From the Trenches World Report

The Asahi Shimbun – by YOSHIHIRO MAKINO, February 15, 2013

Senior U.S. administration officials held secret talks in North Korea on at least three occasions in 2011 and 2012, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.

Although the visits had potential implications for Japan, Washington did not inform its security partner at the time and only informally confirmed one of them when the Japanese side pressed, government and other sources in Japan, South Korea and the United States said.   Continue reading “LEFT IN THE DARK: Secret U.S. military flights carried officials, equipment to N. Korea”

Examiner – by Gregory Patin

It has been widely reported since at least 2010 that U.S. corporations and the wealthiest Americans have taken advantage of tax loopholes by hiding their assets in offshore subsidiaries (a.k.a. tax havens) in order to avoid paying U.S. income taxes. The amount of money hidden in these tax havens and what the lost revenue means to the American people has not been so widely reported.

According to several sources, including the BBC, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) and James Henry, former Chief Economist at McKinsey & Company, the top 1% of wealthiest Americans and corporations have deposited between $21 and $32 trillion in tax havens in order to evade U.S. taxes. The top seven U.S. banks, furthermore, account for over $10 trillion in assets in more than 10,000 overseas subsidiaries.   Continue reading “Closing corporate tax havens: The solution to the sequester (and world poverty)”

The Organic Prepper

How often do you hear people talk about how they would live their dreams if they only had a bit more money?  People always dream about moving to a remote area or about staying home with the kids or about relocating to the bug out location, but often feel that these things are financially unreachable. Do you do this yourself?

If so, then maybe it’s time to take a good hard look at your personal finances and enact a personal austerity plan.  Most people would be surprised at the changes that can be made when they rethink the definition of the word “necessities”.   Continue reading “Personal Austerity: 12 Ways to Radically Cut Your Expenses”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Of all the threats to humanity today, none is more destructive than modern-day “evidence-based science.” And by the word “science,” I don’t mean the humble pursuit of knowledge using genuine scientific methods. What I mean is the dogmatic, corporate-driven brand of distorted science based on falsified evidence, bribery of gatekeepers and corruption of government regulators.   Continue reading “Top ten ways humanity is being murdered in the name of ‘evidence-based science’ (#1 GMOs)”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

The United States says it stands “poised to respond” at the border of North and South Korea, where U.S. troops are on high alert.

“They have ratcheted  up their bellicose, dangerous rhetoric and some of the actions they’ve taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger,” Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said.   Continue reading “US Troops Poised At SK/NK Border, Japan Masses Troops For Defense Against NK Missiles”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

One of the biggest mysteries regarding the events of September 11, 2001 is the fact, of the 2.753 people who allegedly died in the towers of the World Trade Center, only 1.634 have been identified so far.

In other words, the families of 1.116 victims in the 11 years have no single evidence received their relatives have actually died by the State authorities.   Continue reading “½ Of 9-11 Victims Dissolved Into Nothing”

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die

North Korea has given South Korean firms an April 10th, 2013 deadline to pull out of the Kaesong Industrial Complex in Korea according to this story from China.org.cn.

In the meantime, the North Korea military has given final approval for a nuclear strike upon the US as shared in the BBC video below. Why the leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un would put his country in harms way is beyond me; obviously, any nuclear strike upon America will be dealt with in the most severe way by our own military and the complete and total annihilation of North Korea and much of the entire world as a result of such actions are within the realm of possibility should events escalate and the dominoes begin to tumble.    Continue reading “April 10th Deadline Given By N. Korea For Firms To Pull Out Of Kaesong Industrial Complex”

Continue reading ““We’ll Kill the Dollar!””

Fox News

DENVER –  With President Obama’s visit to Colorado to rally support for gun control measures, some of the state’s sheriffs are speaking out against more restrictions.

More than a dozen sheriffs held a press conference Wednesday in a Denver park near where the president met with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss the gun control package recently signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.   Continue reading “Colorado sheriffs push back against calls for more gun control”

The Daily Caller – by Eric Owens

The controversial portrait of Jesus Christ at the center of a federal lawsuit pitting the American Liberties Union against a rural southern Ohio school district was taken down on Wednesday.

The portrait had hung in the entryway of Jackson Middle School since the Truman administration.   Continue reading “Rural Ohio school district surrenders to ACLU over Jesus portrait”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as “navigators” to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 could earn $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations issued Wednesday.

The 63-page rule covering navigators, drawn up by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, also said the government will provide free translators for those not fluent in English — no matter what their native language is.   Continue reading “Tens of thousands Obamacare ‘navigators’ to be hired”

Save America Foundation – by J. Rizzola

I remember back in 2001 when the nation witnessed the shocking events that took place that fateful September 11. I was in Hawaii at the time, and the day before the 11^th, which was the last of a four day holiday weekend, my family and I had enjoyed the last day of freedom as we have known it.   Continue reading “Reflections on the Tyranny Approaching”

Last Resistance – by John DeMayo

Would it come as a surprise that most of the raw materials that munitions manufactures require to produce bullets come from foreign countries? Recently, I spent of few days visiting local gun dealers, investigating ammunition shortage issues, calling ammunition distributors about inventory problems, and researching the raw materials required to make a bullet. Ammunition manufacturing is a very complicated and heavily regulated business.   Continue reading “Obama’s Government Prefers Empty Guns and Knife Fights”

Public Intelligence

The following is the most recent version of the U.S.-Canada Civil Assistance Plan signed in January 2012.  The original ten-page agreement, signed in 2008, was released via the Freedom of Information Act that same year.  However, the document’s appendices were not released due to their “pre-decisional” status.  The 2012 version of the plan available below includes all appendices.     Continue reading “(U//FOUO) U.S.-Canada Civil Assistance Plan 2012”

Activist Post – by Nicolas West

In light of Obama’s announcement of a $100 million brain-mapping project, which is being promoted as essential to unlocking the secrets behind degenerative brain conditions and kick starting job growth, it is worth examining the darker potential.

As The New American rightly highlights, whenever DARPA is involved, we can expect that there will be creepy military applications . . . like mind control. This mission has actually been around for some time within the halls of elite think-tanks, and now appears to be coming to full fruition.   Continue reading “Neuroscience, Obama’s BRAIN Project, and Military Mind Control”

Breitbart – by WYNTON HALL

Even as the Obama White House prepares for a star-studded White House concert featuring Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, and Justin Timberlake, figures from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that roughly 50 million Americans—one in six—now live below the poverty line.

Additionally, one in five American children have fallen below the poverty line; the last time poverty levels were this high, Lyndon Baines Johnson was president.   Continue reading “Nearly 50 Million Americans in Poverty, Worst Since LBJ”