From the Trenches World Report

Pat Dollard

Excerpted from Politico: First lady Michelle Obama on Friday joined in the battle over Obamacare, talking up her husband’s health-care program after a rough rollout and taking on those behind the government shutdown.

“When a small group of folks in Congress shuts down our government to try to shut down Obamacare, and we watch as our President stands strong, that’s not just some political fight in Washington — it is a battle about our most fundamental values and aspirations,” the first lady told the audience at the Women’s Leadership Forum Conference in Washington, D.C.   Continue reading “Michelle Obama Tells Women To Write ‘The Biggest Check You Can Possibly Write’ To Save ObamaCare”

Yahoo News

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Iran is capable of converting low-grade uranium to weapons-grade within weeks.

“Iran is prepared to give up enriching uranium to 20 percent and therefore debate on this subject is unimportant,” Netanyahu’s office quoted him as saying at a weekly meeting of his cabinet.   Continue reading “Netanyahu says Iran could produce 90% uranium ‘in weeks’”

Life Site News – by Hilary White

A council of former heads of state and government leaders has called on the European Union to establish national surveillance units to monitor citizens of all 27 EU member states suspected of “intolerance”.

The European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), a “tolerance watchdog” launched under the leadership of former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski and Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, called for the establishment of government surveillance bodies to directly monitor the “intolerant” behavior of identified citizens and groups.   Continue reading “Former heads of state call on EU to set up state surveillance of ‘intolerant’ citizens”

Gov Slaves – by David Gumpert

This would seem to embody the USDA’s advisory, “Know your farmer, know your food,” right? Not exactly.

For the USDA and its sister food regulator, the FDA, there’s a problem: many of the farmers are distributing the food via private contracts like herd shares and leasing arrangements, which fall outside the regulatory system of state and local retail licenses and inspections that govern public food sales.   Continue reading “Farmers To Face Fines Or Prison Sentences For Selling Food Directly To Customers”

Economic Policy Journal – by Robert Wenzel

Last night, I hit the streets of San Francisco and stopped off at a few favorite watering holes, looking for interesting women and/or interesting conversation. The female crowd was a bit weak. I suspect many had headed off to Halloween parties, something I don’t do. But I did have an interesting conversation with a salesman who sold night vision goggles to police SWAT teams.

When he told me what he sold, I did not tell him of my libertarian leanings. I considered it more of a fact finding conversation. I asked him, if he felt the police were becoming more militarized. He said,”No.” He was in San Francisco for a SWAT Team conference.  He said most of the training was aimed at battling terrorism. But then he added, “You know, the greater San Francisco area has more SWAT teams than any other part of the country.”   Continue reading “San Francisco Area SWAT Teams and Stone Cold Israeli Killers”

Reuters – by Mark Felsenthal

A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to President Barack Obama’s protective detail was found dead on Saturday in an apparent suicide, a law enforcement source said on Thursday.

Special agent Rafael Prieto was under investigation for having an unreported romantic relationship with a foreign national, the source said.   Continue reading “U.S. Secret Service agent found dead, apparent suicide: source”

Huffington Post – by By Lisa Richwine and David Adams

LOS ANGELES/MIAMI, Oct 27 (Reuters) – On Monday evening, U.S. cable network Fusion will launch with an interview with Republican Senator Ted Cruz about his presidential ambitions. Later that night, four puppets will provide commentary on current events during a news chat show.

A joint venture between Walt Disney Co’s ABC and Spanish language media company Univision Communications Inc , Fusion will blend hard news, satire and pop culture to do something other cable news networks have largely failed to do: lure “millennial” viewers ages 18 to 34.   Continue reading “Fusion, ABC News’ New Venture Targeting Millenials, Gears Up For Launch”

Zero Gov – by Bill

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”   Continue reading “Sadism and Statism: Rhyming With The Reaper by Bill Buppert”

SHTF School – by Jay

Most of the questions from people who do not know too much about war is about fighting and shooting of course, man to man fighting.

Some of the worst expiriences are from street fighting with stable (more or less) lines of separation between enemy groups. Fighting where there is no real chain of command, real information on positions of enemy, or even real information on positions of your comrades. Not to talk about some kind of support, like logistic, or artillery or air back up.   Continue reading “The Power of Fear”

SHTF School – by Selco

When SHTF nobody told me how hard is gonna be and what things I will have to do to survive, there was no training or simulations, through most of the stuff I was going for the first time in my life, and I was hoping it is only temporary situation, it is not going to last for whole year.

Few events opened my eyes, and somehow make me survivor right at the beginning, and I can say I have luck to understand in very early stage how hard it is, and what it takes.   Continue reading “The reality of combat”

SHTF School – by Selco

World of survival and prepping is full of prejudices and misconceptions so you can read and see lot of stuff, some of them do not have anything to do with reality because people are so used to believe what they want to believe.

Other opinions are there because more sinister reasons, for example someone want you (us) to think that something is true just because it is nicely packaged. Get this latest special close distance gun and you are safe! When every gun in good hands can do this.   Continue reading “About some survival myths”

RT News

Ten car bombs ripped through the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killing at least 42 and wounding dozens more, officials said. A separate blast targeting soldiers in the northern city of Mosul reportedly killed 14 more, bringing Sunday’s death toll to 56.

Nine of the blasts targeted predominantly Shiite Muslim districts over the course of half an hour, police said.    Continue reading “56 killed in day of carnage as 11 car bombs rip through Iraq”

RT News

The world’s first bitcoin ATM will open in Vancouver, Canada, next week – dispensing Canadian dollars in exchange for the anonymous crypto-currency. But only if your palm scan matches the ATM’s records, that is.

The machine will be set up near downtown Vancouver coffee house Waves, is one of five ATMs bought by Canadian firm Bitcoiniacs from Nevada-based producer Robocoin.    Continue reading “Cash-for-bitcoins: World’s first palm scan-activated bitcoin ATM to open in Canada”

NBC News Philadelphia

Investigators are looking into whether mental illness played a role in the death of an off-duty eastern Pennsylvania deputy sheriff after he took his best friend — another off-duty officer — hostage at gunpoint before fatally shooting himself, police said.

State Police Cpl. Shawn Noonan said that investigators are trying to figure out what motivated Carbon County Deputy Sheriff David Midas and said they were interviewing co-workers and family members to see whether there were signs of mental illness.   Continue reading “Officer Kills Himself After Taking Best Friend Hostage”

Activist Post – by Stephanie Relfe

100,000 people in a town called Tecoma, in Victoria, Australia, are fighting a battle to keep McDonald’s away from their town, where McDonald’s wants one of its junkstores to be built near the school, naturally, because when you push food that addicts people like drugs do, you want to be where you can create customers for life. The people of the town have even taken the fight to Chicago. Their slogan is aptly named BurgerOff. Their website ishttp://www.burgeroff.org/.   Continue reading “Junk Food is Addicting and Killing People”

Press TV

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney said on Sunday that military action in Iran is likely unavoidable in order to stop Iran’s nuclear energy program.

Cheney, who served from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush, made the remarks after George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC’s ‘This Week’ program, asked him, “is military action against Iran inevitable?”    Continue reading “Cheney: Military action in Iran unavoidable”

Daily Mail

A beloved World War II veteran and pillar of his local community was brutally killed in a violent mugging by four teenagers on his driveway.

Terrance Morgan and Edward Johnson, both 19, and Leslie Litt and Geblonski Murray, both 18, have been arrested for the violent death of Lawrence E. ‘Shine’ Thornton of Greenville, Mississippi on October 18.   Continue reading “Beloved veteran, 87, killed by four teens during violent mugging”

Defense News – by DANIEL DE LUCE

WASHINGTON — The US military has invested billions in blimp-like aircraft to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spyship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities.

The lighter-than-air projects were billed as an innovative revival of an old aircraft design to conduct “unblinking” surveillance on the battlefield — at a fraction of the cost of fuel-guzzling planes or helicopters.   Continue reading “US Military’s Airship Programs Lose Altitude”