From the Trenches World Report

RT News

During the last few hours of a lengthy tenure atop the New York Police Department tainted by both scandal and success, outgoing-NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly echoed soon-to-be-ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg with big words about the city’s boys in blue.

Bloomberg provoked a fair share of criticism from Big Apple residents in late 2011 when he said, “I have my own army in the NYPD . . . the seventh biggest army in the world.”   Continue reading “NYPD a ‘quasi-military organization,’ according to outgoing top-cop Ray Kelly”

The Organic Prepper

Every year, people make a series of New Year’s Resolutions that are usually forgotten by the time you flip the page of the calendar over to February.  This list starts with some of the standard resolutions that everyone makes that are particularly pertinent to preppers, and then contains some that are unique to this community.

Make this the year that you improve your life right now and your chances of survival later. Pick one or all of these resolutions and persevere!   Continue reading “10 New Year’s Resolutions That Every Prepper Should Make in 2014”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Returning Police Commissioner William Bratton will be sworn into office just after midnight New Year’s Day.

Bratton will be sworn in at a private ceremony at NYPD Headquarters in Lower Manhattan. Mayor Bill de Blasio will also take the oath of office at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.   Continue reading “Protest To Accompany Bratton’s Official Return As NYPD Commissioner”

AccuWeather – by Alex Sosnowski

Two storms will merge quickly enough to produce a major snowstorm from the upper part of the mid-Atlantic to southern New England Thursday into Friday.

The storm will affect more than 70 million people in the Midwest and the Northeast combined and could have a major negative impact on travel for people returning from holiday destinations, heading back to school or resuming business activities.   Continue reading “Snowstorm Targets 70 Million in Northeast, Midwest”

AmmoLand

Manasquan, NJ –-(Ammoland.com)- New York’s rights infringing ban on assault weapons is constitutional, but it cannot limit a gun magazine to seven bullets, a federal court judge ruled today.

The ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny in Buffalo found that New York’s gun-control law, called the SAFE Act, that restricts assault weapons doesn’t infringe on Second Amendment rights. But the judge tossed a provision that limits a magazine that can hold 10 rounds to just seven bullets.   Continue reading “Federal Court Strikes Down Magazine Limit but Upholds NY Assault Weapons Ban”

AmmoLand

MISSOULA, Mont. –-(Ammoland.com)- The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation headed up a successful collaborative effort to permanently protect and open access to 13,082 acres in the Headwaters of the John Day River in northeast Oregon.

By purchasing the land and conveying it to the United States at a bargain sale price, the transaction also secures and improves access to tens of thousands of acres of publicly-owned National Forest System lands.   Continue reading “RMEF Opens 13,000 Acres of Oregon Elk Country, Secures Public Access to Public Lands”

NBC News – by Aliyah Frumin

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the U.S. government, demanding the release of information about its program to conduct surveillance of Americans’ international communications.

The civil rights group pointed to former CIA employee Edward Snowden – who blew the lid off the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance program, insisting until the disclosures, little was known about the NSA’s authority.   Continue reading “ACLU sues for info on government surveillance”

CBS Detroit

ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – “War SUX.” That’s the sentiment of a personalized licence plate at the center of a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

David Devarti of Ann Arbor says he paid for the plate, only to get a letter in the mail from the Secretary of State saying that he couldn’t use it because it’s offensive.

Devarti disagrees.   Continue reading “ACLU Sues On Behalf Of Ann Arbor Man Over ‘WARSUX’ License Plate”

 

 

Huffington Post – by CHRIS TOMLINSON

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nation’s largest GOP stronghold.

Harold Simmons, whose business interests ranged from energy to nuclear waste dumps, helped transform Texas from a Democrat-controlled state in the 1970s to a Republican stronghold by the turn of the century. Simmons’ death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide.   Continue reading “Texas Republicans Lose Three Major Donors In 2013”

Humanity Awakens – by Jim Costa

“If only you believe like I believe in miracles, we’d get by.”

One of my life defining moments occurred while driving from work back to my lonely apartment. I was working thirty miles west and had been dating my wife for three months, who lived thirty miles east. The radio played the Beach Boys’ song with the words. “Wouldn’t it be nice to say “good night” and stay together? Wouldn’t it be nice?” I realized at that moment that my life was all wrong. I was working hard to create exactly what I didn’t want – unhappiness. I drove straight to her house and announced that I was moving in. I have to admit that all I got back was a giant blank look, but we were married in another three months and every day since the Beach Boys, we have both known the true miracle of being a human and co-creating us; God, it’s nice.   Continue reading “Jefferson Starship & Global Solution”

Pat Dollard

Excerpted from Walid Shoebat – Egypt’s Attorney General Hisham Barakat is looking into evidence that arrested Muslim Brotherhood leaders accepted bribes from the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, according to a report from Almesryoon, an Egyptian newspaper that cites a “judicial source”.

The trials that are scheduled to begin in Cairo on August 25th will feature a litany of charges against the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Included among them are murders, assassinations, prison escapes, sniping, indiscriminate killing of demonstrators, and collaborating with foreign governments, to include both the United States and Qatar.   Continue reading “Egypt Attorney General Says Muslim Brotherhood Leaders On Secret Salary From Obama”