From the Trenches World Report

Motherboard – by Brian Merchant

North Dakota is a nasty, oily mess, and nobody bothered to tell anyone who lives there. Since 2012, there have been nearly 750 “oil field incidents” in the boomtown state, none of which were reported to the public. According to records obtained by the Associated Press, nearly 300 of these were serious spills.

That’s a little insane. Oil spills are drenching wilderness, farmland, and public lands, and said public often has no idea it’s happening. That’s because North Dakota law doesn’t require either oil companies or public officials to inform the citizenry that toxic fluids are bursting out of pipelines and oozing from extraction sites.   Continue reading “There Were 300 OIl Spills in North Dakota, and Nobody Told North Dakotans About Any of Them”

Bloomberg – by Tom Schoenberg

The U.S. Justice Department is taking a leading role in a global investigation into possible manipulation of the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, a department official said.

Mythili Raman, acting head of the criminal division, said in an interview yesterday that the department’s criminal and antitrust divisions have an “active investigation” into possible manipulation of foreign exchange rates. She declined to name specific institutions under scrutiny or say when the probe began.   Continue reading “U.S. in Leading Role in Global Currency Rigging Probe”

Information Clearinghouse – by Andrew Napolitano

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Berlin in 2008, she could not have imagined that she was blessing the workplace for the largest and most effective gaggle of American spies anywhere outside of the U.S.

It seems straight out of a grade-B movie, but it has been happening for the past eleven years: The NSA has been using Merkel as an instrument to spy on the president of the United States.    Continue reading “NSA Spying on the President”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  With the war against self-defense currently being waged via the Democrat-led attack on “Stand Your Ground” laws, it’s important to revisit Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s words from McDonald v Chicago (2010): “Individual self-defense is ‘the central component’ of the 2nd Amendment right.”

McDonald v Chicago was a case brought by Otis McDonald against gun bans that prevented him from having a firearm with which to defend his life and property.   Continue reading “Justice Alito: Self-Defense is ‘The Central Component’ of the 2nd Amendment”

AmmoLand

WASHINGTON D.C. –-(Ammoland.com)- U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR), John Boozman (R-AR), Thad Cochran (R-MS), and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) today introduced the Farmer and Hunter Protection Act to prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) from unfairly penalizing farmers and sportsmen for rolling their fields during hunting season.

During the summer of 2012, weather conditions in the Southeast caused some harvested rice fields to re-head, creating accidental second growth crops. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may now view these second growth crops that have been rolled as baited fields, even though this practice was recommended by local cooperative extension services as a way to return nutrients to the soil. Inadvertent baiting of a field can level a fine of up to $100,000 for a farmer, $15,000 for a hunter, and prohibit hunting on the land.   Continue reading “Bipartisan Group of Senators Fight to Protect Farmers & Hunters from Burdensome Regulations”

Wisconsin State Journal – by DEE J. HALL and JEFF GLAZE

The Atlantic – by JAMES HAMBLIN

In 1950, there were 2.5 billion humans. Today there are just over 7 billion. In another 30 years, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections, there will be more than 9 billion.

Brad Lyon has a doctoral degree in mathematics and does software development. He wanted to make those numbers visual. Last year he and designer Bill Snebold made a hugely popular interactive simulation map of births and deaths in the U.S. alone—the population of which is on pace to increase 44 percent by 2050. Now, Lyon takes on the world.   Continue reading “A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths”

Capitalism Institute

The Obama administration is arguing before federal court that TREATIES should trump the CONSTITUTION… please SHARE this.

His goal is total power. He wants to be able to bypass the constitution to regulate guns, the Internet, and who knows what else. This is tyranny. Barack Obama must be removed from office… IMPEACH and CONVICT.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Says Treaties Trump the US Constitution”

ABC News – by COLLEEN CURRY

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s move to stymie smoking among young New Yorkers moved one step closer to realization Wednesday when the City Council voted overwhelmingly to bump the tobacco-purchasing age from 18 to 21.

“We know that tobacco dependence can begin very soon after a young person first tries smoking, so it’s critical that we stop young people from smoking before they ever start,” Bloomberg said in a statement.   Continue reading “Young Smokers Top NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s List of Dislikes”

Reuters – by Jonathan Allen

A golfing holiday and learning to speak Spanish “like a native” are at the top of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s list of activities he’ll pursue when his term ends in December, he said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Bloomberg will also continue to use his multi-billion-dollar fortune to try to tighten gun-control laws, combat climate change and improve public health, he told Forbes magazine.   Continue reading “New York Mayor Bloomberg looks ahead to golf, speaking Spanish”

Business Insider – by MICHAEL KELLEY

A Syrian air base near the coastal area of Latakia sustained heavy damage late Wednesday night in a suspected missile attack from the sea, and all signs point to Israel.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a loud explosion in a Syrian army base and a Syrian security official confirmed there was a strike.   Continue reading “Israel Suspected Of Destroying Syrian Air Base By Missile Attack From Sea”

America the Battlefield

It has already been done on paper. Now it has to be sold to the American people and the world.

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” – Sun Tzu   Continue reading “Treason: The Disarmament of the United States, and the Declaration of World Government”

The Right Scoop

Mark Levin played a segment from Jake Tapper’s show on how the Obama administration is putting intense pressure on the health care insurance CEO’s to keep quiet about the problems with Obamacare. Levin said this report should be everywhere because this is the kind of thing that happens in banana republics and communist and fascist regimes.   Continue reading ““Mobsters in the White House!” – Mark Levin SLAMS Obama admin as acting like a communist, fascist regime”