Terror Bombings Continue to Hit Kenya

Eastleigh, Kenya continues to be a scene of terrorist bombings.

On Wednesday, an explosion injured nine people.

Friday saw two people killed and another eight injured during another blast.

The suburb of Nairobi has been a hot seat for violence since Kenya went to war with Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda's wing in Somalia.

The terrorist group had begun raiding into Kenya, causing Kenya to send troops into Somalia, and remove the group from power.

Al Shabaab abandoned the cities, but has kept fighting in the country side, as well as continued terrorist actions in Kenya.

While no one has claimed responsibility for this week's attacks, Al Shabaab is considered the likely suspect.

Supreme Court to Decide on Homosexual Marriage

The US Supreme Court has announced that they will take up cases over homosexual marriage.

They will review two rulings, by states, that have banned the controversial marriages.

Just last month, three states approved marriage for homosexuals.

Expectations are for arguments to be heard in March 2013, with a final decision coming down in June.

Jordanian Soldier Wounded by Syrian Fire

A Jordanian soldier was wounded by gun fire from Syria, on Friday.

He and his unit were patrolling along the border when a fire fight broke out between Syrian government forces and the Syrian Free Army.

During their battle some of the rounds crossed into Jordan.

One of the bullets struck Oday Hussein Momani in the shoulder.

Jordanian forces returned fire, at the source of the incoming rounds.

It is unclear which side of the Syrian civil war was responsible for the incident.

Momani was taken to the hospital in stable condition.

The kingdom of Jordan released a statement saying that they will not be drawn into the war, and reminding everyone this was an isolated incident and considered an accident.

This is the third time, during the Syrian civil war, that Jordanian troops have been hit by fire from across the border.

In the first incident a soldier was wounded, but in the second one Jordanian soldier was killed.

US and Russia Normalize Trade but Restrict Certain Citizens

Obama and Putin

The US and Russia may finally be agreeing on Syria, but the relationship between the two countries is anything but smooth.

On Thursday, the US Congress passed a bill which would end all trade restrictions between the two countries.

But to get it to pass and amendment was added that Russia is not happy with.

In the bill, any Russian citizens who might be guilty of human right violations can be banned from entering the US and it also allows for the freezing of their financial assets.

Russia was quick to announce an equal measure placed upon US citizens.

However, top opponents of the Russian government came out calling it a very proRussian bill.

Some went as far as berating their own country for not having the guts that the US has shown.

Syrian Rebels Declare Airport a Battleground as US and Russia Agree on Mediation

Syrian rebels declared that the international airport is no longer safe, and now it too has become part of the battle for Damascus.

Rebel forces are now converging on Damascus, as some believe that taking the capital will end the war.

With government forces preparing sarin nerve gas bombs, an end is all the more a necessary thing.

Since the conflict began twenty-one months ago, it has killed over fifty thousand people.

Working towards an end Russia and the US have finally agreed that mediation must take place.

The two powers have discussed the Syrian civil war, regularly, since the conflict began.

However, til now Russia has refused to consider any kind of mediation, backing the Assad regime completely.

It is unclear how much of an influence out side help could be at this point, if any, but it is very possibly an important step forward.

7.3 Quake off Japan

A 7.3 earthquake struck off Japan, Friday.

It sent a three foot tsunami at the eastern coast, near Fukushima.

Five people were injured in the quake that caused minor damages.

People as far away as Tokyo reported feeling the shaking.

It's proximity to Fukushima brought back memories of the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

That disaster killed almost twenty thousand and became all the more infamous for the damage that hit nuclear plants, which leaked radiation.

Remembering: Pearl Harbor

Western Europe lay conquered, with only Britain left in the fight, as World War II raged in Africa and Eastern Europe.

In Asia, the empire of Japan was spreading through China, as the civil war there kept the two sides from presenting a united front. With the fall of France, Japan had begun marching into French Indo China.

The US was the lone major country not actively involved in the war. They already were involved as they were supplying the UK and her allies, they also had begun restricting trade with Japan.

Japan was feeling the pinch from embargoes, especially that of oil. The oil rich Dutch East Indies were just within their reach, but they knew that attacking there would draw in the British Empire and the US. Britain wasn't much of a threat, as she was busy fighting to defend the homeland and Africa. However, the US had a large Pacific fleet, and it had been moved from San Diego to Pearl Harbor.

In early 1941, the Japanese began plotting an attack on Pearl Harbor, to eliminate the US threat to their moves into the Dutch East Indies. For months they trained specifically to hit the shallow harbor. While the US knew war was basically inevitable, for those in charge an attack on Pearl was unthinkable. Despite warnings from various sources they continued to ignore threats to her, worrying about sabotage not an actual attack. Then one morning decoders read that Japan would attack within hours, but their message to Pearl was sent by regular telegram, and wouldn't be seen til too late.

On December 7, 1941 large blips of planes appeared on experimental radar screens, but their operators were told to ignore them, as they must be an expected flight of bombers, coming from the mainland. Then as the Stars and Stripes rose above the US Pacific fleet, 353 Japanese planes attacked.

By the end of the day of infamy 2,402 Americans and sixty-four Japanese had been killed and 1,247 Americans and one Japanese sailor were injured in the battle. For Japan it would be a monumental victory, that would cost them the war. After the attack, they failed to send another wave, to wipe out dry docks, oil storage, and other very important facilities that would've knocked Pearl out of the war for years. They also failed to hit the US carriers, as they had been sent out just days before.

But the most important thing was that the anger from the US was not something most of their leaders had expected, at least not to such an overwhelming degree. That anger would feed an American war effort that would not stop until both Germany and Japan were completely knocked out of the war.

Pearl Harbor would remain the worst attack, against Americans, for almost seventy years. Only the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2011 would be more deadly and more scarring to the American psyche.

From the Mouth of Matuszak: A Few Words To Costas & Morgan

Piers "the Brit" should stick to Magna Carta. He has yet to read The Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers. He also failed history, evidently, and just sticks the to that talking points his puppet masters let him speak.

Almost a week ago, now, Kansas City Chief's star linebacker murdered his girlfriend, then killed himself.

Since then, the gun grabbing socialists have attempted to use the event as an excuse to push their agenda. The did this after the theater shooting in Colorado during a screening of the last Dark Knight movie. They did so after Gabby Giffords was shot, though it was her constituents with concealed carry permits that subdued her shooter. Their list of excuses go on and on. However, none of their rhetoric can topple the facts.

To those individuals, such as Bob Costas and Piers Morgan,  that hate the concepts of individual liberty, the natural right to life, and the natural right of the "Pursuit of Happiness" otherwise known as the right to one's own property; I have two words:

MOLON LABE!

Piers Morgan made a statement about the Second Amendment being about muskets. In that argument he challenged his opponent to quote where the Constitution stated that it was about modern weapons. His opponent responded with "right next to 'muskets'".

Piers doesn't know the US Constitution. He knows the socialist oligarchs' talking points. See, socialist oligarchs want to take them away from people so they cannot defend themselves against the tyranny and theft of individual rights they wish to impose. Piers doesn't understand that is the very reason for the Second Amendment. He has not gone back and read the transcriptions and opinion papers of the days prior to the ratification of the Constitution with the Bill of Rights amended to it. No, he wants to use some lie invented to support the talking points of those who support instilling tyranny.

You see, Piers, the Second Amendment is designed so that individuals can defend themselves and their families against the government should it overstep the US Constitution  and become a tyranny.

You see, Piers, twelve years prior to the writing of the US Constitution, its authors had resigned themselves to the fact that a tyrant was unwilling to allow the thirteen colonies to govern themselves with conservative ideals. He violated their natural rights. The more they complained and petitioned the government of your home country, the more your tyrant of a king violated those rights. It got so bad that they saw no other recourse remaining than to go war over it.

Among those crimes against individual liberty that George employed against the colonies was gun control. He restricted ownership of those muskets, confiscating many. In some areas, they were limited to one per household for hunting. In other areas, he made them illegal. His purpose was to disarm the colonists so he could control them through the use of force. You see, his second move was to station his military in the very homes of those colonists.

You are correct that it was farmers with muskets that went to war against the tyrant. That is the point, but not your point. If your manner of thought were applied, they would have gone to war using slingshots and arrows. You see, Piers, we are not stupid. We know you sided with King George.

To further your education in American History, we were lucky that, back then, many of the colonists were adept at hiding those muskets.

Now, here's another little fact about those muskets. They were the weapon of choice for the tyrannic and oppressive government forces. The colonists having those weapons evened the battlefield. Having those weapons led to winning the war. See, Piers, necessity is the mother of two things:  invention and acquisition. Due to having those muskets, the patriots were able to invent better weapons as well as acquire weapons such as canons and rockets. Had they no means to defend and fight, they would not have gotten the support of France, who, instead, would have seen the war as a lost cause not worthy of the investment.

Let's move ahead to the days of the writing of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment was an afterthought, yes. The reason was that the writers, at first, thought that right didn't require statement. They thought it was a given. It was only after several indicated that not stating it explicitly would lead to leaving citizens unarmed and subjected to yet another tyranny. The US Constitution itself was a much more statist form of government than the Articles of Confederation they meant to replace. So, those who were to ratify the US Constitution wanted safeguards to insure that would never happen. The result was the Bill of Rights. The importance of the Second was to insure that citizens would retain the power to defend and insure the rest of them.

That would require the citizens to be free to arm themselves with the weapons of choice of the various militia. Those militia are the US Military forces as well as state level militia. We still have state level militia. They are called the state police and the state guards, such as they have in Georgia and have recently reinstated in Arizona. The modern weapon of choice for them is the M4 Carbine, part of the AR15/M16 Armalite family. Your British SAS also uses the Armalite, by the way.

Some argue that the Second Amendment is also so free, independent citizens may rise and defend the US against invasion by foreign armies. That is also within the thinking of the framers. So here is another little fact for you. The most proliferated weapon in the world is the AK-47.

The logic then follows that free, US Citizens should be allowed to arm themselves with M4s or AK-47s in order to protect their lives, liberty, and property from tyranny, be it foreign or domestic.

Mr. Costas, I hope you paid attention to the lesson presented to our foreign friend, Mr. Morgan. It seems you failed to learn that lesson as well. If you didn't, then you support tyranny.

You also fail to understand the fact that strict gun control causes an increase in violent crime, not a decrease. Criminals do not obey the law. They don't care about the law. They also do not care about individual rights, much like you. So, they will still break the law and have weapons. They will use them. Those who obey the laws are then left victims.

I know, you will use that false meme that the local militia (police) are meant to protect the people from crime. No, they aren't. Their job is to deter, yes, if they are there when a criminal is considering his acts. However, the cops cannot be everywhere. To be honest, I'm glad they are not. I really am not comfortable with the idea of cops posted outside my house and invading my privacy even though I have no desire to break the law. The job of the police is actually to investigate crime and mitigate its effects. It is not their job to provide protection. The US Supreme Court has made that very ruling not once, but twice that I know of.

Would people with lawfully concealed weapons been able to stop the shooting in Aurora, Colorado? No. You are correct that it would probably have happened anyway. That left wing terrorist would have done his deed regardless. However, if someone had a concealed firearm and been able to present it, the number of casualties may have been greatly mitigated. But, you see, those with CCPs are also trained to avoid shooting in a way that will harm innocent bystanders. That was the case in Tucson, Arizona when Giffords was shot. The crowd prevented returning fire. So those with concealed permits tackled and restrained the assailant, instead.

Here is another fact for you, Mr. Costas. After Arizona did away with the requirement to have a permit in order to carry concealed, violent crime dropped. A criminal is less likely to violently attack potential victims when as many as fifty percent of them could be armed. Anybody with a rudimentary knowledge of the principles of war knows that you do not attack a defending victim or enemy with less than a three to one firepower advantage. Two guys with shotguns will not attack a group of ten where five of them may be armed with .45cal concealed handguns. It's just plain stupid to do so. Another little fact is that violent crime in Arizona is mostly attributed to illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, and human traffickers.

And here is one more. You can have your research analysts confirm this. After King Dick Daley II of Chicago took handguns away from his serfs, the violent crime rate in Chicago skyrocketed. In Georgia, a town did the opposite. Their town council passed a resolution, unanimously, that passed ratification with no opposing votes. That resolution was that all property owners, land owners, and home owners in the town must own a firearm to protect their property. Crime dropped to nearly zero percent. It was years before they even suffered a petty theft.

Class is dismissed for the day. Go home. Study. Do your homework and your research. Stop lying for just thirty days and you may actually break the habit. In the meantime:

Molon Labe.

Original article appears at P-G Matuszak's Mental Aikido. This revision printed with permission. All rights reserved.

Google Donates Drones to World Wildlife Foundation

Google has donated five million dollars and some of it's own drones, to the World Wildlife Foundation.

The WWF will use the drones to patrol areas where endangered animals live.

Their plan is to catch poachers entering protected areas.

If they can do that they hope that authorities can be notified in enough time to not just catch the poachers, but maybe even prevent them from accomplishing their goals.

Over the last year poaching has seen a significant increase.

Rhinos have specifically been targeted, with attacks on them jumping from thirteen to 588.

UK's Ash Die Off Spreads Further Yet

The United Kingdom's ash problem has grown much more serious.

Ash trees are being killed off, all over the UK, by a fungus.

As of November 1, there were one hundred and fifteen areas where the fungus was seen across England, Scotland, and Wales.

Since then, the number has jumped to 291 locations, including some in Northern Ireland.

Now, the government is in a small panic to find a way to stop the spread of the fungus.

However, environmentalist groups say that it is too little too late, and that there is no going back now.

Chalara Fraxinea, the fungus in question, was first discovered in the UK on March 7.

It was brought over by infected wood from the Netherlands, and since has been declared a national emergency.

Concern, over the spread of the fungus, is such that there's even an app to map locations where it has spread to.

The same fungus has killed over ninety percent of the ash population in Denmark.