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Airplane

Small plane drops out of the sky, explodes on California interstate


The Sacramento Bee
Fri, 30 Jun 2017 10:22 UTC
Plane crashes on California interstate
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A small twin-engine plane dropped out of the sky and exploded in flames on a busy freeway near a Los Angeles area airport Friday morning, injuring the two people aboard but clipping only one passing vehicle, a fire official said.

The Cessna 310 aircraft crashed on Interstate 405, just short of a runway at John Wayne Airport in Costa Mesa around 9:30 a.m., said Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

The pilot declared an emergency shortly after taking off from the airport and was trying to return when the crash occurred, Gregor said.

The two people who were aboard the plane, a man and a woman in their 50s and 60, were alive when they were pulled from the fiery wreckage and were taken to a hospital with traumatic injuries, Orange County Fire Capt. Larry Kurtz said.

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Fire

Fire results in huge explosion at electricity substation in Siberia


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:55 UTC
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© Телекомпания ТВ2 / YouTube
Some 150,000 people in the city of Tomsk in Siberia were left without electricity for several hours after a huge explosion rocked a substation. The moment of the blast was caught on camera.

The incident happened on Thursday afternoon, when a fire at the Vostochnaya substation resulted in a blast, local TV2 reported. The substation has been operating since 1963, providing power supply "for most of Tomsk."

Facilities were partially destroyed, which led to a temporary shutdown of the Tomsk power station, Russia's Ministry of Energy said.

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Bomb

Manchester police: Arena bomber may not have acted alone


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:04 UTC
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© Greater Manchester Police / AFPSalman Abedi in the Manchester area
British police are hoping to speak to the brother of Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi as "other people" may have been involved in the attack in May, which killed 23 concert-goers.

The 22-year-old British-Libyan's brother, Hashem Abedi, was arrested in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, following the attack, together with their father, Ramadan.

Now Greater Manchester Police hope to speak to Hashem as part of their investigation. It is said to be liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Libyan authorities.
"We don't have evidence of a large network. We do however suspect others were either aware [of] or complicit in the knowledge of this attack," said North West Counter Terrorism Unit Detective Chief Superintendent Russ Jackson.

"We do believe that there are other people potentially involved in this. We do however believe further arrests are possible."

Jackson added that the investigation "is likely to run on for many more months to come."

Comment: More on Manchester:

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Attention

Video emerges of alleged Russian mercenaries torturing ISIS captive to death


Russia Insider
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:41 UTC
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Russia Insider calls for an investigation and if all checks out for the perpetrators to be dealt with severely

A gruesome video of what appears to be Russian mercenaries torturing an Arab man in Syria to death with a sledge hammer has appeared on the internet.

The torturers are Russian-speaking but as South Front points out they're not wearing official uniforms of the Russian military and carry antiquated weapons that are not longer in use by the Russian military. They are also very ragged. If they are Russian, they are mercenaries.

One of them is carrying a patch spelling out in Russian "I'm just gonna hurt you really, really badly", taken from the dystopian Hollywood film The Suicide Squad.

In the video one of the torturers can be heard saying in Russian "Let's start, fucking ISIS." which established they at the very least believe the man to be an ISIS fighter.

Comment: Wars act as attractors for sadists, where they are able to do what relatively normal and stable societies would not otherwise allow them to do. Just like psychopaths thrive in chaotic corporate environments, they thrive in the chaos of war zones. It doesn't really matter which side they're fighting on, as long as they get to play the "game".

Healthy societies recognize these individuals and treat them accordingly. Unhealthy ones say, "What's the big deal? They're getting the job done." We all know how America treats their psychopathic mercenaries: by giving them a free pass. It will be interesting to see the Russian response to this, if there is any.

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Pistol

French interior minister: 100 gun owners are on anti-terror watchlist


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:35 UTC
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© Alain Jocard / AFP
Around 100 people who legally own firearms in France are on anti-terrorism watchlist, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb revealed. The Champs-Elysees attacker was on a terrorist watchlist, yet still had a gun license.
Collomb told the Senate on Wednesday - as part of the review on the new anti-terrorism bill - that "we have identified about a hundred" individuals monitored for extremism who are believed to own firearms.

The minister emphasized that this is a situation that should be fixed, referring to the latest attack, by 31-year-old Adam Djaziri, who rammed a car full of weapons and gas canisters into a police van in central Paris in mid-June. He was the only one to have died in the attack.

"The person who wanted to commit that attack was on file and, at the same time, was the legal owner of firearms. This is a sign of dysfunction."
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Red Flag

Woman forced to carry 2yo son on lap during flight was too scared United Airlines would react violently if she spoke up


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:20 UTC
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© Louis Nastro / Reuters
A Hawaii teacher said she was afraid to speak up after United Airlines gave her two-year-old's seat to a standby passenger, forcing her to carry him for the three-and-a-half hour flight.

Shirley Yamauchi, 42, purchased two tickets for herself and her 27-month-old son, Taizo, to fly from Hawaii to Boston, where she was attending a teacher's conference last week.

They both enjoyed separate seats for the first leg of the journey from Hawaii to Houston where they stopped for a layover. After waiting at Houston Airport for five hours, they finally boarded their flight and sat in their seats. That's when a standby passenger approached them and told Yamauchi that her son was in his seat.

Yamauchi had purchased the tickets three months in advance for $1,000, but the airline sold her son's seat to the man for just $75.
"I told him that I bought both of these tickets and he tells me that he got the ticket on standby. Then he proceeds to sit in the center," Yamauchi told Hawaii News Now.
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Handcuffs

Two suspected terrorists arrested in Belgium with weapons, detonators, police uniforms


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:16 UTC
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© Francois Lenoir / Reuters
Security forces in Belgium have detained two men on terrorism charges after discovering explosives, loaded AK-47s, police and other uniforms - all indicating a potential large-scale attack - during the raids in Brussels.

Federal Judicial Police in Brussels carried out six raids on Tuesday and Wednesday night in the Anderlecht district of Brussels, the Federal Prosecutor's Office revealed.

Two of the four detained individuals, identified as Akim S., 40, and Khalid S., 37, have been "charged with participating in activities of a terrorist group," the prosecutors said on Wednesday. The other two people have been released without charge.

While raiding a garage in Anderlecht, authorities discovered three loaded Kalashnikov automatic rifles, three handguns and ammunition, as well as two bulletproof vests. Among other things, police have also unearthed two police uniforms, a civil protection service uniform and a security agency uniform, as well as radios, suggesting that the alleged cell planned a large-scale coordinated attack, prosecutors said, as cited by Reuters.
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Red Flag

Female employees describe working at Tesla factory as "predator zone" for sexual harassment


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 16:06 UTC
tesla factory
© Joseph White / Reuters
A Tesla-organized meeting has revealed a culture of sexual harassment and mistreatment by male managers, as described by female employees who attended. One women who had previously spoken about sexual harassment at Tesla was subsequently fired.

During the exchange attended by 70-100 people at Tesla's Fremont factory, more than 20 women took the microphone and shared experiences of feeling unsafe, facing sexist remarks, subjected to unfair promotion decisions, being talked over in meetings, being catcalled, and the lack of women in leadership positions.

The disclosures from the March meeting have now been revealed in interviews with the Guardian published Wednesday.

One woman described parts of the factory as a "predator zone" for harassment.
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Wikileaks releases documents revealing CIA projects aimed at stealing users' login details for remote access to web server


Sputnik
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 15:24 UTC
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© Flickr/ Chris Wieland
According to WikiLeaks, the BothanSpy is an implant targeting the SSH client program for Microsoft Windows platform, stealing user credentials form active SSH sessions.

The WikiLeaks whistleblowing platform released on Thursday a new package of CIA documents from the so-called Vault 7 project, in particular the documents on two separate CIA projects aimed at stealing users' login details for remote access to a server of a website.
"Today, July 6th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon projects of the CIA. The implants described in both projects are designed to intercept and exfiltrate SSH credentials but work on different operating systems with different attack vectors," WikiLeaks said in a statement.
SSH is a cryptographic network protocol which gives the user a secure remote access to a website's server. The SSH credentials are the login details, namely the server address, port number, the username and the password.
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Bad Guys

Hobby Lobby fined $3mn, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled through Israel and UAE


RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:49 UTC
Iraqi artifacts
© Thaier Al-Sudani / ReutersRecovered artifacts at the National Museum of Iraq
Arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi religious artifacts which were smuggled into the US through Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a result of a civil complaint from the US Justice Department.

Hobby Lobby announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to return the artifacts and pay a $3 million dollar fine because of its illegal importation practices.

In 2010, the president of Hobby Lobby, Steve Green, personally purchased $1.6 million worth of cuneiform tablets, bricks, clay bullae and cylinder seals, according to a DOJ press release.
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