From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Hundreds of years after wealthy merchants began building the tall, narrow brick houses that have come to define Amsterdam’s skyline, Dutch architects are updating the process for the 21st century: fabricating pieces of a canal house out of plastic with a giant 3-D printer and slotting them together like oversized Lego blocks.

Hedwig Heinsman of architect bureau Dus says the goal of the demonstration project launched this month is not so much to print a functioning house — in fact, parts of the house will likely be built and re-built several times over the course of three years as 3-D printing technology develops.   Continue reading “Amsterdam canal house built with 3-D printer”

Mail.com

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Some passengers aboard a plane whose nose gear collapsed on a Philadelphia runway finally made it to South Florida early Friday.

Officials say US Airways Flight 1702 was heading for Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday when a tire on the front landing gear blew out, forcing the pilot to abort takeoff at Philadelphia International Airport.   Continue reading “Passengers from crippled Pa. plane arrive in Fla.”

Mail.com

PHOENIX (AP) — A man convicted after his third trial in the 1991 killings of nine people, including six monks, at a suburban Phoenix Buddhist temple is set for sentencing and faces life in prison.

Johnathan A. Doody was 17 when he was accused of participating in the slayings at the Wat Promkunaram temple. He was found guilty in 1993 and sentenced to 281 years in prison. But an appeals court threw out his conviction in 2011 after ruling that investigators improperly obtained his confession.   Continue reading “Sentencing set for man in Arizona temple slayings”

Mail.com

DADE CITY, Fla. (AP) — A former police officer accused of killing a man in a movie theater during a dispute over texting had used his own phone to send a message to his son minutes before the shooting, according to documents released Thursday by Florida prosecutors.

Curtis Reeves’ son, Matthew Reeves, told detectives that his father texted him at 1:04 p.m. Jan. 13, the documents show. Curtis Reeves told his son he was already seated inside the theater. Matthew Reeves, who is a Tampa police officer, made plans to meet his parents at the theater for the 1:20 p.m. showing of “Lone Survivor” but was late because he stopped to wash his truck, he told detectives.   Continue reading “Records: Man in theater shooting also was texting”

Veterans Today – by Stephen Lendman

On February 27, 2014, they announced their so-called “Ukrainian government of people’s trust.”

It includes a rogue’s gallery of societal misfits. Many are militant fascists. They’re thugs. They’re criminals.

They’re illegitimate putschists. They’re xenophobic, hate-mongering, ultranationalist anti-Semites. Combined they represent mob rule.   Continue reading “Meet Obama’s New Ukrainian Friends”

Yahoo News

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s largest bank says customers in the nation’s Crimean Peninsula are lining up to withdraw cash from their accounts as the region occupied by Russian troops prepares for Sunday’s referendum on joining Russia.

Lines of customers could be seen forming on Thursday outside Privat and other banks amid uncertainty over the peninsula’s future.   Continue reading “Jittery customers run on banks in Crimea”

NHS

Paul Craig Roberts

Washington, enabled by its compliant but stupid NATO puppets, is pushing the Ukrainian situation closer to war.

German Chancellor Merkel has failed her country, Europe, and world peace. Germany is the strength of the EU and NATO. Had Merkel said “No” to sanctions on Russia, that would have been the end of the crisis that Washington is brewing, a crisis unlikely to be ended short of war.   Continue reading “The Failure Of German Leadership – Merkel Whores For Washington”

WTF RLY?

More assets are starting to reappropriated in Crimea as the March 16th referendum approaches.

Via Google Translate Pravda: “Authorities” of the Crimea have decided to give oil and gas “Gazprom”
Speaker of the Supreme Council of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov said that oil and gas production in the Crimea should be given to Russian companies , in particular, ” Gazprom” .   Continue reading “Authorities in Crimea to “give oil and gas production” to Russia’s Gazprom, others”

Philly.com – by Sam Wood

USA Today – by Alan Gomez

President Obama has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a system-wide review of the way it enforces the nation’s immigration laws, asking the department “to see how it can conduct enforcement more humanely within the confines of the law,” according to a White House statement.

The order comes at a critical time for the president, who continues pushing Congress to pass a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, but is facing increased pressure from immigration advocates who say he should halt all deportations until a new law is passed.   Continue reading “Obama wants deportation handled ‘more humanely’”

Bloomberg – by Ott Ummelas

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to “invade eastern Ukraine” after occupying the country’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, Estonia said.

Russia warned that Ukraine’s government has lost control of the country today, fueling concern the Kremlin may extend a military intervention as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for it to halt a takeover of the disputed province.   Continue reading “Russia Is Preparing to Invade East Ukraine, Estonia Says”

The Right to Bear

For a short time, it appeared that Connecticut police officers might go door to door to confiscate guns from gun owners who’d tried to register their now-illegal firearms after the filing deadline.

But then it was discovered that more than 68% of Connecticut cops have failed to comply with the new gun registration laws that went into effect early this year.   Continue reading “68% of Connecticut Cops Have Failed to Register Firearms According to the New Law”

Try not to laugh!

CNN Money – by Jose Pagliery 

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called President Obama on Wednesday night to express frustration about the government’s spying and hacking programs.

“When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon.   Continue reading “Mark Zuckerberg calls Obama to complain about NSA”

Chron – by Craig Hlavaty

The family of a Robstown Independent School District student has filed a federal lawsuit against the Robstown Police Department, the school district, and the city of Robstown, after one of its officers allegedly choked the student to the point of passing out.

The student’s offense?  He was throwing milk in his school’s cafeteria, the suit says.

At the time of the February 2012 incident, the male student, whose is unnamed in the suit, was enrolled at Ortiz Intermediate School.   Continue reading “Federal lawsuit accuses Texas cop of choking milk-throwing student”