From the Trenches World Report

Fox News

Mexican cartels are recruiting hit men from the U.S. military, offering big money to highly-trained soldiers to carry out contract killings and potentially share their skills with gangsters south of the border, according to law enforcement experts.

The involvement of three American soldiers in separate incidents, including a 2009 murder that led to last week’s life sentence for a former Army private, underscore a problem the U.S. military has fought hard to address.   Continue reading “Mexican cartels hiring US soldiers as hit men”

Mail.com

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The nation’s most active death penalty state is running out of its execution drug.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said Thursday that its remaining supply of pentobarbital expires in September and that no alternatives have been found. It wasn’t immediately clear whether two executions scheduled for next month would be delayed. The state has already executed 11 death-row inmates this year, and at least seven more have execution dates in coming months.   Continue reading “Texas prison system running out of execution drug”

Mail.com

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Old Faithful it’s not.

Yellowstone National Park’s Steamboat Geyser — the world’s tallest — has erupted for the first time in more than eight years. The nine-minute blast sent steaming hot water an estimated 200 to 300 feet in the air, park geologist Hank Heasler said Thursday.

Unlike the park’s popular and famous Old Faithful geyser, which spews water like clockwork every hour-and-a-half, no one knows when Steamboat will erupt next. In the past, it’s gone as long as 50 years without a major event. In 1964, it erupted a record 29 times. The last blast came in 2005.   Continue reading “Rare eruption at Yellowstone geyser”

Mail.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Chinese sculptor has removed a disputed inscription from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial statue that he designed on the National Mall and said Thursday that he is working on a new finish for the side of the artwork.

Plans call for sculptor Lei Yixin to carve grooves over the former words to match existing horizontal “striation” marks in the memorial. Lei said he is working to deepen all the memorial’s grooves so that they will match.   Continue reading “Disputed inscription removed from MLK Memorial”

Mail.com

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Food safety advocates say they are alarmed by a lack of information being disseminated about the spread of a nasty intestinal illness that has sickened nearly 400 people nationwide, including cases in two states that have been linked to prepackaged salad.

The outbreak of the rare parasite cyclospora has been reported in at least 15 states, and federal officials warned Wednesday it was too early to say that the threat was over. But if you’re looking to find out exactly where it came from, you may be out of luck.   Continue reading “Critics: Consumers should know more about outbreak”

Yahoo News Canada – by Steve Mertl | Daily Brew

We’ve all heard of diplomatic immunity, the international convention that exempts select representatives of foreign countries from arrest and prosecution unless that protection is specifically waived by their government.

The privilege has been occasionally abused, but it’s a vital element in allowing diplomats to operate in sometimes hostile environments without fear of being detained.   Continue reading “U.S. expects immunity for its cops working in new cross-border policing program”

Washington’s Blog

Tepco Has No Idea How to Stabilize the Reactors

You’ve heard bad news about Fukushima recently.

But it’s worse than you know.

The Wall Street Journal notes that radiation levels outside the plant are likely higher than inside the reactor:   Continue reading “You Won’t BELIEVE What’s Going On at Fukushima Right Now”

The Organic Prepper

Be careful what you Google….you never know when it might get you a visit from the  federal anti-terrorism task force, despite the government’s claims that information about average Americans is not being analyzed.

What shows up in your search history?  I just checked mine.   Continue reading “Feds Visit Family Who Googled Backpacks & Pressure Cookers…But the NSA Isn’t Watching You”

The Seattle Times – by Dominic Gates

Local Boeing workers who’ve lost their jobs will receive substantial additional federal unemployment benefits after two unions at the company sought aid under a program for employees laid off due to outsourcing and foreign trade.

Stan Deyo

ORIGINAL CAPTIAN: A cow moose cools her hooves in a child’s swimming pool in Anchorage, Alaska. While spending a couple of hours relaxing, her two calves beat the heat by resting in the shade a couple of houses away. (ANCHORGAE DAILY NEWS/ MCT /LANDOV)

Moose family cools off by the pool.   Continue reading “Alaska breaks heat records”

CNN – by Leslie Bentz

A Kansas company is recalling about 50,000 pounds of ground beef products over fears of E. coli contamination.

The National Beef Packing Co. products, which were shipped nationwide, may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.   Continue reading “Kansas company recalls 50,000 pounds of ground beef products”

The Telegraph – by Rhiannon Williams

Seeing Red AZ

Opining that “rock star” Hillary Clinton did a “fine job” as secretary of state, Arizona’s disgrace John McCain says it would be a “tough choice” between supporting the liberal snake oil saleswoman who orchestrated the shameful Benghazi deception and conservative U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in 2016.

That statement should rankle every party stalwart who expects those who run as Republicans to act as Republicans as well as support the GOP Platform.     Continue reading “McCain may support “rock star” Hillary in 2016”

Press TV

The sole path to liberate the land of Palestine is for the regional countries to join efforts to strengthen the existing model of resistance against Zionism, a political analyst tells Press TV.

“The Palestinians need the people and the states and the countries of the region to build capacity [for] resistance [against] Zionism and imperialism,” said Sukant Chandan in a Thursday interview.    Continue reading “Anti-Israeli resistance must span entire Middle East: Analyst”

Cop Block

Two weeks ago, animal shelter employee Ray Schulze was working in the barn at the Society of St. Francis on the Kenosha-Illinois border when a swarm of squad cars arrived and officers unloaded with a search warrant.

There were nine DNR agents and four deputy sheriffs, and they were all armed to the teeth; Schulze said, “It was like a SWAT team.”   Continue reading “Armed Agents Raid Animal Shelter to Execute Baby Deer”