From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Six months after the Sandinista government granted a Chinese businessman a 100-year concession to build a vast canal across Nicaragua, most of the nation is in the thrall of the imagined waterway.

In the capital, Nicaraguans snap photographs of the plaster Virgin Mary perched on an altar against the backdrop of a supertanker traversing the country’s biggest lake. “Virgin Mary, bless the great trans-ocean canal!” declares the government-sponsored invocation behind her.   Continue reading “Nicaragua in thrall of Ortega’s canal dream”

RT News

Gunmen have shot dead 18 people and injured another five working on a gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq, northeast of Baghdad. The majority of those killed were said to be Iranians.

Masked gunmen launched an attack near Baladruz, a small village in the Diyala province of Iraq. It has been reported that the group of attackers were driving three vehicles.   Continue reading “Gunmen kill 18 gas pipeline workers, mainly Iranians – Iraqi police”

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

Belgium, soulless Home of the European Union,  has taken its next step to becoming the first country in the world to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children—extending to toddlers a 2002 law legalizing euthanasia for adults in a 50-17 vote.

Life has no value for 50 Belgian Senate members spurred on by a 13-4 vote from a Senate Committee long pushing for euthanasia for children.   Continue reading “Belgium Senate’s Gift of Death Comes Wrapped in Children’s’ Euthanasia”

David Hague

Dear reader put away your charts and graphs. Forget about fundamental and technical analysis. Ignore financial statements and trends.  The extraordinary agreement to share information between the National Security Agency [NSA], a host of European, Russian, Canadian and Chinese spy agencies and the world’s Central Banks will ensure that the only relevant force in Global Stock markets will be the trading activity of the world’s Central Banks. Thanks to the data gathering of the NSA and its subsidiary spy agencies around the world, the Central Banks will be privy to the most confidential conversations and communications from the boardroom, the bedroom and the trading floor. Central Banks will now be able to trade with inside information that could only be dreamed about in years gone by.   Continue reading “NSA inks landmark deal to share information with Central Banks”

Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

A Chinese naval vessel tried to force a U.S. guided missile warship to stop in international waters recently, causing a tense military standoff in the latest case of Chinese maritime harassment, according to defense officials.

The guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens, which recently took part in disaster relief operations in the Philippines, was confronted by Chinese warships in the South China Sea near Beijing’s new aircraft carrier Liaoning, according to officials familiar with the incident.   Continue reading “Chinese Naval Vessel Tries to Force U.S. Warship to Stop in International Waters”

Real Currencies

So I’ll get down upon my knees and bless the Working Man, 
Who offers me a life of ease through all my mortal span; 
Whose loins are lean to make me fat, who slaves to keep me free, 
Who dies before his prime to get me round the century. 
Whose wife and children toil in turn until their strength is spent, 
That I may live in idleness upon my ten percent. 
And if at times they curse me, why should I feel any blame,
For in my place, I know that they would do the very same. 
(John Turmel, Thoughts of a Rich Man on Usury)   Continue reading “Rationalizing Usury: the Time Value Hoax”

The Truth Seeker 

For over a century, the Jewish World Almanac has been widely regarded as the most authentic source for the world’s Jewish population numbers. Academics all over the world, including the editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica, used to rely on the accuracy of those numbers. Here is what the World Alamanacs of 1933 and 1948 had to say about the world population of Jews.   Continue reading “Before and after the “Holocaust”: Jewish population numbers in 1933 and 1948”

Huffington Post – by Jessica Elgot

The snow that has blanketed much of the Middle East turned Cairo white on Friday – with local news reports claiming it was Egypt’s capital’s first snowfall in 112 years.

The city averages less than an inch of rain each year, and hundreds stopped their walk to work or school to snap pictures of the falling flakes, tweeting their delights.   Continue reading “Snow In Egypt For The First Time In 100 Years, Reports Say”

Washington’s Blog

GE Engineers and American Government Officials Warned of Dangerous Nuclear Design

5 of the 6 nuclear reactors at Fukushima are General Electric Mark 1 reactors.

GE knew decades ago that the design was faulty.   Continue reading “General Electric Knew Its Reactor Design Was Unsafe … So Why Isn’t GE Getting Any Heat for Fukushima?”

NBC Politics

Fact-checking organization Politifact has named their “Lie of the Year,” and it’s bad news for the White House and the Affordable Care Act.

President Barack Obama’s often-repeated assertion that “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it,” won the ignominious honor for 2013, the group announced.

In a blog post, Politifact– which is affiliated with the Tampa Bay Times – said Obama’s promise was “impossible to keep” and has resulted in a “real hit to his credibility.”   Continue reading “Obama health care promise named ‘Lie of the Year’”

Space Wars

U.S. lawmakers have approved boosting funding for Israel’s missile defense program by $173 million in fiscal 2014 as the Jewish state’s military establishment draws up a new defense doctrine to protect cities from Hezbollah’s growing missile arsenal.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli military intelligence now believes that the Iranian-backed Lebanese movement now possesses around 5,000 long-range missiles that can reach Tel Aviv, the country’s largest conurbation, and carry warheads packing between 1,300 pounds and one ton of explosives.   Continue reading “U.S. to boost Israel defense missile funding by $173M”

Fox News – by Todd Starnes

A cross atop Mount Soledad in California is an unconstitutional religious display on government land and must come down, a federal judge in San Diego ruled late Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ordered the cross, which honors veterans, must be removed within 90 days — a decision that could result in the case being sent back to the U.S. Supreme Court. Burns immediately stayed his order pending an expected appeal.  Continue reading “Federal Judge: Mt. Soledad Cross Must Come Down”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

“I don’t know a better way to do it,” said General Keith Alexander, director of the National Intelligence Agency, to a Senate oversight panel on Wednesday.

NSA director General Keith Alexander. He and his colleagues are fighting a push to end bulk collection of Americans’ phone data. (Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)Referring to the bulk-collection of personal data that the NSA sweeps up in a series of domestic and global surveillance programs that have been disclosed to the public through a trove a leaked internal documents this year, Alexander defended the practices of his agency as necessary to save lives.   Continue reading “Paraphrasing the NSA: ‘Let Us Spy on You, Or Terrorists Win’”

Freedom Outpost – by Fred DeRuvo

We know that Washington DC is the heart of America’s government. I tend to think of it as the belly of the beast and I happen to be here today and tomorrow.

DC is an enigma to many because on the surface, there are so many things that appear to support truth and specifically, the Constitution. Yet, underneath, it’s clear to those who can see that this is the furthest thing from reality.   Continue reading “Secular Humanism is Changing the Constitution into Something it was Never Intended to Be”