From the Trenches World Report

Gov Slaves

(David J. Krajicek)  In his first interview since he was jailed last month for contempt of court, Alabama journalist Roger Shuler said he will stay behind bars indefinitely rather than comply with a judge’s “unlawful” order to scrub his blog of scandalous stories he posted about a powerful Alabama politician’s son.

“Free press, free speech, the First Amendment—none of this means anything to these people,” Shuler said. “I don’t see any reason I should remove the material. Is a person obliged to take an action based on a judge’s unlawful order?”   Continue reading “Blogger Jailed For Refusing To Erase Stories He Wrote Exposing A Powerful Political Family”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

On Thursday, after we presented an article by Simon Black in which the author suggested that the IMF was implicitly proposing a 71% tax-rate on Americans, by “suggesting that the US government could maximize its tax revenue by increasing tax brackets to as high as 71%”, the IMF took offense to this characterization, and tweeted out the following:   Continue reading “The IMF Disagrees With Zero Hedge”

Press TV

The United States is experiencing an “economic collapse” because major powers like China and Russia have decided not to use US dollar in trade, a political analyst says.

“The American economy is just beginning to collapse. China, Russia and many other countries are moving away from using the US dollar in trade,” Linh Dinh said in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday.   Continue reading “US in economic collapse as China, Russia ‘moving away from using dollar’”

Intellihub – by JG Vibes

CALIFORNIA (INTELLIHUB) — Police in Riverside County, have been running an undercover sting investigation in a local school to hunt down small time teenage drug vendors and users.  The semester long operation resulted in the arrest of 25 different teenagers, all of whom believed that undercover officers were close friends.

The underage students were taken to a juvenile prison, and the adult students, 18-year-old Serina Ramirez and 19-year-old Erick De La Cruz of Perris High School, were taken to a detention center.   Continue reading “Police Posing as 11th Graders Arrest 25 Students”

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”