From the Trenches World Report

CBS New York

U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) on Saturday called on the city to waive water fees for Superstorm Sandy victims on Staten Island who have been billed despite using little or no water.

“All the city needs to do is take all the people who were deferred and check their status,” Grimm told WCBS 880. “If they are not in their homes and they haven’t been able to rebuild yet – for whatever reason – and they can look at the meter, there’s been no water usage whatsoever – then instead of deferring those payments, they should simply waive them.”   Continue reading “Rep. Grimm To City: Stop Billing Sandy Victims For Water They Can’t Use”

Cleveland.com – by Philip Morris

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Burt Saltzman, chairman of Dave’s Markets, knows as much as anyone about the way this town really eats.

The dean of Cleveland’s grocery business is 76 but can still be caught bagging groceries at the chain’s flagship store on Payne Avenue. He’s a throwback to a time when people knew their butchers and didn’t buy their groceries and electronics at the same store.   Continue reading “America’s mayors should stay out of poor people’s kitchens”

Human Events – by J Snyder

More than two dozen national and regional groups of American citizens over the weekend called for a federal investigation of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

In a letter to Michael J. Sullivan, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the 26 organizations, through the auspices of the Liberty Coalition in Washington, D.C., called upon BATFE “to immediately investigate and prosecute New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his associates for conspiring to violate the federal Gun Control Act of 1968 as amended by the Brady Act of 1995.”   Continue reading “Bloomberg Under Fire From Gun Groups”

Red Orbit

The phone numbers and email addresses of nearly six million Facebook users were accidentally exposed as the result of a year-long data leak, officials from the social network confirmed on Friday.

Facebook officials blamed the release of the contact information, which started back in 2012, on a technical glitch in a system which allows individuals to upload contact lists or address books, Reuters and USA Today have reported.   Continue reading “Facebook Glitch Exposed Phone Numbers, Email Addresses Of Millions Of Users”

National Post

CALGARY — After watching Calgary and its neighbours struggle to cope with a catastrophic flood that has killed at least three people, communities downstream are bracing for their own crisis.

Water levels are rising in Medicine Hat, while officials with Saskatchewan’s Water Security Agency are preparing for the possibility of an evacuation order for the community of Cumberland House by Monday.   Continue reading “RCMP confirm three dead in Alberta floods that forced 100,000 to evacuate”

The Organic Prepper

Did you ever wonder how people who exist on a diet of mainly processed foods can be both overweight and malnourished at the same time?  Despite overly abundant calories, people who live off of boxed macaroni and cheese, frozen dinners, Ramen noodles, and other packaged foods aren’t getting the nutrients that people who eat a whole foods diet are getting. Deadly GMO ingredients aside, the sheer amount of chemicals in processed foods can lead to disease, obesity, and malnutrition.   Continue reading “Nutrition 101: How Processed Foods Make Us Fat, Malnourished, and Sick”

The Clayton Advocate – by Sgt Rock

Received this from Georgia Carry www.gacarry.org

Mayor Bloomberg’s MAIG bus to visit Atlanta, Monday, June 24.

Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner | Ed Stone | June 20, 2013   Continue reading “Mayor Bloomberg’s MAIG bus to visit Atlanta, Monday, Jun 24; Come out to meet it”

Information Clearinghouse – by David Sirota

Recent leaks reveal a frightening reality: In fighting terrorism, we have resorted to engaging in terrorism

This is a tale of two presidents – the one we hope we have and the one we actually have. It is also a tale of two kinds of violence – the surgical and the indiscriminate – and how the latter blurs the distinction between self-defense and something far more sinister.   Continue reading “A Tale of Two Presidents: The One We Voted For – and Obama:”

World Events and the Bible

White House officials refused to comment Friday on a Los Angeles Times report that CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been secretly training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons since late last year, saying only that the U.S. had increased its assistance to the rebellion.

The covert U.S. training at bases in Jordan and Turkey began months before PresidentObama approved plans to begin directly arming the opposition to Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to U.S. officials and rebel commanders.    Continue reading “World At Odds: Nations Question and Block Flow of Weapons to Syrian Rebels as U.S. Trains Them in Secret”

I wonder if any of those “high quality” components from China had anything to do with it?  Or did someone hack the system? 

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — A system-wide computer failure forced Southwest Airlines to ground its entire fleet of airplanes preparing for departures late Friday, and at least 57 flights had to be canceled even after service was fully restored hours later, a company spokeswoman said.   Continue reading “Southwest cancels 57 flights after computer glitch”

RT News

A tank containing highly radioactive waste may be leaking into the soil at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation (the US’s most contaminated nuclear site) in Washington state, employees have told media.

State and federal officials are investigating reports that workers detected elevated radioactivity levels under tank AY-102 during a routine inspection on Thursday.   Continue reading “Possible new leak at Hanford State, higher radioactivity levels detected”

RT News

For the next two weeks Bitcoin users in the US will be unable to withdraw the virtual currency in dollars. Major exchange Mt. Gox cited an unusually high demand as the reason for the suspension, while customers worried the company has run out of cash.

Mt. Gox, based in Tokyo, Japan, handles approximately 80 per cent of Bitcoin transactions in the US and 70 per cent internationally. The popularity of the service, which allows customers to buy and sell items with relative anonymity, has led, indirectly, to the current transaction freeze.    Continue reading “World’s largest Bitcoin exchange suspends US withdrawals”

Huffington Post – by MARCO SIBAJA, JENNY BARCHFIELD and BRADLEY BROOKS

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ended her near-silence about days of massive, violent protests, saying in a prime-time TV broadcast Friday that peaceful demonstrations were part of a strong democracy but that violence could not be tolerated. She promised to improve public services and hold a dialogue with protest leaders.   Continue reading “Brazil Protests 2013 Grow: One Million Brazilians Hit The Streets”

Huffington Post – by Bill Draper

ATCHISON, Kan. — After most of the world’s population is wiped off the map by a wayward meteorite or hail of nuclear missiles, the survival of the human race might just depend on a few thousand people huddled in recreational vehicles deep in the bowels of an eastern Kansas mine.

That’s the vision of a California man who is creating what he calls the world’s largest private underground survivor shelter, using a complex of limestone caves dug more than 100 years ago beneath gently rolling hills overlooking the Missouri River.   Continue reading “Vivos Survival Shelter: Robert Vicino Says Kansas Caves Could Save Human Race After Apocalypse”