From the Trenches World Report

Daily Mail – by Matt Chorley

Nigel Farage today declared that his ‘dream has become a reality’ after UKIP stormed to victory in the European elections.

With 10 regions declared, UKIP has won more than 27 per cent of the vote, securing 23 MEPs, leaving Labour and the Tories to battle it out for second for the first time in 100 years.

Mr Farage said he was ‘over the moon’ and predicted that Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg could be forced to quit after losing 11 of his 12 MEPs, despite pitching the Lib Dems as a the ‘party of in’.    Continue reading “‘The people’s army are on the march’: ‘Over the moon’ Nigel Farage hails biggest ‘political earthquake’ in a century as UKIP humiliate every other party and plunge Lib Dems into leadership crisis”

Jon Rappoport

These are preliminary notes.

For now, they’re based on media accounts of the killing spree on May 23, in Isla Vista, California—and of course, these media accounts of mass murders should never be accepted, on their face, as ironclad facts.

Rodger is reported to be the son of Peter Rodger, a unit director of the film, Hunger Games. According to press accounts, the father specifically directed a short film within that film—a propaganda piece extoling the “new society” in which ritual sacrifice of children in the Games is a way of never forgetting the treason of rebellion/war in the “old society,” the rebellion which must never happen again.   Continue reading “Elliot Rodger, Santa Barbara killer: parallels and numbers”

The Telegraph – by Nick Squires

Continue reading “Israel will ‘speak to the Vatican’ about Pope’s unscheduled stop near an Israeli-built barricade”

AOL – by Caroline Moss

What can’t money buy?

A service called Rent-A-Gent lets women choose a male companion from a list of “smart and handsome men.”

For $200 bucks an hour, men can serve as handymen, dates, or personal chefs. Continue reading “Women Are Using ‘Rent-A-Gent’ To Hire Men To Do Chores And Go On Dates”

Redlands Daily Facts – by Brenda Gazzar

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s and federal ATF officials served a search warrant and searched the premises of the West Hills home of the mother of the young man who went on a shooting rampage that left six people dead and 13 injured Friday night in Isla Vista, a college town near Santa Barbara.

Officials brought out one blue box after searching the home of Lichin Rodger, who goes by the name Chin Rodger, for more than an hour but declined to comment on its contents.   Continue reading “Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Department, ATF search homes of suspect Elliot Rodger’s parents”

The Hill – by Keith Laing

The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will let more veterans obtain health care at private hospitals, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced Saturday.

Shinseki, who faces calls to resign amid reports of lengthy waiting lists and preventable deaths in the VA’s healthcare system, said the agency is “increasing the care we acquire in the community through non-VA care,” according to the Associated Press.    Continue reading “VA turns to private hospitals for help”

CBS News – by REBECCA KAPLAN

New York Daily News – by Doyle Murphy

The deranged 22-year-old behind a Santa Barbara killing spree fantasized about a global takeover, a friend says.

After watching the movie “Chronicle” with a group of friends, Elliot Rodger announced he wanted to “dominate the world,” friend Andi Chan told ABC News.

“We all thought he was insane, but we were used to it,” Chan said in the interview. “Maybe in his mind he really wanted to do that.”   Continue reading “Friend: Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger wanted to ‘dominate the world’”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Yesterday we showed how Russia and China hold “massive” naval drills in the northern part of the East China Sea (close enough to Japan for us to footnote “ahem Japan and Taiwan”), which in addition to a clear signal to the US (on part of Russia), was sending just as clear a message to Japan (on the part of China). Sure enough, overnight Japan was not too happy with this massive show of force by the two biggest and closest foes near its disputed territory. As a result it dispatched an OP-3C surveillance plane and a YS-11EB electronic intelligence aircraft. China promptly retaliated and as Reuters reports, it scrambled a Su-27, fully-armed with missiles, which came as close as 50 meters of the Japanese fighters – the closest Chinese warplanes had come to aircraft of Japan’s Self-Defense Force according to Japan – in what can only be described as “please take the first punch.”   Continue reading “China Scrambles Fighter Jet, Flies Within 50 Meters Of Japanese Airplanes”

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Keithley

Nanotechnology is an important new area of research that promises significant advances in electronics, materials, biotechnology, alternative energy sources, and dozens of other applications. The graphic below illustrates, at a personal level, the potential impact on each of us. And where electrical measurement is required, Keithley instrumentation is being used in an expanding list of nanotechnology research and development settings.   Continue reading “How Nanotechnology Could Reengineer Us”

Mediaite – by Andrew Kirell

Those following the developments in Friday evening’s UCSB shootings are aware of the suspected perpetrator Elliot Rodger‘s frightening YouTube manifesto, describing his bitterness towards women and the men who are able to find a mate.

As it turns out, he had also written a 141-page manifesto that lays out his grievances in painstaking detail, describing stories from his childhood onward that seemed to have laid the foundation for his anger towards women, “alpha males,” and society in general.   Continue reading “Elliot Rodger’s Written Manifesto Is 141 Pages Long and Absolutely Terrifying”