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Trump Tower in New York evacuated due to suspicious package

Trump Tower evacuations
© Via Twitter@Cielo_Celest

Comment: According to ABC News in New York, the package was an backpack full of toys that was left unattended.


The lobby of Trump Tower has reportedly been evacuated due to a suspicious package, the New York Police Department has said. President-elect Donald Trump is not on the premises.

The New York City police and fire departments are on the scene.


Christmas Tree

Russian Students Gather 45 Tons-Worth of Holiday gifts for Syrian Children

Russian children
© Press service of the Tula Region government
Through the month of December, students from across Russia participated in a donation drive to collect gifts for Syrian children. The effort, organized under the 'Children of Russia to Children of Syria' campaign, has culminated in the Russian military delivering over 45 tons-worth of presents to the war-torn country in time for the holidays.

On Tuesday, a Defense Ministry spokesman confirmed that about 45 metric tons of gifts have been delivered during the course of the campaign, including individualized greetings and a wide variety of presents, which differed from region to region. For example, the spokesman said, "students in the Kursk and Vologda regions...collected over a thousand boxes with gifts, including traditional crafts, postcards, and stationery, but also keepsakes specific to those regions."

Robot

Facebook Safety Check scares Bangkok residents with fake report of explosion

Apocolyptic sky
© Independent
The message tells people across the city that they may be at risk from a bombing

Facebook is warning people about a fake explosion in Bangkok, falsely suggesting that the entire city is at risk.

The site has activated its "Safety Check" feature across Thailand's capital. That means that anyone it thinks is in the area will see a message informing them that there has been "an explosion", and encouraging them to mark themselves safe from it.

But no such explosion actually happened and the fake alert seems to be the result of changes that the company has made to its Safety Check feature. It appears to have been activated by a minor incident, reported only in the local news, where a man took firecrackers to a government building in an apparent protest.

The message gives none of the context and instead just mentions the explosion and asks people whether they are safe.

That seems to have become seen as a major incident because people on Facebook were discussing it. Earlier this year, Facebook announced that it would be using people's posts to help decide when the Safety Check would be activated - meaning that it didn't necessarily need to be turned on by staff at the social network.

Airplane

American Airlines flight suffered turbulence, lightning strike on flight to Buenos Aires - ran out of air sick bags

Boeing 777
© airlines470/CC by-sa
American N780AN, Boeing 777-200, shB772
An American Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration N780AN performing flight AA-997 (dep Dec 24th) from Dallas Ft. Worth,TX (USA) to Buenos Aires,BA (Argentina), was on final approach to Ezeiza Airport's runway 11 when the aircraft went around due to weather. The crew decided to divert to Montevideo (Uruguay), climbed the aircraft up to FL220, flew around a number of weather cells and landed safely on Montevideo's runway 06 about 37 minutes later.

A passenger reported the captain announced shortly after the aircraft had left cruise level, that there were storms and bad weather in the Buenos Aires and instructed cabin crew to prepare the cabin for landing right away and take their seats. A short time later turbulence kicked in, the worst the passenger had ever experienced (the passenger believes the turbulence could be categorized as severe), many passengers (estimated about half of the passengers) vomited, the aircraft ran out of airsick bags while the aircraft continued the descent flying zig-zag around weather, entered a hold, then continued the approach and was configured for landing. The ground became briefly visible, the turbulence reduced, the engines worked less hard spooling up and down, but then the aircraft went around and climbed back into bad turbulence.

Airplane

2-plane collision avoided at Delhi airport, 1 more skids off runway in Goa

indian airport problems
© Indian Ministry of Defence / Agence France-Presse
Damaged Jet Airways Boeing 737 after it skidded off the runway following an aborted take-off at the Goa Airport in Dabolim
At least 12 people were injured while evacuating a Jet Airways plane which skidded off the runway at Goa's Dabolim Airport. The accident occurred just hours before a separate incident in Delhi, which saw two planes come face-to-face on the runway.

A major incident was averted at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday morning, as two planes from two different airlines - IndiGo and SpiceJet - came face-to-face on the runway.


Stop

Irish child abuse helpline flooded with Christmas Day calls

Child walking past store display
© Jacky Naegelen / Reuters
An Irish child helpline received more than 1,000 calls on Christmas Day, with children reporting domestic violence and alcohol abuse in their homes.

The Childline service, run by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), was staffed by over 60 volunteers on Christmas Day. Children contacted the line through their free phone, web chat, and 'live' text services.

"For too many children across Ireland, being home at Christmas, is not a place of safety, warmth and happiness. It's a place of fear, loneliness, pain and neglect," the society said in a statement.

Coffee

Californian charged with driving under the influence of - coffee!

Drinking Coffee
© The Free Thought Project
Solano County — 38-year-old Joseph Schwab has been fighting a DUI for over a year, despite the fact that he was not under the influence of any illegal drugs at the time, he did, however, test positive for caffeine.

The Guardian reported that Schwab was pulled over last August by an officer who accused him of driving erratically.

Schwab was driving home from work when he was pulled over by an agent from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, who was driving an unmarked vehicle. The agent said Schwab had cut her off and was driving erratically. The officer claims that Schwab cut her off and she gave him a breathalyzer which showed a blood alcohol content of 0.00%.

Unfortunately, the officer was still not convinced. So, she arrested him and took him to jail so his blood could be drawn for other drugs. His blood tests came back negative for all illegal drugs. But he did test positive for caffeine. For some reason, this was enough to charge Schwab with a DUI.

Heart - Black

No conscience: Workers torture & kill brown bear with truck in Siberia - they will be punished

bear siberia
© Якутск Онлайн / YouTube
A scandalous video made it online showing people identified as rotation workers in Yakutia, Siberia, driving over a bear multiple times with a clear mission to kill the animal.

The graphic video shows how one of the trucks (a Russian-made Ural) drives over a bear as someone comments behind the scenes: "Crush him! Do it!" The tortured animal tries to get up, but then another vehicle runs over him to cheerful cries behind the camera.

Then one of the workers pokes the animal's head with a metal bar to check if it's dead.

Police are now looking for those involved in such extreme animal cruelty and if found guilty, the men may face up to two years in prison.

YouTube users were outraged by the shocking scene with milder comments stating that even if the bear was dangerous, torturing it was absolutely unnecessary.

Comment: Stupid and cruel. Thankfully, there are Russians like this:
Russian President Vladimir Putin shares the position of those who oppose cruelty against animals and says there may be a legislative initiative aimed at increasing penalty for such crimes, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday
...
"Certainly, the president believes that such legislative initiative would have the right to exist, this is likely to be related to the position of the animal rights defenders, who oppose animal abuse. The president shares [the position of those who] stand against the cases of cruelty to animals and he is in full solidarity with those who oppose [the cruelty]," Peskov told journalists.



Santa

Christmas spirit: Georgia sheriff's deputy pays off past due lunch bills for over 100 students

Matt and Gabriela Stoner
© Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office
Matt and Gabriela Stoner
A Gwinnett County Sheriff's deputy and his wife are making Christmas a little brighter for more than 100 kids at Central Gwinnett High School.

Cpl. Matt Stoner and his wife Gabriela opted to forego Christmas presents this year and instead spend their money on local students struggling to pay for their school lunches, Fox 5 reports.

"Their family had quietly made the decision not to buy Christmas presents for each other this year, instead creating a special family memory by doing something to help others," the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office posted to Facebook.

"Gabriela researched local schools and selected a school that had a significant number of students receiving free or reduced meals. She called the school and paid off every delinquent account for the entire school to help those struggling families and to allow those students to start the new year debt free with full meal privileges."

Bomb

Dead: Jihadi father who sent 8yo daughter on suicide mission

Jihadi Dad
© Reuters
A man who reportedly used his eight-year-old daughter as a suicide bomber in an attack on a police station in Syria's Damascus is now said to be dead himself. Images of a dead man believed to be the jihadist known as Abu Nimr have emerged online.

Earlier this month, disturbing videos in which the same bearded man is believed to be featured, were circulating on the internet. In two separate videos, two little girls said to be named Islam and Fatima can be seen with a man and a woman who are believed to be their father and mother.

The footage show the girls being apparently brainwashed, as they appear in the room with a black Islamic flag hanging on the wall. The man believed to be their father holds the two girls in his hands and speaks of a suicide mission prepared for them.

Terror attack 8YO
© Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
Police station attack by 8YO girl.
The woman, dressed in a burqa, then hugs the girls in an apparent farewell moment, while the man behind the camera talks of suicide bomb attacks for them. The girls can be heard repeatedly saying "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic).

Less than two weeks ago, a blast hit a police station in the Syrian capital, Damascus. Syria's state television aired pictures of a girl who was allegedly a suicide bomber, while SANA news agency reported the attack was carried out by an eight-year-old girl wearing an explosive belt.

The bomb was homemade, and was activated with a remote control, the Syrian media said, adding that there were no other casualties except for a police officer who was slightly injured.

Comment: It is unthinkable that parents could do this to their child. It is unthinkable that presidents, military, terrorists, neocons, sheeple republics...and the list is endless...could do this to other people's children. But they do.