From the Trenches World Report

CBS Sacremento

Thrown into the spotlight and labeled a homewrecker, California women are finding themselves shamed online. Call Kurtis investigated a controversial website allowing scorned women to get back at the other woman.

More than 175 women from California are now labeled as homewreckers on one website. An Amador County woman found herself on shesahomewrecker.com. She admits to having the affair, but thinks what’s been posted about her is not fair.   Continue reading “Homewrecker Website Lets Victims of Affairs Shame The Mistress”

In the history of armed conflict, no one has ever had need for a 30 pound minigun that only shoots airsoft BBs, but now you can have one just in case it comes up. Not to be confused with a lesser airsoft gun, the Echo1 M134 has six spinning barrels that spit out 3,000 skin-stinging rounds per minute.

The Echo1 fires 0.20g BBs, which are only moderately dangerous. You’re not going to kill anyone, but a few thousand tiny plastic pellets being fired at high speed won’t feel good. The magazine can feed 1,700 BBs into the gun before it needs to be refilled, so you’ll only get about 30 seconds of plastic-launching fury before a reload. It also packs a giant 12v battery to power the spinning cannons.

Continue reading “Stranded, cold motorists spend nights on freeways after rare snow in South”

Daily Mail – by MARTIN ROBINSON

A bank executive who died after jumping 500ft from the top of JP Morgan’s European headquarters in London yesterday morning has been named as Gabriel Magee.

The American senior manager, 39, fell from the 33-storey skyscraper at around 8am and was found on the ninth floor roof, which surrounds the Canary Wharf skyscraper.

His body was left in full view of City workers in surrounding buildings for up to four hours as police investigated the death.   Continue reading “JP Morgan name man who plunged to his death from Canary Wharf headquarters as technology chief Gabriel Magee”

Californians for Population Stabilization – by Frosty Wooldridge

In 1964, demographers counted 194 million people residing in the United States of America. No one had heard of acid rain, carbon footprint, gridlocked traffic or climate change.

But something happened. Our U.S. Congress passed the 1965 Immigration Reform Act that changed the annual inflow of immigrants from 175,000 each year to 1 million annually. Result: by October 2007, America had added 106 million people to reach a total population of 300 million. Within just 42 years, 106,000,000 people inserted themselves into America.   Continue reading “The Enormity of Adding 138 Million People to America”

Rense.com – by Frosty Wooldridge

Just when you think our cities cannot become more crowded, our air more polluted, our highways more gridlocked, our schools more crunched, and our impending water shortages more critical in seven states—Congress expects to jump legal immigration from 1.0 million annually to 2.0 million annually.

The collective IQ of our U.S. Congress members cannot possibly exceed double digits. With our enormous $16.5 trillion debt, 47 million Americans and non-Americans subsisting on food stamps and our huge unemployment crisis—our “Gang of Eight” U.S. Senators foisted on the House of Representatives an amnesty bill, S744, that doubles the current legal immigration annually to 2.0 million immigrants every year for the rest of this century.   Continue reading “Amnesty S744 Bill: 2 Million Legal Immigrants To Be Imported Annually”

Common Dreams

News that biotechnology corporations are developing new technology that can allegedly kill insects and pathogens by silencing their genes has some environmentalists and scientists worried.

“To attempt to use this technology at this current stage of understanding would be more naïve than our use of DDT in the 1950s,” the National Honey Bee Advisory Board said in comments submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency before a Tuesday meeting to discuss the risks of this technology, according to the New York Times, which reported on this new development.     Continue reading “Is Monsanto’s Gene-Silencing Weapon Next?”

CBS News

The United States Food and Drug Administration allowed 18 animal drugs to stay on the market even after an agency review found the drugs posed a “high risk” of exposing humans to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through food supply, according to a study released Monday by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The study by the NRDC, a non-governmental group that criticizes the widespread use of drugs in the meat industry, is the latest salvo in the national debate over the long-standing practice of antibiotic use in meat production. Agribusinesses say animal drugs help increase production and keep prices low for U.S. consumers, while consumer advocates and some scientists raiseconcerns over antibiotic-resistant bacteria.    Continue reading “FDA allowed 18 “high risk” antibiotics in animal food, report says”

New York Times

WASHINGTON — Light arms supplied by the United States are flowing to “moderate” Syrian rebel factions in the south of the country and U.S. funding for months of further deliveries has been approved by Congress, according U.S. and European security officials.

The weapons, most of which are moving to non-Islamist Syrian rebels via Jordan, include a variety of small arms, as well as some more powerful weapons, such as anti-tank rockets.

The deliveries do not include weapons such as shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles, known as MANPADs, which could shoot down military or civilian aircraft, the officials said.   Continue reading “Congress Secretly Approves U.S. Weapons Flow to ‘Moderate’ Syrian Rebels”

CNN Money – by Jennifer Liberto

A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Monday agreed to a deal on a farm bill that would end direct subsidies to farms in favor of crop insurance.

The deal could trim as much as $90 a month from food stamps for 850,000 recipients.

The farm bill would last five years and needs to pass both chambers and then be signed by the president.   Continue reading “Farm Bill Ends Subsidies, Cuts Food Stamps”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

It would appear the fears of a global bank run are spreading. From HSBC’s limiting large cash withdrawals (for your own good) to Lloyds ATMs going down, Bloomberg reports that ‘My Bank’ – one of Russia’s top 200 lenders by assets – has introduced a complete ban on cash withdrawals until next week. While the Ruble has been losing ground rapidly recently, we suspect few have been expecting bank runs in Russia. Russia sovereign CDS had recently weakned to 4-month wides at 192bps.   Continue reading “Russian Bank Halts All Cash Withdrawals”

CenturyLink

DENVER (AP) — The federal government is ready to let farmers grow cannabis — at least the kind that can’t get people high.

Hemp — marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin that’s used to make everything from clothing to cooking oil — could soon be cultivated in 10 states under a federal farm bill agreement reached late Monday that allows the establishment of pilot growing programs.   Continue reading “Hemp growing going legit after decades-long ban”

Ready Nutrition – by Tess Pennington

After taking steps to live a more conscious existence, I have found that shopping is overrated. The satisfaction that I find from making my own household products far outweighs buying the “brand of the month.”

My reason to make my own products stem mainly from the ever increasing prices as well as the harmful chemicals present in store bought brands. After using store bought chemicals for years, I noticed my eyes would burn and lungs would hurt after cleaning with them. I knew the chemical cleaners were doing more harm than good, and would much rather preserve my health and not pollute our water supply any further.   Continue reading “10 Household Products You Never Have To Buy Again {With Shopping List}”