From the Trenches World Report

Alternet – by Martha Rosenberg

It has been a decade since Merck’s “super-aspirin” Vioxx was withdrawn from the market after a study showed it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Heavily advertised by celebrity athletes like Dorothy Hamill and Bruce Jenner and used by approximately 20 million patients, estimates of the heart attacks caused by Vioxx range from 27,000 to up to  140,000. The Vioxx scandal made Merck the poster child for deceptive marketing because the cardiovascular risk data was  deliberately withheld from the FDA, medical journals and the drug-taking public and their doctors, according to news reports. In 2010, Merck compensated 20,591 heart attack and 12,447 stroke plaintiffs out of a $4.85 billion settlement fund.   Continue reading “One of Big Pharma’s Most Disastrous Drugs Destroyed This Man’s Spine”

Joe for America

Illegal immigrants may be testing Obama’s resolve to grant amnesty. He is now calling their numbers a ‘crisis’.

Do ya think?

About 700 unaccompanied minors mostly from Central America were sleeping on plastic boards at a Border Patrol warehouse in Nogales, Arizona, this weekend, the vast majority flown from South Texas. It is the latest illustration of how a wave of immigrants from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala has overwhelmed U.S. border authorities. President Barack Obama called the surge a crisis last week and appointed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to lead the government’s response. Here are some questions and answers.   Continue reading “Obama Wants Another $1.4 Billion for Foster Care . . . of Illegal Immigrants”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

Under the Obama administration, surplus weapons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—from grenade launchers to machine guns to silencers—have militarized police departments across the United States at unprecedented levels, the New York Times revealed in an investigation published Sunday.

Pentagon data shows a massive transfer of military weapons to local law enforcement on Obama‘s watch, including “tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft,” writes journalist Matt Apuzzo.   Continue reading “Concern Grows as Military Weapons Flood Police Departments”

San Jose Mercury Times – by Michelle Rindels and Martin Griffith

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The married couple who police say killed three people in Las Vegas, including two officers, had been kicked off a ranch where anti-government protesters faced down federal agents earlier this year, rancher Cliven Bundy’s son said Monday.

Ammon Bundy told The Associated Press that Jerad and Amanda Miller were asked to leave his father’s ranch after being there for a few days this spring.   Continue reading “Cliven Bundy’s son: Vegas shooters were kicked off our ranch”

Christian News – by Heather Clark

ROME – Megachurch speaker and author Joel Osteen was among a group of political and religious leaders who met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday.

According to reports, Osteen was part of a delegation organized by the International Foundation in an effort to encourage interfaith relations and ecumenicism. Utah Senator Mike Lee (R), a Mormon, Gayle Beebe, the president of the interdenominational Westmont College in California, and Pastor Tim Timmons, founder of South Coast Community Church also in California, were among those who who greeted the pope, along with Osteen.   Continue reading “Joel Osteen Meets with Pope Francis at Vatican: ‘He’s Made the Church More Inclusive’”

Humanity Awakens – by Ben Fulford

The emergency G7 plus Russia (but not G8) meeting last week has left the corporate government of the United States isolated from Europe and on the brink of bankruptcy. This French Government video of US corporate lackey Barack Obama meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin clearly shows Obama asking for something and being denied.

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It now clear to everybody who is paying attention that the United States is bankrupt and is being kept on life support by fraud (eg. tiny Belgium buying all those Treasuries) and by the ongoing rape of Japan. This situation is untenable and the formal declaration of the bankruptcy of the United States of America Corporation is coming soon, according to Japanese government sources.   Continue reading “Emergency meetings of Western elite fail to break financial deadlock, US implosion now looms”

Counter Punch – by Will Parrish

California’s watersheds have been altered more than any other place in the world.  The state first achieved this dubious distinction in the early-mid-20^th century.  The Hoover Dam (on the Colorado River), which began operation in 1936, was the largest dam in the world at the time of its completion. With regard to the world’s biggest concrete river plugs, Shasta Dam (upper Sacramento River) rated second only behind Hoover when finished in 1945.   Continue reading “The Politics of the World’s Most Hydrologically Altered Landmass”

Jon Rappoport

Mexican cartels? Colombian cartels? Afghan poppy lords? Middlemen? Street dealers? Are you kidding? They’re small fry. Check out the pros.

Medical News Today, June 22, 2013, “Most Americans on Prescriptions.” “7 out of every 10 Americans are on prescription drugs, and more than half of the country are on at least two, according to an analysis conducted by Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center researchers.”   Continue reading “Drug cartels? Amateurs! Here’s the real thing.”

Infowars – by Kurt Nimmo

The Center for Competitive Politics has filed a complaint with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics claiming New York Senator Chuck Schumer and other Senate Democrats used the IRS to deny the free speech of political opponents.

Schumer had signed letters directing the IRS to look into allegations of improper campaigning by “social welfare organizations.” The IRS in turned investigated mostly conservative groups.   Continue reading “Complaint Says Sen. Chuck Schumer Behind IRS Effort To Attack Tea Party Groups”

Free Beacon – by Elizabeth Harrington

Roughly one million low-income Americans will pay a fine under Obamacare, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

The CBO estimated that four million people would pay the individual mandate penalty for not having health insurance by 2016 as a result of the president’s health care law, according to a report released last week.   Continue reading “Obamacare Penalty to Hit One Million Low-Income Americans”

Yahoo News – by RHEANA MURRAY

A fictional horror creature popularized by Internet memes is now linked to three violent crimes.

A week after two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls allegedly stabbed their friend 19 times to honorSlender Man, more real-life connections to the spooky character are emerging.

A man accused of killing two cops and a civilian before committing suicide with his wife in Las Vegas on Sunday often dressed up in costume as Slender Man, a neighbor told KTNV.   Continue reading “Slender Man Now Linked to 3 Violent Acts”

Canada Free Press – by Judi McLeod

Someone  is luring thousands of children to come on their own to America where women and children will be welcomed with open arms.

The alarming estimated 80,000-strong exodus of children traveling without parents or other relatives,  puts them at risk from “coyote” smugglers who are bringing Central Americans to the U.S. illegally by telling their relatives that children can take advantage of the program and find work in the United States. (CSMonitor, June 8, 2014)   Continue reading “‘King Coyote’, the Pied Piper of Illegal Immigration”