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Russia's Su-27 fleet grounded following deadly crash near Moscow


The Moscow Times
Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:45 UTC
Su-27 fighter jet
Russia has grounded its Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jets while a crash of one is investigated.
Head of the Russian Air Force, Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev has ordered the grounding of the country's entire Su-27 fleet, until the reasons behind the crash that led to a pilot's death on Thursday are clear, the TASS news agency reported.

Meanwhile, investigators working at the crash site recovered the flight-data recorder and sent it to the Defense Ministry's Research Institute. The black box was in good condition, according to TASS.

A Su-27 fighter jet crashed on Thursday morning in the Moscow Region, TASS reported. The body of the pilot was found in the forest at the accident site, located about two kilometers from the village of Muranovo.

The crash was likely caused by a technical error, the Defense Ministry's press service said, adding that the pilot attempted to avoid crashing into the village. "He had no time left for ejection," Ministry representatives added.

The aircraft fell apart into pieces, but the color of surviving parts indicates that it belongs to the elite aerobatics squad Russkiye Vityazi, or Russian Knights, an unidentified source within the emergency services told TASS.

The Defense Ministry confirmed that the jet crashed while returning to the airbase after a planned flight. Six jets from the Russian Knights squad took part in the opening ceremony of a monument dedicated to Russian aviators in the village of Anushkino earlier on Thursday. Only five of them returned to the airbase, TASS reported.


Comment: Also on June 9th a Swiss F-5E air demonstration fighter jet collided with another plane and crashed in the Netherlands. It was the first serious incident of the prestigious Patrouille Suisse display team in its 52-year history.

There have been other fighter jet crashes in the United States recently. See also:

2 F-16 fighter jets collide mid-air in Georgia: 6 crashed jets in the U.S. over 2 weeks

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Pistol

Approximately 20 dead, 40 injured at Orlando nightclub mass shooting - Eyewitnesses report two gunmen

Ashley Fantz & Faith Karimi
CNN
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:44 UTC
orlando shooting
© APOrlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., today. A gunman opened fire at the nightclub and multiple people have been wounded.
Approximately 20 people people are dead inside Pulse nightclub, Orlando Police Chief John Mina said Sunday morning, just hours after a shooter opened fire in the club.

At least 42 people have been transported for medical treatment, he said.Police have shot and killed the gunman, Mina told reporters. "It's appears he was organized and well-prepared," the chief said, adding that he had an assault-type weapon and a handgun.

Orlando authorities said they consider the violence an act of domestic terror. The FBI is involved. The shooting began around 2 a.m., and an officer responded, Mina said. The officer engaged in a shoot out outside the club. The gunman then ran into the club.

"That turned into a hostage situation," Mina said. Authorities were getting calls from people inside the club but away from the gunman, the chief said. More police rushed to the scene and broke down a door with an armored vehicle. At that point police shot and killed the gunman, Mina said.

CNN affiliate WKMG video captured club goers carrying injured people from the club.

"It's just shocking," said Christopher Hansen who was inside Pulse. He heard gunshots, "just one after another after another."

"It could have lasted a whole song," he said.


Comment: Eyewitness Javer Antonetti, 53, was at the club with his brother. He said he was near the back of the club when he heard shots ring out:
"There were so many, at least 40 [shots]. I saw two guys and it was constant, like 'pow, pow, pow'."
Another eyewitness said:
"There had to have been more than one shooter - the shooting was so constant, it sounded like a gun range."
Elsewhere in Orlando on the same day...

22-year-old 'Voice' singer Christina Grimmie shot dead in Orlando - Suspect possibly deranged fan

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22-year-old 'Voice' singer Christina Grimmie shot dead in Orlando - Suspect possibly deranged fan

Joseph Ax
Reuters
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 11:35 UTC
Christina Grimmie shooting
© Steve Marcus / Reuters Christina Grimmie performs at a 2015 concert
A man thought to be a deranged fan fatally shot Christina Grimmie, a rising singing star who gained fame on YouTube and as a contestant on television's "The Voice," while she was signing autographs after a concert in Orlando, Florida, police said on Saturday.

The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl of St. Petersburg, Florida, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he was tackled by the 22-year-old singer's brother in the Friday evening attack, Orlando police said.

Loibl is believed to have traveled to Orlando for the event. He had two loaded handguns, additional ammunition and a hunting knife at the time of the shooting, police said.

Orlando Police Chief John Mina told reporters the suspect did not appear to have a criminal record and there was no indication he and Grimmie knew each other. Mina said it appeared he may have been a deranged fan.

"We believe he came here to commit this crime," Mina said.
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Boat

Biblical message? Life-size Noah's Ark replica crashes at Norwegian harbor


RT
Sun, 12 Jun 2016 00:57 UTC
replica of Noah’s Ark was severely damaged
© Hakon Mosvold Larsen / AFP
A full-size replica of Noah's Ark was severely damaged when it crashed into a Norwegian Coast Guard vessel as it was leaving the Oslo harbor.

The 70-meter-long (230-foot) ship was being towed out of the harbor Friday morning by tugboats when "several things went wrong" according to a statement from Ark of Noah.
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Footprints

Snubbed at Muhammad Ali funeral, Erdogan cuts short US trip


RT
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:58 UTC
Erdogan at funeral
© www.middleeasteye.netAn Ali fight fan, Erdogan is delivered a knock-out punch on speaking at the funeral.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promptly finished his visit to the US and will skip the final farewell to legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, amid reports that he had been refused permission to deliver a speech at the funeral and had been prevented from undertaking some religious rituals. Erdogan attended a Muslim funeral for the boxer on Thursday and was expected to attend the final ceremony on Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, alongside other world leaders. But his office said that he left the US late on Thursday without giving any explanation, according to Reuters.

According to CNN Turk, during funeral prayers on Thursday Erdogan was not allowed to lay a piece of cloth from the Kaaba on the coffin while the head of Turkey's religious affairs directorate did not receive permission to recite from the Koran. To make things worse funeral organizers took Erdogan off the list of possible speakers at the funeral allegedly due to time limitation, a report published by Turkey's Dogan news agency said.

The Turkish president however spoke at the dinner organized by Turks and other Muslims living in the United States on Thursday, where he called Ali a "voice of the oppressed." "The fact that he converted to Islam at the age of 22 in a country such as the United States and maintained his stance without diverting from the path he knew as right ... attracted our admiration," Erdogan said, according to Reuters.

There were also reports of a quarrel between US secret service officials and Erdogan's body guards over standing room, Dogan suggested. The speculations have been denied by Erdogan's office, which explained that the president had "completed his religious service" and decided to take off.

Three-time world champion Muhammad Ali, who died at the age of 74 in Phoenix, Arizona, joined the Nation of Islam, the black separatist religious movement, in his 20s, and then converted to Islam.

Comment: Humble he is not. Erdogan, receiving the news he was not to speak at the funeral, threw in the towel and left the arena. So much for his purported admiration and devotion to Mohammed Ali, which didn't outweigh his hypocrisy and ulterior motives.

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Brexit? Yes please! English football thugs run riot in Marseille for 3 days


RT
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 22:01 UTC
england fans
© Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters English on holidays in Europe
At least 10 people have been injured, and one man is in a critical condition, after clashes broke out between hundreds of Russian and English fans in Marseille, ahead of their teams' Euro 2016 opening game.

The head of the All-Russian Fans' Union, Alexander Sprygin, told Reuters that English fans were "drinking a lot and behaving badly" prior to the outbreak of violence outside the Queen Victoria pub in the Old Port area of the city.

Conversely, multiple English supporters claimed that they were attacked by Russian fans, some of whom had posted pictures of England's St. George flags which had been won in the 'battle'.

Local television channel BFMTV claimed that in one clash, in a backstreet near the pub, 200 fans from one side, were confronted by 300 from the other.

Eyewitnesses indicated that French youths, who had been involved in clashes with English fans in the same location during the previous two evenings joined the fray.

Rival fans threw bottles and chairs at each other, as small groups of fans bull rushed and encircled their opponents during a series of disorganized melees.


Social media has been flooded with photos of blood-covered and topless men, with shirts discarded or torn off.

"It's not everybody but there are a lot of people involved,'' Gary Toal, an England supporter told Reuters. "It is a bit of a mob mentality and it's not nice to see so we are trying to keep away from all that and enjoy the football.''

Local news outlets reported at least ten casualties, with one England supporter in critical condition after suffering a suspected heart attack, following a violent encounter.

Comment: While this sub-species obviously constitutes only a minority of English people, they are nevertheless undoubtedly a product of a culture that has spent the last several hundred years dominating and abusing other peoples. Yes, many countries have 'sports hooligans', but England's are particularly bad.

While the English press is expressing the same outrage as everyone else at what has happened in Marseille, notice how they're spinning coverage of it to claim, or at least suggest, that English fans were provoked into behaving this way by visiting Russian fans.

It's par for the course; blame Russia (or whoever) for your own aggression. The English/British elite share the exact same mentality as these football fans; they're just better at masking their lust for violence.

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Cult

Wahhabi chronicles: Growing up in Saudi Arabia

Mohsin Siddiqui
The Oceania Saker
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 14:55 UTC
saudi arabia
© Faisal Nasser / Reuters

Comment: Siddiqui is describing growing up in a religious pathocracy: the inescapable social pressures to conform to anti-human ideals, the internal contradictions that result when this becomes impossible for the non-psychopathic majority, the need to develop 'acting' skills to pretend to conform to the unrealistic and pathological ideal. But even though he is describing an Islamic pathocracy, the dynamics apply to every kind of pathocracy: whether Christian, atheist, capitalist or communist.


I have been meaning to write about what it means to grow up in the Saudi Arabian Wahhabi model, what has held me back thus far is more about "Where do I begin?"

The beast is complex, pathological and has many facets to its manifestation in various areas of your life. It simply permeates every little part of your existence either willingly, subconsciously or via the guilt complex that it feeds on.

My intention here is not to proselytize nor is it to prescribe a remedy. Instead it is to share my experience with you.

I was born in the heydays of the oil boom in Saudi Arabia to expatriate parents from my native Pakistan. We lived happy - somewhat dysfunctional - lives as most would assume. We did better than our extended family and made sure we shared with those back home. My parents were average Sunni Muslims who observed prayers whenever they remembered - with the exception of Friday prayers that most Muslims religiously observe - and tried to generally stick to the 'norms' of the faith but nothing too strictly.
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Dollars

Canadian court awards $13mn in frozen assets to 'Iran terror' victims of the USA


RT
Sat, 11 Jun 2016 05:12 UTC
Canada
© couponthekitty / Instagram
A Canadian court has awarded $13 million in non-diplomatic assets seized from Iran to the families of Americans who died in several attacks globally, which had allegedly been sponsored by Tehran between 1983 to 2002.

The judgment by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, obtained by AFP on Friday, found Tehran responsible for financing and training Hamas and Hezbollah operatives, who carried out eight bombings or hostage-takings in Buenos Aires, Israel, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia over a period spanning nearly 20 years.
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Books

Stefan Molyneux and Dr. Duke Pesta on the dangers of Common Core

Stefan Molyneux
You Tube
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:51 UTC
common core
What do you know about Common Core? What role has Bill Gates played in the controversial program? Dr. Duke Pesta joins Stefan Molyneux to discuss the horrifying truth about modern education, the origin of these government standards and the results which have been seen by implementation across the United States. Common Core represents of the most comprehensive steps toward complete government control of childhood education.

Dr. Duke Pesta is a tenured university professor, author and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Academy, a Live Online School offering individual classes and complete curricula for students in Kindergarten through High School. For more from Dr. Duke and the FreedomProject Academy, please go to: https://www.fpeusa.org

Comment: More on Common Core:

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Ambulance

Aussie police shoot 3 bystanders while attempting to hit mentally ill man who was carrying a knife and shouting "Allahu Akbar"


RT
Fri, 10 Jun 2016 03:31 UTC
Hornsby Australia shooting
© David Moir / Reuters Police forensic services examine the scene of a police shooting of a man brandishing a knife at a shopping centre in the Sydney suburb of Hornsby, Australia June 9, 2016
Police in Sydney opened fire at an escaped psychiatric patient after he shouted "Allahu Akbar". Three passersby were shot in the process.

Two officers opened fire at the Hornsby Westfield Mall as 23-year-old patient Jerry Sourian, armed with a knife, wandered around the center babbling and shouting.

Three bystanders were injured; all three women aged over 60 who are now recovering in hospital. Among them is an 82-year-old who was hit by police fire in the back, and a 65-year-old, wounded by bullet fragments in her lower leg.

In a video of the shooting that emerged, shocked screams are heard when police fire and shout, "Get down on the ground!" A police officer is heard apologizing to one of the women. "Ah, s***! I'm so sorry, so sorry," a voice says.
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