From the Trenches World Report

Examiner

Yesterday Pope Francis was named in five Catholic priest child abuse cases, plus had been labeled as callous toward hundreds of thousands of Catholic priest abuse victims.

“Newly disclosed records show that Pope Francis is just like the overwhelming majority of his complicit colleagues. That’s painful to say, but crucial to understand and accept if kids are to be safer in this global monarchy which Francis heads” said Barbara Dorris, Outreach Director for the 15,000-member SNAP, a US Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.   Continue reading “Pope Francis named in 5 priest child abuse cases, called callous”

Huffington Post – by Kate Abbey-Lambert

It’s easy to see why Tim and Jill McLarty chose to adopt Hunter: he’s a sweet, calm and curious puppy. They didn’t know, however, that he would end up saving their lives.

The McLartys adopted the Husky mix, now 3 months old, from a Michigan Humane Society off-site adoption center in Sterling Heights, Mich. last month.   Continue reading “Adopted Puppy Saves New Owners From Gas Leak”

Breitbart – by WARNER TODD HUSTON

Illinois has one of the worst pension messes in the nation as the cost of government employee benefits is sending state, county, and local governments into bankruptcy crises all across the state. No place has more trouble than Chicago, prompting Mayor Rahm Emanuel to warn that property taxes will have to double to serve that spiraling debt.

In 2015 Chicago faces a looming financial disaster with a municipal pension system that is in worse shape than that of any other major U.S. city. Chicago is under the gun for a whopping $1.07 billion balloon payment on its $19.4 billion pension debt for city employees. Chicago’s mayor is struggling to figure out how to pay the balloon payment, which is equal to one third of the city’s entire budget. According to The Wall Street Journal, the balloon payment alone could pay for the salaries of the Chicago Police Department’s entire 4,300 officer force or for the re-paving of all 16,000 blocks of roads in the city.   Continue reading “Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Warns of Doubled Property Taxes to Fund Spiraling Pension Costs”

AOL – Accuweather

While a winter storm barrels through the Midwest and Northeast, New Mexico and parts of Texas experienced weather quite different from snow Tuesday night, March 11, 2014.

Dust storms rolled through parts of New Mexico and Texas Tuesday night, reducing visibilities to near zero.

The storm was caused by a strong cold front moving through the north, according to AccuWeather Western U.S. Weather Expert Ken Clark.   Continue reading “Massive Haboob Barrels Through Western Texas”

RGJ – by SCOTT SONNER

WINNEMUCCA — A rural Nevada sheriff is defending the practice of stopping suspected drug traffickers on U.S. Interstate 80 and confiscating tens of thousands of dollars even if no criminal charges are filed.

Reports that two men had filed lawsuits in federal court against the county stirred concerns among Humboldt County residents that deputies are making illegal searches and seizures along I-80 in the high desert near Winnemucca about 165 miles east of Reno.   Continue reading “Rural Nevada sheriff defends I-80 drug stops”

Examiner

Yesterday UK High Court Justice Fulford, a long time advisor to Queen Elizabeth, was named as a co-defendant along with Pope Francis, in international court proceedings looking into their involvement in cleric child abuse, trafficking rings and evidence cover up. http://youtu.be/Es-K8iKvVmE

As one of Britain’s most senior judges Lord Justice Fulford also faced this week, calls to be suspended after his links were uncovered to the notorious paedophile pressure group Paedophile Information Exchange, or PIE. Campaigners asked for an investigation into Fulford’s political activities with Queen Elizabeth, other members of the royal family and the Vatican. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577050/Top-judge-suspended-link…   Continue reading “High Court Justice, Pope Francis co-defendants in child abuse, trafficking”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

“Sanctions could lead to retaliatory action, and that would trigger a spiral with unforeseeable consequences,” warns China’s envoy to Germany adding that “we don’t see any point in sanctions.” On the heels of Merkel’s warning that Russia risked “massive” political and economic damage if it did not change course, Reuters reports ambassador Shi Mingde urged patience saying “the door is still open” for diplomacy (though we suspect it is not) ahead of this weekend’s referendum. Russia’s Deputy Economy Minister Alexei Likhachev responded by promising “symmetrical” sanctions by Moscow. So now we have China joining the fray more aggressively.   Continue reading “China Warns West Not To Enforce Sanctions Against Russia”

The Hartford Courant – by SHAWN R. BEALS and DAVE ALTIMARI

9 News

NEW YORK (AP) – Rescuers working amid gusty winds, cold temperatures and billowing smoke pulled four additional bodies overnight from the rubble of two Manhattan apartment buildings, as the death toll rose Thursday to at least seven from a gas leak-triggered explosion that reduced the area to a pile of smashed bricks, splinters and mangled metal.

The explosion Wednesday morning in East Harlem injured more than 60 people, with searchers still trying to locate others a day later. Crews used generator-powered floodlights and thermal imaging cameras to identify heat spots – bodies or pockets of fire – at the site on Park Avenue and 116th Street. Police guarding the scene wore surgical masks and neighborhood residents covered faces with scarfs amid the thick, acrid air.   Continue reading “Searchers scour rubble after gas explosion kills 7”

Who What Why- by Russ Baker

In part I, we reported significant discrepancies in the story of the key witness in the Boston Marathon bombing-MIT police officer killing. These discrepancies cast doubt on his credibility—and therefore on the entire public narrative around those events.

We have been told that the witness was carjacked by the brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and that Tamerlan confessed to him their guilt in both crimes.   Continue reading “Something Dead Wrong Here: Investigating the mysterious and central character, “Danny”. Part 2 of 2”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Wall Street bonuses (on average) in 2013 rose 15% to the highest since 2007. As OSC Tom DiNapoli notes, “Securities industry employees took home significantly higher bonuses on average… although profits were lower than the prior year.” In fact, as we noted earlier, profits at the banks fell 30%.   Continue reading “Wall Street Bonuses Soar 15% To Highest Since 2007”

Misguided Children – by Faye Higbee

New York: In a out-right bizarre twist, the Grand Island Senior High School Administration has decided to deny that Shane Kinney was suspended or even disciplined for  the NRA T-Shirt that reportedly violated their dress code. Now he is being called “insubordinate” for wearing the shirt, and the school has started to harass him.

This is the shirt Shane wore underneath a sweatshirt. At first they said this t-shirt was ok, but abruptly that changed.   Continue reading “New York: Teen Suspended for NRA T-shirt – School Denies, Attempts to Bully Him”

Daily Mail

He was said to be a known prankster – and Walter George Bruhl Jr. had one final laugh planned for his family following his death.

The 80-year-old, who died on Sunday, had secretly written his own obituary, which relatives found after he passed away.

His grandson Sam Bruhl posted the epic essay, which is both heartfelt and hilarious to Reddit on Monday, causing a stream of comments from users who were touched by Walter’s story.   Continue reading “Beloved grandfather, 80, surprises family after his death when they discover he secretly wrote his OWN heartfelt (and hilarious) obituary”

Sunlight Foundation – by Lee Drutman

In 2009, four years before the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a widely-debated trade deal, few would have noticed a new issue popping up in a handful of lobbying reports. That year, 28 organizations filed 59 lobbying reports mentioning the then far-off trade agreement. Almost half of those organizations were pharmaceutical companies or associations.

It was an early clue as to which industry would take the most active role in trying to shape the trade agreement while it was still secret from the public. From 2009 until mid-2013 (the time during which the language of the agreement was still reasonably fluid), drug companies and associations mentioned the trade agreement in 251 separate lobbying reports – two and a half times more than the next most active industry (at least measured by lobbying reports).   Continue reading “How Big Pharma (and others) began lobbying on the Trans-Pacific Partnership before you ever heard of it”

Crimes Against Humanity – by Celeste

An eerie $9 billion dollar trench experiment is being conducted at the Salton Sea which could trigger a spasm resulting in the cataclysmic ‘Big One’.  As if describing Biblical prophecy, a Scripps geophysicist, discusses the project located in one of the most tectonically active places in North America, “Imagine you’re 9 months pregnant,” says Kent Graham and, “You’re somehow coming to the end of a process.”   Continue reading “Trench Warfare at the Salton Sea”

Information Liberation

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a Texas man whose home was subject to a no-knock, SWAT-team style forceful entry and raid based solely on the suspicion that there were legally-owned firearms in his household. In denying a petition for certiorari in Quinn v. Texas, the Court let stand a lower court ruling that essentially makes lawful gun ownership and possession grounds for police to evade the protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment and improperly penalizes and limits the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The Rutherford Institute had asked the Court to weigh in on the case and protect Americans against encroachments on their Second Amendment rights.   Continue reading “U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in Second Amendment Case, Refuses to Prohibit Police from Using Lawful Gun Ownership as a Trigger for “No-Knock” Police Raids”