From the Trenches World Report

RT News

On the eve of a congressional discussion that may lend to ending the National Security Agency’s mass collection of domestic phone records, the White House made the rare move late Tuesday of issuing a statement condemning proposed legislation.

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday evening that a bipartisan-supported amendment expected to go before a vote later this week would “hastily dismantle” a key counterterrorism tool used by the United States intelligence community if approved.   Continue reading “White House denounces Amash amendment as dismantling of NSA”

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The CIA is seeking to reduce the number of its Afghanistan bases of operation from a dozen to as few as six over two years, going with the overall American withdrawal. But even after 2014 it will maintain a significant footprint.

The manpower and equipment will be relocated from Afghanistan to other destinations, particularly Yemen and North Africa, places where Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces are presented, reports The Washington Post. CIA operatives would also be needed for operations not involving anti-insurgency, like the planned supplying of weapons to the Syrian armed opposition.   Continue reading “CIA scales down Afghanistan operations amid troop pullout”

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Israeli Military Intelligence chief said that Syria is becoming a ‘center of global jihad’ right on Israel’s border, with extremists trying not only to topple President Bashar Assad, but also to create a state governed by the Islamic religious law.

Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi warned that Syria is posing a regional threat as it attracts thousands of global jihadists and Muslim extremists from around the world.    Continue reading “Syria turning into ‘center of global jihad’ – IDF Intel Chief”

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Millions of pieces of trash are floating in the world’s oceans and fundamentally changing the makeup of Earth’s food chain.

Tons of plastic have accumulated in an area between Hawaii and California, and the convergence of currents swirls the trash into what is now known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.   Continue reading “California coastline hosts ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’”

Food Babe

I have to confess, I’m not a beer drinker, but there’s someone in my household that loves it, so I had to figure out the truth. Is beer really healthy? Why are the ingredients not listed on the label? Which brands can we trust? Which brands are trying to slowly poison us with cheap and harmful ingredients? All of these questions were going through my head at once at lightening speed. So a year ago, I started to research what was really in beer and after questioning several beer companies, reading books about food science, and talking to experts, the information I discovered was downright shocking.   Continue reading “Shocking Ingredients Found in Beer”

Examiner – by Kurt Hofmann

This column has devoted a good deal of attention to Defense Distributed, brainchild of University of Texas law student Cody Wilson, and that group’s “Wiki Weapon” project, to design effective firearms that can be “printed” on consumer grade 3-D printers. The plan is to post those designs–free of charge–on the internet, so that anyone in the world with internet access and a 3-D printer (which grow both more affordable and more powerful by the day) will be able to bust any “government monopoly on force,” so beloved of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and statist politicians like U.S. Representative Gerrold Nadler (D-NY).   Continue reading “Defense Distributed faces ‘economic Waco’ for challenging gov. monopoly on force”

Frontpage Mag – by Daniel Greenfield

Between the 50 mayors who have checked out of Hotel Bloomberg, some of whom were arrested, one for demanding gay sex at gunpoint, the number of people in the control freak mayor’s boutique anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, run with pilfered city resources, is dropping.

Not helping matters was Bloomberg’s declaration of war on Southern Democrats and even gun-control Republicans who didn’t hew to his exacting standards. And so Napoleon IV is watching his little empire of attack ads coming apart.   Continue reading “Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Imploding as 50 Mayors Leave”

There’s at least one honest federal judge in the USA.

Yahoo News – by Geetika Rudra | ABC News Blogs

A federal judge has ruled that Nebraska cops must return over $1 million confiscated at a traffic stop from a woman who saved the money $1 at a time during her 15 year career as an exotic dancer.   Continue reading “Judge Orders $1 Million Returned to Exotic Dancer”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This is not coincidence, this is by design, according to the plan of the globalists. Research yourself who runs the major banking institutions of the world. Mainly, the Bank for International Settlements. We will be talking about these people in the future. The Syrian crisis is being escalated on purpose, make no mistake about it. End Times Deception: Global Government Lurks Behind the Curtain   Continue reading “US And Russia Simultaneously Announce Intent To Arm Opposing Sides In Syria”

Before It’s News

The so-called “Wars on Drugs and Terror” notwithstanding, the “Efficiency Of Militia Bill H.R. 11654M” June 28, 1902 Invalidates All So-Called Gun-Control Laws ‘Passed’ Since that Date.

This shot will  hopefully be heard around the world.

Everyone who is even partially aware of what is going on around them is aware that if only the “Bad Guys” have guns, you and I are F*cked if we are confronted by them.   Continue reading “All Gun Laws Passed Since 1902 are Invalid and Illegal”

Hot Air – by Erika Johnsen

California’s state insurance commissioner Dave Jones recently expressed some serious trepidation about the lack of concrete procedures in place for cracking down on the opportunities for fraud and abuse that are almost certain to arise as the large bureaucratic network of their ObamaCare insurance exchange continues to take shape. The is hiring tens of thousands of enrollment counselors who will shortly have access to a lot of consumers’ personal and financial information, and Jones worried that California might “have a real disaster on our hands” with identity theft especially.   Continue reading “GOP: The ObamaCare database is going to be a “honey pot” for identity thieves, fraud”

Economic Policy Journal – by Robert Wenzel 

In 1975:

1.You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID.

2.You could buy cough syrup without showing an ID.   Continue reading “Liberty Slipping: 10 Things You Could Do in 1975 That You Can’t Do Now”

Information Liberation – by Phillip Smith

An asset forfeiture scheme that utilized a private security contractor to stop vehicles on Interstate 40 in Caddo County, Oklahoma, has been shut down after garnering strong criticism. Caddo County District Attorney Jason Hicks suspended the stops earlier this month after getting a tongue-lashing from a local judge.    Continue reading “In Profit-Sharing Scheme, Oklahoma DA Used Contractor for Highway Drug Stops”