From the Trenches World Report

RT News

After over 40 years of secrecy, the real cause of death of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, has been made public. Prominent Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov reveals the truth behind the events of that tragic day.

For over 20 years Aleksey Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, has been struggling to gain permission to disclose details of what happened to the legendary Yuri Gagarin in March 1968.     Continue reading “Death of Yuri Gagarin demystified 40 years on”

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Brooklyn prosecutors are examining 50 homicide convictions involving a retired police detective who may have intimidated suspects into confessing to crimes they never committed – with words he chose.

Louis Scarcella was a celebrated member of the Brooklyn North Homicide squad through the crack-cocaine epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s, when he gained a reputation for his unusual ability to draw out confessions. He investigated about 175 murders alone and helped with almost 200 more, but questions have been raised on whether Scarcella coerced, or even entirely fabricated, the admissions of guilt.    Continue reading “Dozens of convictions in question as NYPD detective said to have falsified murder confessions”

Reuters – by Parisa Hafezi and Matt Spetalnick

The United States is considering imposing a no-fly zone in Syria, its first direct military intervention of the two-year-old civil war, Western diplomats said on Friday, after the White House saidSyria had crossed a “red line” by using nerve gas.

After months of equivocating, President Barack Obama’s administration said on Thursday it would now arm rebels, having obtained proof the Syrian government used chemical weapons against fighters trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.   Continue reading “U.S. considering no-fly zone after Syria crosses nerve gas “red line””

Washington Post – by Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura

Update: The White House has cancelled the safari for this trip.

Silver Doctors

Former Department of Justice prosecutor Larry Klayman has filed a $3 billion class-action lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia against President Obama, Eric Holder, Director of the NSA Keith Alexander, the CEO of Verizon, the NSA, Verizon Communications, the Department of Justice, and the judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Robert Vinson who rubber-stamped the illegal NSA spying program for violating Plaintiffs’ constitutional rights, Plaintiffs’ reasonable expectation of privacy, free speech and association, right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, and due process rights. Continue reading “Former DOJ Prosecutor Files $3 Billion Suit against Obama, Holder, NSA, Verizon over Prismgate”

Nunez Report

MOSCOW, June 12 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian parliamentary committee approved for review a new controversial anti-piracy law dubbed “the Russian SOPA” by critics after a similar US bill.

The bill will undergo on Friday the first of three required readings in the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, and may be passed by mid-July, lawmaker Robert Shlegel said Tuesday, Vedomosti daily reported Tuesday.  Continue reading “Russia to Fast-Track New Online Censorship Bill”

Sun Sentinel – by Paula McMahon

One South Florida man accused in a series of bank robbery attempts is hoping the recent revelation that the federal government is secretly keeping millions of U.S. phone records could help his defense.

Terrance Brown, 40, is one of five men on trial in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on charges they conspired to hold up armored trucks making cash deliveries to banks in Miramar and Lighthouse Point in 2010. They have all pleaded not guilty.   Continue reading “Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense”

Steve Quayle Alerts

China can and will “disconnect” from the US economy–from a letter to a high-level friend, July 18, 2006 :

Many have stated that China is too dependent upon trade with the United States to do anything drastic to “upset the apple cart”. But those who state/believe that don’t know the Chinese (or they do and are purposefully misleading others).   Continue reading “How’s this for someone who got it about China 7 years ago -Thank You Loren”

Natural News – by Jonathan Benson

The recent passage of Amendment 64 in Colorado, which legalizes the cultivation and recreational use of marijuana throughout the state, is having a major impact on the state’s agricultural sector. But the biggest potential for economic growth may actually come from marijuana’s non-psychoactive cousin hemp, which is right now being planted on U.S. soil for the first time in 60 years, thanks to the initiative’s passage.   Continue reading “Industrial hemp returns to America: Colorado to plant first new major crop on US soil in 60 years”

Collective Evolution – by Eliot Estep

The Economic Collapse – by Michael

According to U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, members of Congress learned “significantly more than what is out in the media today” during a closed briefing about the NSA on Tuesday, and that what has been revealed so far about NSA snooping is “just the tip of the iceberg”.  During her interview with C-SPAN on Wednesday, she also stated that NSA spying is “just broader than most people even realize” but due to security restrictions she could not reveal more than that.   Continue reading “Member Of Congress: Edward Snowden’s Revelations Are “Just The Tip Of The Iceberg””

The New Yorker – by ANDY BOROWITZ [SATIRE]

HELL (The Borowitz Report)—Word that the News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife, Wendi Deng, came as a “total surprise” to longtime Murdoch confidant Satan, the Lord of the Underworld said today.

“I am totally blindsided by this,” Satan told reporters. “He and I talk every day.”   Continue reading “Murdoch Divorce Stuns Satan”

World Truth TV – by Jonathan Benson

A new vaccine for influenza has hit the market, and it is the first ever to contain genetically-modified (GM) proteins derived from insect cells. According to reports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the vaccine, known as Flublok, which contains recombinant DNA technology and an insect virus known as baculovirus that is purported to help facilitate the more rapid production of vaccines.   Continue reading “FDA approves first GMO flu Vaccine containing Reprogrammed insect Virus”

The Epoch Times – by Martha Rosenberg

An interview with Mark Pendergrast, author of For God, Country & Coca-Cola
(Basic Books)

MR: Your newly expanded book, For God, Country & Coca-Cola, certainly tells the complete history of Coca-Cola for Coke buffs and enthusiasts, collectors and food historians. But it also offers a view of social, political and marketing history in the US which is fascinating. Continue reading “From Cocaine Through High Fructose Corn Syrup, the Story of Coke”