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Lorry driver calls police over 12 men stowaways in his refrigerated lorry in Belgium

Jennifer Rankin
The Guardian
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23 UTC
Lorry
© Gareth Fuller/PA
Lorry drivers are increasingly reluctant to drive to the UK because they risk being fined if people are illicitly found onboard.
Belgian police say they have found 12 people "safe and well" in a refrigerated lorry, one week after 39 people lost their lives in a similar vehicle that had travelled to Essex via continental Europe.

The migrants were discovered in the back of a fruit and vegetable lorry on the motorway, near the Flemish town of Oud-Turnhout, in the early hours of Wednesday. Police said they found 12 adult men: 11 Syrians and one Sudanese citizen.

"Yesterday evening we received a call from a lorry driver near Oud-Turnhout who suspected that there were people in his refrigerated lorry," Sarah Frederickx, a federal police spokeswoman, told the Flemish national broadcaster VRT. "The 12 men were found safe and sound."

Comment: As noted above, this story comes on the heels of the 39 bodies that were found in a lorry container in the UK; they were later found to be from Vietnam.

There has been a surge of illegal immigrants to Europe this year, totaling 456,000 so far, up 10% on last year, mostly from Africa and the Middle East, along with similar reports of migrant problems in the US.

See also: "This is a bomb that will explode": Greek ministers admit services overwhelmed after riots at refugee camp on Lesbos

And check out SOTT radio's: The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

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It's time for 'LGB' and 'T' to go their separate ways

Brad Polumbo
Quillette
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:01 UTC
LGBT symbols pins
The growing rift between increasingly radicalized transgender-rights activists and the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities has finally come out into the open. This week, Europe's biggest LGBT-rights organization, the London-based Stonewall charity, was publicly accused of subordinating LGB rights to the group's increasingly single-minded goal of replacing sex with gender as a marker of identity. As Helen Joyce recently wrote in Standpoint, "Stonewall went all in for gender self-ID. Its online glossary now describes biological sex as 'assigned at birth' (presumably by a midwife with a Hogwarts-style Sorting Hat). 'Gay' and 'lesbian' now mean same-gender, not same-sex, attraction. 'Transphobia' is the 'fear or dislike of someone based on the fact that they are trans, including the denial/refusal to accept their gender identity.' At a stroke, anyone who declares themselves exclusively attracted to people of the same sex has become a bigot."

As a gay man who lives in the United States, I have no direct stake in Britain's intra-LGBT politics. ("LGB/T" might now be a more apt term.) But I am surprised that it has taken this long for such a formal breach to occur. The same pressures have been building everywhere, and it was only a matter of time before someone acted on them.

Comment: It's interesting that there seems to be a growing sentiment among the LGBs to separate, at least ideologically, from the Ts. The recent rise of Meghan Murphy in the news cycle in Canada (and worldwide) is one such example. The simple fact of the matter is that the radical remodeling of the concept of gender and complete denial of biological reality the trans activists are fighting for is a threat to everything our society has been built upon. Previous fights for women's rights, gay rights and even racial equality, is all threatened by these new kids on the block and their insane religious worldview.

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Sue 'em! Bayer says US glyphosate plaintiffs more than double since July

Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss
Reuters
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:56 UTC
Logo and flags of Bayer AG
© REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay
Logo and flags of Bayer AG are pictured outside a plant of the German pharmaceutical and chemical maker in Wuppertal, Germany August 9, 2019.
Germany's Bayer (BAYGn.DE) is now facing 42,700 U.S. plaintiffs blaming its glyphosate-based weedkillers for their cancer, more than twice the tally in July and potentially raising any future settlement.

Bayer, the inventor of aspirin and owner of Yasmin birth control and Claritin allergy relief brands, is widely expected to eventually buy itself out of the litigation, with analysts currently estimating the size of a future settlement at $8-$12 billion.

It put the increase in claims down to a significant increase in plaintiff-side television advertising spending.

"The number of lawsuits, first and foremost, doesn't tell us anything about their merits," Chief Executive Werner Baumann said in a media call. "The number of the lawsuits in no way, shape or form is indicative of the amount of the settlement."

The company said it was still constructively engaged in a mediation process ordered by a federal judge.

Bayer, which last year acquired Monsanto for $63 billion, revealed the spike in claims as it reported a 7.5% rise in third-quarter adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) to 2.3 billion euros ($2.6 billion), in line with market expectations.

Comment: See also:

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Fire

Devastating fire kills 70 passengers as gas stove explodes on train in Pakistan


RT
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:41 UTC
Pakistan train fire
© Asghar Bhawalpuri / Reuters TV
Passengers leaped to their death, trying to escape the raging fire, which devoured several train cars in eastern Pakistan, killing at least 70 people.

The packed train was traveling from Karachi to the city of Rawalpindi in eastern Punjab province when a gas cylinder blew up inside.

The cylinder was booked by a group of passengers who were using it to boil eggs on a gas stove when the blast happened. Cooking oil added fuel to the blaze, which spread rapidly, completely burning three cars.

Firefighters were deployed to the site, and military helicopters were flown in to airlift the injured.

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Long Beach, California, shooting: 3 dead, 9 hurt in costume party shooting

Phil Helsel, Elisha Fieldstadt, Kurt Chirbas and Colin Sheeley
NBC
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
The shooting happened at or near a residence shortly before 11 p.m. The fire department said three adult men are dead.
Long Beach shooting
© Long Beach Fire
Long Beach firefighters responded to shooting at a residence on the 2700 block of 7th Street.
Investigators were still searching for a suspect or suspects after three men were killed and nine other people were taken to hospitals following a shooting Tuesday night at a costume party at a home in the Southern California city of Long Beach, fire officials said.

Officials said those injured were seven women and two men ranging in age from 20-49. They warned that the number of wounded people could rise because they didn't know if people at the party had brought themselves to the hospital.

Five of the injured people were considered "immediate," or with injuries that paramedics believe could potentially be life-threatening, Jake Heflin, public information officer for the Long Beach Fire Department, said.
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Deflection: Snarling California governor blames Trump for wildfires engulfing the state


RT
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:29 UTC
California wildfires
© Reuters / Gene Blevins
Add California's wildfires to the list of problems caused by US President Donald Trump. The state's former governor has warned Trump and his fellow Republicans that "the blood is on your soul"... for denying climate change.

"California's burning while the deniers make a joke out of the standards that protect us all. The blood is on your soul here and I hope you wake up," former governor Jerry Brown snarled, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump administration's recent decision to bar California from setting its own auto emissions standards. "This is not politics, this is life, this is morality...this is real," he continued.

Brown likened Trump and his fellow climate change skeptics to believers in "flat Earth," claiming climate change is directly responsible for the wildfires currently engulfing swathes of California. While at least two of this year's fires are actually believed to have been caused by malfunctioning PG&E power lines - like last year's devastating Camp Fire, which wiped out an entire town - Brown has glossed over the notoriously mismanaged utility to pin the blame on hotter, drier weather. The only solution? "Limiting our carbon pollution," he told reporters in 2015, defying climate scientists who suggested that that year's fires were not caused by anything of the sort.

Comment: Talk about passing the buck:

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Bullseye

737 Max jets are 'flying coffins': Boeing CEO skewered by Congress for concealing deadly software problems

Jonathan Garber
Fox News
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
Boeing CEO Dennis Mullenburg
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenberg was raked over the coals at an emotional hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) had victims' family members hold up photographs of the loved ones they lost in two deadly 737 Max jet crashes that killed more than 300 people and said they were in "flying coffins" due to Boeing's decision to conceal MCAS stall-prevention software problems from the pilots.

He told Muilenberg that the crashes were "not only preventable" but also "the result of a pattern of deliberate concealment."

Other members of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation pressed Muilenberg about what and when the aviation giant knew about problems with the software.

"Did you read this document and how did your team not put it in front of you, run in with their hair on fire, saying we've got a real problem here," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said about the instant messages between two pilots which suggested Boeing knew about problems with its MCAS software in 2016 - more than two years before the first accident. "How did that not happen, and what does that say about the culture of Boeing?"

Comment: Flawed analysis, failed oversight, greed: How Boeing & FAA certified faulty 737 MAX
The FAA, citing lack of funding and resources, has over the years delegated increasing authority to Boeing to take on more of the work of certifying the safety of its own airplanes.[...]

But several FAA technical experts said in interviews that as certification proceeded, managers prodded them to speed the process. Development of the MAX was lagging nine months behind the rival Airbus A320neo. Time was of the essence for Boeing.[...]

"There was constant pressure to re-evaluate our initial decisions," the former engineer said. "And even after we had reassessed it ... there was continued discussion by management about delegating even more items down to the Boeing Company."[..]

"There wasn't a complete and proper review of the documents," the former engineer added. "Review was rushed to reach certain certification dates." [...]

Minimizing MAX pilot transition training was an important cost saving for Boeing's airline customers, a key selling point for the jet, which has racked up more than 5,000 orders.


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Sheriff

Florida Senate removes Parkland shooting sheriff

John Kennedy
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:37 UTC
Scott Israel
© Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images
The Florida Senate removed Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel from office Wednesday, upholding Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis's ouster of the veteran lawman for his department's failings in mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the Fort Lauderdale airport.

In a mostly party-line, 25-15 vote, the Republican-controlled Senate handed a political victory to the first-year governor, who made good on a campaign promise by suspending Israel within days of taking office in January.

But with the vote, the Senate defied the recommendation of its own special master, who held a two-day hearing in June, concluding that DeSantis failed to show enough evidence to remove Israel for the tragic mistakes of his deputies.

The special master urged the Senate to reinstate Israel.
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NPC

Climate change propaganda nonsense alert! 'Asthma carbon footprint' as big as meat-eating

Michelle Roberts
BBC
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:46 UTC
asthma inhaler
© PA
Many people with asthma could cut their carbon footprint and help save the environment by switching to "greener" medications, UK researchers say. Making the swap would have as big an "eco" impact as turning vegetarian or becoming an avid recycler, they say. It's because some inhalers release greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

But the Cambridge University team told BMJ Open patients must check with a doctor before changing medication. Some patients will not be able to switch and should not be made to feel guilty, they add.

What are greener inhalers?

There are more than five million people with asthma in the UK. The research looked at the environmental impact of different inhaler medications prescribed to patients on the NHS in England. In 2017, about 50 million inhalers were prescribed. Seven out of every 10 of them were metered-dose inhalers - the type that contain greenhouse gases. The gas - hydrofluoroalkane - is used as a propellant to squirt the medicine out of the inhaler.

What difference would it make?

Metered-dose inhalers account for nearly 4% of NHS greenhouse gas emissions, according to experts. The researchers estimate replacing even one in every 10 of these inhalers with a more environmentally friendly type (dry powder inhalers) would reduce carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 58 kilotonnes. That's similar to the carbon footprint of 180,000 return car journeys from London to Edinburgh, they say.

Comment: We might wish to consider the level of absurdity that climate change nonsense has reached 'peak climate change nonsense'. But sadly, there's probably a whole lot more to come. In the meantime, just admire the total nonsense in this article. And if you're in the mood for more of that kind of thing:

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Attention

Former New York City medical examiner says Epstein's autopsy more consistent with homicidal strangulation

Melissa Leon
Fox News
Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:20 UTC
michael baden
The body of disgraced money man and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his Manhattan federal prison cell in August, bore telltale signs of homicide despite an official ruling that he killed himself, a pioneering forensic pathologist revealed to "Fox & Friends" in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

The bombshell claim by Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner who has worked on high-profile cases during a five-decade medical career, is certain to reignite suspicions that surfaced immediately after Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges involving underage girls, was discovered dead in his cell on Aug. 10. Baden, who was hired by Epstein's brother and observed the autopsy, told Fox News its findings are more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging. He noted that the 66-year-old Epstein had two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, specifically the thyroid cartilage or Adam's apple, as well as one fracture on the left hyoid bone above the Adam's apple, Baden told Fox News.

"Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation," Baden, who is also a Fox News contributor, said.

While there's not enough information to be conclusive yet, the three fractures were "rare," said Baden, who's probed cases involving O.J. Simpson, President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, record producer Phil Spector, New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and many others.

"I've not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case," the 85-year-old medical legend told Fox News.

Comment: In other Epstein news, WeAreChange and The Dollar Vigilante recently released footage of their 'raid' of Epstein's island:





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