From the Trenches World Report

RT News

NASA has just set a new record for communication speeds in space by firing lasers at the moon and achieving download speeds five times faster than via the radio signals we currently employ for the task.

The information beamed by lasers on Earth was sent to a probe named Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), launched last month with the aim of measuring the Moon’s hardly evident atmosphere while orbiting it. Aboard that probe are a series of lasers mounted onto the outer hull.   Continue reading “NASA hails new era of laser-fast interplanetary internet”

MassPrivateI

The U.S. and Canada are strengthening integrated cross-border intelligence sharing and law enforcement operations. Canada’s own electronic eavesdropping agency is also working hand and hand with the NSA. They are both increasing data collection and surveillance in the North American Homeland.

Homeland Security Market Research stated the U.S. Homeland Defense (HLD) & Counter-Terror Intelligence market will grow from $20 billion in 2010 to $24 billion by 2014. (read more here)   Continue reading “Canada & Mexico part of the U.S. Homeland work with the NSA/DHS to spy on citizens”

MassPrivateI

As for how we can protect ourselves from these intrusions into our privacy? Aside from everything mentioned above in Jacob Appelbaum’s Q&A workshop, which included some brief remarks about open-source software and an in-depth discussion on maintaining anonymity by using the Tor Network and how to secure your cell phone and computer, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has provided a 12 step program – originally publish in 2002 and still very relevant today – with some suggestion on how we can protect our online privacy:    Continue reading “How to protect yourself on social networks from data collection by govt’s and corporations”

Examiner – by Dave Gibson

On Friday, Pulaski County sheriff’s deputies arrested Mohammed Mahmoud Omar Mefleh, 34, and Antoine Clela, 31, after they reportedly tried to lure a 12-year-old girl into their vehicle.

The pair repeatedly stopped in front of the victim’s home where she was playing with another young child, all the while asking her for “sexual favors,” according to deputies.   Continue reading “Foreign soldiers tried to abduct, sexually assault 12-year-old girl in Missouri”

Washington’s Blog

A Devastating and Secret Report By The Senate Intelligence Committee Documents In Detail How The C.I.A.’s Brutalization of Terror Suspects During The Bush Years Was Unnecessary, Ineffective, and Deceptively Sold To Congress, The White House, The Justice Department, and The Public

We’ve extensively documented that:

1. Torture harms our national security   Continue reading “Senate Intelligence Committee and Head CIA Lawyer Admit Torture Was Unnecessary”

SOTT – by Charles Piller, The Sacramento Bee

When Staff Sgt. Troy Torres and his wife, Sgt. Lori Torres, joined the California National Guard more than five years ago, they were stirred by patriotism and persuaded by something more tangible – the prospect of paying down some student loans.

Each was promised $20,000 in loan repayments over six years, an enticement for recruits. Now, the Guard is asking for it back.    Continue reading “As National Guard claws back recruitment incentives, soldiers feel pain”

Press TV

In terms of pure projectable power, there’s never been anything like it. Its military has divided the world — the whole planet — into six “commands.” Its fleet, with 11 aircraft carrier battle groups, rules the seas and has done so largely unchallenged for almost seven decades.

Its Air Force has ruled the global skies, and despite being almost continuously in action for years, hasn’t faced an enemy plane since 1991 or been seriously challenged anywhere since the early 1970s. Continue reading “Why Washington just can’t stop making war”

Press TV

The 10 highest-paid chief executives officers (CEO’s) in the United States each received at least $100 million in 2012, even as the wages of working people sinks, according to a new survey of executive pay.

According to GMI Ratings annual poll of executive compensation, released on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder, was America’s highest-paid boss in 2012, earning a staggering $2.27 billion or more than $6 million a day.    Continue reading “Top 10 US CEOs earned nearly $5bn”

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

Fifty senators are standing together to protect the right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment.

In a letter addressed to President Barack Obama, the senators enumerated six reasons the president should refuse to present the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to the Senate for ratification. Among the objections raised by the senatorial signatories is the ambiguity of the treaty, as well as the grant to “foreign sources of authority” the power to “impose judgment or control on the U.S.”   Continue reading “50 Senators Warn Obama: We Will Not Ratify UN Arms Treaty”

The New American – by Rebecca Terrell

More than 10 months after Adam Lanza massacred 26 students and faculty and committed suicide at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, questions still abound in the midst of conspiracy theories and prolonged speculation. The October 21 edition of The Hartford Courant, which has been following the story closely since the mass murder last December 14, ran an editorial complaining about State Attorney Stephen Sedensky’s delay in releasing the full investigative report, originally expected by the end of June. In the meantime, says the Courant, details continue to leak, feeding “the sick conspiracy mill and prolong[ing] the pain.”   Continue reading “What Do Sandy Hook Investigators Have to Hide?”

Washington Examiner – by JOEL GEHRKE

More than 700 websites have been created with names playing off of Obamacare or Healthcare.gov, making it likely that some Americans will mistakenly hand over private information to unknown third-parties.

For instance, there is a website — www.obama-care.us — that brands itself as part of the “Obamacare enrollment team,” directs people to an “Obamacare enrollment form” and asks users for their name, address, Social Security number and other contact information. According to a counter at the bottom of the page, more than 3,000 people have visited obama-care.us.   Continue reading “Obamacare launch spawns 700+ cyber-squatters capitalizing on Healthcare.gov, state exchanges”

Gun Owners of America

President Barack Hussein Obama is picking a fight with gun owners once again. As reported by The Blaze on Tuesday:

One day after a deadly middle school shooting in Nevada, President Barack Obama “remains committed” to pushing for stricter gun control laws and will “keep at it,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday.   Continue reading “Obama Plugs for Gun Control in Wake of Nevada Shooting”

Bionic Mosquito

Right off the bat, I will credit Gary North for putting words together that crystalized this idea in my head.

The rollout of Obamacare is a bomb (O-bomb-a has a new meaning, it appears).

President Barack Obama sought on Monday to limit political damage from the problematic launch of the government website for his signature healthcare law…   Continue reading “Hooray for ObamaCare!”

Washington Times – by Emily Miller

Mark Witaschek, a successful financial adviser with no criminal record, is facing two years in prison for possession of unregistered ammunition after D.C. police raided his house looking for guns. Mr. Witaschek has never had a firearm in the city, but he is being prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The trial starts on Nov. 4.

The police banged on the front door of Mr. Witaschek’s Georgetown home at 8:20 p.m. on July 7, 2012, to execute a search warrant for “firearms and ammunition … gun cleaning equipment, holsters, bullet holders and ammunition receipts.”   Continue reading “D.C. businessman faces two years in jail for unregistered ammunition, brass casing”

AmmoLand – by Major Van Harl USAF Ret

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)-  The Canadians do law enforcement very similarly to the US–understandable, considering both countries learned their basic law enforcement skills from Mother England.

The biggest difference in US and Canadian law enforcement is that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is a national police force. A Mountie has full police powers anywhere in Canada. If RCMP Constable Smith, who works in Vancouver, British Columbia on the far west coast of his country, is on holiday on Prince Edward Island on the far east coast of his country, he can enforce Canadian law.   Continue reading “When The Few Control All You Lose Everything”