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Archive: TWFTT 6-6-17
The New York Times – by Natasha Singer
In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats.
In Maryland, Texas, Virginia and other states, Netflix’s chief, Reed Hastings, is championing a popular math-teaching program where Netflix-like algorithms determine which lessons students see. Continue reading “The Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools”
Russia scrambled a Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet on Tuesday to intercept a U.S. B-52 strategic bomber which it said was flying close to its border over the Baltic Sea, Russia’s Defence Ministry said.
Russian air defense systems detected the bomber at around 1000 Moscow time as it was flying over neutral waters parallel to the Russian border, the ministry said in a statement. Continue reading “Russia scrambles jet fighter to intercept U.S. bomber over Baltics”
Standing on the bluffs of Roma, Texas on a May afternoon two border patrol agents look out over the meandering Rio Grande River that separates Mexico from the United States and recall a time when the scene was far less tranquil.
Last fall, during the waning months of the Obama administration, hundreds of immigrants crossed the river on rafts at this point each day, many willingly handing themselves over to immigration authorities in hopes of being released into the United States to await court proceedings that would decide their fate. Continue reading “Despite Trump vow to end catch and release, he is still freeing thousands of migrants”
A man armed with a hammer shouted “this is for Syria” before attacking police officers on Tuesday outside France’s Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the interior minister said.
The assailant wounded one officer before he was shot and wounded by other officers. The Paris prosecutor’s office swiftly began a counter-terrorism investigation. Continue reading “Notre Dame attacker shouted ‘this is for Syria’ before being shot”
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Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Maldives and Mauritania announced on Monday an extraordinary step of cutting off diplomatic ties with the State of Qatar. In this regard, the command of Saudi-led coalition has already decided to exclude Qatar from the members of the alliance, which is fighting the Hussites now in Yemen. Continue reading “What is Behind the Diplomatic Demarche of Gulf States and Syria?”
The guns had just gone silent in the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 when U.S. President Lyndon Johnson jumped in to play the role of peacemaker. Just 11 days after the Six-Day War, Johnson went to the State Department and laid out a plan.
“Our country is committed to a peace that is based on five principles,” Johnson told a hall packed with American diplomats.
His principles were broad. They included “justice for the refugees,” “limits on the wasteful and destructive arms race” and “political independence and territorial integrity for all.” Continue reading “50 Years On, U.S. Presidents Still Seek Elusive Peace To A 6-Day War”
JNS.org – A day before embarking on her first trip to Israel as US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley demanded that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) address its bias against the Jewish state.
“It is essential that this council address its chronic anti-Israel bias if it is to have any credibility,” Haley said Tuesday at the opening of the UNHRC’s 35th session in Geneva. Continue reading “US Ambassador Nikki Haley Blasts UN Human Rights Body’s ‘Chronic Anti-Israel Bias,’ Ahead of Visit to Jewish State”
New York commuters had the journey from hell last night after the F train broke down.
Passengers were trapped aboard with no light and no air conditioning for almost an hour following ‘mechanical problems’ on the southbound train in Manhattan on Monday.
Cellphone pictures and video revealed the nightmare conditions inside the packed, sweaty subway car as people waited to be freed. Continue reading “Manhattan subway nightmare: Passengers are locked in a car in darkness with no air con for almost an hour and desperately try to pry doors open to escape”
Just wanted to let the Trenchers know that KOYOTE had a night of seizures again so he will not be commenting until he is recovered. We ask that anyone who prays in the name of Jesus to please pray for him.
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Unz Review – by Philip Giraldi
There has been a lot of media coverage mostly written by Israelis or American Jews regarding Israel’s “victory” fifty years ago during the so-called Six Days War directed against its Arab neighbors but I have yet to see an account that mentions the fate of the U.S.S. Liberty. Nevertheless, the Liberty is not forgotten. This Thursday at noon at Arlington National Cemetery there will be a small gathering for the annual coming together with the survivors and friends of the most decorated ship in the history of the U.S. Navy, a victim of a particularly brutal and unprovoked attack by Israel that has been covered up for half a century by the powers that be in Washington. The moving service will include reminiscences by surviving crew members plus the ringing of a ship’s bell for each one of the thirty-four American sailors, Marines and civilians that were killed in the deliberate Israeli air and sea onslaught that sought to sink the intelligence gathering ship and kill all its crew. Present will be a number of veterans like myself and other Americans who are committed to ensuring that the story of the Liberty will not die in hopes that someday the United States government will have the courage to acknowledge what actually happened on that fateful day. Continue reading “Remembering the U.S.S. Liberty”
Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez
A tornado made landfall in Canada on Friday, but one man decided that a tornado was not going to stop him from mowing the lawn.
Theunis Wessels, of Alberta, was cutting the grass in his backyard with the tornado in the background when his wife, Cecilia, decided to take a picture of the scene to send to her parents in South Africa, the Canadian Press reported. Continue reading “Man Who Mowed Lawn During Tornado: ‘I Was Keeping an Eye on It’”
PHOENIX (KSAZ) – It was a movement that started in the South, and now, it is in Arizona.
A group of black leaders, including those with the NAACP, wants to start removing Confederate markers from public land in the state.
While Arizona does not have a deep Civil War history, when compared with some other states, there is a history, with the most notable being a battle that was fought near Picacho Peak, in 1862. Continue reading “Group calls for removal of Confederate monuments in Arizona”
Police use military sound cannons or Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD’s) on protesters, activists, motorists across the country.
The U.S. military has been using sound as a weapon in Iraq and the Middle East for years. Continue reading “Police sound cannons are just like flash bangs and concussion grenades”
USA Today – by David Andreatta
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — An embattled City Court judge was escorted Monday from judicial chambers in handcuffs.
Rochester court deputies and city police officers executed a bench warrant issued for Judge Leticia Astacio’s arrest last week after she missed a Tuesday court appearance related to an August drunken-driving conviction. Continue reading “New York judge arrested, led from courthouse in handcuffs”
Newly released video shows the husband of an off-duty sheriff’s deputy applying a chokehold to a man who later died in hospital. Other people are seen threatening the videographer with arrest for recording the incident.
The video, released Monday, shows Terry Thompson, 46, on top of and choking John Hernandez, 24, while an unidentified female is crouched next to him, helping to restrain Hernandez. Continue reading “Video released of off-duty deputy’s husband choking man to death”
The mainly-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the start of a long-awaited siege on ISIS stronghold Raqqa, Syria one week after the US confirmed delivery of arms to it.
SDF, a militia dominated by the Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units), said on Tuesday that it has begun a battle to capture Raqqa. “The campaign started yesterday [Monday] to liberate Raqqa city,” SDF spokesman Talal Silo told Reuters in a telephone interview. Continue reading “US-backed militia says it has begun siege of ISIS ‘capital’ Raqqa”