September 2014 | Page 52 of 82 | From the Trenches World Report

From the Washington Post the other day:

[Campaigns in Somalia and Yemen] have dragged on for years and involve far smaller and less-well-financed adversaries than the Islamic State. Although Obama promised a “steady, relentless effort” in a nationally televised address Wednesday night, he also said that “it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL,” using a common acronym for the Islamic State. Continue reading “President Obama Over-Ruled His Commanders on Ground Troops”

Infowars – by Kit Daniels

The Department of Homeland Security has fined an American and a Canadian $5,000 each for crossing the U.S./Canada border, fines which are never assessed on thousands of illegal aliens who are detained by Border Patrol daily.

The two men, a 40-year-old American and a 44-year-old Canadian, were walking down a dirt road with mountain bikes near the border when they were approached by a Border Patrol agent. Continue reading “DHS Fines American – But Not Illegals – $5,000 For Crossing Border”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

Just days before his company’s value topped $200 billion, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg went to Mexico and pushed for amnesty legislation at billionaire and New York Times minority owner Carlos Slim’s charity event.

Zuckerberg was reportedly in Mexico City last Friday as a “keynote speaker” at Slim’s “annual Telmex Foundation charity event,” where he “criticized the current state of the U.S. immigration system. “ Continue reading “Zuckerberg Pushes Amnesty At Billionaire Carlos Slim’s Charity Event In Mexico”

BBC News

Russia has warned that US air strikes against militants in Syria would be a “gross violation” of international law.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said any such action, without the backing of the UN, would be “an act of aggression”.

It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia to try to build a coalition against Islamic State (IS) militants. Continue reading “Russia warns US against strikes on Islamic State in Syria”

Let’s see how this works out.

KRGV 5 News

McALLEN – Law enforcement officials and city leaders from across the Rio Grande Valley are preparing for what they say could result in tense moments or violence.

Officials say they received word that members of a militia are threatening to block ports of entry. Continue reading “Militia Threatens to Block Traffic at International Bridges”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

Participation on Facebook could prove very dangerous to your future well-being. There is a reason that Facebook is aligned with both the CIA and the NSA. I have several credible sources tell me that all data posted on Facebook goes into series of cataloged files which culminates with each person being assigned a “Threat Matrix Score”. The mere existence of a Threat Matrix Score should send chills up and the collective spines of every American. Continue reading “Facebook Poses a Threat to Every American”

Your Jewish News – by Anika Rao

Joan Rivers received a flood of death threats after defending Israel’s right to bomb Hamas terrorists.

The U.S. Jewish comedian hired a bodyguard after receiving the death threats following her comments in support of Israel.

“Let me tell you, if New Jersey residents were firing rockets into New York, we’d wipe them out, we’d kill them,” Rivers said. Continue reading “Joan Rivers received thousands of death threats after saying that Israel has the right to bomb Hamas terrorist”

Lonely Conservative

At her weekly press conference Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) predicted that President Obama will deliver a holiday surprise for immigration advocates.

“Since we met last, the President has made an announcement about deferring any action on immigration until later this year. I am confident, meeting with our caucuses in the House – our Tri-caucus: the Hispanic Caucus, the Asian Pacific American Caucus, and the Congressional Black Caucus, all of whom have a big interest in the immigration issue – we feel confident that there’s a great deal the president can do that is at his administrative discretion, and that we’re confident that that will happen. Continue reading “Pelosi Predicts Obama Will Deliver A Holiday Surprise On Immigration”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Annie’s brand is selling out to the food manufacturing giant, General Mills, who has been known to use GMO rice, corn, soy as well as high fructose corn syrup in most of their products. Annie’s boxes of kid-friendly pasta even says ‘made with organic pasta’ on the top, but that likely won’t be the case now.

Annie’s has sold out to the GMO pusher, General Mills (GM), for a whopping $820 million. Continue reading “Annie’s Sells Out to General Mills: Watch Out for GMOs in this Popular ‘Natural’ Brand”

eden USA Today – by Kevin Johnson

Since 2009, according to city records, Albuquerque Police Department officers have been involved in 47 shootings, 32 of which resulted in deaths — a body count that Police Chief Gorden Eden said has called attention to a “systemic failure in our ability to track employee misconduct.”

Civil lawsuits have cost the city millions of dollars. More than that, a Justice Department review of at least 20 of those civilian killings concluded earlier this year that a “majority … were unconstitutional.” Continue reading “Albuquerque Police Chief Says Dept is “Stuck” with Officers Who “Shouldn’t be on the Force””

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Stephanie Hayden Ford, one of the stars of the Discovery Channel show “Sons of Guns,” has stepped forward to join her younger sister in accusing their father Will Hayden of multiple counts of rape:

Another one of William Hayden’s daughters is speaking out against the “Sons of Guns” star, saying she was also raped by her father as a child. Continue reading “Second Daughter Accuses “Sons of Guns” Star of Rape”

Privacy SOS

Apparently the people responsible for arming our local police forces like small militaries have no idea what’s going on under their noses, and invent magical fairytales about how the vehicles and surveillance equipment their grant funds buy for police are actually used.

Yesterday the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held hearings about police militarization, a largely federally-funded problem. The fact that much of the equipment—weapons, trucks, and surveillance toys—landing in the hands of our local police comes from grants or gifts bestowed by the feds wasn’t lost on the senators in attendance. In the wake of Ferguson, most of the country knows about this problem. Continue reading “Senate hearing on police militarization reveals DHS is completely out of touch with reality”

MassPrivateI

How Americas Most Powerful News Media Worked Hand in Glove with the Central Intelligence Agency and Why the Church Committee Covered It Up:

The CIA’s use of the American news media has been much more extensive than Agency officials have acknowledged publicly or in closed sessions with members of Congress. The general outlines of what happened are indisputable; the specifics are harder to come by. CIA sources hint that a particular journalist was trafficking all over Eastern Europe for the Agency; the journalist says no, he just had lunch with the station chief. CIA sources say flatly that a well‑known ABC correspondent worked for the Agency through 1973; they refuse to identify him. A high‑level CIA official with a prodigious memory says that the New York Times provided cover for about ten CIA operatives between 1950 and 1966; he does not know who they were, or who in the newspaper’s management made the arrangements.

Continue reading “The CIA & America’s news media – A disturbing alliance”

Front Page Mag – by Daniel Greenfield

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” Samuel Johnson said. A few centuries later his fellow Englishman, Winston Churchill, quipped, “The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”

It’s not true of the United States, but it is true of Barack Obama who, having exhausted every alternative that involved appeasement or pretending that ISIS wasn’t a threat, has decided to do the right thing. Continue reading “Obama Will Fight ISIS by Arming ISIS”

Breitbart – by Oliver Lane

Nearly fifty senior commanders of a major coalition of Islamic ‘moderates’ opposed to ISIS in Syria have been killed by an explosion at their secret command bunker as they met to discuss strategy against the the Islamic State.

The blast in the Northwest region of Idlib, Syria on Tuesday killed senior members of rebel group the Ahrar-al-Sham brigade (AaS), including leader Hassan Abboud and 45 others including senior members from other rebel alliance groups, reports The Times. The Idlib region stands in AaS territory, but it is close to the front-line with ISIS in neighbouring Aleppo. Continue reading “Entire Leadership of ISIS Opposition Wiped Out By ‘Unexplained’ Explosion”

Concealed Carry – by Brandon

Kwmaine Davis, a convicted felon, is heading back to prison for 18 months after he posted a few photos of himself holding handguns on twitter. As a convicted felon, Davis cannot possess or even touch any firearms…ever. The local PD got word of this photo and forwarded it to federal agents and ultimately arrested. Continue reading “Convicted Felon Heads Back To Prison After Posting Photo Of Himself With Firearms on Twitter”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Here is another one of our “Why I Carry” stories. These stories, unlike our defensive gun uses, take a look at situations that may have turned out very differently if the victim(s) had been armed. These stories also serve as an important reminder as to why it’s important to carry everyday.

The machete is the weapon of choice for many oppressive regimes throughout the world. The sheer violence of the machete reinforces it as weapon of fear. Continue reading “WHY I CARRY: Seven People Attack Pair of Brothers with Machetes in Chicago”

Continue reading “Geomagnetic Storm, Terrific Links | S0 News Sept 12, 2014”

Fox 4 KC

NEW YORK — The public will soon get a broader glimpse at the still-secretive world of government data collection.

Yahoo said Thursday it won release of 1,500 pages of documents filed in a secret surveillance court. It said the documents stem from an unsuccessful lawsuit it brought in 2008 challenging the government’s right to demand user information.

The company won a victory last year when portions of previously-closed documents were ordered public. As it noted Thursday, disclosures from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are “extremely rare.” Continue reading “You will soon get a glimpse at secretive government data collection process”

Reuters

An overnight fire that destroyed two buildings in an industrial area of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and forced about 400 residents to evacuate, also may have polluted a popular fishing area, officials said on Friday.

The blaze, which began Thursday evening, sent several fireballs into the air as superheated drums of perfume and other chemicals exploded inside the Rowayton Trading Co, the city fire department said in a statement. Continue reading “Bridgeport, Connecticut, industrial fire forces hundreds to evacuate”