From the Trenches World Report

Still trying to appear legit, I guess.

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  After almost a month of pressure by Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG) and Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America (MDA) to get Facebook to “prohibit the private selling or trading of guns on its platforms,” Facebook announced “new educational and enforcement measures for commercial activities” that essentially restate what a company spokesperson said a week ago when they announced Facebook is not an online retailer and does not sell anything–including guns.   Continue reading “NRA Declares Victory over Facebook Response to Gun Control Groups”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

There have been reports that Navy veteran John Cinque has been receiving threats because of his stance on the issue of Connecticut’s gun registration law. Apparently those reports are due to a misreading of a piece by the New Haven Register in which Cinque said, “There have been threats made — that I found out about today.” Freedom Outpost reached out to John Cinque, who spoke with us this morning and confirmed that the threats he was speaking about were towards the Branford Police, not towards him.   Continue reading “Threats to CT Police Escalate Following CT Cop’s Gun Confiscation Comments – Cops Ask Pro-Gun Veteran to Help Cool Things Down”

The Bangswitch – by Mac, March 8, 2014

News broke yesterday [Friday] that the BATF had raided the business premises of EP Armory and the home of it’s owner, Chris Cook. News reports are sparse as the ATF is being fairly tight lipped about the nature of their investigation. Local news sources are reporting that the ATF is on the hunt for “illegal weapons”. As of this writing the ATF has now allowed the store front to reopen for business.

We recently reviewed an 80% lower receiver from EP Armory here on TheBangSwitch. EP Armory receivers are mostly complete and only require a small amount of machining to convert them into a fully functioning AR15 lower receiver. However, as 80% complete receivers they are not considered to be firearms in the eyes of the government. Once manufacturing is completed by the owner, they are not required to be serial numbered or to be registered on a 4473 form despite the fact they are now deemed to be firearms. Your EP Armory AR15 becomes one of those mystical “ghost guns” bantered about in the media as of late.   Continue reading “EP Armory Raided by the ATF”

Digital Trends – by Andrew Couts

Well, this is just special. As part of its efforts to install malware on “millions” of computers worldwide, the National Security Agency impersonated Facebook to trick targets into downloading malicious code.

“In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive,” reports The Intercept in its latest on top-secret documents obtained by Edward Snowden. “In others, it has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer’s microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.”   Continue reading “NSA pretended to be Facebook in its effort to infect ‘millions’ of computers”

The Burning Platform

“The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every Fourth Turning has registered an upward ratchet in the technology of destruction, and in mankind’s willingness to use it.”    Continue reading “Fourth Turning: The People vs. Big brother”

Daily Mail – by SOPHIE JANE EVANS

These photos show orphans suffering from the horrific effects of America’s use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War.

The children were born decades after U.S. forces sprayed the herbicide dioxin, Agent Orange, over large areas of jungle in the 1960s.

But they are still battling the effects of the chemical today – including physical deformities and mental disorders.    Continue reading “The orphans of Agent Orange: Fifty years on, children suffer from the horrific effects of America’s use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War”

Republic for the united States of America

The United States exists in two forms: The original united States that was in operation until 1860; a collection of sovereign Republics in the union. Under the original Constitution the States controlled the Federal Government; the Federal Government did not control the States and had limited authority.

The original united States of America has been usurped by a separate and different United States Corporation formed in 1871, which only controls the District of Columbia and it’s territories, and which is actually a corporation (the United States Corporation) that acts as our current government. The United States Corporation operates under Corporate/Commercial Law rather than Common/Private Law.  In the original Constitution and Declaration of Independence, it refers to “these united States”.  The word “united” was an adjective describing the noun States.  That is why the lower case on united.  When the United States Corporation was formed in 1871, the united was changed to United because the United States as a corporation was now a noun.   Continue reading “u or U? What’s the difference…LIBERTY!”

Lew Rockwell – by Laurence M. Vance

David E. Settje, Faith and War: How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars (NYU Press, 2011), xi + 233 pgs., hardcover, $36.

This informative book reminds us that the divide that has existed between Christians over the issues of war and militarism since World War II has usually been a theological one. I mean this in the sense that Christians with a more liberal theological outlook have generally disdained war and militarism even as their conservative Christian counterparts have generally supported these things. As a conservative Christian, I shake my head in amazement that so many of my brethren have been hoodwinked by the state to support its wars, its military, and its foreign policy, whether in the name of fighting communism or terrorism.   Continue reading “Christians and the Communist Boogeyman”

Port Clinton News Herald – by Kristina Smith

FREMONT — Three people are dead and an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper who was pinned between vehicles is in stable condition after a more than 50-vehicle pileup Wednesday on the Ohio Turnpike.

Those killed in the first crash zone – that involved approximately 16 vehicles – have been identified as Hannah Matheny, 20, of Parma, who was a passenger in a Ford Focus and Grzegorz A. Piwowarczyk, 42, of Palatine, Ill.,who was driving a commercial vehicle.   Continue reading “3 dead, trooper stable in turnpike pileup; 1 lane reopens”

Mises Daily – by Bryan Cheang

Herbert Spencer was born into a nineteenth-century world where the traditional logic of imperialism interacted with new developments like the Industrial Revolution, and new ideas like free trade and liberalism that emerged out of the Enlightenment of the previous century. The key to understanding Spencer’s importance is to realize that he was a radical proponent of laissez faire, individualism, natural rights, and capitalism. His call for the limitation of state power was so extensive that it included an individual’s right to “ignore the state,” that is, to “drop connection with the state — to relinquish protection and refuse paying toward its support.” These views were strongly articulated in his book Social Statics, considered by Murray Rothbard to be “the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written.”[1]   Continue reading “Herbert Spencer, Freedom, and Empire”

Bloomberg – by Greg Quinn

U.S. popular support for TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline is slipping, according to a Nanos Research Group poll.

The percentage of Americans who support or somewhat support the project fell to 62 percent in telephone polling through March 3, compared with 74 percent in April 2013, the Nanos data show. Those opposed to the project climbed to 18 percent of respondents, up from 14 percent, and people who were unsure doubled to 10 percent.   Continue reading “U.S. Keystone Pipeline Support Falls to 62% in Nanos Poll”

BBC News

NJ.com – by Seth Augenstein/The Star-Ledger

 

NEWARK — A gasoline tanker exploded on McCarter Highway early this morning and burned through thousands of gallons of gasoline, shutting the highway and interrupting statewide train service through Newark Penn Station, authorities said.

 

The tanker and a passenger car collided on the highway in the area of Murray Street around 1:30 a.m., said Sgt. Ronald Glover, a police spokesman.   Continue reading “Newark tanker truck explosion leads to traffic, train delays”

Industry Week – by Steve Minter

Government approval of pending applications for liquefied natural gas export terminals would help diversify energy sources for U.S. allies and provide hundreds of thousands of jobs in America, according to an American Petroleum Institute official.

“For the first time in generations, the United States is an energy superpower,” Erik Milito, API’s director of upstream and industry operations, told a press conference call. “And the world – especially Europe and countries like Russia, China, and India – is watching closely to see if American policymakers are ready to harness that power on the international stage.”   Continue reading “API: Energy ‘Superpower’ US Needs to Move Now on LNG Exports”

World Events and the Bible

(Source: The Hill) – The Obama administration on Tuesday said U.S. military drills in Eastern Europe “speak in a clear voice” to Russia, but that the White House still hopes for a diplomatic solution.

A U.S. Navy destroyer plans to take part in military exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea, just across the water from the Crimean Peninsula. In Poland, U.S. fighter jets plan to participate in joint exercises.   Continue reading “White House: Russia Should Note US Military Exercises”

Wall Street Journal – by ANDY PASZTOR

U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines 3786.KU -4.08% Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location, according to two people familiar with the details, raising the possibility that the plane could have flown on for hundreds of additional miles under conditions that remain murky.

Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours, based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. BA +0.31% 777’s engines as part of a routine maintenance and monitoring program.   Continue reading “U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours”

CNN

Austin, Texas (CNN) — An intoxicated driver fleeing police plowed his car into a crowd at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, killing two people, authorities said early Thursday.

The man and woman killed were riding their light motorcycles, said Art Acevedo, chief of the Austin Police Department.

At least 23 others were hospitalized, some with multiple internal injuries.   Continue reading “2 killed when intoxicated driver plows car into crowd at SXSW, police say”