From the Trenches World Report

Climate Progress – by TOM KENWORTHY

California’s mountain snowpack, critical to the state’s water supply and $45 billion agricultural economy, is at less than one-third of normal and unlikely to rebound, according to data released on Tuesday by the Department of Water Resources.

While the 32 percent of average measurement is significantly better than the 12 percent at the end of January, California’s mountain precipitation season is drawing to a close. “We can hope that conditions improve, but time is running out and conservation is the only tool we have against nature’s whim,” water resources director Mark Cowin told the Wall Street Journal.   Continue reading “No Real Relief For California Drought. Next Up: Wildfires.”

NJ.com – by Jenna Portnoy

TRENTON — In the swing state of Virginia, Gov. Chris Christie is the Republican with the best chance of beating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a presidential faceoff, a new poll shows, though her lead us shrinking.

According to a Quinnipiac University Poll released last week, Clinton would best Christie, 45 percent to 41 percent, topping other possible contenders.   Continue reading “Christie comes closest to besting Clinton, Virginia poll finds”

News Beacon Ireland

Rodolfo Ragonesi, CEO of the Gaia Foundation,  is clearly a man of truly exceptional courage and focus. While nearly all of the environmental and science communities have remained criminally silent about the blatant and highly toxic climate engineering constantly occurring in skies around the globe, Ragonesi has taken a stand and is demanding answers.   Continue reading “Italian Senator Demands Declassification And Disclosure Of “Chemtrail / Geoengineering” Spraying”

RT News

A US federal court has granted Hawaiian lawmakers permission to slash benefits for residents whose families formerly lived on a string of Pacific islands that the US military used as a nuclear test site in the decades after World War II.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit removed an injunction Tuesday that prevented the state from reducing the health benefits paid out to residents of Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshall Islands, where a number of people claim they are still suffering from health problems caused by the military tests.   Continue reading “Hawaii may cut health benefits to Pacific islanders affected by nuclear testing”

RT News

Things aren’t getting much better for the gap between America’s rich and poor: a new study reveals that inequality within the United States is only getting worse.

The Sadoff Investment Research firm of Wisconsin has released the results of a recent report, and it indicates that the ongoing issue of inequality is continuing to keep America’s poor vastly separated from the more financially fortunate.   Continue reading “Inequality gap between super rich and poor continues to widen”

Mail.com

IQUIQUE, Chile (AP) — Authorities in northern Chile discovered surprisingly light damage and just six reported deaths Wednesday from a magnitude-8.2 quake — a remarkably low toll for such a powerful shift in the Earth’s crust.

President Michelle Bachelet arrived in Iquique before noon to review damage after declaring a state of emergency. Hours earlier, she sent a military plane with 100 anti-riot police to join 300 soldiers deployed to prevent looting and round up escaped prisoners.  Continue reading “Experts: Chile’s M8.2 quake not ‘the big one’”

Mail.com

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform struck the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in the heart of Kabul on Wednesday and killed six police officers, authorities said, in an escalation of Taliban violence aimed at disrupting this weekend’s presidential election.

Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said the bomber got through several checkpoints to reach the ministry gate before detonating his explosives. An Interior Ministry statement said the bomber was among other men in uniform entering the compound.   Continue reading “Blast kills 6 at Afghan Interior Ministry compound”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reeling from allegations by federal prosecutors that he knew about the dirty tricks that helped him get elected four years ago, District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray tried to rally his base. But his core supporters weren’t nearly enough, as a scandal-weary electorate rallied behind a much-younger challenger who promised honest and ethical leadership.

D.C. Councilmember Muriel Bowser defeated Gray in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, leaving Gray to serve nine months as a lame duck with potential criminal charges hanging over his head. The defining moment of the election occurred three weeks earlier in a courtroom. Federal prosecutors say Gray knew about an illegal $668,000 slush fund that helped him defeat incumbent Adrian Fenty in 2010. Five people involved with his previous campaign have pleaded guilty to felonies and the new allegations surfaced as part of a plea deal for the businessman who provided the illegal funds.   Continue reading “Scandal-weary voters boot DC mayor from office”

Yahoo News -by MARK SHERMAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees.

The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans have a right to give the legal maximum to candidates for Congress and president, as well as to parties and PACs, without worrying that they will violate the law when they bump up against a limit on all contributions, set at $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. That includes a separate $48,600 cap on contributions to candidates.   Continue reading “High court voids overall contribution limits”

Desdemona Despair

By Suzannah Hills 30 March 2014

(Daily Mail) – It is one of the most polluted countries on earth.

So it may come as little surprise that the latest fad in China is literally offering its city dwellers a breath of fresh air.

Numerous fresh air stations have been set up in some of China’s most polluted cities.   Continue reading “Oxygen stations set up across China to provide relief from air pollution”

Before It’s News – by Stomp K

OK, this is pretty creepy. Normally, Diego Garcia calling for an empty container ship to move ammo, or whatever, wouldn’t be too alarming.

But notice the classification of the request.   Continue reading “MH370 Diego Garcia Calls For Empty Cargo Ship For Travel And Relocation. Moving Bodies?”

Get ’em while they’re young. Note the date of Military Kids Day – Apr. 15th. Not only tax day this year, but the first of the blood moons with the first day of Passover.

I’m leaving town.

Military News – by Terri Moon Cronk

WASHINGTON, April 1, 2014 – The Defense Department believes military children serve their country alongside their service member parents, DOD’s director of the office of family policy/children and youth said.   Continue reading “DOD Salutes Children During Military Child Month”

Omega Shock – by John Little

I have always said that the control systems that the Antichrist will use to enslave humanity will be tested, perfected and prototyped in the third world. Developing countries are easier to manipulate. They are easier to bribe. They are easier to damage and destroy. And, it’s no big loss to the Illuminati/global elites when millions of peasants suffer starvation, war and massive death.

And, the global elites know that they have to perfect their strategies before rolling them out to the rest of the world. And, it looks like Venezuela has been given the high honor of being chosen to show the rest of the world how it’s done.   Continue reading “They Will Control Us – Venezuela Shows Us How”

Breitbart – by CHRISTIAN TOTO

Michael Moore doesn’t believe in the death penalty, even in horrific murder cases or other stomach-churning acts.

The far-left filmmaker will make an exception to his anti-death penalty stance, though. He wants the GM executives responsible for preventing a recall of faulty ignitions put to death by the state.

GM is holding hearings this week on the subject, which convinced Moore to take to his Facebook page for his latest proclamation.   Continue reading “Michael Moore: Hunt Down and Execute GM Officials Behind Ignition-Related Deaths”

ARS Technica – by Joe Silver

Last Thursday, the Obama Administration announced details of its plan to overhaul the government’s bulk phone-records collection program, previously authorized under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act.

Under the proposed changes, the National Security Agency would no longer be in the business of collecting call records in bulk. Rather, the agency will be required to go directly to phone companies to obtain records, and it will need prior permission from a judge to access such information.   Continue reading “What, besides phone records, does the NSA collect in bulk?”