From the Trenches World Report

Vine of Life News – by Gaby Dunn

Is this Craigslist weed dealer the DEA, a scammer, or just an idiot?

Is this guy really selling marijuana over the Internet? Or is it an elaborate Craigslist sting by the Drug Enforcement Agency? Like the original poster on Reddit’s weed community r/trees, I too was in disbelief that a man would advertise a mail order weed business via the Internet. The ad reads “Medical Marijuana Shipped ($250)” and goes on to describe a business that is “smooth, fast, and always discreet,” using search-engine optimization tags like kush, pot, dope, bong, hash, 420, loud, dope, buds, and rolling, all to increase visibility and accessibility on Craigslist.   Continue reading “Kush, pot, dope, bong, hash, buds, and rolling”

The Guardian – by Ewen MacAskill

Source for the Guardian’s NSA files on why he carried out the biggest intelligence leak in a generation – and what comes next.

Edward Snowden was interviewed over several days in Hong Kong by Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill.

Q: Why did you decide to become a whistleblower?

A: “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.   Continue reading “NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again’”

Huffington Post – by Rebecca Shapiro

The Guardian published the identity of the whistleblower on Sunday responsible for providing the paper with top-secret documents that revealed the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs. The paper wrote that it was revealing Edward Snowden’s identity at his request:   Continue reading “Edward Snowden NSA: Guardian Reveals Identity Of Whistleblower Behind NSA Revelations”

Yahoo News – by Imtiyaz Delawala | ABC News

Glenn Greenwald, the reporter for The Guardian who broke stories last week on the National Security Agency’s phone and internet surveillance programs, blasted calls for the prosecution of his sources for leaking classified information, saying they “deserve our praise and gratitude and not imprisonment and prosecution.”   Continue reading “Guardian Reporter Glenn Greenwald Blasts Calls for Leak Prosecutions”

Zen Gardner – by Julian Rose

The Western World is on the brink. That means the whole World is. An energy like no other is coursing through the veins of those who have opened their hearts and minds and is producing an energy ‘return’ that is steadily undermining even the best laid plans of the scheming gobal elite. It is happening because the Masonic manipulators’ energy output is an inverted and distorted form of the energy output of those who are awake and awakening. As long as a large majority of people act according to the inverted energy plan the elite cabal gets its way – but once a critical mass cuts into the true expression of Universal energy – the inverted one gets into the slip stream of its own turbulence – and its fear based energy weapons start jamming.   Continue reading “World On The Brink”

Politico – by PHILIP EWING

The National Security Agency pushed for the government to “rethink” the Fourth Amendment when it argued in a classified memo that it needed new authorities and capabilities for the information age.

The 2001 memo, later declassified and posted online by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, makes a case to the incoming George W. Bush administration that the NSA needs new authorities and technology to adapt to the Internet era.   Continue reading “NSA memo pushed to ‘rethink’ 4th Amendment”

What Really Happened – by Michael Rivero

Obama insists that secret surveillance helps prevent terrorist attacks. Boston proved this claim is false.

Indeed, I have to wonder, with all the phone calls and internet traffic being monitored since 2006, why aren’t American drug lords being arrested?   Continue reading “The Multi-Billion Dollar Total Surveillance System Doesn’t Seem to be Working”

Union Leader

We must say we admire the chutzpah of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He presides over a city that has copious gunplay despite supposedly tough gun control, yet he presumes to tell New Hampshire and the rest of the country how to deal with guns.

That is, he does this when he isn’t telling the citizens of Gotham how big a soda cup they can purchase.   Continue reading “Bloomberg’s chutzpah: Awesome, but NH isn’t buying it”

Truth Dig – by Alexander Reed Kelly

The 179,000 jobs created in May and boasted about by the Obama administration are no more than “the usual lowly paid non-exportable domestic service jobs—the jobs of a third world country,” former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts writes.

According to Roberts’ number crunching, here’s how the bulk of those jobs break down: retail, 27,700; wholesale trade, 7,900; ambulatory health care services, 15,300; servers and bartenders, 38,100; local government, 13,000; amusement, gambling and recreation, 12,500; temporary help, 25,600; business support services, 4,300; services to buildings and residences, 6,400; accounting and bookkeeping, 3,100; architecture and engineering, 4,900; computer systems and related, 6,000; management and technical consulting, 3,200.   Continue reading “‘Another Phony Jobs Report From a Government That Lies About Everything’”

CNN – by Stan Wilson, Michael Martinez and AnneClaire Stapleton

Santa Monica, California (CNN) — The suspect in a shooting spree that left four people dead in Santa Monica has been identified as John Zawahri, sources told CNN.

Authorities say he killed his father, Samir “Sam” Zawahri, and brother, Chris Zawahri, in a Santa Monica house before carjacking a woman and firing at a public bus on Friday.   Continue reading “Santa Monica shooting suspect ID’d; father, brother among victims”

Breitbart – by Dr. Susan Berry

As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools.

A recent report in Education News states that, since 1999, the number of children who are homeschooled has increased by 75%. Though homeschooled children represent only 4% of all school-age children nationwide, the number of children whose parents choose to educate them at home rather than a traditional academic setting is growing seven times faster than the number of children enrolling in grades K-12 every year.   Continue reading “Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster than Public School Enrollment”

Daily Policy Journal – by Jay

A fascinating article from the New York Times is just making the rounds, detailing for the first time the means by which the tech companies cited in the PRISM program negotiated government access to their data. It also gives context to their denials of providing the government with “back-door access” to their servers:   Continue reading “NYT: Tech Companies Concede on Participation in NSA Scandals”

World Events and the Bible – by Brandon T. Ward

The drums of war beat louder by the day. The entire middle east is a lit fuse at this point. How long is the fuse is the question? The honest answer is no one truly knows. Rumors of a U.S. led war against Iran have been swirling for years.

During that time the United States has been racing to improve its bunker buster bombs which are capable of destroying facilities deep beneath the earth’s surface. The Pentagon recently announced they have made more improvements to the 30,000 pound Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP). This is the famed bomb that will most likely be used against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities which are buried deep beneath the earth.   Continue reading “U.S. Destroys Replica Iranian Nuclear Facility in Test of Latest “Bunker Buster” Bomb”