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United Airlines flight lands with engine on fire in Denver, Colorado airport


RT
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 07:56 UTC
Airport
© Wikipedia
Denver International Airport
Passengers on a United Airlines flight that landed in Denver, Colorado had to be evacuated after one of the plane's engines caught fire.

The left engine of the plane belonging to United Express, a regional branch of United Airlines, caught fire on the runway of Denver International Airport on Sunday afternoon.

Flight 5869, which had 65 people including crew members on board, had arrived from Aspen after a short one-hour flight when the incident occurred, local Fox31 Denver reported.

Social media users on the scene posted images and photos of the dramatic event.
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Snowflake

'Intersectionality': The War Against Free Speech

Christina Hoff Sommers
Commentary Magazine
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:13 UTC
Intersectionality postmodern liberal leftist
When Heather Mac Donald's "blue lives matter" talk was shut down by a mob at Claremont McKenna College, the president of neighboring Pomona College sent out an email defending free speech.
Twenty-five students shot back a response: "Heather Mac Donald is a fascist, a white supremacist . . . classist, and ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that produce the lethal conditions under which oppressed peoples are forced to live."
Some blame the new campus intolerance on hypersensitive, over-trophied millennials. But the students who signed that letter don't appear to be fragile. Nor do those who recently shut down lectures at Berkeley, Middlebury, DePaul, and Cal State LA. What they are is impassioned. And their passion is driven by a theory known as intersectionality.

Intersectionality is the source of the new preoccupation with microaggressions, cultural appropriation, and privilege-checking. It's the reason more than 200 colleges and universities have set up Bias Response Teams. Students who overhear potentially "otherizing" comments or jokes are encouraged to make anonymous reports to their campus BRTs. A growing number of professors and administrators have built their careers around intersectionality. What is it exactly?
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Bad Guys

Daesh burns alive top preacher for alluding to Baghdadi's death


Sputnik
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:20 UTC
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
© AP Photo/ Militant video, File
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
An inadvertent slip of the tongue has resulted in the execution of a top Daesh leader after he suggested that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the notorious fundamentalist group's chief, was dead.

Alsumaria News, quoting a source on the ground Sunday, has claimed that one of the inner cadre of remaining Daesh leaders, Abu Qutaiba, was burned alive over charges of sedition, cited by the Iraqi News.

Abu Qutaiba was reported to have been arrested in the town of Tal Afar, officially for charges of "stirring sedition," after performing a prayer sermon in which he suggested that al-Baghdadi had been killed.
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Fire

12 fire engines, 80 firefighters battle another blaze at east London residential block


RT
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:00 UTC
london fire fighters
© Hannah McKay / Reuters
Twelve fire engines and 80 firefighters tackled a blaze at a residential block in east London's Bethnal Green.

The entire roof, third floor and roof of the fourth floor of the new five-story block on Bow Wharf were badly damaged in the incident, according to a statement from the London Fire Brigade.


The building, located between Bethnal Green and Mile End, is currently under construction and is not yet occupied. Local roads were blocked off as the firemen battled the blaze for over three hours.
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Alarm Clock

Analyst: Market crash coming... "the insiders are getting out in droves"

Greg Hunter
USA Watchdog
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
stock market crash
Market analyst Lynette Zang has deep Wall Street experience and is starting to see a worse setup than just before the 2008 market meltdown. Zang explains,
"The dollar is weak. All that is dog and pony. The real thing is they can't stimulate the economy by growing any more debt. The system is based on compounding debt. So, it has to reset, and any wealth that is in the system gets reset too. . . . They can keep the game going until confidence is lost. Once confidence is lost, it's over, and I do think it's close . . . the big kahunas are sucking as much wealth out of the system as they can."
How close are we to another market meltdown worse that 2008? Zang says,
"Every week I do an insider's trading corner, and I show you what the insiders are doing generally, and then I do an individual stock. It's pretty obvious . . . the insiders are getting out in droves. This is the second most expensive stock market in history. It's more expensive than 1929. Also, there are no buyers on the other side of this market if a lot of people want to sell at the same time."
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Info

'Our future is slavery, West gets everything': RT documentary digs deep in mineral-rich, money-poor Congo


RT
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 22:25 UTC
Congo mine
RT Documentary travels to the vast, landlocked Democratic Republic of Congo, prized for its mineral resources, but plagued by centuries of colonial rule, dictatorship, civil wars and lawlessness, and meets people trying to make a living in one of the most desperate places on Earth.

The documentary crew's key to understanding the country, seven times the size of Germany, was Bernard Kalume Buleri, born in 1960, the same year DRC was granted its independence from Belgium. Buleri served as an interpreter, guide, and finally the hero and symbol of the country, having been a direct participant in some of its bloodiest chapters.

"I can't say that the Congolese, we are in control of our destiny. No, because the ones who benefit from our minerals are not the local population, but Western countries are the ones who are taking everything. They make themselves rich, while we are getting poorer and poorer," says Buleri.
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Family

'Cubs of the Caliphate' and the struggle for reintegration: Daesh-brainwashed children after liberation


Sputnik
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 19:43 UTC
Cubs of the Caliphate
© P Photo/ Ahmad Al Rubaye
After the defeat of Daesh in Mosul, experts are actively predicting the exact of the fall of the terrorist group. According to them, it will take place within the next months. Meanwhile, the terrorists who still hold some districts of the Syrian city of Raqqa are conducting propaganda campaigns that actively target women and children.

The fate of Daesh may be considered predetermined, but the fall of the terrorist organization won't mean the end of its legacy.

Children who have been brainwashed by the group are known as the "Cubs of the Caliphate" and may pose a greater threat to the world than is foreseen at present.
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Sheriff

Pedophile cop still collecting his paycheck after being charged with 50 counts of child rape

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 20:22 UTC
James G. Watson
Fifty-one-year-old Lamoure Police Chief James G. Watson has been arrested and charged with raping a child under the age of 15. While the small town police chief sits in jail awaiting trial, he's still getting paid.

It's safe to say most companies would have immediately fired an employee the very minute that worker got arrested — for raping a small child. But as The Free Thought Project has reported on numerous occasions, police officers often receive special treatment. Not only do they frequently get a slap on the wrist for serious felonies — such as Watson is alleged to have committed — but they often get to keep their jobs and their salary.

As Watson was testifying in a DUI case at the county courthouse, investigators arrested and charged him with numerous sex crimes against a child. He was charged with statutory rape and sexual abuse of a child in three different counties. The abuse is believed to have occurred from 2011 to 2013. According to the West Fargo Pioneer;
In both Stark and Golden Valley counties, he's charged with a felony count of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 15. In Hettinger County, he's charged with three felony counts of gross sexual imposition.
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Eye 2

Compelled speech comes to Canada: Bill C-16 passed, mandates transgender pronouns


The Christian Institute
Sun, 02 Jul 2017 18:24 UTC
Dr Jordan Peterson
© bbc.co.uk
Dr Jordan Peterson said after the Bill was passed that Canada "will seriously regret this".
Canadians who refuse to endorse transsexualism could be charged with a hate crime, fined or even jailed under a controversial new law.

Critics say Bill C-16 may compel citizens to use the terms 'ze' and 'zir' when asked, instead of 'he' and 'she'.

It was passed in the Canadian Senate by a vote of 67 to 11, and welcomed as "great news" by the country's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Cheese

Survey says: Nobody wants to see your holiday photos on Facebook


Sputnik
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 18:28 UTC
women selfie on beach
© CC0 / Pixabay
Seriously, nobody cares that you were at the beach.
You should think twice before posting pictures on social media of your latest sightseeing trip in Europe or beachside holiday in Miami - because no one wants to see them, according to new research.

Research from travel and insurance operator, Aviva, has revealed that 73 percent of people surveyed think it's downright obnoxious when others plaster social media with their vacation photos.

​44 percent of those surveyed said that they post-holiday snaps to keep friends and family up to date. 21 percent admitted that they do it just to boast about where they're vacationing and 10 percent said they do it to make others jealous.
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