There was no doubt that Private Blake W. Mariano of the 191st Tank Battalion was a brave man. As part of the American Army's 45th Infantry Division, he had killed many Germans as he fought through Africa, Italy and southern France, before finally, in March 1945, he and his Sherman tank had crossed the Rhine into Germany.

By April 15, 1945, Mariano had been away from his home in New Mexico for nearly three years. A father of three, the 29-year-old was divorced, although he did have a girlfriend in England.

His loved ones, however, were far from his mind that evening. During the day, his unit had successfully overrun the large village of Lauf on the edge of the Black Forest in south-western Germany, and Mariano decided it was time to celebrate.

Accompanied by another American private, Mariano went out drinking. After finding a well-stocked cellar, the two men quickly became inebriated on cognac, at which point they went looking to complete their evening.

They found what they wanted in an air raid shelter under the town's castle. Huddled there were 17 villagers, two of whom were children.

Mariano pointed his rifle at a young woman called Elfriede. Aged just 21, Elfriede worked in an office, and had a fiancé who was away fighting. Mariano took her outside and raped her. After he had finished, his companion did the same.

Still not sated, Mariano returned to the shelter and chose a 41-year-old woman called Martha. When it became apparent that she was menstruating, Mariano shot her. It would take Martha until the following morning to die.

In a final act of savagery, Mariano selected one more woman, a 54-year-old shopkeeper called Babette, who he also raped. His 'entertainment' now over, Mariano finally returned to his tank.

The following morning, Martha's husband returned to the village after being discharged from the Army. He might have thought that he and his wife were now safe, having survived six long years of war.

As soon as he had discovered what had happened, the widower went straight to the Americans, who immediately launched an investigation.

Just over three weeks later, on May 8, Mariano was arrested and charged. In his defence, he claimed not to remember a thing. The villagers of Lauf would have no such problem. What Mariano had done in a few hours that one night would remain with them for decades.

More...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3011930/Did-Allied-troops-rape-285-000-German-women-s-shocking-claim-new-book-German-feminist-exposing-war-crime-slandering-heroes.html
 
Just to be clear, this writer is a feminazi that doesn't like Brits or Americans so this whole assertion could be bunk but if not, then the 'greatest generation' as they're know here in the state could be something else altogether.

Switzerland

Switzerland is famous for having one of the most well-armed populaces on the planet. Not only are the Swiss allowed to have guns, many citizens were traditionally required to own one and go through training on how to use it.

Switzerland’s laws require having a permit in order to be able to buy certain firearms, but these are attainable with minimal and straightforward bureaucracy.

Czech Republic

Czech Republic is another place in Europe where you can enjoy the benefits of gun ownership without having to deal with much government paperwork.

You’ll need to get a permit in order to legally own firearms, but these are relatively easily available—also for most foreigners who live there.

There’s no limit to how many firearms you can own and you can carry a concealed firearm.

Estonia

Private possession of a large variety of guns is allowed for Estonian residents under a license. These can be obtained for any number of reasons, including self-defense.

The government maintains a record of individual civilians licensed to possess firearms and ammunition, but private sale and transfer is allowed, as is concealed carry.

Paraguay

Most types of firearms can be legally purchased in Paraguay, but a license is required and a central registry of gun ownership is maintained.

The plus side is that even as a tourist you can legally buy weapons in Paraguay.

The intro commentary is back at link...https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/simon-black/4-gun-friendly-countries/

I have to admit, most of this was news to me but good information to know if one is considering where to visit that allows you to defend yourself while on vacation. Or, a potential landing zone should you not be happy with your present country of origin.

How Germanwings Co-Pilot Hid Secret Mental Illness
Families' fury at airline as police find pile of torn-up sick notes in home of killer nicknamed 'Tomato Andy' - including one for day he crashed jet
The co-pilot who crashed his plane into a mountain killing himself and 149 people hid a secret illness from his employers, German prosecutors have revealed.

‘Obsessive’ Andreas Lubitz locked the captain out of the Airbus A320’s cockpit before setting the plane’s controls to descend into a rocky valley, it emerged yesterday.

Following a search of Lubitz’s Dusseldorf apartment, investigators today revealed they had found old torn-up sick leave notes, current ones and one issued for the day of the disaster.

Prosecutors said the finds indicate 28-year-old Lubitz may have had a medical condition which he kept secret from his employers, budget airline Germanwings. They have found no suicide note or claim of responsibility and no evidence of a political or religious motivation for his actions.

As the revelations emerged, families of those killed in the disaster expressed fury that Germanwings allowed Lubitz to fly a plane. Claude Driessens, whose 59-year-old brother died on the Airbus A320, said the co-pilot should not have been anywhere near the cockpit.

Responding to the developments, Mr Driessens said: ‘Looking back, I slowly start to be angry. I don’t understand how a serious company can let a depressed man pilot a plane.

‘Because the boy was depressed, it was necessary to say he was. It’s not normal to leave somebody by himself in charge, and who shuts the doors, I’m very angry.’

More...https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/03/no_author/killer-pilot-was-under-psychiatric-care/

My guess is that this punk was in over his head and got manipulated into playing the Washington game and wasn't experienced enough to know how and when to protect his ass.

SAUDI FAILURE IN YEMEN WILL RESULT IN DIRECT U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTION

The ambassador’s remarks serve as a thinly veiled cover for the real objective for the attack on Yemen — taking control of one of seven strategic world oil shipping chokepoints. The removal of sitting President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi from power by the Houthi militias threatened this control. It also potentially increases Iranian influence in Yemen and the Gulf of Aden and the Strait of Bab el-Mandab where more than 10 percent of the world’s seaborne petroleum passes.

F. William Engdahl explains:
An excuse for a US or NATO militarization of the waters around Bab el-Mandab would give Washington another major link in its pursuit of control of the seven most critical oil chokepoints around the world, a major part of any future US strategy aimed at denying oil flows to China, the EU or any region or country that opposes US policy.

On Thursday the United States confirmed it is supporting Saudi military operations underway in Yemen.

More...http://www.infowars.com/saudi-failure-in-yemen-will-result-in-direct-u-s-military-intervention/

Private Emails Reveal Ex-Clinton Aide’s Secret Spy Network
Emails disclosed by a hacker show a close family friend was funneling intelligence about the crisis in Libya directly to the Secretary of State’s private account starting before the Benghazi attack.

Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney Blumenthal supplied intelligence to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gathered by  a secret network that included a former CIA clandestine service officer, according to hacked emails from Blumenthal’s account.

The emails, which were posted on the internet in 2013, also show that Blumenthal and another close Clinton associate discussed contracting with a retired Army special operations commander to put operatives on the ground near the Libya-Tunisia border while Libya’s civil war raged in 2011.

Blumenthal’s emails to Clinton, which were directed to her private email account, include at least a dozen detailed reports on events on the deteriorating political and security climate in Libya as well as events in other nations. They came to light after a hacker broke into Blumenthal’s account and have taken on new significance in light of the disclosure that she conducted State Department and personal business exclusively over an email server that she controlled and kept secret from State Department officials and which only recently was discovered by congressional investigators.

Much more...http://www.propublica.org/article/private-emails-reveal-ex-clinton-aides-secret-spy-network

No wonder she had the server wiped out.

Trey Gowdy: Hillary Clinton wiped her server clean

Hillary Clinton wiped “clean” the private server housing emails from her tenure as secretary of state, the chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi said Friday.

“While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the Secretary to return her public record to the Department,” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, said in a statement.

Clinton was under a subpoena order from the panel for all documents related to the 2012 attacks on the American compound there. But David Kendall, an attorney for Clinton, said the 900 pages of emails previously provided to the panel cover its request.

Kendall also informed the committee that Clinton’s emails from her time at the State Department have been permanently erased.

More...http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/gowdy-clinton-wiped-her-server-clean-116472.html

For those new to how the Clintons operate, back in the 90s Bill had a pointman as head of the Commerce dept which would grand export waivers to sophisticated technology/communications and weapons manufacturers so they could sell their products to the Chinese military in return for donations to his reelection fund as well as to his legal defense fund. So basically, the Chinese were getting encryption pinpointers that they could use to develop a more accurate weapons system which would be treason and bribery on this side of the pond yet all Clinton was impeached for was perjury and other minutia. The New American magazine documented all this stuff but the republican prosecution team, for some reason, let this guy off scott free. Since he got away with that plus many other things, Hillary knows she's in the driver's seat on this email thing.

The battle for the Middle East's future begins in Yemen as Saudi Arabia jumps into the abyss

Saudi Arabia has jumped into the abyss.

Its air attacks on Yemen are a historic and potentially fatal blow to the Kingdom and to the Middle East.

Who decided that this extraordinary battle should take shape in the poorest of Arab nations? The Saudis, whose King is widely rumoured in the Arab world to be incapable of taking decisions of state? Or the princes within the Saudi army who fear that their own security forces may not be loyal to the monarchy?

The “story” of Yemen appears simple. Houthi rebels, who are Shia Muslims, have captured the capital of Sanaa with the help – so say the Saudis – of the Iranians. The legitimate President – Abed Rabou Mansour Hadi – has fled to the Saudi capital of Riyadh from his bolthole in the old southern Yemeni capital of Aden. The Saudis will not permit an Iranian proxy state to be set up on their border – always forgetting that they already have an Iranian-proxy state called Iraq on their northern border, courtesy of the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. The real “story” is more important. Perhaps half of the Saudi army is of Yemeni tribal origin. Saudi soldiers are intimately – through their own families – involved in Yemen, and the Yemen revolution is a stab in the guts of the Saudi royal family. No wonder King Salman of Saudi Arabia – if he indeed rules his nation – wishes to bring this crisis to an end. But are his bombing raids on Sanaa going to crush a Shia Muslim rebellion?

More...http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-battle-for-the-middle-easts-future-begins-in-yemen-as-saudi-arabia-jumps-into-the-abyss-10140145.html

The American Political Proxy War Over Israeli Parliamentary Elections

Last week’s electoral sweep in Israel for incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his party, the Likud coalition, over Knesset member Isaac Herzog and his Labor based opposition coalition might appear on paper as just another overseas election to many American news audiences. A current events footnote, if you will.

But among America’s politically literate, the recent Israeli elections marked a Spring Break in the Dead Sea for America’s largely covert coalitions of clandestine consultant classes. It was a classic case of a cold war of sorts between the U.S. Democrat and Republican Parties. Many Republican operatives in the country favored Netanyahu’s ticket, while many Democrats kept busy attempting to elect Herzog’s.

The overwhelming consensus this writer noticed among attendees to last month’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was that Israeli parliamentary elections were only the latest incarnation of an ongoing political proxy war between America’s two dominant parties and their operatives. Among many conference goers who were also destined for the Israeli-American Political Action Campaign (AIPAC) conference the following weekend, one pro-Scott Walker consultant I had the opportunity to chat with off the record in the lobby of National Harbor, Maryland’s Gaylord Hotel the first day of CPAC was very candid to acknowledge off the presence of Republican advisors then on the ground in Israel behind Bibi Netanyahu’s Likud Party.

More...http://blog.libertyconservatives.com/a-consultants-cold-war-the-american-political-proxy-war-over-israeli-parliamentary-elections/

Not a bad idea if you know which ones are worth their salt. However, if you're getting a 50% return from a startup's dividends and bitcoin grows by more then you lose. Yet, you'll get a steady stream of dividends as long as the company is profitable so I suppose that once you have your stash of bitcoins for the long term you can use any extras for investments or trading alts. But, I'm not playing around the alt market as it's even more manipulated than bitcoin in terms of major market players shaking people down by pump and dumps.

Well, Denver is a liberal area like most other big cities but this makes no sense as to why this isn't easily considered a homicide. While abortion is legal I'd imagine that it would have to be performed by a licensed doctor of sorts. Anyone that would perform this particular act is nutso in my opinion. Not to mention, the woman was allegedly expecting baby clothes and then this happens.

It's so exciting reading reports of places like Africa and India becoming more knowledgeable and interested in learning about bitcoin. These are two major areas that could benefit the most from expanding this market.

Glad to see the relationship budding into fruition after all this time. The peripherals in this market are becoming stronger each week that passes. The confidence factor in bitcoin is becoming stronger and more inevitable for changing the world.

Wonderful, leave it up to the Czechs to do what the Japanese and others failed to do. Glad to see this jerkoff got what was coming to him.

The guy behind Xapo seems pretty respectable and also pretty dedicated to ensuring the success of bitcoin. Perhaps, he's thinking this new advancement would go over well and be pretty beneficial to ordinary people to be able to use bitcoin w/o knowing the intricacies of it. Plus, their vault service seems handy for those that eventually engage themselves in bitcoin but would feel safer having a respected third party hold their wealth for them to prevent thefts and mistakes.

Yemen Exploding: Is The Stage Set for the Big War?

Rapid changes are occurring in Yemen. Ever since United States had to leave its military base there, other powers have been lining up to benefit from the chaos. It has been revealed that Saudi Arabia has commenced bombing targets in Yemen. Egypt has announced its support for the Saudi effort. I am quite confident that this support is in compliance with our instructions to our puppet leader now in charge in Egypt. The current president of Yemen, Hadi, a leader who took over after the Arab Spring revolution, has been removed from power. He is said to have escaped to Saudi Arabia, and those who are now in charge in Yemen will most likely kill him if he returns.

Yemen has been instrumental in the US effort to fight al-Qaeda in the region. Unsuccessfully, I might add. The Houthis who have deposed Hadi are said to get their support from Iran and are now likely the strongest political force in the country. But they will not have an easy time of it. Too much is at stake for the United States and Saudi Arabia. We don’t read much about the Saudi Air Force being involved in military conflict, but the seriousness of the situation has prompted them to do exactly that. There are also reports that 150,000 or more troops are massed near the borders of Yemen for a probable invasion. It is assumed that other Arab nations will be involved, along with Egypt. One report said that it appears the country is “sliding toward a civil war.” I would suggest that it’s past sliding toward the civil war, and, rather, is involved deeply in a civil war that is now spreading outside its own borders.

The neoconservatives, I am sure, will blame everything on Iran. And it’s likely Iran may have been involved in giving some type of support to the Shia that now are on the verge of taking over the country. But one must ask, “How does this compare to the support the United States has given to over 100 countries in recent years, with a major portion going to the Middle East?” There’s a big difference between a country becoming involved in a crisis next door and a country getting involved 6000 miles away.

It looks like the former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, a military dictator who was deposed in the Arab Spring revolution, is now aligned with the Shia Houthis who are supported by Iran. This will not be tolerated by the United States, and we can expect the US to provide indirect military assistance to those who are prepared to invade Yemen and install a US friendly dictator.

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More...http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/march/26/yemen-exploding-is-the-stage-set-for-the-big-war/

Not surprising because they were given $500 million of american weaponry either directly or indirectly. It's not like the afghans lost the wars against america or russia so as long as you have adequate weapons and can use the land to your advantage, you can maintain. In this situation, it's great that the Nigerian army finally got their act together and starting taking on these bastards. It's about time as it is. Too bad so many have been hurt before this election came to be.

Wow, that's one of the sickest things a parent could do to their offspring. However, this is the drug war in action. The woman can't afford the heroin because the illegal market drives the prices up so the addict either has to steal, prostitute themselves, or in this, case abuse their own daughter to get high. If heroin was legal, it's price would be similar to that of tylenol or aspirin and then the addict can get all they need and not abuse anyone else to fulfill their habit. Both of these conspirators should be locked up til death. And, God help this daughter have some sort of normal life down the line but my guess is she won't be able to.