From the Trenches World Report

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

I remember as a young child that the key to winning a lot of the neighborhood games in football and basketball was all about who got picked first. If you were lucky enough to get Michael on your team, then you knew you were going to win. If you were in a foreign park playing against kids you did not know, Michael was the great equalizer. I also knew that getting the right kids on my side helped in spelling bees and walking home from the movies so I didn’t get beat up. Learning how to organize my team with the right people, served me well when I became a men’s college head basketball coach in terms of winning the recruiting wars. I always felt the April recruiting wars was the deciding factor in many games in the following December.   Continue reading “The Sides Are Forming for the Coming Civil War”

RT News

‘Selfie’ has been named ‘Word of the Year’ by the Oxford Dictionary, an award that underscores the notion that we’re fast becoming a wired-up, dumbed-down society of egomaniacs.

(Warning: The writer of this article has fuzzy recollections of a ‘golden age’ of rotary dial phones, vinyl records and fax machines, when human behavior was not determined by the available technology).    Continue reading “Pleasure principle: Our selfie-obsessed lifestyles twerking against us”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: I see a disturbing trend in the media. Any and all protests against governments are being label as “anti-government” protests. Just because someone protests does not make them anti-government. This term is being use to demonize those who are standing up for their rights. I speak specifically of those who protest in the United States.

(BBC) – Anti-government protesters forced their way into the finance ministry, as tens of thousands marched on a second day of demonstrations in Bangkok.   Continue reading “Thailand protests: Demonstrators fill Bangkok streets”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This would be another step in the process of taking your wealth. Would you still keep your money in the bank if you were charged a deposit fee? More educational reading here, “It Can Happen Here: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors” and “Americans warned bank ‘bail-ins’ coming”   Continue reading “Banks Warn Fed They May Have To Start Charging Depositors”

Poor Richard’s News

Washington DC’s new gun regulations are set to take effect on January 1, and they are brazenly unconstitutional.

from Washington Times:

The 1,800 or so criminals who have killed, robbed or assaulted innocent people with guns in the District of Columbia so far this year were hauled into the police station to be fingerprinted, photographed and to undergo a criminal-background check.   Continue reading “DC to begin fingerprinting, taking mug shots of all LEGAL gun owners at police stations”

Free North Carolina

GRNC High Risk Restaurant alerts enable you to identify restaurants, theaters and other assemblies for which admission is charged that post signs prohibiting concealed carry. It is important that you report posted restaurants, contact listed merchants to let them know why you are unable to patronize their businesses, and register your opinion on social media networks and review sites.   Continue reading “The NASCAR Hall of Fame is Anti-Gun”

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

Reports from towns and cities around the country prove that the federal government is determined to abolish the independence of local law enforcement.

Using “grants” and other economic incentives, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paying police departments to become subordinate outposts of the increasingly militarized federal agency.   Continue reading “Local Police Increasingly Subordinate to Homeland Security Department”

Washington Report – by Neve Gordon, October 1996

Congress received him with great fanfare. President Clinton, who during the recent election campaign had backed his rival, Shimon Peres, appears to have had a change of heart. Yet who is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and why did the political elite in the U.S. accept him with such warmth? A few important facts about Netanyahu and his objectives—which the U.S. media have obstinately neglected to reporthelp to clarify the enigma.

Netanyahu has lived both in Israel and the U.S.: first grade in Israel; second and third in the U.S.; fourth through eighth in Jerusalem; high school in suburban Philadelphia; military service in Israel; B.A. and M.A. at MIT. He held dual citizenship, which enabled him to travel freely between both countries, study in the U.S., receive federal loans to cover his education costs at MIT and work legally. Like every U.S. citizen, Netanyahu has a social security number, a credit account, and numerous other files in a variety of government offices.   Continue reading “Flashback: Spook, Terrorist or Criminal? America’s Mysterious Files on Netanyahu”

Stephen Lendman

Israel is a serial human rights abuser. It’s one of the world’s worst. It’s war on Palestinian children alone reflects it.

They’re systematically abused unjustly. Up to 700 are arrested annually. Most are lawlessly charged with stone-throwing. Children young as five are terrorized. They’re too young to know why.   Continue reading “Israel’s War on Palestinian Children”

Freedom Outpost – by Dean Garrison

What would you say if I told you that the real unemployment rate in America is at least 30%? Would you call me a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist? Hear me out because I can back up that claim if you will give me a few minutes of your time.

The official unemployment number for last month was 7.3%. A lot of Americans don’t understand how this number is calculated and it is very misleading.   Continue reading “Real Unemployment Rate Is Over 30%”

WND – by AARON KLEIN

TEL AVIV – Israeli personnel in recent days were in Saudi Arabia to inspect bases that could be used as a staging ground to launch attacks against Iran, according to informed Egyptian intelligence officials.

The officials said Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan and other Arab and Persian Gulf countries have been discussing the next steps toward possible strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.   Continue reading “Israelis in secret trip to Saudi bases”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

I just watched the hottest movie in the country, which is the sequel to The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. The movie is based upon the second in the trilogy of books authored by Suzanne Collins and the movie takes up where its predecessor left off.

The punishment of the common citizens from the mythical country of Panem continues in retaliation for the previous rebellion of the 12 districts against the Capitol City government. As a result, the Hunger Games were created in which one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18, from each district, are selected through an annual lottery to participate in the games. This is an event in which the participants (i.e. so-called “tributes”) must fight to the death, until only one remains alive. The previously failed rebellion against the tyrannical elite, occurred some 75 years earlier.   Continue reading “The Odds Are Never In Our Favor”

Outdoors Native

Toy guns made to look like the real thing would be banned in California under legislation announced Friday in Sonoma County, where a sheriff’s deputy last month shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after mistaking his replica AK-47 pellet gun for an assault rifle.

The bill, to be introduced by five lawmakers, would require pellet and other toy guns to be brightly colored or translucent so they are easily recognized. Federal law requires the replica guns only to have an orange mark on the tip of the barrel.   Continue reading “The Next California Gun Ban – Toy Guns!”

The Organic Prepper – by Daisy Luther

What would you do if you received a threatening letter from your child’s school, demanding that you take your youngster to a medical doctor and dentist at the whims of the school administrators, or risk being reported to the child welfare authorities?

Parents in at least two states have gotten exactly such letters. Police State USA reports:   Continue reading “Don’t Make Us Tell Child Welfare: Schools Insist on Forced Medical Exams for Kids”