From the Trenches World Report

Fox News – by Joseph J. Kolb

The new lawyer for Andrew Tahmooressi, the U.S. Marine held in Mexico for more than two months after mistakenly crossing the border with registered guns, is planning a new legal strategy to win the sergeant’s freedom.

Tijuana-based attorney Lamberto Jesus Esquer Dabdoub will be looking at the prolonged amount of time Tahmooressi was held at the border in the custody of the Mexican military March 31 in what Tahmooressi felt was a failed shakedown.   Continue reading “Seven hours at the border: Marine held in Mexico’s new legal team hones case”

RT News

President Putin has hailed the Ukrainian president-elect’s “plan” to resolve crisis in the country, stressing that Ukraine should start internal dialogue, and that Russia is not a party to the conflict.

Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko have briefly spoken on the sidelines of the D-Day anniversary celebrations in Normandy.   Continue reading “Putin hails Poroshenko’s ‘positive thinking’ on settling crisis after D-Day meeting”

ITAR-TASS News Agency

SLOVIANSK, June 06. /ITAR-TASS/. Practically the entire town of Sloviansk in Ukraine’s southeastern Donetsk region has been left without electricity after a massive air strike staged by the Ukrainian army, a spokeswoman for the people’s mayor of Sloviansk told ITAR-TASS on Friday.

“There is no electricity in the majority of districts,” she said, adding that Internet connection had been lost practically all around the town too. According to the spokeswoman, water supplies had not yet been resumed in the majority of districts.   Continue reading “Air strikes by Ukrainian army leave Sloviansk without electricity”

AOL

WHITEHALL, MT- Striking gold is everyone’s dream. Drinking it? Not so much.

Gleaming water is never a good sign. Mark Brown told NBC Montana that his wife, Sharon, was finishing the dishes when she noticed something unusual. She called her husband, and he couldn’t believe what he was seeing: gold flakes in his tap water, and even in the family’s toilet tank. “She had pulled the plug to let the water out and there were glistening, gleaming little flecks.”   Continue reading “Couple finds gold in their tap water in Whitehall, Montana”

Boston Globe – by Kay Lazar and Shelley Murphy

US Drug Enforcement Administration investigators have visited the homes and offices of Massachusetts physicians involved with medical marijuana dispensaries and delivered an ultimatum: sever all ties to marijuana companies, or relinquish federal licenses to prescribe certain medications, according to several physicians and their attorneys.

The stark choice is necessary, the doctors said they were told, because of friction between federal law, which bans any use of marijuana, and state law, which voters changed in 2012 to allow medical use of the drug.   Continue reading “DEA targets doctors linked to medical marijuana”

Fox News – by Joshua Rhett Miller

Dozens of Veterans Affairs workers who have come forward with stories of mismanagement and patient abuse say they have faced retaliation within the scandal-scarred agency, according to federal investigators.

In one case, a VA employee with a spotless record over two decades was suspended after reporting patients had been inappropriately restrained, according to one of 37 such complaints filed with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC). In another case, an employee claimed to have been demoted after disclosing alleged mishandling of patient care funds. The employee was temporarily reassigned and an investigation is still ongoing, OSC officials said.   Continue reading “Price of coming forward: 37 VA whistle-blowers claim retaliation”

CNS News – by Ali Meyer

The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.   Continue reading “37.2%: Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High”

The following is a response to a great guy lamenting the cost of, and the searching for supplies and gear.

“…..Quality gear is expensive, and yet, to duplicate it is even more of a challenge…….”

Not if you know where to look! “grasshopper” …… And knowing what you need, and how to buy it, is an art. Besides, what do you think I’ve been doing all these 25 plus years? Building reports with venders and power buying, when I could. Why do you think I go to all the gun shows that I can? One NEVER knows what will turn up at one, and the potential.   Continue reading “On Finding Supplies and Gear”

RT News

As President Obama inches closer to entering the final half of his second term, speculation is emerging that the current first lady may pull a Hillary Clinton and run for a Senate seat.

In a Thursday column for Reuters, Keith Koffler writes that it shouldn’t be a surprise if Michelle Obama decides she wants to take a run at incumbent Illinois Republican Mark Kirk in 2016. Not only would she immediately deliver the kind of star power that would elevate her above her opponent, he writes, but her increasingly “bold profile” suggests she is placing herself in a position to at least seriously consider a Senate campaign.   Continue reading “Hillary 2.0? Rumors build on Michelle Obama’s Senate run”

RT News

For the first time, scientists have discovered evidence backing up the theory that the moon was created when a separate planet crashed into the Earth.

Published in the journal Science, the study states that researchers found the evidence by analyzing lunar rocks brought back to Earth during the Apollo mission more than 40 years ago. Scientists said they identified small chemical differences between some moon rocks and the rocks found on the Earth, suggesting that another world must have contributed to the lunar body’s creation.   Continue reading “Moon formed after Earth collided with another world, study says”

WMUR

ALSTEAD, N.H. —An 84-year-old New Hampshire woman on Friday will be out of the modest mobile home where she’s lived in for the past 27 years after the state’s highest court upheld her eviction.

“I haven’t done anything wrong,” Leona Berger said Thursday. “I’ve redone this house inside from paint, paper to floors, and I don’t know what I’ve done. I bother nobody. My house is probably the neatest one.”   Continue reading “Court upholds eviction, 84-year-old woman forced out of home”

The Guardian – by Jon Swaine

A major new shopping mall and housing development in New Jersey, which is controlled by the biggest corporate funders of Chris Christie’s official mansion, has been awarded a $223m public subsidy by the governor’s administration.

Luxury Point, a vast retail, residential and entertainment complex to be built in Sayreville, was last month given one of the biggest corporate tax breaks handed out so far by the Republican governor’s state authorities, which are facing a $2.7bn budget shortfall over the next year.   Continue reading “Chris Christie backers awarded $223m tax break to build New Jersey mall”