From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean officials detained an 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War last month as he sat in a plane set to leave the country, the man’s son said.

A uniformed North Korean officer boarded the plane on Oct. 26 and asked Merrill Newman, a tourist from Palo Alto, California, for his passport before telling a stewardess that Newman had to leave the plane, the son, Jeffrey Newman, said Wednesday.   Continue reading “North Korea detains US war veteran, 85, son says”

Mail.com

TOKYO (AP) — A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.

Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the islet is about 200 meters (660 feet) in diameter. It is just off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, which is also known as the Bonin Islands.   Continue reading “Volcano raises new island far south of Japan”

RT News

The governing council for Hawaii (or Big) Island Tuesday banned biotech companies from operating on the island while barring growth of genetically modified organisms.

The Hawaii County Council approved Bill 113 by a vote of 6-3, which would mandate a possible 30 days in jail and up to a $1,000 fine for any violator of the ban on growing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Big Island, officially known as Hawaii Island, the largest and southernmost of the Hawaiian state.    Continue reading “Hawaii’s Big Island bans biotech companies, GMO crops”

Star Advertiser – by Allison Schaefers

State Rep. Tom Brower is retiring the sledgehammer that he has used over the past few weeks to demolish stolen and abandoned shopping carts that homeless people use to carry their belongings.

“It’s time to put down the sledgehammer. The point that I was trying to make has been made,” Brower (D-Ala Moana, Waikiki) told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Tuesday. “Now that the issue of shopping carts is on our minds, the question is are we going to move forward and try to solve it or just let it become status quo.”    Continue reading “Rep. Brower says he is putting down his sledgehammer”

The Organic Prepper

You know, people have had about enough of all of this racist garbage.  It’s time to put a stop to language that excludes others.  Take the mention of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for example.

One school administrator began the school year cracking down on exclusive language.  Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland, Oregon, hears subtle racism every day.  And that’s just plain wrong.  She explained to the Portland Tribune in September how a simple example of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a classroom indicated “white privilege”.   Continue reading “Portland School Cracks Down on Racist PB&J Sandwiches: “What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?””

The Free Patriot – by Kevin Lake

King Hussein Obama continues his military purge of our armed forces, while still readying his Homeland Security private army with loyalists who will shoot and kill U.S. citizens, because their loyalty is to their Commander-in-Chief, not The Constitution. Too bad aforementioned Commander-in-Chief is not loyal to the constitution either.

On October 18, Col. Daren Margolin, a 24-year officer who was the security Battalion Commander at Quantico was removed from his post by Maj. Gen. Juan Ayala due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, according to Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine Corps spokeswoman.   Continue reading “Obama’s Military Purge Continues: Ranking Officer Removed From Quantico”

MassPrivateI

Private companies employed former CIA, NSA, FBI, military and police officers to monitor and in some cases infiltrate nonprofit groups that have been critical of them, according to the report by Essential Information.

The corporate capacity for espionage has skyrocketed in recent years. Most major companies now  have a chief corporate security officer tasked with assessing and mitigating “threats” of all sorts –including  from nonprofit organizations. And there is now a surfeit of private investigations firms willing and able to conduct sophisticated spying operations against nonprofits.    Continue reading “Corporations hire former NSA, FBI, military & police officers to spy on nonprofits & activists”

MassPrivateI

Sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug testing of student athletes and railroad workers are among the legal precedents justifying the U.S. government’s now-defunct and court-approved secret email metadata dragnet surveillance program, according to documents the authorities released late Monday.

38 states and the District of Columbia permit sobriety checkpoints.   Continue reading “Sobriety checkpoints paved the way for NSA email spying”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While the last few days’ hearings have focused on the nefarious aspects of the crypto-currency, it would appear that the adoption of Bitcoin is growing in the broad market place. While drugs, assassinations, and money-laundering are the headline-grabbing reasons why this unregulated asset is under the US (and European) government’s eye, from ATMs, Subway (sandwich shops), and online retailers, the appeal is growing… and now, as AP reports, Cyprus’ largest university will start accepting the digital currency Bitcoin as an alternative way to pay tuition fees.   Continue reading “Drugs, Assassinations And Now: College Tuition – The Bitcoin Adoption Spreads”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: In case you are confused as to what God thinks of gay marriage please read, “United States of Sodom: What Does God Say About the Supreme Court Clearing the Way for Gay Marriage?” This nation has been under the cursings of Deuteronomy 28 for sometime now and the cursings will only continue.

(Chicago Tribune) – Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday put his signature on a historic measure making Illinois the 16th state to allow same-sex marriage, capping a 40-year push for gay rights that picked up major momentum during the past decade.   Continue reading “Signed and Sealed: Illinois 16th State to Legalize Gay Marriage”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The rate at which the United States is leaving God is utterly astounding. Wait until Satan shows up and we witness the true apostasy…

(Fox News) – The Air Force Academy has admitted they removed the phrase “so help me God” from three oaths in the 2012 edition of their official cadet handbook, Fox News has learned.

The revelation came after more than two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Academy Supt. Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson demanding that she explain why the phrase was removed.   Continue reading “Air Force drops ‘So Help Me God’ from oaths”

Continue reading “Coming soon to a police dept. near you: Drones, tanks & grenade launchers”

MassPrivateI

A blogger who calls himself DoctorBeet wrote in a blog post earlier this week that he’d run a traffic analysis on his home router and found that whenever he switched the channel, his LG Smart TV would ping LG’s servers with the name of the channel, along with his TV’s individual identification number.

So whenever he switched from say, the BBC to Scuzz, his TV would report back to the mothership. Err, LG. Even when he went to his TV settings and switched the “Collection of watching info” that was set to “on” by default to “off,” it still sent that information to LG’s servers.   Continue reading “LG Smart TVs are spying on you while you change channels”

Climate Progress – by EMILY ATKIN

The House is likely to vote on a number of GOP bills this week related to the oil and gas industry, arguably the most sweeping of which is the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), is broad legislation designed to make it much easier for oil and gas companies to obtain permission to drill on public lands. If signed into law, the legislation would automatically approve onshore drilling permits if the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) failed to act on them in 60 days.   Continue reading “House To Vote On Bill That Would Impose $5,000 Fee For Protesting Drilling Projects”