From the Trenches World Report

The Blaze – by Billy Hallowell

World Vision, a prominent evangelical Christian charity that conducts humanitarian efforts around the globe, announced this week that it will begin hiring married gays and lesbians at its U.S. branch, so long as they are committed followers of Jesus Christ.

The policy change still requires World Vision’s more than 1,100 U.S. employees to be abstinent outside of marriage, though it broadens employment possibilities for gay Christians looking to work in the faith-based nonprofit realm.   Continue reading “Christian Org Announces Major Policy Change on Gays”

Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — As members of Congress and the Obama administration scramble to respond to the increasing threat posed by the Russian military in Ukraine, economic sanctions are emerging as the United States’ preferred method of exercising its leverage.

Late Monday, the Senate moved ahead on approving President Barack Obama’s request to enact broad penalties in the future against Russian officials and business people who are engaged in what the Treasury Department deems corruption, bribery or misuse of public funds. The House has passed a similar measure and is considering further steps in legislation scheduled for a markup Tuesday in the House Foreign Affairs Committee.   Continue reading “Six Members Of Congress Have Financial Stake In Russian Sanctions”

Yahoo News

Imagine if clinics in developing countries were equipped with an inexpensive yet durable tool that could help medical personnel identify and diagnose a variety of deadly diseases like Malaria, Chagas disease, or Leishmaniosis? For millions of people around the world waiting to be diagnosed and treated, such a tool could be a life-saver.

Manu Prakash, a professor at Stanford University and his students have developed a microscope out of a flat sheet of paper, a watch battery, LED, and optical units that when folded together, much like origami, creates a functional instrument with the resolution of 800 nanometers – basically magnifying an object up to 2,000 times.   Continue reading “Super-Cheap Paper Microscope Could Save Millions of Lives”

Video Rebel’s Blog

There are 30,774,038 federal, state and local government employees if you count the 4.4 million federal contractors and 2.5 million grantees. Are we getting our money’s worth? America has sent 12 million high paying jobs and 56,000 manufacturing plants overseas. We now have 51.5 million low paying workers who pay few if any taxes at all. 27 million individuals and families with children received an average of $1,330 in welfare payments disguised as Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC.) With our declining wages and employment we might ask ourselves are all those people worth it.

Any government worker who participated in the surveillance and assassination of the journalist Michael Hastings needs to at least lose their job if not serve time in prison. Journalism for good reason is the only profession protected by the Bill of Rights.   Continue reading “30,774,038 Government Employees. What Do They Do?”

Spirit Science and Metaphysics

Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.

He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him.   Continue reading “Church Mistreats Homeless Man Unaware It’s Their Pastor In Disguise”

Wired – by MARCUS WOHLSEN

ITAR-TASS

DNEPROPETROVSK, March 25. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukrainian authorities plan to attract US private military company Greystone Limited to suppress protest moods of the mostly Russian-speaking population in the east of the country.

According to Ukrainian Security Service, mercenaries will be engaged in political search and protection of state security over inability of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to curb on leaders and activists of pro-Russian movement independently. Continue reading “Kiev decides to tame eastern Ukraine by foreign mercenaries”

The Sydney Morning Herald – by Peter Martin

If we were sleepwalking towards catastrophe, would we know?

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is about to release frightening projections on the impact of climate change. Among those projections is the displacement of hundreds of millions of people, a slide in crop yields, and increased deaths from heatwaves.   Continue reading “Propaganda Alert: Plea from the edge of the climate change abyss”

Young people have theirs, now Seniors have their own texting codes:

* ATD- At the Doctor’s

* BFF – Best Friends Funeral

* BTW- Bring the Wheelchair   Continue reading “Senior texting codes”

Mail.com

NEW YORK (AP) — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the New York police commissioner denounced the parachute jump off 1 World Trade Center last fall by three skydiving enthusiasts as a lawless act that put others in danger.

“The Port Authority joins the NYPD in condemning this lawless and selfish act that clearly endangered the public,” the agency said in a statement early Tuesday. “One of the jumpers worked construction at the WTC and violated the spirit of respect and reverence for this sacred site that almost all connected with the WTC project feel.”   Continue reading “WTC parachute jump condemned as ‘selfish act’”

RT News

After investing $1 billion in behavior detection techniques and training since 2007, the Transportation Security Administration has little to show for its efforts, the New York Times stated in a new report.

According to the newspaper, critics of the TSA’s attempt to read body language claim there’s no evidence to suggest the agency has been able to link chosen passengers to anything beyond carrying drugs or holding undeclared currency, much less a terrorist attack. In fact, a review of numerous studies seems to suggest that even those trained to look for various tics are no more capable of identifying liars than normal individuals.   Continue reading “TSA spent $1 bln on ‘body language’ program”

RT News

A Florida lawmaker is attempting to curb the media’s access to ‘Stand Your Ground’ court records after a local newspaper review examined hundreds of cases and found that the controversial law is applied unevenly and with unpredictable results.

Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican representing Fort Walton Beach, proposed an amendment to a state bill that would greatly limit the public’s ability to view records from self-defense cases.   Continue reading “Media access to Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ details could be drastically reduced”