KDVR – by Chuck Hickey and Joe St. George

DENVER — A man without a medical license was arrested after allegedly using an Army surgical kit to remove the testicles of a transgender woman at her apartment, the Denver Police Department said.

James Pennington, 57 of Denver, is alleged to have removed the testicles and sutured the opening while the woman’s wife watched the 90-minute procedure on Wednesday, according to a probable cause statement.   Continue reading “Denver man arrested after removing transgender woman’s testicles”

KING 5 News – by Susannah Frame

Hanford’s owner, The U.S. Department of Energy, is scrambling to deal with the second emergency at the nuclear site in 10 days’ time.

Signs have emerged that a massive underground double shell nuclear waste holding tank may be leaking.

The tank is known as AZ 101 and was put into service in 1976. The tank’s life was expected to be 20 years. Now it has been holding hot, boiling radioactive and chemically contaminated waste for 41 years.   Continue reading “Another Hanford emergency: Signs of another leaking tank”

Anti-Media – by Carey Wedler

In recent years, the term “plant medicine” has come to be associated with psychedelics like mushrooms and ayahuasca, which are increasingly documented to provide mental and emotional relief to users. But according to a recent analysis from Kew Gardens in the United Kingdom, there are over 28,000 other plants currently being used as medicine throughout the world.

The second annual report from Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, located in London, is the result of the research and analysis of 128 scientists from 12 countries around across the globe.   Continue reading “Scientists Identify 28,000 Medicinal Plants That Treat Ailments from Cancer to Diabetes”

Bismarck Tribune – by Steven Mufson

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has curtailed work on a natural-gas pipeline in Ohio after the owner, Energy Transfer Partners, reported 18 leaks and spilled more than 2 million gallons of drilling materials.

The pipeline regulator blocked Energy Transfer Partners, which also built the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, from starting horizontal drilling in eight areas where drilling has not yet begun. In other areas, where the company has already begun horizontal drilling, the FERC said drilling could continue.

Continue reading “DAPL pipeline owner blocked in Ohio after 18 leaks, 2 million gallon spill”

RT

Not yet fully operational, the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in two separate incidents.

Two barrels, or 84 gallons, spilled due to a leaky flange at a pipeline terminal in Watford City on March 3, according to the North Dakota Health Department. A flange is a section connecting two sections of pipeline.   Continue reading “Dakota Access pipeline springs 2 more oil leaks”

NBC News

MANCHESTER, England — Children were among 22 people killed in a suicide attack after an Ariana Grande concert at Britain’s Manchester Arena, police said early Tuesday.

The bomber also died when he detonated an improvised explosive device near one of the venue’s exits at 10:33 p.m. local time (5:33 p.m. ET) on Monday, according to authorities.

Officials said 59 other people were wounded, including some who suffered life-threatening injuries. Many others remained missing.   Continue reading “Manchester Arena Suicide Bombing: 22 Die at Ariana Grande Concert”

Free Thought Project – by Annabelle Bamforth

Legislators in Texas have been working toward passing a host of laws to reform the state’s Child Protective Services agency. New legislation has been crafted to improve the agency which has seen multiple dilemmas resulting in detrimental safety problems for children in the state. There have been several bills introduced this year aimed at improving the agency. One bill, in particular, House Bill 39, seeks in part to require medical exams to be performed more quickly on children who have been newly placed into the foster care system.   Continue reading “Your Child ‘Belongs to the State’: Lawmakers Claim the State Owns Your Children”

Breitbart

SAN PEDRO, Nuevo León — A team of cartel gunmen executed one of the highest ranking police officers in this metropolitan area. The police chief had previously been threatened by Mexican cartels and had lost a brother to a similar attack.

A surveillance video obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed the moment when a white SUV and a black car surround a police vehicle and unleashed a barrage of gunfire. A gas station employee can be seen crawling across the floor in an effort to avoid being struck.   Continue reading “Cartel Gunmen Execute Police Chief in Mexican Border State”

Global News

JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump got an abrupt Israeli welcome on his arrival in Tel Aviv on Monday, with ministers asking favors and snapping selfies as they sought to get a piece of the commander in chief’s attention.

Lawmaker Oren Hazan, a politician in Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party with a reputation for inappropriate antics, gave Trump a version of his own characteristically aggressive handshake.   Continue reading “President Trump takes selfie with Israeli politician accused of selling drugs, prostitutes”

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Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

More details from President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal are trickling out via a flurry of overnight reports from The Washington Post, Associated Press and Bloomberg News.

Here are some of the highlights from the latest batch of trial balloons: Continue reading “Trump’s Budget Will Slash $1.7 Trillion In Entitlements, Cut Food Stamps By 25%”

Breitbart – by Lucas Nolan

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stated his belief that the world is in need of a “global superstructure” in a recent article from the New York Times Magazine.

In an article titled “Can Facebook Fix It’s Own Worst Bug?” author Farhad Manjoo poses the question, “Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped start. But is the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created?”   Continue reading “Mark Zuckerberg: We Need a ‘Global Superstructure to Advance Humanity’”

New York Post – by Ruth Brown

The World Health Organization is spending more money on the travel bug than on fighting AIDS or malaria, according to a new report.

The UN health agency blows around $200 million a year on travel costs so its honchos can fly business class and stay in five-star hotels — more than what it reserves for battling some of the world’s biggest health crisis, the AP reports.   Continue reading “WHO spends more on travel costs than fighting AIDS”

Truth and Art TV – by Bernie Suarez

A new bill, HR 1313, has been introduced by North Carolina Congresswoman Virginia Foxx which is designed to give employers absolute power over the employee by mandating whatever they deem to be proper “heath prevention” measures. These measures would include submitting DNA records as well as mandatory vaccinations and other perceived “health preventive” measures designed for the “greater good” of the general public. The result of not complying with this new law of course would be losing your job.   Continue reading “Comply Or Lose Your Job- HR 1313 Would Force Vaccination and DNA Submission”

Washington’s Blog – by Carl Herman

Life is a team sport. It’s not enough to have individual excellence; we all exist within communities and environments affecting us whether we pay attention to them or not. 2017 Earth finds humanity in an Orwellian reality; a captured civilization of two paradoxical co-existing conditions:   Continue reading “3-minute analogy: .01% falls when ‘Under Pressure’ to free humanity; 5-minute analogy: US military/government/media serves evil rogue state empire by ‘just following orders’”

It is now three years since our brother, Diggerdan, left us for what has to be a better place.  The passage of time is mind-blowing as the present is devoured and put into the past.

There are often subjects that arise in the Trenches that make me wonder what Dan’s comment would have been.  Dan was a unique man and stood out among his contemporaries.

I hope Dan is faring well wherever his spirit lies and look forward to our conversation when I see him again on the other side.  Dan’s death was unexpected and there are a lot of questions I would have liked to have asked him.   Continue reading “A Salute To Diggerdan”