From the Trenches World Report

Middle East Eye – by Yossi Melman

Israel prides itself as being a free, democratic society, part of the Western world. Well not exactly. At least when it comes to two significant areas.

One, towering above all, is the occupation of the West Bank under the iron fist of the Israeli military and depriving its Palestinian residents of basic civil and democratic rights.  Continue reading “Israel’s badly kept secret: Selling arms to regimes at war”

Daily Mail

Lockheed Martin is working to develop a high-power fiber laser for fighter jets.

Under a $26.3 million contract from the Air Force Research Lab, the firm will design and produce a directed energy system for aircraft, with plans to test the technology by 2021.

The move comes after a series of successful tests with similar systems in ground-based platforms – but, the experts say developing a laser for a smaller, airborne design will be a challenge.   Continue reading “Lockheed Martin awarded $26m contract to develop laser for fighter jet”

Daily Mail

Photos of America’s early gun makers holding their firearms have been colorized as the United States recovers from its second mass shooting in just five weeks.

The first successful machine gun, a semi-automatic shotgun and the Winchester repeating rifle are all featured in photographs colorized by 39-year-old Matt Loughrey of My Colorful Past, based in Westport, Ireland.   Continue reading “Colorized pictures reveal the gunmakers from America’s history”

Nueces County Record Star – by Andrew Branca

WAXAHACHIE — Former Somervell County Sheriff’s Deputy William Lane Cox, who drunkenly shot at an Ellis County church, pleaded to the charge of deadly conduct on Monday morning.

By accepting the plea-bargain agreement, Cox was sentenced to five years in prison, which was suspended. He was then placed on community supervision.

Cox remain on probation for five years. He was also fined $1,500 and will have to serve 10 days in the Wayne McCollum Detention Center. Through the agreement, Cox will be allowed to serve his time on weekends.   Continue reading “Former Somervell County deputy accepts plea agreement after shooting Ellis County church”

The psychology behind these mass attacks is something of a brilliantly thought out plot by the anti-gun agents. It’s become obvious to me that when the weak minded among us see these brilliantly executed missions, in which huge numbers of innocent people are executed to do nothing more than try and confiscate American firearms, they want to copy for their own pleasure.

This has become the new weapon against the pro-gun American National.  Continue reading “Mass Shootings the New Norm – How the Weak Are Sucked In”

Zero Hedge

Preface: Given the new attempt to use documents (cough fake?) linking Iran and 9/11, this piece is timely indeed … Background here.

By Kristen Breitweiser, one of the four 9/11 widows – known as the “Jersey Girls” – instrumental in forcing the government to form the 9/11 Commission to investigate the 2001 attacks. Follow Kristen Breitweiser on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kdbreitweiser.   Continue reading “Iran and 9/11: Down the Rabbit Hole of Blame”

The Great Recession

The Trump Rally pushed ahead relentlessly through a summer full of high omens and great disasters, all which it swatted off like flies. Even so, all was not perfect in the market as nerves began to jitter midsummer beneath the surface even among the most longtime bulls. Wall Street’s fear gauge (the CBOE Volatility Index) lifted its needle off its lower post to a nine-month high after President Trump’s comments about “fire and fury” if North Korea didn’t toe the line. (Mind you, the high wasn’t very far off the post because of how placid the previous nine months had been.)   Continue reading “Stock and Awe, Bears in Bondage”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Earlier today, when discussing the Saudi bank account and asset freeze (and confiscation) of dozens of princes and ministers, we said that just the haul of billionaire prince Alwaleed’s $19 billion in various holdings, including nearly a billion dollars in jewelry, plans, yachts, furniture and cash…  Continue reading “Saudi Arabia Is About To Confiscate $33 Billion From Four Of Its Richest People”

Providence Journal, AP

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church had a history of domestic violence and sent threatening text messages to his mother-in-law, a member of First Baptist, before the attack in which he fired at least 450 rounds at helpless worshippers, authorities said Monday.

A day after the deadliest mass shooting in state history, the military acknowledged that it did not submit the shooter’s criminal history to the FBI, as required by the Pentagon. If his past offenses had been properly shared, they would have prevented him from buying a gun.   Continue reading “Texas church gunman fired 450 rounds”

Daily Mail – by Guy Adams

Not long ago, Bono’s trendy anti-poverty lobby group, One, launched a blistering public attack on secretive foreign tax havens that allow very rich people to squirrel away their wealth.

At a press conference in Brussels, where MEPs were debating new anti money-laundering laws, it sternly declared that tax havens were preventing ‘massive sums’ from being spent on the all-important ‘fight against extreme poverty, disease, and hunger’.   Continue reading “Saint Bono’s shameless tax gymnastics are the epitome of celebrity double standards”

Anti-Media

West Africa — Following an internal investigation, the Red Cross has reported that during its 2014-2016 Ebola operations in West Africa — operations the organization says were among the “most complex in recent humanitarian history” — around $6 million of its funding was lost through fraud committed by its own staff.

The revelation came by way of a statement published on the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) website on October 20, though it went largely unnoticed until early November.   Continue reading “$6 Million Meant to Fight Ebola Stolen Through Fraud at the Red Cross”

Anti-Media – by Darius Shahtahmasebi

It is becoming increasingly more common for the corporate media to pay attention to the dollar’s dying status as the world reserve currency. The media can no longer realistically ignore developments that ultimately chip away at the dollar piece by piece considering Russia, China, and Iran have become brazen about their intentions to erode the dominant currency in the not-too-distant future.

While Anti-Media has documented the decline of the dollar throughout the course of the year as a result of a number of significant geopolitical decisions, there is still one major elephant in the room that needs to be addressed. Once it is, it should shed some light on just how detrimental these recent developments are to America’s status as the global authority.   Continue reading “Russia, China, and Iran Join Forces to Bring Down the US Dollar”

Breitbart – by Amanda House

The federal government should provide extended protective status to 300,000 non-citizens living in the United States, says a top John Kelly-appointee at President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

The proposed temporary amnesty comes from James (Jim) D. Nealon, the assistant secretary for International Affairs in DHS’s Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans, just as top officials debate whether to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals from four Central American countries, many of whom have benefitted from status renewals for close to two decades.   Continue reading “John Kelly-Appointed DHS Official Urges: Extend Work Permits for 300,000 Migrants”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups will exercise together in the Western Pacific in the coming days in a rare show of force as President Donald Trump visits Asia with warnings about the nuclear threat from North Korea, U.S. officials say.

U.S. officials have previously said the drill was under consideration and that planning was underway. The decision to soon go forward with the exercise in the Western Pacific has not been previously published.   Continue reading “U.S. to soon stage drill with three carriers as Trump visits Asia”