From the Trenches World Report

End the Lie – by Madison Ruppert

In yet another instance of a report indicating that tech giants worked directly with intelligence agencies to enable government surveillance, it is now being reported that Skype began a secret program called Project Chess to enable intelligence agencies and law enforcement to easily get a hold of calls.

This comes after it was revealed that Skype was part of the massive National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance program known as PRISM.   Continue reading “Project Chess: Skype’s secret program aimed at making calls readily available to intelligence agencies”

Red Dirt Report – by Andrew W. Griffin

OKLAHOMA CITY – Talk to any journalist, particularly after they’ve had a few drinks at the bar, and ask them if they are ever nervous or concerned when going up against great power. At first they will probably say “nah, I’m a reporter. I’m just doing my job and they know that.” But if you really press them on the topic – particularly after that third or fourth drink – and they will begin to admit that, yeah, taking on the powerful is a bit stressful and, perhaps, dangerous.   Continue reading “Hastings’ death in fiery car crash is just the latest in a growing list of dead investigative journos”

RT News

The scandal over illegal data interception by US security services questions the correlation between the US and international law, and senior Russian officials are calling for an urgent update in Russian legislation in response.

Russia will not ignore the actions of the US authorities who had admitted leaks of personal data of Russian citizens to which the US security services had access, the Foreign Ministry’s plenipotentiary for human rights, Konstantin Dolgov, said at a special meeting initiated by the Upper House of the Russian parliament.   Continue reading “Russia promises legal action over NSA surveillance scandal”

The Independent – by ALISTAIR DAWBER

The West may be flip-flopping over whether or not to send lethal arms to the Syria rebels, but that has not stopped a 12-day military exercise in Jordan, in which thousands of troops from a variety of countries are preparing for the possibility of fighting in Syria. The war games come to an end tomorrow.

Living Not Surviving – by Ahmed Serag

Despite the near 17 TRILLION dollars in debt this country already has, and the complete failure of federal bailout programs throughout recent and past decades, and despite the Congress of the United States being on the brink of passing an unfunded 1 TRILLION dollar farm bill-which the house thankfully just rejected 234-195-the United States Department of Agriculture has announced it will be spending 38 million dollars on a preventative sugar bailout, thanks to information gathered by the Star Tribune.    Continue reading “USDA Announces 38 Million Dollar Sugar Bailout to Prevent Big Sugar Bailout”

AmmoLand

Illinois –(Ammoland.com)- As many of you know, gun-grabbing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has kicked off a 100-day bus tour around the United States for the purpose of bullying state legislators into taking your guns away from you.

Illinois is on the list of states included in the bus tour, but Bloomberg is too chicken to announce where in Illinois he will be or when.   Continue reading “Pro 2A Forces Mobilize Against Bloomberg’s Anti Freedom Bus Tour in Illinois”

Coyote Prime – by Bill Bonner

“Travel is tiring. Often, it’s our laptop computer that shows the signs of fatigue first. Yesterday, it got fed up and refused to deliver the mail. We could neither send nor receive mail… neither from our laptop nor from our iPhone, which normally accesses our email account.

We should have been delighted. We were in Ireland. Now we had an excuse not to work. We could pay attention to our surroundings… and enjoy them. But with no means to contact the outside world, we grew anxious. Who was trying to contact us? What important messages were we missing? And who was monkeying around with our email account? The root of the problem was that our email provider had noticed some strange behavior. We were apparently using our account from two places at once. It looked as though we were in Ireland and in the US at the same time. The provider suspected that our account had been hacked. It simply shut down the service.   Continue reading “How to Disappear Without a Trace”

Continue reading “Embarrassing Photo Compares Obama’s Berlin Crowds”

AL.com – by Kent Faulk

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – A Birmingham man was sentenced this morning to 12 months in prison for his guilty plea to a charge of threatening the life of President Barack Obama through a Twitter message.

U.S. District Court Judge Lynwood Smith also ordered that Jarvis M. Britton serve three years under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office after his release, , according to the U.S. Attorneys Office.. Today’s hearing was held in Huntsville.   Continue reading “Birmingham man who tweeted threat about President Obama sentenced to serve year in prison”

What Really Happened – by James

CIA Assassin’s Manual:

“For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effective technique. When successfully executed, it causes little excitement and is only casually investigated.”   Continue reading “Cars are arguably one of the softest targets when it comes to assassinations and kidnappings”

Moonbattery

The reason the media conspicuously played down the lurid and highly newsworthy Kermit Gosnell baby abattoir trial is that it is heavily invested in the political success of Barack Obama. Don’t get the connection? Maybe this will help:

Despite passing the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy faces an uncertain future as President Obama’s administration has suggested that he will veto it.   Continue reading “Obama to Veto Bill That Would Prevent Dismembering Babies Old Enough to Feel Pain”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

Within hours of yesterday’s announcement that Washington State gun rights leaders weremounting a defense against a big-money gun control initiative launched last week, the well-funded Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR) was crying foul in a blanket e-mail appealing for more money to pad its $1 million-plus war chest.

In the process, to the amusement of local rights advocates, the e-mail demonized and blamed the National Rifle Association for the counter-attack, and so far, the NRA hasn’t uttered a peep publicly about the initiative, nor has it announced any financial backing.   Continue reading “Gun control Goliath cries foul as David fights back”

ARS Technica – by Cyrus Farivar

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a bill giving Texans more privacy over their inboxes than anywhere else in the United States.

On Friday, Perry signed HB 2268, effective immediately. The law shields residents of the Lone Star State from snooping by state and local law enforcement without a warrant. The bill’s e-mail amendment was written by Jonathan Stickland, a 29-year-old Republican who represents an area between Dallas and Ft. Worth.   Continue reading “Texas becomes first state to require warrant for e-mail snooping”

Before It’s News – by Josey Wales

The following article from Secure Arkansas lists many of the laws and regulations used to implement the White River Watershed National Blueway. This article also lists  the reason for the dam removals. The dams must be removed so as to not restrict the flow of fish in the streams. This statement on the dam removals is what the environmentalists believe.   Continue reading “Laws And Regulations That Will Destroy Our Private Property In The National Blueway Designations”

Century Link – by VICKI SMITH – Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can’t afford to bid on them

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions estimates the shackles are worth at least $10,000, but some Brown memorabilia has fetched much more. In 2007, a rare daguerreotype sold for $97,750 at a Cincinnati auction.   Continue reading “Texas auction house to sell John Brown leg irons”

The News Star – by Greg Hilburn

Gov. Bobby Jindal knows few things are more popular in northeastern Louisiana’s gun country than the Second Amendment.

So Jindal chose TP Outdoors’ West Monroe store as the location to sign six gun-related bills Wednesday afternoon, surrounded by legislators and walls of firearms on the second stop on his post-Legislative session 64-parish tour.   Continue reading “Jindal touts new gun laws”

Activist Post – by Dave Hodges

Agenda 21 policy calls for dramatically increasing urbanization and forcing indigenous populations out of rural areas and into densely populated stack-and pack micro apartments controlled by technocrats with the ability to control every aspect of one’s life. When completed, this lifestyle will be a hell on earth.

In Part One, I detailed how the Chinese government, under the direction of global corporations like Goldman Sachs, is instituting a mass relocation of its population from rural to urban. At the point of a gun, the Chinese military is forcibly removing one million Chinese farmers per month from their rural homes and forcing them into the massive ghost cities from which China has spent nearly $3 trillion to construct.   Continue reading “The Forced Depopulation of America’s Rural Areas”