From the Trenches World Report

LA Times – by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani

WASHINGTON — A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.

Washington Post – by Ellen Nakashima

Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials.

The breach appears to have been aimed at unearthing the identities of Chinese intelligence operatives in the United States who may have been under surveillance by American law enforcement agencies.   Continue reading “Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say”

ars technica – by Casey Johnston

NASA has bestowed a $125,000 grant upon a research corporation to pursue the development of 3D-printable food, according to a report from Quartz. Anjan Contractor, who runs Systems & Materials Research Corporation, hopes to design a system that will turn shelf-stable cartridges of sugars, complex carbs, and protein into edible food on demand.   Continue reading “3D-printable food? NASA wants a taste”

Antiwar.com – by Kelley B. Vlahos

WASHINGTON – Antiwar.com is taking the FBI to court.

The website’s founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online magazine.   Continue reading “Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance”

IntelliHub – by Shepard Ambellas

MAASTRICHT — Starting with a very particular cell extracted from dead cows necks at a local slaughterhouse, a select team of scientists are now close to serving up the world’s first human-engineered, cultured meat burger. That’s right. A whopping 5 ounce burger will be freshly made from lab grown bits of cultured meat and muscle tissue. The burger, the first of its kind, will be served to curious diner’s somewhere in London in the coming weeks.   Continue reading “First Human-Engineered ‘Meat Burger’ To Be Consumed In London”

Green Med Info – by Christina England

In December 2012, vaccine tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, Chad, Africa, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine, they would receive no further education. These children were vaccinated without their parents’ knowledge. This vaccine was an unlicensed product still going through the third phase of testing.   Continue reading “Vaccine Injured African Children Used as Lab Rats”

PJ Media

More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon.

These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.   Continue reading “Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama”

Charles Carroll Society

Good old second amendment Tuesdays. The union backed liberal Democratic (Nanny State Party) state Attorney General for California, Kamala Harris release new guidelines on Friday afternoon, right before the weekend.  In case others were not aware, California has 100% liberal union backed democrats in charge of every state-wide office.  They also have a super majority in both the state House and state Senate.  Obviously they have a liberal union backed governor.  Next time the Republicans talk to you about “taking back the white house” ask them “how are you going to take back California?”  They don’t have a clue.    This is one of the bluest states in the union.  And it is the largest state in the Union by population.   Continue reading “California outlaws all new semi-automatic handguns”

Huffington Post

The judge overseeing a challenge to NYPD stop-and-frisk tactics said she was “intrigued” by the idea of requiring the police to use body cameras that would record street stops as the 10-week trial in federal court in Manhattan came to an end Monday.

“Everyone would know exactly what occurred,” said U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin, who brought the idea up on her own and suggested a pilot project in a few precincts. “I’m intrigued. It seems it would solve a lot of problems.”   Continue reading “NYPD Body Cameras Idea Piques Interest Of Stop-And-Frisk Judge Shira Scheindlin”

The Organic Prepper

One of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of the grass roots food freedom fight is social media.  Google, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and many more networks allow people to instantly connect and provide a platform for information to be passed on exponentially. Facebook and Google are the two biggest websites in the entire world, and their reach is nearly unlimited.   Continue reading “Monsanto Declares a Sneaky Social Media War Against Protesters”

Washington Times – by Stephen Dinan

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge.

In one major change, the committee voted 17-1 to make a third drunken-driving conviction a deportable offense for the newly legalized immigrants if at least one of those offenses occurs after they are approved for legal status.   Continue reading “Senate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits for newly legal immigrants”

To be delivered to: Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, Christine Quinn, Speaker, New York City Council, New York City Council, The New York State House, The New York State Senate and 3 other targets (click here to see more)

The Spectra Pipeline, a high-pressure gas pipeline under construction in Manhattan’s West Village, slated to go online in November 2013, poses a grave and immediate risk to New York residents.   Continue reading “Stop the Spectra pipeline.”

AlterNet – by  Iulia Filip

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (CN) – A woman died on a courthouse floor because Alabama sheriff’s deputies refused to give her her medicine – after arresting her for an old traffic ticket, the woman’s daughter claims in court.

Ayunna Johnae London sued St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles, jail administrators Austin Nash and Terry Marcrum, Southern Healthcare Partners, and its employee Jennifer Eisel, in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Elderly Woman Dies in Court “Gasping for Breath” After Sheriff’s Deputies “Callously” Refused to Give Her Medication, Daughter Claims”

Think Progress – by Nicole Flatow

A major U.S. private prison operator known for inmate abuse, violations, and disregardfor the truth reported a 56-percent spike in profit in the first quarter of 2013, due in part to its new strategy for drastically reducing its taxes, the Associated Press reports. During a conference call touting its success, representatives at GEO Group boasted that the company continues to have “solid occupancy rates in mid to high 90s” and that they are optimistic “regarding the outlook for the industry,” in part due to a “growing offender population.” GEO Senior Vice President John Hurley assured investors during the call:   Continue reading “Private Prison Profits Skyrocket, As Executives Assure Investors Of ‘Growing Offender Population’”

Oregon Live – by Stuart Tomlinson

As preparedness drills go, the 3-day PACE (Portland Area Capabilities Exercise) Setter bioterrorism exercise that starts Tuesday is big. The exercise–which simulates a terrorist attack involving a biological weapon–will unfold across 50 different venues and some 65 jurisdictions from Gresham to Tigard.

Officials say it’s the largest such exercise undertaken since 2007, when a drill known as TOPOFF tested a simulated response to a dirty bomb explosion in Portland.   Continue reading “Three day metro-wide disaster drill will simulate bioterrorism attack”