From the Trenches World Report

RT News

Massive US-led military drills began in the Persian Gulf in a second such show of maritime might in under a year. The US says the exercises are not aimed at Iran, who earlier vowed to close the Hormuz Strait, and now expresses concern over the drills.

The US Navy has issued a statement that the mass exercises are aimed at “enhancing capability to preserve freedom of navigation in international waterways.” The drills will reportedly focus on mine-sweeping and search-and-seizure operations, and some on-shore training.   Continue reading “US heads 41-nation war games in Gulf, Iran fears conflict in volatile region”

Zero Hedge- by Tyler Durden

As previewed previously, one half of the hurdle to enforce a universal online US sales tax has now been crossed, with the Senate voting moments ago to pass a Wal-Mart backed bill 69-27 allowing states to collect taxes on out of state Internet and catalog sales. The bill would end the era of tax-free Internet shopping. During the debate, senators offered examples of consumers who examine products in stores and then shop online to avoid paying sales tax. The pretext? Why fairness of course.  “This bill is about fairness,” said Senator Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican and co-sponsor of the measure. “It’s about leveling the playing field between the brick-and-mortar and online companies.”   Continue reading “Senate Passes Online Sales Tax Bill”

RT News

As the US economic forecast moves from fragile to cautiously optimistic, most young people are still searching for a paycheck. Over half of the Americans who graduated college in 2011 and 2012 are either unemployed or overqualified for their current job.   Continue reading “Student debt, job market creating ‘generation of wage slavery’”

From the Depths of My Mind – by Gary N.

In my first post on the glorious greatest weapon ever created called the television I explored just some pre-texture exposure to what is in the tube, and the propaganda it passes. Now I want to get into what is the most scary part of television, and that is the fear that leads to big business and profits.   Continue reading “The Idiot Box: Fear Is Big Business”

IntelliHub-by Andrew Freeman

After months of trash talking and sabre rattling on all sides of the conflict, the North Korean missile crisis may be coming to an end.

Diplomacy between the west and North Korea has been especially fragile in recent weeks, especially with the American citizen who was sentenced to 15 years hard labor there.  Luckily a calm in the storm has been reached, and the North Korean government has withdrew their missiles from the launch site.   Continue reading “North Korea Withdraws Missiles from Launch Site”

American Thinker – by Rick Moran

The can kicking Europeans are being warned again that the current course they are on is leading to disaster.

The founder of the euro currency, Oskar Lafontaine, thinks that its time to break up the EU:   Continue reading “Founder of the euro calls for a break up of the ‘catastrophic’ currency”

Before It’s News – by mountainman

I got this from my bank today:

We are asking members to consider performing any vital online banking activities planned for Tuesday, May 7th either prior to or after this date.

Financial Institutions in the United States are anticipating a possible interruption in service on May 7th due to a high volume of cyber traffic.  This may make it difficult for our members to sign into online banking. While Pioneer is not a known target of this interruption of service, we want you to be prepared.   Continue reading “What Happens on The 7th?”

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More than 150 motorcyclists — including members of Hells Angels — flouted police authority Saturday when the group refused to stop at a roadside check on Vancouver Island.

According to Sgt. Lindsey Houghton, police had information that the bikers would participate in a group ride Saturday and set out to conduct safety checks. Police officers from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. and other integrated road safety units then gathered near Duncan to monitor and halt the large group of motorcyclists, who had plans to travel from Nanaimo to Victoria on the Island Highway.   Continue reading “More than 150 Hells Angels, other bikers block road during police showdown on Vancouver Island”

Natural News- by Mike Adams

A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to “grow, reproduce or trade” any vegetable seeds that have not been “tested, approved and accepted” by a new EU bureaucracy named the “EU Plant Variety Agency.”

It’s called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.   Continue reading “European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government”

ABC News – by AMY FORLITI Associated Press

FBI officials said Monday that they foiled a terrorism attack that was being planned in a small western Minnesota town, but they offered no details about the exact targets of the attack — or the motive of the man accused of having a cache of explosives and weapons in a mobile home.

The FBI said “the lives of several local residents were potentially saved” with the arrest of Buford Rogers, 24, who made his first appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.   Continue reading “FBI: Minn. Raid Disrupts Planned Terror Attack”

Dollar Vigilante

Would you dial up a known criminal, like a murderer or rapist, to come help you after you’ve been the victim of a crime? No? Then why in the world would you call the police after you’ve been assaulted, robbed or otherwise violated?

The police do not consider their job to protect you. They used to at least pay lip service to “keeping the peace”, but nowadays in the USSA it is clear their job is to enforce the law. In fasco-communist America, the law stopped being about your protection decades ago. The law is about the expansion of state power and control. That’s why there are so many of them, with more coming all the time.   Continue reading “Call the Cops at your Own Risk”

RT News

An epidemic of cell phone swiping has prompted calls for a ‘kill switch’ that would render mobile devices inoperable if they end up in the wrong hands.

In San Francisco, California, half of the robberies reported in the last year involved the loss of a cell phone. George Gascon is the city’s district attorney and says things don’t have to stay that way.   Continue reading “Police want ‘kill switch’ for smartphones”