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Series of explosions rock California Oktoberfest celebrations

Jon Haworth
ABC News
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 12:12 UTC
Explosion
© Emily Rasmussen/The Orange County Register/SCNG via APEmergency personnel respond to explosions where multiple people were injured at the Old World Village, Oct. 5, 2019, in Huntington Beach, Calif.
A series of explosions rocked an Oktoberfest celebration in Huntington Beach, California, injuring five people.

Authorities on Saturday responded to the scene at 8:10 p.m. local time to reports of multiple explosions that caused a transformer fire at the Old World Village complex. The complex had been hosting the Old World Village Oktoberfest festival.

Staff at a festival restaurant noticed an odor coming from an underground vault just outside the facility, Jeff Lopez of the Huntington Beach Fire Department told reporters Sunday. The underground vault contained three transformers but only one exploded. At one point the vault's 50-lb. metal lid flew off during the explosion, Lopez said.
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Health

Sanders discharged from hospital, suffered heart attack

Li Cohen
CBS News
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:49 UTC
Sanders
© AP/John LocherDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders
Senator Bernie Sanders was discharged from a Las Vegas hospital on Friday, three days after having stents inserted to relieve chest pains. The doctors who treated the 78-year-old presidential candidate said in a statement that Sanders was diagnosed with myocardial infarction, another term for a heart attack.

Sanders' doctors, Arturo Marchand Jr. and Arjun Gururaj, said the two stents "were placed in a blocked coronary artery in a timely fashion" and that "all other arteries were normal."

Upon leaving the hospital, Sanders was seen walking with his fist in the air and waving to cameras alongside his wife, Jane, and campaign staffers. He yelled to cameras saying he was "feeling great."

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Ambulance

France: Bus crash leaves one dead, 17 injured


Sputnik
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 17:20 UTC
Flixbus
© AFP/Frederick M. Brown
A bus belonging to the company Flixbus with 30 people on board, including the driver, going in the direction Narbonne-Toulouse overturned shortly before 13:00 (11:00 a.m. GMT) for a reason that remains to be determined, media reported, citing the local prefecture.

One person has been killed and 17 injured in a traffic accident with a bus in the Aude department in southern France, the newspaper Depeche reported, citing a communique from local authorities. The incident reportedly took place near Bizanet Commune.

The Midi Libre newspaper noted that, according to unconfirmed information, 26 people were injured.
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Family

Sex exploitation of minors in Georgia: Tbilisi case may be tip of the iceberg!

Henry Kamens
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
handcuffs child porn
© MGN
This is a saying that sex offenders and those closest to them, such as Prince Andrew and others, should know. The Jeffrey Epstein case is still not dead, as another similar one just broke in Tbilisi, Georgia, which is even more insidious.

This time the sex offenders are not just some sick man and a network of equally sick friends in high places. The abusers are the parents themselves, who took allegedly money so that their daughters, ranging in age from 5 to 15, could to have photos of them taken and explicit sex videos made. These were then sold internationally via the dark web and networks of paedophiles, with the remuneration returning to the ringleaders via Bitcoin.

Here is a video of breaking Georgian News - little girls, age 5 to 15 making sex videos, in which their parents agree that they took money for the services of their young daughters. This is the latest hot topic of discussion here, not only due to the sinister nature of the crime but whether or not this is but the tip of an iceberg.

Comment: See also:

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Ambulance

Mass injuries: Botched Army paratrooper night jump involved hundreds; part of 10-day exercise

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Thu, 03 Oct 2019 11:45 UTC
Paratroopers
© USAF/Senior Airman Javier AlvarezFile image of Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division.
A large military parachute training exercise went horribly wrong at an Army base in Mississippi late Wednesday night, resulting in nearly two dozen soldiers suffering injuries as a major emergency response situation unfolded.

A US Army spokesman described to the Associated Press that about 89 soldiers were aboard a C-130 for a night jump at Camp Shelby, but upon exiting the airplane high winds blew the paratroopers far away from their intended drop zone and into a forested area. At least 22 soldiers were injured in the jump, with seven hospitalized with more serious injuries, though none were reported as life threatening.

According to USA Today, local hospitals quickly mobilized teams to respond to the mass accident:
Approximately 180 were in the zone at the time of the incident, and 89 paratroopers made it out of the planes, said Sgt. Alex Skripnichuk, with the 4th Brigade's public affairs office. Each plane carries up to 60 people. Emergency responders took some of the injured to local hospitals, where teams of doctors and nurses could be seen walking quickly toward the emergency room.
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Bomb

Colombian oil pipeline bombed causing water contamination


RT
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 08:30 UTC
Oil spill
© REUTERS / Willy Kurniawan
An oil pipeline carrying crude across the Andes has been bombed, resulting in a fire and spillage into the local river. The operator released footage of the site showing a plume of smoke rising in the air.

The Transandino pipeline was damaged in a bomb attack that happened Orito municipality in Putumayo Department in Southern Colombia. According to the oil and gas giant Ecopetrol, which operates the pipeline, it was the 19th such incident this year alone.
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Pistol

Four people killed after gunman opens fire in a bar in Kansas


RT
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 14:51 UTC
Police van
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Four people have been killed and at least five others injured after a gunman, who is reportedly still at large, entered a bar in Kansas City and started shooting.

The incident took place shortly before 1:30am at the Tequila KC bar on Central Avenue in downtown Kansas. Approximately 40 people were in the venue when the incident occurred.

Police say there was at least one attacker, armed with a handgun, and the victims were all Hispanic males, according to 41 Action News.
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Megaphone

20,000 attend Scottish independence march in Edinburgh

Libby Brooks
The Guardian
Sun, 06 Oct 2019 13:13 UTC
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© Andrew Milligan/PAScottish independence supporters march through Edinburgh during an All Under One Banner march on Saturday.
Thousands of people have attended a pro-Scottish independence march through the streets of Edinburgh as organisers insist momentum is growing in the face of a possible no-deal Brexit.

Groups and organisations that support separation from the UK joined the All Under One Banner (AUOB) procession on Saturday in the final event of the year, following marches in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Perth over the summer.

AUOB hoped to get at least 100,000 people to take part in the rally.

Comment: Scotland's clear desire for independence only gives further cause for England's establishment to prevent Brexit ever happening: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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Question

Five dead after cargo plane runs out of fuel en route to Ukraine

Lucy Domachowski
Daily Star
Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:56 UTC
crash spain
© REUTERSFive people have reportedly died after a plane crashed in an emergency landing when it ran out on fuel on route from Spain
Five people have reportedly died after a plane crashed in an emergency landing when it ran out on fuel on route from Spain.

The Soviet-designed four-engine plane vanished from radar at 7.10am this morning when it was just over eight miles from its destination airport in Ukraine, emergencies service said in a statement.

One of the surviving crew called the service at 7.29am to report the emergency landing of the plane, which was found a mile from Lviv airport.
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Sherlock

Judge shoots himself in court amidst rumors of case interference


Bangkok Post
Sat, 05 Oct 2019 05:00 UTC
Khanakorn
Khanakorn: Expected to recover
The suicide bid by a judge who shot himself in a Yala courtroom after handing down a ruling on Friday has sparked concerns over possible interference in the case.

Khanakorn Pianchana, a senior judge at the Yala provincial court, pulled out a pistol and shot himself at the end of a hearing on Friday afternoon, officials said. He was rushed to hospital where he underwent surgery for injuries said not to be life-threatening. The incident reportedly took place in a third-floor courtroom.

About 3.30pm, Suriyan Hongvilai, spokesman of the Office of the Judiciary, said Mr Khanakorn had apparently acted out of stress from personal issues.

He said the Office of the Judiciary would launch a fact-finding probe into the incident.
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