From the Trenches World Report

RT News

Commissioners in Weld County, Colo., have unanimously voted to make ‘North Colorado’ the 51st US state. The Republican board hopes to secede from the state in protest of laws passed by the Democratically controlled state legislature this year.

The Weld County commissioners on Monday voted to add the 51st state initiative to the ballot this November.    Continue reading “North Coloradans to vote on secession and creation of 51st state”

Mail.com

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Members of an Indian tribe that has long lived in voluntary isolation in Peru’s southeastern Amazon attempted to make contact with outsiders for a second time since 2011, leading to a tense standoff at a river hamlet.

Authorities are unsure what provoked the three-day encounter but say the Mashco-Piro may be upset by illegal logging in their territory as well as drug smugglers who pass through. Oil and gas exploration also affects the region.   Continue reading “Isolated Mashco-Piro Indians appear in Peru”

Mail.com

DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — It is a chillingly simple motive: Police say three bored teens killed an Australian collegiate baseball player attending school in the U.S. for “the fun of it.”

As authorities prepared to charge the teens Tuesday with first-degree murder, family and friends on two continents mourned 22-year-old Christopher Lane, who was being remembered as a wonderful young man whose life ended too soon. His girlfriend tearfully laid a cross at a streetside memorial in Oklahoma, while half a world away, his team in Australia placed flowers at home plate.   Continue reading “Slain Australian player mourned on 2 continents”

Business Insider – by PAMELA ENGEL

There are reports of a gunman at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in DeKalb County, Georgia, according to WSBTV.

It doesn’t appear there are any injuries. Whether or not shots were actually fired is in dispute, but students were evacuated from the school upon reports of a gunman, according to Fox 5 in Atlanta.   Continue reading “REPORT: Gunman At Georgia School”

Common Dreams – by Lauren McCauley

In what they describe as an “Insurance Release,” Wikileaks posted links for a series of encrypted files to their Twitter feed and Facebook page Friday, urging readers to download and mirror the links, in a digital threat they hope will “nullify attempts at restraint.”

Though not uncommon, many are speculating that the size of the files—one at an impressive 349 gigabytes—in conjunction with the timing of their release—raises the possibility that these files contain “some serious material.”   Continue reading “WikiLeaks Posts Encrypted Data as ‘Insurance’ Against Govt Threat”

Max Velocity Tactical

Recently there have been a couple of posts by Lizard Farmer and Mountain Guerrilla that I simply felt the urge to chip in on and expand in my own direction. I noted with wry amusement the comments by LF & Mosby about not usually commenting on others posts but feeling the need to anyway – I often find a post by another sparks a thought process that turns into one of my posts. Anyway, I enjoyed Mosby’s ‘Skull-Stomping Sacred Cows….Again: Unconventional Warfare and the Modern Militia Movement’ which was written in defense of a post by LF that I have been unable to locate.    Continue reading “OPSEC & Family/ Retreat Security”

AlterNet – by Dave Johnson

RT News

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims Ankara has proof Israel was behind the July 3 military “coup” that toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Turkish media report.

Erdogan said the West was beginning to redefine democracy as a process that is not solely determined at the ballot box, although the poll represents “the people’s will.”      Continue reading “‘Israel behind Egypt coup’ – Turkish PM”

The American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Instead of making sure that U.S. employers are not hiring illegal immigrants, the Obama administration has actually signed a secret deal with Mexico to protect “the rights” of illegal immigrants in the workplace.  According to this “memorandum of understanding”, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will spend U.S. taxpayer dollars to educate illegal immigrants about their civil rights, workplace safety, and minimum wage laws.  This is yet another example of how the Obama administration is openly flouting the law and doing all that it can to promote even more illegal immigration.  We are rapidly becoming a lawless nation that has absolutely no regard for the rule of law, and it all starts with the horrendous example that is being set at the very top.   Continue reading “Obama Administration Makes Secret Deal With Mexico To Help Illegal Immigrants In The Workplace”

The Captain’s Journal – by Herschel Smith

Kurt Hofmann:

If true–if Christie really believes that this will be enough to appease gun rights advocates–he is adding insult to the injury of the extremely draconian anti-gun bills he has signed, like the one that enables the federal government to disarm anyone it chooses, simply by designating political enemies as “suspected terrorists.” One would certainly hope that gun rights advocates are both far too intelligent and far too proud to be bought off that easily.   Continue reading “Chris Christie On Guns Redux”

The Lizard Farmer – by Treaded

I’ve cobbling this entry together between uptime and downtime over the last couple of weeks so bear with me on this one. I think there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how counter-insurgency intelligence and exploitation systems work so I’m going to touch on them a bit in this entry.  It’s by no means comprehensive as that would take an entire volume to document.  So what I’m going to attempt to do here is give the reader some insight into how an insurgency is identified, exploited, and targeted using a fairly simple and brief scenario.   Continue reading “How They Hunt”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Why is this single sentence so hard for the “scholars” to understand? 

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” – Fourth Amendment   Continue reading “Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches”

Before It’s News

Over the last several years, a new oath has appeared in the world of finance as global investment banks have been hauled in front of Senate committees, Congressional panels,  various regulatory bodies, and (what always used to be the harshest of judges) the public: the  Hypocritic Oath.

It begins thus: First, admit no wrong.   Continue reading “In the Past Two Years, JP Morgan Has Paid $7 BILLION in Fines”

Homeland Security News Wire

Since records began in 1776, the people of Youngstown, Ohio had never experienced an earthquake. From January 2011, 109 tremors were recorded, and new research in Geophysical Research-Solid Earth reveals how this may be the result of shale fracking.   Continue reading “Ohio town suffers 100 earthquakes as a result of shale fracking”

Republic Report

Last year, over 850,000 people in America were arrested for marijuana-related crimes. Despite public opinion, the medical community, and human rights experts all moving in favor of relaxing marijuana prohibition laws, little has changed in terms of policy.

There have been many great books and articles detailing the history of the drug war. Part of America’s fixation with keeping the leafy green plant illegal is rooted in cultural and political clashes from the past.   Continue reading “The Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying to Keep Marijuana Illegal”

Food Safety News – by Dan Flynn

The same Minnesota farmer acquitted in Minneapolis this past December for raw milk-related violations was convicted last week in St. Cloud for a related list of offenses. Alvin Schlangen of Freeport and his Freedom Farms Co-op did not fare anywhere near as well in his home county last week as he did in the big city last winter.

After a three-day trial in a Stearns County court and about four hours of deliberations by the six-member jury, the organic egg farmer was convicted, this time on all counts. Included among the misdemeanor convictions were: operating without a food handler’s license, storing eggs at unsafe temperatures, violating a food embargo, distributing adulterated and/or misbranded food and selling custom-processed meat.   Continue reading “Organic Farmer Convicted for Food-Related Violations”