From the Trenches World Report

Vandelay Design – by Steven Snell

It’s the time of year when holiday music is playing in most places, and winter scenes are prominent in advertising and on the web. Some websites will even change or tweak their designs to have a winter or Christmas theme. Winter photographs can play a significant role in providing inspiration for your own winter designs, and with that in mind we decided to compile this collection of beautiful photos.   Continue reading “25 Amazing Winter Photos to Inspire”

USGS – by WILLIAM ELLSWORTH (ELLSWORTH@USGS.GOV), JESSICA ROBERTSON (JROBERTSON@USGS.GOV), AND CHRISTOPHER HOOK, July 12, 2013

The number of earthquakes has increased dramatically over the past few years within the central and eastern United States. More than 300 earthquakes above a magnitude 3.0 occurred in the three years from 2010-2012, compared with an average rate of 21 events per year observed from 1967-2000.   Continue reading “Man-Made Earthquakes Update”

Press TV

Huffington Post by – DAN GELSTON

Dennis Rodman has named a team of former NBA players to participate in an exhibition basketball game in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Rodman leads a team that includes former NBA All-Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson, and Vin Baker. Craig Hodges, Doug Christie and Charles D. Smith are on the team, as well. They will play against a top North Korean Senior National team on Jan. 8, marking Kim Jong Un’s birthday.   Continue reading “Dennis Rodman Names Team For North Korea Exhibition That Includes Former NBA All-Stars”

Patriots for America

TO:  Patriots (black, white, red, yellow, brown, male, female, civilian, military, truckers, bikers, militias, veterans, old, young, every American that loves freedom and liberty)

Mission: Restoration of Constitutional government, rule of law, freedom, liberty “of the people, for the people, by the people” from despotic and tyrannical federal leadership.   Continue reading “Operation American Spring – Washington, D.C. in the cross-hairs – The Out-of-Control Government Leadership Must Be Stopped”

Taipan Magazine – by Brian Brzowski, MD

The history of the tourniquet dates at least as far back as 500 BC when the Romans designed a device to control bleeding during amputations.  It was made mostly of bronze and was lined with a bit of leather for “comfort”

Primarily because of the practical need to control bleeding during surgical procedures, other tourniquet designs proliferated during the 18^th, 19^th, and 20^th centuries.  These were quite simplistic and culminated in the development of a pneumatic tourniquet that is currently used thousands of times/day across the world to permit the creation of a bloodless field during procedures on both the upper and lower extremities.   Continue reading “Tourniquets 101”

Newser

Here it comes: A winter storm that might turn into a genuine blizzard began slamming the Northeast this evening, with 2,000 flights canceled as of 6pm Eastern, reports CNN. Chicago’s O’Hare has the most cancellations (650), but airports in Cleveland, New Jersey, and New York were catching up. New York City is still on track to get about 9 inches of snow tonight, but it’s the wind and low temperatures that might sting the most. The AP notes that the wind chill there tomorrow could be 15-below zero. In Boston, it might be worse on all fronts.   Continue reading “2K Flights Canceled So Far”

Continue reading “Weather War”

CNN – by Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton

A malware attack hit Yahoo’s advertising server over the last few days, affecting thousands of users in various countries, an Internet security firm said.

In a blog post, Fox-IT said Yahoo’s servers were releasing an “exploit kit” that exploited vulnerabilities in Java and installed malware.   Continue reading “Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users”

RT News

More than 130 used cars from Japan were denied access to Russia last year as consumer watchdog agency Rospotrebnadzor remains concerned about the contaminated water leaks at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Strict control of all cargo, arriving from Japan, will continue in 2014 as well, Rospotrebnadzor said on its website.    Continue reading “130 ‘radioactive’ Japanese cars banned from entering Russia”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update: JFK has now reopened.

It’s cold out there. Cold enough that JFK’s runways are so frozen, airplanes literally are skidding off runways, which is what happened seconds ago to a Delta airplane landing at JFK.The result: JFK is now closed until further notice.   Continue reading “JFK Shuts Down After Plane Skids Off “Ice Skating Rink” Runway: Entire Nation Blanketed In Subzero Deep Freeze”

USA Today

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In at least four states that have nurtured the nation’s energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was confirmed in a number of them, according to a review that casts doubt on industry suggestions that such problems rarely happen.

The Associated Press requested data on drilling-related complaints in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Texas and found major differences in how the states report such problems. Texas provided the most detail, while the other states provided only general outlines. And while the confirmed problems represent only a tiny portion of the thousands of oil and gas wells drilled each year in the U.S., the lack of detail in some state reports could help fuel public confusion and mistrust.   Continue reading “4 states confirm water pollution from fracking”

Thanks to hweinhard.

Natural News – by Ethan A. Huff, Feb 14, 2011

While most of the country has been focused on the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the murder of Judge John McCarthy Roll, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, remains largely and strangely missing from most of the mainstream press coverage of this event.   Continue reading “Was Judge John Roll the actual target of the Giffords shooting?”

RT News

The US military hopes that drones will be capable of changing their own missions, altering course without a human command, and buzzing through the skies in coordinated groups within the next 25 years, according to a new Defense Department report.

The US Department of Defense (DoD) explained its hopes for the upcoming decades in its Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, released to the public last week. At nearly 150 pages, the report outlines a variety of goals for air, land, and sea vehicles – yet the unmanned aerial systems (as drones are called) are featured prominently throughout.   Continue reading “US military report predicts drone swarms, highly autonomous UAVs”