From the Trenches World Report
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He Did NOT Say What You Think He Said
As we noted Friday, Attorney General Holder’s statement that the president will not assassinate non-combatant Americans on U.S. soil with a drone left a huge loophole, and raised more questions than it answered.
Later that day, top constitutional and military law expert Jonathan Turley agreed: Continue reading “The Department of Justice Did NOT Disclaim Murder of Americans by Drone”
The president has a clandestine network targeting a ‘kill list’ justified by secret laws. How is that different than a death squad?
The film Dirty Wars, which premiered at Sundance, can be viewed, as Amy Goodman sees it, as an important narrative of excesses in the global “war on terror”. It is also a record of something scary for those of us at home – and uncovers the biggest story, I would say, in our nation’s contemporary history. Continue reading “JSoc: Obama’s secret assassins”
Beyond the Haze – by Monroe Wolf
In a recent article published by the AP, 15 Cardinals are considered to be in the front running to be the next Pope.
CARDINAL ANGELO SCOLA
CARDINAL ODILO SCHERER
CARDINAL MARC OUELLET
CARDINAL PETER ERDO
CARDINAL GIANFRANCO RAVASI Continue reading “Front Runners For The 112th Pope”
From the first introduction of detachable magazines on firearms, people have been looking for ways to increase magazine capacity. Whether it is drum mags, longer box mags, jungle clips to connect multiple mags together, or other gimmicks, more ammo is always the goal. Well, the German army took a rather unusual approach to this issue in 1942, when it introduced an experimental double-magazine version of the MP40. Continue reading “Dual-Magazine MP40/I”
CITY HALL — Chicago’s gun offender registry needs to be expanded to include the names of people busted committing crimes with a gun, Ald. Ed Burke (14th) said Thursday. And Mayor Rahm Emanuel agrees.
The powerful alderman wants to force anyone convicted of a violent crime with a firearm, including kidnapping, assault, robbery and vehicular hijacking, to end up on the list, which now has 584 names on it of those convicted of less serious gun violations. Continue reading “Chicago May Expand ‘Gun Offender’ Registry”
DECATUR, Ga. — A man who claims a police officer planted drugs on him will have the charges dismissed one day before his case was set to go to trial.
But the DeKalb County Solicitor General’s Office said the dismissal has nothing to do with a surveillance video Alphonzo Eleby said proves the officer set him up. Continue reading “Charges dropped against man claiming officers planted drugs on him”
A California camp ranger who was carjacked by fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner is seeking the $1.2 million reward for Dorner’s capture, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Dorner, accused of killing four people and threatening the lives of several dozen more, died following a standoff with police near Big Bear, Calif., when the cabin in which he was barricaded burned down with him inside on Feb. 12. Continue reading “California Camp Ranger Wants $1M Dorner Reward”
The problem is not HOW did they get in there… Although you really have to wonder,
It’s HOW do you get them OUT? – – especially the last one. Continue reading “How did they get in there?”
Along with Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, leading conservative radio host Mark Levin reaches tens of millions of listeners weekly, and what he talked about recently on his nationally syndicated show has sent shivers down the spines of many of them.
A few years ago this was fringe theory, restricted only to the sphere of alternative (conspiracy) news.
Warnings of a massive economic collapse, government stockpiling of weaponry, and the idea that Americans could be broadly classified as terrorists and then detained indefinitely or killed often fell upon deaf ears. Continue reading “Mark Levin: Government Is “Simulating the Collapse of Our Financial System, the Collapse of Our Society and the Potential for Widespread Violence””
The woman asked Officer Hill why he was stopping her.
She wore jean shorts and a tight red shirt and had stood outdoors for half an hour. She’d had a conversation with a passing man. When Officer Hill searched her bag, he found a condom and $1.25.
He arrested her for “loitering for the purpose of prostitution.” On the supporting deposition, he filled in the blanks for what she was wearing and how many condoms she had. Continue reading “New York Cops will Arrest you for Carrying Condoms”
The New York Times reports in a front-page piece today titled “Post Office Buildings With Character, and Maybe a Sale Price” that the Postal Service “acknowledges that in recent years the sale of post office buildings has accelerated, and in 2011 it hired CBRE, a commercial real estate services firm, to handle the transactions.
“‘Our biggest concern is the way they’re going about it isn’t transparent,’ said Chris Morris, a senior field officer for the National Trust and project manager for post office buildings. ‘A lot of us are very confused about the process.’” Continue reading “NYT Report on Selling Post Offices — and Sen. Feinstein’s Husband Profiting from “Manufactured Crisis””
New York Times – by MARK MAZZETTI, CHARLIE SAVAGE and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — One morning in late September 2011, a group of American drones took off from an airstrip the C.I.A. had built in the remote southern expanse of Saudi Arabia. The drones crossed the border into Yemen, and were soon hovering over a group of trucks clustered in a desert patch of Jawf Province, a region of the impoverished country once renowned for breeding Arabian horses. Continue reading “How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America’s Cross Hairs”
According to the White House, John Brennan was sworn in as CIA Director on a “first draft” of the Constitution including notations from George Washington, dating to 1787.
Vice President Joe Biden swears in CIA Director John Brennan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, March 8, 2013. Members of Brennan’s family stand with him. Brennan was sworn in with his hand on an original draft of the Constitution, dating from 1787, which has George Washington’s personal handwriting and annotations on it. Continue reading “John Brennan Sworn in as CIA Director Using Constitution Lacking Bill of Rights”
The unemployment rate fell to 7.7% following February’s Jobs Report and the mainstream propaganda machine is claiming yet another economic boom. The mainstream’s credibility rating has dropped to 6%, even lower than the rating for Congress, which is lower than a cockroach. The jobs numbers that just came out are a fraud and here is why.
It is reported that 296,000 jobs were created in February and we are being told that this is sufficient to drop the unemployment rate. Let’s look at these 296,000 jobs and, just for the sake of argument, say that they were all created in the United States. Continue reading “Unemployment Rate Drops to 7.7%, Jobs Con Continues On”
Insight on Freedom – by J.D. Longstreet
Back in my misspent youth, while a fearless young reporter, I was covering an appearance of a rather unpopular politician (A “Boss Hog” type local tyrant.) when a deputy sheriff threatened me with arrest… just for being there, for doing my job. Actually, that deputy knew my political leanings and I knew his — and I knew who kept him in his job — and why. He knew that I knew. Continue reading “Pay Attention! … J. D. Longstreet”
DNA Info – by Tanveer Ali 
WSB TV 2 – by Tom Jones
Vice – by Molly Crabapple
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