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Shootout in Colorado Springs kills 4 including gunman

Mackenzie Concepcion
USA Today
Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:18 UTC
Colorado Springs police car
© Christian Murdock, APThe rear window of a Colorado Springs Police car is shattered after a shooting Oct. 31, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Four people, including a suspected gunman, died Saturday after a shooting spree that ended in a gun battle on the street between the suspect and police.

Officers were responding to a report of shots fired at about 8:45 a.m. MT at a home here when less than a mile away near a fast-food restaurant they spotted a suspect who matched the description of the person they wanted to find. Lt. Catherine Buckley of the Colorado Springs Police Department said the suspect fired, and officers shot back, killing him.

Authorities did not release the names of the suspect or the victims, and the motive for the crime is unknown.

Matt Abshire, 21, said he looked outside his apartment window and saw a man shoot someone with a rifle. Then Abshire said he ran to the street to follow the man and called police.
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Airplane

Egyptian pre-flight official said Russian Airbus A321 was in good shape prior to take off


Yahoo News
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 15:09 UTC
russian plane crash
© AP Photo/Dmitry LovetskyA family lay flowers and toys at an entrance of Pulkovo airport outside St.Petersburg, Russia, during a day of national mourning for the plane crash victims, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. The Russian Metrojet airliner crashed Saturday in a remote mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula 23 minutes after taking off from a popular Red Sea resort, killing all 224 people on board, including 25 children.
An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said Sunday that the Airbus A321-200 appeared to be in good condition. The Metrojet plane, bound for St. Petersburg in Russia, crashed 23 minutes after it took off from Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Saturday morning. The 224 people on board, all Russian except for four Ukrainians and one Belarusian, died. The Egyptian official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said he was a member of a technical inspection team that included two Russians.
"We are all shocked. It was a good plane. Everything checked out in 35 minutes," the official told The Associated Press. The closest the plane came to being in trouble, he said, was three months ago when the pilot aborted takeoff halfway through because of a system error. "That's almost routine though," he said.
However, a Russian TV channel late on Saturday quoted the wife of the co-pilot as saying her husband had complained about the plane's condition. Natalya Trukhacheva, identified as the wife of co-pilot Sergei Trukhachev, said a daughter "called him up before he flew out. He complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired."
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Heart - Black

1 killed, 1 injured, gunman remains at large in Winston-Salem State University shooting


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 14:55 UTC
Winston-Salem State location
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One person has been killed and another was injured in a shooting at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. The suspected perpetrator remains at large.

The incident was reported at about 1:20am local time, the school said in a Facebook post.

"We can confirm that there has been one fatality and one injured individual," the post said. "Both are believed to be students."

A lockdown was put on the campus 10 minutes later and remained in place for over three hours.

The gunman was described as a male, with the school calling on witnesses with any information to come forward.

Sunday's incident is the latest in a series of recent shootings on US campuses. On October 9, a gunman opened fire at Northern Arizona University, killing one and wounding three.

Comment: One more in a growing list of tragedies occurring on college and high school campuses across the US.

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Airplane

Russian Airbus A321 broke up midair, still early to determine cause


Sputnik
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 15:00 UTC
Russian Airbus A321 crash
© AFP 2015/ Khaled Desouki
Viktor Sorochenko, an official with the Intergovernmental Aviation Committee, made the comments after inspecting the crash site on Egypt's Sinai peninsula. The Russian Airbus A321 which crashed in Egypt Saturday killing 224 broke into pieces midair, but it is still too early to determine the cause, Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) said Sunday.
"It is too early to draw conclusions," MAK executive director Viktor Sorochenko said. "Disintegration of the fuselage took place in the air, and the fragments are scattered around a large area [about 20 square kilometers]", the official added.
In a separate development, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said the investigation into the crash causes could take months.
"This is a complicated matter and requires advanced technologies and broad investigations that could take months," he told army recruits in a televised speech on Sunday.
A Kogalymavia/Metrojet Airbus A321 en route to St. Petersburg from the resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh with 217 passengers and seven crew on board, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, leaving no survivors. The Sinai air crash became the deadliest air accident in the history of Russian aviation, surpassing the 1985 disaster in Uzbekistan, where 200 people died.
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Blackbox

Russian investigators begin operations at the Airbus A321 crash site


Sputnik
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 13:06 UTC
Russian airbus crash
© REUTERS/ Mohamed Abd El Ghany
According to a Russian Emergencies Ministry spokesman, experts in the Egyptian capital of Cairo have examined some 120 bodies of Russian Airbus crash victims.

A working team led by Russian Minister of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov began operations at the Kogalymavia A321 crash site in Egypt, a ministry representative said during a briefing on Sunday.

"A working team led by head of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov is working at the A321 crash site. The rescue workers are going to sweep over 16 square kilometers of terrain," he said.

Comment: Also see: 'Structural failure'? Western propaganda rag creates narrative on the Russian A321 plane crash

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Blackbox

International team of investigators begins analyzing downed Russian flight data recorders


Sputnik
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 13:03 UTC
Russian airplane crash
© AP Photo/ Egyptian Prime Minister's Office via AP
The airliner's flight data recorders were discovered on Saturday night and have only minor damage.

Experts from Egypt, Russia, and France have started analyzing the flight data recorders of the Russian airliner which crashed Saturday in Egypt killing 224, Egyptian media report.

The airliner's flight recorders were discovered on Saturday night. The Russian transportation minister said they had no significant damages.

Comment: Also see: Russian plane carrying more than 200 passengers 'completely destroyed' in Egypt crash

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Compass

A personal reflection on the dehumanization and mass psychosis of Ukraine

Aleksandr Rostovtsev
Fort Russ
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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Translated from the original article in PolitNavigator for Fort Russ by J. Arnoldski

"Dehumanization as a national catastrophe"

It should already be time to get used to things, but I simply can't as I am constantly faced with the massive orgy of "non-humans" over dead people. The catastrophe of the Russian airliner somewhere over Egypt blew the seats off the toilets of Ukrainian social network contingents and other contingents sympathetic to them. It should already be time to get used to things, but every time that I'm faced with a flood of sewage sludge that flows from the TV screen and computer monitor from the vilest depths of the human gut, I shudder and loathe. Somehow it's impossible be so hardened that you deal with such things indifferently, shrug, and turn away.

Comment: Rostovtsev gives a very sad but accurate description of the effects of the West on the hearts and souls of a number of Ukrainians - many of whom would probably not have succumbed to the ponerizing poison had it not been so insidiously injected into their society. The floodgates of pathological thinking and malevolent intent have simply been opened by those powers that would seek to control Ukraine for their own ends; that is what they do. It is probably not even a very large percentage of the population that has fallen prey. But, given the strength of its virulence, and propensity towards extreme and brutal physical and psychological violence, it has clearly taken much of Ukraine hostage to its irrational and destructive position.

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Crusader

Mon Dieu: French lawmaker demoted from PACE over Crimea visit, Russia support


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 12:43 UTC
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© RIA NovostiThierry Mariani (C), Member of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Commission and co-chair of the Association Dialogue Franco-Russe, and Vladimir Konstantinos (R), Chairperson of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea, during a press briefing following their meeting in Simferopol.
French lawmaker Thierry Mariani has been asked to step down from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) after he traveled to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea as part of the French delegation in July. RT has caught up with the politician to get his reaction.

A parliamentary delegation of more than 10 members of the French National Assembly and the Senate paid a two day long visit to the Crimean peninsula on July 23. The group visited the cities of Yalta and Sevastopol, where the delegation met with the Crimean leader Sergey Aksyonov and chairman of Crimea's State Council Vladimir Konstantinov.

The French lawmakers had decided to make the trip to Crimea to get a sense of the situation in the peninsula, after it joined Russia in spring 2014. Both the French and Ukrainian governments have condemned the decision, claiming that it was a breach of international law.

Mariani made loud statements in the press following his visit to the "region, where peace reigns," saying that the Crimeans he met were happy to be part of Russia.

Comment: Apparently PACE is not on board with the majority of French people. But that won't stop other EU lawmakers from visiting Crimea.

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Nuke

Explosion at nuclear power plant in Belgium


RT
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 09:56 UTC
Nuclear power plant of Doel
© wikipedia.orgNuclear power plant of Doel
An explosion occurred overnight at a nuclear power plant in Doel, northern Belgium, local media reported, adding that the blast caused a fire. The exact damage from the incident remains unknown. The blast happened around 11pm local time on Saturday. The fire started in Reactor 1 of the plant, but was soon extinguished by personnel.

The explosion didn't cause any threat to nature, Els De Clercq, spokeswoman from Belgian energy corporation Electrabel that runs the plant, told Het Laatste Nieuws. There was no fuel present at the time of the incident as the reactor had been shut due to its expired operational license.

Doel Nuclear Power Station, one of the two nuclear power plants in the country, is located near the town of Doel in east Flanders. The plant employs about 800 people. According to the Nature journal and Columbia University in New York, the plant is in the most densely populated area of all nuclear power stations in the EU. About 9 million people live within a radius of 75km of the station.

Comment: Curious incidents occurred in the fall of 2014: multiple unidentified drones were sighted over nuclear plants in France and Belgium. See also: Mystery drone spotted flying over Belgium's nuclear plant

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Airplane

Russian A321 plane crash in Egypt: Evidence thus far points to sudden structural failure

Clive Irving
The Daily Beast
Sun, 01 Nov 2015 01:57 UTC
Russian A321 Crash_1
© EPA/STR Egypt OUTDebris from crashed Russian jet lies strewn across the sand at the site of the crash, Sinai, Egypt, 31 October 2015. According to reports the Egyptian Government has dispatched more than 45 ambulances to the crash site of the Kogalymavia Metrojet Russian passenger jet, which disappeared from radar after requesting an emergency landing early 31 October, crashing in the mountainous al-Hasanah area of central Sinai. The black box has been recovered at the site.
The jet split in two near the tail, which could mean a 'tail strike' in 2001 was never truly fixed.

The suddenness of what happened to the Russian-operated jet that crashed in the Sinai is highly unusual. According to reports the pilot had reported a technical problem and a diversion to the nearest airport. But the problem was apparently so severe that his plan was overtaken by events and the airplane literally fell out of the sky from its cruise altitude of 31,000 feet.

In theory the Sinai is dangerous air space. Much of the Sinai is a closed military zone where the Egyptian army has frequent skirmishes with Islamic terrorist groups. There have been claims by a jihadist group linked to ISIS that it brought down the flight, but the airplane's altitude put it well beyond the range of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, or MANPADS, the only relevant weapon fielded by such groups, and first pictures of the wreckage offer no evidence of a missile strike.

Instead investigators will treat as much more credible the possibility of a sudden structural failure. The Airbus A321 was 18 years old, but with a modern airplane like this and regular maintenance that is not in itself a cause for concern.

Comment: 'Sudden structural failure' sounds plausible, but it's unlikely that this plane's 'weakness' alone would have caused it to crash so spectacularly. As the author points out, "would have been rigorously inspected then and during subsequent maintenance checks."

Information is still coming in, and what has been shared publicly thus far only gives rise to more questions. That the crash involved a Russian plane and that it went down in a region teaming with military and paramilitary would suggest that this was a deliberate act by some unknown party.

However, for now Sott.net is leaving it open that this crash could have been the result of a natural, albeit unusual, catastrophic event, perhaps like the airburst that sent the Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 into the Java Sea in December last year.

Whatever happened to this Russian-owned plane, it's definitely something more than just the result of a structural weakness. Some kind of tremendous force knocked that plane out of the sky.

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