From the Trenches World Report

New America Now – by John Kaminski

It used to be that foreign threats were advertised as the main reason to send our young men off to war to defend our country. Amazing though it seems, we used to believe those stories. Many of our fathers and grandfathers died defending that principle.

Now, all that has changed. The threat is no longer some faraway enemy. The main enemy to peace in the world and security at home has become our own government.   Continue reading “Who Will Protect Us From Our Own Government?”

Washington’s Blog

Congress Did Nothing to Rein In One of the Main Causes of the Financial Crisis … and Is About to Let Things Get Even MORE Insane

Out-of-control derivatives were largely responsible for the 2008 financial crisis … and still pose a massive threat to the economy.

Unchecked derivatives are so harmful to the economy that:   Continue reading “Congress Never Fixed the Financial System … And Is About to Make It Even WORSE”

What’s On Ningbo

Thousands of dead prawns have washed up on a beach in Chile, sparking an investigation.

Hundreds of dead crabs were also washed ashore in Coronel city, about 530km (330 miles) from the capital, Santiago.

Fishermen suggested the deaths may have been caused by local power stations that use seawater as a cooling agent. The power firms have not commented.   Continue reading “Shrimp wave: Thousands of dead prawns wash up on beach in Chile”

Natural Society – by Mike Barrett

Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But human intelligence is suffering for other reasons as well.  Continue reading “Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence Is Slowly Declining”

WWNY TV

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he’s proposing reductions in the cost of hunting and fishing licenses for both state residents and visitors.

The cuts are part of Cuomo’s proposed budget. They come just after Cuomo won sweeping gun control legislation, a move deeply unpopular with some hunters.   Continue reading “Cuomo Reduces Price of Hunting, Fishing LIcenses”

Continue reading “How to Pack a Rucksack”

Charleston Voice – by by Phoenix Capital Research

The markets are staging a bounce today based on:

1. The ECB surfacing to say it will provide liquidity to help with the Cyprus situation.
2. Bernanke’s speech today and the Fed’s FOMC (stocks tend to rally going into FOMC meetings).   Continue reading “Why You Should Be Terrified Of What Just Happened in Cyprus”

The Gateway Pundit – by Jim Hoft

New York State is now offering $500 to people who snitch on gun owners.
Menrec has the story.

And, The Troy Record also has news on the tip line on their Facebook page – It is real. There is actually someone there to take your tips… So that state officials can come take your guns.   Continue reading “New York State Sets Up Gun Snitch Line With $500 Award”

Bluegrass Pundit

Cuomo and his gun control cohorts obviously didn’t consult with anyone who knows anything about guns…

Via Utica Observer-Dispatch:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state is not rolling back the nation’s most stringent gun control measure by keeping 10-bullet magazines legal, even though they would have been outlawed in a bill that passed earlier this year.   Continue reading “Moron: NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo forced to roll back 7-bullet magazine limit after discovering there is no such thing available”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

Palestinians in Bethlehem set fire to pictures of US President Barack Obama on Monday, saying he was not welcome in their city.

Scores of protesters gathered near Manger Square and threw shoes at a US diplomatic vehicle as it arrived at the scene as part of preparations for Obama’s visit to the city later this week.   Continue reading “Bethlehem Rioters Set Fire To Pictures Of Obama”

WND – by F. MICHAEL MALOOF

WASHINGTON – The Russian military doctrine adopted in 2010 after the “reset” with the Obama administration considers the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, the main threats Moscow must be prepared to fight, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

This is the assessment of Alexei Arbatov, a former Duma, or parliament, deputy and currently head of the Center for International Security of the Russian Academy of Sciences.     Continue reading “Analyst: Russia Prepping Military to Fight U.S.”

Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff

(NaturalNews) First it was millions of servings of long-term storable food. Then it was billions of rounds of high-powered ammunition and thousands of tank-like armored vehicles. Now the occupying powers of the U.S. federal government are stockpiling millions of doses of smallpox medication in alleged preparation for a potential “bioterrorism attack,” according to The New York Times(NYT).

Even though smallpox was supposedly eradicated back in 1980, with the only known remaining virus currently being held in government-owned laboratories, Big Brother has contracted with Siga Technologies, a small vaccine and antiviral drug company, to produce two million doses of an antiviral drug known as Arestvyr, which is administered following a viral infection.    Continue reading “Federal government purchases two million doses of smallpox drug in preparation for bioterrorism attack”

The Foundry – by Ted R. Bromund, Ph.D.

One of the most discussed issues at the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference is whether ammunition should be fully included in the scope of the treaty. Predictably, opinion at the conference is strongly (though not universally) in favor of full inclusion. This mistake illustrates the broader fallacies of the ATT.

Currently, ammunition is included in the draft ATT, but exporters are not required to seek to prevent its diversion to the illicit market. That is because since ammunition is a consumable commodity and is exported in tens of millions of rounds, the methods the U.S. uses to prevent the diversion of F-18s cannot work for ammunition. An importer could simply divert a few thousand rounds and then claim they were shot off in a training exercise.   Continue reading “Is Ammunition a Flash Point in the UN Small Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations?”

Aljazeera – by Nadia Hijab

The schedule for President Barack Obama’s first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week has just been released and it is no surprise that the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is not on his travel agenda.

And yet Israel put it on the international agenda less than a month ago with its award of a licence to a US energy firm to explore for oil in the Golan Heights. Oil drilling by the New Jersey-based Genie Energy Ltd in the occupied Golan Heights could well result in a lawsuit claiming that Israel is engaged in an illegal act of pillage as defined inthe Hague Convention. Perhaps Israel is now so used to living off the fat of other people’s land – Palestinian and Syrian soil and water, among other resources – it has seemingly thrown caution to the wind.   Continue reading “Israel, Obama, and other people’s oil”

FCW – by Frank Konkel

In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years.

Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the agency keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA’s previous cloud efforts, sources told FCW.   Continue reading “Sources: Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal”

The Daily Caller – by Caroline May

In a terse exchange with ICE Director John Morton on Tuesday, South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy accused the department head of endangering the safety of Americans with the recent release of over 2,200 illegal immigrant detainees, including aggravated felons.

The exchange, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “The Release of Criminal Detainees by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Policy or Politics,” got heated as Gowdy assailed the administration’s response to sequestration.   Continue reading “Gowdy presses ICE Director Morton on aggravated felons released”