From the Trenches World Report

Washington Times – by Shaun Waterman

Six of the largest government contractors doing “Top Secret” work for the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies have given more than $16 million to lawmakers since 2007, according to Maplight, a firm that tracks political donations.

The biggest donors were Lockheed Martin, whose employees gave over $5 million; Boeing, Inc. whose workers chipped in more than $4.5 million; and Northrop Grumman, $3.3 million.   Continue reading “Surveillance contractors gave millions in campaign cash to congressional lawmakers”

RT News

Biotech giant Monsanto says that its unapproved experimental wheat ended up growing at an Oregon field through what most likely was an isolated act of sabotage.

“What happened in this field… is suspicious,” said Monsanto Chief Technology Officer Robb Fraley on Friday, reporting on the ongoing investigation into the scandal.   Continue reading “Monsanto points to sabotage at GMO-contaminated wheat field”

Mail.com

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Islamic militants wearing police uniforms shot to death nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani before dawn Sunday as they were visiting one of the world’s highest mountains in a remote area of northern Pakistan, officials said.

The foreigners who were killed included five Ukrainians, three Chinese and one Russian, said Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan. One Chinese tourist was wounded in the attack and was rescued, he said.   Continue reading “Militants kill 9 foreign tourists, 1 Pakistani”

WND – by Bob Unruh

A Texas citizen is asking a state appeals court to decide whether police are justified in launching a no-knock raid on a home they want to search simply because they believe there is a gun inside.

“Whatever the issue might be, whether it’s mass surveillance, no-knock raids, or the right to freely express one’s views about the government, we’ve moved into a new age in which the rights of the citizenry are being treated as a secondary concern by the White House, Congress, the courts and their vast holding of employees, including law enforcement officials,” said John W. Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which is defending John Gerard Quinn.   Continue reading “Gun Owner Targeted with ‘No-Knock’ Raid”

This is almost two years old, but worth the read, since it lists the top 50 and about half of those corporations are banks or financial firms, many of which the American tax payer has been bailing out for decades, from the looting of the Savings and Loans in the 1980’s to the plundering of the ‘Too Big to Jail’ Wall Street banks that are in league with the FED to destroy the dollar.

I have more respect for someone like the 19th Century bank robber Jesse James. At least he was honest  about his work when he’d stick a gun in your face and demand money.   Continue reading “Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world”

Activist Post – by Dave Hodges

In the first three parts of this series, it was demonstrated that both the US government and the Chinese government are engaged in an Agenda 21 motivated plot to relocate rural and suburban residents to more densely populated urban centers to live in overcrowded conditions where a person’s every movement and every activity is monitored. The previously described policies are proving effective in moving populations into densely populated urban centers in accordance with Agenda 21 policy. However, the process is not as speedy as the globalists had hoped. The global elite needed a game-changing event in the United States. In order to speed things up, the elite bankers at Goldman Sachs masterminded the Gulf oil spill to this end.   Continue reading “Depopulating An Entire Region of the Country”

Scientific American

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have given courts the powers to hand down the death penalty in serious pollution cases, state media said, as the government tries to assuage growing public anger at environmental desecration.

An increasingly affluent urban population has begun to object to China’s policy of growth at all costs, which has fuelled the economy for three decades, with the environment emerging as a focus of concern and protests.   Continue reading “China Threatens Death Penalty for Serious Polluters”

ACLU – by Nusrat Choudhury

The government does not have the unchecked authority to place individuals on a secret blacklist without providing them any meaningful opportunity to object, the ACLU argued in a brief filed last Friday with the federal district court in Oregon.

We made the filing in Latif v. Holder, our lawsuit asserting that the government violated the Fifth Amendment due process rights of 13 Americans, including four military veterans, by placing them on the No Fly List and refusing to give them any after-the-fact explanation or a hearing at which they can clear their names.   Continue reading “The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies”

CNN – by Bruce Schneier

Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world.

More than passively eavesdropping, we’re penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We’re creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be “fired” against some piece of another country’s electronic infrastructure on a moment’s notice.   Continue reading “Has U.S. started an Internet war?”

Here is another suspicious death from 2011. According to the official story,  she was “acutely intoxicated” at 5am while leaving her house for an appointment.  After passing out, the headlights of her car ignited antifreeze from her radiator.  – so they claim.

The Washington Post – by Paul Duggan, Anne Kornblut and Theola Labbé-DeBose, 01/10/2011   Continue reading “Flashback: Ashley Turton, former Hill aide, dead in burning car”

Ria Novosti

MOSCOW, June 22 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow made a new attempt to dodge a $4-billion lawsuit from Tehran over a failed deal to supply S-300 missile systems by offering another type of air defense system to Iran, Kommersant daily said Saturday.

The new offer on the table is Antei-2500, aka S-300VM, or SA-23 Gladiator in NATO nomenclature, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources in the Russian arms trade industry. The missile defense system can simultaneously destroy up to 24 aircraft within the range a range of 200 kilometers or intercept up to 16 ballistic missiles.   Continue reading “Russia Offers Iran New Replacement for S-300 – Paper”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

It isn’t often a far leftist liberal Democrat gets booed at the liberal annual conference the Netroots Nation, but it happened to Nancy Pelosi as she tried to defend Barack Obama’s domestic spying program.

Via Politico:   Continue reading “Pelosi Booed At Netroots Nation 2013 For Defending Obama’s Domestic Spying”

Marian’s Hunting Stories

Recently in Jamison City, PA, a young bear was rescued with his head stuck in a jar.  Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least 11 days.

The frightened but powerful bruin fell into a swimming pool at least twice during the ordeal.  But the group eventually yanked off the jar and set the animal free.   Continue reading “Stuck Bear Head-In-A-Jar”

Philosophers Stone

‘A large fleet named “Mol Comfort” carrying Arms for FSA from the U.S. has crashed in the Indian Ocean as it made its way from Singapore to Jeddah, on board were 4,500 containers loaded with arms for the Syrian rebels’

‘MOL Comfort sank due to yet unclear reasons, sailing from Singapore to Jeddah and after that to North Europe, leaving behind hundreds of drifting containers and a huge aftershock hitting liner sector and all of the maritime industry.   Continue reading “Container Ship Carrying Weapons for Syrian Rebels Splits in Half/Sinks”

News Observer – by David Ranii

RALEIGH — Heart-rending stories of lives cut short by guns fueled an impassioned rally in support of “common-sense” firearms laws Saturday in downtown’s Moore Square.

Passions ran equally high across the street, where supporters of the Second Amendment exercised their First Amendment rights by chanting slogans such as “Guns Save Lives!”   Continue reading “Gun regulation issue sparks passion on both sides in Raleigh”

Biz Pac – by Janeen Capizola

A conservative blogger has uncovered potentially explosive information that may cause big ethical and legal problems for New York City Mayor Michael Bloombergand his gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Blogger John Ekdahl from the conservative website Ace of Spades HQ recently discovered that the group’s website is registered to the city of New York and hosted on the city’s government servers.   Continue reading “New Yorkers cry foul, question ‘Mayors Against Illegal Guns’ use of city resources”