From the Trenches World Report

Pat Dollard

Excerpted from NRA-ILA NEWS

As we reported last month, on April 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 153-4 to pass the Arms Trade Treaty, with the United States voting in favor and several countries abstaining. The vote in the General Assembly pushed the treaty process forward after negotiations twice failed to deliver on the goal of developing the treaty by consensus. The Obama Administration is expected to sign the treaty soon after it is opened for signature on June 3.   Continue reading “Obama To Sign U.N. Arms Trade Treaty ‘In The Very Near Future’”

Washington Post – by Martin Weil

As many as 50 or 60 people were injured Saturday in southwest Virginia when a car plowed into the annual Appalachian Trail Days parade in the town of Damascus, sending hundreds of people scattering amid shouts and screams.Nine of the injured were taken to hospitals after the incident at the annual trail festival, but none of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, authorities said.   Continue reading “Dozens injured when car hits Virginia parade”

Give Me Liberty

Bill Benson’s findings, published in “The Law That Never Was,” make a convincing case that the 16th amendment was not legally ratified and that Secretary of State Philander Knox was not merely in error, but committed fraud when he declared it ratified in February 1913. What follows is a summary of some of the major findings for many of the states, showing that their ratifications were not legal and should not have been counted.   Continue reading “How Some States did not Legally Ratify the 16th Amendment”

RT News

The federal government has proposed a new set of national fracking rules that would weaken disclosure requirements. The proposal allows ‘trade secrets’ to remain unknown from the public, which has distressed environmental groups.

The US Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Thursday released its proposed update to hydraulic fracturing regulations, which would be the first update in three decades.   Continue reading “US weakens fracking rules”

The Ulsterman Report

Obama Attorney General Eric Holder informed both the media and Congress earlier this week that his department seized communications records from the Associated Press due to what he described as a “national security risk”. (One that Barack Obama then declared he had no clue of by the way)  Today the New York Times rips apart Mr. Holder’s claim – and then some…   Continue reading “New York Times Rips Apart Eric Holder’s False Security Excuse…”

Chron – by RON TODT, Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a hero and given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama has been arrested and charged with rape and other crimes.

Authorities allege that former officer Richard DeCoatsworth left a party with two females early Thursday and took them to another location, where they allege that he produced a handgun and “forced the two females to engage in the use of narcotics and sexual acts.”   Continue reading “Ex-Pa. officer once hailed as hero faces charges”

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Digital Journal – by R. C. Camphausen

Athens – A new and very cheap drug is killing Greek youth who no longer can see a future for themselves. Sisa is a form of crystal meth being mixed with filler ingredients such as battery acid and engine oil. It makes users violent and kills within six months.

Ever since the austerity crisis has hit Greece, drug use and alcohol abuse have been rising sharply, as have suicides. The larger cities, and especially Athens, are filled with homeless and impoverished people who often seek to escape their misery by taking refuge in drug induced stupor.   Continue reading “New drug called Sisa is killing austerity-hit Greek youths”

The New Yorker – by Andy Borowitz [Satire]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.

“Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I am,” he said. “Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had no involvement in such an organization.”   Continue reading “Obama Denies Role in Government”

RT News

A powerful explosion has hit Ruken al-Deen neighborhood in Damascus, causing an unknown number of casualties, local state TV reports. At least three people are said to have been killed in the latest blast to strike the Syrian capital.

Residents have confirmed a large explosion shook the area.   Continue reading “Powerful blast hits Damascus, at least 3 dead – state TV”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Investigators have discovered a half-inch long crack around a nozzle on one of the tanks of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant, and have attributed the crack to the water leakage that spilled radioactive water into Lake Michigan on May 5.

The plant, which is located on the shore of the great lake and operated by Entergy, was shut down after the water tank exceeded its site threshold and leaked. Authorities say the crack led to about 79 gallons of “slightly radioactive water” spilling from the Palisades plant into the lake, WOOD-TV reports.   Continue reading “Radioactive Leak Found At Palisades Nuclear Power Plant”

RT News

Leaders from 11 Native American tribes stormed out of a meeting with US federal officials in Rapid City, South Dakota, to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which they say will lead to ‘environmental genocide.’

Native Americans are opposed to the 1,179-mile (1,897km) Keystone XL project, a system to transport tar sands oil from Canada and the northern United States to refineries in Texas for various reasons, including possible damage to sacred sites, pollution, and water contamination.   Continue reading “‘Environmental genocide’: Native Americans quit talks over Keystone XL pipeline”

Washing D.C. is the Seat of Power for a Federation of Independent Sovereign States, referred to as the ‘Several States.’  DC is also the headquarters to the 50 administrative bodies which via their never ending maze of departments, policies and regulations, provide government services and thereby gain jurisdiction over virtually every American throughout the several states and territories.

DC is not a state. It is not sovereign, it is a creation of the several states and derives its authority from those several states. It is the psychotic guard dog of the union, and it performs its duties spectacularly. In my opinion, Washington DC is far more successful than the Founders ever imagined. Originally designed to have jurisdiction over a small select part of the population, it has become so successful that hundreds of millions voluntarily submit to its ‘exclusive jurisdiction whatsoever.’   Continue reading “Why is there a Washington DC?”

Before It’s New – by Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian

… the CIA has largely escaped unscathed. “They’ve gotten a pass on a lot of this,” a former Obama administration official says. Perhaps that’s the real scandal.

GOP scandal-chasers have been obsessed with the Obama administration’s talking points about the attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, and the White House on Wednesday tried to put the pseudo-scandal to rest by releasing a batch of interagency emails related to the talking points.   Continue reading “Benghazi: What Did the CIA Know, and When Did it Know it? Forget the Talk. The CIA’s Cover Up May be the Real Mystery.”