuffed and bleeding in the back of a cop car. Half of his left ear dangled where it had been torn from his head. The Houston Police Department doesn’t deny that its officers gave Prevot these injuries during a late-night arrest in January 2012. The only dispute is whether he earned them.

Prevot had been returning home from a night out with a friend. He was two miles from his house when he stopped just past the white line at a four-way stop sign. Two officers in a patrol car tried to pull him over, but he kept driving. Prevot says he didn’t want to pull over and continued home—“going the speed limit, stopping at every stop sign”—because he knew he was about to be detained and have his car impounded.   Continue reading “The Horror Every Day: Why Police Brutality Goes Unpunished”