From the Trenches World Report

Signs of the Times

My name is Rana. I have lived in the city of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip all twenty-one years of my life. What is happening in Gaza is not fiction but a bitter reality, which we lack the means to defend ourselves against. In the last few days, an unusually powerful storm has flooded many areas, displacing hundreds of residents from their homes. Children are without shelter from the cold and rain. Entire neighborhoods are sinking.

My family and I spent four days in darkness in below freezing weather: no electricity, no water, and no heat. I was so cold, I couldn’t leave my bed and the small comfort it and my blankets provided. The cold felt like it penetrated my bones. Yet, I am lucky. I witnessed many people as they became homeless, their children desperate for food and warmth.    Continue reading “Israel opened the gates to two dams. Now Gaza is sinking”

AOL

CAIVANO, Italy (AP) – On Ciro Fusco’s farm in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, police swooped down one recent day and planted a warning sign in his broccoli fields, prohibiting any one from harvesting or even setting foot on the plot. Dozens of other fields in the area were sequestered in the same way. Decades of toxic waste dumping by the Camorra crime syndicate that dominates the Naples area poisoned wells, authorities have found in recent months, tainting the water that irrigates crops with high levels of lead, arsenic and the industrial solvent tetrachloride.   Continue reading “Mafia toxic waste dumping poisons Italy farmlands”

Signs of the Times

A group of schoolgirls claims to have made a scientific breakthrough that shows wifi signals could damage your health – by experimenting with cress.

In a twist on the traditional science project of growing cress on a paper plate, the 15-year-olds set out to test whether mobile phone signals could be harmful.

They say the result could affect millions of people around the world.    Continue reading “What’s Wi-Fi doing to us? Experiment finds that shrubs die when placed next to wireless routers”

The Independent- by TOMAS JIVANDA

Despite the most vicious efforts of the lame stream media to attack multivitamins and make nutrition look bad, the public isn’t buying it!

Yep, most people realize that nutrition really works to prevent disease, and that the attack piece was almost entirely funded by Big Pharma interests and quack scientist shills who also believe that even vitamin C can’t cure scurvy.   Continue reading “Public isn’t buying lamestream media’s contrived attack on multivitamins”

RT News

“Data brokers” track, categorize and sell personal health information for marketing use, a new US Senate report reveals. Data groupings include rape victims and HIV-positive individuals, those with depression and dementia, and womens’ gynecologist visits.

Hundreds of so-called “data brokers” in the US maintain databases made up of Americans’ sensitive health details. A report by the Senate Commerce Committee says the companies are legally allowed to withhold from individuals what data is collected, how one is categorized and who buys the information.   Continue reading “‘Data brokers’ selling personal info of rape victims to marketers – report”

RT News

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has issued a statement saying that he asked President Putin for a pardon for “family reasons” and is glad “there has been a positive decision.” It comes as the ex-oil tycoon arrived in Germany after being released from jail.

However, he stressed that the issue of admission of guilt was not raised. Khodorkovsky said he had sent his letter to President Vladimir Putin on November 12.   Continue reading “Khodorkovsky: Admitting guilt issue was not raised, I asked for pardon for family reasons”

RT News

It’s shaping up to be another multi-billion dollar year for Facebook, but don’t expect the social networking site to pay it forward: according to a new analysis, the website will pay no taxes this year and will instead likely receive a federal refund.

That’s according to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), who on Tuesday this week released the 2013 edition of his annual “Wastebook” report detailing instances of what he considers unnecessary government spending.   Continue reading “Facebook won’t pay taxes again, will get refund instead”

RT News

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 2012 fracking law allowing gas companies to drill anywhere in the state without regard to local zoning laws is unconstitutional.

The court’s decision called the state’s Marcellus Shale drilling law, Act 13, unconstitutional given restrictions it placed on municipalities’ rights. The ruling also sent back to Commonwealth Court – one of Pennsylvania’s appellate courts – challenges by local townships and individuals to the law’s provisions that barred doctors from passing along to patients the health risks associated with shale drilling, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.   Continue reading “Fracking opponents in Pennsylvania dealt rare victory by state court”

Hang the Bankers – by Clark Kent

ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, DynCorp, G4S, Walmart and McDonald’s are just a few of the companies that the mega ‘charity’ supports.

With an endowment larger than all but four of the world’s largest hedge funds, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is easily one of the most powerful ‘charities’ in the world. According to its website, the organization ”works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives.”   Continue reading “The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation exposed”

CBS DC

SEOUL (CBS DC) – Tensions between North and South Korea kicked up a notch after a threatening fax was sent from Pyongyang to Seoul on a special communications line between the two rival capitals.

In it, the North’s National Defense Commission warned it could strike “without notice,” reports South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

The move came as conservative groups and North Korean defectors held rallies against Kim Jong-Un regime.   Continue reading “North Korea Threatens To Strike South ‘Without Notice’”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) is the nation’s leading advocacy organization for love, support, and positive life change for the ex-gay community, their families, and individuals with unwanted same-sex attractions.

Yesterday, in the wake of Cable TV network A&E’s “indefinite suspension” of the Phil Robertson, the star of the ratings-giant Duck Dynasty, for his alleged “anti-gay” comments in a GQ magazine interview, PFOX issued this press release.   Continue reading “Ex-gays point out the hypocrisy of firing “Duck Dynasty” Phil”

The Organic Prepper

Let’s face it:  There is something very, very wrong with kids today. It seems as though there are hordes of young psychopaths running around, wreaking havoc on others.

Two recent examples, and the reasons that I refer to these young people as psychopaths, are the “Knockout Game” in which a mob of youths target a random victim and punch him or her in the face, hoping to knock them unconscious with one blow, and the boy in Texas who got away with the murder of 4 innocent people because he was too wealthy to be punished like a normal person would have been.   Continue reading “What’s Wrong with America’s Kids? A Look at Christmas Then (1913) and Now (2013)”

These idiots get angry and threaten to kill football players over a fantasy football game, but don’t say a word about the numerous violations of our Bill of Rights and Constitution.

CBS Detroit – by Ashley Dunkak

ALLEN PARK (CBS DETROIT) – Ever get death threats over a bad day at the office? Thanks to Twitter, it happens to NFL players on a regular basis.   Continue reading “Crazed Fantasy Football Fans Threaten Violence, ‘Four Bullets For Each Of You Bit****’”

Mother Jones – by Nick Baumann