From the Trenches World Report

Bloomberg – by Calev Ben-David

Israel launched air strikes against Syrian military positions overnight in response to a border bomb attack on its troops, as officials in Jerusalem warned that fallout from Syria’s civil war is escalating tensions along the frontier.

Israeli jets struck a Syrian army training facility, a military headquarters building and artillery batteries, the army said in a e-mailed statement. The strikes were a response to the wounding of four Israeli soldiers by the explosion of a device on the Golan Heights frontier with Syria yesterday, the third such incident along Israel’s northern border this month.   Continue reading “Israel Hits Syria Targets as Officials Warn of Escalation”

NEO – by Tony Cartalucci

The United States has officially told the Syrian government to immediately suspend its diplomatic and consular missions in the country, and ordered its diplomats to leave the country if they are not US citizens.

“We have determined it is unacceptable for individuals appointed by that regime to conduct diplomatic or consular operations in the United States,”US special envoy for Syria, Daniel Rubinstein, said in a statement issued on Tuesday.   Continue reading “US Expels Syrian Diplomats – Dangerous Desperation in the Air”

Huffington Post – by David Wood

How do we begin to accept that Nick Rudolph, a thoughtful, sandy-haired Californian, was sent to war as a 22-year-old Marine and in a desperate gun battle outside Marjah, Afghanistan, found himself killing an Afghan boy? That when Nick came home, strangers thanked him for his service and politicians lauded him as a hero?

Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush.  Continue reading “Moral Injury: The Grunts – Damned If They Kill, Damned If They Don’t”

All Gov – by Noel Brinkerhoff

If President Barack Obama can convince Congress (particularly Republicans) to support his proposed increase in the minimum wage, the effects will be substantial.

It is estimated that nearly 25 million Americans earn less than $10.10 an hour at their jobs. Obama is urging Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to that rate, from its current $7.25, by 2016.   Continue reading “25 Million Americans Earn Less than Obama’s Proposed Increased Minimum Wage”

Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff

New research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has shattered the prevailing myth that chemotherapy drugs actually fight cancer. To the contrary, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, (UMA) found that these clinical poisons, though sometimes initially effective at stemming the growth and spread of existing tumor cells, eventually induce major stem cell damage that causes even more cancer.    Continue reading “Chemotherapy myth shattered: toxic drugs cause more cancer than they prevent”

Cop Block

In T or C, New Mexico, I was about thirteen or fourteen when I witnessed my mom get jumped on by four or five officers. It was my birthday. It was late, possibly eleven or twelve at night and we were celebrating with some cake, music, and good old family bonding. Someone had called the police on a house that was close to ours and the police mistook our house for theirs. My memory is a bit fuzzy as to the details, but I remember them arresting my step Dad at the time (if he was there, you better believe those cops wouldn’t have done what they did). After that, I called my grandma and aunt who lived close by and told them what was going on.   Continue reading “Pregnant Mother Beaten and Dragged Out of Her Home by Five Police Officers”

RINF

The NSA is recording all of the phone calls in an unnamed foreign country, and the agency planned to expand the program to other countries, according to a story today by The Washington Post. The conversations, which are available for playback for at least a month, include those of Americans who are in the country or were on calls to or from the country.

Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union deputy legal director, had this reaction:    Continue reading “Chilling Revelation: NSA Illegally Recording All Phone Calls”

Militia News – by Frosty Wooldridge

This quote provides the most ominous statement for America and other Western countries in the 21st century as they continue mass immigration from cultures and religions all over the Third World.

“Immigrants devoted to their own cultures and religions are not influenced by the secular politically correct façade that dominates academia, news-media, entertainment, education, religious and political thinking today,” said James Walsh, former Associate General Counsel of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. “They claim the right not to assimilate, and the day is coming when the question will be how can the United States regulate the defiantly unassimilated cultures, religions and mores of foreign lands? Such immigrants say their traditions trump the U.S. legal system. Balkanization of the United States has begun.”   Continue reading “Muslims Demanding Their Own Sharia Patrols In Michigan”

Town Hall – by John Hawkins, November 23, 2013

1) He’s sending weapons to Libya to help repair America’s strained relationship with Al-Qaeda.

2) Parents all across the country can now point to Barack Obama’s performance when they’re explaining to their children why they shouldn’t use drugs.   Continue reading “15 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is the Greatest President In American History!”

Easy Bake Gun Club

Yesterday was the ATF raiding Ares Arms in California.

What never got reported was Tuesday’s massive highway roadblock and car to car searches by armed law enforcement officers in Maryland. Were there warrants for these searches? No. Was there reasonable cause to stop every commuter at 10a.m. on a Tuesday morning? No.   Continue reading “Massive Roadblock, Warrantless Searches in Maryland”

Continue reading “MH 370?”

Examiner – by Kurt Hofmann

Last Monday, we looked at the previous Friday’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives raid on EP Armory, in Bakersfield, California. EP Armory is best known for the “80%” AR-15 lower receivers it sells, especially (and most directly related to the current situation) their Kevlar-reinforced polymer models, that by virtue of using differently colored material to distinguish what needs to be removed by drilling and/or milling from that which is to be left behind, makes the operation pretty straightforward, even without using jigs to guide the process.   Continue reading “ATF requiring license for renting out tooling, offering instruction?”