From the Trenches World Report

Washington Free Beacon – by Bill Gertz

U.S. intelligence agencies earlier this month uncovered new evidence that al Qaeda-linked terrorists in Benghazi are training foreign jihadists to fight with Syria’s Islamist rebels, according to U.S. officials.

Ansar al-Sharia, the al Qaeda-affiliated militia that U.S. officials say orchestrated the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound and a CIA facility in Benghazi, is running several training camps for jihadists in Benghazi and nearby Darnah, another port city further east, said officials who discussed some details of the camps on condition of anonymity.   Continue reading “U.S.: Al Qaeda-linked Group Behind Benghazi Attack Trains Jihadists for Syrian Rebel Groups”

IntelliHub – by JG Vibes

The following notice has been posted all over the internet, please help to pass the word along.

Here’s the plan of action to Oppose the illegal and unconstitutional war with Syria:

We are launching a global rally on Saturday August 31st in every city and town in the world.   Continue reading ““No War With Syria” Rallies Happening This Saturday August 31 Worldwide”

I don’t believe a lot of what I read on Before It’s News, et. al., until I see the facts for myself. I always do my own research. There are a lot of folks out there making things up just to get their names out on the net.

The rumor that has been going around about no one in the Army getting to take leave during the month of September and October is one of the things I had to see for myself. If that were true, that is a very big deal. It doesn’t happen very often.   Continue reading “Spot Report From the Trenches: No Leave for Army – September and October”

Eyes Open Report – by Paul Lawrance

On Wednesday, a week after initial consideration, Japan’s nuclear regulator made the decision to move the situation unfolding at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from a level one “Anomaly” on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES), to a level three “Serious Incident”.

Last Monday Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that 300 tons of radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground. The situation at the time was given a level one on the INES.  Continue reading “Fukushima Leak Finally Given “Serious Incident” Status”

Trend – by D. Khatinoglu

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi denied news on Syrian president Bashar Al Assad and his family coming to Tehran via plane, Mehr news agency reported.

“This information, published by Israeli media outlets is baseless and laughable,” Araqchi told Mehr.   Continue reading “Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejects reports on Syrian president arriving in Tehran”

Before It’s News

It is common knowledge that the entire western world is as near as dammit to total bankruptcy, with only two other political entities still operating with their own central banks (and in the black) the US State of North Dakota and South Africa.

It’s also common knowledge that “only a war” can get us out of the current global debt trap…   Continue reading “It’s Amazing How One Common Denominator in the Middle East Wars is Ignored – the Only nations left there with their Own Central Banks are Syria and Iran.”

MassPrivatel

International growth trends in prison privatization study: 

As the growth of the U.S. prison population has stalled, American private prison companies have expanded their reach across the globe, operating prisons and detention centers in at least 11 countries, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project, a non-profit advocacy group.    Continue reading “America’s private prison companies have expanded across the globe”

MassPrivatel

Florida – The man suspected of shooting and killing a Manchester man at a downtown nightclub this month was arrested while on a Disney vacation in Florida, police said. 

Mike Cruz, 23, whose last known address was in East Hartford, was seen poolside in Orlando, Fla. Friday and later taken into custody by U.S. federal marshals and members of a fugitive task force. The task force works with the Hartford police Major Crimes Division.   Continue reading “Did Disney World’s biometrics program identify a suspected murderer in its park?”

Don’t look for this news on FOX or the MOSSAD agent Wolf Blitzer’s show.

EWTN News –  by Beit Shemesh

A monastery caught fire in Israel, after Jewish extremists threw a bomb at it and sprayed graffiti on its walls, police revealed today.

“A Molotov cocktail was thrown against the wall of the Beit Jamal Monastery near Beit Shemesh,” Israeli police said in an Aug. 21 statement.   Continue reading “Jewish extremists attack Catholic monastery in Israel”

Star Tribune – by DAVID CHANEN

Attorney hired by girlfriend says four witnesses told him Edmond Fair was killed while handcuffed.

Edmond D. Fair was fatally shot in the chest by police during a traffic stop and struggle in Brooklyn Center last week, authorities said Tuesday.

The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the shooting, said it couldn’t comment on the case.    Continue reading “Man killed in clash with Brooklyn Center, Minnesota police was shot in chest”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson

Intercepted phone calls that will be presented by the Obama administration as proof that Bashar Al-Assad was behind last week’s chemical weapons attack in Syria actually suggest that the attack was not ordered by the Syrian government.

Phone calls by the Syrian Ministry of Defense intercepted by Mossad and passed to the US reveal that Syrian government officials, “exchanged panicked phone calls with a leader of a chemical weapons unit, demanding answers for a nerve agent strike that killed more than 1,000 people,” in the hours after last week’s attack.   Continue reading “Intelligence Suggests Assad Not Behind Chemical Weapons Attack”

The Guardian – by Harriet Sherwood

A team of United Nations inspectors have resumed their second day of investigations at the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus, as western leaders moved towards military action in response to the Syrian regime’s reported use of chemical weapons against civilians.

The UN team left their Damascus hotel early on Wednesday after the operation was suspended on Tuesday following a sniper attack on its convoy on Monday.   Continue reading “Israeli intelligence ‘intercepted Syrian regime talk about chemical attack’”

Center for Investigative Reporting – by Kris Hundley and Kendall Taggart

Former employees of Kids Wish Network say the Holiday, Fla.-based charity exploits sick and dying children to raise cash, then misleads donors about where their money goes.

The criticism from four ex-employees comes after Kids Wish was named in June as the worst charity in America by the Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting.   Continue reading “Ex-employees of Kids Wish Network say they misled donors”