From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jackie Nussbaum knew her son liked playing DragonVale on the family iPad — a colorful game with soothing music and chirping birds where kids raise adorable baby dragons. What she didn’t realize was that he was buying virtual gems — with real money — to build his dragon park as part of the game.

When she opened her credit card statement, she saw a slew of charges from Apple, totaling $600 in one day. “I thought it was a mistake, that someone had stolen my credit card,” said Nussbaum, a mother of two children in Westerville, Ohio. Apple told her the charges were valid purchases from the game DragonVale.   Continue reading “Apple agrees to refund $32.5M for kids’ purchases”

John Boehner’s Facebook Page

MassPrivateI

Protecting Baltimore from a nuclear attack. DHS officials will conduct tests this week that could save lives and they’ll be done from a helicopter flying extremely low over the city. (This is just another excuse by our gov’t to spy on citizens)

Officials will test for radiation so they can respond more quickly in case of a nuclear or dirty bomb attack.   Continue reading “DHS begins using helicopters to spy on homes claims they’re looking for radiation”

Freedom Outpost – by Dean Garrison

Wednesday the Senate finally made a statement about Benghazi. A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee has found that the State Department could have likely prevented the death of four Americans in Benghazi if they would not have ignored the intelligence reports and pleas for assistance from our diplomatic mission. The findings are that increased security was needed. USA Today reports:   Continue reading “15 More Benghazi-Related Victims Murdered: Does it Matter Now Hillary?”

Plan of the Day

Osalm 23  (King Barrack Version)

Obozo is my Shepherd; I shall not work.

He maketh me to lie down and watch Oprah:

He leadeth me beside the still factories.   Continue reading “What the New Messiah Bringth”

Fox News- by Todd Starnes

The parents of a 6-year-old girl said their daughter was humiliated when a teacher interrupted the child’s one-minute speech and told her to sit down because she’s “not allowed to talk about the Bible in school,” attorneys for the California family allege.

The incident occurred Dec. 19 inside a first grade classroom at Helen Hunt-Jackson Elementary School in Temecula, Calif. The previous day the teacher instructed boys and girls to find something at home that represented a family Christmas tradition. They were supposed to bring the item to school and share the item in a classroom presentation.   Continue reading “First-grader told to stop talking about Bible”

Prevent Disease – by Dave Mihalovic

The average person that consents to a vaccine injection, either for themselves or for their children, genuinely believes it is for the betterment of health. What they are not aware of is that even their doctor is likely unfamiliar with the toxic ingredients contained in vaccines which can immediately begin to degrade both short- and long-term health. If your doctor insists that vaccines are safe, then they should have absolutely no problem in signing this form so that you may archive it for your own records on the event of an adverse reaction.   Continue reading “If Your Doctor Insists That Vaccines Are Safe, Then Have Them Sign This Form”

Huffington Post – by Dave Jamieson

WASHINGTON — After failing to reach an agreement that would avoid litigation, the federal labor board issued a complaint against Walmart on Wednesday, formally accusing the world’s largest retailer of breaking labor law during Black Friday strikes by its store workers.

In the complaint, the general counsel’s office of the National Labor Relations Board accused Walmart of illegally threatening or punishing workers who considered taking part in the high-profile walkouts that started in November of 2012. The agency, which is tasked with enforcing labor law covering unions and employers, generally prefers to reach a settlement before litigating such a case, and only files a complaint if the parties can’t manage to come to terms through negotiations.   Continue reading “Feds Charge Walmart With Breaking Labor Law In Black Friday Strikes”

The Daily Sheeple – by Chris Carrington

We all know that the radiation from the stricken Fukushima plant has spread around the globe and is poisoning people worldwide. We all know that the West Coast of the United States is being polluted with radioactive debris and that the oceans, the beaches that border them, and even the air is becoming more polluted by radioactivity as time goes on.

You have to ask yourself why the government won’t admit this. It’s not like a disaster half a world away is their fault is it?   Continue reading “Why Obama Won’t Admit Fukushima Radiation is Poisoning Americans…Connecting the Dots”

Think Progress – by NICOLE FLATOW

Jerome Laudman, a schizophrenic, intellectually disabled inmate in South Carolina, was placed in solitary confinement, although he was neither aggressive nor threatening. During his transfer to the “Lee Supermax” facility, he was sprayed with chemical munitions and physically abused by a correctional officer. Although the transfer should have been recorded, the videotape turned up blank. While Laudman was confined naked in his cell, officers observed that Laudman had stopped eating and taking his medication, and appeared sick and weak. They did not report it. A week later, he was found laying in his own feces with 15-20 trays of molding food in his cell, vomiting. Nurses and an officer refused to retrieve his body. When two inmates were eventually sent to remove him, he was transferred unconscious to a hospital, where he died of a heart-attack.   Continue reading “Incarcerated To Death: How The Mentally Ill Are Abused, Neglected, And Humiliated In South Carolina’s Prisons”

KI4U

This guide is for families preparing for imminent terrorist or strategic nuclear attacks with expected blast destruction followed by widespread radioactive fallout downwind.

IF ONLY A ‘Dirty Bomb’ Attack (Not the vastly more devastating nuclear weapon blasts with fallout discussed below.) – You can expect localized and downwind contamination from the explosion and dispersed radioactive materials. If you are near enough to see or hear any local bomb blast, assume that it includes radiological or chemical agents. You should move away from the blast area as quickly as possible. If the wind is blowing toward you from the direction of the blast, travel in a direction that is crosswise or perpendicular to the wind as you move away from the blast area. Continue reading “What to do is a Nuclear Disaster is Imminent”

Orwell Was Right

How long until the Rock becomes too pretentious for mainstream audiences? It won’t be long before all movie scripts will be required to use only monosyllabic words. Although many studios have already adopted this practice voluntarily.

Via The Daily Mash:

CULTURE is reaching a point of maximum dumbness, it has been claimed.   Continue reading “Things cannot be dumbed down any further, warn experts”

Last Resistance – by Dave Jolly

Former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been getting a lot of new coverage lately over his book that criticizes the leadership of his former boss, President Barack Obama.  The Obama administration has been trying to downplay the accusations made by Gates in his book, but that’s typical for the White House.

Gates was first appointed as Secretary of Defense by former President George W. Bush in December 2006.  When Barack Obama won the 2008 election and was sworn into office in January 2009, he kept Gates on as Defense Secretary.  He retired as Secretary of Defense on July 1, 2011, opening the way for Obama to appoint a spineless little weasel known as Leon Panetta.   Continue reading “First the Gay Military, Now Gates to Head Gay Boy Scouts”

Washington’s Blog

The American People Were Right: Obama Won’t Rein In the NSA

Americans want NSA spying reined in.

But a poll from November showed that only 11% of Americans trust Obama to actually do anything to rein in spying.

We were right to be skeptical …   Continue reading “Obama to the American People: F@ck Off”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Sounding more like a third-world dictator than a U.S. president who took an oath to uphold the Constitution, Obama announced that he would no longer wait for Congress or legislation to impose his radical agenda to “fundamentally transform” America. Instead, in January 14 remarks about making 2014 a “year of action,” Obama declared that his administration would expand its rule-by-decree machinations through the use of even more anti-constitutional “executive orders” and “executive actions.” The radical plan, analysts say, is setting up a potential showdown of historic proportions with lawmakers and an increasingly outraged American public.   Continue reading “Obama Vows to Bypass Congress and Rule by Decree”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

The National Security Agency won’t deny that it may be spying on members of Congress, informing Sen. Bernie Sanders that the agency can’t tell him whether it snooped on his metadata because searching to find out would be illegal.

The Vermont Independent sent a letter earlier this month to NSA head Gen. Keith Alexander asking, “Has the NSA spied, or is the NSA currently spying, on members of Congress or other American elected officials?”   Continue reading “NSA to Sen. Sanders: We Can’t Legally Tell You if We Spied on You”

Common Dreams – by Michael Winship

In the words of Howard Beale, the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves in the movie Network, “Woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble!” And, as Beale would shout, we should be mad as hell.(Image: FreePress.net)

Issuing a decision that triggered dismay and anger among supporters of an Internet open and free to all, a federal appeals court on Tuesday overruled the Federal Communications Commission and set the stage for a near future in which such service providers as Verizon and AT&T could give preferential treatment to websites willing to pay a higher price for access and speed.   Continue reading “Door Closes to Open Internet, But All May Not Be Lost”