From the Trenches World Report

USA Today – by Doug Stanglin

An Air Algerie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard — including 50 French citizens — crashed Thursday in northeastern Mali, the airlines said.

The airlines said on its Twitter account that the plane went down about 40 miles from the Malian city of Gao. It did not give any additional details.

“The plane disappeared at Gao (in Mali), (300 miles) from the Algerian border. Several nationalities are among the victims,” Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal was cited as saying by Algerian radio, the French news agency AFP reports.   Continue reading “Air Algerie plane with 116 aboard crashes in Mali”

Laughing Squid

On a rural stretch of County Road 400 in Amity, Indiana, the road splits around a small mound of earth located in the center of the roadway. That mound is the grave of Nancy Kerlin Barnett (1793-1831) and it is in the middle of the road for a most unusual reason. As the 1912 historical marker at the site explains, when the county planned to run a road through the cemetery in which Barnett was laid to rest, her grandson Daniel Doty guarded the plot with a gun until the county relented and built the road around the grave.   Continue reading “The Grave in the Middle of a Rural Indiana Road”

Press TV

On Tuesday, Israel’s tanks shelled the school belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in al-Maghazi, located in central Gaza, an official said on condition of anonymity.   Continue reading “Israel attacks UN school sheltering Palestinians in Gaza”

The Washington Post – by Sudarsan Raghavan

HEBRON, West Bank — Said Kawasmeh received the order from Israel’s military last week. His two-story house was to be demolished, and his large family had 48 hours to leave.The reason: Kawasmeh’s son is a key suspect in the brutal kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers whose fates helped reignite the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Continue reading “In West Bank, Israel revives punitive home demolitions in effort to deter Hamas”

Illinois Review 

CHICAGO – Governor Quinn’s staff discussed a local mayoral election when considering how to divvy up $2 million in Neighborhood Recovery Initiative funds, a Sun-Times story revealed Wednesday.

While one Maywood group was found to have been the most qualified to be funded by NRI head Barbara Shaw, the governor’s staff decided the money should be split between two groups because one of them was rumored to be involved in challenging Maywood’s incumbent village president – the husband of Cook County Recorder of Deeds Karen Yarborough.   Continue reading “Uncovered Quinn Staff Emails Discuss Maywood Mayoral Race and NRA Funds”

RINF

The “most moral army in the world” from “the only democracy in the Middle East” has attacked hospitals, a home for the disabled, a geriatric hospice, demolished five mosques, razed entire neighbourhoods, erased entire families – the youngest – so far – just three days old if you do not count the unborn, as in the case of twenty nine year old Samar Al Hallaq killed with her two sons, aged four and five, other members of her family and carrying her third child. Her husband was critically injured.    Continue reading “International Anger Mounts Against Israel”

USA Today – by Michael Kiefer and Mariana Dale, The Arizona Republic

PHOENIX — The Wednesday afternoon execution of convicted murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood III took nearly two hours, confirming concerns that had been raised by his attorneys about a controversial drug used by the state of Arizona.

Wood remained alive at Arizona’s state prison in Florence long enough for his public defenders to file an emergency motion for a stay of execution with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, after the process began at 1:53 p.m. MST. The motion noted that Wood “has been gasping and snorting for more than an hour” after being injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs.   Continue reading “Inmate’s execution takes nearly 2 hours”

Daily Times – Reuters

WASHINGTON: More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nation’s reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

“We found that troops who operate in the occupied territories aren’t the only ones enforcing the mechanisms of control over Palestinian lives. In truth, the entire military is implicated. For that reason, we now refuse to participate in our reserve duties, and we support all those who resist being called to service,” the soldiers wrote in a petition posted online and first reported by the newspaper.   Continue reading “More than 50 Israeli reservists refuse to serve”

The Intercept – by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux

The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtained by The Intercept.

The “March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance,” a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government’s secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings. Continue reading “Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist”

Infowars – by Kurt Nimmo

Rapid Trident was omitted from the flurry of coverage on the shoot-down MH-17.

From the U.S. Army in Europe website:

Rapid Trident supports interoperability among Ukraine, the United States, NATO and Partnership for Peace member nations. Continue reading “NATO Exercise in Ukraine Coincided with MH-17 Shoot-Down”

Freedom Outpost – by Larry Pratt

Pastor and state Representative Dan Fisher(R-OK) has rescued a crucial part of our history from near oblivion – namely, the role that many pastors played in our War for Independence. In his book, Bringing Back the Black Robed Regiment (2013), Fisher examines the “patriot preachers” of the 18th Century, who led their congregations to battle the abusive tyranny of the Redcoats.

I was familiar with the Shenandoah Valley (Virginia) Pastor Peter Muhlenberg because I have a reproduction of him on my office wall. It’s the famous scene where he removed his clerical gown, revealing his Colonel’s uniform of the Continental Army.   Continue reading “It’s Time to Bring Back the Black Robed Regiment”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Massachusetts already has very strict gun laws compared to many states, but it seems that one Democratic candidate for governor, Donald Berwick (a former Obama administration healthcare official who strongly supported the Affordable Car Act), wants to make things even worse for law abiding gun owners in Mass.

According to a recent announcement on his website, Berwick wants to do the following,   Continue reading “Former Obama Admin Official Running for MA Governor Wants to Make MA Gun Laws Even Stricter”

Bearing Arms – by Bob Owens

Beretta issued a stunning press release a short time ago confirming the centuries-old truth that “Berettas don’t bluff.”

It seems that Martin O’Malley and his fellow anti-gun Democrats have successfully created hundreds of new jobs… in Tennessee.   Continue reading “GONE: Beretta Sending Entire Manufacturing Operation Out Of Maryland Due To Anti-Liberty “Assault Weapon” Ban”

Yahoo News

Little Rock Air Force Base went on lockdown Wednesday amid reports of a suspicious person, though military officials have offered few details about the incident.

No one is allowed to enter or leave the base during the lockdown, which began at 11:45 a.m. People who live on base were urged to stay indoors, and visitors were asked to not come to the front gate.   Continue reading “Arkansas military base on lockdown, few details”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- On July 21 2014 Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts tweeted that Virginia’s congressional candidate Mike Dickinson is her group’s “next target.”

This was in response to a July 20 tweet in which Dickinson, a self-described “left wing liberal,” wrote: “People generally don’t want to die. I own a gun and if I’m touched I’m shooting.”   Continue reading “Founder of Anti-Gun Group Names Virginia Democrat as ‘Next Target’”