From the Trenches World Report

Huffington Post – by Matt Sledge

The government is arguing in the terrorism case that serves as the National Security Agency’s primary public justification for its bulk collection of telephone records that criminal defendants have no constitutional right to challenge the agency’s sweeping surveillance program.

In a filing made Sept. 30, U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy of the Southern District of California contends that only the telephone companies have a Fourth Amendment interest in their call records — and therefore that Basaaly Moalin cannot challenge his conviction for providing material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.   Continue reading “NSA Phone Records Collection Can’t Be Challenged By The Callers, Government Argues”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

All of this whining and crying about a “government shutdown” is a total joke.  You see, there really is very little reason why this “government shutdown” cannot continue indefinitely because almost everything is still running.  63 percent of all federal workers are still working, and 85 percent of all government activities are still being funded during this “shutdown”.

Yes, the Obama administration has been making a big show of taking down government websites and blocking off the World War II Memorial, but overall business in Washington D.C. is being conducted pretty much as usual.    Continue reading “Government Shutdown? 36 Facts Which Prove That Almost Everything Is Still Running”

Fox News – by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

While the nation’s political class has been fixated on a potential government shutdown in Washington this week, the NSA has continued to spy on all Americans and by its ambiguity and shrewd silence seems to be acknowledging slowly that the scope of its spying is truly breathtaking.   Continue reading “A government looking for witches will find them”

Borderland Beat – by Chivis

Though not directly related to Mexican drug war news, none the less, it is an example of  technology meeting criminality and an element that will be used in the future.  In this case Ulbricht made a couple of dumb mistakes as he initiated his internet drug market, which resulted in his identity being discovered, but overall he developed a sophisticated operation in 13 countries.  In his 2 1/2 year run he managed sales topping 1.2 Billion USD. One wonders what took so long to shut the operation down, A Forbes magazine reporter wrote about the website and his pot transaction from the website over a year ago…Paz, Chivis   Continue reading “End of Silk Road: Simple Errors Tripped up “Largest” Internet Drug Market”

The Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

China last week conducted a test of a maneuvering satellite that captured another satellite in space during what Pentagon officials say was a significant step forward for Beijing’s space warfare program.

The satellite capture took place last week and involved one of three small satellites fitted with a mechanical arm that were launched July 20 as part of a covert anti-satellite weapons development program, said U.S. officials familiar with reports of the test.   Continue reading “China Testing New Space Weapons”

As Obama recently finished his dictatorial orders on the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare, I was given this piece of paper today by my supervisor at work. He stated that it was required by law that every company makes sure that all employees signed a statement saying that they received a copy of this to show what healthcare options we had and that these are what the company can offer us. (Sounds like Mommy government spoon-feeding me)

Requiring me to sign a statement saying that I have received a copy? What’s next? The government telling companies to make me sign a statement to make sure I received a copy on appropriate work attire aka dress code and what my options are? Seriously?   Continue reading “Obamacare already trying to be Pushed through at the Workplace, Yet No One Wants It”

The Western Center For Journalism
In a scathing indictment of the Obama regime, a recent Daily Telegraph column offers an international perspective of America’s current predicament. According to Con Coughlin, a global security expert and defense editor at the United Kingdom-based paper, the superpower status long enjoyed by the U.S. is quickly deteriorating. Most of that blame, he notes, lies with Barack Obama.

Calling the devolution into a federal government shutdown “humiliating,” Coughlin wrote that this represents just the latest in a series of missteps by the 44th president.   Continue reading “U.K. Paper: U.S. No Longer Superpower Thanks To Obama”

Breitbart – by Wynton Hall

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) took to Twitter to brag that his state’s Obamacare online exchange, Access Health CT, received 28,000 visitors on day one–and took just 167 insurance applications. That works out to a 0.59% conversion rate of visitors to enrollees.

Connecticut’s low percentage of actual Obamacare enrollees contradicts the narrative offered by the Obama Administration that the widespread technical malfunctions experienced on Obamacare’s grand opening was the result of massive demand from Americans seeking to sign up.   Continue reading “Dem Brags His State Enrolled 126 Out of 28,000 Visitors to Obamacare Site”

Info Wars – by Paul Joseph Watson

The so-called “government shut down” and the furloughing of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented the opening of a $2 billion dollar NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop on Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls.

As we highlighted yesterday, the shut down will only affect the tiny amount of services government provides that Americans actually like.   Continue reading “Government ‘Shut Down’ Doesn’t Prevent Opening of $2 Billion NSA Spy Center”

Bible.org

During those final days of the collapsing Marxist experiment in the Soviet Union, Soviet novelist Chingiz Aitmatov retold the following story, which has been paraphrased here.

On one occasion, so it was narrated, Stalin called for a live chicken and proceeded to use it to make an unforgettable point before some of his henchmen. Forcefully clutching the chicken in one hand, with the other he began to systematically pluck out its feathers. As the chicken struggled in vain to escape, he continued with the painful denuding until the bird was completely stripped.   Continue reading “Lesson of the Plucked Chicken”

Examiner – by Joe Newby

On Tuesday, the liberal New Republic published an article that was a not-so-subtle suggestion that Barack Obama use military force against the Tea Party in the same manner Boris Yeltsin used it against hardliners in his government nearly 20 years ago.

“What is a president in a presidential constitutional republic to do when faced with an intransigent, bull-headed faction among his people’s representatives?” Julia Ioffe wrote.   Continue reading “Liberal New Republic suggests Obama use military against Tea Party”