From the Trenches World Report

NBC News – by Gil Aegerter

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck central New Zealand near the capital on Sunday, prompting flights in and out of the nearby airport to be suspended, according to local reports.

Nevertheless, initial reports indicated damage was light. The Pacific tsunami warning center did not issue a tsunami warning.

One News reported on its website that all flights in and out of Wellington Airport were suspended indefinitely amid fears of damage to equipment.   Continue reading “6.5 earthquake strikes near Wellington, New Zealand”

Rare – by James S. Robbins

Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice.

As the Obamacare train-wreck begins to gather steam, there is increasing concern in Congress over something called the Federal Data Services Hub. The Data Hub is a comprehensive database of personal information being established by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the federally facilitated health insurance exchanges. Continue reading “Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database”

Press TV

Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi says Tehran is against the resumption of talks between Israel and Palestinians as Tel Aviv is incapable of dialogue.

The Israeli regime’s structure is based on occupation and therefore it is incapable of negotiating and reaching an agreement with Palestinians, Araqchi said on Sunday.    Continue reading “Israel incapable of negotiation with Palestinians: Araqchi”

Mail.com

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Government troops fired mortar rounds that slammed into a main market in a town in northern Syria on Sunday, killing at least 20 civilians, activist groups said.

The mortar shells struck the town of Ariha, which is held mostly by opposition fighters, a few hours ahead of iftar, the meal that breaks the dawn-to-dusk fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.   Continue reading “Mortar shells hit market in Syria, killing 20”

Free Beacon – by CJ Ciaramella

Confidential tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were improperly accessed by government officials, but the Justice Department declined to prosecute any of the officials involved, even in one “willful” violation of the law, an IRS watchdog reported.

In a July 3 letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the Treasury inspector general for tax administration (TIGTA) J. Russell George acknowledged that government officials had illegally accessed tax records of candidates and donors in four instances since 2006.   Continue reading “DOJ Declines to Prosecute Officials Involved in Tax Record Scandal”

New York Post – KATE BRIQUELET and ISABEL VINCENT

Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.

The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city.   Continue reading “NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Haiti”

GAIA Health – by Heidi Stevenson

Human emotions are now targets for drug research. A new study, bought and paid for by Big Pharma, claims to have found the single molecule responsible for sadness. And you thought sadness had something to do with sad events? Apparently not. It’s just a sequence of chemical changes. Stop that, and you’ll never be sad again.

In the never-ending rush to find targets for drugs to sell, scientists have found “the” molecule that they say is the “cause” of depression, stress, and anxiety. So now, all they need to do to fix sadness is find a drug that can block it.   Continue reading “Study Finds the Cause of Sadness”

The Ugly Truth

Four 15-year-old boys called in for questioning after officers on patrol spot them holding spray cans, lighter, later find incinerated cats. Teens say they acted out of boredom

ed note–Burning innocent animals is the prescribed method of atoning for sins and appeasing the Jewish god Yahweh in what is referred to as a holocaust. It is something as deeply embedded in the Jewish religion, culture and mindset as making the sign of the cross is to Catholics. It is for this reason that Israel prefers spectacular displays of fire and explosions when murdering people in Gaza and in Lebanon as well as the reason for the psychotic Jewish youth featured in this story setting innocent cats on fire.   Continue reading “Police: Jewish teens burned cats ‘out of boredom’”

RT News

Two US fighter jets have dropped four unarmed bombs in Australia’s World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef marine park after a training exercise went wrong.

The AV-8B Harrier jets took off from the aircraft carrier USS Bonhomme Richard and each released an inert bomb and an unarmed explosive bomb off the coast of Queensland, the US 7th Fleet said in a statement on Saturday.   Continue reading “FAIL: US drops unarmed bombs on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef marine park”

CNBC – by David Kocieniewski 

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs consumers billions of dollars.

The story of how this works begins in 27 industrial warehouses in the Detroit area where Goldman stores customers’ aluminum. Each day, a fleet of trucks shuffles 1,500-pound bars of the metal among the warehouses. Two or three times a day, sometimes more, the drivers make the same circuits. They load in one warehouse. They unload in another. And then they do it again.   Continue reading “The House Edge: A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold”

Washington Times – by Emily Miller

Attorney General Eric Holder has confiscated George Zimmerman’s gun. Even though Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of Trayvon Martin, the Justice Department on Thursday ordered the Sanford police to put a hold on the evidence from the trial, which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun.

It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows Mr. Holder to stop a police chief in Florida from returning a firearm to an innocent man.   Continue reading “MILLER: Eric Holder steals George Zimmerman’s gun”

Waking Times – by Dylan Charles

In a 5 to 4 vote, the US Supreme Court has absolved pharmaceutical companies, and over 80 percent of all drugs prescribed in the US, of legal liability for a long list of ill deeds including fraud, mislabeling, side effects and accidental death.

This decision happened as a response to a lower court’s ruling concerning a victim who took a pharmaceutical drug and had a severely adverse reaction that caused the patient to be completely disfigured when the drug caused a flesh-eating side effect. Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Drug Companies Exempt from Lawsuits in 5-4 Vote: Monsanto Strategy?”