From the Trenches World Report

Huffington Post – by MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration declassified a handful of details Tuesday that credited its PRISM Internet spying program with intercepting a key email that unraveled a 2009 terrorist plot in New York.

The details, declassified by the director of national intelligence, were circulated on Capitol Hill as part of government efforts to tamp down criticism of two recently revealed National Security Agency surveillance programs.   Continue reading “NYC Bomb Plot Details Settle Little In NSA Debate”

The Independent – by SHAUN WALKER

Russia’s parliament will debate a controversial law on Tuesday that could see people arrested for behaviour that is deemed to promote homosexuality.

Biz Journals – by James Jeffrey

A Senate bill to provide economic development incentives for Texas firearm manufacturers failed to pass, despite Gov. Rick Perry throwing his weight behind Texas becoming a refuge for such businesses affected by gun-control efforts in other states.

Senate Bill 1467, authored by State Sen. Craig Estes, R-Wichita Falls, would have also provided incentives to firearms accessories and ammunition manufacturers.    Continue reading “Gun manufacturer bill fires a blank”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael

Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up?  He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world.  He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn’t any privacy.  He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded.    Continue reading “27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine”

Biz Journals – by James Jeffrey

Hotels will have to adequately notify guests of gun restrictions or face penalties if a bill becomes law.

House Bill 333, authored by State Rep.Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, requires hotels that restrict the possession, storage or transporting of firearms to notify guests of such policies on their websites or when confirming reservations. Failure to comply will be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $100.   Continue reading “Hotels may have to inform guests of gun-restriction policies”

After being appointed by President Bush as head of the DHS, Tom Ridge formally resigned as Pennsylvania’s governor on October 5, 2001.

Tom Ridge began his duties as DHS director on October 8, 2001.

The Department of Homeland Security was not established until November 25, 2002, by the Homeland Security Act of 2002.   Continue reading “Nationwide Rail Projects”

NBC DFW – by Stefan Gorman

North Texas resident and “Star Wars” Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew had a dust-up with Transportation Security Administration agents in Denver when they attempted to confiscate his light saber-shaped cane.

Mayhew was returning to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport from an appearance at Denver ComicCon when TSA agents refused to let Chewie board his plane with his one-of-a-kind cane.   Continue reading “Chewbacca Actor Battles TSA Over Light Saber Cane”

New York Post – by BETH DEFALCO

ALBANY — Them’s fightin’ words!

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is looking to lasso some East Coast business for his low-tax Lone Star State with a new $1 million ad campaign and trip next week to the Big Apple and Connecticut.

Perry has already begun airing ads on NY1 ahead of his June 16 visit.   Continue reading “Texas Gov. Rick Perry launches ad campaign to poach jobs from New York, Connecticut”

Daily Censored – by Stephan Lendman

He’s Obama’s FBI director choice. He’ll replace current rogue head Robert Mueller. In September, he’ll step down.

He’s run the agency since September 4, 2001. He succeeded acting head Thomas Pickering. He assumed office days before 9/11.   Continue reading “New FBI Head James Comey: Police State America is “In Good Hands””

Investment Watchblog

Princeton University evacuates after bomb threat from ‘known caller’

Princeton University evacuated its campus at 10:30am this morning after receiving a bomb threat to multiple buildings on its sprawling New Jersey property, according to the school’s Twitter page.   Continue reading “Bomb threats at Princeton University, Morristown High School, Southwest Airlines, Atlanta airport, Richmond airport, etc…”

News Press – by Melanie Payne and Dick Hogan

Gun store owner W. Alec Dean says he was badly treated at a Staples store in Fort Myers because of the company logo on his shirt and what he calls the office supply company’s anti-gun policy. And, he said, a social media backlash against Staples supports his claim.

Experts say retail stores are often the scene of culture war flare-ups that don’t go away quickly these days – rather, they’re sometimes magnified into national stories by pervasive social media.    Continue reading “Gun store owner rips Staples office supply store”

Jon Rappoport

The great obsession of the 20^th century was organization, and it continues.

Form a goal, put people together, and give them separate tasks that add up to forwarding the goal. Yes, it’s a strategy as old as the hills, but in the last hundred years the drive to expand the numbers has taken over.   Continue reading “The creative versus the machine”

Northwest Watchdog – by Shelby Sebens

Four Oregon lobbyists in Salem have registered as working for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control advocacy group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

According to the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, the group spent a whopping $781.59 during the first quarter of this year (January through March). The second quarter reports won’t be available until July. Bloomberg’s group reportedly is spending money in capitals across the country, pushing gun control initiatives.   Continue reading “Meet Bloomberg’s anti-gun lobbyists in Oregon”

The Daily Meal – by Elizabeth Licata

The world needs a public service campaign to discourage kids from eating or drinking things on dares. It almost never ends well, and sometimes it can have extremely dangerous or life-threatening results.

A teenager in Virginia recently drank an entire quart of soy sauce on a dare, and the excess of salt in his body put him in a coma and nearly killed him.   Continue reading “Soy Sauce Overdose Puts Teen In Coma”

Washington Examiner – by Byron York

In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest statement yet that legalization of the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements.   Continue reading “Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — ‘It is not conditional’”