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Airbus military plane crash near Seville, Spain


BBC
Sat, 09 May 2015 18:31 UTC
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At least four people have been killed in a military plane crash near Seville airport in Spain.

The plane, a new Airbus A400M, reportedly developed a fault just after take-off on a test flight.

Local media say that those on board were Spanish Airbus employees. Two have also been seriously injured.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has expressed his sorrow over the incident which took place about 1.6km (1 mile) away from San Pablo airport.

Local media say that the plane had signalled that there was a fault with its systems just before the crash.

The plane reportedly hit an electric power line as the pilots tried to make an emergency landing.
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The survivors have been taken to hospital by helicopter. A Spanish interior ministry spokesman told The Associated press news agency that one person had been conscious when they were taken out of the wreckage.

Comment: SOTT Exclusive: What's going down? The latest batch of aircraft crashes, accidents, glitches and mishaps

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Ongoing: South Carolina Sheriff's Dept violates Posse Comitatus with special forces joint drill

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00 UTC
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© S.C. Sheriff's Department S.C. Sheriff's Department with armoured personnel carrier with belt-fed machine gun -- just in case the farmers get rowdy.
Only a year after the joint drills of the Richland County Sheriff's Department and the US military raised eyebrows, the RCSD has once again announced that the department will be conducting drills that involve the joint training of civilian law enforcement and the US military.

On May 8, it was reported by WLTX that the Richland County Sheriff's Department will be conducting drills in conjunction with the 3rd Special Forces Group out of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The exercises will take place at late-night and pre-dawn and will run from May 8 until May 15.

Citizens have now been informed that Sheriff's Department and Military vehicles will be traveling in the Lower Richland County community near Eastover and Hopkins as well as Elgin near Screaming Eagle Road. The vehicles will also be traveling in the North Richland County area near Monticello Rd.

Comment: Training... to terrorize law abiding U.S. citizens for when the economic and social circumstances in the U.S. will be at their worst.

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Autistic child kicked off US flight with emergency landing because pilot was 'uneasy'


RT
Mon, 11 May 2015 14:34 UTC
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An American family flying with United Airlines from Houston to Portland were forced off the plane after an emergency landing because the pilot wasn't "comfortable" with an autistic child on board. The shocked family is filing a lawsuit.

The emergency stop was made in Salt Lake City, KOIN 6 News reported citing Donna Beegle, who was traveling with her autistic 15-year-old daughter Juliette Forbes.

The incident unfolded after Donna realized that her daughter had not eaten dinner yet. "She started getting a little upset and I started thinking, 'You know what? She didn't eat her dinner," the mother said. "I know her, when she gets over hungry or over thirsty, she really struggles because she can't tell us and she gets really frustrated."

Comment: Utter ridiculousness! "Safety and comfort" of the passengers was clearly not the issue.

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The iceman cometh? A chilly era for humanity

Paul Driessen
Watts Up With That
Sun, 10 May 2015 23:55 UTC
Could a quiescent sun portend a new little ice age: a chilly era for humanity and agriculture?
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President Obama, Al Gore and other alarmists continue to prophesy manmade global warming crises, brought on by our "unsustainable" reliance on fossil fuels. Modelers like Mike Mann and Gavin Schmidt conjure up illusory crisis "scenarios" based on the assumption that carbon dioxide emissions now drive climate change. A trillion-dollar Climate Crisis industry self-servingly echoes their claims.

But what if these merchants of fear are wrong? What if the sun refuses to cooperate with the alarmists?

"The sun is almost completely blank," meteorologist Paul Dorian notes. Virtually no sunspots darken the blinding yellow orb. "The main driver of all weather and climate ... has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. Not since February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots."

"Going back to 1755, there have been only a few solar cycles that have had a lower number of sunspots during their maximum phase," Dorian continues. This continued downward trend in solar sunspot cycles began over 20 years ago, when Earth stopped warming. If it continues for a couple more cycles, Earth could be entering another "grand minimum," an extended period of low solar activity.

That would mean less incoming solar radiation, which could have a marked cooling effect - as happened during previous decades-long episodes of low solar activity. The "Maunder Minimum" lasted 70 years (1645-1715), the "Dalton Minimum" 40 years (1790-1830); they brought even colder global temperatures to the "Little Ice Age."

Solar activity is in free fall, Reading University (UK) space physicist Mike Lockwood confirms, perhaps "faster than at any time in the last 9,300 years." He raised the likelihood of another grand minimum to 25% (from 10% three years previously). However, he claims a new little ice age is unlikely.

Comment: That would be nice, but it's not going to happen. This is what the elites do to societies and communities, this is what they do when there is a crisis pending.

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From 1938 to now, how definition of happiness has changed - UK study

Jeremy Dean, PhD
Psych Central
Thu, 07 May 2015 22:31 UTC
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How beliefs about what makes us happy have changed in the last 80 years.

Eighty years ago the top three things people thought were most important for happiness were security, knowledge and religion.

By 2014 only security was still in the top three, and the other two spots had changed to good humour and leisure.

Meanwhile religion had dropped to tenth, and last place.

The results come from two surveys carried out almost 80 years apart.

For both surveys people in Bolton, England replied to an advert asking them to answer the question "What is happiness?"

Comment: Things certainly were different in 1938. It looks as though there are a lot of people who are about to become pretty unhappy.

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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant: A disaster in the making

Stephen Lendman
Activist Post
Sun, 10 May 2015 00:00 UTC
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Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant
All nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe - aging, poorly maintained ones most of all.

Entergy Corporation's Indian Point nuclear plant is located 38 miles north of New York City. It was commissioned in 1974. It experienced numerous incidents warranting concern - the latest on May 9.

A transformer exploded. Fire and black smoke were visible. The plant's Unit 3 was shut down after the incident. Officials claimed no threat to public safety.

Whether true or not, who knows. When incidents like this happen, the public is systematically lied to.

Nuclear experts cite Indian Point's notorious history of unaddressed health hazards, safety violations, numerous accidents and pollution - issues persisting throughout its operating life.

Waste water emitted from its facilities killed millions of Hudson River fish and other aquatic life forms.

High levels of cancer occur in communities close to all nuclear power plants - notably in the case of Indian Point.

Documented evidence shows infant mortality rates drop significantly in communities near shuttered nuclear plants.

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The death throes of American patriotism

Joshua Krause
The Daily Sheeple
Sat, 09 May 2015 20:26 UTC
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There was a time not too long ago when Americans were so patriotic, it was palpable. You couldn't throw a rock in any direction without hitting someone with stars and stripes in their eyes. There was a near unanimous belief that we were the shining city upon a hill, and that we were and always would be the greatest nation on Earth. While it was mostly found among conservatives, it did cross party lines to some extant. It was so pervasive that anyone who didn't believe it was pegged an extremist, or just plain weird.

But now? Not so much. The sentiment is still there I suppose, but you can almost feel it evaporating a little bit every day. The pride Americans feel for their country is slipping away, and is now an undeniable fact. ZeroHedge recently posted a poll from the World Values Survey, which reveals the precipitous decline of our national pride. In terms of patriotism, we've fallen beneath the likes of Mexico, Rwanda, and Armenia.
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Two police officers shot dead in Hattiesburg, Mississippi


CBSNews
Sun, 10 May 2015 12:19 UTC
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© Hattiesburg Police DepartmentOfficer Benjamin Deen, left, and Officer Liquori Tate.
Three people were arrested in connection with the murder of two police officers who were fatally shot Saturday evening during a traffic stop in the southern Mississippi city of Hattiesburg.

The incident prompted a statewide manhunt overnight, and led to a pair of brothers and a third suspect being arrested, authorities said.

In a statement, the Hattiesburg Police Department said an "extensive" manhunt led to the capture of three suspects in different locations. They were identified as Marvin Banks, 29, who has been charged with two counts of capital murder, one count of grand theft auto and one count of a felon in possession of a firearm; Joanie Calloway, 22, who has been charged with two counts of capital murder; and Curtis Banks, 26, has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.

Comment: Another terrible tragedy in America.

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Fire

Transformer explosion at Indian Point nuclear power plant outside New York City


RT
Sat, 09 May 2015 23:14 UTC
Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York
© Reuters / Mike SegarThe Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, New York, is seen from across the Hudson River.
A transformer exploded at the Indian Point nuclear plant, 38 miles (61 km) north of New York, causing visible fire and black smoke. The plant's operator had to shut down one of the reactors but assured the emergency caused no threat to public safety.

Unit 3 of the nuclear plant, which is located on the east bank of the Hudson River, was automatically shut down following Saturday's accident, the plant's operator Entergy Corp has said.


According to the company, the nuclear reactor was not damaged and there was "no threat to public safety at any time."


Witnesses posted alarming images of smoke billowing from the plant on social media, saying it followed a large blast and fire.

"It was a huge black ball of smoke and alarms went off immediately," tweeted Gustavus Gricius, a witness near the scene.


The plant's Unit 2 reactor has continued operating and the fire was put out by the automatic sprinkler system and on-site personnel, Entergy Corp spokesman Jerry Nappi told Reuters. No people were reported injured.

Comment: In the last week alone there have been many other cases of transformer explosions and electrical anomalies, including:
  • An underground transformer blew causing underground explosions and a fire knocking out power in Charleston, West Virginia.
  • Con Edison says explosions blew the covers of two manholes in Midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning - with no sign of 'snow and salt', the typical combination attributed to such incidents!
  • A Delta flight from Fort Lauderdale to LaGuardia made an emergency landing in Charleston, South Carolina, after a "performance issue" with one of the engines caused the cabin to fill with smoke.
  • A "very violent" fire at Rome's Fiumicino airport last week was probably caused by a "short circuit".
As well as traditional causes such as leaking gas mains, creaking infrastructure and lack of adequate maintenance - maybe we need to consider other potential causes to these rapidly escalating incidents?

As seismic and volcanic activity intensifies, increased outgassing of methane, and other gases like hydrogen sulfide, from deep below the planet's surface could be igniting?

Perhaps some incidents are related 'electrically' in part to the 'grounding' of our Solar System?

See: SOTT Exclusive: Solar System 'grounding':Transformer explosions and electrical anomalies

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Arkansas pastor's wife turns him in after finding 'tens of thousands' of child porn files on his computer

David Edwards
Raw Story
Thu, 07 May 2015 16:37 UTC
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© KAITFormer youth pastor Tony Waller
An Arkansas youth pastor is facing child pornography charges after his wife reportedly found images of underage girls on his computer and turned them over to police.

According to KAIT, an affidavit filed in Jonesboro District Court on Wednesday alleged that 39-year-old First Assembly of God Pastor Tony Waller "had tens of thousands" of photos and videos of "nude or scantily clad pubescent girls" on a laptop that he shared with his wife, Angela.

Waller's wife told detectives that she was searching for a file when she came across a folder that she did not recognize. The folder contained "thousands of images of prepubescent girls either completely nude or scantily clad," the affidavit said.

When he was confronted by his wife, she said that he admitted having a child pornography addiction for more than 20 years.


Comment: It's called pedophilia (not child porn addiction) and it's not curable.


The laptop and two hard drives were turned over to police, who arrested Waller.

Senior Pastor Matt Smith told KAIT that Waller was fired as soon as the allegations came to light. He had worked at the church since 1999.

"First of all to the best of our understanding, the allegations against Mr. Waller don't involve anything with our church as far as we know," Smith said. "I encourage the church to handle this with three prongs of love: focus on loving each other as a church family, show tremendous of love to his family and continue to love him."


Comment: Are you kidding? Churches and religious institutions are a haven for pedophiles. It's one of their favorite places to hunt for children. That sort of 'encouragement' is one of the biggest things that allows pedophiles to get away with what they do.


Comment: From Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders, Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children by Dr. Anna Salter:
"One molester, who himself was a minister, said: 'I considered church people easy to fool ... they have the trust that comes from being Christians ... They tend to be better folks all around. And they seem to want to believe in the good that exists in all people. And because of that, you can easily convince, with or without convincing words.'

In interviewing victims in the growing number of cases involving priests, I have been surprised - although I should not have been - by how deeply religious many of the victims' families were. I have never before grasped that it was the most religious families who were thrilled to have a priest take an interest in their children, who wanted their children to be altar boys, who could not believe that a priest would do anything so wrong.

The growing crisis in the Catholic Church just underlines the fact that offenders can recognize ideal settings for child molesters even if the rest of us can't. In truth, a deeply religious and trusting group of people, plus the requirement of celibacy (an ideal cover for any man who has no sexual interest in adults), plus a hierarchy that doesn't report complaints to the police and simply moves the offender on to new and fresh territory with new potential victims, is the ideal setting for pedophiles."
See also: SOTT Talk Radio: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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