From the Trenches World Report

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a sudden reprise of Cold War sensibilities, the U.S. and its allies are weighing sanctions on Moscow and whether to bolster defenses in Europe in response to Russia’s military advances on Ukraine. Secretary of State John Kerry, soon on his way to Ukraine’s capital, said world leaders “are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion.”

Much as when superpower tensions ruled world affairs, missile defense systems and troop levels in Europe have again become urgent questions in Washington and beyond, a renewed reality that may force President Barack Obama’s administration to give up its intended foreign policy shift to Asia indefinitely.   Continue reading “A Cold War reprise as US seeks Moscow’s isolation”

NBC Bay Area

Ukrainians who live in the Bay Area are following the developments very closely and some are taking action, urging the U.S. and the rest of the world to intervene with the Russian military entering Ukraine.

Protesters gathered outside the Russian consulate in San Francisco Saturday afternoon, opposing Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine.   Continue reading “Bay Area Ukrainians Urge U.S., World to Intervene With Russia”

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TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy protection blamed theft through hacking for its losses Monday, and said it was looking into a criminal complaint.

In an announcement posted on the Mt. Gox exchange’s website, CEO Mark Karpeles outlined the events that resulted in the company’s insolvency and said there was a “high probability” theft was behind the disappearance of bitcoins.   Continue reading “Bitcoin exchange looks into criminal complaint”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal from a Florida death row inmate who claims he is protected from execution because he is mentally disabled.

The case being argued Monday at the court centers on how authorities determine who is eligible to be put to death, 12 years after the justices prohibited the execution of the mentally disabled. The court has until now left it to the states to set rules for judging who is mentally disabled. In Florida and certain other states, an intelligence test score higher than 70 means an inmate is not mentally disabled, even if other evidence indicates he is.   Continue reading “High court looks at death row inmate’s IQ scores”

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NEW YORK (AP) — Amid unusually tight security, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law goes to trial Monday on charges he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida’s mouthpiece after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Spectators at the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith — the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to face trial on U.S. soil since the attacks — will pass through a metal detector before entering a Manhattan courtroom where prosecutors will try to prove to an anonymous jury that the one-time terror network spokesman tried to rally others to kill Americans.   Continue reading “NY jury selection starts for bin Laden son-in-law”

The Intercept – by Glenn Greenwald

One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction. It’s time to tell a chunk of that story, complete with the relevant documents.   Continue reading “How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations”

Veterans Today – by Bob Nichols

(San Francisco) – Feb 28, 2014 – Carlsbad, New Mexico is the site of the nation’s only nuclear weapons program garbage dump. Plutonium is used in making The Bomb, it melts at 640 Deg C or 1,184 Deg F, and is made in reactors. It is not mined anywhere on Earth. Reactors exist to make Bombs.   Continue reading “South Central US Poisoned by New Mexico Nuke Garbage Dump”

Moon of Alabama

Secretary of State Kerry on Face the Nation:

Russia chose this brazen act aggression and moved in with its forces on a completely trumped set of pre-texts claiming that people were threatened …

Kerry should watch the following videos.      Continue reading ““White Ribbon” Armed Men Explain Russia’s Crimea Reaction?”

Video Rebel’s Blog

We used to have the moral high ground. We aren’t the Good Guys anymore.     Rob Kirby

Catherine Austin Fitts believes we are still in the Slow Burn phase during which all of our resources are being systematically stolen  by Wall Street and the City of London. The Bankers have stolen tens of trillions of dollars which they have taken out of our collapsing economy and amongst other things have invested their ill gotten gains into what few growth companies there are.   Continue reading “Why The World Should Join The Russo-Chinese-Arab Offensive Against The US Dollar.”

Nation of Change – by Christina Sarich

Many people are wondering what really caused Fukushima. While we can look into the geologic studies that were taken prior to the Daiichi event, outlining the active 200 meter fault line that Honshu Island rests right on top off, we are obliged as citizens to look even deeper, more so with the admission of an anonymous U.S. government nuclear official that radiation leaking from the plant just 100 meters away is “astronomical.”

Uranium can be mined for some medical purposes and to make electricity, but its main purpose was and is to fuel nuclear warfare against the world. Just six mines provide 85 percent of the world’s uranium and guess who owns the mineral rights to that land?    Continue reading “The Queen of England Deals Extensively in $17 Trillion Depleted Uranium Trade”