From the Trenches World Report

Information Liberation – by William Norman Grigg 

In an op-ed column that suppurates condescension, Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson defended his department’s acquisition of a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected combat vehicle (MRAP). Among the reasons why procurement of this “Free” combat vehicle — that is, one paid for by tax victims in other cities — is necessary, according to Masterson, because “guns made exclusively for the military are available in society for general use.” Like most statists, Masterson suffers from an acute irony deficiency.   Continue reading “Counter-Insurgency Warfare in Boise?”

Washington’s Blog

Military Waste and Fraud Are the Main Cause of Our Problems

We’ve repeatedly documented that military waste and fraud are the core problems with the U.S. economy.

For example, we’ve noted that we wouldn’t be in this crisis of hitting the debt ceiling in the first place if we hadn’t spent so much money on unnecessary wars … which are horrible for the economy.   Continue reading “$8.5 TRILLION In Taxpayer Money Doled Out By Congress To The Pentagon Since 1996 … Has NEVER Been Accounted For”

Voice of Russia

National Journal- by Alex Seitz-Wald

The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee who was placed on leave almost four months ago for running a website that espouses the mass murder of whites has still not been fired, an agency spokesperson told National Journal.

The Southern Poverty Law Center first exposed Ayo Kimathi in August, prompting a small media firestorm that led DHS to place the procurement officer on administrative leave with pay pending review. DHS deputy press secretary Gillian Christensen confirmed that his status has not changed and that he is still on leave pending review.   Continue reading “DHS Still Hasn’t Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites”

MassPrivateI

When President Obama signed highway bill—MAP-21 (Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act) —into law. it allowed our gov’t. to spy on every trucker in the U.S.

More than 3 million truckers in the United States, are facing a regulatory upheaval which will cost his industry an estimated $2 billion and fundamentally change the way they do their jobs. Over the next few years, it will become mandatory, for all American truckers to carry a tracking device, an electronic on-board recorder (EOBR), in their vehicle.   Continue reading “Big Brother to spy on 3 million truck drivers using electronic on-board recorders (EOBR)”

MassPrivateI

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is urging theater operators to crack down on in-theater camcording with the deployment of night-vision goggles, low-light binoculars and security cameras.

The latest version of the MPAA’s “Best Practices to Prevent Film Theft” (.pdf) also suggests old-school surveillance, like “random bag and jacket checks for prohibited items” and to “observe patrons” when entering the theater.   Continue reading “Movie theaters join the police state conducting “random bag & jacket checks””

RT News

While some police officers would like to be able to use GPS trackers on suspects without a warrant, being on the receiving end of surveillance is taken quite differently. Boston cops are concerned about the pending use of trackers on their cars.

The devices would monitor the movement of cruisers in real time, and their adoption comes following negotiations between the city and the patrol officers union, reports The Boston Globe. The installation needs the approval of the city council, but is likely to happen.   Continue reading “Watchers watched: Boston cops grumpy over GPS trackers on cruisers”

RT News

A pact between the United States and Afghanistan to keep American troops inside the country is in danger of falling apart.

According to a report by Reuters, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected a provision in the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that would grant the United States authority to unilaterally carry out military operations within the country, including the search of civilian homes.   Continue reading “US-Afghan security pact collapsing after Karzai refusal”

We already subsidize WalMart’s profits with food stamps for WalMart employees, now they are asking WalMart employees to pay for other employees Thanksgiving dinners.

USA Today – by Melanie Eversle

An advocacy group called Organization United for Respect is chastising Walmart for setting out storage containers to collect donations for employees who can’t afford a Thanksgiving dinner.   Continue reading “Walmart defends collections for employees”

The Daily Sheeple – by Kimberly Paxton

Just when you thought it couldn’t be tougher to be a single mom, trying to be both mother and father to her children and struggling to make ends meet, along came Obamacare.

One mom decided to vent her frustration by posting a letter to the President on her Facebook page. Yolanda Burroughs-Vestal of Palmer, Texas never expected her rant to go viral, but it has had tens of thousands of views and is still going strong.   Continue reading “Thanks a Lot, Mr. President: Single Mom’s Letter Goes Viral”

RT News

Search giant Google is to pay $17 million to settle a dispute with 37 American states and the District of Columbia after it bypassed Safari browser privacy settings to place ad cookies.

Under the settlement, announced Monday, Google pledged not to use any code capable of overriding browser settings without user consent, unless for security, fraud or technical issues, and to work on raising consumer awareness about how cookies work.   Continue reading “Google to pay extra $17 mln to states over privacy-violating Safari cookies”

RT News

Five foreign Greenpeace activists were granted bail by Russian court in the city of St. Petersburg. A total of eight out of 30 crewmembers detained over the protest at an oil rig in the Barents Sea have had bail approved.

Brazilian Ana Paula Alminhana Maciel, Argentinian Miguel Hernan Perez Orsi, New Zealander David John Haussmann and Poland’s Tomasz Dziemianczuk are to be released while awaiting trial as soon as Greenpeace makes bail for them.    Continue reading “Russian court grants bail to 5 foreign Greenpeace activists”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

With government intervention now becoming the only viable solution being touted for everything from individual health care and the economy to our personal safety and how we educate our children, it would only make sense that officials in Washington also figure out a way to use their power of confiscation and redistribution to equalize the income playing field.

It’s no secret that 48 million Americans require nutritional assistance just to put food on the table, or that over 100 million of us are living in or at the very edge of poverty, or that nearly one in three of us is currently without any meaningful labor.   Continue reading “Establishment Proposes: “Have the Government Give Every Adult a Basic Income””

Mail.com

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — On the Civil War battlefield where President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that symbolized his presidency and the sacrifices made by Union and Confederate forces, historians and everyday Americans are gathering to ponder what the Gettysburg Address has meant to the nation.

Civil War historian James McPherson and U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell are scheduled to speak Tuesday to mark the 150th anniversary of speech. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett also will deliver remarks.   Continue reading “Gettysburg Address event to mark 150th anniversary”

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BEIRUT (AP) — Twin suicide bombers detonated explosions outside the Iranian Embassy in a mainly Shiite district of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including the Iranian cultural attaché, apparently in retaliation for the Lebanese group Hezbollah’s support of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The bombings appeared to be another strike in an intensifying proxy battle over Syria’s civil war that is rattling its smaller neighbor Lebanon. An al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremist group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying more would follow unless the Iranian-backed Shiite Hezbollah withdraws fighters that have helped Assad’s military score key victories over Syrian rebels.   Continue reading “Suicide blasts near Iran Embassy in Beirut kill 23”

Food Riot Radio – by Brad Jordan

The deadline for submitting comments on two key rules the FDA has proposed as a part of the Food Safety Modernization Act has been extended to Friday, Nov. 22.

Hailed as the most sweeping overhaul of farm and food policy since the Great Depression, many fear the law will actually make our food supply less safe – not to mention sterile – by regulating small, organic farmers out of business and leaving it in the hands of a few mega farmers and processors.   Continue reading “Food Safety Modernization Act: The End of Fresh, Living Food?”