From the Trenches World Report

RT News

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington is “not responsible” for either the crisis in Libya, or violence in Iraq, where militants of the Al-Qaeda offshoot group ISIS are capturing cities one by one.

“The United States of America is not responsible for what happened in Libya, nor is it responsible for what is happening in Iraq today,” said Kerry at a press conference in Cairo after a short visit to Egypt for talks with its newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as part of his Middle East tour.   Continue reading “Kerry: US ‘not responsible’ for crisis in Iraq, Libya”

Mail.com

PINE HILL, Ala. (AP) — Burdened with Alabama’s highest unemployment rate, long abandoned by textile mills and furniture plants, Wilcox County desperately needs jobs.

They’re coming, and from a most unlikely place: Henan Province, China, 7,600 miles away. Henan’s Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant here last month. It will employ more than 300 in a county known less for job opportunities than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests rich with wild turkey and boar and muddy roads best negotiated in four-wheel-drive trucks.   Continue reading “Ni hao, y’all: US hinterlands woo Chinese firms”

Mail.com

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court weighed in Monday on the country’s longstanding fight over the word “Allah,” saying non-Muslims cannot use it to refer to God. But the government said hours later the judgment applied only to one newspaper at the center of the case, adding still more confusion to a deeply divisive debate over religious freedom in the Muslim-majority country.

In a 4-3 ruling, the Federal Court upheld a government ban on the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims in a case against The Herald, a Catholic Malay-language weekly. The court did not elaborate on the implication of its ruling, but the government issued a tersely worded statement saying it only applied to The Herald and that Malaysian Christians can still use the word Allah in churches.   Continue reading “Malaysia court upholds ‘Allah’ ban for non-Muslims”

Mail.com

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line.

Mayor Domenic Sarno is the latest mayor to decry refugee resettlement, joining counterparts in New Hampshire in Maine in largely rare tensions with the State Department, which helps resettle refugees in communities across America.   Continue reading “Massachusetts mayor: Stop sending my city refugees”

As the invasion of our country continues down at the Southern border and as our country falls deeper into tyranny with an ever-growing authoritarian government, it is important for all of us to keep focused and to not lose sight on the meaning of who we are and what we are fighting for.

During the Bundy Ranch standoff, We the People got together as a militia and stood up to the tyrannical BLM and 200 Federal agents. With over 1500 militia members, we made them retreat quicker than a cluster of runaway chickens. We knew who our enemy was, who we were and what we were fighting for. We had the moral rule of law on our side and we won the battle. We knew it would definitely not be the last, but it was a wake-up call for all Americans throughout our country, as we have finally put our foot down and made one of the most ruthless authoritarian governments roll away faster than a dustball in the desert wind.    Continue reading “A Message To All Militia Members And Future Militia Members”

Mint Press – by Brandon Baker, Eco Watch

Research from Environment America shows that 2012 was a bigger year for toxic chemical dumping than most of us could have imagined.

Industrial facilities across the U.S. dumped more than 206 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 2012, according to the “Wasting Our Waterways” report. The figures about the nation, as a whole, are stark, as are figures about individual regions and companies. For instance, Tyson Foods Inc. alone dumped more than 18.5 million pounds—about 9 percent of the nationwide total.   Continue reading “Report Exposes Companies That Dumped 206 Million Pounds Of Toxic Chemicals Into U.S. Waterways”

Breitbart – by Kristen Tate

HOUSTON, Texas–Thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding the U.S.-Mexico border and the problem isn’t likely to get better anytime soon. In a mad dash to make it to the U.S., many of the Latino minors are hopping aboard a network of Mexican freight trains called “El Tren de la Muerte,” or Death Train. The phenomenon may support claims that the Obama Administration’s lax stance on immigration is encouraging thousands of children to put their lives at risk.

Children who travel via Death Train must jump onto a moving freight car. Minors who cannot successfully pull themselves onto the traveling cars fall onto the tracks–many are left with extreme injuries.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrants Hopping on “Death Trains” Hoping for Amnesty”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Horror author Stephen King took to Twitter yesterday to call for additional gun control laws. The multiple time best selling author said the following in tweet, “Multiple gunshot wounds last night at Red Rocks. We regulator booze and tobacco; it’s time to regulate firearms.” I’ll be nice and won’t even point out the irony of a best selling author having a spelling mistake in his tweet.   Continue reading “Author Stephen King Calls for Additional Gun Control Laws”

The Guardian – by Christopher Booker

Continue reading “The scandal of fiddled global warming data”

CNN – by Chelsea J. Carter, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hamdi Alkhshali

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Militant fighters tightened their grip Sunday on western Iraq as security forces withdrew from a handful of towns in Anbar province, moving closer to Baghdad.

The news that Iraqi forces withdrew from at least three towns in the province raised questions about whether Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government is giving up on the region.   Continue reading “In Iraq, militants press on toward Baghdad”

Shark Tank – by Bruce Carroll

A young U.S. Marine from New Hampshire and two other colleagues were killed in action by a roadside bomb last week in Afghanistan. The Marine from New Hampshire, Brandon Garabrant, made the news in June 2013 when his high school principal refused to allow him to wear his Marine dress blues at graduation.

Brandon Garabrant’s plan to wear the uniform to the ceremony at ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough hit a snag when the school’s principal told him he must wear the traditional cap and gown.

Continue reading “Marine Who Tried To Wear Uniform at Graduation Killed In Combat”

Huffington Post

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grand Ole Opry member Jimmy C. Newman, known for mixing Cajun and country music, has died.

Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt said Newman died in Nashville on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 86.

The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/1lhA3YI ) Newman’s first Top 10 country hit, “Cry, Cry, Darling,” came 60 years ago, in the summer of 1954. That same year he joined Shreveport-based radio show “The Louisiana Hayride,” where he performed alongside Johnny Horton, Elvis Presley and others.   Continue reading “Jimmy C. Newman: Grand Ole Opry Member And Cajun Country Pioneer Dies At 86”

Bloomberg – by David Lerman

Former Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up his offensive against President Barack Obama today by accusing the commander-in-chief of underestimating the terrorist threat and not doing enough to confront it.

“We’re in for big trouble in the years ahead because of his refusal to recognize reality and because of his continual emphasis upon getting the U.S. basically to withdraw from that part of the world,” Cheney, a Republican, said of the Middle East and Afghanistan, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program.   Continue reading “Cheney Says U.S. Headed for ‘Big Trouble’ on Terrorism”

Courthouse News

     CHICAGO (CN) – Suburban Chicago police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds at short range because he refused to go to the hospital, his stepdaughter claims in court.

     Sharon Mangerson, stepdaughter of the late John Wrana Jr., sued the Village of Park Forest on Friday, and its police Officers Clifford Butz, Michael Baugh, Craig Taylor, Lloyd Elliot, Charlie Hoskins and Mitch Greer in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds because he refused to go to hospital”