From the Trenches World Report

The Guardian – by Peter Beaumont

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has concluded that footage capturing the moment two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead by Israeli soldiers despite posing no risk to them is “genuine and consistent”, contradicting Israeli army claims that the footage is likely to have been forged.

A short section of edited CCTV footage was released earlier this week showing Nadim Nawara, 17, and Mohammad Salameh, 16, being shot and killed. Since then Israeli military sources have been quoted anonymously on several occasions in the local media trying to undermine the tape’s credibility.   Continue reading “Footage of Palestinian boys being shot is genuine, says Israeli rights group”

Ria Novosti

ST. PETERSBURG, May 23 (RIA Novosti) – Payments under a $400 billion contract signed Wednesday between Russian gas giant Gazprom and China’s CNPC will be made in US dollars, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday.

The Russian Finance Ministry is currently working on the issue of transferring accounts of export goods into rubles because of Western sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine and Crimea.   Continue reading “China to Pay for Russian Gas in US Dollars – Russian Energy Minister”

RT News

For months state and federal government has been looking into an incident involving radioactive waste at a disposal site in New Mexico. Now, Investigators believe the culprit may have been the wrong kind of cat litter.

In February the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsband, New Mexico was placed on lockdown prompted by the detection of radiation. The underground nuclear waste dump is the only such facility in the entire country.   Continue reading “Cat litter thought behind New Mexico nuclear waste accident”

RT News

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck 18km off Greece’s southern coast in the Aegean Sea, near Kamariotissa, at a depth of 10km. Some injuries and damages were reported as far as Jordan. Hundreds have fled their homes in neighboring Turkey.

The under-sea quake caused an immediate injury in Greece, according to local police, as cited by the AP. Further injuries were reported by Greece’s neighbors as panic-stricken residents fled homes.   Continue reading “Magnitude 6.4 quake strikes Greece, with tremors felt as far as Jordan”

RT News

Over 400 cities worldwide will see millions marching against the US chemical and agricultural company Monsanto in an effort to boycott the use of Genetically Modified Organizms in food production.

Marches are planned in 52 countries in addition to some 47 US states that are jointing in the protest.

Follow RT’s LIVE UPDATES on March Against Monsanto   Continue reading “Global anti-GMO action: People unite against Monsanto dominance”

Mail.com

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s coup leaders said Saturday that they would keep former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Cabinet members and anti-government protest leaders detained for up to a week to give them “time to think” and to keep the country calm. Outspoken academics were also summoned to report to the junta.

The ruling military council also dissolved the country’s Senate on Saturday, stripping away the last democratic institution in the country. The moves appear aimed at consolidating power and preventing any high-profile figures from rallying opposition to the military, which seized power Thursday after months of sometimes violent street protests and deadlock between the elected government and protesters supported by Thailand’s elite establishment.   Continue reading “Ex-Thai PM to be held for a week; Senate dissolved”

Mail.com

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A drive-by shooter went on a rampage near a Santa Barbara university campus that left seven people dead, including the attacker, and seven others wounded, authorities said Saturday.

The gunman got into two gun battles with deputies Friday night in the beachside community of Isla Vista before crashing his black BMW into a parked car, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said. Deputies found him dead with a gunshot wound to the head, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether he was killed by gunfire or if he committed suicide, he said.   Continue reading “7 dead in drive-by shooting near UC Santa Barbara”

RT News

Chicken and eggs from the occupied West Bank and the annexed east Jerusalem will no longer be seen on European plates, the EU has ruled, reportedly citing gaps in public health standards between the two Jewish zones and the state.

The European Union has informed the Israeli Agricultural Ministry that the veterinary standards of supervision in the Palestinian areas it had taken over after the six-day 1967 Middle East War are not accepted under the circumstances, Israeli news website Walla reported on Thursday.   Continue reading “EU bans poultry imports from Israel-occupied West Bank”

Legal Insurrection – by Andrew Branca

I’ve owned and shot firearms since my age could be measured in single digits. I’ve actively engaged in firearms competition since I was in my teens. I’ve carried a lawfully concealed firearm on my person pretty much every day of my adult life.

I’ve been an NRA instructor since my 20s, and have personally taught a great many people—many of them women overcoming the horror of sexual assault—how to handle firearms safely and, if necessary, to effectively stop a deadly attack upon themselves or their family.    Continue reading “Op-Ed: “Open Carry” Activists Score Yet Another Own Goal”

I believe the liars and traitors have bargained away our natural resources as collateral. Now those of whom they’ve bargained with, are here to collect, but that dog won’t fly here. Whatever “bargains” that those traitors and thieves have dealt, it’s with them alone. Not “We The People”…for they’re not duly elected, by “We The People”

So, it looks like a day of reckoning is coming, and soon. Not to mention, we’ll be glad to deliver …….    Continue reading “Is there a plan to use land out west to pay our debt to China?”

Theodore Shoebat

The US government has forced the state of Oklahoma to overturn its anti-Sharia bill, after a Muslim man named Muneer Awad sued the state for supposed violations against “freedom of religion.”

CAIR also played a role in subverting the bill. Adam Soltani of CAIR said:   Continue reading “Feds Force Oklahoma to Overturn Anti-Sharia Law & Pay Islamists $303,333”

Mail.com

HONOLULU (AP) — A federal jury on Friday decided a former Hawaii soldier convicted of murder is eligible for the death penalty in the first capital case in the history of Hawaii’s statehood.

Jurors will next deliberate on whether Naeem Williams should be sentenced to death or life in prison with no possibility of release for killing his 5-year-old daughter. That phase of the trial begins Wednesday and will include a new round of opening statements and evidence.   Continue reading “Jury finds ex-soldier eligible for death penalty”

USA Today – by Evann Gastaldo, Newser

The girls at Connecticut’s Avon High School were learning more than just Spanish in their Spanish classes, according to a lawsuit filed by one family.

The parents, identified only as John and Jane Doe, say their older daughters — now ages 22 and 19 — started acting differently while attending the school, becoming “secretive,” “reclusive,” and “distant”; having “fantasies of suicidal ideation and martyrdom”; speaking in a strange language; and gathering at Wellesley College in Massachusetts with other girls to perform religious “whirling dervish” dances through the night.    Continue reading “Suit: Teachers turned sisters into death cultists”