From the Trenches World Report

Orrazz

The Laredo Police Department placed six officers who allegedly opened fire on Jose Walter Garza, 30, on administrative duties pending an internal investigation of the incident, which occurred outside a truck stop on Saturday around 2 a.m., according to the Laredo Morning Times.

Police began firing at Garza after he “put his finger on the trigger guard and pointed at the officers.”  A surveillance video obtained by the Morning Times does not clearly show Garza threatening the officers but does show the man being shot and officers subsequently handcuffing him.   Continue reading “Laredo, TX police fire 80 shots at man armed with pellet gun”

KHOU 11 News – by Rekha Muddaraj

HOUSTON — It’s not the first time Tactical Firearms has displayed a controversial message on its outdoor marquee, but its latest sign seems to be turning more heads than usual.

It says “Does one of Obamas family members have to be beheaded for “change” to happen?”

CEO Jeremy Alcede says it’s a fair question, in the wake of two American journalists being beheaded by ISIS militants.   Continue reading “Business defends controversial President Obama sign”

Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

Remember when ephedra, also known as the herb Ma Huang, was taken off the market for awhile after baseball’s Baltimore Oriole pitcher Steve Belcher died in Spring training? Traces of it were found during an autopsy. Even congressmen were cursing this herbal decongestant that too many were using for weight loss. But a handful of medical experts are amazed at how other causal factors were ignored. This is typical behavior for big pharma and how they handle natural or alternative medicine.   Continue reading “Big Pharma Attacks Natural Medicine to Hide Own Death Toll (And It’s Shockingly High)”

Western Free Press

No Sign of Old Glory on Dem Parade Float as Americans Celebrating 200th Anniversary of Star Spangled Banner

PHOENIX – Today Robert Graham criticized Democrat Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona’s CD 1 for flying the Flag of Mexico during her parade in Eloy, Arizona this morning.   Continue reading “Busted! Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick Flies Mexican Flag in Parade”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – by Dutchman 6

The ‘definitive glossary of modern US military slang’ defines “Speedball” as: A body bag filled with supplies, usually ammunition and bottled water, dropped from a plane or helicopter to resupply soldiers far afield or in dire need.

Michael Yon describes the use of “Body Bags & Speedballs” in Afghanistan here.

Body bags as speedballs in Afghanistan.

Some folks have even designed specially drop-resistant bags for re-use as in Bulldog Equipment’s – Speedball Bag. (Be sure and watch the short video where the ammo cans within the bag fail the long drop, but the bag does not.)   Continue reading “Praxis: Improvised Resupply By “Speedball.””

CBS San Francisco

SAN MATEO (CBS SF) — The San Mateo and Napa County Sheriff’s offices will not be getting secondhand weapons and gear from federal agencies after assault rifles from both departments were discovered missing or unaccounted for.

According to a KQED report, the counties are among nine California law enforcement that have been suspended from the giveaway, known as The Department of Defense Excess Property Program (or 1033 Program).The California Office of Emergency Services operates the program in the state.   Continue reading “Missing Assault Rifles Lead Feds To End Surplus Weapons Giveaways To San Mateo, Napa County Sheriff’s Offices”

Free North Carolina – by Jeffrey Hardin

When Poppa was stationed at Quantico Va. and then Paris Island Beaufort SC while in the Marine Corp, they, the schools, tried to forced me and two other siblings to go to speech therapy classes because they claimed our deep NC accents couldn’t be understood!

Momma’s people the McBees, McBeths and Dedmon’s Scot-Irish who came out of the Appalachians, have a deep blend of Southern & Gaelic accents, and Poppas folks, have rich Southern Appalachian accents, they came from out of Tennessee and Smokey mountains, finally settling in York SC in the mid 60s…   Continue reading “Southern Accents, pay attention Yankees”

The Imaginative Conservative – by Bruce Frohnen

Few Americans spend much time thinking about the vagaries of administrative law—the rules and procedures our government uses in formulating and enforcing regulations—let alone its effects on our lives and liberties. Anyone warning of the imminent demise of Americans’ liberties is likely to be dismissed as a kook. Anyone claiming to find such dangers in the actions of fussy little bureaucrats toiling in the bowels of federal agencies most likely would be simply laughed at.

Philip Hamburger, a distinguished legal historian teaching at Columbia Law School, has no alarmist, overwrought story to tell. Nonetheless, his latest book is intended to spark reconsideration among lawyers, political scientists, and educated citizens about the effects of administrative law on American government and on Americans’ rights and liberties. His central point: Administrative law is—not tends toward, not encourages, but in itself is—a form of arbitrary power inconsistent with our traditions of ordered liberty.   Continue reading “A Return to Absolute Power?”

RT

Australia is set to deploy hundreds of troops against Islamic State militants in Iraq. The task force, which will include Special Forces military advisors and assault jets, will be stationed in UAE as part of a “humanitarian operation.”

Five years after the complete withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq in July 2009, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced that the country’s military would be returning to the Middle East, this time to help defeat militants from the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS / ISIL). The decision was preceded by a formal request for help from the government of new Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi, as well as from the United States, which has already “declared war” on Islamic State.   Continue reading “Australia to deploy 600 troops, fighter jets to help battle Islamic State – PM”

Mail.com

BLOOMING GROVE, Pa. (AP) — With the deadly ambush on a state police barracks in the Pocono Mountains, law enforcement in eastern Pennsylvania went on high alert and officers from throughout the region, including New York and New Jersey, joined in a massive search for the shooter or shooters.

But after scouring dense woods on foot and by helicopter Saturday, authorities suspected the assailant had left the area. They had no one in custody as midnight neared, a state police spokesman said. Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said the attack Friday night that left one trooper dead and another critically wounded was directed at state police and a “very dangerous, armed criminal” eluded quick capture.   Continue reading “Police: Deadly ambush ‘has touched us to the core’”

Mail.com

LEMOORE, Calif. (AP) — Rescuers on Saturday have called off their search of the Pacific Ocean for a Navy fighter pilot whose jet was one of two that crashed west of Wake Island.

The Navy said Saturday that it presumes the pilot is dead after failing to find him during a 36-hour search. The Navy declined to release the pilot’s name pending notification of his family. The Navy said the crash is under investigation and didn’t release any more details.   Continue reading “Rescuers end ocean search for Navy fighter pilot”

Mail.com

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced a 24-year-old American man to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage.

At a trial that lasted about 90 minutes, the court said Matthew Miller, of Bakersfield, California, tore up his tourist visa at Pyongyang’s airport upon arrival on April 10 and admitted to having the “wild ambition” of experiencing prison life so that he could secretly investigate North Korea’s human rights situation.   Continue reading “N. Korea sentences US man to 6 years of hard labor”

The Organic Prepper – by Daisy Luther

Last week, Dave Hodges wrote an article called The Psychological Reasons Why American Soldiers Would Fire On American Citizens.  Mr. Hodges used experiments by behavioral scientists to support his hypothesis. His evidence was the Asch experiment, the Milgram experiment, and the Stanford prison experiment. All of the experiments proved one thing: under certain circumstances, people would perform acts of cruelty that were aberrant to their normal behavior.

Let me preface my argument by saying that Dave Hodges puts out some great information – none of this is a personal attack on him or his work.  This is a rebuttal to a specific article he has written.    Continue reading “Rebuttal: Here’s Why I Do NOT Believe American Soldiers Will Fire on Protesting American Citizens”