From the Trenches World Report

How the Afghans kicked Soviet Ass and now are kicking ours.

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WND – by Garth Kant

WASHINGTON — It’s one of those promises the president would probably like to forget.

In vowing to make the Veterans Administration the model of national health-care reform back in 2008, the outlook for scandal-plagued Obamacare suddenly seems even worse.   Continue reading “Obama 2008: VA will be ‘leader of health care reform’”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave House Republicans six weeks to pass amnesty legislation before President Barack Obama starts to use executive actions to ease deportations and change immigration laws.

“We’ve waited 329 days, we’re willing to wait another six weeks,” Reid said, according toPolitico. “But at the end of six weeks, if something hasn’t been done, then there’s gonna have to be a move made. And it’s too bad we have to do that, because we all know things can be done administratively, but it’s better to change the law.”   Continue reading “Schumer, Reid: If Amnesty Not Passed by August, Obama Will Act Alone”

Public Intelligence

The following document is an updated version of a handbook published by the Center for Army Lessons Learned in May 2010.

Center for Army Lessons Learned

• 101 pages
• For Official Use Only
• REL NATO, GCTF, ISAF, MCFI, ABCA
• August 2013

Continue reading “(U//FOUO) U.S. Army Tactical Combat Casualty Care Handbook August 2013”

NPR – by Greg Allen

As oil production goes, Florida isn’t much of a player. The state produced less than 2 million barrels last year, which is how much oil Texas pumps from its wells each day.

That’s about to change as the revolution in oil drilling technology comes to Florida.

One of the areas targeted for oil drilling is at Jaime Duran’s doorstep in the southwestern part of the state. A retired engineer, Duran lives in a cottage with his wife, Pamela, and the chickens they raise on a 5-acre plot. Last year, the Durans were surprised when a man came by with information about a plot of land just 1,300 feet from their house.   Continue reading “Oil Industry Gets An Earful As It Eyes Florida’s Everglades”

SHTF School – by Selco

It is OK if you think that government is corrupt and incompetent, I think that too.

It is OK to have weapon in your home, and will and knowledge to use it, and it is very good if you think that TV is full of crap.

I think too that S. is gonna hit the fan, and that it makes sense to have bug out location and bug out bag, and lots of cans and ammo.   Continue reading “Blending In and Survivalist Hate”

CTV News – by Angela Mulholland

The so-called Windsor Hum is genuine, researchers confirmed Friday. But precisely where it’s coming from remains a mystery.

Researchers from the University of Windsor and Western University spent the last year listening to the low hum that’s been bothering residents in the Windsor area for more than two years.   Continue reading “‘Windsor hum’ is real, study confirms, but source unknown”

Press TV

During his first visit to Mexico as the US secretary of state which was aimed at increasing educational ties between the two countries, Kerry spoke forcefully on Wednesday about the recent political unrest in Venezuela, saying the US is losing patience with the Venezuelan government.   Continue reading “Kerry says ‘all options remain on table’ for Venezuela”

Press TV

Citing a Pentagon spokesman, Military Times reported on Tuesday that major US units – including the Army’s 17th Field Artillery Brigade, 1st Armored Division; the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade; elements of the Navy’s Task Force 51/59; and the 407th Air Expeditionary Group – will take part in the drills, which are dubbed as ‘Eager Lion.’   Continue reading “6,000 US troops head to Jordan for military drills”

21st Century Wire

The reactionary Israeli right could have wished for a better pretext for an extended tantrum this week, as Russia announced plans to help Iran build up to 8 nuclear reactors.

This latest deal is designed to stimulate economic activity in the BRICS economic zone and also includes two desalination plants, with Russia trading its expertise in exchange for oil. Continue reading “Israel Foaming at Mouth as Russia Announces Plan to Build 8 Reactors in Iran”

EE Times – by Rick Merritt

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard will lay off another 16,000 workers on top of 34,000 layoffs it already announced. The move could save up to an additional billion dollars a year by 2016 on top of the maximum $4 billion savings previously anticipated.

The layoffs will come across all HP’s product divisions and geographical locations. About 7,000 of the new layoffs will come before the end of HP’s 2014 fiscal year and the rest before the end of 2015.   Continue reading “HP Plans 16,000 More Layoffs”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

There are already more than 101 million working age Americans that are not employed and 20 percent of the families in the entire country do not have a single member that has a job.  So what in the world are we going to do when robots start taking millions upon millions more of our jobs? Thanks to technology, the balance of power between employers and workers in this country is shifting dramatically in favor of the employers.  These days, many employers are wondering why they are dealing with so many human worker “headaches” when they can just use technology to get the same tasks done instead.  When you replace a human worker with a robot, you solve a whole bunch of problems.  Robots never take a day off, they never get tired, they never get sick, they never complain, they never show up late, they never waste time on the Internet and they always do what you tell them to do.  In addition, robotic technology has advanced to the point where it is actually cheaper to buy robots than it is to hire humans for a vast variety of different tasks.  From the standpoint of societal efficiency, this is a good thing.  But what happens when robots are able to do just about everything less expensively and more efficiently than humans can?  Where will our jobs come from?   Continue reading “The Robots Are Coming, And They Are Replacing Warehouse Workers And Fast Food Employees”

Continue reading “Jack in the Box Robbed at Gun Point AGAIN. 3rd Time Since Guns Were “Banned” from Store”

RT News

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled recently that police are allowed to search vehicles without a warrant. Meanwhile, the state General Assembly is advancing a bill to grant police authority to arrest those with “secret compartments” in their vehicles.

In a 4 to 2 decision weeks ago, the state Supreme Court decided that police could conduct searches of vehicles based solely on probable cause, or an officer’s reasonable belief that the vehicle contained illegal goods or evidence of a crime. The new standard puts the state in line with the federal law, which allows warrantless searches of vehicles.   Continue reading “Pennsylvania to allow police to search cars without a warrant”

RT News

North America is in for a natural light show overhead, as a meteor shower expected over the weekend could turn into a full-on sky storm, affecting countries’ entire skylines. Its intensity could even outdo the Perseid meteor shower.

Stargazers are expecting the spectacle to hit late Friday and last into Sunday morning, just as Earth passes through a stream of debris consisting of up to 1,000 pieces of a comet it shed in the 1800s falling all around, every hour, at speeds of 12 miles per second (19.3kps).   Continue reading “Never-before-seen meteor shower could light up entire North America over weekend”