From the Trenches World Report

Reuters – by Missy Ryan

The United States recently sent a small number of special forces soldiers to Jordan to train with counterparts fromIraq and Jordan, a new step in the Obama administration’s effort to help Baghdad stamp out a resurgent al Qaeda threat, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

The U.S. contingent was dispatched to take part in a training exchange with counterterrorism forces from Iraq and Jordan, allowing the administration to provide a modest new measure of support to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.   Continue reading “U.S. special forces sent to train Iraqi special forces in Jordan”

Anti-War – by Norman Solomon

The frontrunner to become the next president of the United States is playing an old and dangerous political game – comparing a foreign leader to Adolf Hitler.

At a private charity event on Tuesday, in comments preserved on audio, Hillary Clinton talked about actions by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in the Crimea. “Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the ’30s,” she said.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton: Playing a Dog-Eared ‘Hitler’ Card”

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

Seriously? Is jailing elderly women in the best interest of society here in Amerika?

First an elderly woman was jailed and is currently being held for violating her parole by leaving stale bread crumbs out in her yard for birds.   Continue reading “Another 81-Year-Old Lady Jailed, this Time over a Missed Hearing Due to Cancer”

Fox News

Two people aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 were traveling with passports reported stolen in Thailand, foreign ministry officials in Italy and Austria said.

Italy’s Foreign Ministry said that an Italian man, Luigi Maraldi, who was listed as being a passenger aboard the aircraft that was carrying 239 people, reported his passport stolen last August.   Continue reading “Two aboard missing Malaysia Airlines jet traveling with stolen passports”

New York Times – by BENJAMIN WEISER

To be chosen as one of the jurors in the terrorism trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden, would understandably cause some unease.

But for one woman, serving on the jury has brought about some unexpected tension: the loss of her job.   Continue reading “Juror Loses Job for Serving in Terror TrialJuror Loses Job for Serving in Terror Trial”

This is what I did in the Navy. Now going black budget. Nice.

RT News

Hoping to nudge Congress into providing some extra cash in its 2015 budget, the US Navy is looking to put 22 Boeing electronic attack jets onto a list of “unfunded priorities” and send it to lawmakers.   Continue reading “Navy puts electronic attack jets on ‘unfunded’ list”

The Tampa Tribune – by James L. Rosica

The Rev. Al Sharpton will lead a rally against the state’s “stand your ground” law Monday morning in the Capitol courtyard, according to the website of his National Action Network.

Sharpton, also an MSNBC host and commentator, will be joined by the parents of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis.   Continue reading “Al Sharpton to march on Tallahassee against “Stand Your Ground””

Science Daily

A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Their research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in an article titled “Discovery of a New Class of Non-beta-lactam Inhibitors of Penicillin-Binding Proteins with Gram-Positive Antibacterial Activity.”   Continue reading “New class of antibiotics discovered by chemists”

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The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

Petaluma, California’s Rancho Feeding Corporation recalled 8,742,700 pounds of meat products in February after the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined that the meat came from uninspected, “diseased and unsound” animals.

“Thus, the products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food and must be removed from commerce,” FSIS concluded.   Continue reading “9 Million Lbs. of “Diseased and Unsound” Meat May Have Reached 35 States, Says USDA”

AlterNet – by April M. Short

All those flower children who said, “Dropping acid/dancing with Lucy/a dose of this stuff melts your worries away, man” weren’t (just) tripping, after all.

The results of the first clinical study of the therapeutic use of LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in humans in more than 40 years were  published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease this week. They show that LSD can promote statistically significant reductions in anxiety.   Continue reading “LSD Can Ease Anxiety for Dying Patients”

The Organic Prepper

The bells are tolling on the American economy.  Every day, another expert is warning us of the imminent demise of our way of life. If you’re paying attention, you can see it coming, like some huge storm system, bearing down on you. You don’t stand there and wait for it to hit you.  You don’t have to be a passive victim of the economy. It’s time to sit down and take a long hard look at where your money is going. Lots of financial experts give tips about reducing your discretionary spending but what about those fixed expenses? You can free up some large sums of money by reducing your monthly output.   Continue reading “Weathering the Economic Collapse: Can You Reduce Any of These 10 Fixed Expenses?”

CenturyLink – by DARLENE SUPERVILLE

KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) — The crisis in Crimea won’t keep President Barack Obama from forging ahead with a weekend getaway with his wife and daughters in the Florida Keys.

But it’s more than the Oval Office that will be dark as Russia’s incursion into Ukraine reaches its one week mark. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife are vacationing in the Virgin Islands. And national security adviser Susan Rice is traveling in the Middle East for meetings with her counterparts.   Continue reading “Ukraine doesn’t keep Obama from Florida vacation”