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United flight over the Pacific makes emergency landing on Midway Atoll after suffering mechanical problems


Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:48 UTC
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Landing: A United Airlines flight from Honolulu to Guam was diverted to Midway because of a mechanical issue
* Flight from Honolulu to Guam set down on remote island of Midway due to mechanical problem

* Island is a barely populated wildlife refuge

* Terrified passengers prayed for their lives

A United Airlines flight from Honolulu to Guam was diverted to the remote island of Midway because of a mechanical issue.

The airline said Friday it flew the 335 passengers and 13 crew members from Flight 201 back to Honolulu. It put Guam-bound passengers on another flight to the U.S. territory.

The Boeing 777 was heading to Guam on Thursday when it was diverted. United says replacement aircraft brought passengers back to Honolulu Friday morning.


Comment: Another report mentions an 'electrical odour onboard'.



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Government inefficient, abusive and supports cronyism sez millennials - survey

Chris Street
Breitbart.com
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 13:45 UTC
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A Reason-Rupe Survey of 2,000 American millennials between the ages of 18 and 29 titled "Millennials: The Politically Unclaimed Generation" found that 66% believe government is inefficient and wasteful, up by 24% since 2009.

Only 18% of millennials believe government regulators act in the public's interest, while 63% say regulators favor special interests. Millennials also believe by over two to one that government agencies abuse their powers.

The Reason-Rupe report finds that because of millennials' skepticism of government, they favor general reductions to government spending and regulations:
  • 73% favor allowing private accounts for Social Security;
  • 51% favor private accounts even it means cutting Social Security benefits for current and future retirees;
  • 53% say Social Security is unlikely to exist when they retire;
  • 64% say cutting government spending by 5% would help the economy;
  • 59% say cutting taxes would help the economy;
  • 57% prefer a smaller government providing fewer services with low taxes, while only 41% prefer a larger government providing more services with high taxes;
  • 57% want a society where wealth is distributed according to achievement;
  • 55% say reducing regulations would help the economy; and
  • 53% say reducing the size of government would help the economy.
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Refugees tell CNN reporter the truth: 'Kiev has broken our lives'


Voice of Russia
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:44 UTC
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A CNN journalist has visited a Ukrainian refugee camp. He noted that the people were so frightened by what the Ukrainian army has done that they never intend to return to their homeland. Refugees are convinced: the Kiev authorities are to blame for all their sufferings.

Ukrainian refugees' fear of their homeland is so great that many have decided to become Russian citizens, according to the CNN news item.

The American TV channel's correspondent, Phil Black, visited a temporary accommodation camp and learned from Ukrainians why they left their homeland and why they believed there will be no return for them. Refugees told him they did not intend to go back, because they no longer saw a future, either for themselves or their children, in Ukraine.

Comment: The responsibility for the carnage and humanitarian crisis in Kiev lies at the US empire of global chaos, who pull the strings of their puppet Poroshenko and have been more than encouraging the junta in Kiev to attack its own population.

The US even deny that there is a refugee crisis and says that Ukrainians are simply visiting their grannies in Russia.

'Ukrainians not fleeing to Russia but just visiting their grannies' - US State Department spokesperson

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Tribesmen wanting share in oil wealth blow up major oil pipeline in eastern Yemen


Press TV
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 12:30 UTC
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A group of tribesmen in Yemen have blown up the country's main oil pipeline, halting deliveries to an oil export terminal on the Red Sea, local and tribal sources say.

Local security officials say the latest attack took place very early on Saturday in the Habab district of restive eastern province of Ma'rib.

The sabotage forced engineers to shut down the 320-kilometer pipeline.

The blast has disrupted deliveries from oil fields to the Ras Isa export terminal on the Red Sea.

The pipeline regularly carries about 100,000 barrels of oil per day from fields in Ma'rib Province to Ras Isa oil terminal, north of the port city of Hodeida.

Tribesmen in Yemen have also exploded another major and strategic oil pipeline in southeastern Hadramawt Province for several times in recent months.
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Conservative media stoke fears about humanitarian crisis children crossing the border

Michelle Leung
MEDIA MATTERS for America
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:00 UTC
Right-wing media have dishonestly portrayed recent reports of children fleeing across the U.S.-Mexico border to escape violence in Central America, even portraying the immigrants as dangerous disease-carriers, terrorists, and cartel members.
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© www.theguardian.comImmigrants from Honduras and El Salvador are stopped at the US-Mexico border.
- Are The Child Migrants A Public Health Concern?
- Are These Children Just A Front For Gang Activity?
- Are The Children Getting A Free Pass To Stay In The U.S.?
- Are Obama's Immigration Policies The Reason Children Are Trying To Cross The Border?

Record Number Of Children Crossing U.S.- Mexico Border

LA Times: Number Of Unaccompanied Children Crossing Border Has Nearly Doubled, Become An "Urgent Humanitarian Situation." As the Los Angeles Times reported on June 2, the increasing number of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has become an "urgent humanitarian crisis":
A recent surge in the number of children who are detained while illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents is an "urgent humanitarian situation" that has prompted the opening of special facilities to house them in San Antonio and at the naval base in Port Hueneme, the Obama administration said Monday.

Although unaccompanied children have been crossing the Southwest border for years, a surge in the last year has overloaded Border Patrol stations and detention facilities along the border, particularly in south Texas. Most of the children are from Central America, including Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
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Increased violence in Central America, the desire to reunify with parents and false rumors circulating in their homelands that unaccompanied children can stay indefinitely in the United States are fueling the surge, administration officials said. [Los Angeles Times, 6/2/14]

Comment: Given the current reliability of any media sources, two sides of the media coin are presented in this fairly well-researched article delineating facts and myths, exposing hype, bias and fiction.

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Best of the Web: London & Oslo: Thousands protest against the psychopathic war machine of Israel


RT
Sat, 12 Jul 2014 01:53 UTC
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© Reuters/Neil HallSays it all really. Judaism is just a cover used by the psychos in Tel Aviv to satisfy their murderous impulses.
Thousands have turned out in London and Oslo to call for an end to Israeli strikes in Gaza. The event organizers say Palestinians are facing "a horrific escalation of racism and violence" at the hands of the IDF.

The British capital saw the largest turnout with thousands of protesters rallying outside the Israeli Embassy on Friday. Demonstrators flooded the streets around the building waving placards that read "Gaza: End the Siege" and "Freedom for Palestine."

Comment: That there is even any debate or "doubt" about the immorality and illegality of this outright genocide is just farcical, and is a clear sign of how blind the world has become. Israel is a rabid dog with an insatiable bloodlust, and in an ideal world would be treated like one. If you think those words are harsh or offensive, then it just shows how successful the Israeli propaganda campaign has been.

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Ex-Bush Administration lawyer convicted of attempting to kill his wife


Associated Press
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 21:32 UTC
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© AP Photo/The Stamford Advocate, Kerry Sherck, FileJohn Michael Farren
A former White House lawyer in both Bush administrations was convicted Friday of attempted murder and other charges in the beating of his wife at their Connecticut home four years ago.

John Michael Farren, 61, who also was once general counsel for Xerox Corp., was allowed to sit out his trial after he said he wouldn't be able to handle the stress of it. But he was in the courtroom Friday when the jury returned guilty verdicts on charges of attempted murder, first-degree assault and risk of injury to a child.

Prosecutors allege Farren choked Mary Margaret Farren and beat her with a metal flashlight until she lost consciousness at their multimillion dollar home in New Canaan in January 2010. She managed to flee the house with her two young daughters. The attack occurred two days after she served him with divorce papers, authorities say.

Farren disputed the seriousness of the charges. He also tried to use a mental health defense, but a judge didn't allow it. He faces up to 50 years in prison at his sentencing, set for Sept. 11.

The verdicts came on the second day of jury deliberations and followed three days of testimony in Stamford Superior Court this week. Mary Margaret Farren, who suffered broken bones in her jaw and cheek and other injuries from the attack, testified Monday.
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San Francisco landlord uses loophole to evict 98-year-old who paid rent on time for 50 years

David Edwards
The Raw Story
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:07 UTC
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A 98-year-old San Francisco woman said this week that she is being evicted from her apartment after 50 years, and she's never once been late paying her rent.

KRON reported that Urban Green Investments is using the 1986 Ellis Act to kick Mary Phillips out of her apartment so the company can cash in on the surging real estate market in San Francisco. The Ellis Act allows landlords to evict tenants if they are getting out of the rental business.

"I've been very happy here," Phillips explained. "I've always paid my rent, I've never been late."

Phillips, who is one of many the low-income families and seniors being evicted, has vowed to fight the eviction because she has nowhere else to go.

"I didn't sit down and cry, I just refused to believe it," she said. "They're going to have to take me out of here feet first."

"Just because of your age, don't let people push you around," she said.

According to the San Francisco Tenants Union, tenants fighting evictions done through the Ellis Act often win their cases.

The group Vanishingsf, which fights the "hyper-gentrification on San Francisco communities," has encouraged people to protest Phillips' eviction.

"Who evicts a 98 year old woman?" a post on the Vanishingsf Facebook page asked. "Feel free to let Urban Green CEO David McCloskey, who's evicting her, know what you think, ask him how he sleeps at night and if he'd put his grandmother on the streets. David@urbangreeninv.com (415) 651-4441 http://www.urbangreeninv.com."
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Texas couple arrested after child stomped to death

Sebastian Murdock
Huffington Post
Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:11 UTC
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A young Texas couple have been arrested in the murder of an 18-month-old child who was brutally abused before being stomped to death and buried under a bridge wrapped in a blanket, police said.

Joshua Beard, 20, and Alexis Botello, 17, had only been dating for a few months prior to the death of Botello's daughter, Tylea Moore, on July 4.

In an Arlington, Texas, police affidavit obtained by The Huffington Post, officers said that Beard had called the toddler a "little demon" while punching her and that he also abused Botello when she attempted to stop him.

"Botello said Beard was pushing and yelling at Tylea," the report reads. "Botello kept yelling at him to stop, that she was just a baby and didn't understand. Beard then started yelling and hitting Botello."
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Israeli missile hits Gaza beach cafe and kills 9 who were watching World Cup


RT
Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:30 UTC
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© AFP Photo / Thomas CoexPalestinians remove debris as they search for bodies at a beach cafe hit the previous night by an Israeli air strike while people were watching the World Cup semi-final football match, on July 10, 2014 in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis
Nine young Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured in an overnight Israeli air raid on a Gaza Strip beach while watching the World Cup semifinal game between the Netherlands and Argentina.

The victims were sitting in a beach café in Khan Yunis when the Israeli F-16 fighter jet struck it. None of those killed had been warned, according to Gulf News sources. However, this information could not be independently verified.

After the strike, there was nothing left of the popular seaside café.

"It was a normal social occasion," a local policeman employed by the Palestinian Authority, Wael Soboh, told AFP. "The boys ate their Ramadan iftar meal here, and then began watching the match. It is not a military area."


Comment: Meanwhile, in Sderot:
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