From the Trenches World Report

Wall Street Journal – by DAMIAN PALETTA

The Social Security Administration has begun warning the public it cannot guarantee full benefit payments if the debt ceiling isn’t increased.

When asked by the public, the agency is notifying beneficiaries that “Unlike a federal shutdown which has no impact on the payment of Social Security benefits, failure to raise the debt ceiling puts Social Security benefits at risk,” according to a person familiar with the agency directive.   Continue reading “Social Security Warns Benefits Could Get Cut”

Activist Post

DBA Press releases an additional 1,784 pages of Phoenix Police Department Homeland Defense Bureau (PPDHDB) records pertaining to Occupy Phoenix and other Phoenix area activist groups.

Access records here (filed under “records relating to PPD/ACTIC and other fusion center monitoring of activists, Part 4”).

These records complete a public records request filed by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy in June of 2012 as part of a joint project, “Dissent or Terror: how the nation’s counter-terrorism apparatus, in partnership with corporate America, turned on Occupy Wall Street.”   Continue reading “New Records Detail FBI, Fusion Center Monitoring of Activists, Anarchists”

MassPrivateI

EPIC’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has produced new documents about “Next Generation Identification” and the FBI’s plans for facial recognition.

According to the document obtained by EPIC, “NGI shall return an incorrect candidate a maximum of 20% of the time.” That number is much greater than expected.    Continue reading “The FBI says a 20% error rate for facial recognition is fine”

Digital Journal -by Justin King

A student in Bryant School District in Arkansas brought home a worksheet that presented her with a scenario that referred to the Bill of Rights as “outdated” and that as part of a special committee she would need to throw out two of the Amendments.

The worksheet was handed out to Sixth grade students in a History class. According to the girl’s mother, Lela Spears, she has not received any government or civics classes and this was the first assignment dealing with the Constitution or Bill of Rights. The school district is participating in the embattled Common Core curriculum.   Continue reading “Worksheet asks children to remove parts of the Bill of Rights”

Epoch Times – by Ivan Pentchoukov

NEW YORK—Sergio Consuerga, the good Samaritan who intervened in the vicious beating of a man in Washington Heights on Sunday, Sept. 29, used the wisdom he gained from martial arts to turn away the attackers.

Consuerga, a father of 10 and a longtime Washington Heights resident, was already late to church when a friend and a relative stopped him on the corner of West 178th Street and Amsterdam Avenue. What unfolded next has put him under the media spotlight since then.   Continue reading “Good Samaritan Gives Firsthand Account of Beating of SUV Driver Alexian Lien”

Extreme Tech – by Ryan Whitwam

Closing down the Silk Road and arresting its alleged operator has left the FBI in uncharted territory. After shuttering the hidden site, law enforcement went to work confiscating the money and materials belonging to supposed drug kingpin Ross Ulbricht, but this usually routine procedure is proving especially troublesome in this case. The cache of more than 600,000 bitcoins in Ulbricht’s personal fortune are still inaccessible to the FBI.   Continue reading “FBI unable to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from Silk Road operator”

Top Secret Writers- by Kathleen Roberts

Why would a bright and promising cardiologist be fired from the University hospital that she had practiced at since 2000?

Apparently, protecting her patients is grounds for dismissal. At least, that is the case at Northwestern University in Illinois.

Despite being promoted to Valve Director in 2006, Dr. Nalini M. Rajamannan was terminated in 2008 after reporting the use of non-FDA approved, experimental medical devices being implanted in patients without their knowledge.   Continue reading “Whistleblower Terminated from Northwestern for Revealing Human Experimentation”

Before It’s News – by John Rolls

Boy! this guy is really torqued!!!

FYI, This has been checked via Snopes, who contacted Mr. Guthrie, who confirmed he did indeed write & send this letter to Ms. Pelosi. This is one brave patriotic American!! AND—his credentials are impressive!!

Check his credentials. Then read his letter to Pelosi!   Continue reading “Letter to Pelosi”

Locusts on the Horizon – by Plan B Writer’s Alliance

(This article is adapted from the book ‘Locusts on the Horizon‘ from the chapter titled ‘Homemade Reloading Kits’. Step by Step instructional photos at the bottom of the article.)

In our 1176 page book, Locusts on the Horizon ($2.99 on Amazon), we have a 400 page Defense section where we go into depth about all aspects of firearms, including selection, history, reloading, home powder manufacture, bullet casting, real world terminal ballistics of common calibers, etc. In one of the chapters in that section, ‘Homemade Reloading Kits’, we show you how to make both a 12 gauge and a .410 gauge homemade reloading kit for shotgun shells.   Continue reading “Homemade .410 Reloading Kit”

Common Dreams – by Paul Buchheit

Conservative columnist Thomas Sowell recently declared, “The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.”

Ironically for thinkers like him, the last 35 years have redistributed U.S. poverty by redistributing wealth to the rich. The middle class, once the backbone of a strong American society, has been broken, beaten down, pushed further and further toward poverty levels. Here are five well-documented ways that this has happened.  Continue reading “How Redistribution to the Rich Has Broken the Back of America”