From the Trenches World Report

RT News

Halliburton Energy Services to pay a maximum $200,000 fine for destroying evidence related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which the Gulf of Mexico is yet to recover from. The company will also donate $55 million towards wildlife protection.

World’s second-largest oilfield services company has pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge and agreed to be subject to three years of probation – apart from paying $200,000 fine – for destroying internal probe computer simulations into the cementing after the blowout at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Allegedly the probe showed little difference between using six and 21 centralizers while cementing the damaged oil rig well.    Continue reading “Halliburton to pay $200k fine for destroying evidence in 2010 Gulf oil spill”

RT News

Security researcher Barnaby Jack has passed away in San Francisco, only days before a scheduled appearance at a Las Vegas hacker conference where he intended to show how an ordinary pacemaker could be compromised in order to kill a man.

Jack, who previously presented hacks involving ATMs and insulin pumps at the annual Black Hat conference in Vegas, was confirmed dead Friday morning by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office, Reuters reported. He passed away Thursday this week, but the office declined to offer any more details at this time.   Continue reading “Hacker dies days before he was to reveal how to remotely kill pacemaker patients”

SF Gate – by FRANK ELTMAN

YAPHANK, N.Y. (AP) — A “violent and uncontrollable” resident of a Long Island group home for the developmentally disabled died after officers used a Taser on him during a struggle, a police official said Thursday.

Three officers were treated at a hospital and released following the Wednesday night encounter, Suffolk County Police Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick said at a briefing.   Continue reading “NY group home resident dies after police struggle”

Max Velocity Tactical

I received the following comment on my recent post ‘Field Sleeping Options – A Discussion‘:

“I own and use a FLIR device for hunting, I understand the idea behind blocking the hot spot from showing up on observation devices, but won’t the use of a thermal blocking tarp create a square “hole” in the natural thermal background pattern? By natural thermal pattern I mean the differences in heat signatures that show up due to rates of heat uptake and release.” Anonymous.   Continue reading “Thermal Camouflage & Update on the MVT Shield”

Against Crony Capitalism – by Nick Sorrentino

One of the biggest failings of conservatives over the years, and especially since the end of the Cold War, has been the failure to understand that the military is big government too. It is full of waste, and much larger than it should be.

Some will always argue that “defense” is specifically enumerated in the Constitution and therefore a legitimate expenditure. It is a legitimate expenditure.   Continue reading “The Pentagon is spending taxpayer dollars on what?”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

When 80 people die in dramatic fashion, it’s the kind of tragedy that grabs global headlines. “Driver in custody after 80 killed in Spain train crash,” declares Reuters in the aftermath of that devastating event. Sadly, there’s something frighteningly macabre about 80 people dying all at once in a caught-on-video crash that demands global attention.   Continue reading “Obamacare train wreck will kill far more people than the disastrous crash in Spain”

Press TV

The House on July 24 defeated a motion to restrict, but not abandon, National Security Agency massive-surveillance activities, the Obama administration and Democratic leadership in the House in solid support of continuance, this despite the obvious totalitarian implications and consequences of the program.

Think of it, POTUS identified closely with the most alarming violation of American civil liberties in recent history, placing him in the same crowd with Joe McCarthy, A. Mitchell Palmer, the Alien-and-Sedition forces going back to the late 18th century, a dishonorable pantheon of those contemptuous of freedom of thought, privacy of the individual, safeguards inherent in the Constitution for protection against unlawful searches and seizures. Continue reading “The NSA is the spearhead for American fascism”

The Ulsterman Report

Eric Holder and Barack Obama’s Department of Justice made clear this week their feelings regarding Texas  – namely that it is a state (they believe) still mired in racial discrimination that requires Big Government intervention.  In the brewing war between the Obama White House and Texas, who will win?   Continue reading “Eric Holder Gunning For Texas – Claims Lone Star State Among Most Racist In Nation”

Now they’re stock piling other calibers and arms. Along with the manuals and tools related to the individual pieces. I believe they’re out to limit the availability of everything. So as to cause the shortages they want, which in the long term will keep Americans from being able to respond to actions that may go hot. So they think, and plan.

Like I’ve said, get everything you can, while you can…NOW To include all related support items for your piece(s). Spare ejectors, firing pins, armorers manuals, etc. For if you don’t, all you’ll have are glorified clubs and paper weights. Remember, obscenities and throwing rocks won’t do you any good.   Continue reading “U.S. Army to Buy Millions of Russian Rounds of Ammo and Popular Civilian Firearms”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The NY times documents this was a Christian Quarter. The situation in Syria will not improve as we have documented. Western governments continue to fund and arm the conflict, in essence, creating the conflict themselves. It was announced just days ago Russia and the U.S. will arm both sides of the conflict at the same time. Days before that, the United States and Britain both publicly stated war preparations are underway for Syria.   Continue reading “Damascus: 10 killed, 66 Injured in Blast in Christian Quarter of Syrian Capital”

Guardian Express – by Cherese Jackson

The list of women to come forward continues to grow for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner. Multiple women have already gone public alleging unwanted advances from Filner. Filner’s former communications director, Irene McCormack Jackson filed started the ball rolling by being the first woman to publicly speak out. McCormack Jackson filed a lawsuit in San Diego County Superior Court seeking unspecified damages for Filner’s treatment of her. The lawsuit alleges that he frequently put her in a headlock, made sexual comments, and, on one occasion, said she should work without her panties on.   Continue reading “Mayor Bob Filner: More Sexual Harassment Allegations”

LA Times – by Henry Chu

LONDON — Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday promised two investigations of the deadly train derailment in northwestern Spain, with suspicion focusing on excessive speed as the cause of the disaster that has left at least 80 people dead, including an American, and scores more injured.

Daily Mail

A dramatic assassination attempt on a man sprayed with bullets by a machine gun hidden behind the rear license plate of a parked car yesterday was foiled by the target’s bulletproof Mercedes.

In scenes which could have been taken straight from James Bond, the vehicle where the weapon was hidden burst into flames straight after opening fire on Radovan Krejcir, a Czech fugitive living in Johannesburg.   Continue reading “Hitman tries to murder target using James Bond-style MACHINE GUN hidden behind his car’s number plates”

Boston Globe – by Carolyn Y. Johnson

The chamber illuminated with reddish light would have been familiar to the mouse — the laboratory animal had scurried before on its black cardboard floor and smelled the faint whiff of vinegar. The mouse froze. A series of electric foot shocks would be coming soon, as, the mouse remembered, had happened the last time.

But the shocks never came. The memory wasn’t real.   Continue reading “Mind-control study gives mouse false memory”

CBS New York

Seattle head coach Pete Carroll hosted a retired four-star general at the Seahawks facility last spring and blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government, according to Deadspin.com.

Decorated general Peter Chiarelli, who had just called it a career, was discussing football and brain injuries with Carroll before the conversation took a turn, Deadspin reported.   Continue reading “Report: Seahawks Coach Peppered 4-Star General With 9/11 ‘Conspiracy’ Questions”