From the Trenches World Report

World Events and the Bible

(Times of Israel) – A Syrian air defense base near the coastal city of Latakia was reportedly destroyed Wednesday night, with multiple Syrian and Lebanese sources speculating that an Israeli strike from the Mediterranean was to blame.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported a loud explosion in a Syrian army base, and Twitter users quoted eyewitnesses who said the blast occurred near Snobar Jableh, just south of the city.   Continue reading “Huge explosion reported at Syrian air defense base”

Counter Currents – by Dr Gideon Polya

The horrendous financial cost of Israel to Americans has now reached a gigantic $40 trillion in today’s dollars. However the human cost involves the preventable deaths of millions of Americans – passive mass murder of Americans  in an American Holocaust inflicted by the fiscal perversion of traitorous Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist One Percenters committing $8-10 trillion to ethnic cleansing and active and passive mass murder of Muslims abroad in support of Apartheid Israel instead of keeping Americans  alive at home.    Zionist-subverted American Government support for Apartheid Israel in circa 2008 dollars totals about $40 trillion, the breakdown being  (1) $3 trillion (1948-2003), (2) $4-6 trillion (Zionist-promoted Iraq and Afghan Wars), (3) $0.7 trillion (Value of a Statistical Life- or VSL-based cost of  88,000 US veteran suicides since September 2001) and (4) about $30 trillion (one quarter of the VSL-based cost of 15.6 million preventable American deaths since September 2001). This is an under-estimate because it does not consider the millions of preventable American deaths before 9-11 linked to Zionist subversion and perversion of America .   Continue reading “American Holocaust, Millions Of Untimely American Deaths And $40 Trillion Cost Of Israel To Americans”

Mises Daily – by Robert Higgs

For thousands of years, philosophers have argued that society must invest great power in the rulers because only great power can hold back the forces of evil — violence, plunder, and disorder. They have often conceded, however, that this solution has a down side: powerful rulers may themselves resort to violence and plunder.

In any event, society’s positive, productive forces always resided within the people themselves. All the genuine peace, cooperation, production, and order the society enjoyed sprang from them. So the state was never a solution to a problem the people could not solve for themselves, but itself a problem masquerading as the only solution to problems whose real solutions already lay close at hand, if they existed at all.   Continue reading “The Power of the State vs. the Power of Love”

All Outdoor – by David Hunter Jones

Crossbows are currently enduring what compound bows battled years ago; claims that their use will decimate deer herds and ruin the “sport” of archery. The same goes for 60 percent let-offs. The old stick-and-string was simply becoming unrecognizable to the elitists and purists of archery, and they didn’t like it.

They dug in their heels and whined and moaned about the impending deer population apocalypse that compound bows would bring. Well, 60 percent let-offs are here, compound bows are the norm and guess what: deer hunting has never been better. Period.   Continue reading “Don’t Hate the Crossbow”

The Tap – by Tapestry

Teva Nears Collapse

On October 30, 2013, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries,⁺ Israel’s largest company and the world’s largest generic drugs⁺⁺ company, announced that President and CEO Jeremy Levin is leaving it. Beyond ongoing operative difficulties, Teva is soon to lose its patent on Copaxone. The ship’s captain abandoned Israel’s industrial flagship with a huge hole in the revenues compartment, before an almost unavoidable sinking in the salty waters of the Dead Sea.   Continue reading “Israel’s biggest single company nears collapse”

Washington Square News – by Velma Dinkley

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference yesterday that has shocked the city.

“To promote transparency within this city, I need to be completely honest about who I am and who I am becoming,” Bloomberg said at the conference. “I am a vampire.”

Bloomberg said he could not keep his secret any longer, but focused on the positives and the changes that will come. He announced the creation of the Transformation to Vampirization campaign, which will begin immediately.   Continue reading “Bloomberg enters bid for eternal mayor of New York City”

Wired – by Damon Lavrinc

And so it begins… California-based Glass Explorer Cecilia Adabie is the first person to get a ticket while wearing Google’s head-mounted computer. And she won’t be the last.

Abadie was driving in San Diego when an officer pulled her over for speeding. The primary infraction was for going 15 mph over the speed limit, but there was a secondary offense scrawled on the ticket: “driving w/ monitor visible to driver (Google Glass).”   Continue reading “In a First, Police Ticket a Driver Wearing Google Glass”

Canada Free Press – by Alan Caruba

If you live in California, I have a bit of advice. Get out now while you can afford the gas to load up the van and head north or east. You won’t be alone.

According to “Crazifornia: How California is Destroying Itself and Why It Matters to America”, about 150,000 Californians have been fleeing the state each year of late. “In fact,” wrote Laer Pearce, “Los Angeles alone has lost more households than New York, Miami, and, incredibly, the economically decimated city of Detroit…combined.”   Continue reading “My Advice to Californians; Get Out Now”

NBC News – by Chase Cain and Lisa Fernandez

Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri paid no attention to gun laws until last Dec. 14 — the day 26 people died in the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting.

“We need to do something,” said Spitaleri, 69, a retired Palo Alto fire captain who was born in the South Bronx. “And I got angry, and I said, that’s enough. When do we stop?”   Continue reading “NRA Threatens to Sue Silicon Valley Suburb Over Bloomberg-Backed Gun Control Measure”

Mail Online – by Michael Zennie and Ryan Gorman

Authorities are trying to figure out how a small plane managed to crash at a major international airport and go undetected for as long as six hours.

A single-engine Cessna 172 crashed early Tuesday morning at Nashville International Airport and burst into flames, killing the pilot. It went unnoticed until being seen just before 9am by the pilot of a large commercial jet taxiing by the wreckage.   Continue reading “Small plane crashes and bursts into flames at major international airport, killing pilot, and goes unnoticed for SIX HOURS”

The Sovereign Investor

Now, I’m scared …

And if you, too, care about preserving your personal wealth, then a new report released this month by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should leave you paralyzed with fear and desperate to find measures to counteract the attack that will soon take aim at your pocketbook.

In the 100-plus-page report dryly titled Fiscal Monitor: Taxing Times, the IMF has essentially given lawmakers from deeply indebted countries a paint-by-numbers kit on how to extract larger tax revenues from anyone with any level of wealth. Though the IMF’s language is couched in faux-objectivity, the underlying message is shockingly clear: Many developed nations, especially the United States, have abundant opportunities “to raise revenue from the top of the income distribution,” using a variety of methods including the direct confiscation of personal wealth.   Continue reading “A Confiscation Tax is Headed Your Way …”