From the Trenches World Report

Before It’s New – by Tom Dennen, the paranoid historian

… the CIA has largely escaped unscathed. “They’ve gotten a pass on a lot of this,” a former Obama administration official says. Perhaps that’s the real scandal.

GOP scandal-chasers have been obsessed with the Obama administration’s talking points about the attack on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, and the White House on Wednesday tried to put the pseudo-scandal to rest by releasing a batch of interagency emails related to the talking points.   Continue reading “Benghazi: What Did the CIA Know, and When Did it Know it? Forget the Talk. The CIA’s Cover Up May be the Real Mystery.”

End the Lie – by Madison Ruppert

As the Obama administration is hit by scandal after scandal, it was revealed that Verizon wireless handed over private data belonging to journalists with the Associated Press last year without any hesitation or questions asked.

Interestingly, the Associated Press said the decision to publish the article that reportedly sparked the investigation was only made after consulting the White House and the CIA.   Continue reading “Verizon secretly handed over phone records of AP reporters to the federal government”

CNN – by Laura Smith-Spark

North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast Saturday, South Korea’s semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as saying.

The ministry said it had detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon, Yonhap reported.   Continue reading “Report: North Korea launches short-range missiles”

AlterNet – by Sharda Sekaran

You might be familiar with  Reefer Madness , the drug war film from the 1930s that has become a cult classic because of its over-the-top scare tactics about marijuana. Generations have laughed at the film’s cartoonish hysteria, with young students portrayed committing acts of violent lunacy after smoking a joint with their friends. Rather than educating young people about marijuana,  Reefer Madness is widely seen as the epitome of unreliable and exaggerated propaganda.   Continue reading “The Latest in Atrocious Govt. Anti-Drug Propaganda: Turning Drug Addicts into Zombies”

Disclaimer: While I generally have high regard for Press TV, I cannot condone their use of the term “lax gun laws” in this article. We all know that New York has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. The blame for this girl’s death lies strictly with the cops – AGAIN.

Press TV

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

IRS deliberately targeting conservatives, AP phone record seizure, Benghazi, all recent scandals rocking the Obama administration and now reports show that yet another agency within the Obama administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, will’ be reviewing claims of…. drum roll please….. bias against conservatives.   Continue reading “Another Obama Admin Scandal Brewing? EPA Investigation Into Bias Against Conservatives”

Continue reading “Piers Morgan: Now I See U.S. Government Tyranny”

Western Shooting Journal – by A. Nony Mouse

As a gun owner and an 11-year UPS driver, I get a lot of questions from people regarding the safest way to ship and insure firearms through UPS. Theft of firearms and other items by UPS employees, ‘though rare, unfortunately does occur, but there are a lot of surprisingly simple and inexpensive ways to virtually guarantee that you won’t be a victim. Please pass this information along to anyone who may benefit from it.   Continue reading “A UPS Driver’s Suggestions for Shipping Firearms”

Activist Post – by Alec Sheer

As children, and throughout our duration in grade school, we have all been taught that bribery is not ethical, nor legal.

California, however, a state known for its eccentric lifestyle and political affairs, will be adding to its unique notoriety if its legislature chooses to pass Assembly bill (A.B.) 173.
Continue reading “California Bill to Make Bribery Legal for UC Officials Passes Through Committee”

PopSci – by Shaunacy Ferro

A group of engineers from MIT have created analog calculators out of living cells, according to a paper published online in Nature yesterday. By tweaking the genes of bacterial cells, the researchers were able to create circuits that can perform calculations–including division, multiplication, logarithms and square roots–in a much more efficient way than many existing biocomputers.   Continue reading “This Bacterium Can Do Division, Compute Logarithms And Take Square Roots”

Godfather Politics – by Dave Jolly

In the past few days, we have already heard contradictory reports from Washington concerning the IRS scandal.  One report says that a few IRS agents acted independently and another report says that they were following orders from supervisors in Washington.  The agents themselves are all saying that they were following orders, but when President Obama addressed the nation Wednesday evening, he made it sound like it was the agents fault.   Continue reading “Obama’s Brother Got Non-Profit Approval from IRS in 34 Days”

RT News

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States senator is expected to try and repeal that law.

According to the Huffington Post, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) plans to introduce an amendment in Washington that would repeal Section 735 from the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, a provision that has put St. Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto in the sights of environmentalists around the world.   Continue reading “‘Monsanto Protection Act’ might be repealed in Senate”

Red State -by LaborUnionReport (Diary)

Where do the anti-sequester, federal government workers-turned-protesters work? They work at the Internal Revenue Service–and they are unionized.

As the scandal involving the IRS’ targeting of Conservatives and Tea Party groups consumes the news cycle for the moment and Barack Obama (who, so far, has claimed ignorance of the targeting) has thrown a sacrificial lamb out to appease journalists, that IRS agents targeted certain small-government, anti-tax groups should really not come as a surprise.   Continue reading “Meet the Partisan Union Behind The Partisan Internal Revenue Service”

The Hill – by Bernie Becker and Peter Schroeder

Senior Obama administration officials where notified almost a year ago that an inspector general was looking into the IRS’s treatment of conservative groups, a watchdog said on Friday.

Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general (IG) for tax administration, testified that he told the department’s general counsel and Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin about the probe in June of 2012 — months after media reports started detailing Tea Party complaints about the IRS.   Continue reading “Watchdog: Senior Obama officials were told of IRS probe last year”

RINF

The U.S. is preparing “to militarily penetrate the African continent” by building up its military resources within the Mediterranean Sea, says Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop the NATO organization.

On Wednesday, Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino announced that the U.S. was transferring 200 marines and two planes to its base at Sigonella in Sicily to deploy in Libya if U.S. diplomats come under attack as they did on Sep. 11, 2012.   Continue reading “US plans to militarily penetrate Africa”