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Not the only one: Another United first-class passenger was threatened with handcuffs to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler

David Lazarus
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 16:35 UTC
Geoff Fearns united airlines
© Geoff FearnsGeoff Fearns who was threatened with being handcuffed by United Airlines if he didn’t give up his first class seat.
It's hard to find examples of worse decision-making and customer treatment than United Airlines having a passenger dragged from an overbooked plane. But United's shabby treatment of Geoff Fearns, including a threat to place him in handcuffs, comes close.

Fearns, 59, is president of TriPacific Capital Advisors, an Irvine investment firm that handles more than half a billion dollars in real estate holdings on behalf of public pension funds. He had to fly to Hawaii last week for a business conference.

Fearns needed to return early so he paid about $1,000 for a full-fare, first-class ticket to Los Angeles. He boarded the aircraft at Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai, took his seat and enjoyed a complimentary glass of orange juice while awaiting takeoff.

Then, as Fearns tells it, a United employee rushed onto the aircraft and informed him that he had to get off the plane.

"I asked why," he told me. "They said the flight was overfull."
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Info

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: How to combat political Islam

Jeffrey Tayler
Quillette
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:40 UTC
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For the full article go here.

Hirsi Ali is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. For the latter, she has just published an comprehensive, thoroughly researched paper, The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam and How to Counter It. (Dawa is, strictly speaking, Arabic for proselytizing for Islam, but as Hirsi Ali explains, given the troubling specifics of Islamic doctrine, it is "more complex, more sinister, and more far-reaching" than that.) The president and every high-level official in the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as every member of Congress, should read it. Now.

Hirsi Ali covers her subject in its entirety, substantiating each assertion with footnotes, but here I'll address only the most salient aspects. Her thesis: the American government's "narrow focus on Islamist violence had the effect of restricting our options only to tools such as military intervention, electronic surveillance, and the criminal justice system. . . . In focusing only on acts of violence, we have ignored the ideology that justifies, promotes, celebrates, and encourages those acts."

Comment: Anti-jihadist strategies in order of effectiveness: military/intelligence/criminal justice -> ideology/reform -> ponerology.

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Boat

The refugees who used to make curtains in Syria, now sewing sails in Germany


Sputnik
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:24 UTC
Coastworxx worker from Syria
© Coastworxx
From sewing curtains in Syria to stitching sails in Germany, refugees Mohammed Alsahani and his son Yousef fled to escape war. Ending up in a small textile workshop in northern Germany where they now make sailcloth, this new life has proved not only beneficial to Mr. Alsahani and his family, but also to the textile company for whom they work.

Mohammed and Yousef work for a textile company called Coastworxx, where they use their unique skills to help make sails. Both men had textile businesses in Damascus, Syria and are now able to use this same craft in their host country of Germany.

Mohammed and Yousef contradict the mainstream media narrative that refugees have come to Europe to take benefits and not contribute to society.
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Bizarro Earth

UK goes further than UN with calls to end the genocide in South Sudan civil war


RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 15:19 UTC
Sudan man with rifle
© Goran Tomasevic / Reuters
South Sudan's four-year civil war now amounts to genocide, according to a senior British official.

International Development Secretary Priti Patel said South Sudan is effectively genocide because slaughter is taking place on tribal lines.

Patel said there are "massacres taking place, people's throats being slit." She called for international leaders to do more to lobby President Salva Kiir to stop the ethnic cleansing.

She claimed conditions in the world's youngest country are "abhorrent and inhumane" amid a "scorched earth policy."
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Laptop

Resourceful Ohio inmates built and hid computers in prison

Gisela Crespo
CNN
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:08 UTC
prisoners hide computers
Lax security allowed inmates at an Ohio prison to build two computers and connect them to the state's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's network, investigators found.

The computers were found hidden in the ceiling of the prison in Marion County in 2015, prompting an investigation by Ohio's Inspector General.The computers contained applications for credit cards using another inmate's information, pornography, research on tax refund fraud, recipes for homemade drugs and message exchanges.

The Marion Correctional Institution inmates were also able to issue passes to gain access to multiple areas within the prison.
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Pistol

Fast and Furious: Suspected triggerman in border agent's murder arrested

William Lajeunesse, Laura Prabucki
Fox News
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:00 UTC
Agent Brian A. Terry, 40
© FNCAgent Brian A. Terry, 40, was killed on Dec. 14 near Rio Rico, Ariz., according to a statement released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
The cartel member suspected of shooting and killing Border Patrol agent Brian Terry in 2010 with a gun supplied by the U.S. government was arrested in Mexico Wednesday, senior law enforcement, Border Patrol, and congressional sources told Fox News.

The suspect, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was apprehended by a joint U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force that included the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC).

A $250,000 reward had been sought for information leading to the arrest of Osorio-Arellanes, who was captured at a ranch on the border of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua. U.S. authorities have said they will seek his extradition.
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Stormtrooper

Sacramento police to investigate cop who punched jaywalking suspect


RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:41 UTC
Sacramento police officer and a suspected jaywalker
© Naomi Montaie / Facebook
A violent confrontation between a police officer and a suspected jaywalker erupted in northern Sacramento, California. Facebook Live and cruiser dashcam videos of the incident are now primary evidence in a criminal investigation of the officer.

Nandi Cain, Jr. kept on walking and ignored commands to stop from a Sacramento police officer around 5:00pm Monday, when the officer accused him of jaywalking, KCRA reported.

"Hey, can I talk to you real quick, bud? Can you come here please? Come here, bud," the officer is heard saying in a dashcam video released by the Sacramento Police Department. SPD voluntarily released the recording, but chose not to reveal the officer's name, only that he'd been on the force for two years.


Comment: It all started because Nandi Cain walked across the street. These days walking across the street is good reason for getting beaten by cops.

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Nuke

Sign of the times: 'World War 3' Google search has hit highest peak ever

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:50 UTC
World War 3 nuclear fallout google search
© The Free Thought Project
As further evidence the United States is inching dangerously toward armed conflict with Russian, China, and Iran, the actual term "World War III" is being searched on the Internet at an all-time historic high. Google began tracking trending topics in 2004. Since that time, the term hasn't drawn very much of the world's attention, with the exception of years 2006, 2015, and now, 2017.

Interest in the term "World War III" first peaked in 2006, when the sovereign state of Israel was engaged in skirmishes with Hezbollah, the Palestinian group some have likened to a terrorist organization. It was called the Israel-Hezbollah War of 2006. After enduring an onslaught of homemade missiles by Hezbollah soldiers, Israel retaliated and ended the war laying waste to many parts of Lebanon, the country from which many of the attacks were staged.

Israel was heavily criticized for its heavy-handed bombardment of the sovereign country of Lebanon. The war came to an end in August but not before, apparently, many folks were concerned enough about a global war erupting that they performed a great number of internet inquiries regarding world war.

Interest in "World War III" peaked again in November of 2015. That's when a Russian airliner Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed in the Egyptian desert of Sharm el Sheikh. What was at first considered a tragic accident, soon evolved into an apparent act of terrorism. Later, the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack. It uploaded pictures of a soda-can-bomb it says it used to bring down the passenger jet, killing all 224 souls aboard.
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Bomb

Beslan ruling: Kremlin slams ECHR's claim that more lives could have been saved


RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:27 UTC
memorial events in Beslan
© Said Tzarnaev / SputnikParticipants of memorial events in Beslan on September 1. On September 1, 2004
The Strasbourg court has ordered Russia to pay almost €3 million in damages to the families of the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan in 2004, but the Kremlin says some of the court's findings are "theoretical" and "unacceptable."

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Russia failed to minimize the casualties among hostages during the September 2004 crisis, when a group of some three dozen terrorists armed with firearms and explosives seized a school full of students in the city of Beslan.

The majority of judges agreed that Russia's security forces "had contributed, to some extent, to the casualties among the hostages" by using heavy weapons when the three-day stand-off abruptly escalated into a bloody battle.

Two judges disagreed with the majority opinion, saying that the use of force during the Beslan siege was "absolutely necessary, and it was applied as a last resort in exceptional circumstances in order to remove the actual threat."
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Red Flag

Mississippi cop uses Facebook Live to brag about killing dogs, beating people & breaking the law

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:21 UTC
Yazoo city cops
© The Free Thought Project
A cop in Yazoo, Mississippi, has an apparent affinity with livestreaming his dereliction of duty to Facebook. Clearly having no forethought about any chance of being caught in his unprofessional — and illegal — acts, this cop appears to love the attention he gets from bragging about his dirty police work to his Facebook fans.

The disturbing video of the two officers starts out with them bragging about killing a dog. The officer who is doing the livestreaming, Officer Facebook Live, is apparently so hungry for likes and shares that he could not care less about bragging to the public about him and his partner's puppycide.

"Man, we shot the shit outta somebody's dog," Officer Facebook Live callously says as he turns the camera to his partner for confirmation.

"Yeah, that's right," says his partner in uniform.

"It ran to him, ruff ruff ruff, pow pow pow pow pow, like damn.....'Shots fired! Shots fired!'" the cop brags.
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