From the Trenches World Report

Homeland Security News Wire

The establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks has made “homeland security” a common phrase and a flourishing industry in the United States. Service providers and manufacturers have benefited by introducing devices and offerings to protect, detect, and react to natural and man-made disasters.

Colleges and universities have also begun to incorporate homeland security into their curriculum. Campbell University has introduced a four-year undergraduate degree in homeland security. Campbell, a private university in Buies Creek, North Carolina previously offered concentrations related to homeland security, but the new major has attracted seventy-five students who declared homeland security as a major.   Continue reading “Colleges incorporate homeland security into their curriculum”

RT News

Onlookers say the odds of it happening are unlikely, but voters in several counties throughout Colorado could decide to secede from the rest of the state this Election Day.

A measure that would set in motion a plan for North Colorado to become the fifty-first state is on the ballot in 11 counties there this Tuesday, but even passing that initiative won’t mean there’ll be a new star added to the American flag anytime soon.   Continue reading “North Colorado votes on secession”

The Daily Caller – by Will Rahn

Bill de Blasio will be the next mayor of the nation’s largest and most important city.

He will be the first Democratic mayor of New York City since 1993, when Rudy Giuliani defeated David Dinkins amid high crime rates and racial strife. De Blasio worked in Dinkins’ City Hall, and prior to that volunteered with the radical socialist Sandinista movement in Nicaragua.   Continue reading “New York City elects socialist mayor, because why not?”

RT News

The citizens of Washington State have voted against a bill that would have required the labeling of genetically altered foods, according to preliminary ballot results.

Tuesday’s ballots saw 35 counties out of 39 vote against the legislation backed by environmentalists. Counties Whatcom, King, Jefferson and San Juan were the only ones to vote for the labeling of GMO products.    Continue reading “Washington votes against GMO labeling – preliminary results”

NBC News – by Elizabeth Chuck

After becoming one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana last year, Colorado set another new standard on Tuesday when voters approved a pot sales tax.

Recreational cannabis sales will have a 25 percent tax slapped on them starting Jan. 1, when retailers begin selling pot legally, with 15 percent of that being an excise tax to be used for public school construction projects and 10 percent being a special sales tax to fund enforcement of regulations on the retail marijuana industry.   Continue reading “Colorado votes to tax legal marijuana”

WhoWhatWhy – by James Henry

For more than six months, WhoWhatWhy has been asking questions about the Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath, pursuing our constitutionally protected duty. By and large, reaction from official sources has been mute.

Is the FBI conducting an honest investigation or working diligently on a cover-up? It’s impossible to know.   Continue reading “Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights For Public’s Right To Know… Nothing”

Business Insider – by BRETT LOGIURATO

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) will win re-election, multiple networks are projecting.

The final numbers are expected to be a landslide, as the race was never close between Christie and Democratic candidate Barbara Buono.    Continue reading “New Jersey Election Results: Christie Wins”

One Good Thing by Jillee

I grew up in sunny California, and even though I have now lived in Utah for nearly 20 years, I still get this unsettled feeling whenever winter starts to settle in. When I think of how COLD it gets and the things that could potentially go wrong while on the road, or even at home should the power go out, I am reminded of how woefully prepared I am for such emergencies.   Continue reading “23 Items Under $5 That Can Save Your Life”

Continue reading “NJ Mall Shooter, Richard Shoop, Was An Actor”

The Lonely Conservative

Americans in large numbers are embracing communism, whether it’s wittingly or unwittingly doesn’t really matter. By voting for progressive Democrats, they’re voting for communists. Well, this is how communists treat people once they gain complete control.

Jin [Hye Jo], 26, who has lived in the United States since 2008 and runs a charity for North Korean defectors, scoffed at the suggestion that the food shortages were due to natural causes, claiming that government officials drive BMWs and drink exotic whiskies while children die.   Continue reading “This Is How Communists Treat People”

Reuters

Several small bombs exploded in front of a Communist Party building in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring another eight, state media said.

The official Xinhua news agency said what appeared to be small-scale bombs went off outside an office building of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party. Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi province.

“Judging from the scattering of small metal balls, it is suspected that improvised bombs exploded,” the news agency said.   Continue reading “Explosions kill 1, injure 8 in north China city: reports”

Business Insider – by Paul Szoldra

The next time you have to take off your shoes and get searched by an employee of the Transportation Security Administration, it may not be at the airport.

Ron Nixon reports in The New York Times on the expansion of TSA’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads, or VIPR, which are leaving the airports behind to perform security checks at train stations, subway stops, and other transportation-related hubs.

Created in the wake of the 2004 Madrid train bombing, VIPR teams — comprised of explosives experts, behavioral detection officers, and canine handlers — work with local law enforcement to move through crowds and randomly stop passengers and ask questions.   Continue reading “The TSA Is Expanding Its Reach Far Beyond Airport Security”

The Healing Journal

DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is derived from lignin, a binding substance of trees. The Crown Zellerbach Corporation, a mammoth lumber company, holds the patents on DMSO for use as an industrial solvent AND as a liniment for treating pain in horses. Crown Zellerbach licenses DMSO exclusively to Research Industries for marketing as a drug – called Rimso-50. Topically applied, DMSO has the unusual ability to act as a “chemical hypodermic needle”, which is to say that it is rapidly absorbed through the skin and can take with it other substances that ordinarily would not cross the skin’s barrier. DMSO is often used by alternative therapists to enhance the outcomes of other substances and therapies. (A health professional always needs to be consulted – no self-doctering here!)
Entering the body, either “painted” on the skin, taken orally, or via IV, DMSO rapidly penetrates into cells and cleans them of toxins, a desirable mechanism which may explain much of its versatility. Topically applied, DMSO produces a garlic-like taste in the mouth and a breath odor. Topical use can occasionally cause a rash, blistering, itching, hives, or skin thickening – especially when too much is used. Intravenous use can cause kidney damage and other adverse side effects and be certain that the product you are using is medical grade (at least 99.9% pure) and not of industrial grade.)   Continue reading “DMSO “a little dab will do ya””