From the Trenches World Report

Huffington Post – by Matt Sledge

NEW YORK — The ring of steel is expanding. New York City Police Department Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly announced a “major project” at a budget hearing on Tuesday to install license plate reader cameras “in every lane of traffic on all of the bridges and tunnels that serve as entrances and exits to Manhattan.”

Soon, no one will be able to drive onto or off of the island without potentially being recorded.   Continue reading “NYPD License Plate Readers Will Be Able To Track Every Car Entering Manhattan”

PJ Media – by Bridget Johnson

With Office of Management and Budget fact sheets in hand, President Obama warned of dire cutbacks and consequences should sequestration go into effect March 1.

The cuts happened, White House tours have been halted, and the administration swears it’s not overreacting to the bare-bones budget directive.   Continue reading “Government advertises for nearly 2,600 new jobs since sequestration”

Bob Owens

Chuck Schumer’s S. 374, the Orwellian “Protecting Responsible Gun Sellers Act of 2013,” has been an empty shell… until he slipped in Amendment ALB13180 (PDF) today, which shows the “teeth” of the bill.  It is an extremely aggressive attempt to destroy the Second Amendment by isolating and criminalizing extremely common behaviors among gun owners.

Doubt me?   Continue reading “Prelude to a revolution: Shumer’s gun transfer ban”

Mass Private I

Monterey Park, CA – On a cold and drizzly morning at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau, a 25-year-old social media dispatcher is sitting at a computer station in a dimly lit room skimming social media feeds on three large screens.

The tech-savvy civilian dispatcher is part of the bureau’s new, 24-hour Electronic Communications Triage or eComm Unit that monitors social media and Internet content, shares information with the public and trains sheriff’s officials to use such platforms.

“They’re watching social media and Internet comments that pertain to this geographic area, watching what would pertain to our agencies so we can prevent crime, help the public,” LASD Capt. Mike Parker said. “And now they’re going to be ramping up more and more with more sharing and interacting, especially during crises, whether it’s local or regional.”

Since launching last September, the eight-member eComm unit has identified a suicidal teen on Instagram, intercepted bomb threats made on Twitter and discovered plans for hundreds of illegal drug parties via Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  Continue reading “Police are spying on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, PInterest & other social media platforms.”

The Organic Prepper

SHTF doesn’t generally drop by at the best of times.  In fact, SHTF thrives and grows exponentially under more adverse circumstances.

So, suck it up, put on your boots, and power through it – SHTF doesn’t care and neither can you!

1. SHTF doesn’t care about inclement weather – snow, hail, tornadoes and hurricanes all just add to the party atmosphere for SHTF.   Continue reading “25 Things That the SHTF Doesn’t Care About”

Washington’s Blog

Trillions In Subsidies to the Giant Banks Are Continuing to This Day

Preface: Bloomberg’s recent estimate that the big banks are subsidized to the tune of $83 billion dollars per year created tremendous controversy.  But – as shown below – the real number is many times larger.   Continue reading “Top Banking Analyst: Subsidies to Giant Banks Exceed $780 Billion Dollars Per YEAR”

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, that oily man trapped in an oily woman’s body, put forth the most stupid argument for gun confiscation, yesterday, that I have ever heard.   A picture of a Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle appeared on the screen.  Rachel said, “This was the most popular foreign firearm, originally manufactured for military purposes that was sold in the United States at the time that John F. Kennedy introduced the bill that would have banned the sale of this gun.”

A picture of Lee Harvey Oswald then appeared on the screen and Rachel continued, “Want to get a better look at this gun, here’s another view.  The man holding the rifle in this photo, is Lee Harvey Oswald, who went on of course to kill John F. Kennedy with that gun in 1963.  Mr. Oswald bought that gun, by mail, legally, using a coupon that he clipped out of the American Rifleman Magazine, which is the magazine of the NRA.” Continue reading “Rachel Maddow Tells Little White Lies for the Communist Cause of Gun Confiscation”

Save America Foundation – by Fred Brownbill

The following excerpt comes from Gerry Spence’s From Freedom to Slavery, the Rebirth of Freedom in America (1996)(pp. 13-50).  It is reprinted here with the permission of the author.  It includes a letter that the Wyoming defense lawyer wrote to a friend who had urged that he withdraw from the Weaver case.

Spence’s friend, the Jewish former CEO of Columbia Pictures, expressed concern that Spence’s defense of Weaver would lend credibility to the “despicable” racist and neo-Nazi groups with which the Weaver family had been associated.   Continue reading “Gerry Spence On Why He Agreed to Defend Randy Weaver.”

90 Miles from Tyranny

THE OBAMA WORM IS A PARASITIC LESBIAN WORM THAT CAUSES THEIR HOST TO COMMIT SUICIDE.  So life is just as strange as American Politics!

Paragordius obamai   Continue reading “Obama has a Parasitic Lesbian Worm named after him!”

The New American – by Christian Gomez

As Democrats and gun control advocates praise the New York State Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013, or NY SAFE Act as it is generally known, for being the first post-Newtown gun control legislation in the country, county after county in New York State has either introduced or passed resolutions calling for the law’s repeal.   Continue reading “New York Counties Work to Repeal State Gun Control Laws”

LA Times Editorial

The U.S. needs to keep a close watch on the growing threat of home-grown extremist groups.

There are, in increasingly frightening numbers, cells of angry men in the United States preparing for combat with the U.S. government. They are usually heavily armed, blinded by an intractable hatred, often motivated by religious zeal.   Continue reading “Peril from ‘patriots’”

Fox News Insider

Police are searching for a suspect wanted in connection with a series of shootings that took place Wednesday morning in upstate New York. Six people are believed to have been shot, and four of those people were killed, police say.

Village of herkimer NY 3 separate shootings .. The first of three shootings took place in a house in the village of Mohawk, where a house went up in flames after shots were fired. The Fire Department responded to that scene. The suspect, however, then is believed to have fled to the neighboring village of Herkimer, and proceeded to shoot people at both a local barber shop and an oil lube shop.   Continue reading “New York Manhunt Underway for Suspect in Shooting Deaths in Herkimer, Mohawk Villages”

Fellowship of the Mind – by Dr. Eowyn

Daniel Halper reports for The Weekly Standard, Mar. 5, 2013, that a U.S. Army spokesman, Stephen D. Abney, the chief public affairs official for the Army’s Joint Munitions Command, recently sent an email to all 6,000 employees he speaks for, as well as civilian contractors.

The email details how our soldiers should deal with the press because of sequestration — the mandatory spending cuts to the military. But the email also tells our soldiers they are not to criticize the POS or any political party to members of the press.   Continue reading “U.S. Army tells soldiers don’t criticize Obama”

Christian Science Monitor – by Roshanak Taghavi

Iran announced today that it will sue Hollywood for creating films the Islamic Republic alleges intentionally “propagate fear of Iran throughout the world,” according to state media reports.

Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff

The controversy regarding the continued use of mercury in some vaccines, despite the element’s proven toxicity, is coming to a head as the United Nations (UN) considers the passage of a new treaty that would outlaw the use of mercury in medicines worldwide. According to a recent report compiled by consumer advocate Tim Bolen, the vaccine industry is in a panic over this impending ban, as it could spell the end of the vaccine industry as we know it.   Continue reading “Vaccine industry in panic over global effort to remove all mercury from vaccines”