From the Trenches World Report

Rehmat’s World

One day after a compromise reached between the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition leaders, the anti-government protestors stormed the Presidential Palace and forced Yanukovych to flee. As part of the deal, the convicted former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, was released from hospital where she was imprisoned. The so-called “interim government” lead by the new Speaker of country’s parliament Oleksandr Turchinov, an ally of Tymoshenko, has announced to hold new election on May 25, 2014.   Continue reading “Jewish groups celebrate regime-change in Ukraine”

New America Media – by Viji Sundaram

SAN FRANCISCO – Angela Stark waited in line for nearly two hours at the San Francisco Department of Human Services office to hand over her Medi-Cal application. She then waited another hour before an enrollment worker interviewed her to see if she was eligible.

Just three weeks shy of her 22nd birthday, Stark had been uninsured since aging out of foster care at age 18.    Continue reading “Medi-Cal Covers Foster Youth Till Age 26, But Few Know It”

ADG UK – by Bruce Fraveril

Dozens of volunteers have signed up for what could be the biggest prank in history – aimed at causing an ‘apocalypse’ in the media.

The plans have been drawn up carefully – on an April evening this year, swarms of glowing spacecraft will begin a flight through our atmosphere – and hover over locations around the world.   Continue reading “Alien invasion to launch in April?”

ZeroHedge – by Tyler Durden

When a hypertotalitarian banana republic takes another turn for the gigasurreal, even Elon Musk is speechless.

In the most glaring example of how farcical idiocy has become the new normal, we will remind readers (especially those who do not follow us on twitter), of the following blurb from last night:   Continue reading “Obama Asks Court To Make NSA Database Even Bigger”

The Florida Times Union – by Topher Sanders

Cody Williams was arrested in late August, charged with the sexual battery of someone younger than 12.

The 18-year-old Clay High School student spent 35 days in jail.

One problem: He was the wrong Cody Williams.   Continue reading “Name mix-up in sexual battery case sends wrong Clay County teen to jail for 35 days”

Examiner – by Penny Tilton

In Hohenwald Tennessee the Galloway family is still in mourning after their neighbor, Wendell Kelley, an off-duty postal worker, shot their Labrador Retriever Bryan, in front of their daughter 13-year-old Peggy Galloway on Monday.

Janice Galloway, Peggy’s mother had taken her husband to work that morning, leaving Peggy in bed because she had not feeling well. Janice had just dropped her husband off at work when she received a phone call from a neighbor that had witnessed the shooting, telling her that Bryan was dead, and Peggy was distraught.   Continue reading “Neighbor shoots family’s dog in front of 13-year-old girl”

Huffington Post- by YURAS KARAMANAU

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (AP) — Police struggled to keep apart rival groups holding competing rallies Wednesday in Ukraine’s largely pro-Russian Crimea region where the regional parliament was to hold a crisis session on the turmoil that has gripped the country.

In the regional capital of Simferopol, 10,000 Muslim Crimean Tatars rallied in support of Ukraine’s interim leaders, waving Ukrainian flags and chanting “Ukraine is not Russia” and “Allahu Akbar,” while a smaller pro-Russian rally nearby called for stronger ties with Russia and waved Russian flags.   Continue reading “Ukraine Berkut Riot Police Disbanded As Rival Groups Protest”

CenturyLink – by JIM FITZGERALD

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Kerry Kennedy testified at her drugged-driving trial Wednesday that she has no memory of swerving and hitting a tractor-trailer on a suburban New York highway and did not realize she was impaired when she got behind the wheel.

“No, if I realized I was impaired I would have pulled over,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy was arrested in July 2012 after her car hit the truck near her home outside New York City. She drove to the next exit, where she failed a sobriety test, police said.   Continue reading “Kerry Kennedy says she has no memory of accident”

Chicago Now – by koolking83, April 18, 2012

At the National Rifle Association Convention this past weekend, you-“Rocker Ted Nugent“, and by Rocker I mean the guy who sang “Cat Scratch Fever” 35 years ago, said you will end up “dead or in jail..”  if President Obama is reelected in November.

Let me just say-or warn rather, with all due lack of respect-that “Response A”-your possible, consequential death, could serve as a galvanizing incentive for many to vote for the President.   Continue reading “An open letter to Ted Nugent, the true “Anti-American Monster””

National Journal – by Josh Kraushaar

Republican strategists like to say the party’s next nominee needs to hail from the GOP’s gubernatorial ranks. It’s a response to how unpopular Washington is—particularly the party’s congressional wing—and a reflection of the party’s strength in holding a majority of governorships. But another reason for the gubernatorial focus is to sidestep the one formidable candidate that gives the establishment heartburn: Sen. Rand Paul.   Continue reading “Rand Paul Is the GOP’s Early Presidential Front-Runner”

Science Daily – Smithsonian

Mass strandings of whales have puzzled people since Aristotle. Modern-day strandings can be investigated and their causes, often human-related, identified. Events that happened millions of years ago, however, are far harder to analyze — frequently leaving their cause a mystery. A team of Smithsonian and Chilean scientists examined a large fossil site of ancient marine mammal skeletons in the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile — the first definitive example of repeated mass strandings of marine mammals in the fossil record. The site reflected four distinct strandings over time, indicating a repeated and similar cause: toxic algae. The team’s findings will be published Feb. 26 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.   Continue reading “Mass strandings of marine mammals blamed on toxic algae: Clues unearthed in ancient whale graveyard”

Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter

A recent study from researchers with the Kasturba Medical College in India found the survival rate of mice exposed to radiation was dramatically increased when they received black plum leaf extract.

You don’t have to work in the radiology department of your local hospital or live near Fukushima Japan to be exposed to radiation each and every day. Whether you use a microwave, fly on an airplane, or get your annually-recommended mammogram, you are exposed. While some of this exposure is unnecessary and preventable, much of it is not. For that reason, it makes sense to take efforts to minimize the effects of this chronic exposure. And black plum leaf extract could aid in that battle.   Continue reading “Black Plum Leaf Found to Harness Radioprotective Properties”

Real Farmacy – by JOHN SUMMERLY

A wave of viral and bacterial infections is sweeping across the Northern Hemisphere and people are taking longer to heal from an array of symptoms within the respiratory system. If you are resorting to conventional medicine to address these infections with antibiotics, you are not only adding to the problems associated with antibiotic resistance, but you’re also doing little to address the healing mechanisms within your body to address the cause. Herbal remedies not only boost lung health, but they can heal infections and even repair lung damage. Here are 15 of the best herbs to boost lung health.   Continue reading “15 Plants and Herbs That Boost Lung Health, Heal Respiratory Infections And Even Repair Pulmonary Damage”

Mint Press News

KING CITY, Calif. (AP) — One-third of a central California town’s police force was taken off duty after several officers were arrested in a scheme to take for themselves the impounded cars of some poor Hispanic residents, authorities said.

In the scheme, vehicles were impounded and towed, and when the car owners couldn’t pay the fees, the vehicles were sold or given away for free to some officers, Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo said Tuesday.   Continue reading “Third Of California Town’s Officers Tied To Scheme”

Reuters – by STEVE GUTTERMAN

President Vladimir Putin ordered an urgent drill to test the combat readiness of his armed forces across western Russia on Wednesday, flexing Moscow’s military muscle amid tension with the West over Ukraine.

Russia said the exercises were not linked to events in Ukraine, where the ouster of a president who turned his back on the European Union and sought closer ties with Moscow has raised worries in the West over possibility of military intervention.   Continue reading “Putin puts troops in western Russia on alert in drill”

RNIF – by Keyan Bliss 

In January, the Boeing Corporation bullied the members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) to accept a new contract forcing them to give up hard-won pensions, dismantle their health care, and reduce their wages. The effort to take away essential benefits from Washington workers was a well-calculated scheme by the world’s largest airplane manufacturer. By exploiting bad economic conditions, it manipulated opportunistic politicians and even the union’s own leadership in order to pressure workers to accept these concessions.   Continue reading “Boeing Forces Union Workers to Sacrifice Pensions for Profit’s Sake”

RINF – by Harvey Wasserman

A stunning new report indicates the U.S. Navy knew that sailors from the nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan took major radiation hits from the Fukushima atomic power plant after its meltdowns and explosions nearly three years ago.

If true, the revelations cast new light on the $1 billion lawsuit filed by the sailors against Tokyo Electric Power.  Many of the sailors are already suffering devastating health impacts, but are being stonewalled by Tepco and the Navy.   Continue reading “Documents Say Navy Knew Fukushima Dangerously Contaminated the USS Reagan”

Common Dreams – by Andrea Germanos

A new study reveals that members of the Air Force Reserve were exposed to significant levels of Agent Orange long after planes were dumping the toxic cocktail on Vietnam.

C-123 aircraft spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam. (Photo: US Air Force)The findings, published online Friday in the journal Environmental Research, stand in contrast to claims by the U.S. Air Force and the VA.   Continue reading “New Study Confirms One of Agent Orange’s Toxic Legacies”