From the Trenches World Report

Middle East Monitor

A “diplomatic embarrassment” has arisen following the refusal of Pope Francis I to meet with Israel’s prime minister at short notice. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had already announced that a meeting would take place during his visit to Italy, reported Haaretz, but the pope has no plans in this regard.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met the Pope during his recent visit to Rome where he received a pen as a gift, with the wish that he will use it to sign a peace agreement with Israel.   Continue reading “Pope Francis will not meet with Netanyahu”

Common Dreams – by Jacob Chamberlain

Police departments around the U.S. must now obtain a warrant based on probable cause before they can secretly attach a GPS device to your car, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The case, U.S. v. Katzin, which was brought by the ACLU is being hailed as a victory in the fight against government surveillance.   Continue reading “US Court Rules Against ‘Highly Intrusive’ GPS Tracking by Police”

AmmoLand – by Wayne LaPierre

FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- With the stroke of his royal pen, President Barack Obama declared that federal law in the form of a 17-year congressional funding ban on gun-control “research” at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was trumped by his personal decree through an executive order restoring the CDC’s junk-science agenda.

Were I to choose a single word to define this action, it would be “outlaw.” The law forbidding expenditures by CDC to promote gun control still stands. It cannot be erased by an executive order. But this is President Obama, his rule and his rules.   Continue reading “Junk Science Drives Obama Administration’s Gun Policies”

AmmoLand – by Alan Korwin

Houston, TX – -(Ammoland.com)- Gun-rights advocates would never use the day of a tragedy as a cause for annual celebration but that’s precisely what anti-rights forces in this country are thinking of doing to do at year’s end, we learned at the Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) which wrapped up in Houston late last month.

Using money from billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is rapidly becoming one of the greatest threats the Bill of Rights faces in America, states nationwide, along with the Obama administration, will hold events staged to use the death of innocent victims in Newtown, Conn., to call for infringements on the Second Amendment.   Continue reading “National Gun-Rights Attack To Be Met Head On By Activists”

Examiner – by Dave Workman

There was considerable ballyhoo in yesterday’s Roll Call story about how much the National Rifle Association has spent in the Virginia governor’s race, but the bigger bucks are being spent by billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s super-PAC, according to Politico.

The soon-to-be ex-mayor will reportedly dump $1.1 million into the race to help perennial anti-gunner Terry McAuliffe – a Bill and Hillary Clinton loyalist – to defeat Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who has complained about the “out-of-state” money being spent in this campaign. That’s something Washington gun owners better take note of, because when Bloomberg leaves office at the end of the year, he’s going to be free to do other things, and he has already made it clear that influencing political campaigns to further his gun control agenda is his top priority.   Continue reading “Bloomberg a bigger spender than the NRA”

Dr. Mercola

Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods sold in other nations. In fact, many of the foods you eat are BANNED in other countries.

Here, I’ll review 10 American foods that are banned elsewhere, which were featured in a recent MSN article.1   Continue reading “10 American Foods that are Banned in Other Countries”

You have been robbing us blind for years. You have not done our business in many years. Now you say you are going to shut down congress and fly to Florida for a funeral? What gives you the right to stop working for a day and fly to Florida on MY TAX DOLLARS and attend a funeral?

Where in the Constitution does it allow you to do this? It doesn’t. Yet you have the gall to email me and ask for campaign money to keep you in DC to steal more of my money.   Continue reading “To the Thieves in DC”

Huffington Post – by Robert Burns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air Force officials tell The Associated Press that twice this year, officers entrusted with the launch keys to nuclear-tipped missiles have been caught leaving open a blast door. That door is intended to help prevent a terrorist or other intruder from entering the officers’ underground command post and potentially compromising secret launch codes.   Continue reading “Officers In Charge Of Nuclear Missiles Left Blast Door Open: Air Force Officials”

Global Research – by Richard K. Moore, September 11, 2013

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful.”– Henry Kissinger   Continue reading “Obama’s Backdown and the New World Order Project”

Free-Man’s Perspective – by Paul Rosenberg

One of the cool things about the Bible is that it contains some very interesting passages that no one seems to read.

Understand, please, that I’m neither promoting a literal interpretation of the Bible nor giving you a sermon. I’m just pointing out a fascinating fact that most everyone seems to have missed, religious folks included.   Continue reading “The Road to Hell Is Paved…With Fear”

Naked Capitalism

Readers have often been using the term “neofeudalism” to describe the outlines of the new economic order, in which the uber wealthy and a thin cadre of their advisors, managers, and other elite professionals do well, with a network of less lofty managers helping oversee and orchestrate the provision of services to the broad base of the public, and they struggle to eke out a meager existence.

Debt appears to be the “one ring that rules them all” of this emerging order. And if that is the case, it’s likely to be much more like the old sharecropper system of the post Civil War era, where poor whites and blacks were kept on a debt treadmill that turned them into slaves in all but name. As Matt Stoller wrote in 2010:   Continue reading “The Rise of an American Debtcropper System for the Young”