From the Trenches World Report

New York Times – by ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, fresh off a defeat in his campaign to limit large servings of sugary drinks, proposed legislation on Monday requiring stores to put cigarettes out of public sight and to increase penalties on the smuggling and illegal sales of cigarettes.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a proposal on Monday that would require stores to keep cigarettes out of public sight. Continue reading “Bloomberg’s Plan Would Make Stores Conceal Cigarettes”

Fox News

Salmonella outbreaks. E. coli outbreaks. Millions of dollars in economic losses.

These are among the scenarios the Obama administration warned about last month as it claimed the sequester would force the U.S. Department of Agriculture to furlough meat inspectors. Continue reading “Dems preserve US-Mexico food stamp ‘partnership,’ while USDA prepares for meat inspector furloughs”

Examiner – by JIM KOURI

In an effort to fill another second-term Cabinet vacancy with someone who is loyal to his agenda, President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Thomas Perez, the current assistant attorney general for civil rights, to be the next secretary of labor, according to a White House source. But several Justice Department co-workers and citizens groups believe Perez is a fanatic with a radical agenda that was on display during the Justice Department’s inaction against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation. Continue reading “Obama to elevate alleged Black Panther sympathizer to cabinet post: Critics”

Well the 2016 election is upon us. Strange, seems like only five months ago that we had our last presidential election. I’m telling you, we have entered the twilight zone wherein the every four year presidential election process has become like the movie, “Groundhog Day”, with a perpetual campaign to foster perpetual hope for perpetual change.

Then there is reality wherein nothing changes except the faces on the commercials as the international corporate mafia continues to suck out the wealth of our nation. For the past four years and twenty before that, fewer and fewer have a whole lot more while a whole lot more have a whole lot less. Continue reading “CPAC Neo-Con Con”

When we are involved in a traffic accident, the so called law requires that we fill out an accident report and exchange insurance information and if we fail to comply with this so called law, we face stiff fines and penalties, and even possibly jail time.

On February 26, 2013, Department of Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano directed ICE to begin releasing foreign criminals from our jails that were on their way to being deported back to their home countries as US law dictates they must be. Napolitano gave the excuse that because of the sequester the finances just weren’t there to carry out the law. Continue reading “The American National’s Responsibility Under the Law”

The question is continually being presented as to when World War III will begin and when the United States will join in on the bloodletting frenzy. Technically the war has already begun and the United States is already engaged on three fronts.

Invasion into a sovereign country, contrary to popular propaganda, is an act of war; thusly the US invasion forces in Mali are engaged in war in Africa. Continue reading “World War III Breaking Out”

Yahoo News – by Associated Press

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado sheriff says he won’t enforce two aggressive gun-control measures waiting to be signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.

Weld County Sheriff John Cooke told The Greeley Tribune (http://bit.ly/141Ee2z ) that Democratic lawmakers are scrambling after recent mass shootings, and the bills are “feel-good, knee-jerk reactions that are unenforceable.” Continue reading “Colo. sheriff refuses to enforce gun-control bills”

The Liberty Beacon

Poison On The Platter looks at the GM issue through the lens of activists, scientists and ordinary citizens. It brings alive the various shades of the GM issue such as the scientific evidences against GM food from lab rat studies, the GM disasters such as L-Tryptothan, the story of Bt Cotton and farmer suicides in India and protests across the world against GM food. Continue reading “Poison on the Platter”

Front Page Mag – by Mark Hendrickson

The sequester deadline came and, lo and behold, the United States did not turn into a pumpkin or suffer an economic collapse. That isn’t surprising to those who know history and economics: Reductions in federal spending (real reductions, that is, not just smaller-than-planned increases such as we debate today) unleashed powerful economic growth in the 1920s and then again in the late 1940s. Both of those periods featured reductions in federal spending that were far more radical than anything even being proposed today. The booms that followed those shrinkages of government illustrate the basic principle, confirmed time after time both here and abroad, that economic growth is far more robust when government gets out of the way than when it intervenes in and interferes with the private sector. Continue reading “Obama’s Disturbing Spending Priorities”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Panic-stricken bank depositors in Cyprus emptied ATM machines across the nation after the surprise announcement Saturday that, as part of an extremely controversial European Union and International Monetary Fund bailout deal, authorities would seize up to 15 percent of all savings deposited in Cypriot banks. Markets across Europe plunged as fears of contagion or even a large-scale bank run in the region plagued investors, with the single euro currency falling to multi-month lows and gold rising back above $1,600 following news of the $13 billion scheme. Continue reading “Panic Grips Europe as Cyprus, EU, and IMF Confiscate Savings”

Occupy Corporatism – by Susanne Posel

James Clapper, director of National Intelligence spoketo the Senate Intelligence Committee this week on the assessment that the federal budget cuts will “jeopardize our nation’s safety and security.”

Clapper says that the loss of “thousands of FBI employees” and thousands of analysts “may risk missing an early sign of an attack.” Continue reading “The Sequester Scam Disguises Federal Gov Preparation for Totalitarian Coup”

The Daily News – by Scott DeSmit

ALABAMA — It was about midnight on a night last week when Randy Smith took his dog outside and for the third time this year, heard the mysterious booms.

“Three times in a row I heard it,” Smith said. “It sounds as loud as a sonic boom. Maybe louder. As soon as it goes off, the dog starts growling and gets startled.”

Smith and his father, Laverne Smith, live at 748 Lewiston Rd. (Route 77) and have been hearing the booms for nearly two years now. Continue reading “Mysterious ‘booms’ still unexplained”

The American Thinker – by Tara Servatius

Less than two weeks ago, Sen. Rand Paul’s demanded to know whether the president believed he had a right to kill an American citizen on American soil with a drone, finally getting an answer that had to be dragged out Attorney General Eric Holder. An equally important, but still unasked question is whether the president intends to build a federal, drone-based “public safety” force to police local communities.

Somebody had better ask the president about this quickly, because it appears that his administration intends to use drones to actively usurp what were once local police and sheriff’s department functions. Continue reading “The Other Drone Question: Is Obama Building A Federal Police Force?”

Guardian – by Ed Pilkington in New York

The FBI has suffered a dramatic setback in its use of hyper-secret gagging orders in the name of national security to obtain the private data of US citizens, after a federal court struck down the practice.

A judge in a California US district court ordered the US government to stop issuing what are called “national security letters”. Susan Illston said the letters, which have mushroomed since 9/11 under the Patriot Act, were unconstitutional as they breached the first amendment rights of the parties being served the orders. Continue reading “FBI’s demands for private data struck down by federal court”

Free North Carolina – by Delaware Open Carry

Last night I was out with a buddy of mine. I got a text from my wife that the cops and dyfs are at the house and they wanna check out my guns and needed me to open my safe.

I’m instantly on my way. I get in contact with Evan Nappen on the way. I explain the situation. I walk in my house and hand the phone to the first cop I see. Then direct all of them outside. Continue reading “The fight has officially been brought to my front door”

Wall Street Journal – by MATT MOFFETT, October 22, 2008

BUENOS AIRES — Hemmed in by the global financial squeeze and commodities slump, Argentina’s leftist government has seemingly found a novel way to find the money to stay afloat: cracking open the piggybank of the nation’s private pension system.

Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner speaks next to Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez (right) at the National Social Security Administration in Buenos Aires on Monday. Continue reading “Argentina Makes Grab for Pensions Amid Crisis”

Truth Dig – by Chris Hedges

If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with some 2.3 million inmates, rivals the gulags of totalitarian states. Once you disappear behind prison walls you become prey. Rape. Torture. Beatings. Prolonged isolation. Sensory deprivation. Racial profiling. Chain gangs. Forced labor. Rancid food. Children imprisoned as adults. Prisoners forced to take medications to induce lethargy. Inadequate heating and ventilation. Poor health care. Draconian sentences for nonviolent crimes. Endemic violence. Continue reading “The Shame of America’s Gulag”

Hews Media Group – by Randy Economy

They say we are getting closer to predicting the actual time when earthquakes will actually take place.

Here in Los Angeles County on thing is for sure, sometime in the future a large shaker will strike and millions of people will be effected.

In continuing the on-going efforts in preparing the “big one,” Los Angeles County Operational Area (LACOA) and its partners including the 88 cities, 137 unincorporated area communities, 200-plus school and special districts will be holding a “disaster training exercise” on Thursday, March 21 from 9 to 3 p.m. Continue reading “7.8 Earthquake ‘exercise’ to hit Los Angeles County next Thursday”

The Guardian – by Julian Borger

US expected to resist Israeli pressure to attack Iran, while Tel Aviv unlikely to yield on Palestine, leaving Syria a common goal.

Israel will use President Obama’s visit on Wednesday to try to persuade the US to carry out air strikes on Syria if there is evidence that Syrian missiles are to be handed over to Hezbollah in Lebanon, or at least to give full support to Israeli military action to prevent the transfer. Continue reading “Israel to ask Obama to use air strikes in case of Syrian missile transfer”

The plot thickens. Remember the article a few days ago about Russia not allowing foreign banks there? That as well as the Syrian connection seem to tie together.

Before It’s News – by FreewillOffering

The Western NWO new twist to grab bank depositors money is neither new, straightforword in nature or over. Yet like other moves of the Western Oligarchs it is multidimensional in its intented results. Here are a few simple facts and goals of this manuever: Continue reading “Cyprus: Globalist Bank Deposit Grab Aims to Pressure Russia on Syria”