From the Trenches World Report

Lew Rockwell – by Eric Margolis

“Most armed; most free.”  So the renowned Italian thinker and strategist Niccolo Machiavelli described the Swiss five centuries ago.

That was a time when the 30 ft pikes and deadly halbards (pole axes) of Switzerland’s fierce mercenary armies were the terror of Europe.   The “furia Helvetica” ruled the battlefields until 1515 at Marignano when French guns, firing at point-blank range, tore apart the massed Swiss pike phalanxes.   Continue reading “Most Armed; Most Free”

This is rich. FOX is whining about McCain hiring a liar when FOX employs dozens of liars, like Willim Kristol, fired from the NYT for lying and Judith Miller, fired from the NYT for passing on lies about Iraq. And ‘Colonel’ North, who was convicted of committing perjury before a joint Congressional committee.

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Sen. John McCain has hired a controversial Syria analyst who recently was fired by one D.C. organization and resigned from another after it emerged that she inflated her academic credentials.   Continue reading “McCain hires controversial Syria analyst who inflated credentials”

Raw Story – by Lisa O’Carroll, The Guardian

Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider.

It doesn’t take much to fire up Hersh, the investigative journalist who has been the nemesis of US presidents since the 1960s and who was once described by the Republican party as “the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist”.   Continue reading “Seymour Hersh on Death of Osama bin Laden: ‘It’s One Big Lie, Not One Word Of It Is True’”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The West was ready to attack Syria and Iran weeks ago. Now the world is reaching for the banner of peace in unprecedented fashion! This is absolutely something you need to be paying attention. Must read our comments on, “They Cry Peace: UN Security Council Unanimously Adopts Syria Resolution.”   Continue reading “Peace: Obama Speaks to Iran’s Rouhani, Believes Resolution of Nuclear Issues is Possible”

KETK

CNN) — Nine months after the Sandy Hook school shooting tragedy, President Barack Obama seems to be borrowing one of the ideas first presented by the NRA, putting millions of dollars into funding armed police officers in schools across the country.

Friday afternoon the Justice Department announced about $45 million in funding intended to create 356 new school resource officer positions under the federal COPS grants.   Continue reading “Obama admin borrows a page from the NRA, funding cops in schools”

AmmoLand – by Alan Korwin

PHOENIX, AZ –(Ammoland.com)- The lamestream media told you:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is doing everything they can to take guns off the street, lock up criminals and make the world safer for all of us.   Continue reading “Mayors Against Guns Bleeding Members”

Business Insider – by Sam Ro

Albert Edwards, the skeptical strategist at Societe Generale, has a lengthy note discussing America’s inequality problem.

In 10-pages, he cites the works of numerous economists including Joseph Stiglitz and points to the concerns of the wealthy and influential like Warren Buffett, Bill Gross, and Stanley Druckenmiller.   Continue reading “ALBERT EDWARDS: The Fed Is Inflating A Housing Bubble To Hide A Destabilizing Economic Problem”

Resister in the Rockies – by Ironwill III

Gabriel Gomez is a former candidate for U.S. Senator of Massachusetts. He is a former Navy SEAL (credentials here) but despite his Oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, he has some qualms about protecting the 2nd Amendment in it’s entirety, as can be read in his article he wrote for the Boston Globe.   Continue reading “Bracken’s Reply to Gun Grabbing Gabriel Gomez – Former SEAL”

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The Lone Star Watchdog

It is obviously clear. President Obama is a threat not only to the American people. He is destabilizing the United States every way he can. He did this paying for Treyvon protest trying to start race wars as one example. He is a threat to world peace. He has to be neutralized before he takes the world into an age of war and destruction. Now how can that be done? Congress can pass all the impeachment bills. The US Senate will not by two thirds vote him guilty removing him from office. Politically there is very little that can be done to interpose between Obama and him destroying the world.   Continue reading “The US Military Does have the Legal and Lawful Jurisdiction to Arrest Obama.”

CNN Money

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Federal investigators raided the offices of Lumber Liquidators on Thursday, the company and authorities said.

Stocks of the hardwood flooring retailer fell sharply on Friday as the news emerged, dropping just over 10% at midday.   Continue reading “Stock tumbles after raid of Lumber Liquidators”

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The world learned in early June about the National Security Agency’s stunning capability to spy on just about anyone it wants to. Now we’re finding out that power was just too tempting for some of its own employees — with the agency acknowledging that workers used NSA tools to spy on love interests.

In a letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, NSA Inspector General George Ellard admitted that since 2003, there have been “12 substantiated instances of intentional misuse” of “surveillance authorities,” and “SIGINT,” or signals intelligence.   Continue reading “Too tempting? NSA watchdog details how officials spied on love interests”

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When the USS Gerald R. Ford is finally christened, the massive aircraft carrier will be the biggest and baddest piece of Pentagon hardware ever built – and, critics note, the most expensive.

The 1,106-foot ship, under construction in Newport News, Va., has seen cost overruns push its expected price tag up some 22 percent to nearly $13 billion, with new technology dictating changes since work began in 2007. Expected to be christened on Nov. 9, the ship will be able to launch 220 air attacks per day, will hold more than 4,000 sailors and Marines, has a nuclear reactor to provide energy, and even comes with stealth features to reduce the ship’s radar profile.   Continue reading “The Pentagon’s biggest, baddest – and costliest – piece of hardware ever”