From the Trenches World Report

Bob Owens

“Ace” at Ace of Spades has built one of the more successful political blogs on a balanced combination of snark, community-building (who else can can boast of a community that proudly/ironically calls themselves “morons?”) and very insightful observations that a lot of folks simply miss.

Last night, I read (twice) a post he wrote called Snowden’s Looking a Little Dodgy, which was written in regards to the stories surrounding NSA leaker Edward Snowden that has been dominating the news cycle for the past few days. I’d suggest that you read it all and think over it’s ramifications.   Continue reading “The NSA “scandal” isn’t important. Keep your eyes on the IRS plot, where the criminality lies.”

Aljazeera – by Danny Schechter

How ironic. The current NSA spying story broke just as President Obama was huddled on an out-of-the-way estate in California with China’s Xi Jinping to discuss US cyber-security concerns.

The administration had been claiming that a secret Bejing-based cyber military unit had been targeting US companies and government agencies. They insisted they had evidence and would confront the Chinese with it.   Continue reading “What We Are Learning – or Should Be – From the Spying Scandal”

The Independent – by Robert Fisk

Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.

Alt Market – by Brandon Smith

There comes a point in the analysis of any problem when its escalation turns so blatantly obvious that the disaster is self-explanatory. The economic crisis in the United States and around the globe is one of those problems. While there are still plenty of people out there who remain ignorant to the immediate danger, I think we are very close (at least in America) to a point of maximum velocity. The more accelerated the awakening, however, the faster globalist interests will pull the plug on what remains of our financial system.   Continue reading “Learn A Post-Collapse Trade Before It’s Too Late”

Seasoned Citizen Prepper – by GREG RENTCHLER

I’ve been spending a lot of time at my BOL  thinking about a one-gun solution for defending the family in time of SHTF. After much discussion with my survival family and colleagues, we collectively concluded that there is no such thing as a one-gun solution to address the plethora of variations of circumstances involved in a SHTF scenario.    Continue reading “SHTF One Gun Defense”

Before It’s News – by Steelliberty

Private Attorney General, Paul Andrew Mitchell has issued a citizens arrest warrant for Attorney General Eric Holder.

Mitchell has filed the warrant with the US Marshal Service in Washington DC.   Continue reading “Private Attorney General Issues Citizens Arrest Warrant For Eric Holder”

AmmoLand

Jonesville, VA –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun purchases differ from purchasing any other type of commodity in the United States.

Learning the laws and regulations governing the purchase and ownership of guns might seem intimidating at first, especially for first time gun users.   Continue reading “What to Expect When Buying Your First Gun Online”

Mami’s Shit

Gloating Jew Joel Stein wrote an opinion Editorial for the LA Times Back in December,2008. He managed to reveal the truth about who really runs the Hollywood & Global media empires. In his mind, he was trying to boast about Jew Supremecy. In actuality, he screwed the pooch by removing the cloak of secrecy surrounding how the Jew controls the minds of most of the western world. The comments on the article are quite amusing to read.   Continue reading “How Jewish is Hollywood?”

C4SS – by Kevin Carson

It’s important, when listening to the official shapers of opinion in the media, to ask ourselves what they really mean by the words they use. As Orwell pointed out in “Politics and the English Language,” those in power use language to obscure meaning more often than to convey it.

A good example is the recurrence of phrases like “endangered our national security” and “aided the enemy,” from people like Eric Holder, Peter King and Lindsey Graham, in reference to leaks by people like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden. Continue reading “Public Enemy Number One: The Public”

Before It’s News – by Monica Davis

A White House statement on the Iranian elections praises the nation for it’s, so far, orderly electoral process. The White House says it “respects ghe voices of the Iranian people” and encourages Iran to step up to the plate and work on issues in freedom of assembly, censorship and internet freedom.    Continue reading “White House Statement On Iranian Elections: Moderate Wins Presidential Election”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

The Anglo-American press reports on an internal NATO study (dated June 2013), which takes stock of Syrian public opinion. The study shows that 70% of Syrians support President Bashar al-Assad, 20% adopt a neutral position and 10% support the “rebels.”   Continue reading “Poll: 70% Of Syrians Support Assad, Says NATO”

American Thinker – by Jeffrey T. Brown

In the midst of the eruption of near-daily scandals involving the Obama administration, let us not forget that until just a few months ago, Hillary Clinton was the most significant persona within that administration besides the president himself.  Let us not also forget that notwithstanding the scandal-grenades going off all around us, Mrs. Clinton diligently plans her run for the presidency, even while several of those scandals are obviously and entirely her responsibility, exposing the State Department during her tenure as an utter sewer of corruption, cronyism, and fatal incompetence.    Continue reading “Hillary Clinton’s Legacy of Scandal”

The Oregon Catalyst – by Sen. Jeff Kruse (R-Roseburg)

I am going to circle back to an issue that won’t go away, and that is guns.  As a reminder, there were four gun bills sent from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Senate Rules Committee on a party line vote.  This was done because there were not the votes in the Senate to pass any of them and the only way to keep them alive was to send them to Rules which is one of the few committees still open.    Continue reading “New York City driving gun policy here in Oregon”

EFF – by RAINEY REITMAN

Today, a bipartisan coalition of 86 civil liberties organizations and Internet companies – including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, reddit, Mozilla, FreedomWorks, and the American Civil Liberties Union – are demanding swift action from Congress in light of the recent revelations about unchecked domestic surveillance.

In an open letter to lawmakers sent today, the groups call for a congressional investigatory committee, similar to the Church Committee of the 1970s. The letter also demands legal reforms to rein in domestic spying and demands that public officials responsible for this illegal surveillance are held accountable for their actions.   Continue reading “86 civil liberties groups and Internet companies demand an end to NSA spying”

The Organic Prepper

We can all rest a little easier now.  Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Gestapo Security has said that fears over extreme government surveillance are overblown. There is no Orwellian state, no extreme surveillance, and we can all go back to watching Dancing with the Stars now.

“I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case… There are lots of protections built into the system…No one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather…   Continue reading “Orwellian State? Don’t worry – Big Sis says the DHS is not “going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather””

Common Dreams – by Ben Quinn, The Guardian

An interactive database allowing users to search more than 100,000 secret companies, trusts and funds created in offshore tax havens including the British Virgin Islands has gone online.

The data, part of a cache of 2.5m leaked files that has already led to a series of exposes of the offshore financial sector by the Guardian and other global media organisations, has been launched by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).   Continue reading “Revealed: Secret Offshore Tax Evaders”

Common Dreams – by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian

In my first substantive discussion with Edward Snowden, which took place via encrypted online chat, he told me he had only one fear. It was that the disclosures he was making, momentous though they were, would fail to trigger a worldwide debate because the public had already been taught to accept that they have no right to privacy in the digital age.

Snowden, at least in that regard, can rest easy. The fallout from the Guardian’s first week of revelations is intense and growing.   Continue reading “Edward Snowden’s Worst Fear Has Not Been Realized – Thankfully”