From the Trenches World Report

MSM – by M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

One person was shot, a second was in custody and at least one other was being sought Wednesday after a Hollywood-style car chase with police bullets flying at the Jacksonville, Fla., airport, authorities said.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said the incident may have been related to a shooting near Highlands Elementary School. It gave no further information, but NBC station WTLV of Jacksonville reported that the lockdown, which was imposed as a precaution, was lifted Wednesday afternoon.   Continue reading “One shot, second arrested, third at large after shooting and wild car chase at Florida airport”

Video Rebel’s Blog   [Satire]

Blythe: Hello, I am Blythe Masters, Vice-President of Global Commodities here at J P Morgan. As you know, I am the creator of Credit Default Swaps, a 700 trillion dollar plus market. I want to welcome the two of you as J P Morgan’s newest board members. I am going to give you a tour and brief introduction into how Morgan and the world really works. I am sure you know you were selected for the board because we are expanding into areas that require your corporate expertise, in Internet surveillance and mercenaries.   Continue reading “Blythe Masters Tells How The World Really Works”

Godfather Politics – by Tad Cronn

Somebody must have put something in the watercoolers at the major news networks this week.

After years of lethargy, particularly where President Obama is concerned, all of a sudden the mainstream media are acting like, well, journalists.   Continue reading “Media Dogpile: ABC, CNN, NBC Demand Release of Benghazi Emails”

Richard Silverstein

A highly-placed Israeli source elaborates on a partially truthful Ynetnews reportthat Israel destroyed an advanced Shoval (“Heron”) drone that was on a mission over the sea between Tel Aviv and Netanya. Israel did indeed destroy the drone, one of the most advanced in its fleet. Here is what its manufacturer had to say about it after its October 2012 launch:   Continue reading “Advanced Israeli Drone Hijacked by Iran or Hezbollah, Then Destroyed by Israel”

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While the emotional repercussions of war aren’t easy to measure, the before, during, and after pictures of soldiers who have seen combat tell a pretty unsettling story.   Continue reading “Mesmerizing Photographs Of Soldiers’ Faces Before And After A War”

Kitchen Daily

You’d be surprised to learn what items in your pantry can last a lot longer than the printed expiration date! With proper storage, some food items can last for many years or indefinitely. In fact, one sticky sweetener has been known to stay edible for thousands of years.   Continue reading “Foods that Stay Good Longer Than You’ll Be Around”

Huffington Post – by Heather Holland

STUY TOWN — Residents of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village were shocked to find a notice taped to their doors on Tuesday, giving tenants two weeks to either pay a mid-lease rent increase or move out.

CW Capital, the primary lease holder of the property, distributed notices detailing rent increases ranging from $100 to over $900 per month, and said tenants would have to decide whether to pay the increase or move out within 60 days of the notice that was doled out to individual tenants on Tuesday afternoon.   Continue reading “Stuy Town Owner To Tenants: Pay Mid-Lease Rent Increase, Or Face Eviction In Two Weeks”

The Alliance for Natural Health

Our exclusive report reveals government surveillance, what appear to be undercover sting operations, and investigations into the alleged crime of “practicing nutrition without a license.”Action Alerts!

ANH-USA has uncovered widespread surveillance (including undercover sting operations), aggressive investigations, and prosecutions of nutrition professionals. These actions, together with the levying of criminal penalties, have been undertaken by state health departments and state dietetics boards that are enforcing monopolistic laws sponsored by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. More often than not, they are supported by local law enforcement or the offices of state attorneys general. The AND—formally the American Dietetic Association, or ADA—is not a medical organization, but a trade group that represents the interests of Registered Dietitians (RDs, who are certified by the AND’s credentialing arm). The AND has about 74,000 members.   Continue reading “ANH-USA Uncovers Suspicious Activity by State Dietetic and Health Boards”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Mayor Michael Bloomberg met Gov. Dannel P. Malloyat City Hall to discuss Connecticut’s new gun control law.

Malloy and Bloomberg met in the second-floor bullpen.

“There is a certain reality that America’s got to get used to that guns aren’t making you safer in your house. They’re increasing precipitously the opportunity for your child to kill themselves or someone else,” Malloy said following his half-hour conversation with Bloomberg. “There’s a reality that 19,000 people are going to commit suicide because there’s a gun in their house. And if there wasn’t a gun in that house and they didn’t commit suicide at that time, their chances of committing suicide at any time decreases by 90 percent.”   Continue reading “Conn. Governor Malloy Met With Mayor Bloomberg At City Hall To Discuss Gun Control”

AmmoLand

NEWTOWN, Conn –(Ammoland.com)- The California Assembly could vote as early as Thursday on legislation that bans all traditional ammunition for hunting.

It is urgent to make calls urging opposition now. NSSF is asking all California retailers to post a copy of this alert in their stores and to personally call their Assembly members expressing their opposition to AB 711. AB 711, if passed and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, would extend the now limited Condor range ban on traditional lead ammunition to the entire state.   Continue reading “California Traditional Ammunition Ban Vote Thursday?”

LA Times – by Diana Marcum, Paul Pringle and Richard Winton

BAKERSFIELD — The FBI launched an investigation Tuesday into the death of a man who was beaten by authorities amid questions over whether officials tampered with cellphone videos confiscated from witnesses.

Vice – by Peter Rugh

Nicholas Heyward is a haunted man. He is one of many New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to the police. Nineteen years ago, Heyward’s son was playing with a toy gun in the stairwell of a Boerum Hill housing project in Brooklyn, New York, when he was fatally shot by an NYPD officer. Nicholas Jr. was 13 years old when he was killed.

“I heard Nick say, ‘We’re playing,’ and then I heard a boom,” Katrell Fowler, a friend of Nick Jr.’s told the New York Times shortly after the incident. Yet blame was placed on the boy’s toy rifle, instead of officer Brian George, who fired his very real revolver into the child’s abdomen.   Continue reading “Who Protects New Yorkers From The NYPD?”

Gothamist – by Christopher Robbins

A judge has dismissed the indictment against the NYPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen in his Bronx home last year. The dismissal was for a technicality, as the Bronx DA’s office erroneously instructed members of the grand jury that they did not have to consider if Officer Richard Haste’s colleagues informed him that 18-year-old Ramarley Graham was armed.

“With no great pleasure, I am obliged in this case to dismiss the charges,” Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett said as he made his decision, according to DNAinfo.   Continue reading “Charges Against Cop Who Killed Unarmed Teen Thrown Out On Technicality”

Now the End Begins

An Israeli official confirmed Wednesday night that a dramatic and unprecedented message to this effect had been conveyed to Damascus, Channel 2 news reported.

The report said that Israel’s position to this effect also came up during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency meeting in Russia on Tuesday with President Vladimir Putin, during which Netanyahu also told Putin of Israel’s profound opposition to Russia’s sale of sophisticated S-300 missile defense batteries to Assad.   Continue reading “Israel Tells Russia They Will Wipe Out Syria If Assad Attacks”

The Connectivist – by Benjamin Plackett

“I’m showing you slices of the brain,” Joy Hirsch, the Director of fMRI Research at Columbia University Medical Center tells me.

More specifically, she’s talking about some images of an fMRI brain scan she took while her subject was watching a video sequence.   Continue reading “Why TV Activates Your Brain”

CNN

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requested – and has accepted – the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in the wake of its handling of requests by conservative groups for tax-exempt status, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

The “misconduct” detailed in a report about the IRS response to those requests is “inexcusable,” he said.   Continue reading “Acting commissioner of IRS resigns, Obama says”