From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

ATLANTA (AP) — Drivers got caught in monumental traffic jams and abandoned their cars Wednesday in North Carolina in a replay of what happened in Atlanta just two weeks ago, as another wintry storm across the South iced highways and knocked out electricity to more than a half-million homes and businesses.

While Atlanta’s highways were clear, apparently because people learned their lesson and heeded forecasters’ unusually dire warnings to stay home, thousands of cars were backed up on the slippery, snow-covered interstates around Raleigh, N.C., and short commutes turned into hours-long journeys.   Continue reading “Ice storm causes another traffic jam in the South”

CenturyLink

COLUMBIA, Ky. (AP) — An underground gas line in rural southern Kentucky exploded early Thursday, sending two people to the hospital and destroying two homes, a county official said.

The explosion happened around 1 a.m. Thursday in a hillside about 100 feet off the road and left a crater 60 feet around, Adair County Emergency Management Director Greg Thomas said.   Continue reading “Ky. gas line blast hospitalizes 2, destroys homes”

Washington Post – by PAUL CASSELL

On Monday, I had the chance to testify before Utah’s House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee in support of H.B. 212, a bill that would allow for obtaining DNA samples from all persons arrested for felonies in Utah.  This bill follows on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last June, in Maryland v. King, that DNA sampling from arrestees for serious crimes complied with the Fourth Amendment. (For Orin’s analysis of King, see this post.)   Continue reading “Is it time to take DNA samples from felony arrestees in Utah?”

Digital Journal – by Justin King

Cardiff – Since 2012, over 800,000 children have had their biometric data taken by the government in the United Kingdom via the school system. One 13-year-old girl is refusing to comply with the demands.

In 31 percent of cases, the programs obtaining fingerprints or other biometric data from minors across the UK have done so without parental consent, according to Big Brother Watch. The civil liberties watchdog filed Freedom of Information Requests with over 3,000 schools. Less than half of those schools responded as required by law.   Continue reading “13-year-old defies ‘big brother’ and refuses to be fingerprinted”

Information Clearinghouse – by Jim Hightower

Assume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the kind of punishment you’d get?

How about zero? Nada. Nothing. Zilch. No jail time. Not even a fine. Plus, you still get to stay on as boss, you get to keep all the loot you gained from the crime spree, and you even get an $8.5 million pay raise!   Continue reading “The Mobsters of Wall Street”

The Register – by Rik Myslewski

A group of Canadian researchers has given the imprimatur of social-science recognition to a fact that many of us who spend time in internet comment forums have suspected: there’s a strong correlation between online trolling and sadism.

“Both trolls and sadists feel sadistic glee at the distress of others. Sadists just want to have fun … and the Internet is their playground!” write Erin Buckels, Paul Trapnell, and Delroy Paulhus of the Universities of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and British Columbia, respectively, in a paper to be published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.   Continue reading “It’s a scientific FACT: Online comment trolls are SADISTS”

The Waking Times – by Karol Jankowiak

What is 432 Hz tuning?

A=432 Hz, known as Verdi’s ‘A’ is an alternative tuning that is mathematically consistent with the universe. Music based on 432Hz transmits beneficial healing energy, because it is a pure tone of math fundamental to nature.   Continue reading “The Healing Energy of 432Hz, The Tone of Nature”

Prepper Podcast Radio Network- by James Smith

“My first shot at a hog with an AMAX out of the 300 SAUM was spectacular. Hit in the neck at 258 yards and there was only a little piece of fur holding the body together at that point. Good terminal performance.” – Mark Swab’s appraisal of the Hornady .308 AMAX sniper ammunition round   Continue reading “Sniper Ammunition: Homeland Security Revives The Purchases”

RiaNovosti

KIEV, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – A Ukrainian judge who recently sentenced several political protesters to house arrest has been shot dead by unknown attackers, police said Wednesday.

Alexander Lobodenko, a 34-year-old district court judge, was shot several times in the back by two assailants on a street near his home in central Ukraine late Tuesday night, the country’s Interior Ministry said.   Continue reading “Judge Who Sentenced Protesters Shot Dead in Ukraine”

Video Rebel’s Blog

On 9-11-1990 President George W Bush called for a New World Order. On September 11, 2000 the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) called for a New American Pearl Harbor. Nicholas Rockefeller told Aaron Russo that there was going to be an event that will change everything and allow us to invade Afghanistan. He told Russo that if he played along that he would be exempt from the new security regulations that would be forthcoming after the event. The movie Pearl Harbor reached theater screens in America in May of 2000. Jerry Bruckheimer whose parents were German Jewish immigrants produced Pearl Harbor. PNAC needed the 911 attacks to include an iconic military target so these attacks would not be treated as just another Oklahoma City bombing.   Continue reading “Barbara Honegger 911 Video: Behind The Smoke Curtain.”

The Daily Sheeple – by Lizzie Bennett, Underground Medic

Stop for a moment and think about what’s happening weatherwise around the world.

California is in the middle of a drought so severe that domestic supplies may be cut in a matter of weeks. California produces a massive amount of the food consumed in the United States.   Continue reading “It Has Begun: Wise Up and Stock Up as Food Shortages and Price Hikes Are Coming Before the Year’s End”

AccuWeather- by Brian Lada

A snow and ice storm will continue to severely impact travelers and residents from northern Alabama to the Carolinas into Wednesday night.

The event could be the worst ice storm for parts of the South in more than 10 years.

One batch of snow, sleet, rain and freezing rain affected the South Monday into Tuesday and caused hundreds of flight delays in the region.   Continue reading “Historic Ice Storm Immobilizes Ground, Air Travel in the South”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Suffolk County may begin using beet brine to treat roadways in the winter in an effort to cut back on the use of rock salt.

Legislator Kara Hahn has asked for a study into the use of beet brine.   Continue reading “Suffolk County May Use Beet Brine To Treat Roadways In Winter”

AOL

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous writers, died Wednesday. He was 91.

Family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said Caesar, who also played Coach Calhoun in the 1978 movie “Grease,” died at his home in the Los Angeles area after a brief illness.   Continue reading “Sid Caesar, comic genius of 1950s television, dies”

Yahoo News – by KEVIN McGILL

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A June 11 sentencing date has been set for former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin who has been convicted of bribery, fraud and money laundering..

A jury convicted Nagin on Wednesday on 20 federal criminal counts. The bribes came in his two terms as mayor from 2002-2010.   Continue reading “Ex-New Orleans mayor convicted of taking bribes”