From the Trenches World Report

Washington Post – by Adam Goldman

An American man who went missing in Iran more than six years ago had been working for the CIA in what U.S. intelligence officials describe as a rogue operation that led to a major shake-up in the spy agency.

Bob Levinson, an ex-FBI agent, traveled to the Iranian Island of Kish in March 2007 to investigate corruption at a time when he was discussing the renewal of a CIA contract he had held for several years. He also inquired about getting reimbursed for the Iran trip by the agency before he departed, according to former and current U.S. intelligence officials.   Continue reading “Ex-FBI agent who went missing in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA”

Army Times

he U.S. government lobotomized roughly 2,000 mentally ill veterans — and likely hundreds more — during and after World War II, according to a cache of forgotten memos, letters and government reports unearthed by The Wall Street Journal.

“They got the notion they were going to come to give me a lobotomy,” Roman Tritz, a World War II bomber pilot, told the newspaper in a report published Wednesday. “To hell with them.”   Continue reading “Report: VA Lobotomized 2,000 Disturbed Veterans”

AOL Weather

A storm will drop heavy snow and disrupt travel from parts of the Midwest to a large part of the Northeast by Sunday.

The snowstorm will reach span more than 1,000 miles and affect tens of millions of people.

Thanks to recent Arctic air making roads and sidewalks much colder compared to previous storms, enough snow to shovel and plow is in store from parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey to much of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.   Continue reading “Snowstorm to Affect More Than 1,000 Miles From St. Louis to Boston”

Information Clearinghouse – by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

Readers of this page are well aware of the revelations during the past six months of spying by the National Security Agency (NSA). Edward Snowden, a former employee of an NSA vendor, risked his life and liberty to inform us of a governmental conspiracy to violate our right to privacy, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

The conspiracy he revealed is vast. It involves former President George W. Bush, President Obama and their aides, a dozen or so members of Congress, federal judges, executives and technicians at American computer servers and telecoms, and the thousands of NSA employees and vendors who have manipulated their fellow conspirators. The conspirators all agreed that it would be a crime for any of them to reveal the conspiracy. Snowden violated that agreement in order to uphold his higher oath to defend the Constitution.   Continue reading “A Conspiracy So Vast It’s Not Just The NSA, Now The FBI, Your Local Police Are Also Spying On US Citizens”

Reuters – by Jack Kim

(Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday Jang Song Thaek, the uncle of leader Kim Jong Un and previously considered the second most powerful man in the secretive state, has been executed after a special military tribunal found him guilty of treason.

“The accused Jang brought together undesirable forces and formed a faction as the boss of a modern day factional group for a long time and thus committed such hideous crime as attempting to overthrow the state,” the North’s official KCNA news agency said.   Continue reading “North Korea says Jang Song Thaek, uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, executed”

The Weekly Standard – by DANIEL HALPER

Its Tactical – by Kevin Reeve

I’ve been asked several times since the Boston Marathon Bombing about how to manage risk in a large crowd environment. One answer is simple: Unless you are absolutely required to be in attendance, AVOID large crowded environments. Of course, when there are times when you have limited choice and must venture into that environment, then use good habits of situational awareness and adopt a “bias towards action.”   Continue reading “How To Be Safe in Crowds: Adopting a Bias Towards Action”

AmmoLand – by Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In 2008, Brian L. Frye published the seminal paper on the history of United States v. Miller, the single most important second amendment case before U.S. V. Heller.

While Miller no longer holds as much significance in second amendment cases as it used to, the way in which the government manipulated the case in order to deprive American citizens of their second amendment rights deserves detailed study.   Continue reading “UNITED STATES V. MILLER: How the Second Amendment Was Subverted”

Please tell me why we still allow this to take place. Our government just murdered 15 civilians in another country. If someone did that to us, it would be considered an act of war.

Reuters

(Reuters) – Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.   Continue reading “Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake: officials”

Video Rebel’s Blog

President John Kennedy, his brother Robert and Martin Luther King Jr. all said No to Israel and her wars but they did not live long. I would like to celebrate three men as heroes of the 21st century who resoundingly  said No to Israel and her wars and lived to tell about it. These men literally saved us from World War III.

The first of these men defeated the Israeli army in 2006 when Israel invaded Lebanon. Hassan Nasrallah became the leader of Hezbollah in 1991 after his predecessor was killed by an Israeli airstrike. He lost one son to an Israeli military operation in southern Lebanon in 1997. Nasrallah is noted for his fiery speeches and ability to organize political support. This latter fact helped him enormously in the 2006 Lebanon war against Israel. He had fewer than 3,000 regular fighters and some volunteers and 200 or so Iranian advisers. The President of Iran had a PhD in civil engineering and must have been of some support in the construction of those underground fortifications.   Continue reading “Three Men Who Said No To Israel And Lived”

Here Comes the Sun

If this photo does not speak volumes about the calamitous  effects related to reckless ‘nuclear testing’, then mere words are impotent in describing what really happens in the wake of such atomic explosions.

“When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Epimetheus, Prometheus’ brother. With her, Pandora was given a beautiful jar – with instructions not to open it under any circumstance. Impelled by her curiosity (given to her by the gods), Pandora opened it, and all evil contained therein escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the container, but the whole contents had escaped, except for one thing that lay at the bottom – the Spirit of Hope named Elpis.”
(Per Wikipedia – Pandora’s box)   Continue reading “How Nuclear Weaponry became the bane of human existence”

CenturyLink – by TRAVIS LOLLER

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fired chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander was expected Thursday in federal court after the aide’s arrest on probable cause for possession and distribution of child pornography, authorities said.

Ryan Loskarn was a rising star who had spent the past decade working his way up to increasingly important posts in the U.S. House and then the Senate.

According to a filing with the U.S. District Court in Washington Thursday, police used a ram to enter Loskarn’s home the day before, and noticed that Loskarn put something on the ledge outside his window. It turned out to a portable hard drive with videos depicting child pornography, according to the filing.   Continue reading “Fired US Sen. Alexander staffer expected in court”

Fig Trees and Vineyards – by Richard Edmondson

It’s kind of one of those pictures that are “worth a thousand words,” don’t you think? What you’re looking at is Obama onstage with media mogul and Israeli dual national Haim Saban, who has stated previously, “I’m a one issue guy, and my issue is Israel.” The photo was taken last weekend at the Saban Forum, held in Washington. During the event Saban and Obama appeared together for what was billed as a “conversation” on the Middle East, but basically it was a one-on-one press conference—with Saban doing the grilling and Obama doing the answering. Do the facial expressions in the photo, the body language, suggest anything to you—like for instance which of the two figures is dominant and which is submissive?   Continue reading “Who is the Boss and Who is the Servant in this Photo?”

Pat Dollard

Excerpted from KVOA: The News 4 Tucson Investigators have uncovered exclusive information about an illegal immigrant on the job, with a badge and gun, working as a law enforcement officer in southern Arizona.

The investigation in this case began when a man applied for a visa to stay here in the United States.   Continue reading “Illegal Alien Found Working As Cop”