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Woman, pilot killed when helicopter crashes into Virginia home

Jasmine Norwood and Brendan King
WTVR
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:41 UTC
Helicopter crashes into VA home
© Rodrigo Arriaza / Virginia Gazette)
Fire crews from Williamsburg and James City and York counties worked to contain the fire Sunday afternoon and through the night.
The woman killed when a helicopter crashed into her Williamsburg home Sunday afternoon was identified as 91-year-old Jean Lonchak Danylko, according to Virginia State Police. The name of the R44 helicopter's pilot -- who was also killed in the crash -- has not yet been released.

"[The helicopter] departed the Williamsburg-Jamestown airport around 4:30 p.m. [Sunday]. The pilot was the only person on board," National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator Doug Brazy said during a Monday afternoon press conference. "We don't know the destination of the flight yet."

The helicopter crashed into the Bristol Commons Townhomes -- about one mile from the airport on Settlement Drive -- minutes after takeoff.

"The pilot -- who we believe was on board -- held a commercial pilot certificate," Brazy said.
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Health

Salisbury medical report: Male Novichok victim improving


RFE/RL
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:07 UTC
Charlie Rowley
© Daily Star
Charlie Rowley showing signs of recovery.
A British hospital says a man who was exposed to a deadly Soviet-made nerve agent has regained consciousness and is now in stable condition. The July 10 announcement by the Salisbury District Hospital about Charlie Rowley came two days after his girlfriend, Dawn Sturgess, died from exposure to Novichok.

"We have seen a small but significant improvement in the condition of Charlie Rowley. He is in a critical but stable condition and is now conscious," the hospital said in a statement.

The two fell ill on June 30 and authorities later determined they had been exposed to Novichok, a deadly nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union and used in the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in March.

Police suspect Rowley and Sturgess were accidentally exposed to some residual Novichok left over from the March incident. The Skripals have recovered, but the death of Sturgess prompted Defense Minister Gavin Williamson on July 9 to accuse Russia of committing an attack on British soil. The Kremlin rejected the allegations, calling them absurd.

The poisoning of the Skripals prompted a major diplomatic crisis, with London, and many of its allies, expelling diplomats, and Moscow responding in kind.

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Briefcase

Former Navy sailor, pardoned by Trump has filed lawsuit against the Obama administration


RT
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:18 UTC
Trumppardon
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President Trump and the pardon for Kristian Saucier
A former US Navy submariner has filed a lawsuit alleging that Obama administration officials denied him equal protection under the law, and went easy on Hillary Clinton for the same offenses.

31-year-old Kristian Saucier served a year in federal prison for taking photographs of classified sections of the submarine he worked on. In the suit, filed in Albany, New York, on Monday, he argues that the same officials who threw the book at him went much easier on Hillary Clinton for using a private email server to handle classified State Department documents.

The US Department of Justice, former FBI Director James Comey and former President Barack Obama are named as some of the defendants in Saucier's complaint.

Comment: Saucier has a point but no skin in the bigger game. He got his pardon.
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NYPD 'cleared' De Blasio's flight on $3M spy plane


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:32 UTC
De Blasio
© Brendan McDermid/Reuters
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio travelled to a family vacation aboard a spy plane designed to detect radioactive material used in "dirty bombs" with the backing of the city's police department.

Police Commissioner James O'Neill told reporters on Tuesday that the NYPD's intelligence bureau cleared De Blasio to go back and forth from his holiday in Quebec, Canada, using the $3 million Cessna 208 Caravan. He had taken time out from his week-long break to attend a memorial for a slain police detective.

"Bottom line, the mayor came back to go to a street-renaming for a detective that was brutally murdered a year ago," O'Neill said, according to the New York Post.

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Smoking

Fascist US govt to ban smoking in federal public housing starting July 31

Joyce Peterson
WMC Action News
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:43 UTC
No smoking sign
© Zest Magazine
Public housing nationwide goes smoke-free July 31, and the ban will impact thousands of Mid-South families.

HUD, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, said going smoke-free will lower property maintenance costs and reduce the risk of fire.

The Memphis Housing Authority manages 11,000 households in Memphis and Shelby County.

MHA Executive Director Marcia Lewis said they'll focus on working with residents who want to kick the habit.
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Stormtrooper

Pathological Russophobia: Estonian commander goes into bizarre rant - 'Russians will die in Tallinn if they invade'


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:52 UTC
Estonian Defense Force
© Ints Kalnins / Reuters
File Photo of Estonian Defense Forces
An Estonian Defense Forces commander - who confessed to fighting bloodthirsty Russians in his dreams - vowed during a bizarre interview with Politico that Russian troops "will die in Tallinn" if they ever dare to invade.

Members of the 6,000-strong Estonian Defense Forces - half of whom are conscripts - have likely pondered a perceived 'Russian threat' at some point but surely none went as far in their militarist musings as Colonel Riho Uhtegi, who leads the tiny country's defense force.

Adding some Baltic flavor to a lengthy Politico article on the scale of the Russian scare in the region, Uhtegi touched upon the scenario that Russian troops may take over all of Estonia in a matter of days, if not hours, quickly seizing the capital city Tallinn.

Fixing the reporter with "that dead-eyed Baltic stare," the commando chief said: "They can get to Tallinn in two days. But they will die in Tallinn. And they know this. ... They will get fire from every corner, at every step." The Russians may capture Tallinn and beyond, but then "we will cut their communication lines and supply lines and everything else," he threatened.

Comment: The Russia-hating Estonians better be careful what they wish for! See also:

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Poll reveals two-thirds of Russians believe global government exists, and most of them think it's hostile towards Russia


RT
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:19 UTC
Bilderberg protest Barcelona
© Gustau Nacarino / Reuters
People protest against the Bilderberg meeting in central Barcelona
About two-thirds of Russians believe in the existence of a shadowy world government, and most of them also believe it is hostile to their country, according to a recent survey.

On Wednesday state-run Russian public opinion research agency VTSIOM released the results of a poll in which 67 percent of Russian citizens said they believe there is a secret world government. Twenty-one percent said they reject the possibility that it exists, and the rest were undecided.

Just two years ago, about 45 percent said they believe in the existence of a global government, while over 30 percent rejected the idea, the researchers noted. The survey also revealed that the percentage of those who believe it exists is higher among older people (over 70 percent), but among people between 18 and 34, it was also significant - about 55 percent.

About one-third of those who believe it exists said they could not give any evidence to back the world government theory. Those who could mentioned various signs - from the existence of international organizations like the UN or NATO, to references to TV programs and talk on the street.

Around 74 percent of those who believe there is a world government think that it has a hostile attitude towards Russia, while only 10 percent said the shadow body acts in Russia's best interests.

Comment: These Russians aren't wrong.

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Light Saber

'80% were grown-ups': Swedish dentist 'crushed' by legal system for exposing migrant 'kids' as adults will take case to European Court of Justice


RT
Tue, 10 Jul 2018 18:18 UTC
migrants sweden
© Reuters/File
Migrants arrive at Lulea airport, Kallax in northern Sweden
A Swedish dentist who was ruined after being fired and fined for revealing that over 80 percent of his refugee 'children' patients were actually adults, told RT that people coming to his country should not lie about their age.

The story of Bernt Herlitz, a dental hygienist from the Swedish island of Gotland, came under the spotlight in 2016 when he revealed an unpleasant truth. Herlitz was analyzing the teeth of "unaccompanied" minor migrants who started to arrive in the Scandinavian country as the worst refugee crisis since WWII struck Europe. It turned out that wisdom teeth of the 'children' were fully grown in 80 percent of cases, a sign clearly showing that Herlitz' patients were far from being underage.

Comment: Such events makes one wonder about the real agenda of the migrant influx.

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2 + 2 = 4

The public school system corrupts children

Jonathon Van Maren
Lifesite
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:20 UTC
olde tyme classroom
Across North America, the debate surrounding sex education continues to swirl through the schools. Parental protests are popping up in British Columbia to voice disagreement with the SOGI curriculum, Parents as First Educators are pushing the Doug Ford government to roll back the radical sex-ed of the previous Liberal government, and private religious schools are battling the provincial government of Alberta in court to keep them from forcing their LGBT agenda into the independent sphere, as well. Across the United States, small pockets of parents are also doing battle with the powerful LGBT lobby that is steamrolling its way through the school system, demanding that their ideology be taught to other people's children-and usually succeeding.

It is disturbing to stop and realize what is now considered too controversial for children, and conversely what is considered appropriate for children. Laura Ingalls Wilder, for example, has just had her name stripped from a prestigious award for children's literature because there are passages in her books that our politically correct elites consider to be racist, or at least culturally insensitive. Interestingly, Wilder was herself a teacher, obtaining her teaching certificate in 1882 and signing on to teach a one-room schoolhouse full of children in the Dakota Territory at the age of only fifteen years old. Her mother, Caroline Quiner, was also a schoolteacher when she met and married Charles Ingalls (known to generations of children simply as "Pa") in 1860.

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Mr. Potato

Monty Python's Terry Gilliam weighs in on the BBC's diversity push: 'I'm a black lesbian'

John Sexton
Hot Air
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:08 UTC
Terry Gilliam
© Reuters
Terry Gilliam
Last month, BBC "comedy controller" Shane Allen announced a new slate of shows for the fall with a particular emphasis on the diversity of the programs. From the Guardian:
The BBC's controller of comedy commissioning, Shane Allen, said he aimed to "grow the stars of tomorrow" and promote "more and more diversity"...

He said the time had passed when having "quite a male-dominated selection process" led to "a lot of male, middle-aged middle-class comedy".
Someone asked Allen if that would rule out shows like Monty Python in the future. He replied, "If you're going to assemble a team now, it's not going to be six Oxbridge white blokes. It's going to be a diverse range of people who reflect the modern world." That didn't sit well with director and Monty Python cast member Terry Gilliam. Gilliam was asked what he thought of the comments and said he wanted to henceforth be known as a black lesbian:
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