From the Trenches World Report

NBC News – by Erin McClam

The suspects in the attack on the Boston Marathon — one killed, one on the loose — are brothers of Chechen origin, at least one a legal permanent resident of the United States, law enforcement officials told NBC News.

The suspect at large early Friday was identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, born in Kyrgyzstan, holding a Massachusetts driver’s license and living in the Boston suburb of Cambridge. He was the suspect in the white hat in surveillance photos from the marathon released by the FBI.   Continue reading “Suspects in marathon bombings are brothers”

The New Boston Tea Party

April 14, 1775 – Massachusetts Governor Gage is secretly ordered by the British to enforce the Coercive Acts and suppress “open rebellion” among colonists by using all necessary force.

April 18, 1775 – General Gage orders 700 British soldiers to Concord to destroy the colonists’ weapons depot.   Continue reading “Conflict and Revolution – 1775 to 1776”

AP – by EILEEN SULLIVAN, MEGHAN BARR and KATIE ZEZIMA

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist.   Continue reading “1 of 2 Mass. Bomb Suspects Dead; Suburbs Shut Down”

Examiner – by KENNETH SCHORTGEN JR

Natural News – by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) Boston is now in a state of near-chaos over the Boston marathon bombing investigation. Their story keeps changing, too: first there was a “controlled explosion” planned at the Kennedy Library on the same day as the bombing (Boston Globe), but that was later explained away as a “building fire” that had nothing to do with the bombing.

Then there’s CNN reporting a suspect has been arrested, after which the network was blasted by the FBI for fabricating news. CNN has since retracted its arrest claim.   Continue reading “Chaos engulfs Boston as mainstream media can’t get its cover story straight”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Bank of Japan Ben Bernanke Central Banks China Commodity Futures Trading Commission European Central Bank Gold BugsGoldman Sachs goldman sachs Gross Domestic Product Japan Monetary Base Morgan Stanley Reality Rogue Trader Yen

In a world in which one bank after another has scrambled to downgrade its outlook on gold, both before the recent bank CEO huddle with Obama last Thursday – the day the bottom fell out of the gold market – but especially after, when the real onslaught on gold truly started, it has been an outright blasphemy for the sellside to even hint at having a bullish outlook on gold.   Continue reading “CLSA Breaks The Wall Street Mold: Sells Japanese Equities To Buy Gold”

Paratus Familia Blog

As I have mentioned before, it seems to me that there are two very distinct type of “Preppers” – those who want to buy all of the cool gear and talk about prepping, and those who want to get their hands dirty and REALLY prepare.  Sir Knight and I want to stand firmly in the latter classification.  And so, in that vein, numerous members of our little clan spent the weekend training with John Mosby, “The Ghost”, AKA xxxxx xxxxxxxx.   Continue reading “Training with the Ghost”

Voting American

In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained,

“We didn’t have the green thing back in my day!

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment.”   Continue reading “Just how Green was that Older Generation?”