From the Trenches World Report

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The Bloomberg Administration moved forward Tuesday afternoon with its appeal of a judge’s decision to halt New York City’s ban on super-sized sugary drinks.

“We are moving forward immediately with our appeal,” said corporation counsel Michael Cardozo. “We believe the judge was wrong in rejecting this important public health initiative. We also feel he took an unduly narrow view of the Board of Health’s powers.” Continue reading “NYC Files Notice Of Appeal Of Judge’s Decision Halting Large Sugary Drinks Ban”

Huffington Post – by WILL WEISSERT

AUSTIN, Texas — George Prescott Bush filed the official paperwork Tuesday to run for Texas land commissioner next year, hoping to use a little-known but powerful post to continue his family’s political dynasty in one of the country’s most-conservative states.

A Spanish-speaking attorney and consultant based in Fort Worth, Bush is considered a rising star among conservative Hispanics, and his political pedigree is hard to match. He is the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, the nephew of former President George W. Bush and the son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush – himself often mentioned as a 2016 presidential hopeful. Continue reading “George P. Bush Running For Texas Land Commissioner”

Huffington Post – by Hunter Stuart

Proposed legislation known as the “Anti-Bloomberg Bill,” which was passed by an overwhelming margin in the Mississippi House on March 6, would make it illegal for local governments to restrict the sale of fatty or sugary foods based on the nutritional value of those foods. Continue reading “Mississippi ‘Anti-Bloomberg Bill’ Would Make Health Initiatives Illegal At Local Level”

Adask’s Law

I received a copy of the following graph by email. I don’t know who prepared the graph nor can I verify the numbers presented. However, the evidence “rings true” with me so I assume it’s correct. The implications are fairly obvious and significant:

1) The “wild west”–when virtually everyone had access to firearms–had a much lower homicide rate than was ever seen under any measure of “gun control”. Continue reading “US Homicide Rate A.D. 1885-2012”

Arizona Central – AP

WASHINGTON — A divided U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved a Democratic bill Tuesday expanding required federal background checks to nearly all gun purchases, giving President Barack Obama an early victory on curbing gun violence in a fight that still faces difficult odds.

The vote was 10-8, with all Democrats supporting the measure and every Republican opposing it. Continue reading “U.S. Senate panel OKs gun background-check bill”

International Man – by Nick G.

Dear fellow International Men and Women,

It has not been a good week for Switzerland, a country that has unfortunately seen its strong traditions of privacy and independence steadily chipped away.

Last week saw the criminal sentencing in the US of Bank Wegelin, Switzerland’s oldest bank, founded in 1741. The sentencing marks one of the final chapters of the bank’s 272 year history, which will have to shut down as a result of the case. Continue reading “A Bad Week for Switzerland – Weekly Update”

End of the American Dream – by Michael

Why does it seem like Barack Obama has been doing everything that he can to sabotage our border security and promote more illegal immigration? The number one responsibility of the president of the United States is to defend our nation, and yet Obama stubbornly refuses to secure our borders. In fact, he has been doing quite a bit to make it even easier for millions more drug runners, gang members and welfare parasites to enter our country illegally. This is utter insanity. Continue reading “11 Things That The Obama Administration Is Doing To Promote More Illegal Immigration”

Information Clearing House

“Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy”, this film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the “graveyard of social movements”, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama, the insufficiency of mere voting as a path to reform, and differing conceptions of democracy itself. Continue reading “Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy”

Zen Gardner

There is a lot of clear evidence, documented science, as well as factually backed so-called theories and seeming speculation regarding the chemtrail program. It is horrifically monstrous and Orwellian at the least. No scientific explanation can possibly justify such an earth and life destroying program.

That’s the bottom line. Continue reading “They Are Blocking The Sun, Period.”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

The Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC), an organization that claims to teach tolerance while attacking certain groups and people with whom they disagree, has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging them to investigate alleged domestic terror threats posed by the likes of organizations and individuals such as the Constitution Party, Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America, columnist Devvy Kidd, the Tyranny Response Team, and Oath Keepers. These thousands of people and organizations that the SPLC spews its hatred against by declaring them to be those that hate are, for the most part, people who simply are Americans who see a growing tyrannical Federal government and want to halt it in its tracks. Continue reading “SPLC Letter To DOJ & DHS: Patriot Groups Pose Domestic Terror Threat”

Fox News

NEW YORK – New York Police Department officers are patrolling inside private apartment buildings in a program known as Operation Clean Halls.

The program has been lauded by some residents who say they feel safer but vilified by others who say they’re being harassed at home. Many complain they’re illegally stopped and arrested. Continue reading “NYPD program patrols inside private buildings; residents say they’re unfairly stopped”

Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die

Like a scene straight out of the cult classic Clockwork Orange, we learn today that a judge has ruled that James Holmes may be ordered to take ‘truth serum’ if he pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.

Is this the way mainstream America and the world find out that the Aurora shooting was a false flag, and James Holmes merely a drugged up CIA patsy? Or will we learn that Holmes was a part of a two or three-man hit team? Will Holmes under ‘truth serum’ finally answer the questions we’re all sitting on the edges of our seats waiting for or will they pull a ‘Breitbart’ on him before he’s allowed to talk? Continue reading “Truth Serum For James Holmes? Judge Rules On ‘Batman Shooter’”

Bloomberg – by Michael B. Marois & James Nash

Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital.

They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came away peacefully with three firearms. Continue reading “California Seizes Guns As Owners Lose Right To Bear Arms”

PANDA

In a vote of 37-0 (1 absent), the Michigan Senate joined the growing list of of states and municipalities throughout America in passing their version of the Liberty Preservation Act, released by the Tenth Amendment Center. Senate Bill 94 (SB94) now proceeds to the Michigan State House. State Senator Rick Jones, the bill’s sponsor, and grassroots activists forged the bipartisan alliance against the federal law which applies the law of war and indefinite detention to anyone on U.S. soil. Continue reading “Michigan Senate Votes 37-0 to Defeat NDAA”

The Vatic Project – by The Vatic Master

Vatic Note: What shocked me, that I did not know, until this article, was that most cereal companies are owned by chemical companies and bioengineering companies. No wonder its bad all over. How are we going to get around this problems? Well, find local farmers who are still doing heritage or hybrid non GMO wheat, rice, and other grains, (or get heritage seeds yourself and grow your own grains) and then begin making our own cereals. Continue reading “Cereal Killer Documentary – GMO and the Chemical Industry”

Green Med Info – by Sayer Ji, Founder

Fluoride is promoted above good nutrition as a ‘therapeutic’ chemical necessary to prevent cavities, but it lowers IQ, calcifies the pineal gland and harms fertility, among a wide range of other adverse health effects.

There is no question remaining that fluoride lowers IQ, at least as far as high-quality epidemiological research published in peer-reviewed journals has shown. Continue reading “Fertility Destroying Chemical Added To Tap, Milk, Salt”

Survival Sherpa -by Todd Walker

With spring break around the corner, MTV will be busy bleeping F-bombs. Drunk and delirious, foul-mouthed frat boys is NOT my subject matter here. Nope, the F-bomb you need to drop is…

Fructose. High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) to be exact. Continue reading “How Dropping the F-bomb Can Save Your Life”

World Truth TV

One of the most ferocious insects you’ve ever heard of — it’s the size of a quarter — is set to invade Florida this summer.

The Sunshine State, already home to man-eating sinkholes, invading Burmese pythons, swarming sharks, tropical storms and other disasters, can expect to see an explosion of shaggy-haired gallinippers: Psorophora ciliata, a type of giant mosquito, according to entomologist Phil Kaufman of the University of Florida. Continue reading “Mega Mosquitoes 20 Times The Size Of Regular Ones Set to Invade Florida”

Before It’s News – by Russia Today

Police intervened when more than a hundred people joined in a candlelit vigil in the East Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot 11 times by police on Saturday, according to RussiaToday

Brooklynites on Twitter reported that police followed the march and searched apartment buildings in the neighborhood without warrants, looking for children who had been seen throwing bottles at police from neighborhood rooftops. Continue reading “Large Riot Breaks Out In Brooklyn During Vigil For Teen Shot 11 Times By Police”

Informed Comment – by Juan Cole

Once again, the erratic president of Afghanistan, had US officials shaking their heads in disbelief after he gave a speech while Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is in Kabul in which he blamed the interactions of the US and the Taliban for his country’s security problems.

Karzai was visibly angry about the Taliban bombing at the Ministry of Defense on Hagel’s arrival. In his Pashtu speech he said that the Taliban carried it out “in the service of America.” What he appears to have meant by that weird accusation is that the Taliban are eager to prevent a US withdrawal in 2014 and are attempting to draw the US into a greater entanglement in the country as a pretext for painting the Kabul government as lackeys of the Americans who need to be overthrown. Continue reading “Karzai accuses Taliban of Serving US Interests, Slams (Non-Existent) US-Taliban Talks”