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Brawl involving hundreds breaks out in New York casino


nbcconnecticut.com
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:15 UTC
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Chairs in the air: An enormous fight broke out at a bar opening at Resorts World casino in Queens, New York
Dozens of people threw punches and chairs in a late-night brawl that broke out in a Queens casino, authorities said Saturday.

Three people were arrested and many more suffered minor injuries in the free-for-all, which broke out Friday evening shortly before 11 p.m. at Resorts World Casino, police said. One officer suffered a hand injury.

Police say hundreds of people watched and dozens participated.

A witness told NBC 4 New York that the melee started when two people argued about their place in line at a new Fat Tuesday daiquiri stand in the casino.

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Patsy? Worker admits to causing gas explosion in NYC that killed 2


Sputnik
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 19:28 UTC
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A worker at the East Village Building that collapsed and killed two people in New York last month, has confessed to an illegal siphoning operation that investigators believe caused the explosion.

The plumber told investigators that he rigged a gas supply system for the apartments, following orders of the landlord's son, Michael Hrynenko Jr., according to the New York Post.

However, authorities say, he is blaming his boss to "deflect" any fault from himself, adding that they haven't decided whether to cut a deal with him in exchange with his testimony or use it against him.


Tenants of the buildings had blamed the landlord's illegal gas siphoning operation. The landlord's attorney blamed Con Edison, since the company inspected the building half-an-hour before the explosion took place.

Investigators suspect an illegal hookup was removed from a gas line ahead of the inspection then reinstalled thirty minutes before the explosion occurred, the Post reported.

Hrynenko was at the building before the explosion and was hurt in the blast.

On March 26, an explosion ignited a massive fire that destroyed three buildings, killing two people and injuring dozens others.
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Ramsey Orta imprisoned on trumped up charges after filming Eric Garner's death, rat poison now being found in food at his prison

John Vibes
The Freethought Project
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:58 UTC
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Inmates have found blue tabs in their food which prison officials have admitted was rat poison
22-year-old Ramsey Orta, the young man who filmed the NYPD killing Eric Garner, was arrested shortly after on trumped up charges. He has since been locked up at the notorious Rikers prison in New York.

Immediately following the killing of Eric Garner, Orta was stalked and targeted by police. They allegedly scrutinized Orta's daily life until they were able to find something to charge him with. Eventually, he was confronted by police who illegally searched him and arrested him for the non-violent crime of carrying an unregistered firearm.

Orta had expressed concern for his safety after his arrest because he was sure that the police were retaliating against him for exposing what they had done to Eric Garner.

While in prison, Orta has taken seemingly drastic measures to ensure that he is not killed by the gang he witnessed murder Eric Garner. Orta has been refusing to eat, as he fears that guards may poison him because he is a high-profile opponent of police brutality. Sadly, Orta's fears were well-founded. While he has been behind bars at Rikers, dozens of other inmates have reported traces of rat poison in their food, a claim that was actually recently admitted by prison officials.

It was reported by the New York Post last month that 19 different inmates were denied medical testing after bluish green pellets were found in their food. The prison admitted that these pellets were rat poison, but failed to give the inmates medical attention, and failed to offer any kind of explanation as to why the prison's food was tainted with rat poison.

Comment: The NYPD behaves much more like a criminal gang than a police force, and is excessively brutal when folks stand up to their abuses. If you can afford to throw in a few bucks to his gofundme campaign please do so.

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Massive explosion at chemical plant in southern China


RT
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:27 UTC
fujian province explosion
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A massive blast occurred at a paraxylene plant in Zhangzhou City in China's Fujian Province, CCTV reported.
Importante explosion d'une usine pétrochimique à Zhangzhou, province du Fujian pic.twitter.com/mcKFRaTsUg

— Zhulin Zhang (@ZhangZhulin) April 6, 2015
#CHINA BLAST: Plant is #Tenglong Aromatic PX, encountered massive fire 2 years ago http://t.co/H19qlPqZeT pic.twitter.com/kBUqkJlPKq

— RT (@RT_com) April 6, 2015
Photos of the event revealed a fireball rising over the factory. Paraxylene, or p-Xylene, is a mildly toxic hydrocarbon used in polyester manufacturing.

Comment: Here's a sampling of other chemical plant explosions. For further explanation on these chemical plant explosions see Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection.

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Obama motorcade forces woman to give birth stuck in traffic


RT
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:59 UTC
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© Reuters / Jonathan Ernst
A woman gave birth while stuck in traffic on a highway in Louisville, Kentucky, and President Barack Obama is to blame. His motorcade was the cause of the traffic.

A man called 911 about 5:15 pm Thursday to report that his wife was in labor and that traffic was not moving, Louisville MetroSafe spokeswoman Jody Duncan said.

The rush-hour traffic was at a standstill moving because Interstate 65 had been shut down so that the presidential motorcade could travel from the airport to downtown Louisville. Stormy weather did not help matters, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported.

Thousands of motorists were stuck in the snarled traffic on both directions of the highway, as well as surface streets in the city, preventing emergency crews from getting to the laboring woman.
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New York City doorman sacked for being too nice, residents start petition to have him reinstated


RT
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:47 UTC
queens tower 27
© Reuters/Mike Segar
A concierge who "devoted his life" to helping his tenants at a luxury New York high-rise has been fired for - quote - being too nice. The tenants are reportedly rallying behind Ralph Body and have signed a petition to get the dream doorman reinstated.

The 41-year-old had been a concierge at the famous Queens Tower 27 ever since it opened two years ago. According to the New York Post, he always tried to make people feel pampered and responded to their every request, many of which strayed outside the responsibilities outlined in his job spec. It included everything from helping tenants with bags to taking care of their pets, even showing apartments to new tenants.

"Everything I did, somebody asked me to do, or there was a need for it," Body told The New York Post.

But even for an extravagant glass tower with $4,200 a month apartments, complete with a yoga room, gym and movie facilities, too much of a good thing can sometimes apparently not be enough.

Comment: Welcome to the USA where kindness and consideration are punished and a**holes are rewarded.

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Racist emails from Ferguson police released


RT
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:50 UTC
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© Reuters / Jim Young
Seven racist emails exchanged between Ferguson court and police officials, which were cited in the Department of Justice (DOJ) inquiry in March, were finally released to the press. Some 50,000 messages remain unavailable.

The emails came from former Ferguson court clerk Mary Ann Twitty, former police captain Rick Henke and former police sergeant William Mudd. All were sent and received between 2008 and 2011. Twitty was fired over the emails, while Henke and Mudd resigned shortly after they were revealed.

One of the messages, sent by Twitty to Mudd and Henke in April 2011, showed a still image from the movie "Bedtime for Bonzo," with then-actor and later President Ronald Reagan bottle-feeding a chimpanzee. The caption read, "Rare photo of Ronald Reagan babysitting Barack Obama in 1962."

Another email from Twitty, from October 2011, showed a photograph of bare-chested African women dancing with a captioned of, "Michelle Obama's High School Reunion."
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Donbass struggle, European shame

Pepe Escobar
Sputnik
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:49 UTC
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I am standing on sacred territory in Donbass, which also happened to be sacred territory during the former Soviet Union. On the top of this hill roughly halfway between Donetsk and Lugansk, there used to be an elaborate monument complex celebrating the heroes of World War II who defeated nazi-fascism.

Kiev's self-described "anti-terrorist operations" (ATO) - which continue to demonize the whole population of Donbass - have turned this literally upside down. Last year, Kiev's forces took Saur-mogila, and bombed the whole monument complex. The forces of the People's Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk retook it, at great cost; and now a red-white-blue resistance flag dominates the landscape, waving in the wind.
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Cock(pit) fighting: Air India pilots grounded after fighting with each other


Sputnik
Mon, 06 Apr 2015 15:28 UTC
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© Flickr/ Christian Junker - AHKGAP
Two co-pilots who had a fight in the cockpit of a commercial jet prior to takeoff have been suspended from duty.

A spokesman for Air India announced on Monday that the co-pilots of Sunday's flight from Jaipur to Delhi have been suspended pending an investigation by the airline, following reports that they had a fight in the cockpit prior to takeoff.

According to sources in the airline, the conflict began after the captain of flight AI 611 asked his copilot to take notes of critical data for the flight prior to take-off. The co-pilot, instead of complying with the request, is alleged to have physically attacked his colleague.
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2,500 Ukrainians protest at US Embassy in Kiev (Video) - no international or even local reporting


Russia Insider
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 02:45 UTC
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'We are not cattle'
On April 1st US Embassy in Ukraine was picketed by 2,500 demonstrators under the slogan "We are not cattle!" - Event got barely any coverage in Ukraine and none in the west

We initially missed the story ourselves since so few reported on it, but have been able to find two useful reports since:
About two and a half thousand Ukrainians surrounded the US embassy in Kiev on the first of April. People who disagree with the appointment of foreigners to the Ukrainian government, as well as the intervention of the Americans and Europeans in the public administration of the country, holding banners saying "We are not cattle!" And they made sounds imitating animals.

Besides the protesters braying and bleating, they were eating cabbage, which was distributed by the organizers of the protest. They also kept two-meter carrots with the symbols of the European Union. By the end of the demonstration of dissent Kiev residents pelted the US embassy with manure.

It is noteworthy that the video from the protest was removed from all the Ukrainian sites and users were blocked. Local journalists hardly covered the event.


Comment: Local media knows better than to give any hint that all is not well in 'glorious Ukraine'. International media are more focused on the circus du jour, which at the moment is Yemen.

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