From the Trenches World Report

NY Daily News – by Denis Slattery , Rocco Parascandola AND Barry Paddock 

An emotionally disturbed man was shot by police in Brooklyn Saturday morning after he attacked them with his cane, police sources said.

The 27-year-old man, whose name was not immediately released, started pounding on an empty marked police car parked on Broadway and Lewis Ave. under the elevated subway tracks in Bedford-Stuyvesant with his wooden cane about 10:35 a.m, police said.   Continue reading “Cops shoot emotionally disturbed man who attacks police car, officer — with his cane”

Global Times

A man in Qingdao, Shandong Province used a vacuum cleaner to save his father who began choking on a fish ball during dinner on December 1.

The son explained he had resorted to using a vacuum after he was unable to dislodge the fish ball from the throat of his 64-year-old father with his fingers or a chopstick.   Continue reading “Man saves father choking on fish ball with vacuum cleaner”

Global Times

Yang made the remarks when attending a meeting of BRICS senior representatives on national security held in South Africa’s Cape Town, saying that the world is undergoing profound and complicated changes and facing new security challenges.

He also said cyber and information security is vital to national security and social stability, and thus BRICS members should jointly promote information security, and solve cyber disputes through negotiation.   Continue reading “BRICS nations should strengthen security cooperation: Chinese state councilor”

RT News

Russia’s populist nationalist party LDPR suggests amending the criminal code making different ethnicities of participants of any insignificant brawl an aggravating condition, much like bodily harm, allowing criminal prosecution.

MP Vladimir Taskayev proposed the move to the State Duma on Thursday.   Continue reading “Different strikes: Russia may criminalize multi-ethnic fights between individuals”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) is a red state Democrat who voted for gun control earlier this year and is now losing ground in the polls.

To be fair, Hagan and other red state Democrats were assured this would not happen.

For example, just weeks weeks after Hagan voted for Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) failed gun control bill on April 17th, various media outlets reported that her support for gun control would actually help her in North Carolina. TalkingPointsMemo said Hagan “actually bolstered [her 2014] re-election prospects by supporting” Manchin’s gun bill.    Continue reading “Senator Hagan Loses Ground After Voting for Gun Control”

Breitbart – by DEBRA HEINE

In his attempt to downplay the IRS scandal during his soft-ball interview with Chris Matthews, Thursday, the President of the United States subverted the ongoing DOJ investigation of the scandal.

Obama declared that the IRS office in Cincinnati was merely trying to “streamline the system” for “bureaucratic reasons” and that agents weren’t intentionally singling out “Tea Party folks.”   Continue reading “POTUS Subverted DOJ Investigation During Chris Matthews Interview”

Continue reading “Incredible Photos of Rare Fog Enveloping Grand Canyon”

Breitbart – by JOHN NOLTE

Apparently the media is growing tired of the White House selectively releasing ObamaCare data that gets to the heart of nothing but makes the program look like it is much more popular than it likely is. For instance, today the White House informed the media that between Sunday and Friday, Healthcare.gov enjoyed 3.7 million visits.

We have also been told  that the site’s error rate was .077 percent, the response time averaged under a second, and a whopping (and improbable) 93% of consumers did come back later after they were asked to due to the site being too busy.   Continue reading “Media Tires of White House Selective Release of ObamaCare Data”

Fox News

The State Department on Friday defended its decision to commission a $1 million sculpture for the American embassy in London just days before the partial government shutdown in October.

The department awarded the contract for the granite sculpture to Sean Scully, an Irish-born American artist, as part of its Art in Embassies program, which curates exhibitions for American embassy and consulate facilities.   Continue reading “State Department defends $1 million sculpture for London embassy”

Fox News

The top Maryland official in charge of the state-run ObamaCare exchange resigned this weekend amid major efforts to fix the problematic website.

Rebecca Pearce, executive director of the Maryland Health Benefits Exchange, resigned Friday, according to several news sources.

She appears to be the first official to lose a job as a result of problems with ObamaCare exchanges since they went live Oct. 1.   Continue reading “Maryland official who led problematic, state-run ObamaCare site resigns”

Stanford – by BRUCE GOLDMAN

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when they use numbers — or even imprecise quantitative terms, such as “more than”— in everyday conversation, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists.

Using a novel method, the researchers collected the first solid evidence that the pattern of brain activity seen in someone performing a mathematical exercise under experimentally controlled conditions is very similar to that observed when the person engages in quantitative thought in the course of daily life.    Continue reading “Method of recording brain activity could lead to ‘mind-reading’ devices, scientists say”

GOP USA – by Washington Times DC

President Obama launched a marketing blitz this week in an attempt to get back some public support for his health care law and salvage his legacy. The problem with his plan is that Americans’ overwhelming dislike of Obamacare stems from finally finding out how big of a disaster it is for their families. No fancy public relations campaign can change reality.

The White House is planning a daily event from now until Christmas to sell the supposed benefits of Obamacare. The president wrongly thinks that the past two months of disastrous press and plummeting poll numbers were all a result of the broken Healthcare.gov website.   Continue reading “The lipstick-on-a-pig Obamacare tour”

Continue reading “Henry Rollins – I Beg Young People To Travel”

RT News

A recent maneuver out of the state attorney general’s office in Tennessee is being called unprecedented after officials there asked the Supreme Court for permission to execute 10 prisoners currently on death row.

Those ten inmates have been awaiting execution an average of more than 27 years, but the state put a hold on the practice of putting prisoners to death in 2011 after it was forced to surrender its supply of sodium thiopental, a sedative that had up until then been one of three components used in the lethal cocktail administered by executioners in Tennessee.   Continue reading “After acquiring necessary drug, Tennessee wants to execute 11 inmates”

RT News

The US Air Force is testing a large, top secret drone at Area 51, which outdoes the currently used unmanned aircrafts in terms of stealth and aerodynamic efficiency, US media report.

The new superior drone is scheduled to enter production and may be operational for the US Air Force as early as 2015, an exclusive report by Aviation Week magazine said.    Continue reading “US tests classified spy drone with ‘superior stealth, efficiency capabilities’”

RT News

Hundreds of protesters have broken into a Chevron site after the US oil giant resumed its search for shale gas in northeast Romania. RT’s Lucy Kafanov reports from the scene, where clashes ensued as riot police started streaming in.

Some 400 people gathered on Saturday in the village of Pungesti, according to local media.

RT’s Lucy Kafanov reports that the demonstration kicked off quite peacefully with the protesters chanting “Chevron go home.”   Continue reading “Anti-fracking clashes in Romania as activists break into Chevron site”

The Western Center for Journalism – by SUZANNE EOVALDI

Surfacing this week are two seemingly unrelated events, but both carry the glaring theme of the federal government’s gross intrusion into the private lives of families and into the workings of local and state governments nationwide.  The long tentacles of the US Department of Justice appear to be stifling parental dissent against Common Core, while the US Department of Fish and Wildlife continues to force predatory wolf packs into already inundated Western rural communities and wilderness areas.   Continue reading “Wolves Kill Female Hikers, Liberals Cover It Up”

MedScape – by Megan Brooks

Electrical stimulation of a specific brain region may help individuals anticipate a challenge and have the confidence and determination to overcome it, new research suggests.

The findings from this novel study conducted by investigators at Stanford University in California showing neuromodulation of the anterior midcingulate cortex (aMCC) evokes such a response may have potential clinical implications for psychopathologic conditions involving a reduced capacity to endure psychological or physical stress.   Continue reading “Brain Stimulation May Boost ‘Will to Persevere’”

Activist Post – by Catherine J. Frompovich

What kind of hornet’s nest was opened up for the GM industry in view of the retraction of the two year “Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize”, by G E Séralini et al, published in Food and Chemical Toxicology 2012, 50(11), 4221-31?

According to the article published December 5, 2013 in the Ecologist,    Continue reading “105 Scientists Slam GMO-Rat-Study Retraction”