From the Trenches World Report

Prevent Disease – by MARCO TORRES

There are so many addictive substances in our society that we humans love to portray as evil. We label them as such because of our tendencies and repetition towards anything that is considered to have negative consequences. We are never to be accountable for our actions or behavior–it’s always the drug or plant that is responsible and at fault for all our problems. Out of all the addictive substances we love to demonize, guess which one is rarely if ever a type of substance dependent drug?   Continue reading “Out of the 10 Most Addictive Substances, Guess Which One Is Not On The List?”

Ben Swann – by Michael Lotfi 

NASHVILLE, March 11, 2014– A bill which would nullify federal “voluntary” checkpoints in the Volunteer State State moved another step towards law today. Sen. Mike Bell filed Senate Bill 1485 in January (SB1485). It passed on Jan 27 unanimously by a 37-0 vote. And today, the House concurred by a vote of 91-0.

It reads, in part:   Continue reading “Tennessee legislators vote to nullify some federal roadside checkpoints”

Washington’s Blog – by JimQ

“Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded. …it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life.” – Edward Snowden   Continue reading “Google, China, The NSA and the Fourth Turning”

Fox News

President Obama, flexing his executive authority once again, plans to order the Labor Department to expand overtime pay requirements to include millions more workers — in a move likely to rankle the business community.

The president plans to make the announcement on Thursday at the White House, a senior administration official confirmed to Fox News. Though the administration has claimed previous executive actions had bipartisan support, officials are acknowledging that this particular move will anger business groups and congressional Republicans.    Continue reading “Obama to order expansion of overtime pay for millions of workers”

Huffington Post

You’re drunk, dog.

Charlie, a Maltese terrier from Australia, was saved from certain death the first weekend in March by veterinarians who fed him copious amounts of vodka.

Staff from Animal Accident & Emergency in Melbourne wrote on the facility’s blog that Charlie came in with a case of Ethylene Glycol poisoning. They wrote that Ethylene Glycol, a product commonly found in radiator and brake fluids, tastes sweet but causes kidney failure when ingested.   Continue reading “Charlie The Dog’s Life Saved By Drinking Vodka”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Two buildings have collapsed after an explosion Wednesday morning in East Harlem.

It happened around 9 a.m. on Park Avenue on 116th Street, the FDNY said. One of the buildings that collapsed had a piano repair shop with apartments above. The second building housed a church.   Continue reading “Buildings Collapse After Explosion, Fire In East Harlem”

Standing Outside Looking In – by Stephen

She’d phoned, said, “I’ll be there, shortly.”

“Yes, Ma’am.” You never argue with Mrs. Campbell.

I’d expected her call. Over the last few months she’s sold me several of her late husbands toys. Her husband’s name was Percy. Nice fella. Percy checked out, intelligence intact, in his late eighties. He and I got along well. Percy spoke several languages, none flute, and had a deep abiding love for literature, especially science fiction. Percy also enjoyed firearms.   Continue reading “Mrs. Campbell’s Beretta”

The Real Agenda – by LUIS R. MIRANDA

The European Union is about to make its threat to punish Russia for invading the Crimea a reality. Community experts are now working on penalties that will realize the warnings shouted out on Thursday by the Heads of State and Government meeting in Brussels.

If Moscow shows no signs of wanting to ease the tension “other sanctions could be imposed this week ,” warned Tuesday the French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius. The measures will be prepared for next Monday, according to EU sources report.   Continue reading “European Union Prepares more Sanctions against Russia”

Guerrilla America – by Steven Barry

Individual underground and resistance operatives expected to cope with sophisticated law enforcement practices or security organizations are often at a singular disadvantage in their efforts to understand systematized techniques and practices of clandestine behavior. The varieties of this behavior, known collectively as “tradecraft,” are a traditional province of secret intelligence and special operations; fields reluctant to shed light on operational methods and procedures. There is a dearth of reliable material in the literature of underground and resistance intelligence and unless the operative has an appropriate background, attempts to obtain useful extracts from the broader open literature will prove difficult indeed.   Continue reading “Principles of Clandestine Behavior”

DC Clothesline – by Paul Joseph Watson

Officer who couldn’t wait to “bang down your door and come for your gun” still under investigation

The second amendment activist who brought light to a Facebook conversation in which a Connecticut police officer said he couldn’t wait to “bang down your door and come for your gun,” says he has received threats after the story gained national media attention.   Continue reading “Gun Activist Who Exposed ‘Bang Your Door Down’ Cop Receives Threats”

Mashable – by Amanda Wills

An oil rig worker working off the south-eastern coast of Vietnam claims to have witnessed the crash of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

In a email sent to his employer, which was acquired, confirmed, and then shared by the ABC journalist Bob Woodruff, the man says, “I believe I saw the Malaysian Airlines plane come down. The timing is right.”   Continue reading “Oil Rig Worker: ‘I Saw the Malaysia Airlines Plane Come Down’”

Fool at work was arguing with me. I looked this up.

Harvard School of Public Health- by Marge Dwyer

July 25, 2012 — For years health experts have been unable to agree on whether fluoride in the drinking water may be toxic to the developing human brain. Extremely high levels of fluoride are known to cause neurotoxicity in adults, and negative impacts on memory and learning have been reported in rodent studies, but little is known about the substance’s impact on children’s neurodevelopment. In a meta-analysis, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and China Medical University in Shenyang for the first time combined 27 studies and found strong indications that fluoride may adversely affect cognitive development in children. Based on the findings, the authors say that this risk should not be ignored, and that more research on fluoride’s impact on the developing brain is warranted.   Continue reading “Impact of fluoride on neurological development in children”