From the Trenches World Report

RT News

As one of the preconditions to authorizing close to $300 million in aid, the United States is pressuring El Salvador to purchase genetically modified seeds from Monsanto instead of non-GM seeds from local farmers.

According to Sustainable Pulse, a website covering developments related to genetically modified organisms and sustainable agriculture, the US will reportedly withhold $277 million in aid through the Millennium Challenge Compact if El Salvador refuses to purchase GM seeds from the biotech company Monsanto.   Continue reading “US pressures El Salvador to buy Monsanto’s GMO seeds”

Press TV 

CBS New York

Imagine being hit hard by Superstorm Sandy and then being told you have to stop construction on your home.

As CBS 2′s Christine Sloan exclusively reported, that’s what dozens of homeowners were told in one Jersey Shore community.

Almost two years after Sandy, nearly 20 percent of the 500 or so homes in Ocean Beach are still under construction.   Continue reading “Ocean Beach Residents Rebuilding After Superstorm Sandy Told To Stop”

Bundy Ranch

To the people of this great nation, and to the families of those who are in sorrow at this time,

In a time such as this, how can one ever express correctly the feelings within.
Our family morns for the lives that were taken. We are deeply saddened by these events.

Our thoughts of concern are for those who were so hastily left behind. Wives left without husbands and children without fathers, to love, raise and protect. Memories may be all they have to sustain them through the lonely nights ahead. What is a mother to say when a child asks; “where is daddy?”.  We pray that the aching hearts of the families will be filled with the knowledge that God knows your pains. His love for you is real and tangible.  He will morn and sorrow with you while sustaining you through these times. In the end, our Eternal Heavenly Father will make right all wrongs. Continue reading “The Bundy Family: The sorrow of this weeks events”

Las Vegas Review Journal – by Mike Blaskey

Jerad Miller didn’t die on his own terms after all, the Review-Journal has learned.

It was a Las Vegas police officer — not Amanda Miller, his wife — who fired the shot that ended the life of the 31-year-old cop killer, according to an official with knowledge of the case.

Metro police initially thought Amanda Miller, 22, killed her husband in the Wal-Mart. That was based on security video footage that showed her pointing the gun at him, the official said.    Continue reading “Official: Police, not wife, killed Jerad Miller”

NBC Connecticut

The mother of a -12-year-old boy who brought a grenade to school for show-and-tell related to World War II lessons has been arrested.

Johnson Academy in Stratford was placed on lockdown around 10:30 a.m. Friday and students were evacuated to the auditorium until a State Police bomb squad determined the grenade was a simulator used for training.   Continue reading “Mom Arrested After Son Brings Simulated Grenade to Show and Tell”

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Common Dreams – by Tom Engelhardt

The United States has been at war — major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions — nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began.  That’s more than half a century of experience with war, American-style, and yet few in our world bother to draw the obvious conclusions.

Given the historical record, those conclusions should be staring us in the face.  They are, however, the words that can’t be said in a country committed to a military-first approach to the world, a continual build-up of its forces, an emphasis on pioneering work in the development and deployment of the latest destructive technology, and a repetitious cycling through styles of war from full-scale invasions and occupations to counterinsurgency, proxy wars, and back again.   Continue reading “Post-9/11 US Foreign Policy: A Record of Unparalleled Failure”

CNS News – by Susan Jones

 As tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors cross into the United States illegally from Mexico, the Obama administration admits it didn’t anticipate how many would come —  and it is asking Congress “for additional (taxpayer) resources to meet this challenge.”

“So there is a request to the appropriators for just over $2 billion to support HHS (Health and Human Services) facilities in particular,” a senior administration official told reporters on a White House conference call Monday.   

The administration also is requesting another $160 million in “additional support” for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Border Patrol and immigration agencies. Continue reading “WH Wants ‘Just Over $2 Billion’ From Taxpayers to House Children Crossing Into U.S.”

Wall Street Journal – by ALI A. NABHAN And MATT BRADLEY

BAGHDAD—Al Qaeda-inspired militants seized control of Iraq’s second-largest city on Tuesday in a brazen military operation that underscored the weakness of the Baghdad government across vast swaths of the country.

Hours after government forces fled Mosul in disarray following four days of fighting, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki declared a nationwide “state of maximum preparedness” but didn’t indicate whether government forces were mobilizing to retake the Iraqi city, 220 miles north of the capital Baghdad.   Continue reading “Militants Overrun Iraq’s Second-Largest City As Government Forces Flee”

KOIN 6 News

Update: TROUTDALE, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A gunman and one Reynolds High School student are confirmed dead following a shooting inside the Troutdale school.

Law enforcement officials offered few other details concerning the shooting during a 10 a.m. media update, but offered condolences and praising students and staff for prompt, organized reactions.   Continue reading “Student, shooter dead at Reynolds High School, Troutdale, Oregon”

The Organic Prepper

It’s interesting to step over to the dark side sometimes and read the “liberal” perspective on current events. I stumbled across a perfect example of liberal bias this morning when I read an article on a website called “Truthout”.  The author was reflecting on the Las Vegas shooting and an incident in Georgia that also took place this weekend.   Continue reading “I’m a terrorist…You’re a terrorist….Hey! We’re all right wing extremist terrorists!”

The Telegraph – by Johnny Clark

MOULTRIE, GA. — A Georgia consortium is poised to be a leader in unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for farming.

A statewide working group that includes state and federal government, industry and academia, has been working since 2009 to develop a type of drone that can save a farmer’s time and resources during the growing season.   Continue reading “Unmanned aerial vehicles are flying to the farm”