From the Trenches World Report

The Apartment Prepper

I enjoy receiving emailed questions from our readers and try to respond as promptly as possible.  Here is a great question (photo enclosed by reader) that I am sure we’ve all wondered about at some point:

“I have a water storage question. I was clearing out boxes from a recent move & found these bottled waters that I had originally stored at the office in case of emergency. But as you can see in the photo, the bottles have changed shape like I drove up & down a mountain.  My mom, on a visit, saw these & made me throw them out (recycled bottles but water went down the drain) with the logic that the date on the bottle had past. But I thought that water couldn’t expire. Or is it the plastic (or plant based in one case) is the thing that expires?   If this was an emergency & I found these, would it be safe to drink? If I boiled & strained it first would that be safe to drink or only for sanitation?”   Continue reading “Is Expired Bottled Water Safe to Drink?”

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” voter registration law.   Continue reading “Supreme Court: Illegal Immigrants Can Vote, No Proof Of Citizenship Required”

Yahoo News

A Texas mother’s determination to keep her family out of danger drove her to battle an alleged carjacker until he fled from her minivan — only to be struck by her vehicle as she tried to “stop him so he didn’t hurt anybody else,” the woman said.

While Dorothy Baker and her 2-year-old and 5-year-old sons were shopping Friday at a CVS in Baytown, Texas, a man identified as Ismael Martinez allegedly hid out in her unlocked van, police said.   Continue reading “Mother Protects Kids From Alleged Carjacker: ‘I Told Him He Messed With the Wrong Witch’”

The Organic Prepper

You are probably participating in the facial recognition database whether you want to or not. Most likely, your visage is there to be easily identified, without your consent, even if you’ve never committed a crime.

Using the vague criteria of “law enforcement purposes”, the United States has more than 200 million Americans filed away in various facial recognition databases.  If you have a driver’s license or any other government photo ID, your face is probably one of them.   Continue reading “The Great American Dragnet: Over 200 Million People are in the Facial Recognition Database”

Guardian – by Glenn Greenwald

Huffington Post

Agents from the Department of Homeland Security raided as many as 15 7-Eleven shops in New York and Virginia early Monday morning, according to multiple reports.

Nine store owners and mangers have been arrested on charges of harboring and hiring undocumented immigrants, The New York Times reports. The store owners also stand accused of wire fraud and using fake Social Security numbers to pay their workers.   Continue reading “7-Eleven Shops Raided By Homeland Security In Human Smuggling Probe”

Optimum

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” voter registration law.   Continue reading “Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal”

FRUITA, CO – The Mesa County Coroner has released the name of the man killed early Saturday by three officers of the Fruita Police Department.

Lewis Pollard, 61, of Fruita, Colorado, was pronounced dead at the scene of what officers have described as a DUI stop gone wrong. Officers say they tried to pull Pollard over but he refused to stop. Pollard was shot around 12:50 a.m. on what neighbors have described as his front lawn.   Continue reading “Sovereign Movement supporter gunned down by three police officers”

Optimum

Here’s the latest goal for food makers: Perfect the art of imperfection.

When stretching out the dough for its premium “Artisan Pizzas,” Domino’s workers are instructed not to worry about making the rectangles too perfect: The pies are supposed to have a more rustic look.

At McDonald’s, the egg whites for the new breakfast sandwich called the Egg White Delight McMuffin have a loose shape rather than the round discs used in the original Egg McMuffin.   Continue reading “Food companies work to make it look natural”

Huffington Post

A San Diego domestic abuse victim is now out of a job after she was fired following a“domestic violence dispute” with her ex-husband.

NBC San Diego reports that Carie Charlesworth, a second-grade teacher at Holy Trinity School, was placed on indefinite leave and then let go because school officials feared her ex could put students and other staff in danger.   Continue reading “Carie Charlesworth, Teacher, Fired After Being Abused”

Activist Post – by Jack Mullen

Business Insider published an article about the NSA data center being constructed in Bluffdale, Utah. The facility, being roughly 1 million square feet, will house a computing and data harvesting and long term data storage facility to be operational by October 2013. (Source)

The stated purpose of the facility is to “listen and decode all foreign communications of interest to the security of the United States.” But in light of the recent revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the data center under construction in Utah is far more likely a tool of the United States Government (and its global masters) to collect unimaginable amounts of data on Americans and eventually every human on earth.   Continue reading “Skynet to Launch October, 2013”

NBC News -by F. Brinley Bruton

Syria’s raging civil war was set to top the agenda at the Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland starting on Monday, with President Barack Obama trying to get Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Syria’s most powerful ally, to help bring Bashar Assad to the negotiating table.

The leaders’ first private face-to-face meeting in about a year comes after Obama angered Moscow by authorizing American military support for the Syrian rebels.   Continue reading “Syria tops agenda as Obama arrives in Northern Ireland for G-8 summit”

Aljazeera

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro signed a gun control bill into law in a bid to rein in the country’s runaway violent crime.

“I hereby sign into law this gun control law, for peace in our nation,” Maduro said on Friday in an address in Vargas state.  Continue reading “Venezuela signs gun control bill”

Natural News – by David Gutierrez

If you want to improve your athletic performance and stamina, there’s no real substitute for simply putting time into working out. But if it if you’re looking for a simple, natural way to increase the length of your workouts, or if you just want to give yourself that little edge in endurance or speed, then beet juice may be the answer.   Continue reading “Improve your athletic performance naturally with beets: Research”

Refreshing News – Pooja

Slaton police came to this woman’s house, who wishes to remain anonymous, to arrest her son. But by asking one simple question, she found herself behind bars instead.

“I told him, ‘I will release my son to you upon viewing those orders.’ Those were exactly my words,” The complainant said. “He said, ‘This is how you want to play?’ He took two steps back, turned around to the officer and said, ‘Take her.’ They turned me around, handcuffed me, and took me in.”  Continue reading “Police show up at a home to arrest an 11 year old. Mother asks to see the warrant. Police arrest mother and leave the 11 year old at home”