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Fountain pen wielding passenger forces emergency landing on Air China jet


RT
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 12:29 UTC
Air China passenger jets.
© Kim Kyung-Hoon / ReutersAir China passenger jets.
An Air China jet travelling from Changsha to Beijing was forced into an unscheduled landing when a passenger threatened crew members with a fountain pen.

It's not clear what sparked the mid-flight scare. However, online air traffic tracker Flight Radar 24 reveals the original path of the passenger jet was interrupted approximately half-way through Sunday's journey to the Chinese capital.

According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), a man carrying a fountain pen threatened to harm Air China staff members on board the plane, forcing the aircraft's pilots to take action. The incident on board flight CA1350 occurred just after 1pm local time on Sunday.
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Patrick Henningsen's Letter to 21Wire Readers

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:14 UTC
Propaganda poster for the UK-funded White Helmets, the Free Syrian Police and Aleppo Councils
© Patrick Henningsen, May 2017, East Aleppo, SyriaPropaganda poster for the UK-funded White Helmets, the Free Syrian Police and Aleppo Councils
Dear Readers,

Glad to have you back. Firstly, we would like to apologies for being offline most of last week. We've been working hard behind the scenes to get back online.

On Tuesday April 10th, 2018 at approximately 2pm EST, 21stCenturyWire.com has been under a sustained a heavy Denial of Service (DDoS) cyber attack and were only able to restore our systems yesterday afternoon. We were not the only ones.

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When Zionism collides with reality

Stanley L. Cohen
Counterpunch
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 22:35 UTC
bombed gaza school
© Jordi Bernabeu FarrúsA Gaza school in shambles after Operation Protective Edge in 2014
"The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated."
With these commanding words, Robert H. Jackson, Chief Counsel for the United States, opened the War Crimes Tribunals at Nuremberg, Germany not long after the conclusion of World War II.

Empanelled to hold accountable military, political and judicial leaders for violations of international law... including war crimes, crimes against humanity and the law of war... the tribunals imposed personal accountability for genocide directed at Jews and others marked by the German state as a challenge to its declared racial, religious and political supremacy.

Although these offenses took many forms, at their core, each derived their evil from a common intersect that those targeted by the state for eradication were not just inferior, but unworthy of life itself... men, women and children, young and old, reduced to little more than objects of surreal derision whose mere existence contaminated the state's supremacist lens.
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Can't take the heat: 'NY Times' coverage of Gaza turns biased again, pressure from Israeli Hasbara Central

James North
Mondoweiss
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 21:44 UTC
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After a hopeful improvement, the New York Times coverage of the Gaza protests is unfortunately back to its normal one-sided reporting - and intense pressure from Hasbara Central is surely a major reason. Take a look at this tweet yesterday, as the paper's main reporter, David Halbfinger, jumps to respond to a pro-Israel critic:
NYT twitter hasbara
© Sean Murray/TwitterHasbara-ists on the case, with the New York Times, April 13, 2018.
Sure enough, Halbfinger promptly added the following sentence to his article: "At another point, an explosive was hung from a kite, but fell on the Palestinian side."
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California State Senator Richard Pan seeks to criminalize 'fake news' about medicine, politics & government

Mike Adams
Natural News
Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:45 UTC
Mercury Joker
In the latest stunning assault on the freedom to think, California state senator Richard Pan - known as the "Mercury Joker" super villain for pushing mandatory vaccines into law via SB 277 - now wants to criminalize all bloggers and independent journalists who dare question the official narratives on vaccines, medicine, politics and government.

The quest for absolute authoritarian control never seems to end with these left-wing zealots. And California looks more and more like North Korea with each new law. (Is Richard Pan the long-lost cousin of Kim Jong-Un?)

Ever seeking to limit public debate, crush independent journalism and control all speech, Richard Pan has a new thought control bill entitled, "SB1424 Internet: social media: false information: strategic plan." While the title seems to target social media websites, the language of the bill clearly applies the law to all blogs, news websites, video sites and podcasts. From the proposed law itself:
As used in this section, "social media" means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or Internet Web site profiles or locations.

Comment: Senator Pan's political shenanigans and undue influence:
The Sacramento Bee is reporting that State lawmakers behind bill SB277 have ties to the makers of vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies and their trade groups gave current members of the Legislature more than $2 million. Nine of the top 20 recipients of these funds are either members of the Senate health committee, or leaders who could influence the outcome of the bill, as well as push it through to law.

One senator, in particular, is also a doctor, Richard Pan, who received more than $95,000 in campaign cash. He also just happens to be the man who wrote the bill.


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Syrians speak out about torture, violence in militant jail in Douma


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 02:33 UTC
Douma
© AFP/Sameer Al-DoumyDouma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus
Syrians, freed from al-Tawba (Repentance) jail run by the Jaish al-Islam militants in the city of Douma, told Sputnik about inhumane conditions, torture, violence and living in fear of being killed at any moment.

Immense hatred in militant jail

The detainees were living in inhumane conditions in al-Tawba, feeling the constant fear of torture and violence. Moreover, they had to do backbreaking work digging trenches and tunnels.
"It is only at al-Tawba prison where I have seen such immense hatred. This is unbelievable that one person has decided that the other is a non-believer because he does not know something about Islam. We were accused of being heretics because we are military personnel and we have been protecting our motherland," Ali Barhum told Sputnik.
Barhum was kidnapped by the militants in the city of Adra Iabor in Eastern Ghouta five years ago and taken to the town of Douma.
"The men had to dig underground tunnels; women had to cook, do the cleaning, and repair clothes. One had to meet his quota in order to receive food. Food was a very important and painful issue. Even chubby people turned into living skeletons as hunger was constant. We were mainly given bread and porridge. We were given hot food at rare occasions. They fed us mostly once a day, or once in two days sometimes," Barhum said.
There were three shower stalls in the prison, but they had no doors, so anyone passing by could see a person taking a shower, Barhum continued.

All the former detainees confirm that the soldiers and officers of the Syrian military had undergone severe torture in the militants' jails.

Comment: A sad and unacceptable chapter for humanity. Giving these militants a second chance - the opportunity to return to their 'peaceful lives' - might be unjustified.

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Netanyahu 'hat-tips' a settler who called for extermination camps

Yossi Gurvitz
Mondoweiss
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
Avichai Boaron
© UnknownAvichai Boaron
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu yesterday responded to a video by former 'Amona settler Avihai Boaron, who praised Netanyahu for building 'Amona land thieves a new settlement, by thanking him and promising to visit.

Part and parcel of the job of the most settler-friendly PM ever, you would think. Particularly one who is unusually sensitive to the idea of losing face with the "base."

But Boaron isn't your garden-variety settler leader. He has made genocidal statements. In 2011 Boaron attacked so-called moderate rabbis, who had opposed a "rabbis' letter." That letter was a call, signed by 300 rabbis, demanding Jews refrain from selling or renting houses or apartments to non-Jews. Boaron published his attack in the 117th volume of the Sabbath newszine Ma'ayanei Ha'yeshua, in January 2011- unsigned, but he did not deny writing it later - and claimed the moderate rabbis
"are clerks, who don't want to rock the boat, who say 'this isn't the halacha [law], precisely,' [...] rabbis, in short, whose bread and water is political correctness [...] One wonders whether they will leave the concentrating of 'Amalekites in death camps to others, or will they rule that the wiping out of 'Amalek is no longer relevant. Time will tell."
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Apparently some dead children count more than others

Craig Murray
Craig Murray.org
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00 UTC
StopArmingSA
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The ever excellent Campaign Against the Arms Trade is back in the English High Court again today in its continuing attempts to ban arms sales to Saudi Arabia. It is against UK law to sell arms to a country which is likely to use them in breach of international humanitarian law, and that Saudi Arabia consistently and regularly uses British weapons to bomb schools, hospitals and civilians is indisputable.

Unfortunately the courts are an instrument of power and control for the 1%, not an impartial resort for justice, so I fear CAAT will not succeed despite the fact their case is undeniably correct.

Part of the British Government's defence is the close military support it gives to Saudi Arabia, which it claims minimises civilian deaths (it plainly does no such thing). Thousands of children have died in the Yemeni war, most killed by the Saudis and their allies. These war crimes have been documented by the United Nations despite concerted UK and US diplomacy at the UN aimed at downplaying the Saudi crimes. Cluster bombs, white phosphorous and other illegal weapons have frequently been used.

Comment: If there were American or British or French children truly at risk, instead of Syrian or Yemeni, would there be no outrage? Would there be silence?

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Russian counter-sanctions to US: Cease exporting titanium components to Boeing


RT
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:47 UTC
Boeingplane
© Kacper Pempei/Reuters
Russia's Federation Council is looking to adopt counter-sanctions against the US, under which the country may ban exports of titanium components to aircraft giant Boeing, according to Russian Senator Sergey Ryabukhin.

"Among the rare earth metals that Russia supplies to the United States is titanium, which is necessary for the technological cycle of production of Boeing," Ryabukhin told RIA Novosti.

Russia could also ban the supply of RD-180 engines used by NASA and the Pentagon, the senator added. "These rocket engines are used not only by NASA, but also by the Pentagon on their satellites. It means the US uses these rocket engines to launch their military satellites," he said.

Earlier on Friday, Russian deputies announced an upcoming response to the American sanctions imposed last week. According to State Duma Vice Speaker Ivan Melnikov, the Russian response would include ending cooperation with the US in the nuclear industry, aircraft building and airspace.

Comment: Sanctions seem to be the US' one-trick pony, even if it becomes a detriment to American business success. Boeing might have something to say regarding negation of its production reliability on Russia.

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Flight safety office in UK apologetic for search of Russian plane at Heathrow


RT
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 09:52 UTC
Russian airplane
© Maksim Blinov/Sputnik
The flight safety center in the UK has apologized for the search of a Russian Aeroflot plane by UK officials in March, the Russian transport minister said. After elaborating on the case, which triggered outrage in Moscow, the center "even apologized," Russian Transport Minister Maksim Sokolov told journalists on Friday.

"[The center] did supply [the information]. And even apologized. It was the flight safety center operating under the aegis of the ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organization] on the British soil," he said.

However, in a statement to RT, the organization said that "state agencies do not operate 'under' the ICAO." The Montreal-based ICAO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that "works with the Convention's 192 Member States and industry groups to reach consensus on international civil aviation Standards and Recommended Practices."

In late March, British officials searched Russian Aeroflot Airbus A321 at Heathrow Airport upon its arrival from Moscow. Officers claimed they needed to inspect the aircraft and demanded that the crew disembark, isolating the captain in the cabin.

Moscow and Aeroflot labeled the actions "illegal" and contrary to "international practice."

Comment: Were the UK's actions 'grounded' or intentionally left 'up in the air'?

According to PressTV:
Russia's Embassy in Britain said that British authorities had provided no justifications for searching the Aeroflot at Heathrow while calling the action a "provocation" and in breach of international law.

"Border Force and Customs officers have searched the aircraft that was conducting the Aeroflot flights 2582 / 2583, Moscow - London - Moscow. This kind of event is extraordinary," the embassy said in a statement on Friday.

It added that the incident was in line with London's provocative moves which have followed the poisoning incident earlier this month of a former Russian spy and his daughter.

"Today, we have witnessed another blatant provocation by the British authorities," read the embassy statement, urging authorities to provide an explanation for the incident.

"The British officials tried to search the aircraft without the crew being present, something categorically prohibited by the rules in force," said the statement, adding, "After the search was over, the British officers refused to provide any written document that would specify the reasons for their actions, their legal foundation and their outcome."


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