From the Trenches World Report
Enforce our Bill of Rights
Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon
Rapper, entrepreneur, restaurant owner, and licensed gun carrier Rick Ross (shown above in a Florida mugshot) says he is a supporter of the Second Amendment, but said in a recent interview that he doesn’t want guns in his chain of 25 wing restaurants.
According to The Huffington Post, Continue reading “Rapper, Restaurant Owner Rick Ross Says to Leave Your Gun in Your Car at His Restaurants”
Nearly two years after her teenage son was shot to death in Nogales, Mexico, by one or more Border Patrol agents, Araceli Rodriguez is headed to court to find out who killed him.
Attorneys for Rodriguez, including the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit in federal district court in Tucson Tuesday, seeking civil damages against the agents involved in what their suit terms the “senseless and unjustified” death of 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, on Oct. 10, 2012. Continue reading “Mother of dead Mexican teen sues Border Patrol”
Stay away from the doctors. THEY WILL KILL YOU!!!
Prevent Disease – by DAVE MIHALOVIC
There are millions of people who are currently being misclassified as having high blood pressure, when in fact findings show that these people are not actually more likely to die prematurely than those with ‘normal’ blood pressure. In addition, what used to be classified as normal or high-normal blood pressure (a systolic pressure of 120-139 mm Hg and diastolic pressure of 80-89 mm Hg) is now categorized as prehypertension. Continue reading “This Is How Doctors Improperly and Unnecessarily Label Millions With High Blood Pressure To Prescribe Medication”
USA Today – by Gregg Zoroya and Meghan Hoyer
Internal VA documents show the depth of fraudulent scheduling, manipulation of data and in some cases intimidation of staff to hide delays in medical care to veterans in the 6-million patient national system.
Auditors found at least one appointment scheduler at 109 VA medical centers who said wait times for veterans had been falsified, according to a USA TODAY analysis of internal VA survey data made public Tuesday. To keep evidence of delayed care out of the VA’s official electronic tracking system, secret lists were maintained at 110 facilities, the analysis shows. Continue reading “VA manipulated vets’ appointment data, audit finds”
A statement put out today by President Barack Obama on the occasion of a religious holiday is raising some eyebrows.
The holiday is a Muslim one called “Eid-al-Fitr” and the statement says: Continue reading “Obama Thanks Muslims for ‘Building the Very Fabric of Our Nation’”
Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon
Locust Fork, Alabama – A 14 year old boy used a 12 gauge shotgun to shoot and kill a man who was romantically linked to his mother.
The suspect in the case, identified as 34 year old Ayatollah Mohammad, was actually escorted by law enforcement off of the property owned by the boy’s mother that morning, but walked 7 miles back to the home and snuck onto the property. Continue reading “14 Year Old Uses 12 Gauge Shotgun to Defend His Mother From Abusive Boyfriend”
CNN – by Ralph Ellis, Sara Sidner, Karl Penhaul and Ian Lee
Jerusalem (CNN) — Despite calls for a new cease-fire, fighting intensified in Gaza on Monday and Tuesday morning, with Palestinians saying more than two dozen people died as rockets or mortars struck a refugee camp, a hospital and the center of Gaza City.
Eighteen people died as powerful and continuous air strikes rained down on Gaza City early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Health Authority reported. And the Israeli military reported that 10 of its soldiers were killed Monday. Continue reading “Dozens die as fighting intensifies in Gaza; children killed at refugee camp”
Atlanta Journal Constitution – by Steve Visser
A DeKalb County police officer resigned Monday after coming under fire for shooting a resident’s German Shepherd and then blocking the owner from taking the dog to the vet.
Doctor, a 9-year-old family pet, surprised Officer David Anthony Pitts who had come to the house on Mary Lou Lane near Decatur on Thursday because of a false alarm. The officer shot the dog in the face. Continue reading “DeKalb cop resigns after shooting homeowner’s German Shepherd”
A Chicago-area police officer who fatally shot a young dog in front of its 6-year-old owner on Friday was fired on Monday. Witnesses said the dog was not provoking the cops before it was shot.
Police dispatch in the Chicago suburb of Hometown, Illinois received a phone call on Friday from the dog’s owners that Apollo, a 16-month-old shepherd mix, got out of the family’s yard, and they requested assistance in finding him, Police Chief Charles Forsyth said in a statement on Facebook. The officer ‒ identified by the Justice for Apollo Facebook page as Robert Norris ‒ located the dog and followed him back to his home. Continue reading “Police officer fired for killing dog in front of 6-year-old owner”
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has issued an unusual warning for investors, calling the threat of a widespread blackout from an electromagnetic surge the “most significant danger” in the world.
Called an “electromagnetic pulse” or EMP, the events can occur naturally from solar storms or artificially from a high-altitude explosion of nuclear weapons. Continue reading “Paul Singer: This threat is ‘head-and-shoulders’ above all others”
Dr Michael Hudson once said that America and Europe both need to go beyond the politics of Left and Right to found an anti-Banker party to arrest the Bankers. That was his answer to Too Big To Jail Banks. Dr Hudson also wrote an article in 2009 predicting De-dollarization by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) nations . This is what he wrote five years ago in June of 2009: Continue reading “The BRICS Alliance Reveals Its Timeline To End American Dominance.”
USA Today -by Bob Ortega
CNS News – by Barbara Boland
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CNBC – by Lawrence Delevingne
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