According to the commercial aircraft news portal Air Life Net as cited by AP, the aircraft was an ATR-72 belonging to TransAsia airways. Seven people were reportedly injured in the crash, which happened during an emergency landing.
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According to the commercial aircraft news portal Air Life Net as cited by AP, the aircraft was an ATR-72 belonging to TransAsia airways. Seven people were reportedly injured in the crash, which happened during an emergency landing.
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And as you will see, we even have a plague of flies down in Mississippi. So what in the world is going on? Is this just a case of bad luck, or is something else happening?
At the conclusion of this article, please feel free to tell me what you think. The following are ten plagues that are hitting America right now...
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"Young Boy In A Field Looking Through Binoculars"
"Young Boy In A Field Looking Through Binoculars"
The incident reportedly took place while members of Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111 and volunteers traveling with them were attempting to drive through the border between Canada into Alaska. Troop leader Jim Fox told KCCI that the group was detained and searched after the scout took the picture. The agent allegedly told Fox that the scout had committed a federal offense.
"The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison," Fox was quoted as saying.
Fox and his troop complied with the agent's order, but as another scout was unloading luggage from one of the group's vans, "He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here's this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man's head."
The troop was released after being detained for four hours, and made it back to Iowa this past Sunday.
A BBC Arabic correspondent was attacked on air in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, just outside Gaza, while reporting on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The journalist, Feras Khatib, was wearing a PRESS vest during the live report in the Arabic language when a man, apparently an Israeli, approached and violently shoved him sideways, as seen on the video posted on YouTube.
The attacker was quickly pulled away from camera view by another member of the BBC team, while Khatib continued his reporting.
The incident took place in Ashkelon, just north of Gaza, according to a BBC Arabic spokesman. The attacker reportedly left right after the incident.
Khatib "was manhandled by an angry Israeli...Feras was unharmed and will continue reporting as normal," the channel said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's office in Gaza was fired at on Tuesday. The network blames Israel for the attack. "Two very precise shots were fired straight into our building," Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker said. "We are high up in the building so we had a very strong vantage point over the area. But we have evacuated."
Tuesday saw the Gaza conflict move into its third week. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the number of Palestinians killed has risen to 633 - the vast majority of whom are civilians.
Overall, five mosques, a sports stadium, and the home of a deceased Hamas military chief were hit on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 29 Israelis have been killed - two of them civilians. Two soldiers were also killed on Tuesday, according to Tel Aviv. This death toll is the highest number of Israeli military deaths since the 2006 Lebanon war.
The journalist, Feras Khatib, was wearing a PRESS vest during the live report in the Arabic language when a man, apparently an Israeli, approached and violently shoved him sideways, as seen on the video posted on YouTube.
The attacker was quickly pulled away from camera view by another member of the BBC team, while Khatib continued his reporting.
The incident took place in Ashkelon, just north of Gaza, according to a BBC Arabic spokesman. The attacker reportedly left right after the incident.
Khatib "was manhandled by an angry Israeli...Feras was unharmed and will continue reporting as normal," the channel said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Al Jazeera's office in Gaza was fired at on Tuesday. The network blames Israel for the attack. "Two very precise shots were fired straight into our building," Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker said. "We are high up in the building so we had a very strong vantage point over the area. But we have evacuated."
Tuesday saw the Gaza conflict move into its third week. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the number of Palestinians killed has risen to 633 - the vast majority of whom are civilians.
Overall, five mosques, a sports stadium, and the home of a deceased Hamas military chief were hit on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 29 Israelis have been killed - two of them civilians. Two soldiers were also killed on Tuesday, according to Tel Aviv. This death toll is the highest number of Israeli military deaths since the 2006 Lebanon war.
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The contentious meeting involved a group fighting a proposed US Nitrogen plant and its plans to build a pipeline that would empty into the nearby Nolichucky River in Greene County, Tenn. The meeting - promoted as being a public one - was Friday at 8 a.m., which citizens complained was designed to keep them from attending
In the meeting room, the county's board sat in a circle around a roped-off table at the front of the room, and did not use microphones or podium behind the table, several attendees said. At least four board members had their backs to the public viewing area.
"They, in writing, presented a 'public meeting', but did everything they could to confuse people as to when it would be, having during the worst time of day and while conducting it, making sure no could properly hear or understand what they were saying," Roberta Drake posted to the Save the Nolichucky Facebook page. "It was all a farce."
When citizens began complaining, Mayor Alan Broyles, who announced in January he would not be running for reelection, according to WJHL, warned, "If we have any more outbursts from the audience, you will be removed from the building."
At this point Eddie Bruce Overholt, who the Greeneville Sun describes as the owner of the popular CJ Papadops restaurant at Bybee and a well known figure in both Cocke County and western Greene County, stood up and said, "Would y'all speak up until the whole audience can hear you?"
Police, who were on standby at the meeting, then moved to Overholt and removed him from the room with his arms behind his back, as he asked, "Are you throwing me out from a public meeting?"
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Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez on July 21, 2014.
Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and members of a forensic team inspect a refrigerator wagon containing the remains of victims from the downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Torez on July 21, 2014.
"Twelve aviation experts from Malaysia have safely arrived in Donetsk," Andrey Kavtaradze, a member of the DNR Security Council, said on Monday.
The experts are to investigate the causes of the catastrophe of the MH17 flight that crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday. The self-defense forces said that they will assist them and could hand over the evidence they found at the scene - the aircraft parts looking like flight data recorders.
Comment: Compare this to all the BS lies about the rebels "blocking" the investigation. They did nothing of the sort. The investigators hadn't even arrived yet!
On Saturday, the Donetsk People's Republic's (DPR) Prime minister Aleksandr Boroday stated that these findings cannot be given to Kiev since they could possibly damage them to "falsify the results [of the recordings]."
Comment: Exactly. But you won't hear that in the MSM: in their eyes, DPR is already guilty.
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Children from Central America have come to the U.S. in droves. Many come to escape the turmoil of poverty and violence in their own countries.
Children from Central America have come to the U.S. in droves. Many come to escape the turmoil of poverty and violence in their own countries.
"We have rescued Irish children from famine, Russian and Ukrainian children from religious persecution, Cambodian children from genocide, Haitian children from earthquakes, Sudanese children from civil war, and New Orleans children from Hurricane Katrina," Patrick said. "Once, in 1939, we turned our backs on Jewish children fleeing the Nazis, and it remains a blight on our national reputation. The point is that this good Nation is great when we open our doors and our hearts to needy children, and diminished when we don't."
Patrick's remark alluded to the refusal on the part of U.S. in 1939 to allow a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees escaping the emerging Nazi regime in Germany to land on American shores. Belgium, France, Britain and the Netherlands subsequently took the refugees in.
CBS News reported in May that the U.S. also denied London stockbroker Sir Nicholas Winston's request that same year to provide asylum for 669 Czechoslovakian children - many of them Jewish - who were also fleeing from the Nazis. A memo from the State Department to the American embassy in London instructed embassy staff to tell him that the U.S. "unable, in the absence of specific legislation, to permit immigration in excess of that provided for by existing immigration laws." Those children were also taken in by Britain.
Comment: Flying in the face of all the lunacy at the Texas border, Governor Patrick is a breath of fresh air in offering a humanitarian housing solution to the children from Central America. Given current events, it was a counterpoint to hear from a local rabbi about these "precious souls of God"..."our task is to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly, and in that walk, may we walk alongside these precious children..." when other children are being starved, maimed, tortured, slaughtered or incinerated every day in Gaza by Israel. And, not one word spoken of them.
Police say the American flags that fly atop the two towers of the Brooklyn Bridge appeared to have been replaced with two white flags early Tuesday morning not long after several people could be seen walking across the iconic span.
"Those people will be of particular interest in this investigation," said John Miller, deputy commissioner of intelligence and counter-terrorism for the New York Police Department.
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A New York Police Department helicopter flies past one of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge, whose American flags had been replaced by white flags.
A New York Police Department helicopter flies past one of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge, whose American flags had been replaced by white flags.
Comment: Update: August 13th, 2014
'Crime' solved:
German artists claim responsibility for Brooklyn Bridge 'white flag' incident
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It would be difficult to come with a more on-the-nose metaphor for New York City's income inequality problem than the new high-rise apartment building coming to 40 Riverside Boulevard, which will feature separate doors for regular, wealthy humans and whatever you call the scum that rents affordable housing.
Extell Development Company, the firm behind the new building, announced its intentions to segregate the rich and poor to much outrage last year. Fifty-five of the luxury complex's 219 units would be marked for low-income renters - netting some valuable tax breaks for Extell - with the caveat that the less fortunate tenants would stick to their own entrance.
The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved Extell's Inclusionary Housing Program application for the 33-story tower this week, the New York Post reports. The status grants Extell the aforementioned tax breaks and the right to construct a larger building than would ordinarily be allowed.
According to the Daily Mail, affordable housing tenants will enter through a door situated on a "back alley."
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These photos released July 21, 2014 show John and Janice Land, who are accused of keeping their autistic twin sons padlocked in a basement room of their house in Rockville, Md. every night for six years
These photos released July 21, 2014 show John and Janice Land, who are accused of keeping their autistic twin sons padlocked in a basement room of their house in Rockville, Md. every night for six years
Montgomery County police told WTTG-TV that the room had no lights, a strong smell of urine, and only a single comforter was provided for the men to sleep on. Police also said the room only had one window, which was far too small for either man to climb through in case of an emergency,
The Washington Post reported that police arrested 57-year-old John Land and 59-year-old Janice Land this past Thursday after showing up at the couple's home to serve a search warrant on an unrelated matter. Once inside, police discovered that one of the doors in the basement was secured from the outside with a deadbolt. When they opened it, they discovered the room and the two men inside.
According to court documents, John Land told police he had been locking up his sons every night between about 10 p.m. to just before 5 a.m. for the past six years in order to prevent them from leaving the house unsupervised, as had happened in the past. The Lands said the twins are nonverbal, and can only communicate by pointing at objects.
Comment: How dare this reporter attempt to tell the truth about Gaza!