From the Trenches World Report
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it can’t provide emails sent between 2009 and 2011 that were requested by congressional investigators because of hard drive crashes.
The agency said that emails stored on dead drives were lost forever because its email backup tapes were recycled every six months, and employees were responsible for keeping their own long-term archives. Continue reading “The IRS Had a Contract With an Email Backup Company”
Yahoo News – by STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as millions of baby boomers approach retirement, the Social Security Administration has been closing dozens of field offices, forcing more and more seniors to seek help online instead of in person, according to a congressional report being released Wednesday.
The agency blames budget constraints. Continue reading “Social Security closes offices as baby boomers age”
Breitbart – by Sylvia Longmire
TUCSON, Arizona–As more and more unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from Central America have poured into south Texas—and subsequently transferred to Border Patrol facilities elsewhere along the border—US government officials are scrambling to find places to put them. However, based on current immigration and asylum laws, the vast majority of those children could be legally staying right here in the United States before long. Continue reading “Pro-Bono Lawyers: Most Unaccompanied Border Children Eligible for Amnesty”
Dutchsinse – by Michael Janitch
Main stream media now asking ‘are the Isis photos fake’…….
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-crisis-are-isis-execution-photos-fake-1452833
“Isis captioned the photos with the claim that “hundreds have been liquidated”, and boasted on a militant website that the horrific images provide evidence that 1,700 Iraqi government soldiers have been killed by Sunni fighters. Meanwhile Iraq’s chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, confirmed the photos’ authenticity. Continue reading ““ISIS” Execution Photos Faked… Photoshop Mistake, And Wardrobe “Malfunction””
New York Times – by Robert Pear
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is contacting hundreds of thousands of people with subsidized health insurance to resolve questions about their eligibility, as consumer advocates express concern that many will be required to repay some or all of the subsidies.
Of the eight million people who signed up for private health plans through insurance exchanges under the new health care law, two million reported personal information that differed from data in government records, according to federal officials and Serco, the company hired to resolve such inconsistencies. Continue reading “Thousands to Be Questioned on Eligibility for Health Insurance Subsidies”
Save Children from Radiation – by Michitaka Kobayashi, March 20, 2013
As I climbed the steep stairs to the Yamatsumi shinto shrine from the entrance gateway at the bottom of the mountain, the view over the beautiful Iitate village surrounded by the rich nature appeared in front of me. There was once a rumor, based on a TV program, that Yamatzumi shrine blocked the wave of radiation, shielding the village. I asked about the rumor, but the person living in the shrine laughed my question down saying, “Oh, I have heard about it!” Maybe the TV clues wanted to create an emotional episode that a shinto shrine protected the village from radiation.
The Daily Beast – by Michael Daly
When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi walked away from a U.S. detention camp in 2009, the future leader of ISIS issued some chilling final words to reservists from Long Island.
The Islamist extremist some are now calling the most dangerous man in the world had a few parting words to his captors as he was released from the biggest U.S. detention camp in Iraq in 2009.
“He said, ‘I’ll see you guys in New York,’” recalls Army Col. Kenneth King, then the commanding officer of Camp Bucca.
Humanity Awakens – by Ben Fulford
The emergency G7 plus Russia (but not G8) meeting last week has left the corporate government of the United States isolated from Europe and on the brink of bankruptcy. This French Government video of US corporate lackey Barack Obama meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly shows Obama asking for something and being denied.
It now clear to everybody who is paying attention that the United States is bankrupt and is being kept on life support by fraud (eg. tiny Belgium buying all those Treasuries) and by the ongoing rape of Japan. This situation is untenable and the formal declaration of the bankruptcy of the United States of America Corporation is coming soon, according to Japanese government sources. Continue reading “Emergency meetings of Western elite fail to break financial deadlock, US implosion now looms”
Positive News – by Thomas Alan Linzey
To protect small and family farms from industrial factory farming, over a decade ago a handful of Pennsylvania townships stood up to some of the country’s largest agribusiness corporations. Recognizing that the state and federal government, rather than protecting them from factory farms, were in fact forcing them into communities, the townships took the unprecedented step of banning corporate farming within their borders.
Thus began the journey to spark a new civil rights movement – one aimed at elevating the right of communities over the ‘rights’ of corporations to use communities for their own ends. Continue reading “A New Civil Rights Movement Frees Our Communities from Corporate Control”
Android Police – by Liam Spradlin
A couple of months ago, we posted one of our early Google Search/Now rumors, and it was something of a long range rumor compared to others. While things like parking reminders, proper timer management, and bill pay reminders have already seen their public release, the ability to set contact-based reminders (“remind me when I’m with this person“), hasn’t come forward yet. But it will likely appear very soon with a new feature in Android called Nearby, which will allow new interactions between you and nearby people, places, and things. Continue reading “Google Will Soon Introduce ‘Nearby’ To Let Other ‘People, Places, And Things’ Know When You’re Around”
Reason – by Peter Suderman