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Hunt: Indonesian search and rescue agencies are hunting for a Trigana passenger plane that went missing over the remote eastern Papua region, with 54 people on board
The Trigana Air ATR 42-300 turboprop plane failed to arrive at its destination of Oksibil as scheduled after contact was lost with the plane, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS).
According to the agency's official Twitter account, the domestic aircraft, belonging to the Indonesian Trigana Air Service, was carrying 44 adult passengers, five crew and five children and infants.
© EPA/HO40 migrants are said to have suffocated in the boat’s hold
At least 40 people have died after apparently suffocating in the water-logged hold of a fishing boat in the Mediterranean.
The boat, which was carrying migrants fleeing Libya, took on water and it's believed that victims suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel.
Italian Navy Commander Massimo Tozzi described the tragic scenes witnessed after his men boarded the boat.
They found the dead in the hold 'immersed in water, fuel and human excrement'.
Migrants who have arrived in Italy say human traffickers based in Libya charge them between $1,200 (£767) and $1,800 (£1150) for a place on the deck of boats.
Those crammed in the hold pay about half as much as those above.
Admiral Pierpaolo Libuffo, head of Italy's rescue operations, said 312 survivors had been taken on board, including 45 women and 3 children.
He added that seven dead bodies had been recovered, but around 30 others were still in the hold. The boat was being towed to the Italian island of Lampedusa.
'Either the international community does something to resolve the Libyan situation or this will not be the last tragedy,' Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said.
Comment: This appalling and escalating humanitarian crisis has been created by years of Western exploitation and wars. Why are these men, women and children so utterly desperate to flee Libya? A once prosperous, peaceful country now devastated by NATO's version of 'freedom and democracy'.
- NATO is the root cause of Europe's migrant crisis
- Why Europe lets people drown
- The truth about Gaddafi's Libya, NATO's bombing, and the Benghazi consulate attack
History repeating itself. Depiction of life on a 19th Century 'coffin ship'.
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Vigo County Central Dispatch has confirmed that chemicals were spilt at 2400 Erie Canal Road in the southern part of the city, which is where Hydrite Chemical Co. is located. Officials have urged people to stay out of the area, and not to leave their houses if they live near the spill.
Confirmed: Hydrite Chemical Company Responsible For The Spillage Of Sulfur Dioxide In Vigo County, Indiana. pic.twitter.com/zFhGf938Cc
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 16, 2015While initial reports suggested there had been a sulfuric acid spill in the area, firefighters told News 10 the chemical was in fact sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide is a colorless gas with a suffocating odor, which can cause serious or permanent injury when inhaled.
There is a long list of medical journal editors, doctors and professors on the "outside", former Big Pharma employees and executives on the "inside", as well as government officials somewhere in between, who have stepped forward as whistleblowers and acknowledged the fraud. Money buys favorable research. Period. This is not really surprising, given the history of Rockefeller Western medicine and the fact that Big Pharma's business model is based on "managing" disease, "treating" symptoms and keeping patients on the hamster wheel, rather than actually healing them completely.
Comment: Science and medicine has been so corrupted, that you need to do your own research and look far beyond any mainstream reports regarding the usefulness and potential side effects of any drug or vaccine. Unfortunately, many doctors today don't have a clue about the real dangers of the drugs they prescribe as often they depend on pharmaceutical reps for drug information.
- Corrupt Science: Cancer Research of 10 Years Useless: Fraudulent Studies, Says Mayo Clinic
- Corrupt research: Millions in federal grants wasted as researcher falsified HIV vaccine results
- Research Integrity? What a Joke! A New Code of Conduct for Researchers
- Psychopaths in Academia: Report finds massive research fraud at Dutch universities
- Netherlands: Tilburg Professor Faked Data in at Least 30 Academic Publications
- Scientific Fraud Prevalent Among Science-Based Medicines
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It is with profound sadness that I am writing to let everyone know that Sue Clark Wittenberg has just died, but hours ago . . . Everyone who knows anything about Sue knows that she has been an enormously important person in the community of people battling shock. A shock survivor since she was 17, Sue has fought against ECT for decades and decades, with fierce determination. She received an award from CAPA a few years ago for a lifetime of work combating psychiatry . . . May her memory be as a blessing. (personal correspondence)
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They had wanted to purchase the globe to teach children world geography. The "unique desk accessory ... perfect for any student," however, appears to ignore the existence of Israel.
Comment: One can hope this is a sign of something to come.
Poundland sellling globe with 'Palestine' instead of Israel http://t.co/5YCmu7J0NN pic.twitter.com/Sk4KnX5bBU
— Jewish News (@JewishNewsUK) August 13, 2015The globe, which is distributed by Birmingham-based firm H&O, is also available at Poundland's Irish division, Dealz, for €1.49.
Commenting on the error, one Twitter user, said: "The real truth lies on the Poundland globe, the haters still gonna hate ... Israel illegally claim!"
Another user, said: "Intelligent people do not shop in Poundland, I am not, Jews not, Israelis definitely not, so no worries."
On Facebook, one user said: "What a surprise 1st Air France now Poundland. Complain to their head office and boycott till Israel is put on the map."
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The officer arrested the teen Thursday in Liberty Square after officers found some marijuana nearby, reported WPLG-TV.
A bystander recorded video of the arrest, which shows the unidentified officer talking to the youth seated in the cruiser's back seat.
The officer leans in to speak to the teen and then punches him for no visibly apparent reason.
The police officer then climbs into the back of the patrol car to subdue the youth as the bystander moves in closer to continue recording.
Someone appears to swat away the woman's cell phone, and she says, "Don't touch my phone baby, move."
The woman said the officer ordered her to delete the recording, but she refused and uploaded the video to Facebook — where it quickly drew thousands of views.
Comment: "Every country has the government it deserves." ~ Joseph de Maistre
Comment: No, they're saving private corporations millions of dollars. Why pay for firefighters when you can pay for slaves?
Somewhere between 30 to 40 percent of the state's forest firefighters, or nearly 4,000 people, are low-level felons from state prisons, Mother Jones reported. Working in "Conservation Camps" set up by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), the inmates are trained to clear brush that can potentially trigger a fire and also battle the flames when a blaze does occur.
In return, they make somewhere between $1.45 and $3.90 per day, according to the CDCR. They also have two days knocked off of their sentences for every day they work.
Speaking with KQED, inmate Cory Sills said that, despite sometimes having to work 24-hour shifts, he generally feels like the camps are a good thing, especially since prisoners are treated better than they are behind bars.
"There's an assembly where we have a formation in the mornings and it was like my second or third day and the lieutenant comes out and he goes, 'Look, we'll treat you like men first, firefighters second, and prisoners if we have to,'" he said last July. "That right there, that stuck in my head for two years now because now I have a chance to be treated like a man."
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Populations there not only face the possibility of becoming a statistical civilian casualty, but are processed and tagged like cattle as well.
Now, that paradigm is coming home to roost - as spy agencies like the NSA have long planned.
Biometrics are designed for use in mass populations here in America and throughout the Western world, not just war-torn locales. According to the NY Times:
Comment: Indonesian plane carrying 54 people crashes in Oktabe, Papua