From the Trenches World Report

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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi troops backed by helicopter gunships launched an operation early Saturday aimed at dislodging Sunni militants from the northern city of Tikrit, one of two major urban centers they seized in recent weeks in a dramatic blitz across the country.

After watching much of Iraq slip out of government hands, military officials sought to portray the push that began before dawn as a significant step that puts the army back on the offensive. They said the operation includes commandos, tanks and helicopters, as well as pro-government Sunni fighters and Shiite volunteers.   Continue reading “Iraq launches push for militant-held northern city”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing “significant and chronic system failures” in the nation’s health system for veterans, a review ordered by President Barack Obama portrays the Department of Veterans Affairs as a struggling agency battling a corrosive culture of distrust, lacking in resources and ill-prepared to deal with an influx of new and older veterans with a range of medical and mental health care needs.

The scathing report by deputy White House chief of staff Rob Nabors says the Veterans Health Administration, the VA sub agency that provides health care to about 8.8 million veterans a year, has systematically ignored warnings about its deficiencies and must be fundamentally restructured.   Continue reading “Review: VA a struggling agency beset with ills”

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union.

Speaking in televised remarks Saturday, Sergey Lavrov said that “our American colleagues still prefer to push the Ukrainian leadership toward a confrontational path.” He added that chances for settling the Ukrainian crisis would have been higher if it only depended on Russia and Europe.    Continue reading “Russia accuses US of fueling Ukrainian crisis”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Do not forget how much support the U.S. has given to the radicals in the Middle East. Your president now wants to give another $500 million to these groups to fight against sovereign Governments. Let us not forget, Syria re-elected their President Assad who won 88% of the vote. The U.S. should not be funding groups to defeat what the people voted for. It seems all over the globe governments are manufacturing crisis in one form or the other and then when they spin out of control, they step in to “control” the situation though they were the ones who caused the problem to begin with. Now that sounds just like the Hegelian Dialectic. Continue reading “Anti-Assad rebels said to seize 95% of Syrian Golan Heights”

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The one who’s in power, is the one who’s coordinated the twisting of our Constitution, Satan. As Satan desires even more, each day, to be worshipped, he’s pulling out all the stops. All of his groupies, such as the “boy” and his hoard, they’re doing his bidding.

The all out attacks upon our Republic is proof positive that we’re at war, not only with those physical enemies of our Republic, but with spiritual entities as well. Our enemy hates God, and all that He represents, and desires. Our enemy also hates all institutions that God has installed, the family, good government, the Church, God’s word, and things which are pure and holy.   Continue reading “Common Core Sample Lesson Teaches ‘Evolving Nature Of Constitution’”

Washington’s Blog – by Carl Herman

Three weeks before W. Bush’s election for a second term in 2004, his Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, chided Pulitzer-winning journalist, Ron Suskind. Rove said:

Guys like [Suskind] were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” … “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Continue reading “Endgame response to Karl Rove/1% ‘We’re an Empire creating our own reality for you to study’: Study’s over – you’re under arrest”

The Modesto Bee – by Erin Tracy

TURLOCK — The deaths of four people found in a Turlock home Thursday night are being investigated as a murder-suicide, police said Friday.

A female family member who had not seen or heard from the victims – a 78-year-old man, his wife, 70, and their two sons, ages 39 and 42 – found the bodies inside the home in the 3000 block of Red Oak Court about 10 p.m. and called police.   Continue reading “4 dead in Turlock, CA home; case being investigated as murder-suicide”

AOL – by Chris Talbot

Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70.

Womack’s publicist Sonya Kolowrat said Friday that the singer had died, but she could provide no other details.

With an incomparable voice few could match, Womack was a stirring singer and guitarist in his own right and a powerful songwriter whose hits like “Across 110th Street,” ”If You Think You’re Lonely Now” and “I Wish He Didn’t Trust Me So Much” captured the imagination of future stars in rock ‘n’ roll and R&B.   Continue reading “Bobby Womack, R&B singer- songwriter, dies at 70”

Mint Press News – by Katie Rucke

Under the First Amendment, the U.S. government cannot outright ban literature in the United States, but as Mark Crispin Miller, author and professor of media studies at New York University, explained, books can be hidden from public view or written off as conspiracy theory in order to prevent people from reading them.

While censorship is often conducted by corporations and governments to prevent words, images or ideas from entering the mainstream, censorship of literature has been around as early as 399 B.C. and has affected intellectuals and philosophers such as Socrates.   Continue reading “Banned But Not Forgotten: Book Censorship In The U S”

Crime File News

Phoenix, AZ—Politicians and their appointed police chiefs across this nation demand nearly total control of police related information.

It’s epidemic in the larger cities controlled by Democratic Party mayors.  They see the value of leaving their citizens with a false sense of security and public safety as they spin any and all information accordingly.   Continue reading “Police, Media Relations and Disinformation”