From the Trenches World Report

Natural News – by Jonathan Benson

The severity of childhood obesity appears to be directly proportional to the amount of television children watch, according to a recent study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, a BioMed Central open-access journal. For every extra weekly hour of television watched, a child’s waistline expands by an average of roughly half a millimeter, or about 0.02 inches, based on the study’s findings.   Continue reading “Television turns your children into zombie-headed sloths”

LA Times – by Maria L. La Ganga

Officials in the southern Washington city of Battle Ground closed five schools Wednesday as a precautionary measure after a 13-year-old boy threatened to blow up his middle school and shoot a teacher, a police spokesman said.

Mint Press – by Trisha Marczak

A burgeoning global trade agreement with nations such as Japan, Vietnam and Australia is leaving GMO-labeling advocates concerned that it could result in a ban on GMO labeling not only in the U.S., but in all countries taking part in negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

Negotiations for the TPP have been occurring over the last few years, although under a veil of secrecy that left even America’s lawmakers out of the process. Leaked documents have revealed some specifics, leaving consumer watchdog groups suspicious over a process intended to streamline labor policies and food labeling guidelines that would align the U.S. with partnering countries..   Continue reading “Trans Pacific Partnership Might Include International Ban On GMO Labeling”

RT News

Police in California have arrested a former Transportation Security Administration employee and accused him of making terrorist threats at an airport just before the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Nna Alpha Onuoha, 29, is in police custody after being apprehended just before midnight on Tuesday outside of a church in Riverside, California near Los Angeles.   Continue reading “Former TSA employee accused of making terrorist threats on eve of 9/11 anniversary”

RT News

A budget provision protecting genetically-modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks was extended for three months in an approved US House of Representatives’ spending bill on Tuesday evening.

Called “The Monsanto Protection Act” by opponents, the budget rider shields biotech behemoths like Monsanto, Cargill and others from the threat of lawsuits and bars federal courts from intervening to force an end to the sale of a GMO (genetically-modified organism) even if the genetically-engineered product causes damaging health effects.    Continue reading “‘Monsanto Protection Act’ quietly extended by Congress”

Veterans Today

TEHRAN (FNA)- A former British ambassador underlined that Britain has not had access to any conversation or document showing that the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government has used chemical weapons against its citizens, and said that the US has been deceived by the Israeli spy agency Mossad’s fabricated documents.   Continue reading “Ex-UK Envoy: US Deceived by Mossad’s Fabricated Intelligence on Syria”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: July 14th, 2013 we posted, “Israel Tests Nuclear Capable Missile While Russia Starts Largest Military Exercise in Post-Soviet Era, Update on Egypt Situation.” This nuclear capable missile is also capable of carrying chemical weapons. Israel signed the chemical weapons treaty years ago, but never ratified it.They do not intend to until the world makes peace with them. We see the world coming down on Assad for his supposed use of chemical weapons which we know is a lie. Yet, it is Israel who has attacked Syria at least four times this year in air raids and no one says a word. Don’t you find that odd?   Continue reading “CIA Document: Israel stockpiled chemical weapons decades ago”

The Guardian – by Dominic Rushe

Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance. Mayer said executives faced jail if they revealed government secrets.

Yahoo and Facebook, along with other tech firms, are pushing for the right to be allowed to publish the number of requests they receive from the spy agency. Companies are forbidden by law to disclose how much data they provide.   Continue reading “Yahoo CEO Mayer: we faced jail if we revealed NSA surveillance secrets”

MassPrivateI

How does the Fourth Amendment apply to deleting a picture from a digital camera? InBurch v. City of Florence, Ala., 913 F.Supp.2d 1221 (N.D.Ala. 2012), the police had received various complaints that the plaintiff  John Wesley Burch was causing concern because he was taking pictures of lots of people and cars in town. Burch has performed a variety of odd jobs, including sometimes working since 2004 as a freelance private investigator, or as an assistant to a private investigator.   Continue reading “Court ruled police can grab and delete pictures from your camera during a traffic stop”

The New American – by Alex Newman

Authorities in Poland last week announced the confiscation of bonds held in private pension funds without compensation, implausibly claiming that the move did not amount to a nationalization of the assets. While Polish officials engaged in rhetorical games and semantics to conceal the severity of the “transfer” of privately owned assets to a “state pension vehicle” known as ZUS, the controversial move is still fueling confusion and fierce criticism from analysts and economists. Some experts fear other governments may follow suit.     Continue reading “Polish Government Seizes Private Pension Assets”

Freedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

Barry Smitherman, head of the powerful Texas Railroad Commission and is seeking to be the state’s next Attorney General, made waves last week with comments about economic collapse, energy policy and the future. However, those things only led up to a much bigger statement: “We have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system.”   Continue reading “Texas Official: State Actively Preparing to Become an Independent Nation”

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

If you have a job that involves building homes, buying homes, selling homes or that is in any way related to the mortgage industry, you might want to start searching for alternate employment.  Seriously.  Interest rates are starting to rise dramatically, and mortgage lenders such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are all cutting thousands of mortgage-related jobs.

Last week, mortgage refinance activity plunged to the lowest level that we have seen since June 2009 and total mortgage activity dropped to the lowest level since October 2008.    Continue reading “Prepare For Tough Times If Your Job Has Anything To Do With Real Estate Or Mortgages”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Update: In this article we posted the information was provided by a “Western Official.” In this article from The Sidney Morning Heard, it is being reported by the U.N. team probing the case, “On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or the perpetrators. The majority of casualties result from unlawful attacks using conventional weapons” There is no evidence according to this team of chemical weapons use. No one has the same story, lies, lies, lies. In the end it will not matter, the powers that be will attack Syria. Reason will be given and the show will go on.    Continue reading “Based On Circumstantial Evidence U.N. Report Will Point to Syria’s Assad in Chemical Attack”

Las Vegas Guardian Express – by Graham Noble

A military attack against the government of Syria is inevitable and will likely happen around the end of the month. Whilst there is no official confirmation of this, there are numerous indications that it seems all but certain. Whilst US President Barack Obama continues to speak in deliberately unequivocal terms, in order for him to evade responsibility for any negative consequences arising from US military intervention – or the lack of it – statements made by his staff and political allies appear to confirm the administration’s determination to intervene on behalf of the al Qaeda terrorists leading the fight against Bashar al-Assad’s government.   Continue reading “Syria Attack Inevitable”

Ventism – by Daniel McAdams

The president and his coterie of humanitarian interventionist laptop bombers have been so desperate to push the US into another war in the Middle East they have resorted to cooking the US Intelligence Community books and cherry picking second-hand intercepts and other intelligence to a degree that would even have made President George W. Bush blush.    Continue reading “NSA has become an agent of Israeli intelligence!”

AlterNet – by Tana Ganeva

Homelessness is a complex, daunting problem, and cities all over America seem determined to resolve it with a simple strategy: abusing homeless people until they go away.

Local governments have come up with a myriad of Constitution-trampling ways to clear out their homeless populations, from sit/lie bans that can land people in jail for sitting down in public, to anti-panhandling measures that empower police to bust people for speaking or holding a sign while being poor. Cops also routinely use anti-loitering and jaywalking laws to hassle the homeless.   Continue reading “5 Screwed Up New Ways America Is Abusing the Homeless”