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Lance Corporal Jacob Miles Lagoze was deployed to Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012 as a combat camera in the 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment. He was assigned to shoot and edit footage of the combat for media networks, recruitment videos, and other propaganda.The United States had already been at war in Afghanistan for seven years when he enlisted in 2008. Three years later, along with Marine cameraman Justin Loya, Lagoze had filmed what the Corps wanted. “But then we kept shooting,” he said.After his service time in the Helmand province, Lagoze took his footage and arranged a 70-minute documentary, “Combat...

Is a showdown looming between state and local governments on gun control? (Dave Workman)Amid what appears to be an insurrection of county sheriffs and county governing boards in several states against restrictive gun laws, Pacific Standard magazine has finally asked the proverbial “$64 question,” what happens next? The headline is certainly an eye-catcher: “What Happens if Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce State Gun-Control Laws?” Part of the answer may be found in Washington State, where anti-gun Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson—both supporters of gun control Initiative 1639 that passed last fall, raising the age of purchase for a...

It’s a strange justice system we have.Despite all evidence to the contrary a certain faction of the country refuses to accept the fact that their President isn’t guilty of whatever it is they had hoped he was. A two and a half year adversarial investigation came up with zip, zero, nada and per usual with this gang, what’s good news for America is bad news for them. Democrats refuse to retreat on Trump legal issues despite Mueller disappointment It’s just like their stance on global warming: there can be no good news, ever. Case in point: scientists report that Greenland’s...

Which is a Good Option as a SHTF Cartridge? There are some great short action rifles available, some rifles being offered in 6.5 Creedmoor. There is another similar case, but not quite the same its the .308 Winchester. The 6.5 Creedmoor uses skinnier, lighter bullets and its faster downrange than the .308. The 6.5 Creedmoor is very popular as a great selection for medium to long range (500-1000 yards) shooting. Which is why the military has incorporated this into some of their specialized rifles for long range targets. Ballistic speaking, the skinny 6.5mm bullets perform exceptionally well, very closely matching...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) What the media won’t tell you about the Jussie Smollett whitewash… – So, Jussie got off scott-free, and I don’t want to hear anyone talk to me about “white privilege” ever again. Talk to the hand, ‘cuz the ears ain’t listening. Cook County state’s attorney Kimberly Foxx demonstrated yet again (as if we needed reminding) that Chicago politics are every bit as corrupt today as they were when Al Capone ran the city by allowing Smollett to skate on 16 felony charges brought after an exhaustive investigation by the Chicago police, saying...

The Battle of Brexit with plenty of words from political leaders and talking heads pundits but in the end actions will speak louder than words... Armed gangs of Nicolas Maduro supporters gathered outside Venezuela's National Assembly Tuesday threatening those trying to enter the building to the day's session... There is no cease-fire following a rocket attack Monday from Gaza that wounded seven Israelis in a community 75 miles away north of Tel Aviv.... A prominent mosque leader in New Zealand has blamed Israel's Mossad spy agency for the recent mass murder attacks on mosques in Christchurch..... Austrian authorities raiding the...

A raft of suicides have been reported among the moneylenders of Pyongyang's glitzy Ryomyong Street, an avenue of high-rise apartments that was a pet project of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, amid a new war on corruption. The latest incidents paint a picture of grim times not only in remote regions but right in the capital as the elite start to feel the pinch. The exhortations came after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi collapsed last month. Kim had been hoping to win an easing of sanctions without offering any substantial steps toward...

We either take down Facebook and Google and turn them into tightly regulated transparent public utilities available to all or they will destroy what little is left of American democracy. The RussiaGate Narrative has been revealed as a Big Con (a.k.a. Nothing-Burger), but what's dangerously real is the censorship that's being carried out by the for-profit monopolies Facebook and Google on behalf of the status quo's Big Con. This site got a taste of Facebook-Google-Big-Media's Orwellian Authoritarian-Totalitarian censorship back in 2016 when a shadowy fake-news site called PropOrNot aggregated every major alt-media site that had published anything remotely skeptical of...

Behar’s admiration for Avenatti should come as no surprise considering how she and her co-hosts behaved when he was on the show. In an appearance on the show in August of 2018, when he was still representing Stormy Daniels, co-host Ana Navarro gushed that he was “like the Holy Spirit” while Behar added that he was “saving the country.” Behar also introduced the media darling as “the only person Donald Trump fears more than Robert Mueller.”

The number 23 has long been synonymous with LeBron James' career in the NBA, but the number 2020 could play a more significant part in the athlete's life after sport. The basketball superstar has acknowledged one scenario in which he "may" go head-to-head with President Donald Trump in the 2020 US election. James recently sat down for an interview with the CNN host Don Lemon in which he discussed his decision to open a school in Ohio, his thoughts on racial inequality in America, and the conditions required for him to compete against Trump.

It has been revealed that the reason most of the candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination decided to skip the annual AIPAC event in March, long a standard stop for major candidates of both parties, is their decision to instead attend an afternoon tea in a Chicago nursing home. The 2020 nomination is expected to be a particularly tight race, as almost every Democratic voter in the country is already seeking the nomination. The only two remaining Democrats in America who are not themselves running for president, Mrs. Mabel Teagarden and Mrs. Hattie Seabiscuit, realizing their unique situation, decided...

Speaking to a SXSW crowd, ripped into America — again — and said that while the looming robotic culture and automated economy are things to embrace, the flip side is dire because, after all, this country is a society that simply leaves its jobless “to die.” Hmm. Wonder where all those millions that taxpayers sent to food stamps and housing assistance and basic living aid went through the years. Anyway, said this, when asked about the looming automation craze that is predicted to supplant human jobs, The Verge : “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated...

Now that Trump won't acknowledge basic things like climate change, it's time other countries had a say last week, a terrorist killed 50 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The alleged gunman, who had referred to himself as a white nationalist, viewed Donald Trump as “a symbol of renewed white identity”. So, yes, I think it’s high time to acknowledge the fact that what happens in the US has immense, tangible consequences on the rest of the world, and I am tired of crossing my fingers hoping that American voters will do the right thing. how would we...

@DavidAxelrod: "Unless some better explanation surfaces, here’s the lesson of this weird turn in the Smollett case: You can contrive a hate crime, make it a national news, get caught and-if you are a well-connected celebrity-get off for $10K and have your record expunged and files sealed" "Hate crimes are loathsome. Faking them is insidious and shouldn’t be excused. Despite Smollett’s denials, nothing the prosecutor said in dismissing the case supports that. If prosecutors have evidence that contradicts the indictment THEY brought, they should share it today."

John Brennan was nominated to be Director of the CIA by Barack Obama and served as Director from March 2013 to January 2017. Here is a list of former Directors of the CIA. Only a few have been actively political following their tenures, but none has been as rabidly vocal and anti-Trump as John Brennan. John Brennan has been prognosticating no end over the last two years and has made some pretty serious accusations. On more than one occasion Brennan called Trump "treasonous." Former CIA director John Brennan blasted President Donald Trump's press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday as 'nothing short...

Floods in 30 provinces across the country left more than 150 dead and many injured especially in Shiraz, with at least 120 dead. According to the report by national council of resistance of Iran, While heavy floods have devastated several regions in Iran and the people cannot hold back their anger at the lack of relief and the role of the authorities in destroying the country's infrastructure - which have greatly contributed to worsening the consequences of this natural disaster – Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and other repressive bodies are mobilized to prevent popular protest movements instead of rescuing the affected...

Short on policy, all Dem presidential hopefuls use Trump hatred as their launching pads There were some 533,074 articles over the past two and a half years in the media about ‘all-round bad guy’ President Donald Trump during the miserably failed Russia probe. Mark New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, bringing up the rear on Sunday, as number 533,075. Competing with Democrat presidential hopefuls in the “car full of crazies”, Gillibrand called Trump a “coward” who “punches down”, claiming that he is “tearing apart the moral fabric of our country”.

VIDEO The Mueller Report was not surprising to anybody who noted the lame indictments of people who had nothing to do with collusion. Also of interest was the NON-indictment of people who actually did collude with the Russians on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign. On a personal and channel note, tomorrow appears to be the BIG DAY when the DUmmie FUnnies hits 1000 subscriptions and qualifies for the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) after just TEN weeks of existence since its birth on January 15.

One chapter may be ending but never fear the sequels are here After 675 days of investigation, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 warrants, and 500 witness interviews here are a few things that never happened in the time-consuming, money-wasting, slanderous attempt to erase the results of the 2016 election known as the Mueller investigation:

Gays are less than 3% of the population, despite the propaganda. Blacks are about 10% of the population, thanks to Margaret Sanger's "Negro Project" killing 25 million African-American children. (Oops, sorry, that makes me a racist!) Gay Blacks are an even smaller proportion of the population, what-with African-Americans' traditional, social conservatism and strong families -- before the Depression, they had higher proportion of intact biological family with fathers present than the white population, long before LBJ's Great Society decimated Black culture by requiring fatherlessness for welfare. What's to mis-understand by the Chicago Black Elite? You can't have it both ways,...