From the Trenches World Report

Washington Post – by Brian McNoldy

Aircraft reconnaissance has found that the disturbance in the southern Gulf of Mexico has intensified to a tropical storm: Karen.  Tropical storm and hurricane watches are now in effect for a section of northern Gulf coast.

Cities under the hurricane watch include Biloxi,  Mobile, Panama City, and Pensacola.  New Orleans is in the tropical storm watch area.  Tropical storm conditions could begin in all of these areas as soon as late Friday.   Continue reading “Tropical storm Karen forms, hurricane watches issued for Gulf coast”

Gold Broker – by Fabrice Drouin Ristori

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s decision to go ahead with unabated quantitative easing (QE) seems to have taken many by surprise. To such an extent that, from now on, the major market participants are saying they have totally lost faith in Ben Bernanke. True, Ben Bernanke has been saying constantly, for the last four years, he would first taper and then end his QE plans, and then, at each FOMC meeting, he has been saying the opposite. The Fed has printed over $3Trillion since 2007.   Continue reading “Bernanke’s « Syrian Moment »”

Daily Caller – by Neil Munro

California’s Obamacare network failed to register even one person for insurance on when the exchanges opened on Tuesday, according to a local TV station.

Covered California initially claimed 5 million visitors on the first day, but that turned out to be a web-page count of clicks by 500,000 visitors.

“There was about half a million people that visited the website,” said Lizelda Lopez, a spokeswoman for Covered California.   Continue reading “California’s Obamacare fails to enroll a single customer”

The DC Caller – by Alex Pappas

Say hello to Obamacare phones.

In Tennessee, those shopping on the new health insurance co-ops could end up with more than just some health insurance. They might even walk away with a free smartphone.

The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that Community Health Alliance, Tennessee’s Obamacare health insurance co-op, is using the prospect of a free phone to encourage folks to enroll:   Continue reading “Obamacare phones offered to health insurance buyers”

Dan Morgan 76

This article presents an example of how message encryption is done using a one-time pad(OTP).

In cryptography, the OTP is a very simple, yet completely unbreakable, symmetric cipher. The OTP is essentially a pad of papers on which each page has a unique set of random letters. The sender and receiver are given two pads. One half of one set for encipher and one half of another set for decipher goes to each person. Each letter on the pad is used to determine a single letter of the enciphered message. Since the letters on the pad are random, there is no formula that can be determined by studying the letters. Assuming that the pad is not compromised, and each page is used only once, the OTP system is unbreakable. That is why the one time pad is considered to be the holy grail of cryptography.   Continue reading “Encryption via a One-Time Pad”

Wood Trekker – by Ross Gilmore

Ah, living off the land. Thriving in the wilderness with the use of your skills. It is the ultimate goal of many bushcrafters and survivalists. Numerous posts have been written on forums about this subject, and as soon as one ends, another is started. Of course, actual evidence is rarely presented. We often fall back on positions such as “our ancestors did it, so clearly I can do it”, or “I was out last week and saw a bunch of cattails and barriers, so my food sources are secure”.   Continue reading “Living Off The Land: Delusions and Misconceptions About Hunting and Gathering”

Paul Craig Roberts

The inability of the media and politicians to focus on the real issues never ceases to amaze.

The real crisis is not the “debt ceiling crisis.” The government shutdown is merely a result of the Republicans using the debt limit ceiling to attempt to block the implementation of Obamacare. If the shutdown persists and becomes a problem, Obama has enough power under the various “war on terror” rulings to declare a national emergency and raise the debt ceiling by executive order. An executive branch that has the power to inter citizens indefinitely and to murder them without due process of law, can certainly set aside a ceiling on debt that jeopardizes the government.   Continue reading “The Real Crisis Is Not The Government Shutdown”

Freeman’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

You may have heard that Silk Road – the truly free online market – was taken down today, by the FBI. In response, the price of Bitcoin crashed 24%.

Yet here I am – just a few hours later, feeling very optimistic. Why? Because the philosophy offreedom just showed itself to be massively stronger than statism and its “don’t think, just obey” philosophy.   Continue reading “Silk Road Died, Bitcoin Crashed, So Why am I so Happy?”

Educate Yourself – by Ken Adachi

[Editor’s Note. ZS Livingstone was likely the first reporter on the Internet to promptly alert the public on March 12, 2011 and again on March 14, 2011, of the heinous crimes of sabotage, destruction, and murder inflicted on the people of Japan on March 11, 2011 by the US government, with Israeli/Illuminati cabal collusion. There was no natural 9.0 earthquake and there was no “tsunami” that caused the massive destruction and loss of life in northern Japan on 3/11. There was only high tech sabotage and a media propaganda blitz carried out by the psychopathic, satanic criminals who control the US government and its military. Someday, the true story of the 3/11 attack on Japan will be told in full. In the meantime, we continue to cherish the remarkable insights offered by ZSl to enlighten and educate…Ken Adachi]   Continue reading “In Praise of Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO”

The Organic Prepper

I can’t really mourn too much that the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are unable to continue wreaking regulatory havoc on the little guys due to the government shutdown.  In fact, I think a celebration just might be in order.  This could be a good chance for folks to see how unnecessary the intervention of  the government is in running the minute details of our everyday lives.   Continue reading “FDA and EPA are Victims of the Government Shutdown – Is This Supposed to be a Bad Thing?”

21st Century Wire – by Jason Liosatos

People only really find out they are dependent on something when it stops providing, and at that point its often too late to survive without it’.

We are being forced to awaken to the shocking fact that governments and the financial systems are collapsing, as they were always destined to do,  being based on short term greed, fear, recklessness, and managed without vision and wisdom. The first big card to fall is the US, and others will undoubtedly follow.    Continue reading “Breaking The Chains: Our Financial System is Pulling Us Down”

RT News

Researchers have found high levels of radioactivity, salts, and metals in water and sediment located downstream from a treatment facility which processes fracking wastewater from oil and gas production sites in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus shale formation.

A Duke University team analyzed water and sediment samples from the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, finding radium levels 200 times greater than samples taken upstream from the plant and far higher than what’s allowed under the Clean Water Act.    Continue reading “‘Alarming’ presence of radioactivity found by Pennsylvania fracking wastewater study”

RT News

An attack on Russia’s embassy in Libyan Tripoli comes as retaliation after a Russian woman killed local officer and injured his mother, Foreign Ministry confirmed.

Embassy staffers and their families have left Libya following the attack.   Continue reading “Tripoli embassy attack sparked after Libyan officer killed by Russian woman – FM”

Mail.com

TOKYO (AP) — The United States and Japan moved Thursday to modernize and expand their defense alliance to counter new challenges, including a nuclear-armed North Korea and potential aggression from China over disputed territory.

In the first update to the defense partnership in 16 years, the allies agreed to position a second early-warning radar in Japan within the next year to help protect against North Korea. And by next spring, they will deploy new long-range surveillance drones to help monitor disputed islands in the East China Sea, a move that may well raise tensions with Beijing.   Continue reading “US, Japan to deploy new radar, drones in next year”

USA Today – by Doug Stanglin

A car chase that began with a car ramming a barricade near the White House on Thursday ended with gunfire on Capitol Hill and the brief lockdown of the U.S. Capitol.

“There are reports of injuries,” said Terrance Gainer, the Senate’s Sergeant at Arms. CNN quotes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as saying there has been “one injury.”   Continue reading “Lockdown lifted after shooting near U.S. Capitol”