From the Trenches World Report

RT

Syrian government forces carried out airstrikes against the Islamic State, killing at least 31 jihadists on Sunday. The moderate rebels are calling for US strikes, as in neighboring Iraq, saying the regime is not fighting the Islamic State hard enough.

At least 26 airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) positions in Syria were carried out on Sunday by government forces, Reuters reports, citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.   Continue reading “Syrian Air Force strike ISIS positions in Raqqa”

Fox News

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. –  A 15-year-old boy arrested Sunday on suspicion of posting online threats to shoot students at Southern California schools apparently did so as a prank, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.

The teen, who was arrested after investigators served a search warrant at his home, wrote the posts to get a reaction from his friends, officials said.   Continue reading “California teen arrested after allegedly threatening school shootings in Instagram posts”

NBC Los Angeles – by Jeanne Kuang

Fifteen drivers in Riverside County got traffic citations on Wednesday for allegedly failing to give the right-of-way to a traffic cone on legs.

The cone was an undercover Moreno Valley cop in costume, walking the crosswalk near a middle school to catch drivers who don’t stop for pedestrians.   Continue reading “Drivers Cited for Failing to Stop For Cop Dressed as Traffic Cone”

Truth Dig

Breitbart – by Kristin Tate

HOUSTON, Texas — While the national unemployment rate rose during the last month, Texas’ remained relatively low at just 5.1 percent, according to new data from the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).

Texas’ current unemployment rate is well below the national average, which currently sits at 6.2 percent.

Midland is home to Texas’ lowest unemployment rate; according to the TWC, only 2.9 percent of the population there is jobless.    Continue reading “Texas Job Market Flourishing as National Unemployment Rate Increases”

KRGV 5 News

ROMA- A church in Roma is said to offer refuge to illegal crossers. CHANNEL 5 NEWS investigated.

Border patrol agents say they have no jurisdiction on the church or school grounds and smugglers are aware of it. Agents tell CHANNEL 5 NEWS illegal crossers try to skirt the law by hiding on church grounds like Our Lady of Refuge.   Continue reading “Church Said to Offer Refuge to Illegal Crossers”

KRGV 5 News

HIDALGO – A particular group of National Guards is assigned to sky towers owned by municipalities, sheriff departments and the U.S. Border Patrol in Hidalgo and Starr counties.

Two of them are in the city of Hidalgo. The police chief there welcomes the extra manpower.   Continue reading “National Guards Assigned to Sky Towers in the Valley”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Amid all the global geopolitical tensions – which the stock market apparently believes are all fixed now – news that the motorcade of a Saudi prince was attacked in Paris by Kalashnikov-wielding gunmentakes on more relevance than it normally would. The attackers stole 250,000 Euros in cash and more crucially – “sensitive documents.” No suspects have been apprehended and to make matters more complex, local police noted “It’s quite an unusual attack. They were obviously well-informed. It’s true that it’s quite a rare way of operating.”  Continue reading “Gunmen Attack Saudi Prince In Paris, Steal “Sensitive Documents””

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

The new Army manual, known as ATP 3-39.33, provides discussion and techniques about civil disturbances and crowd control operations that occur in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS).

This document, just published this past Friday, August 15, 2014, promises to change the way the “authorities” deal with protesters, even peaceful ones. The consequences of ATP 39.33 could prove deadly for protesters. Further, the provisions of this Army manual could prove to be the end of the First Amendment right to peaceably assemble.  Continue reading “New Army Manual Calls for the Use of Lethal Force Against Peaceful Protesters”

Veterans Today – by Preston James

How can we be certain that we are being chumped by the Powers That be (PTB) that run the Secret Shadow Government *(SSG) and their Controlled Major Mass Media (CMMM)?

All we have to do is take a quick inventory on the current situation Americans find themselves in and the continuing Big Lies that the CMMM keep parroting over the years as if they were undisputed, accepted truth.   Continue reading “Chumps R Us Club: Part II”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, during which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans.

The exact reason for Obama’s return remained unclear, though it appeared aimed in part at countering criticism that Obama was spending two weeks on the Massachusetts resort island of Martha’s Vineyard in the midst of multiple crises. His return to Washington was planned even before the U.S. military began striking targets in Iraq and before the standoff between police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.  Continue reading “Obama back in Washington on rare vacation break”

Mail.com

CANTON, N.Y. (AP) — More charges are expected soon against a northern New York couple accused of kidnapping two young Amish sisters and sexually abusing them, a prosecutor said Sunday.

Computer hard drives and other potential evidence are still being collected Sunday from the home of Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey, said Mary Rain, district attorney for St. Lawrence County. The pair was arrested Friday and charged with kidnapping with the intent to physically or sexually abuse the 7-year-old and 12-year-old sisters. Authorities say the couple prowled for easy targets and sexually abused the girls before letting them go after about 24 hours.   Continue reading “More charges planned against Amish-kidnap suspects”

Mail.com

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A heavily tattooed German man whose face is embellished with horn implants and more than 100 piercings said Sunday he was refused entry to Dubai without reason, forcing him to skip a planned appearance at a nightclub.

His look may have been a step too far for the Gulf’s most liberal city, where a carefully cultivated reputation for tolerance and cutting-edge cosmopolitanism occasionally clashes with the region’s conservative Islamic values.  Continue reading “Man with many piercings denied entry to Dubai”

Mail.com

IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair

Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one “streamer” every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator’s application to build a still-bigger version.   Continue reading “Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air”

Oil Price – by Nick Cunningham

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the embattled owner of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors, hassaid it is running out of space to store water contaminated with radioactive materials and is proposing to treat the water and dump it in the Pacific Ocean.

Up until now, TEPCO has been storing radioactive water in giant storage tanks on the site of its Fukushima reactor. But groundwater continually flowing into the reactor site becomes contaminated as it does so. Containing and storing an ever-increasing volume of contaminated water is a bit like running on a treadmill – new groundwater becomes contaminated just as TEPCO succeeds in removing previously contaminated water. Meanwhile, the storage tanks multiply around the reactor complex.   Continue reading “As Radioactive Water Accumulates, TEPCO Eyes Pacific Ocean As Dumping Ground”

CNN – by Jethro Mullen

A powerful earthquake struck early Monday in western Iran, injuring at least 250 people in a region near the border with Iraq.

Local authorities said they fear the quake may have caused widespread destruction in rural areas.

The 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit at a depth of around 10 kilometers (6 miles) in an area 36 kilometers southeast of the Iranian city of Abdanan, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was followed by a series of aftershocks.  Continue reading “250 injured after strong earthquake hits Iran near border with Iraq”

WGN TV 9 – by Max Tarlton

A new mother in Portland, Oregon says doctors told her she can’t breastfeed, because she uses medical marijuana.

Crystal Cain used medical marijuana during her pregnancy on the advice of her midwife, she says for anxiety and nausea.

She delivered her baby eight weeks premature last week, and the baby needed an incubator to survive.   Continue reading “Mother denied breastfeeding at hospital over medical marijuana use”