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Wife of Google whistleblower Robert Epstein, who exposed meddling in the 2016 election, is killed in a car crash

Misti Dawn Vaughn wife of Robert Epstein
© Dr R EpsteinPsychology professor, Robert Epstein, shared in a heartbreaking tweet that his wife, Misti Dawn Vaughn (pictured), died after her vehicle spun out of control along a slipper road in California
The wife of a Google whistleblower, who exposed meddling in the 2016 election, died Friday night just days after she was seriously injured in a car crash.

Psychology professor, Robert Epstein, 66, shared in a heartbreaking tweet announcing that his wife, Misti Dawn Vaughn, died after her vehicle spun out of control along a slippery road in California and into the path of a tractor-trailer.

'My beautiful wife Misti, a published poet, succumbed last night to injuries sustained in a car accident,' her grieving husband wrote.

Comment: While there is nothing immediately suspicious about the untimely death of Epstein's wife, who he is and what he's been publicly stating for years brings the possibility that this was a 'hit', a suspicion that hasn't been lost on a good number of Twitter users. And to add fuel to this suspicion, Twitter users are noting some oddities in the tweets expressing condolences to Dr. Epstein. Here's an example of the many complaints that their tweets are disappearing:


And fellow Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies is claiming Epstein's tweet about his wife's death is itself being shadowbanned:


Very suspicious indeed...

More on Dr. Robert Epstein's research into Google manipulations:


Airplane Paper

Cessna aircraft forced to make emergency landing in a cornfield in Argentina

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On 28 December 2019 this Cessna 560XLS Citation Excel with 9 people on board made an emergency landing in a cornfield due to a probable engine failure (or two), 6 km from Otamendi in Argentina.

The aircraft had departed from Buenos Aires at 07:25 hours local time and was en route to Mar del Plata. However, at 08:11 it suffered an engine failure.

During the landing it evaded several trees and power lines before landing in the field. All six passengers and three crew members were able to exit the plane unharmed.

Comment: This is just the latest story of aircraft experiencing trouble mid-air in the last few days: See also:


Boat

Former British immigration chiefs: Channel patrols should return illegals to France

Channel Border force
© Getty ImagesEnglish Channel Border Force
Two former heads of British immigration agencies have said that British cutters should patrol French territorial waters in the English Channel and return illegal aliens to France before they get anywhere near Great Britain.

Observing that the current system of picking up boat migrants in British waters and ferrying them to the mainland is not deterring illegal immigration, Peter Higgins, a former director of Immigration Services, said:
"If Border force cutters are to continue to be deployed, is it not logical that they should operate in French waters, and having made an interception immediately return individuals to France?"
Mr Higgins, who worked in immigration and customs for 40 years, told The Telegraph:
"If the French are serious about solving this problem, they would not be averse to the UK cutters operating in French waters. Why is this not being done?

"One thing is for certain, if everyone were to be returned to France, the attraction of this form of trafficking would be negated immediately to the mutual benefit of the UK and France."

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Elizabeth Warren's brother furious she called their father a janitor

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© Cheryl Senter/APProven liar and failed presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
David Herring, brother of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said he is "furious" to learn the Massachusetts Democrat called their father a janitor on the campaign trail.

"According to a family friend, David has disagreed with the way Warren calls herself the daughter of a janitor as she describes the work he found after losing a job as a salesman after his heart attack," the Boston Globe reports.

Speaking with a family friend, Herring was adamant that his father was a maintenance worker, not a janitor. "My Dad was never a janitor," he told the Globe. Warren has referred to her father as a maintenance man in the past but has used the term "janitor" while on the campaign trail.

In a 2012 speech titled "Values and the Economic Crisis," Warren did not identify her father as a janitor. "My father held a series of jobs. His last one was mowing lawns and cleaning swimming pools for an apartment house," she said.

Warren has been accused of loosely handling the truth, famously identifying as an American Indian on a Texas bar form in 1986. In 2018, it was revealed that Warren is only between 1/64 and 1/1,024 Native American.

Star of David

Inhumane deprivation: Palestinian family forced to live without shelter or water by Israeli army

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© activestills.orgFamily left destitute in occupied West Bank
Despite the fact that the Palestinian bedouin family has ownership deeds of their land in the West Bank, Israel is relentless in trying to force them out. The army, on one of their recent raids, confiscated everything the family owns; even their water tanks, leaving them with no shelter or water, a basic human need. "As if they are deliberately and intentionally seeking to deprive us of all the essential aspects of human life."

On the foothills of a mountain overlooking Al-Baqai'a Plain to the east of Tubas, in the northeastern West Bank, lived a Bedouin family in tents after leaving the southern West Bank city of Hebron on the first of December.

During this short period of living there, Israeli forces have twice verbally ordered Abu Thaher family to leave the 11 dunums of land under the pretext of being in closed military and live-fire zones, despite the fact that the family has ownership deeds, known as Tabu.

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Montenegrin police attack Serbian bishop protesting adoption of anti-church law

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© EPA-EFE/Boris Pejovic.Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro monk takes part in a protest rally in Podgorica, Montenegro, 26 December 2019.
Despite strong protests from the hierarchs, clergy, monastics, and tens of thousands of faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the majority religion in the country, the Montenegrin Parliament adopted the anti-Church law "On Freedom of Religion and Belief and the Legal Status of Religious Communities" on December 26.

Large crowds of Orthodox faithful took to the streets in several cities and towns to protest the new law, which resulted in the Montenegrin police severely beating His Grace Bishop Metodije of Diokleia and several faithful with batons, reports the official website of the Metropolis of Montenegro.
"The bishop and individual believers were knocked to the ground and beaten with batons and kicked. Two worshippers who tried to protect him were also wounded. One suffered a broken hip and the other a broken collarbone."
Both were admitted to the hospital in the town of Pljevlja.

Bomb

Over 70 people killed in Mogadishu, Somalia - Massive 'truck bomb' detonated at crowded security checkpoint

Mogadishu Truck bomb
© Q/T NewsWreckage scene from the deadly truck bomb explosion
A truck bomb went off at a security checkpoint in the Somalian capital city Mogadishu on Saturday, killing over 70 people, mostly civilians.

College students are among the victims.
The powerful blast destroyed a bus packed with students from Benadir University.

There were also reports of a firefight breaking out between security forces and Islamist militants at the checkpoint before the blast. Lawmaker and former security minister Abdirizak Omar Mohammed cited reports that more than a dozen police officers are among the victims.


Attention

Video: 20 instances leftists went berserk on campus in 2019 triggering violence, destruction, rage

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Students who touted conservative, Republican, Constitutional or pro-life opinions on college campuses over the last 12 months were often met with extreme resistance.

Throughout 2019, leftists were wildly triggered by opinions they disagreed with, prompting them to vandalize or destroy displays, disrupt events, shout down speakers, scream at the top of their lungs — and even physically assault their right-of-center peers.

Many of these examples were caught on camera.

Here is a look back at some of the most extreme examples The College Fix has reported on over the last year.


Music

Music streaming giant Spotify bans political ads ahead of 2020 election

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
© Andrew Burton /GettySpotify CEO Daniel Ek
Music streaming giant Spotify won't accept U.S. political advertisements ahead of the 2020 presidential election, following a similar decision made earlier this year by Twitter.

Spotify told Ad Age Friday it will stop accepting political advertising in early 2020 across its ad-supported tier, which boasts 141 million users. The company is also suspending campaign ads on its original and exclusive podcasts, which include Amy Schumer Presents and The Joe Budden Podcast.

Spotify cited a lack of resources needed to vet the content of political ads.

Airplane

12 killed, dozens injured after Bek Air passenger jet crashes upon take-off in Kazakhstan - UPDATES

Kazakhstan crash
© Kazakhstan's Interior Ministry Emergency Committee
A Fokker 100 passenger jet belonging to Bek Air airline lost altitude and crashed into a two-story building during take-off from Almaty International Airport, local authorities have confirmed.

While there were "multiple survivors," 12 people were killed and dozens injured in the crash, many critically. Medics say 66 people were taken to the hospital after the crash, and a dozen of them are in grave condition.

Rescue personnel and medics continue to work at the scene in search of survivors.

Comment: More from RT:
WATCH 1st VIDEOS from passenger jet crash site in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Rescuers and emergency personnel were seen working at the scene of the crash amid the wreckage of the aircraft and rubble of a brick house in multiple photos and videos shared on social media.





The local rescue service confirmed that there was nobody inside the building as it was under construction.
'It was like the movies, people were screaming and crying': Survivor describes harrowing plane crash

A passenger recalled her nightmarish journey aboard a Bek Air airliner in Kazakhstan, which struggled to gain altitude and flew at a "weird angle" before crashing into a building and killing 12 people on Friday.

The jet was scheduled to take off from the southern city of Almaty at 7:05am local time and travel to Nur-Sultan, the nation's capital, but the flight was "delayed" for unknown reasons, a passenger told Tengri News.

The woman, who was not named in the report, said she was asleep when the aircraft finally took off.

"I woke up when the plane began gaining altitude. As it turned out, the plane had been climbing two times already and had lost altitude [in both instances]."

She then heard "a loud sound coming either from the engine or somewhere else."

"The plane was flying at a weird angle. It was just like in the movies: people were howling, screaming, and crying. I can't describe how scary it was. Then there was a hit... Someone shouted, 'Get out!' I was speechless. I was seated near the wing, and remember how I had stepped on it [to exit the aircraft]."

The woman recalled how the other survivors were worried that the plane could blow up on the ground.

"It seemed like a [bad] dream," she said.

According to early reports, a Fokker 100 plane with up to 100 people on board crashed into a small two-story building during take-off. 12 people died and almost 50 were hospitalized.
See also: Cargo vessel crashes into bollard on Istanbul's Bosphorus

UPDATE: 29th December 18:45CET

RFE/RL reports that authorities are still investigating the cause of the deadly crash:
A top Kazakh official says authorities initially are looking at a possible "technical malfunction" or pilot error in the crash of a Bek Air plane that killed 12 of the 98 passengers and crew aboard early on December 27.

Roman Sklyar, a deputy prime minister, said a special government commission was being sent to the site to carry out an investigation into the accident, which occurred as the Fokker 100 plane attempted to take off from the Almaty airport en route to the capital, Nur-Sultan.

He cautioned, though, that the investigation was in the early stages and no cause had yet been pinpointed.

Sklyar said eight people died at the scene, while two died at the airport and two others at the hospital. The pilot was killed in the crash.

Sklyar added that 49 people were hospitalized, 18 in serious condition.

"Either this is pilot error or there were technical reasons," Sklyar said at a press conference in Almaty on December 27.

"The aircraft split into two parts. Most of the passengers who died were in the front part."

Kazakhstan on December 28 observed a day of mourning to honor the victims of the crash.

In the capital, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan's largest flag was at half-staff for the day of mourning while officials made urgent appeals for blood donations to help the dozens of injured survivors.

Russia and China were among the countries to join the European Union and the Vatican in expressing condolences to the former Soviet Central Asian republic.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, the plane was unable to get to a significant height and crashed into a two-story building.

Four foreigners were aboard the plane, officials said -- two from Ukraine and one each from China and Kyrgyzstan. They all survived, Kazakh authorities said.

Bek Air, which operates a fleet of Fokker 100 planes, said it has canceled some 100 flights from December 27-31 as the investigation into the cause of the craft proceeds.
UPDATE 3 Jan 2020

Video has surfaced showing the moment the plane crashed into a building next to the runway: