From the Trenches World Report

NBC News – by Brian Brown

Electronic Intifada – by Ali Abunimah

As the death toll from Israel’s savage bombardment of Gaza continues to climb, Israel has once again turned to students to sell the slaughter online.

“Although they haven’t been called up to the army yet, they’ve decided to enlist in a civilian mission that is no less important – Israeli propaganda [hasbara],” Ynet’s Hebrew edition reported about a massive initiative organized by the Israeli student union branch at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC Herzliya), a prestigious private university.   Continue reading “Israel student union sets up “war room” to sell Gaza massacre on Facebook”

Video Rebel’s Blog

An Austin based radio talk show host said Wednesday morning that Texas state cops are already receiving death threats. So why are Mexican gang leaders so emboldened that they are willing to take out the honest cops eliminating resistance to their takeover?

Nobody knows how many illegal aliens are crossing America’s southern borders. Nobody even knows their real names. There are more than 10,000 arriving daily via train carrying people from Central America at the Texas border. Thousands more are arriving daily at the Mexican border with California, New Mexico and Arizona. These refugees include many juveniles with Gang Tattoos. The Mexican President said that murders have declined 27% so far this year. There are similar declines in the murder rates for the nations of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador though their murder rates remain higher than in Mexico. More than 100,000 people have been killed in Mexico’s Drug Wars. The Sinaloa Drug Cartel is allowed to bring drugs into America by the plane load. Wells Fargo was given a wrist slap fine for laundering drug money and leasing planes to the Sinaloa Cartel.   Continue reading “Amnesty, The Third American Coup.”

End of the American Dream – by Michael Snyder

Buried in a Wall Street Journal article from about a week ago was a startling piece of information.  According to a Wal-Mart executive, Wal-Mart “participated in an exercise to prepare for an earthquake on the New Madrid fault line” earlier this summer.  And officials at the U.S. Geological Survey have just released a report which indicates that they believe that the New Madrid fault zone has the “potential for larger and more powerful quakes than previously thought“.  So should we be concerned?  Do they know something that we don’t?  The USGS also says that the frequency of earthquakes in the central and eastern portions of the United States has quintupled over the past 30 years, and that significant earthquakes have started popping up in areas of the country that were once extremely quiet.  Along with the new report, the USGS released the following map…   Continue reading “Why Is Wal-Mart Preparing For A Major Earthquake On The New Madrid Fault?”

Mail.com

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A mother and teenage daughter have died of injuries they suffered in a fiery explosion inside their food truck earlier this month, authorities said Thursday.

Jaylin Landaverry Galdamez, 17, died Tuesday and Olga Galdamez, 42, died Sunday, according to the medical examiner’s office. The mother owned the truck. Both died of burn-related injuries suffered from the July 1 explosion of the La Parrillada Chapina truck in the Feltonville neighborhood of north Philadelphia, said Jeff Moran, a spokesman for the office.   Continue reading “Mother, daughter die after Philly food truck blast”

Mail.com

BERLIN (AP) — Air France and Germany’s two largest airlines on Wednesday canceled more flights to Tel Aviv because of safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

Lufthansa and Air Berlin extended their cancelations through Thursday and Air France said it was suspending its flights “until further notice.” The European Aviation Safety Agency late Tuesday said it “strongly recommends” that airlines refrain from operating flights to and from Tel Aviv. It said it would “monitor the situation and advise on any update as the situation develops.   Continue reading “European carriers suspend more Tel Aviv flights”

Mail.com

PLAINFIELD, Ind. (AP) — His pilot’s license fresh in his hands, an Indiana teenager set out in June for the adventure of a lifetime: an around-the-world flight with his father designed to break a record and raise money to build schools in his father’s native Pakistan.

Just days before the father and son were to return home to Indiana, the trip turned tragic when their plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean shortly after leaving Pago Pago in American Samoa on Tuesday night. The body of 17-year-old Haris Suleman was recovered, but crews were still searching Wednesday for the father, Babar Suleman.   Continue reading “Ocean crash kills teen pilot seeking world record”

Reason – by Ed Krayewski

Police in Enfield, Connecticut, were ready to arrest one of their own, Matthew Worden, for punching a suspect when it was “neither necessary nor needed.” They prepared a 7-page arrest warrant where it sounded like the cop’s excuse was that his victim got in the way of his punches, but the state’s attorney in Hartford rejected the application because, well, the incident was too complicated to follow.

The cops’ allegations against Worden and the state’s attorney explanation for rejecting them,via The Courant:   Continue reading “Connecticut Police Department Tries to Arrest One of Its Own For Brutality, State’s Attorney Says Nope, Too Complicated”

Valley Central – by Nadia Galindo

A smuggler is behind bars after he assaulted a game warden near the Rio Grande.

It happened Tuesday at about 7:30 p.m. just south of McAllen.

The warden was patrolling the river front in a pick-up truck when he spotted a group of unauthorized immigrants that had just crossed the river when he attempted to stop them, Texas Parks & Wildlife Major Malcolm Wilkes told Action 4 News.   Continue reading “Human smuggler attacks game warden near the border”

Breitbart – by Tony Lee

Nearly all of the illegal immigrant children who have been apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border in the last two years have been teenagers.

According to a new Pew Research report, in fiscal year 2013, 91% of illegal immigrant “children” apprehended at the border were teenagers. Of the nearly 60,000 illegal immigrant “children” who were apprehended since October of last year, 84% have been teenagers.   Continue reading “Pew Research Report: Nearly 90% of Illegal Immigrant ‘Children’ Are Teenagers”

My Fox DFW

President Obama has said most of the undocumented children in the U.S. from Central America will not be allowed to stay.

The process of deciding which ones will stay and which ones will go is often decided in court, but Tuesday, 18 of 20 undocumented children failed to show up to their first immigration hearing in Dallas federal court.   Continue reading “Many undocumented N. TX kids miss first immigration hearing”

RT

A German astronaut managed to capture the Gaza war zone from space while aboard the International Space Station. He called it his “saddest photo yet.”

Alexander Gerst, a German flight engineer, geophysicist and volcanologist, spread the news with a short tweet on Wednesday, as the ISS was on a flyby over Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. The image went viral.   Continue reading “‘Saddest photo yet’: Astronaut photographs Gaza offensive from space”

Huffington Post – by Ryan Grenoble

If you’re an animal that enjoys eating mayflies, and you live in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, this is your time to chow down. If (as is likely the case) you are human, you’re out of luck.

The annual mayfly hatch along the Mississippi River is in full swing, and on Sunday evening the event was large enough to appear on radar in the western Wisconsin area. According to the National Weather Service, parts of the swarm flew as high as 2,500 feet above the ground in the La Crosse, Wisconsin, area:   Continue reading “This Year’s Mayfly Hatch Was So Big It Showed Up On Radar And Caused A Car Wreck”