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Plane crashes in Russia's far east, all 28 people on board including local government officials dead

France 24
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:21 UTC

None of the 28 people on board a Russian An-26 plane have survived its crash on Tuesday in the country's far east, Interfax and RIA news agencies quoted sources in the rescue service as saying

The plane, en route from regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the village of Palana, lost contact with air traffic control during the flight, according to Russia's emergencies ministry.

There were 22 passengers and six crew on board, the ministry said. Village mayor Olga Mokhireva was among the passengers along with four local government officials, local authorities said.

Comment: RT provides a few more details:

He added that he was unable to "say where and under what circumstances. Only tomorrow will there be more information." He added that rescuers were planning to use a helicopter to access the site where the plane had crashed.

The Soviet-era twin-engine turboprop plane had taken off from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital of the Kamchatka Peninsula, over 6,700km (4,163 miles) east of Moscow. It had been due to land at a runway in the town of Palana, but, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, it crashed several kilometers from the airport.

A source in the emergency services shed light on the circumstances after the discovery of the crash site. "The wreckage of the plane was found near the village of Palana. Before the crash, it collided with a hill, which led to the destruction of the plane," the source told TASS.

According to Khrabrov, the plane was flown by "a good young crew with experience." In the cockpit, he said, was "a fairly experienced commander - 35 years old." In 2012, an Antonov-28 similar to the one rescuers were searching for on Tuesday, and flying the same route, crashed into a forest in Kamchatka. Investigators said both pilots were intoxicated when the accident happened.

The Kamchatka Region is vast, larger in size than Ukraine or France, and is home to just 300,000 people. With a rocky landscape marked by no fewer than 16 active volcanoes, it splits the Pacific Ocean on one side from the Sea of Okhotsk on the other.

Around 150 children missing after armed men stormed a school in Nigeria

Abbianca Makoni
MSN
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:00 UTC

Around 150 schoolchildren are missing after armed bandits stormed a boarding school in northwest Nigeria's Kaduna state where students were sleeping.

Police said the gunmen raided the Bethel Baptist High School in southern Kaduna overnight between 11 pm on Sunday and 4 am on Monday.

The group overpowered the school's security guards before making their way into the student's hostels, where the men are thought to have abducted the kids.

Later, the children were believed to be taken to a forest by the kidnappers.

Comment: A similar kidnapping occurred back in June: 80+ students abducted in attack on Nigerian school

See also: 340+ Nigerian schoolboys freed after abduction claimed by Boko Haram militants

184 die over Independence Day weekend as violent crime continues its rise

Melanie Wilcox
The Daily Caller
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:51 UTC

Gun violence over the Fourth of July weekend resulted in 184 people killed and 464 injured across the United States, according to data from Gun Violence Archive.

The data shows injuries and homicides caused by gun violence during a 72-hour period, from the evening of Friday, July 2 to the evening of Monday, July 5, according to Gun Violence Archive data.

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Memorial for fallen Seattle police officer politicized by defund advocates

Katie Daviscourt
The Post Millennial
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 05:23 UTC

An SPD officer told The Post Millennial, "If I die in the line-of-duty, I have directed my friends to make sure they [city councilmembers] do not attend my service."

Anti-police Washington state and local elected officials politicized the memorial service for fallen Seattle Police Department officer Lexi Harris on Thursday. More than one thousand people attended the memorial service for officer Lexi Harris at T-Mobile Park, honoring the life of the five-year veteran with the Seattle Police Department who was highly respected amongst her peers and members within the community.

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NPR denounces Declaration of Independence on July 4, cites 'racist slur' in editor's note

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sun, 04 Jul 2021 23:18 UTC

The editor's note itself says simply: "Contains a racist slur against Indigenous people."

National Public Radio (NPR) continued its yearly July 4 tradition of posting the Declaration of Independence to social media.

This year, however, there were a few twists and caveats.

"245 years ago today, leaders representing 13 British colonies signed a document to declare independence," NPR tweeted, linking to an article about its annual reading of the founding document.

Comment: At least they didn't censor it outright.

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UK Covid cases rise by 36% in a week to 24,885 but deaths fall by a fifth to 18 - daily hospital admissions still a fraction of second wave

Emer Scully
Source
Sat, 03 Jul 2021 17:38 UTC

Vaccination nurse Lorraine Mooney gives a vaccination to a member of the public outside a bus in the car park of Crieff Community Hospital.

Britain's daily Covid cases surged 36 per cent in one week - but the country's death toll has plummeted by a fifth as vaccinations keep hospitalisations low.

A further 24,885 people tested positive for coronavirus today, up from 18,270 last Saturday and the sixth day in a row the daily figure has surged above 20,000.

But the 18 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours marks a drop of 21.7 per cent on the 23 recorded on this day last week.

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Biden tells Americans getting vaccinated is 'The most patriotic thing you can do'

Steve Watson
Summit News
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:32 UTC

"Government officials telling Americans what to do on Independence Day and invoking it as patriotism is peak irony."

After failing to reach his previously stated benchmark for vaccinations, Joe Biden desperately tweeted a plea for Americans to do "the most patriotic thing you can do" and take the COVID shot.

Comment: Patriotism is the love of and devotion to one's country, not the love and devotion, and blind obedience to, that country's leaders. Perhaps a true patriot would forego the vaccine to be left healthy enough to continue its legacy.

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Eva Bartlett: Media is FINALLY covering immense crimes against indigenous peoples in Canada that were known about DECADES ago. So why now?

Eva Bartlett
RT
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:14 UTC

© REUTERS/Dennis Owen
Pairs of children's shoes and toys are seen at memorial in front of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada May 31, 2021.

The reprehensible issue of what many deem "mass murder" of indigenous children in Canada's Catholic school system has been in global headlines in recent weeks. But this should have been in the headlines decades ago.

The nearly 1,000 bodies of indigenous children in mass graves were recently found by ground-penetrating radar, said the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations (FSIN) and the Cowessess First Nation.

A reported 150,000 indigenous children were abducted and imprisoned in the Catholic schools, where they were tortured with the intent of erasing their culture and language, as were also sexually abused, had needles driven through their tongues for speaking their own language, were sterilized, among many other horrific practices.

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Deadly blast at Romania's largest oil refinery, explosion at Bangkok chemical plant 3 days later

Deutsche Welle
Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:48 UTC

The blaze was eventually 'stabilized', officials said

A powerful blast at Romania′s biggest oil refinery on Friday has killed one person and left at least four other workers injured.

Around 50 firefighters were deployed to the scene after the explosion rocked the Navodari Petromidia refinery on the Black Sea coast.

The refinery's operations "have been stopped as a security measure," said the Kazakh KazMunayGas (KMG) group that owns the oil processing site.

Comment: Also this week two other major explosions occurred:

Other fires and blasts in the news recently:

Huge explosion & fire underneath tube station in London (June 28th)
Fire at martial arts centre in China kills 18, mostly children (June 25th)
Scottish Dark Sky Observatory destroyed in suspicious fire (June 24th)
Fire at medical marijuana lab in Italy kills 1, injures 3 (8th May)
Despite major fire on hospital roof, medical team stay inside to complete heart operation - Russia (April 21st)
Fire kills 55,000 animals at one of Germany's biggest pig farms (April 1st)
Large fire at San Borja Arriaran Hospital in Santiago (Jan 30th)
Fire breaks out at world's biggest vaccine maker, India's Serum Institute (Jan 21st)

Michael Knowles wrote the top-selling nonfiction book in the US, now mysteriously absent from NYT's list

Luke Rosiak
The Daily Wire
Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00 UTC

Daily Wire host Michael Knowles' new book, Speechless, sold nearly 18,000 copies in the week ending June 26, making it the top-selling nonfiction work in the country — far ahead of the second- and third-place books by Bill O'Reilly and Malcolm Gladwell, at nearly 13,000 and just over 9,000, respectively.

That's according to Publisher's Weekly, which gets its data from NPD BookScan, the industry's most comprehensive count of book sales.

But you wouldn't know it from reading The New York Times. The Times' prestigious "bestseller list" does not include Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds at all in its list of the top 15 books for the same week.

Instead, it lists books like On Juneteenth, which according to BookScan sold only 4,774 copies that week, or just over a quarter as many as Knowles' book. At #13, it lists Somebody's Daughter, a "memoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration" that does not appear anywhere in Publisher's Weekly's list of the top 25 nonfiction books.

The Times lists O'Reilly's book, Killing the Mob, in first place.

Comment: The New York Times is a self-appointed gatekeeper. Loyal readership believes whatever it is told.

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Society's Child

Plane crashes in Russia's far east, all 28 people on board including local government officials dead

Around 150 children missing after armed men stormed a school in Nigeria

184 die over Independence Day weekend as violent crime continues its rise

Memorial for fallen Seattle police officer politicized by defund advocates

NPR denounces Declaration of Independence on July 4, cites 'racist slur' in editor's note

UK Covid cases rise by 36% in a week to 24,885 but deaths fall by a fifth to 18 - daily hospital admissions still a fraction of second wave

Biden tells Americans getting vaccinated is 'The most patriotic thing you can do'

Eva Bartlett: Media is FINALLY covering immense crimes against indigenous peoples in Canada that were known about DECADES ago. So why now?

Deadly blast at Romania's largest oil refinery, explosion at Bangkok chemical plant 3 days later

Michael Knowles wrote the top-selling nonfiction book in the US, now mysteriously absent from NYT's list

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