From the Trenches World Report

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

Amid an escalation of fighting in war-torn Iraq, the Obama administration announced Monday it will accelerate the shipment of Hellfire missiles and surveillance drones to the Nuri al-Maliki regime, a move critics charge will only worsen the cycles of violence set in motion by the U.S. invasion.

“The last thing Iraq needs right now is more weapons,” said Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, in an interview with Common Dreams.   Continue reading “US Rushes Weapons to Iraq Crisis It Unleashed”

Ben Swann – by Joshua Cook

Last summer, the Clerk of Court in Franklin County, N.C., Patricia Chastain discovered documents dating back to 1840 in their courthouse basement. After organizing a project with the local historical society to reserve these valuable documents, the government intervened. And now the documents have been destroyed. Lost forever.

Some records were ruined by the mold, but most were completely viable.   Continue reading “Government seizes and destroys 160-year-old historical documents; genealogists and historians are outraged”

Blacklisted News – by Lee Rogers

In the midst of the holiday season Congress decided to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 or NDAA.  The bill was later signed into law by President Obama with little if any fanfare.  When this happened much of the corporate media was focusing in on invented news stories like the Duck Dynasty garbage.  What’s really sad is that it is doubtful that many members of Congress have even read the bill at all.  If they did in fact read it and voted for it knowing what was in it than there is little doubt that they have violated their oath of office and should be held accountable.  The NDAA contains a number of highly questionable sections that run contrary to the principles articulated in the United States Constitution.  Specifically, language contained in the bill appears to authorize cyber warfare operations against the American people.   Continue reading “National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 Authorizes Cyber Warfare against American Citizens”

CBC News

A CN freight train carrying dangerous goods has derailed and caught fire in northwest New Brunswick, not far from the U.S. border.

Jim Feeny, director of public and government affairs for CN Rail, said 16 cars are believed to have derailed, including four carrying propane and four carrying crude oil.

The train derailment happened just after 7 p.m. AT about five kilometres outside of Plaster Rock in Wapske, N.B. Feeny said the train was coming from central Canada and heading to Moncton.   Continue reading “CN train carrying crude oil derailed, on fire near Plaster Rock”

ABC News – by AARON KATERSKY

More than 100 retired New York City cops, firefighters and correction officers were charged today with falsely claiming to be suffering from depression and anxiety as a result of the 9/11 terror attacks, New York prosecutors said today.

The alleged scam won awards up to $500,000 for the uniformed personnel and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, according to the indictment.   Continue reading “New York Cops, Firefighters in Massive 9/11 Fraud, Indictment Says”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The people who own the Too Big To Jail Banks hope that they can create an invincible army of drones and killer robots that in the future will eliminate your ability to defend yourself so there will be NO Bill of Rights. And No right to private property. They will be able to take away our pensions and to seize our homes. Court appointed referees have cut pensions by 80%. And courts have allowed banks to seize homes using fraudulent documents.

It is clear from the passage of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and now the NDAA that the elite wants to reduce us to slavery. We no longer even have the right to life. The President has said he has the right to kill any American without a trial.   Continue reading “2014. Defending The Bill Of Rights From Wall Street.”

AOL

They were Snowden before Snowden, except no one ever knew who they were until now. Five of the eight burglars who ultimately helped take down J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI domestic surveillance machine have revealed themselves.

The burglars revealed themselves ahead of a new book released Tuesday detailing the daring raid in the midst of the Vietnam War era – ‘The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI.’   Continue reading “1971 FBI burglars reveal themselves in new book”

Breitbart – by WYNTON HALL

Americans on main street may have a bleak outlook on the Obama economy in 2014, but President Barack Obama’s Wall Street campaign donors and friends are scoring record profits off the Obamacare debacle–a reality that may further complicate Democrats’ “income inequality” message when voters head to the polls in November.

The most recent Gallup poll finds that 56% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse. For Obama’s big money backers, however, the Obamacare fiasco has generated massive profits and contracts. In 2008, the healthcare industry contributed an astounding $22,471,562 to Obama–a sum nearly three times greater than it donated to his Republican challenger. Their “investment” paid off in 2013, as the healthcare sector index gained 37.5%, making it the S&P 500’s best-performing sector.    Continue reading “Obama Campaign Donors Bag Record Wall Street Profits”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Hearts in America are getting colder even faster than the weather is.  Sometimes it is hard to believe how twisted and deranged many Americans have become.  In order for a society to function efficiently, people need to be able to have a basic level of trust in one another.  Unfortunately, we are rapidly getting to the point in America where it is becoming very difficult to trust anyone that you do not know personally.  As you will see below, the United States is rapidly becoming a cesspool of liars, thieves, murderers, perverts and psychopaths.  Please do not allow any young children to read this article.  All of this material is from mainstream news reports, but a lot of it is too disturbing for young kids to be exposed to.    Continue reading “12 Signs Of Extreme Social Decay In America That Are Almost Too Horrible To Talk About”

Turner Radio Network

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been caught agreeing in writing to conceal information from the world about the extent of danger, damage and health effects at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan.  Turner Radio Network has obtained official copies of the agreements signed by the IAEA and the Fukui Prefectural Government as well as between the IAEA and Fukushima Medical University.  We have the agreements, now YOU have them too!   Continue reading “International Atomic Energy Agency Agreed in Writing to Conceal Fukushima Radiation Info from Public”

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Breitbart – by MANUEL VALDES, AP

A former community college professor who won a surprising citywide election was sworn in Monday as the first socialist City Council member in Seattle’s modern history.

Kshama Sawant of the Socialist Alternative party took her oath and served in her first hearing, then gave a speech to throngs of supporters in a ceremonial swearing-in at a packed City Hall.   Continue reading “Socialist Sworn in as Seattle City Council Member”

Gun Owners of America

GOA prepares legislation to block implementation

In a “Friday media dump” designed to conceal its actions by releasing them after the press has left town, the Obama administration last week announced its intention to push two regulations which would massively expand the federal gun bans imposed on Americans.

“SEE A SHRINK; LOSE YOUR GUNS”   Continue reading “Obama Proposes Massive Gun Ban by Regulation Fiat”

USA Today – by Larry Copeland

A tactic used by the federal government to gather information for anti-drunken and drugged driving programs is coming under criticism in cities around the country, and some local police agencies say they will no longer take part.

The tactic involves a subcontractor for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that uses off-duty but uniformed police at voluntary roadside checkpoints where motorists are asked on their behavior behind the wheel. In some cases, workers at the checkpoints collect blood and saliva samples, in addition to breath samples. NHTSA has said previously that the surveys do not collect any DNA. Drivers are not charged at the checkpoints.   Continue reading “Voluntary government checkpoints spark backlash”

The Daily Sheeple – by Kimberly Paxton

Nobody really likes the NSA.

That nosy organization that listens to our phone calls, documents our personal data, and compiles reams of “evidence” against nearly everyone in the country is the ugly redheaded stepchild of America. They have no respect for the American people and no regard for privacy. Their assault on our privacy was even backed up by a federal judge recently.   Continue reading “California has a New Plan to Fight Back Against the NSA: Cut Off Their Water Supply”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lily Dane

Convicted scumbag child molester Jerry Sandusky is trying to get back the $4,900 a month pension he lost when he was sent to jail in October 2012 on 45 counts of child sexual abuse.

Sandusky testified today for nearly three hours before a hearing examiner who will decide if his pension should be reinstated.

The hearing focused on circumstances surrounding Sandusky’s retirement from the university in 1999 and the links between Penn State and The Second Mile charity for youth he founded.   Continue reading “Kiddie Perv Coach Sandusky Wants His Pension Back”

Washington Post – by Bob Woodward

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”

Leveling one of the more serious charges that a defense secretary could make against a commander in chief sending forces into combat, Gates asserts that Obama had more than doubts about the course he had charted in Afghanistan. The president was “skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail,” Gates writes in “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”   Continue reading “Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’”