From the Trenches World Report

Aviation News – by Rob Vogelaar, June 11, 2013

RIDLEY TOWNSHIP, Pa. – In an agreement that will save the U.S. government more than $800 million, the Army and Boeing [NYSE:BA] have signed a $4 billion multi-year contract for 177 CH-47F Chinook helicopters, with the Army holding options that could increase its total buy to 215 aircraft.

Deliveries from the agreement, which is a cost-effective alternative to annually contracting for the aircraft, begin in 2015.   Continue reading “Boeing Receives US Army Contract for Up to 215 Chinook Helicopters”

End the Lie – by Madison Ruppert

A new report reveals that the FBI directly employs multiple hackers who create custom surveillance software for the bureau, some of which is capable of remotely activating the microphones on cell phones and laptops, among other features.

The FBI is known for using technology shrouded in secrecy, some of which is based on legal grounds which have been questioned by critics with some maintaining that the FBI deceived judges in deploying it.   Continue reading “FBI employs hackers, has software that can remotely activate cell phone, laptop microphones and more”

Posted as a comment from Kathleen on New Published Study Verifies Andrew Wakefield’s Research on Autism – Again

What is really frustrating is the recent hysteria being promoted by the hate-bandwagon bullies (from Salon and AlterNet) who are coming out in droves against Jenny McCarthy’s recent hire by a television talk show. Calling her views “dangerous” and “anti-science” with “deadly consequences” etc. and how she cites “a now withdrawn and scientifically disproved paper that claimed there was a link between vaccines and autism,” referring to the 1998 paper from Dr Wakefield.   Continue reading “In Defense of Dr. Wakefield’s 1998 Paper on the Link between Vaccines and Autism”

Shenandoah – by John Galt

This sounds like the type of order only given during wartime or imminent terrorist threat. Direct from the DOT/Federal Railroad Administration website:   Continue reading “A Hint of War? Federal Railroad Administration Issues Emergency Order for Trains with Hazardous Materials”

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The Blaze – by Dave Urbanski

A veterans group has filed a free speech lawsuit against officials who banned a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag from a city-owned armory because they viewed the flag as a Tea Party symbol.

The lawsuit says the actions of officials in New Rochelle, N.Y., in addition to being unconstitutional, are “unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious” and demonstrate a lack of appreciation of history, according to the Associated Press.   Continue reading “‘Don’t Tread on Me’: Fed-Up Veterans File Free Speech Lawsuit against City Officials over Flag Ban”

New America Now – by Paul Craig Roberts

As Washington loses its grip on the world, defied by Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and now Russia, the US government resorts to public temper tantrums. The constant demonstration of childishness on the part of the White House and Congress embarrasses every American.   Continue reading “Obama: The Current WH Moron”

Michelle Malkin

Here’s a new installment of my Rotten to the Core series on education and curriculum. This latest scandal has only just begun. I hear from multiple sources that there are more damaging e-mails to come. Jeb World is getting rocked not only by this mess, but by the nationwide, grass-roots revolt against his top-down Common Core scheme — which continues to grow despite Bush’s latest p.r. efforts to bamboozle talk radio and conservative pundits about his education racket.   Continue reading “Rotten to the Core: Jeb Bush’s Crony Republicans Against Higher Standards”

Herald Review – by Huey Freeman

DECATUR — A two-year investigation by Texas newspaper reporters into the whereabouts of a man who shot his parents and sister to death when he was 15 years old led them to a 61-year-old psychology professor who resides in Decatur.

James St. James, a member of the Millikin University faculty since 1986, changed his name from Jim Wolcott in 1976 after he served six years in a state mental hospital following the slayings in Georgetown, Texas.   Continue reading “Man who killed family as teen in Texas found teaching at Millikin”

Century Link

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two Northern California men accused of sexually abusing a teen runaway and keeping her in a metal box on their marijuana farm pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal drug charges.

The men appeared in San Francisco federal court in shackles and jail garb and were returned to custody after a brief hearing.   Continue reading “Calif. men plead not guilty to marijuana charges”

World Events and the Bible

(Market Watch) – The White House has approved a deal that will exempt members of Congress and their staff from some of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, Politico reported late Thursday. Under the law, popularly referred to as Obamacare, lawmakers and their aides were required to source health insurance “created” by the law or offered through one of its exchanges, and without the subsidies they currently enjoy, the members of Congress would have faced thousands of dollars in additional premium payments each year, the report said.   Continue reading “Obama Changes ObamaCare: Exempts Government Officials While Georgia Citizens See a 198% Increase in Rates”

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

How the heck do we let Facebook become such a part of our lives? This is not reality; don’t treat it as such. People put all of their personal business on Facebook, then get angry because someone laughs about it, forwards it, or makes fun of them.

Facebook is turning Americans into video twits who feud and kill over gossip and idiocy that needs to stay at home.   Continue reading “Woman Stabs Friend To Death Over Facebook”

American Thinker – by Carole Hornsby Haynes

Although high information Americans are becoming aware of the federal takeover of education through Common Core Standards, there seems to be little recognition yet that Common Core gives schools and third parties unprecedented access to students’ personal information.  The federal government is acquiring a massive amount of data that can be sold to the highest bidders. This is an invasion of student and family privacy and a violation of our 4th Amendment rights.  Continue reading “Common Core’s Data Mining Trojan Horse”

Before It’s News – by Deborah Dupree

Soldiers have arrived in southern Oregon to help battle lightening-sparked infernos, the nation’s highest priority fires that killed one fireworker and prompted state of emergencies, mandatory evacuations and suffocating smoke, not the type the state’s greenies prefer.

A state of emergency and mandatory evacuations have been declared in southern Oregon where for six days, fires remained at zero containment until yesterday’s cooler and moister conditions.   Continue reading “Soldiers Battle S. Oregon 40,000-Acre Inferno”