From the Trenches World Report

Yahoo News – by Stefano Rellandini

REDIPUGLIA Italy (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a “piecemeal” Third World War, condemning the arms trade and “plotters of terrorism” sowing death and destruction.

“Humanity needs to weep and this is the time to weep,” Francis said in the homily of a Mass during a visit to Italy’s largest war memorial, a large, Fascist-era monument where more than 100,000 soldiers who died in World War One are buried.   Continue reading “Pope says world’s many conflicts amount to piecemeal World War Three”

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It is currently peak season for the puss caterpillars, and even though they usually live at a safe distance high up on tree branches, reports of people being stung are on the rise.

The one-inch puss caterpillar is named for its cute cat-like fur, but it is the most venomous caterpillar in the United States.

Although they appear to be furry and soft, the caterpillars actually have a defense system of poisonous bristles that can break off into your skin if they are touched.   Continue reading “Venomous Caterpillar Sighting In Florida Prompts Warning”

The Sacramento Bee – by Robert D. Davila

Redding police have arrested a man accused of killing and cooking his estranged girlfriend’s dog and serving the animal to her in a meal.

The suspect, Ryan Eddy Watenpaugh of Palo Cedro, denied killing or cooking the victim’s missing Pomeranian. But he admitted placing dog paws on the victim’s doorstep, police said.

Watenpaugh, 34, was arrested Thursday by law enforcement officers from three agencies, police said. A search of his home found a Romanian variant AK-47 assault rifle and high-capacity magazines, officials said.   Continue reading “Shasta County man accused of cooking, serving up estranged girlfriend’s dog”

The Newfoundland Department of Employment believed a boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his help.

An agent was sent to the fishing village of Burin to investigate the boat owner.

GOVT AGENT : “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”.    Continue reading “Newfoundland Boat Owner”

ABC News – by Michael Rubinkam

Pennsylvania State Police have identified the two troopers who were ambushed outside a state police barracks in northeastern Pennsylvania during a late-night shift change, leaving one dead and another injured.

State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan says that Cpl. Bryon Dickson of Dunmore was killed and Trooper Alex Douglass was wounded when shots were fired Friday night outside the Blooming Grove barracks. The station is in a wooded area surrounded by state game lands.   Continue reading “Pa. State Police Identify Trooper Killed in Ambush”

Jon Rappoport

This is an article about the intentional construction of false reality.

Not a minor construction—a huge, enduring, institutional, wing-flapping, money-munching, poison-dispensing, Matrix-welding, yet “humanity-saving” invention.

In the wake of CDC whistleblower William Thompson’s confession that he buried a vaccine-autism connection, some people reacted with shock—as if this was the first case of rank fraud that had ever taken place within the hallowed halls of medical research.   Continue reading “Vaccine fraud? What about psychiatric fraud? Staggering.”

Slueth Journal – by Mark Flatten, The Washington Examiner

More than $725 million was spent by the Army on a high-tech network for tracking supplies and expenses that failed to comply with federal financial reporting rules meant to allow auditors to track spending, according to an inspector general’s report issued Wednesday.

The Global Combat Support System-Army, a logistical support system meant to track supplies, spare parts and other equipment, was launched in 1997. In 2003, the program switched from custom software to a web-based commercial software system.   Continue reading “U.S. Army Can’t Track Spending On $4.3b System To Track Spending, IG Finds”

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This is one tree you want to avoid — unless there’s something about the nickname “Little Apple of Death” that appeals to you.

At first glance, the Manchineel tree is quite beautiful, with lush green leaves and fruit that looks like small green apples — but looks can be deceiving.

Native to parts of Florida, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central America and Northern South America, this is one of the most poisonous trees in the world. Its milky white sap is a cocktail of powerful skin irritants that ooze out of all the tree’s parts, not just the fruit.   Continue reading “Have you ever seen a poisonous ‘little apple of death’ tree?”

New York Daily News – by Kerry Burke, Thomas Tracy

Cops swatted a .40-caliber Glock out of a drunken state narcotics agent’s hand Friday night after he shot two drinking buddies on the Upper West Side, authorities and witnesses said.

Amsterdam Ave. erupted in gunfire and blood-curdling screams just after 9 p.m. when Victor Zambrano Jr., 49, shot a 31-year-old woman in the left foot and the woman’s 42-year-old boyfriend in the right calf during an argument over his weapon, neighbors and police sources said.   Continue reading “Drunken narcotics agent allegedly shoots pals in Upper West Side after tussle over gun”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

There has been much talk about how “progressives” do not believe in individual responsibility.  There is the stereotype that liberals attribute volitional powers to firearms, that firearms cause violence.   In anticipation of the veto override  of SB656 in Missouri, Mayor Sly James gave a speech in Kansas City, MO.

The transcript from fox4kc.com shows:

Violence, the mayor says is committed by guns.  

Continue reading “MO: KC Mayor James “Violence is committed by guns.””

Desdemona Despair

By Joseph Serna
12 September 2014

(Los Angeles Times) – The first eight months of 2014 were the warmest on average in California’s history since record-keeping began in 1895, federal scientists announced this week.

The average temperature was 62.6 degrees in California over the time period, coming in at 1.1 degrees hotter than the previous high and more than 4 degrees warmer than the 20^th century average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported. Continue reading “California breaks all-time heat record – Heat alerts declared; cooling centers to open”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

It is well known that smoking marijuana leads individuals to experience something called ‘the munchies,’ where users tend to eat a lot more than normal. While you would think that this affect would lead marijuana-smokers to be more obese than non-smokers, there are now multiple studies which suggest that moderate use of marijuana can actually lessen the probability that someone will be obese (though it is possible that thinner individuals simply smoke more often than overweight individuals).   Continue reading “Report: Marijuana Users 3 Times Less Likely to be Obese”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

A vaccine for this, a vaccine for that – vaccines all around! If it isn’t a pharmaceutical drug, Western medicine seems to find a vaccine for everything. A possible ‘cure’ for Alzheimer’s disease is being offered in as little as five years if all 14,000,000-plus of the people who currently suffer from the disease (and oh, yes, their family members too) just subject themselves to a vaccine.   Continue reading “Drug Companies Begin Push for Alzheimer’s Vaccine on Millions”

RT

All 200 trucks in Russia’s 2nd convoy carrying humanitarian aid for devastated areas of eastern Ukraine have arrived in the city of Lugansk after weeks of delays that occurred despite an agreement on relief corridors in the Minsk ceasefire deal.

Six of the nine trucks carrying medicines have been unloaded, RIA Novosti reports.

Lugansk residents will start receiving the aid on Monday.   Continue reading “Russia’s 2nd Ukraine aid convoy of 200 trucks arrives in Lugansk”

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US lawmakers are keen to prevent the fast food giant Burger King from taking advantage of lower tax rates in Canada, arguing that it is unpatriotically moving its operations there after “profiting” from taxpayer-funded benefits in the US.

In August, the Whopper-maker announced its plans to buy Tim Hortons, Inc. – a Canadian coffee and donut chain – and move its operations to take advantage of Canada’s lower tax rates. The additional benefit of the Canadian tax system is that companies do not pay extra taxes on income earned abroad.   Continue reading “US Senators urge ‘unpatriotic’ Burger King to ditch move to Canada”

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Bringing Nazi comparisons into discussions is usually reserved for internet arguments, not middle school classrooms. But one US teacher may have missed that lesson when she assigned her sixth graders homework comparing Adolf Hitler and George W. Bush.

The students of McKinley Tech Middle School in Washington, DC were working on a unit about war and peace this week, when, as if proving the Godwin’s law, the unnamed teacher handed out a worksheet that related to two of their readings.   Continue reading “US 6th-graders told to compare ‘power abusers’ Hitler and Bush”