From the Trenches World Report

Fox News

DEVELOPING: Three Afghan National Army soldiers who vanished from a Cape Cod military base where they had been taking part in a training exercise have been found at the Canadian border near Niagara Falls, a senior Pentagon official told Fox News.

The men were reported missing by the Massachusetts National Guard Saturday night at Joint Base Cape Cod. A statement identified the soldiers as Maj. Jan Mohammad Arash, 48, Capt. Mohammad Nasir Askarzada, 18, and Capt. Noorullah Aminyar, 20.   Continue reading “Missing Afghan soldiers found at Canadian border near Niagara Falls”

EAG News – by Kyle Olson

GIVATAYIM, Israel – After students read a poem with a shocking ending, they were assigned to write suicide notes.

Israel Hayom reports 11th grade advanced English students at Thelma Yellin High School were instructed to write suicide notes after reading “Richard Cory,” a poem about a “wealthy man who committed suicide” in the last line.

The news site reports:   Continue reading “Students write suicide notes to ‘learn English’”

Atlanta Journal Constitution – by Jeremy Redmon

Georgia’s foreign-born population grew by 5 percent over the last five years, new census estimates show.

Between 2009 and 2013, the number of Georgia residents who were born in other countries increased by 50,598, from 920,381 to 970,979. Last year, they represented 9.7 percent of the state’s overall population of 9.9 million.   Continue reading “Georgia’s foreign-born population up by 5 percent since 2009”

The Baltimore Sun – by John Fritz

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake plans to unveil dozens of recommendations Wednesday intended to lure immigrant families to Baltimore and retain them.

The proposals, from increasing the availability of translators at city agencies to making it easier for the undocumented to buy homes, offer insight into the mayor’s pledge to attract 10,000 new families over the next decade — an effort that is focused in part on the city’s burgeoning immigrant neighborhoods.   Continue reading “Baltimore to weigh immigrant-friendly policies”

Mi Familia Vota

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sept. 15, 2014 – Today, Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF), Voto Latino and more than 50 partners* are launching an online and grassroots voter registration campaign in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. Our collective voice will ensure elected officials no longer ignore us or the issues that impact the Latino community.

The campaign kickoff urges Latinos to register to vote and then take their families, neighbors, and friends to the ballot box on Election Day, November 4. Only by exercising the power of their vote, can the Latino community influence real policy changes.   Continue reading “Mi Familia Vota Education Fund, Voto Latino, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Latino Victory Project and 50-plus groups Launch Robust National Voter Registration Drive”

Wall Street Journal – by Michael Howard Saul

The mayors of the nation’s three largest cities—New York, Los Angeles and Chicago—plan to launch a new effort on Wednesday to increase citizenship among legal permanent residents, an effort officials hope will spread across the country.

The initiative, titled “Cities for Citizenship,” will help the three cities expand naturalization programs and other ventures dedicated to helping immigrants secure their financial footing through counseling, legal assistance and microloans.   Continue reading “Push for Immigrants to Become Citizens – Mayors of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago Launch ‘Cities for Citizenship’”

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Washington Post – by Jerry Markon, Ellen Nakashima and Alice Crites

An exodus of top-level officials from the Department of Homeland Security is undercutting the agency’s ability to stay ahead of a range of emerging threats, including potential terrorist strikes and cyberattacks, according to interviews with current and former officials.

Over the past four years, employees have left DHS at a rate nearly twice as fast as in the federal government overall, and the trend is accelerating, according to a review of a federal database.   Continue reading “Top-level turnover makes it harder for DHS to stay on top of evolving threats”

Breitbart – by Sarah Rumpf

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Child Protective Services (CPS), a division of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS), has launched an internal investigation after the body of Colton Turner, a two-year-old Cedar Park boy, was found in a shallow grave in Southeast Austin last Friday, despite multiple prior abuse complaints being filed against the child’s mother in the months before his death.   Continue reading “Internal Investigation at Texas CPS After Toddler Found Dead”

RT

A one-year-old baby has been rescued from a hot, parked car by a woman who broke the windshield, crawled into the car and unlocked the door. The woman ignored warnings from security guards and the apprehension of onlookers.

“I don’t care if I get arrested, I’m going to save this baby,” Angela Radtke said, as quoted by local media outlet KENS 5.   Continue reading “Texas woman breaks windshield to save baby from hot car”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan on Sunday, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth — in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action.

Starting along Central Park West, most came on foot, others with bicycles and walkers, and some even in wheelchairs. Many wore costumes and marched to drumbeats. One woman played the accordion. But their message was not entertaining:   Continue reading “Global marches draw attention to climate change”

Mail.com

PARIS (AP) — France’s top security official says militants from the Islamic State group have threatened to kill civilians in the coalition of countries arrayed against the extremists.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says he is confident in the country’s security. Cazeneuve said Monday “this threat to kill civilians, added to the execution of hostages and to the massacres, is yet another demonstration of the barbarism of these terrorists, justifying our fight without truce or pause.”   Continue reading “France: IS has threatened coalition civilians”

Mail.com

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — There has only been one prosecution under the Emmett Till Act, even though the law was passed with the promise of $135 million for police work and an army of federal agents to investigate unsolved killings from the civil rights era. Some deaths aren’t even under review because of a quirk in the law.

Still, proponents are laying the groundwork to extend and expand the act in hopes it’s not too late for some families to get justice. In nearly six years since the signing of the law, named for a black Chicago teenager killed after flirting with a white woman in Mississippi in 1955, only one person has been prosecuted: A former Alabama trooper who pleaded guilty in 2010 to killing a black protester in 1965.   Continue reading “Backers seek expansion of civil rights death law”

Mail.com

A man authorities believe is the last person seen with a University of Virginia student before she disappeared is being sought on arrest warrants charging him with reckless driving.

But they say they also want to talk to him about the missing teen.

Virginia State Police issued warrants for Jesse Matthew on a charge of misdemeanor reckless driving, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference Sunday. Matthew has not been charged in the disappearance of 18-year-old Hannah Graham, who was last seen early on Sept. 13 in Charlottesville.   Continue reading “Man seen with missing UVa student being sought”

High Times

Scientists have discovered astounding new evidence that suggests hemp proteins have the capacity to repair damaged DNA — a phenomenon that occurs in all humans as the result of aging.

While the majority of people are aware that DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is present within most living organisms, there is perhaps a larger percentage who are completely oblivious to the fact that this hereditary material accumulates damage in a manner similar to wear and tear on an automobile.    Continue reading “Hemp Repairs Damaged DNA”

Activist Post – by Brandon Smith

There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation.

Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were much simpler. The control of information flow was easily directed. Rules were enforced with the threat of property confiscation and execution for anyone who strayed from the rigid socio-political structure. Those who had theological, metaphysical or scientific information outside of the conventional and scripted collective world view were tortured and slaughtered. The elites kept the information to themselves, and removed its remnants from mainstream recognition, sometimes for centuries before it was rediscovered.   Continue reading “Disinformation: How It Works”

The Hill – by Laura Barron-Lopez

President Obama is headed to a United Nations climate change summit on Tuesday seeking to lay the groundwork for a global accord on greenhouse gas emissions that could burnish his legacy.

Obama will call on global leaders to “step up to the plate and raise their level of ambition” when considering actions to tackle climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to the White House.   Continue reading “Obama grasps for climate accord”