From the Trenches World Report

Mint Press – by Brandon Baker, Eco Watch

Research from Environment America shows that 2012 was a bigger year for toxic chemical dumping than most of us could have imagined.

Industrial facilities across the U.S. dumped more than 206 million pounds of toxic chemicals into waterways in 2012, according to the “Wasting Our Waterways” report. The figures about the nation, as a whole, are stark, as are figures about individual regions and companies. For instance, Tyson Foods Inc. alone dumped more than 18.5 million pounds—about 9 percent of the nationwide total.   Continue reading “Report Exposes Companies That Dumped 206 Million Pounds Of Toxic Chemicals Into U.S. Waterways”

Breitbart – by Kristen Tate

HOUSTON, Texas–Thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding the U.S.-Mexico border and the problem isn’t likely to get better anytime soon. In a mad dash to make it to the U.S., many of the Latino minors are hopping aboard a network of Mexican freight trains called “El Tren de la Muerte,” or Death Train. The phenomenon may support claims that the Obama Administration’s lax stance on immigration is encouraging thousands of children to put their lives at risk.

Children who travel via Death Train must jump onto a moving freight car. Minors who cannot successfully pull themselves onto the traveling cars fall onto the tracks–many are left with extreme injuries.   Continue reading “Illegal Immigrants Hopping on “Death Trains” Hoping for Amnesty”

Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon

Horror author Stephen King took to Twitter yesterday to call for additional gun control laws. The multiple time best selling author said the following in tweet, “Multiple gunshot wounds last night at Red Rocks. We regulator booze and tobacco; it’s time to regulate firearms.” I’ll be nice and won’t even point out the irony of a best selling author having a spelling mistake in his tweet.   Continue reading “Author Stephen King Calls for Additional Gun Control Laws”

The Guardian – by Christopher Booker

Continue reading “The scandal of fiddled global warming data”

CNN – by Chelsea J. Carter, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Hamdi Alkhshali

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Militant fighters tightened their grip Sunday on western Iraq as security forces withdrew from a handful of towns in Anbar province, moving closer to Baghdad.

The news that Iraqi forces withdrew from at least three towns in the province raised questions about whether Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government is giving up on the region.   Continue reading “In Iraq, militants press on toward Baghdad”

Shark Tank – by Bruce Carroll

A young U.S. Marine from New Hampshire and two other colleagues were killed in action by a roadside bomb last week in Afghanistan. The Marine from New Hampshire, Brandon Garabrant, made the news in June 2013 when his high school principal refused to allow him to wear his Marine dress blues at graduation.

Brandon Garabrant’s plan to wear the uniform to the ceremony at ConVal Regional High School in Peterborough hit a snag when the school’s principal told him he must wear the traditional cap and gown.

Continue reading “Marine Who Tried To Wear Uniform at Graduation Killed In Combat”

Huffington Post

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grand Ole Opry member Jimmy C. Newman, known for mixing Cajun and country music, has died.

Opry publicist Jessie Schmidt said Newman died in Nashville on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 86.

The Tennessean reports (http://tnne.ws/1lhA3YI ) Newman’s first Top 10 country hit, “Cry, Cry, Darling,” came 60 years ago, in the summer of 1954. That same year he joined Shreveport-based radio show “The Louisiana Hayride,” where he performed alongside Johnny Horton, Elvis Presley and others.   Continue reading “Jimmy C. Newman: Grand Ole Opry Member And Cajun Country Pioneer Dies At 86”

Bloomberg – by David Lerman

Former Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up his offensive against President Barack Obama today by accusing the commander-in-chief of underestimating the terrorist threat and not doing enough to confront it.

“We’re in for big trouble in the years ahead because of his refusal to recognize reality and because of his continual emphasis upon getting the U.S. basically to withdraw from that part of the world,” Cheney, a Republican, said of the Middle East and Afghanistan, in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program.   Continue reading “Cheney Says U.S. Headed for ‘Big Trouble’ on Terrorism”

Courthouse News

     CHICAGO (CN) – Suburban Chicago police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds at short range because he refused to go to the hospital, his stepdaughter claims in court.

     Sharon Mangerson, stepdaughter of the late John Wrana Jr., sued the Village of Park Forest on Friday, and its police Officers Clifford Butz, Michael Baugh, Craig Taylor, Lloyd Elliot, Charlie Hoskins and Mitch Greer in Federal Court.   Continue reading “Police shot a 95-year-old WWII veteran to death with bean bag rounds because he refused to go to hospital”

Washington’s Blog

US and developed nations’ escalate “Big Lie” crimes in Earth’s tragic-comedy, centered in:

• Unlawful and lie-began war (here, here, here, here),
• So-called money (actually bank-created debt; here, here, here), and
• “Crime-coverage” by corporate media.

The solutions are pretty obvious:   Continue reading “Had enough ‘Big Lie’ crimes from US leaders to demand arrests, or do you need even more death, debt, lies?”

CBS Tampa

TAMPA, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – Students at the University of South Florida will be able to borrow drones from the university’s library beginning this fall semester.

WESH  reported that the Tampa campus will allow students to borrow the drones if they need them for their school-related projects.

This announcement comes a couple of days after the National Park Service announced a temporary ban on drones.   Continue reading “USF Students Can Borrow Drones From School’s Library”

Huffington Post – by Paul Elias

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers have been given the green light to scan the social media sites of jurors.

The American Bar Association says it’s ethical for lawyers to scour online for publicly available musings of citizens called for jury service — and even jurors in deliberations.

But the ABA does warn lawyers against actively “following” or “friending” jurors or otherwise invading their private Internet areas.   Continue reading “American Bar Association Gives Lawyers Green Light To Scan Jurors’ Social Media Sites”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Communist, socialist, and Islamist tyrants, as well as some elected governments from around the world, came together in Bolivia mid June to sign a massive declaration outlining their autocratic demands. Among them: Global government, planetary wealth redistribution from Western taxpayers to their governments, the United Nations “sustainable development” scheme known as Agenda 21, an “international climate regime,” and economy-crippling energy-rationing policies in the West, as well as much more power for their oftentimes brutal regimes in “global governance” institutions such as the UN and the IMF. UN boss Ban Ki-moon was there to cheer them along.    Continue reading “Dictators Worldwide Demand Aid, Empowered UN, Global Socialism”

Natural News – by Jonathan Benson

The controversy surrounding one of the world’s most popular artificial sweeteners, aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal), continues some 30 years after the chemical was rammed through the regulatory process by pharmaceutical interests, despite its well-documented dangers. And yet to this very day, many people are still unaware of the chemical sweetener’s sordid history, not to mention what aspartame is actually made from and how it affects the body and brain. Continue reading “What is aspartame? Five surprising facts you never know about this chemical sweetener”