From the Trenches World Report

San Francisco Chronicle – by Demian Bulwa

A recent string of robberies on BART trains took a frightening turn when dozens of juveniles swarmed an Oakland station over the weekend and commandeered a train car, forcing passengers to hand over bags and cell phones and leaving at least two with head injuries, witnesses told the transit agency.

The incident — the first of its kind in recent memory — occurred around 9:30 p.m. Saturday at Coliseum Station.
Continue reading “BART takeover robbery: 40 to 60 teens swarm train, rob weekend riders”

Colonial Williamsburg – by Andrew G. Gardner

It might sound impertinent, perhaps irrelevant, to ask how much George Washington was worth. After all, his value is better measured by his service to his country than by his pocketbook. Nevertheless, when it comes to money, his countrymen can be a curious lot. Witness our interest in such things as the list of America’s richest annually published by Forbes and Dun & Bradstreet’s corporate ratings, as well as the readiness of newspapers to print salaries gleaned from government forms. There are Internet sites with all manner of personal and historical financial tables that stretch from ancient Rome to today, tables that compare the Rockefellers, Carnegies, and Gateses of the world to William the Conqueror—estimated fortune $200 billion—or Marcus Licinius Crassus of Rome—about $20 billion.   Continue reading “How Did Washington Make His Millions?”

History Channel – by Jesse Greenspan

On April 30, 1803, U.S. representatives in Paris agreed to pay $15 million for about 828,000 square miles of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. This deal, known as the Louisiana Purchase, nearly doubled the size of the United States. President Thomas Jefferson called it “an ample provision for our posterity and a widespread field for the blessings of freedom.” Yet it also had detractors on both the French and American sides. Explore eight facts about the wars, negotiating tactics and lucky coincidences that made the Louisiana Purchase possible.   Continue reading “8 Things You May Not Know About the Louisiana Purchase”

RT

Six young Israeli men in the city of Be’er Sheva have been charged with severely assaulting Arab men over their romantic relationships with Jewish women.

The Israeli men are aged between 17 and 20, and two of them are soldiers, according to Haaretz.   Continue reading “6 Israeli men charged with beating Arabs for dating Jewish women”

Breitbart – by Charlie Spiering

President Donald Trump again leveled criticism about NAFTA in an interview with the Associated Press, promising to either renegotiate the trade deal or terminate it.

“I am going to either renegotiate it or I am going to terminate it,” he said. “If they don’t treat fairly, I am terminating NAFTA.”   Continue reading “Donald Trump: ‘If They Don’t Treat Fairly, I Am Terminating NAFTA”

Oregon Live

LAS VEGAS — The Latest on the trial of six men charged in an armed standoff with federal agents:

10:50 a.m.

Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jenny Wilson reported the verdict in a series of tweets:

— Jury reaches partial verdict – Gregory Burleson, former FBI informant, guilty of 8 counts. Todd Engel guilty of two. Hung on rest   Continue reading “Partial verdict reached in Bundy ranch standoff trial in Nevada”

Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing on Wednesday at the White House for the entire U.S. Senate on the situation in North Korea, senior Senate aides said on Monday.

All 100 senators have been asked to the White House for the briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the aides said.  Continue reading “Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing”

AZ Central – by Robert Anglen

LAS VEGAS — A federal jury is ready to deliver a verdict in the trial of six men accused of taking up arms against federal agents during the Bundy Ranch standoff in 2014.

The jury is expected to return to the courtroom about 10 a.m. Arizona time.

Jurors began deliberating April 13 after two months of testimony involving 35 prosecution and four defense witnesses.   Continue reading “Jury announces it has a verdict in Bundy Ranch trial”

MSU Today

Michigan State University researchers have shown that sunflower seeds are frequently contaminated with a toxin produced by molds and pose an increased health risk in many low-income countries worldwide.

In the current issue of PLoS ONE, the team of scientists documented frequent occurrence of aflatoxin – a toxin produced by Aspergillus molds that commonly infect corn, peanuts, pistachios and almonds – in sunflower seeds and their products. This is one of the first studies to associate aflatoxin contamination with sunflower seeds.   Continue reading “Sunflower Seeds Traced As Source Of Toxic Mold, Potent Liver Carcinogen”

Cincinnati.com – by Scott Wartman

An arrest of a former district judge in Northern Kentucky on a human trafficking charge has shocked the community.

Police arrested former Campbell County District Judge Tim Nolan on charges of human trafficking and unlawful transaction with a minor, according to court documents and a release from Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear.   Continue reading “Former district judge charged with human trafficking”

RT

Suspected Taliban insurgents set off a car bomb at a US-operated base in Afghanistan, according to officials. At least four people were reportedly killed and six others wounded. It occurred shortly after US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived in the country.

The attackers detonated the car bomb at an entrance to Camp Chapman, a secretive facility manned by US forces and private military contractors, said Mubarez Mohammad Zadran, a spokesman for the provincial governor, as cited by Reuters.   Continue reading “Bomb attack hits US base in Afghanistan as Defense Sec Mattis visits Kabul, casualties reported”

Mail.com

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is set to hold the first public event of his post-presidential life in the place where he started his political career. Obama will speak Monday at the University of Chicago, where his presidential library is planned.

College students from around the Chicago area are expected to attend. The invitation-only event is being billed as part of his post-presidency goal to “encourage and support the next generation of leaders.”   Continue reading “Obama to deliver first post-presidency speech in Chicago”

Mail.com

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States must confront Russia for providing weapons to the Taliban for use against American-backed forces in Afghanistan, top U.S. military officials said Monday. At a news conference with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at his side, Gen. John Nicholson, the American commander in Afghanistan, wouldn’t provide specifics about Russia’s role in Afghanistan. But said he would “not refute” that Moscow’s involvement includes giving weapons to the Taliban.   Continue reading “US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban”

Mail.com

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Two condemned Arkansas killers who admit they’re guilty but fear their poor health could lead to extreme pain during lethal injections set for Monday might become the first inmates put to death in a double execution in the U.S. in more than 16 years.

Jack Jones and Marcel Williams are set to die in what would be the second and third executions in Arkansas this month. The state set an aggressive plan to execute several inmates before one of its lethal injection drugs expires at the end of April.   Continue reading “Arkansas prepares for 1st double execution in US since 2000”

Free Beacon – by Joe Schoffstall

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) is slated to pay her daughter another $108,000 for running a lucrative campaign operation that pulls in hundreds of thousands of dollars each election cycle, FEC filings show.

Karen Waters, the daughter of Rep. Waters, collected nearly $650,000 to date for running the operation for her mother’s campaign.   Continue reading “Maxine Waters Slated to Pay Daughter Another $108K From Campaign Funds”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: In part, this is what Jack Ma was talking about and on another level this is the effect of 94 million Americans not being a part of the labor force. Since 2008 nothing has improved. The banks have been propped up by artificially low interest rates and those banks lend money to you at artificially low rates. When the Federal Reserve cranks back up the rates many will no longer be able to afford what they purchased on credit and that is going to be a bad day for the world, but a planned one by Satan’s children. But hey, those not so “official” unemployment numbers improved so I guess this news does not matter…

Continue reading “2017 Retail Store Closures Already Surpass The Great Recession”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: These people have lost all of their marbles. Anyone sending their kid to this school to get an “education” is making a grave error and wasting a whole lot of cash. Common sense has been thrown out the window.

A new Harvard University factsheet on gender dysphoria is urging students to “fight transphobia” by learning what the university claims are facts associated with the fluidity of gender.   Continue reading “Harvard University LGBT Fact Sheet Claims Gender Can ‘Change Day To Day’”