From the Trenches World Report

Tech Dirt – by Mike Masnick

The joke around the NSA used to be that the acronym stood for “No Such Agency” as its very existence was denied for years. While the NSA is now very official, it’s still probably the most secretive agency out there. That’s to be somewhat expected, given its mission, but it appears that when it needs to be transparent, it doesn’t do very well at all.

We noted yesterday that Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall had called the NSA out for flat out lying on a “fact sheet” the agency had posted about its section 702 surveillance efforts.   Continue reading “NSA Deletes Fact Sheet On NSA Spying After Senate Points Out It’s Actually NSA Lying”

Fox News – by George Russell

In the near future, Americans who own or want guns likely will be subject to rafts of new questions from social scientists, medical researchers and law enforcement officials intent to discover  just what guns they own, why they own them and what they intend to use them for — not to mention where and how they keep them.

They will also likely have more researchers poring over such issues as whether childhood education programs against gun violence actually work; whether there actually is any relationship between violence in the media and in real life; and whether the safety plans that were drawn up by schools, colleges and communities in the wake of highly publicized mass shootings actually are effective.   Continue reading “Obama administration pushes new public health research agenda on gun control”

The Atlantic – by Tim Grieve

Dissenting from this morning’s opinion on the Defense of Marriage Act, Justice Antonin Scalia — as expected — holds nothing back.

In a ripping dissent, Scalia says that Justice Anthony Kennedy and his colleagues in the majority have resorted to calling opponents of gay marriage “enemies of the human race.”   Continue reading “Scalia’s Blistering Dissent on DOMA”

Political Blind Spot

Though the controlled corporate media apparatus is suppressing the story, 40 tons of GMO crops were torched, prompting an FBI investigation. There has been a COMPLETE MEDIA BLACKOUT, outside of local circles has dared to mention it, perhaps because government fears that if the public learns that other people are getting fighting mad (literally), they might join in, and become an actual revolution. It was only reported locally live on KXL Radio and echoed by the Oregonian, where the ONLY web mention exists, hard to find because the headline wording is carefully avoids the most likely keywords for a search.   Continue reading “Eco-Revolution: GMO Crops TORCHED in America”

Here Comes the Sun

Monsanto enjoying the usual role of holding hands with corporate planners and peanut butter sandwich eaters at the U.N. is now buying up organic seed companies with the new push on by Americans to buy organic seed. (Yeah some are beginning to notice). There are a few seed companies they have not engulfed and it might be wise to look into buying your seeds from them. There are a few things that can be done other than speculating on which country will be invaded next or where the next drone strike will be. They are (dead set) on reducing the population.   Continue reading “Agenda 21 Full Speed Ahead As Monsanto Buys Organic Seeds And Tar Sands Pipeline Proceeds Across America’s Breadbasket, Prepare To Starve. Snowden Saga Takes Spotlight From David Chase Taylor”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

Gun rights advocates from Miami to Mountlake Terrace are probably wondering this morning how soon news about a new study – reported yesterday by Slate – will disappear from view because it says that firearms are effectively used in self-defense a lot, a contention that is always disputed by gun prohibitionists.

Slate writer William Saletan’s piece was good enough to be picked up by the Miami Herald, but it did not seem to make much news anywhere else. The report was actually available earlier this month, and while it is not all good news for gun owners, there is enough information to make this document balanced, rather than a lengthy anti-gun diatribe.   Continue reading “Study says self-defense gun use is effective”

The Boat Train – by K Patrick Ryan

In the wake of the Snowden leaks, our masters have wisely initiated a new plan of action to keep us, the idiots who pay the taxes and in return get spied upon, in the dark.

Called a ‘Two Man Rule’ (perhaps a more honest name would be ‘1 gentile and 1 jew rule’); the NSA has vowed no one individual will have access to ‘sensitive’ information. Instead, every man (and woman) will have a minder to look over their shoulder and keep tabs on what information is being accessed. This should prove to be beneficial to America’s unemployment problem.    Continue reading “Feds Adopt New Measure To Prevent Further Leaking of Their Activities to the Public”

Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff

If there is any remaining doubt in your mind about the fact that the federal government today has been completely overrun by sociopathic, freedom-hating enemies of the U.S. Constitution, some recent absurd statements made by South Carolina Senator (and full-fledged American traitor) Lindsey Graham, a Republican, should put all such doubt to rest.   Continue reading “Enemy of freedom Lindsey Graham says he would support censoring mail for ‘national security’ purposes”

Eco Watch – by Josh Fox

[Editor’s note: This op-ed by Josh Fox is in response to an op-ed by Thomas Pyle—president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry nonprofit organization—on Real Clear Energy.]

Industry’s denial of the dark side of natural gas fracking shouldn’t fool anyone. Thomas Pyle’s claim on Real Clear Energy that there is not one “confirmed case of groundwater contamination” from fracking is the big lie, repeated often. It’s like saying cigarettes don’t cause cancer. And industry’s intentional disinformation campaign comes from the same tobacco playbook (it even uses the same PR firm).  Continue reading “Don’t Believe Thomas Pyle’s Hype That Misleads the Public on Fracking”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

The wife of Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in what many people believe was a suspicious car crash last week, has vowed to “take down whoever did this,” according to the man who released an email in which Hastings told friends he was being harassed by the government.

Staff Sergeant Joseph Biggs, who yesterday told Fox News that Hastings was working on “the biggest story yet” about the CIA before his untimely death, was responsible for releasing an email Hastings wrote 15 hours before his car crash in which the journalist stated he was “onto a big story” and needed “to go off the rada[r] for a bit.”   Continue reading “Michael Hastings’ Wife Vows to “Take Down Whoever Did This””

Examiner – by Dave Workman

A Georgia woman associated with Mayors Against Illegal Guns confirmed to Examiner Tuesday afternoon that she did author a controversial e-mail relating to yesterday’s “No More Names” bus stop in Atlanta, in which she noted that at earlier stops, pro-gun protesters did appear but “the ‘wing nuts’ were present (and) they were fairly passive and knew their place.”

Today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution has several images taken at the capitol, where it appeared gun rights activists and anti-gunners were about evenly matched.   Continue reading “‘Wing nuts knew their place,’ says MAIG Georgia associate”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Syrian activists say more than 100,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced its latest count Wednesday, saying the figure included 18,000 rebels and about 40,000 pro-Assad fighters.   Continue reading “Syria Death Toll Tops 100,000”

The Tenth Amendment Center

UNEAU, Alaska – Federal kidnapping in Alaska just got a lot harder.

Last Friday, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell signed a sweeping nullification bill providing  broad protections against indefinite detention, violations of the Second Amendment and blocking implementation of a federal identification program in The Last Frontier.   Continue reading “Alaska Becomes Second State to Pass Nullification of Indefinite Detention”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

AlterNet – by Alex Kane

A federal lawsuit alleges that Chicago police sodomized a man with a gun until he agreed to become a participant in a drug sting, the Courthouse News Service reports.  Plaintiff Angel Perez is suing police officer Jorge Lopez and the city of Chicago for excessive force related to the incident, which, according to the lawsuit, was quite the nightmare.    Continue reading “Chicago Police Accused of Using Gun to Sodomize Innocent Man”

The Organic Prepper

If you need a sure way to identify that a proposed law or regulation is bad news, perhaps the fact that it has to be presented by movie stars and professional athletes to make it palatable could be a clue.

The White House is apparently getting celebrity endorsements to help sway the public opinion on Obamacare. Continue reading “Obamacare to be Launched with a Star-Studded Celebrity Propaganda Campaign”

RT News

Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year now faces a 13-year jail sentence. A judge has barred his attorney from mentioning freedom of speech during trial.

According to the San Diego Reader, which reported on Tuesday that a judge had opted to prevent Olson’s attorney from “mentioning the First Amendment, free speech, free expression, public forum, expressive conduct, or political speech during the trial,” Olson must now stand trial for on 13 counts of vandalism.    Continue reading “California man faces 13 years in jail for scribbling anti-bank messages in chalk”