From the Trenches World Report
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61 million dollar settlement for losing 2 billion dollars. Great Job !!
Social media readers had some snarky comments Thursday about reports that the former CEO of Target got a total severance and other benefits package worth about the same as the total amount being offered to all 17,600 of the chain’s Canadian employees who will soon be out of work as the company winds down its presence in Canada. Continue reading “Target’s package for ex-CEO matches package for all 17,600 Canadian workers”
In the clip below, Biden says he’ll ultimately make up his mind sometime this summer. In the meantime, we’re left to speculate and wonder until he does.
Historically, the vice presidency has been a steppingstone to the Oval Office. It worked out (eventually) for Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush, to name just two examples. After eight years as the commander in chief’s top deputy, both men presumably benefited from their years as subordinates. Biden, if he runs, would almost certainly use this experience to his advantage. Continue reading “Biden: “There’s a Chance” I’ll Run to Succeed My Boss”
Guns Save Lives – by Sam Cadle
For those of us in the concealed carry crowd, there are times it is nice to have something as a backup to your pistol. I will sometimes carry a baton with me. I do not only carry one for self-defense, there is a host of other uses for a batons. They are a tool just like anything else that you might carry. I have used a baton to pry things open, poke around places I don’t want to put my hand and they can be used to break out windows in an emergency. Continue reading “Asp Expands Line Of Concealable Batons For 2015”
Eastern Montana residents rushed to stock up on bottled water Tuesday after a cancer-causing component of oil was detected in public water supplies downstream of a pipeline spill on the Yellowstone River.
Elevated levels of benzene were found in water samples taken from a treatment plant that serves about 6,000 people in the agricultural community of Glendive, near North Dakota. Continue reading “Cancer-causing agent detected in water after pipeline spill”
Editor’s Note: There are a lot of global economic fun-and-games going on with the price of oil, due in part to the major increase in fracking, the American economic, apparently propped up in a false bubble largely because of the fracking, and the economic warfare against other nations, especially Russia. By there is far too little focus on the fun-and-games being perpetrated against the ordinary people of the United States who are put under environmental threat by fracking – it is contaminating groundwater, and injecting harmful chemical toxins into the drinking water supply. Continue reading “Kansas Officials Admit “Strong Correlation” Between Quakes & Fracking”
NEW YORK, Jan. 22 (UPI) — CNN has a political game show in the works to be hosted by anchor Anderson Cooper.
The first episode is set to air on President’s Day and will be focused on presidential politics. If it does well, the network will extend the number of episodes. Continue reading “Anderson Cooper to host new political game show on CNN”
The Real Agenda News – by Steven J. Lendman
Assaulted, beaten, arrested, imprisoned, tortured and murdered in cold blood. For daring to resist Israeli barbarism. Demanding fundamental rights everyone deserves.
Violence begets more of it. The latest incident won’t be the last. Automatically called “terrorism.”
Israeli media accounts didn’t surprise. Omitting what most needs explaining. Continue reading “Israeli State Terror is the Root Cause of Palestinian Blowback”
(Israel running work camps where laborers are treated like slaves and worked to death 17 hours a day for next to nothing? Hmmm. Where have I heard of stories like that?)
by Mark Anderson, The Guardian
After toiling in the sun on an Israeli farm for 17 hours, Praiwan Seesukha, a 37-year-old Thai migrant worker, went to sleep next to other exhausted labourers in a crowded shed. He did not wake up. Continue reading “Israel ignoring deaths of Thai workers on farms, Human Rights Watch says”
State efforts to stop warrantless NSA spying are off to a fast start in the 2015 legislative session.
Just two weeks into this year’s legislative season, and with many legislatures not even in session yet, legislators in four states have already introduced bills to ban material support or resources to any federal agency engaged in warrantless spying.
These bills not only support efforts to turn off NSA’s water in Utah, but would also have practical effects on federal surveillance programs if passed. Continue reading “Four and Counting: States Consider Bill to Turn Off Resources to the NSA”
Tenth Amendment Center – by Michael Boldin
A bill introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates this week would block unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s national guard troops, effectively restoring the Founders’ framework for state-federal balance on the Guard.
House Bill 2168 (HB2168), the Defend the Guard Act, was introduced by Del. Pat McGeehan (R-Hancock, 1), a former Air Force intelligence officer who did tours in Afghanistan and the Middle East, and cosponsored by ten other delegates. If passed, the bill would block the federal government from deploying West Virginia Guard troops overseas unless there is a declaration of war from Congress, as required by the Constitution. Continue reading “West Virginia Bill Would Block Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments”
Republicans have a backup plan for approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline if President Obama vetoes the bill now moving through the Senate, a top House Republican suggested Wednesday.
House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) struck a positive tone about the pipeline fight in a radio interview, suggesting the GOP could have other ways to secure a veto-proof majority for the pipeline. Continue reading “GOP plans Keystone XL attachment to infrastructure bill, lawmaker says”
New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, one of the state’s most powerful Democrats for more than two decades, was arrested on Thursday after a lengthy federal corruption investigation, the FBI said.
Silver, 70, a lawyer whose tenure as speaker since 1994 has outlasted governors, mayors and many other politicians, has been under investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the FBI. Silver has served in the Assembly since 1977. Continue reading “New York state assembly speaker arrested on corruption charges”
Zero Hedge – by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man blog
Only the Sheeple Are Sane
This post is about an issue that is by now a bit dated (though the topic as such certainly isn’t), but we have only just become aware of it and it seemed to us worth rescuing it from the memory hole. In late 2013, the then newest issue of the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM for short) defined a new mental illness, the so-called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Continue reading ““If You Question Authority, You Are Mentally Ill”, Report Finds”
I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.
The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath, because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material, but along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
It was wonderful for drying children’s tears, and on occasion was even used for cleaning out dirty ears… Continue reading “Grandma’s Apron”
Town Hall – by Daniel Doherty
Phys Org – by Matthew Brown
UPI – by Aileen Graet
American Everyman
Activist Post
The Hill – by Ben Kamisar