From the Trenches World Report

KATC 3 News

HOUSTON (AP) – A Canadian company on Wednesday started delivering oil through the Texas portion of a proposed cross-border pipeline that has stirred controversy and tension between the United States and its northern neighbor.

TransCanada began delivering oil from a hub in Cushing, Okla., to customers in Nederland, Texas, early Wednesday, Alex Pourbaix, president of energy and oil pipelines, said at a news conference. The company expects to complete a smaller pipeline that will transport oil from Nederland to refineries near Houston later this year.   Continue reading “Canadian company starts Keystone pipeline in Texas”

My Fox NY

NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) – Organic and cage free eggs are becoming popular to the point that that some major grocery chains are reporting shortages.

A New Jersey ShopRite recently posted a sign saying the short supply was industry-wide and was due to increased demand and limited availability.   Continue reading “Organic food shortage hits US”

WND – by Bob Unruh

Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren charges that the Obama administration tried to press her to shut down a colleague’s reporting on the jihadist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that cost the lives of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans.

Van Susteren asserted recently on her blog that the administration made an extensive effort to conceal what happened in Benghazi. She cited U.S. officials’ refusal to include the Fox News Channel in several Benghazi briefings along with a warning that her colleague’s career would be ruined if she persisted in her reporting on the attack.   Continue reading “Obama ‘Threatens Fox News Reporter’s Career’”

Crimes Against Humanity

2014: HDIAC

We have barely entered into 2014 and we are already witnessing the largest chemical attack the world has never known.  The chemical war is being conducted in food, land, water, and even in the very air we breathe.

On February 26 FEMA will be conducting a virtual exercise that involves a chemical incident scenario that contaminates the food supply. Weeks before the exercise the government in partnership with the Resource & Resources in Food Protection will hold a Webinar on assessing the potential adverse effects of contamination of the drinking water distribution system.   Continue reading “FEMA to Conduct Chemical Contamination Operation on Food Supply”

The Daily Sheeple

The situation in our country is enough to make a grown man cry.

Glenn Beck of The Blaze sure isn’t afraid to shed tears in front of the camera.

Like here…   Continue reading “Crocodile Tears: Can Glenn Beck Be Trusted?”

WizBang – by Warner Todd Huston 

Illinois keeps racking up those plaudits as the worst of the worst states in the country, this time coming in second of the top states for outward migration. Illinois has seen more of its citizens fleeing its failing edifice than every other state but New Jersey.

This list is maintained by one of the nation’s largest moving companies, United Van Lines and is compiled every year as the company tracks the migrations statistics of the nation.   Continue reading “Illinois Ranks as One of Worst States for Losing Citizens”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Four days ago, the Associated Press reported that coal-fired power plants are dumping enormous quantities of pollutants into U.S. waterways. According to the Associated Press, the EPA says that coal-fired power plants are dumping nearly 2 million pounds of aluminum, 79,000 pounds of arsenic, 64,000 pounds of lead and even 2,820 pound of mercury each year into U.S. waterways.

This original story by the AP (dated January 18, 2014) was published, word-for-word, across the Denver Post, ABC News, the Washington Post, the San Jose Mercury News and even Salon.com.   Continue reading “Associated Press caught ‘restructuring’ old EPA news to mislead readers; mainstream media blindly plays along”

Yahoo News – by JONATHAN MATTISE

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia regulators have ordered Freedom Industries to disclose everything that spilled when a storage tank leaked and contaminated the water supply for 300,000 people.

The Department of Environmental Protection says has given the company until 4 p.m. Wednesday to provide the information.

The tank at Freedom’s Charleston facility spilled a coal-cleaning chemical, Crude MCHM, on Jan. 9 in the Elk River.   Continue reading “W.Va. tells company to disclose everything spilled”

Yahoo News

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s internal security agency says it has foiled an al-Qaida plan to attack the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and hit other targets in the country.

Shin Bet said Wednesday it arrested three Palestinians it accuses of plotting to carry out bombings, shootings, kidnappings and other attacks.   Continue reading “Israel says foils al-Qaida plot on US embassy”

Des Moines Register – by Jennifer Jacobs

News 9 

NORMAN, Oklahoma – Police are investigating a reported shooting at the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman.

Students received a push notification about the reported shooting around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Norman Police are assisting with response, helping to set up a perimeter.   Continue reading “OU Students Sheltered In Place After Reported Shooting On Campus”

RT News

Despite the explicit protections of the First Amendment, a majority of US institutions of higher learning enforce rules that severely restrict free speech on campus, according to a new study.

According to a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), 59 percent of US colleges and universities received a ‘red light’, meaning that the schools endorse policies that the watchdog group says impede on First Amendment rights.    Continue reading “Majority of US college campuses becoming ‘no-free-speech’ zones – report”

Yahoo Finance – by Mandi Woodruff

At a time when we carry computers in our pockets and our cars practically do the driving for us, a certain subset of people have willingly chosen to cut the cord on modern American life — for good.

Off-the-grid living — that is, using natural resources like sun and wind power to provide amenities like heat and electricity — has become commonplace in places like Terlingua, an isolated community in Southwest Texas. What was once a bustling mining town is now a veritable ghost town, tucked into the foothills of Big Bend National Park in the north Chihuahuan desert.   Continue reading “How this family of four lives ‘off the grid’ in the middle of the desert”

RT News

A West Virginia community hoping to determine whether its drinking water is safe after a catastrophic chemical spill will likely be left with serious doubts after the state governor said he could not confidently answer that question.

“We’ve been in this thing for 11 days. It’s a very complicated issue. I’m not a scientist, you know,” said Governor Earl Ray Tomblin.   Continue reading “‘I’m not a scientist’: W. Virginia governor addresses water safety after chemical spill”

RT News

A man attending a movie on Saturday at an AMC theater in Columbus, Ohio was pulled from a theater, detained, and questioned for over two hours by US Dept. of Homeland Security special agents tasked with fighting piracy – all for wearing Google Glass.

The man, who asked to remain anonymous, said that about an hour into a 19:45 EST showing of ‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,’ a man who flashed an official-looking badge “yank[ed] the Google Glass” off his face, asking him to exit the theater. The man was attending the film with his wife at the AMC theater at Easton Town Center.   Continue reading “Google Glass moviegoer detained for hours on suspicion of piracy”

RT News

A US federal judge in Washington wrote that a suspected internet pirate should not be prosecuted solely because his computer’s IP address was identified by a film studio. The landmark opinion may tip the fortunes of defendants in similar situations.

The Hollywood executives behind the movie ‘Elf Man’ filed a lawsuit against hundreds of people, alleging that they were guilty of copyright infringement because their internet protocol (IP) address was found to have illegally downloaded the film. An IP address can be likened to a computer’s online fingerprint; each is unique to the machine it originates from.   Continue reading “IP address does not prove online piracy, US judge says in landmark ruling”

RT News

Geneva 2 quickly descended into a war of words, with each successive speaker ratcheting up the rhetoric as tensions from the protracted civil war which has ravaged the country for three years quickly bled into the peace conference.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday kicked off the long-awaited international peace conference for Syria, opening the international bid to end the blodshed.   Continue reading “‘No one, Mr. Kerry, has right to withdraw president’s legitimacy’ – Syrian FM”

Mail.com

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new, 9-meter (29.5-foot) sculpture of Nelson Mandela is billed as the biggest statue of the South African leader. It also has a tiny, barely visible quirk: a sculpted rabbit tucked inside one of the bronze ears.

South African officials want the miniature bunny removed from the statue, which was unveiled outside the government complex in Pretoria, the capital, on Dec. 16, a day after Mandela’s funeral. The department of arts and culture said it didn’t know the two sculptors, Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, had added a rabbit, said to be a discreet signature on their work.   Continue reading “Quirky bunny on Mandela statue causes stir”