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Why are US military forces working for the CIA, instead of the military? How can US soldiers, even special forces soldiers, be taking orders from an intelligence agency? Is the CIA now conducting military operations? This article raises these, and other equally disturbing questions. From Thomas Gibbon-Neff and Joby Warrick at washingtonpost.com:

The three Army Special Forces soldiers killed at a Jordanian military base this month were working for a CIA program to train moderate Syrian fighters when they were shot at a checkpoint under still-unclear circumstances, U.S. officials said.

The Nov. 4 slayings of the three soldiers is believed to be the deadliest single incident involving a CIA team since December 2009, when seven officers and contractors were killed in a suicide bombing in Khost, Afghanistan.

The Fort Campbell, Ky.-based soldiers — all members of the 5th Special Forces Group — were killed by a Jordanian soldier at an…

Some of the protestors after the election are demanding “free” higher education, although few of them have taken advantage of the many free-to-the-user educational resources that are already out there. From Simon Black at sovereignman.com:

Bleary-eyed from the 16+ hour flight from Asia, I checked my phone last night once the plane landed to find that riots have broken out across the Land of the Free.

It was enough to wake me from my jet lag.

All the televisions in the airport terminal were showing footage of the chaos along with occasional interviews with some of the protestors.

Naturally there was outcry against racism, sexism, violence, and all the usual anti-Trump arguments.

(Which I found ironic given this video of a Trump voter being viciously beaten in Chicago.)

But one of the recurring themes from these protestors being interviewed, primarily young people, was that Trump wasn’t going to do…

Karl Denninger points out an obvious truth: the cloud people need the dirt people a hell of a lot more than the dirt people need them. Start with the basics, like food and energy. Where do the cloud people think most of those basics comes from? From Denninger at theburningplatform.com:

Let me make a few observations.

First, eight years ago, and again four years ago, America elected a President. Fully half, give or take a couple of percent, disagreed with the outcome.

There were exactly zero riots, fires, “mass protests” and similar following that outcome despite the fact that half the population vehemently disagreed with it.

This time around, not so much.

Now I want you think very carefully about the following.

Most of the land mass of this nation is owned and resided upon by people who are in “red” (that is, the winner this time) areas of the…