From the Trenches World Report

Fire Dog Lake – by DSWright

In response to a reported wave of cybertattacks, the United States and China will be holding talks on how the two countries can create new rules for regulating the internet. The talks will be ongoing and are set to start in July.

The United States and China have agreed to hold regular, high-level talks on how to set standards of behavior for cybersecurity and commercial espionage, the first diplomatic effort to defuse the tensions over what the United States says is a daily barrage of computer break-ins and theft of corporate and government secrets.   Continue reading “U.S. And China To Hold Talks On Controlling Internet”

Sac Bee – by Jim Sanders, David Siders and Jeremy B. White

FBI agents raided the offices of Sen. Ron Calderon and the Legislature’s 24-member Latino Caucus on Tuesday as part of an undisclosed investigation originating in Los Angeles.

Agents who executed the search warrants in the late afternoon left Calderon’s office shortly after 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, carrying several boxes of material.   Continue reading “FBI raids offices of Calif. state senator, Latino legislative caucus; warrants remain sealed”

Target: Miami-Dade Police Department

Sponsored by: Brittany E.G.

Huffington Post – by Joan Lowy

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration is abandoning a plan to allow passengers to carry small knives, souvenir bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes in the face of fierce congressional and industry opposition, the head of the agency said Wednesday.

By scuttling the plan to drop the knives and sports equipment from TSA’s list of prohibited items, the agency can focus its attention on other priorities, including expanding its Pre-Check program to identify ahead of time travelers who don’t pose a security risk, TSA Administrator John Pistole told The Associated Press.   Continue reading “TSA Drops Plan To Allow Small Knives On Planes”

Henry Makow – by Brian

SPORTS NOW PROMOTE ILLUMINATI WAR ON MALE & FEMALE GENDER

It’s OK to beat up women if you “become” one.
Fallon Fox is a biological male who had a sex change. He gets paid to beat up women wrestlers. Feminists defend this because they hate gender.   Continue reading “Transgender Man Wins in Women’s Wrestling”

The Organic Prepper

The directors of Nestle must be breathing a sigh of relief as the world targets Monsanto with a barrage of negative publicity, global protests, and grassroots campaigns.  While we’re all distracted by Monsanto’s GMO corruption of the food supply, Nestle is taking steps to profit off of the natural world with patents on breast milk and medicinal plants, and the privatization of water,and giving the seed company a run for the title of The Most Evil Corporation in the World.   Continue reading “Nestle’s Wet Dream: They Mark up Water 53 Million Percent”

Continue reading “Chemtrails in Seattle and elsewhere”

Ingenious Press – WMAL News

OWINGS, MD — The father of a middle schooler in Calvert County, Md. says his 11-year-old son was suspended for 10 days for merely talking about guns on the bus ride home.

Bruce Henkelman of Huntingtown says his son, a sixth grader at Northern Middle School in Owings, was talking with friends about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre when the bus driver hauled him back to school to be questioned by the principal, Darrel Prioleau.   Continue reading “11-Year-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns”

Refreshing News

There have been a lot of news stories recently about young children being punished for talking about guns, making toy guns, owning toy guns, and drawing guns. This new story takes the cake: a group of students from Chase Lake Elementary School in Edmonds, Washington, asked their teacher if they could bring Nerf guns to school. The teacher gave permission, but the school punished the children with suspension anyway.   Continue reading “Teacher: Kids, bring your Nerf guns to school. I have a fun experiment planned. School: Kids, we have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to toy guns. You’re all suspended”

He’s either a right-wing extremist, a knee-jerk liberal, a yuppie, a gun nut, a Jesus freak, a redneck, a soccer mom, a welfare queen, or possibly even a conspiracy theorist, but regardless of what he actually thinks or feels, he falls into one of many media-defined categories, and without ever speaking to him, you’re fairly certain that you already know his opinions on all political issues. And just as every army teaches its soldiers to use derogatory names for their enemy, you’ve been taught a derogatory name to describe most of the people around you, and there are corresponding television characters that give you examples of how they think, so you never really have to talk to them at all.    Continue reading “I know your neighbor….”

RT News

Some of US President Barack Obama’s high-ranked political appointees are using secret government email accounts, which they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages and spam.

The scale of secret email use across the government remains unknown, as most US agencies have failed to provide lists of political appointees’ email addresses, which AP requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) over three months ago.      Continue reading “Obama’s top appointees use secret email accounts – AP”

RT News, June 4, 2013

The United States Department of Justice has responded to allegations that Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill aren’t impressed.

Mr. Holder’s reputation within the Justice Department has been tarnished in recent weeks in the wake of a number of DoJ scandals, including his office’s investigation of journalists with the Associated Press and Fox News.   Continue reading “Congress gives Holder one more day to answer allegations of perjury”

RT News

The state of Connecticut has become the first to successfully enact a law requiring food containing genetically modified ingredients to be labeled as such, though it comes with the unusual requirement that four other states must pass similar legislation.

Though supporters of GMO product labeling will likely laud the state legislature’s approval of the new bill, it represents a significant weakening of the initial proposal with the introduction of a bipartisan ‘compromise’ requiring that four additional states, one of which must border Connecticut, pass labeling laws as well. An additional requirement is that the aggregate population of any combination of such states exceed 20 million people.    Continue reading “Connecticut passes first GMO food labeling law in US”

Mail.com

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Ziyad Abid was a Missouri college student aspiring to become a pilot like his father back home in Saudi Arabia when he was accused of paying his roommate to kill a local bar owner. The judge set bond at $2 million, completely out of reach for his family — but not for the Saudi government.    Continue reading “Saudi remains behind bars after $2M bond posted”

New York Times – by MARK LANDLER

WASHINGTON — In a major shakeup of President Obama’s foreign-policy inner circle, Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, is resigning and will be replaced by Susan E. Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, White House officials said late Tuesday.

Information Clearinghouse – by Marjorie Cohn

Although whistleblower Bradley Manning pled guilty to 10 offenses that will garner him 20 years in custody, military prosecutors are pursuing further charges – aiding the enemy and violation of the Espionage Act – that carry life in prison.

The court-martial of Bradley Manning, the most significant whistleblower case since Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, has begun. Although Manning pled guilty earlier this year to 10 offenses that will garner him 20 years in custody, military prosecutors insist on pursuing charges of aiding the enemy and violation of the Espionage Act, carrying life in prison.   Continue reading “Bradley Manning’s Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes”

Yahoo News – Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said it had found another leak of contaminated water on Wednesday, piling pressure on the utility to curb the problem as it seeks permission to release water to the sea.

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant was hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami more than two years ago, triggering nuclear reactor meltdowns and explosions.   Continue reading “Another contaminated water leak at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant”