From the Trenches World Report

Weather.com – by GARANCE BURKE

SAN FRANCISCO — The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation’s driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth’s surface.

Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes of water, fine sand and chemicals into the ground to crack open valuable shale formations.   Continue reading “From Texas to Illinois: Fracking fuels water fights in nation’s dry spots”

Breitbart

According to new details leaked to The Guardian (UK) by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, American and British intelligence directed snooping efforts against internet and phone data from foreign officials at the G20 in 2009.

According to the documents, which were created by the NSA and handed over to the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s phone calls were bugged, and emails and calls from other delegates’ phones were monitored as well.  Continue reading “Leaked Docs: US Grabbed Medvedev’s Phone Calls at G20 in 2009”

Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

Just in case you want more Obama in your life…
AT&T is loading iPhones with emergency alerts from Barack Obama…
That you can’t switch off.

Engadget reported:

AT&T has begun rolling out Wireless Emergency Alerts updates for iPhone 4S and 5, so you won’t be the last folks to know if the entire northern hemisphere is about to be covered in ice à la Day After Tomorrow.   Continue reading “AT&T to Load iPhones With Emergency Alerts From Obama – That You Can’t Switch Off”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Well now, here is evidence of what I’ve been saying all along and that is that you cannot be religiously neutral. It just can’t happen. Religion is at our very core and if we will not honor the true and living God as God, then we will fill that vacuum with a false god. Exhibit A: Rocky Mountain High School in Colorado. Outrage is building over the fact that students were encouraged to recite the Pledge of Allegiance over the loudspeaker in Arabic replacing “one nation under God” with “one nation under Allah.”   Continue reading “US High School Recites Pledge In Arabic: “One Nation Under Allah””

Between bailing out Wall Street banks, protecting the world’s largest counterfeiting scheme, the FED and protecting Israel, how does Congress find any time for ‘We the People?’

Information Clearinghouse – by JTA, Haaretz

National Defense Authorization Act instructs U.S. to take ‘all necessary steps’ to help Israel defend its vital national interests, among them preventing a nuclear Iran.   Continue reading “U.S. House Passes Bill to Ensure Israel Can Remove Existential “Threats””

RT News

A massive explosion has rocked Manhattan, few blocks away from the UN headquarters. Police and firefighters are at the scene. Initial reports suggest that an underground transformer exploded setting nearby cars on fire.

The incident occurred at the intersection of 50th street and 2nd Avenue. There have been no immediate reports of casualties.   Continue reading “Blast hits midtown Manhattan”

RT News

Pyongyang has proposed high-level talks with the US without preconditions, KCNA state news agency reports. This comes after North and South Korea canceled negotiations amid high tensions on the Korean peninsula.

On Sunday KCNA delivered a statement by the North Korean National Defense Commission, headed by the country’s leader Kim Jong-un, which said that Washington can pick a date and place for talks and the two sides can discuss a range of issues.    Continue reading “N. Korea proposes high-level talks with US”

The Daily Sheeple – by Kimberly Paxton

Rumors have long floated around about government shills spreading disinformation on websites that are at odds with the governmental party line. Now it’s official: the US government has awarded a contract to a company in California to create software to manage “online personalities”. The software will allow one person to manage up to 10 personas, and will be used to counter “extremist ideology and propaganda”.   Continue reading “US Military Thugs with Keyboards to Spread Propaganda Using Up to 10 Online Personas Each”

Activist Post

An amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2014 that will ban drone strikes against American citizens passed in the House on Friday.

However, the amendment does contain an exception for Americans “actively engaged in combat against the United States”.   Continue reading “House Passes Ban on Drone Strikes Against US Citizens”

Bob Owens

There are at least a dozen gun companies considering leaving the Northeast because of their absurd gun laws. One of them is testing the waters in Rockingham County… but who?

No one seems to know:   Continue reading “Unknown gun manufacturer eyes North Carolina for relocation”

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”