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Investigation launched after Air Canada passenger is left sleeping on an empty plane

Morgan Winsor
ABC News
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:22 UTC
Tiffani O'Brien

Tiffani O'Brien
A sleeping passenger was left on board an Air Canada flight earlier this month hours after the plane had landed and the crew disembarked.

Tiffani O'Brien, of Ontario, Canada, said she fell asleep in an empty row of seats on her short flight home from Quebec City to Toronto. She awoke hours later around midnight still strapped to her seat and all alone on a cold, dark plane.

"It was completely pitch black," O'Brien said in an interview Monday with CTV News. "I thought, 'This is a nightmare, this is not happening!'"

O'Brien said she texted her friend, Deanna Dale, who drove her to the airport in Quebec City earlier that day. Dale told CTV News she called customer service at Toronto Pearson International Airport to tell them her friend was trapped on the plane.

But then O'Brien's phone lost battery power and a "sheer sense of hopelessness" came over her, she told CTV News.
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Bizarro Earth

'Repulsive': Trump accuser says most people think of rape as 'sexy' in controversial CNN interview


RT
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:45 UTC
Jean. E Carroll
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An advice columnist who has accused Donald Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s has raised eyebrows online after telling CNN host Anderson Cooper that most people think of rape as "sexy."

Jean. E Carroll was appearing on Cooper's show on Monday night when he asked her why she didn't like to use the word rape. "I was not thrown on the ground and ravaged. The word rape carries so many sexual connotations. This was not sexual. It just hurt," she said, before things took a turn for the bizarre.

"I think most people think of rape as being sexy - think of the fantasies," Carroll continued, before an uncomfortable Cooper stumbled and quickly cut to a commercial break.
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Nanny State: San Francisco becomes first US city to pass ban on e-cigarettes


The Hill
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 12:32 UTC
juul
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San Francisco on Tuesday became the first city in the U.S. to ban the sale of e-cigarettes until they get approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The ordinance, approved by the city's Board of Supervisors, says "no person shall sell or distribute an electronic cigarette to a person in San Francisco" if it has not undergone an FDA review, which no e-cigarette product has.

The ban includes sales made both online and in brick-and-mortar stores and also applies to flavored tobacco products. The use of vapes among people age 21 and older is still legal in the city.

The measure now heads to San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D), who is expected to sign the ordinance.
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Eye 1

Heart-wrenching graphic video shows police saving newborn abandoned in plastic bag


RT
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:22 UTC
Baby in plastic bag
© Forsyth County Sheriff's Office
A man was shocked to discover an abandoned newborn left alone in a plastic bag in a wooded area near his home in Georgia. Police body cameras captured the moment the child was rescued.

The good Samaritan found the child, nicknamed "Baby India," after investigating strange cries coming from a forest in Forsyth County, 40 miles north of Atlanta. The find immediately prompted a call to police.

Video shows astonished sheriff's deputies apologizing to the "precious" little bundle as they delicately remove her from the plastic bag in which she was abandoned. It is not clear how long the child was left outside, but she appears to be covered in gore and still have her umbilical cord uncut.
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Quenelle - Golden

'Palestine is not for sale': Thousands take to the streets in occupied-West Bank to condemn Trumps Mideast peace conference


RT
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:43 UTC
Protests West Bank June 2019
© Reuters / Mohamad Torokman
Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank marched and clashed with police to protest a US-brokered conference in Bahrain, where business delegations from the Middle East and beyond discuss Washington's plan for Palestine.

Thousands took to the streets to condemn the conference, which began in the city of Manama on Tuesday with a workshop dubbed 'Peace to prosperity' led by US President Donald Trump's adviser Jared Kushner, who recently unveiled the upbeat economic part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal devised by Washington. Taking part are mostly Arab states, as well as the US and European delegations, while neither Israeli nor Palestinian official delegations are present.

Many protesters shouted slogans and carried signs and placards with messages critical of the meeting. "Palestine is not for sale!" they chanted. "From Bahrain to Saudi Arabia we are not tempted by your millions!"

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Arrow Down

Antifa doxes Tucker Carlson and other conservatives with poster campaign in Washington DC

Ian Miles Cheong
Human Events
Sun, 23 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
Antifa targets Tucker Carlson

The far-left activist group AntiFa has put up a series of posters identifying Tucker Carlson’s home address with a call to rally against him, alongside posters of other right-wing personalities.
AntiFa activists in Washington D.C. have put up posters with the home address of Tucker Carlson's family. In an effort to "oppose the Alt-Right," a group called All Out DC has been pasting posters all around the nation's capital to call upon like-minded activists to rally against the Fox News host.

The posters feature Carlson's face blocked out by the AntiFa three-arrow symbol, his home address, the words "Block the Alt-Right," and a description of Carlson as an "Influencer," which reads:

Racist with a huge following and platform, uses it to promote racist dogwhistles.

Carlson is not the only person being targeted by All Out DC. The group also made posters of OANN host Jack Posobiec and Proud Boy founder Gavin McInnes, which it posted alongside stenciled graffiti of U.S. representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar.

The Fox News host wasn't the only figure whose home address was written on the posters. All Out DC also doxed U.S. government official Stephen Miller.

Comment: See also: Washington DC Antifa thugs dox Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson with posters

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NPC

Paul Joseph Watson on Modernity

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 21:11 UTC
miley cyrus abortion cake
VICE said my distaste for modernity is borne out of me being a "deeply bitter bully" who "derives no pleasure whatsoever from his life".

Here's my response.

The end of the world as we know it.

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USA

Poll: Only 19% of Americans want military action against Iran


RT
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:51 UTC
iran
© REUTERS/Amr Alfiky
Less than one quarter of Americans want the US to take military action against Iran, a new poll has found, amid rising tensions between Tehran and Washington.

The Hill-HarrisX survey revealed that 19 percent of voters want the US to launch a "limited military strike" on Iran - an action which the Trump administration said it considered but ultimately backed away from last week.

A more hawkish five percent of voters said they wanted the US to outright declare war on Iran, while another 19 percent of voters said they were unsure about what the US should do next.

The majority of respondents (58 percent), however, said they would prefer a non-military response to Iran's shooting down of an American drone last week, which Tehran said had entered its airspace.

Comment: The American people have not had much taste for war since WWII. That hasn't stopped the government from doing what it can to get into wars. It should be obvious that the opinions of the American people matter little to the elites in Washington.

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NPC

Summer seminar offered at Cornell University asks: Should we still use concepts like 'rationality' and 'reason'?

Dave Huber
College Fix
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:36 UTC
reason
A six-week seminar offered this summer at Cornell University will ask, among other things, "should we continue to use concepts like 'rationality' and 'reason'?"

The course, "Decolonizing Epistemology," is offered through Cornell's School of Criticism and Theory. The instructor is Hunter College's Linda Martín Alcoff whose research interests include feminism, decolonial theory, and the philosophy of race ... and she's recently taught courses titled "Gender and Embodiment" and "New Feminist Epistemologies and Metaphysics."

At the beginning of the seminar's description, Alcoff asks
There is a widespread skepticism about many sorts of knowledge claims today, and this skepticism has been promoted from both the right and the left. The skepticism is largely based on the realization that knowledge is always connected to power. But there is uncertainty about what follows from this: is it still 'knowledge'?

Comment: The diseased spread of post-modern though continues unabated through Western society. What's the point in having truth, facts and objectivity when everything is subjective and a creation of an oppressive epistemology?

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Handcuffs

S-300 theft fail: Pole jailed for 14 years after attempting to steal Russian missile system parts


RT
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:31 UTC
missile
© Reuters/ Maxim Shemetov/ FILE PHOTO
A Polish national, caught red-handed trying to steal classified parts of the S-300 missile system for a Polish supplier, has been tried and convicted in a Moscow court on charges of espionage.

Marian Radzajewski was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in a "strict regime colony," Moscow City Court announced in a press release Tuesday. The trial itself was closed to the public as it involved materials the Russian government considers confidential.

The man was contracted by a leading Polish military supplier to steal the parts and export them back to his home country, according to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The Russian officials say he was apprehended while attempting to go through with the deal.

At the beginning of March, President Vladimir Putin said that "129 staff members and 465 agents of foreign special services were foiled" in Russia in 2018 alone.

The Soviet-made precursor to the S-400 still enjoys wide-use in over a dozen countries, including North Korea, Venezuela and Iran. Meanwhile, sales of the S-400 to Turkey and India continue to make headlines and drive a wedge between Washington and its allies with the US insisting they should halt their deals with Russia.
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