From the Trenches World Report
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Think Progress – by RYAN KORONOWSKI
Al Gore had been up all night for his organization’s third annual 24 Hours of Reality event before taking the podium at the Center for American Progress’ 10th Anniversary Policy Conference. True to form, he explained the imperative of acting to reduce carbon pollution.
But Gore was fired up, more so than many had ever seen him. Continue reading “Al Gore On Solving The Climate Crisis: ‘You’re Damn Right I’m Passionate About This’”
Guns and Gear Reviews – by Ryan Michad
You can get many accessories for this gun, including a belt buckle holster and a folding grip/pocket clip to carry the revolver.
If you live in an area where snakes are prevalent, you can load the revolver with shotshells to take care of those if the need arises.. Continue reading “North American Arms .22 LR Mini-Revolver”
Before It’s News – by Susan Duclos
In the video below by videographer BeautifulGirlByDana, a very good point is made about how with every earthquake that is strong enough to shake buildings hundreds of miles away, video after video is uploaded with hours and throughout the first day afterward, yet for some odd reason, the 7.3 magnitude quake that hit Fukushima this week, there were very few videos published, but quite a few copying them then reuploading, so it was the same videos, other than news reports, over and over again. Continue reading “Fukushima Goes Into Stealth Mode On The Internet”
The burgeoning battle between fast-food workers and their employers over low wages and benefits was ratcheted up a notch this week with the leak of a phone conversation from a McDonald’s employee helpline in which a longtime employee was advised to go on food stamps in order to make ends meet.
Fast-food employee advocacy group Low Pay Is Not OK posted a video on its website on Wednesday featuring a recording of a phone call made by McDonald’s employee Nancy Salgado to McResource, a phone line for McDonald’s employees to call for information about housing, child care and other resources. Continue reading “McDonald’s advises own employee to apply for food stamps”
The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges
Mike and Chantel Sacket, from Priest Lake, Idaho, were preparing an 0.63 acre plot of land for the construction of their new home when an order by the EPA was issued to remove piles of fill material and replant the vegetation that they had removed from their property. The couple paid $23,000 for their property.
The order from the EPA was issued after the couple had gone through the process of acquiring all of the necessary permits to begin construction. Failure to comply with the EPA order would have resulted in a daily fine of up to $37,500. Continue reading “The EPA Legally Controls All Water, Food Production and Private Property”
New York Daily News – by Joe Kemp
This Bud’s for him!
A Georgia man said he braved a raging house fire to save his stash of Bud Light.
Walter Serpit, who walks with a cane, was watching television in his Columbus home with five other adults and two children when the room began to fill with smoke on Thursday afternoon, he told WTVM. Continue reading “Georgia man saves family from burning house, but turns back to save his beer”
Political Outcast – by Mark Horne
Some blog called “Armed With Science” decided to be a propaganda mouthpiece for the NSA for at least one post (perhaps that’s the blogs regular shtick; with a .mil domain, that wouldn’t surprise me). They interviewed General Keith Alexander and let him tell us whatever least untruthful statements he could devise.
“We [the NSA] collect foreign intelligence for our country, and we provide information assurance for national security systems,” Gen. Alexander says. “We have two great missions, and those missions provide us with some tremendous capabilities.” Continue reading “NSA Sypymaster: We Need a Way to Violate First Amendment”
The NSA is spying on everyone’s personal communications. It’s operating without any meaningful oversight.
On October 26th, the 12th anniversary of the signing of the USA Patriot Act, we’re holding the largest rally yet against NSA surveillance. We’ll be handing more than a half-million petitions to Congress to remind them that they work for us — and we won’t tolerate mass surveillance any longer. Continue reading “A Rally against Mass Surveillance”
A partnership between police departments and social media sites discussed at a convention in Philadelphia this week could allow law enforcement to keep anything deemed criminal off the Internet—and even stop people from organizing protests.
A high-ranking official from the Chicago Police Department told attendees at a law enforcement conference on Monday that his agency has been working with a security chief at Facebook to block certain users from the site “if it is determined they have posted what is deemed criminal content,” reports Kenneth Lipp, an independent journalist who attended the lecture. Continue reading “Partnership between Facebook and police could make planning protests impossible”
Aljazeera – by Marisa Taylor
Stop Watching Us
RT News