From the Trenches World Report

SOFREP – by Bart “Sergei” Norman

PJ Tatler – by Bryan Preston

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is responding quickly and forcefully to Obama Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to rope Texas back into the Voting Rights Act. The US Supreme Court just struck part of that law down.   Continue reading “Texas Officials, Activists to Holder on Voter ID: If It’s War You Want, It’s War You’ve Got”

Blacklisted News – by UPI

United Nations is assessing private military and security companies and their commitment to international norms, an envoy said from New York.

The United Nations announced a panel discussion on the use of mercenaries and private security companies is scheduled next week at the U.N. headquarters.   Continue reading “U.N. mulls use of mercenaries for international interventions”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Allegations surrounding Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann and her brief presidential campaign are getting further examination from the House Ethics Committee.

The panel said in a brief statement Friday it is extending until at least September a review of Bachmann’s case, which was referred to it by the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent investigative body. The panel said it would announce any further action by Sept. 11.   Continue reading “Ethics committee extends Michele Bachmann probe”

DNA Info – by Murray Weiss and Gustavo Solis

WILLIAMSBURG — The NYPD officer at the wheel of a police van that hit and killed a middle school teacher Saturday was seen talking on her cell phone during the accident, police sources said.

Officer Paula Medrano, who was assigned to the 88th Precinct, was making a left turn onto Broadway from Hooper Street at 4:30 p.m. Saturday when she struck Felix Coss, 61, a Spanish teacher at a charter school who was just a few blocks from home.   Continue reading “Brooklyn Teacher Fatally Hit By Cop Using Cell Phone Behind Wheel: Sources”

Breitbart – by JOEL B. POLLAK

You don’t have to think the Vietnam War was a good idea to understand that communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, who led North Vietnam in the war until his death, was a not a good guy. Yet President Barack Obama praised Ho Chi Minh today at the White House, comparing him to the Founders of the United States.

From the PJ Tatler:   Continue reading “Obama Praises Communist Dictator & American Enemy Ho Chi Minh”

RT News

The US Treasury has already exceeded the federal legal borrowing limit of $16.7 trillion in May. That signals the main structural problems remain unresolved putting at risk the fragile recovery.

The country’s  outstanding public debt is already $38.82 million above the statuary debt ceiling and now at $16,738,220,000,000.00, according to Treasury data.    Continue reading “US blows out $16.7 trillion debt limit”

The Organic Prepper

Once upon a time, if we felt we needed to, we could go to the pharmacy or department store, select a bottle of vitamins, and feel pretty confident about the actual contents of the bottles.

Nowadays, real vitamins are so hard to track down that they might as well be on the endangered species list.  In fact, most of what is sold as “vitamins” in the United States actually contains toxic ingredients and nutritional content that isn’t readily bio-available.  And matters may soon get even worse, as the US government “harmonizes” with an overbearing set of rules called Codex Alimentarius.   Continue reading “10 Ways to Commit Nutritional Anarchy”

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”