From the Trenches World Report

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”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

If you want to get an idea of where the rest of America is heading, just take a trip through the western half of West Virginia and the eastern half of Kentucky some time.  Once you leave the main highways, you will rapidly encounter poverty on a level that is absolutely staggering.  Overall, about 15 percent of the entire nation is under the poverty line, but in some areas of eastern Kentucky, more than 40 percent of the population is living in poverty.  Most of the people would work if they could.   Continue reading “Vast Stretches Of Impoverished Appalachia Look Like They Have Been Through A War”

End of the American Dream- by Michael Snyder

How would you feel if you found out that heroin was being sold in broad daylight in front of the school that your child was attending?  Well, that is precisely what is happening up in Detroit.  When one of my readers told me that heroin was being sold directly in front of the high school in Detroit that he graduated from, I could hardly believe it.  But as you are about to see, it is true.  Hidden cameras have captured footage of heroin deals going down directly in front of Cass Tech High School in Detroit while kids were waiting for their buses.  We are starting to see more and more of this kind of thing all over the nation.    Continue reading “In Detroit, Heroin Is Being Sold Directly In Front Of Public Schools While Kids Wait For Their Buses”

Zero Hedge -by Tyler Durden

It is a well-known fact that when it comes to ownership of rental properties in the US, Wall Street, and particularly Blackstone, has become the single largest landlord in the country. But what about undeveloped land? As summarized by Vizual-statistix, according to The Land Report published by Fay Ranches, the top 100 owners of US land collectively have 33 million acres in their private holdings.  This equates to about 1.5% of all USA land – that may seem like a small percentage, but it’s actually a massive area.  The chart below lays out the top 10 largest private landowners with the areas of Puerto Rico, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. included for scale. As can be seen, all of the top 10 own a piece of the USA that is bigger than Rhode Island, and five have a piece that is at least as big as Delaware. John Malone, who is the largest land owner in the country with 2.2 million acres, owns private property the size of Puerto Rico.   Continue reading “These 10 People Collectively Own 33 Million Acres, Or 1.5% Of All US Land”

Fox 59

ELKHART, Ind. (January 16th, 2014) – Three people are dead after a supermarket shooting in Elkhart.

The shooting occurred just after 10 p.m. Wednesday night at the Martin’s Supermarket on East Bristol St.

Police responded to a call regarding a man with a gun in the store.   Continue reading “3 dead in Elkhart supermarket shooting”

Fox News

NORFOLK, VA. –  A Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday in Atlantic waters off Virginia’s coast and the pilot has been rescued, a Navy official said. The crash comes a week after a Navy helicopter plunged into the ocean in the region, leaving three dead.

Cmdr. Mike Kafka, a spokesman for Naval Air Forces Atlantic, said the F/A-18E Super Hornet crashed about 2:35 p.m. about 50 miles off Virginia Beach. He said the pilot ejected and was recovered by a fisherman, and then picked up by a Navy helicopter. Kafka said the pilot was conscious, but he gave no other immediate details about the crash or the pilot’s health.   Continue reading “Navy: Fighter jet crashes off Virginia in Atlantic Ocean, pilot rescued and is conscious”

Bloomberg News – by Ian Katz

China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries increased $12.2 billion to a record$1.317 trillion in November, data released on the Treasury Department’s website showed.

The figures, scheduled for release at 9 a.m. tomorrow in Washington, were inadvertently posted on the Treasury’s website. Japan’s holdings rose $12 billion to $1.186 trillion, the figures showed.   Continue reading “China’s Treasury Holdings Climb to Record in Government Data”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: We have nothing but absolute greed these days. These business leaders are only looking at the bottom line which means a bigger paycheck for themselves (2 Timothy 3:1-7). We have 92 million Americans without a job. Are you telling me none of them can fill the positions in America? Other articles: MARRIOTT CEO: We need immigration bill so we can staff our resorts…,AT&T CEO says more guest workers needed…   Continue reading “208 CEOs endorse call for amnesty, visas for ‘lower-skilled workers’”

RT News

Israel bombed two targets in the Gaza Strip as a response to earlier fire from across the border, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Palestinians had fired at Israel after an IDF incursion reportedly took place on the Strip’s eastern border.

Israeli “aircraft targeted two concealed rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip,” the IDF stated.   Continue reading “Israel returns fire on Gaza following reports of IDF intrusion”