From the Trenches World Report

International Business Times – by Jamie Reno

All that can be said with any certainty is that as of last December more than 900,000 service men and women had been treated at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics since returning from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the monthly rate of new patients to these facilities as of the end of 2012 was around 10,000. Beyond that, the picture gets murky. In March, VA abruptly stopped releasing statistics on non-fatal war casualties to the public. However, experts say that there is no reason to suspect the monthly rate of new patients has changed.   Continue reading “VA Stops Releasing Data On Injured Vets As Total Reaches Grim Milestone”

PreventDisease.com – byMarco Torres

Artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, emulsifiers, sweeteners have saturated the food supply for more than four decades. We are on the precipice of discovering what our toxic food industry has done to our bodies and our environment. There is a heightened awareness and a sense of caution on the minds of most grocery shoppers, so let’s make it easier for them. Here are 25 of the most common toxic ingredients you must avoid in foods. The discovery of even one of these ingredients on a food label means “stay away.”  Continue reading “20 Ingredients To Memorize and Avoid In ANY Food You Consume”

The New York Times – by Howard Somers and Jean Somers

As a parent, you spend your entire life trying to protect your children. You provide them with the very best you can; you hope they learn from your mistakes. It’s so easy when they are young and a simple “because I said so” is reason enough.

How, then, do you wrap your head around the fact that your 30-year-old, happily married son has taken his own life? After the initial shock, you review every single decision you ever made with regard to him. “If only” becomes your mantra. Then you look back at his life and remember that he was the most trusting, caring, creative and intelligent human being you’ve ever known.   Continue reading “On Losing a Veteran Son to a Broken System”

The Organic Prepper

You know that prepping has gone mainstream when the popular financial magazine Fortune has a positive write-up about the wisdom of being ready for whatever may come.

Columnist David Z. Morris attended a preparedness expo called Life Changes, Be Ready! in Lakeland, Florida last week, where he discovered that our concerns are the same as those of the average American.  ”LCBR gave an immediate sense of one big way that the preparedness crowd isn’t marginal at all – economically.”  He wrote:   Continue reading “Fortune Magazine: “the preparedness crowd isn’t marginal at all””

New Economic Perspectives – by Ben Strubel

Along with most Republicans, many Democrats, and Wall Street, President Obama wants to cut Social Security. Here is what you need to know.

WHAT CUTS ARE BEING PROPOSED?

Obama is proposing, along with the support of Republicans and many Democrats, to change how annual increases in Social Security benefits are calculated. Obama wants to switch to a different formula, called Chained CPI. This switch would result in a benefit cut of $230 billion dollars over 10 years. All this is being done under the guise of “strengthening” the program and “securing it for future generations”. Continue reading “Obama Wants to Cut Social Security”

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeyswith cold water.

After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result… all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.   Continue reading “Psychology 101”

CBS New York

Veterans are returning to New York City from their service only to be faced with going hungry, the head a city food bank said.

As WCBS 880′s Monica Miller reported, Margarette Purvis, president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, tried to raise awareness about the plight of former service members during a speech in the Bronx on Sunday.   Continue reading “NYC Food Bank Head: 40% Of Veterans Need Food Assistance”

IB Times – by HANNAH OSBORNE

A new storm is set to hit the Philippines while the country still clears up the destruction wrought by Typhoon Haiyan.

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Association (Pagasa) has issued a tropical cyclone warning, saying a tropical depression known as Zoraida is heading towards the country. At last report, it was 400km away.   Continue reading “Typhoon Haiyan: Tropical Cyclone Zoraida in Pacific Threatens Philippines with Second Strike”

Daily Mail – by TED THORNHILL

Several large-scale public executions of around 80 people have taken place in North Korea, according to a South Korean newspaper.

In one, woman and children were herded into a sports stadium and forced to watch people being shot dead by machine gun fire.

The executions took place on Sunday November 3, a source told the paper.   Continue reading “Killed for watching TV: North Korea executes 80 people in public ‘for viewing South Korean movies and owning Bibles’”

The Register – by John Leyden

Stuxnet – the famous worm widely credited with crippling the Iranian nuclear weapons programme for several years – also infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant. Unspecified malware has even reached the International Space Station, according to the boss of Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab.

Eugene Kaspersky said he heard about the nuclear infection from a “friend of mine” at the unnamed nuclear plant. The unnamed staffer “sent a message their nuclear plant network which was disconnected from the internet … was badly infected by Stuxnet,” Kaspersky said, SC Magazine reports. The malware apparently got into the air-gapped network of the nuke plant on an infected USB stick.   Continue reading “Rogue US-Israeli cyberwar weapon ‘infected Russian nuclear plant’”

Poor Richard’s News

That’s right. For all the liberal moaning about the Conservative opposition to permanently expanding the SNAP welfare program, liberals (including Obama himself) are conveniently ignoring the fact that the President has diverted funds from food stamps and funneled them into Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” program.   Continue reading “Obama diverting cash from food stamps to fund Michelle’s “Let’s Move” program”

Infowars – by Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones

The revelations of Edward Snowden shone fresh light on NSA spying targeting the American people, but what has gone largely unnoticed is the fact that a network of different spy systems which can record real time conversations are already in place throughout many urban areas of the United States, as well as in the technology products we buy and use on a regular basis.

These systems are no secret – they are hiding in plain view – and yet concerns about the monolithic potential for their abuse have been muted.   Continue reading “Feds Deploy National Spy System of Microphones Capable of Recording Conversations”

Forbes – by Steven Hayward

Prediction: even if HealthCare.gov is fixed by the end of the month (unlikely), Obamacare is going to be repealed well in advance of next year’s election.  And if the website continues to fail, the push for repeal—from endangered Democrats—will occur very rapidly.  The website is a sideshow: the real action is the number of people and businesses who are losing their health plans or having to pay a lot more.  Fixing the website will only delay the inevitable.   Continue reading “Obamacare Will Be Repealed Well In Advance Of The 2014 Elections”

Mint Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students are flocking to U.S. colleges and universities, helping to drive the number of international students studying in America to record levels.

Similarly, all-time high numbers of American students are studying abroad, although there are far fewer and they tend to do much shorter stints than students coming to the United States.   Continue reading “Record Number Of Foreign Students Hit US”