A purported video of the President's driver practicing driving "The Beast" - the armored up limo that weighs tons. I am told the driver is reaching 70 mph on the straights going backwards. Prep for being able to get out of any situation?
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A bride and groom headed to Costa Rica for their wedding got kicked off their United flight out of Houston on Saturday afternoon.
The incident took place on United Airlines Flight 1737 which was headed from Houston (IAH) to Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR).
The couple, along with their friends, were flying from Salt Lake City and had a layover at George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Michael Hohl, the groom, said he and his fiancé, Amber Maxwell, were the last to board the plane.
According to Hohl, they noticed a man was spread across their row napping when they approached their seats, 24 B and C.
Not wanting to wake the man, Hohl said they decided to sit a three rows up in seats 21 B and C. He said they didn't think it would matter because the flight was half full with multiple empty rows.
"We thought not a big deal, it’s not like we are trying to jump up into a first-class seat," said Hohl."We were simply in an economy row a few rows above our economy seat."
In a Boeing 737-800 like the one the couple was on, United considers Row 21 "economy plus," an upgrade.
After sitting, Hohl said a flight attendant approached and asked if they were in their ticketed seats. The couple explained they weren't and asked if they could get an upgrade, but instead they were told they needed to return to their assigned seats.
Hohl said after complying with the flight attendant's demand, a U.S. Marshall came onto the plane and asked them to get off.
The couple cooperated and got off the plane without incident, but they still don't understand why.
"They said that we were being disorderly and a hazard to the rest of the flight, to the safety of the other customers," said Hohl.
United Airlines claims they actually tried to sit in an upgraded seat "repeatedly" and they "wouldn't follow crew instructions."
The airline provided this statement on Saturday:
"We’re disappointed anytime a customer has an experience that doesn’t measure up to their expectations. These passengers repeatedly attempted to sit in upgraded seating which they did not purchase and they would not follow crew instructions to return to their assigned seats. We’ve been in touch with them and have rebooked them on flights tomorrow." Yeah. I'm sure it happened like that. I think I just figured out where Susan Rice ended up working.
The bride and groom were rebooked for another flight the next morning, but Hohl said they won't be flying United again and described the whole situation as "quite strange."
"I think customer service and the airlines has gone real downhill," said Hohl. "The way United Airlines handled this was really absurb."
Despite their flight delay, their wedding is still planned for Thursday.
United Airlines recently made headlines after a doctor was violently dragged off a flight as seen in a video that went viral.
[Libya Observer] Authorities in Bayda have killed a Chadian national for conducting black magic rites after a series of mysterious suicides plagued the eastern city.
The Internal Security Service killed 25-year-old "Nabil Hassan Jomaa" hours after his detention on Monday on charges of practicing black magic and alleged involvement in the teenagers’ suicides in the city.
More than a dozen teenagers have ended their lives by hanging in less than a month, stirring up controversy over the real reasons behind the suicides. On Sunday, a 9-year-old girl hanged herself to become the latest victim of the mysterious phenomenon.
The suicides have caused panic among local residents. While the main causes remain a mystery, the Interior Ministry of the Interim Government of Abdullah al-Thanni hinted that the "Charlie Charlie" game is behind the teenagers’ self-murder. The ministry labelled the game "Satanic" and warned people about playing it. It also claimed that the game is "a threat to Libya’s national security."
Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... a man hanged himself in Bab Ben Ghashir district of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... on Saturday, causing fear that the mysterious suicides in Bayda may have moved to the capital. Two suicide cases were also recorded in the southern city of Sabha.
Actions to uncover the mystery of suicides are yet to be taken by state authorities.
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[The Hill] Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) dismissed the possibility that the U.S. hacked North Korea's nuclear missile test, leading to its failed launch.
"I don’t think so, but I wouldn’t rule it out," McCain told host Chuck Todd on NBC’s "Meet the Press" on Sunday.
There have been reports that "digital interference" from the U.S. government disrupted the North Korea missile launch test.
U.S. Pacific Command said the North Korean missile "blew up almost immediately" after its test launch earlier Sunday.
Former British Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind first suggested to the BBC that the U.S. could have been behind the failed attempt through an act of sabotage.
"It could have failed because the system is not competent enough to make it work, but there is a very strong belief that the US through cyber methods has been successful on several occasions in interrupting these sorts of tests and making them fail," Rifkind said.
David Shuster, a reporter at i24NEWS, also tweeted Sunday that "multiple intelligence sources" tell him that U.S. federal hackers sabotaged North Korea’s missile launch. He's no doubt been briefed and needs to feel relevant and involved. The elderly oftentimes keep automobiles for years after they've given up driving. Long expired Viagra prescriptions in medicine cabinets are also common. It's a doddering old man thing.
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#1 Why does anyone listen to this geezer any more?
He tells the fake news disseminators at Narrative Central what they want to hear.
And he's still a shitty pilot who recorded enemy propaganda (then again, that's kinda what he does now, ennit?), while also being a shill for Charles Keating.
[SCMP] US Vice-President Mike Pence said North Korea’s "provocation" underscored the risks faced by American and South Korean service members, hours after the North conducted a failed missile launch shortly before his arrival.
Pence landed in South Korea at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia and was quickly confronted with the stakes facing the US as Pyongyang seeks to flex its muscles around the birth anniversary of the country’s late founder and advance the government’s nuclear and missile capabilities.
While Pence was aboard Air Force Two flying over the Bering Sea, a North Korean missile went kaboom! on launch, US and South Korean officials said, representing a high-profile failure that came as a powerful US aircraft carrier approaches the Korean Peninsula.
After arriving in Seoul, the vice-president placed a wreath at Seoul National Cemetery and then worshipped with military personnel at an Easter church service at the US Army Garrison Yongsan. During a meal after the services, he said the tensions on the Korean peninsula had put into sharp focus the importance of the joint US-South Korean mission.
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The missile went kaboom while Pence was airborne, not too far away.
Coincidence? Maybe not!
But probably.
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South Africa Today does like to use articles from the Sputnik News feed -- and historically planting stories in the Western press worked well to move Western opinion. Whether that is still the case remains to be seen.
[DAWN] A Christian man was reportedly assaulted and burnt with hot iron rods, allegedly by the family of a Moslem woman in Sheikhupura district, for having "friendship" with her, it has been learnt.
The victim had received severe burn wounds and after failing to get proper medical care in Sheikhupura, he was shifted to Mayo Hospital, Lahore, on Sunday for further medical treatment.
The incident happened earlier this month and a police case has also been lodged against the father and brothers of the woman, who were reportedly against the friendship between the two and allegedly tortured 21-year-old Ansar Masih.
According to the First Information Report (FIR) undersigned by Masih's sister in Sheikhupura's Saddar cop shoppe, Masih first established contact with the woman two years ago and their friendship grew with time.
They often spoke on phone and Masih would also visit the woman neighbourhood to meet her, the FIR stated.
When the woman's family learned of the friendship, her father, Manzoor, and her brothers called Masih's father asking him to tell his son to stay away from the woman, warning them of dire consequences if their instructions were not followed, the FIR added.
On April 1, Ansar's mother sent him to run an errand in the woman's neighbourhood where Ansar was allegedly kidnapped by the accused and his two sons, the report stated, adding the three unclothed him, beat him and burned him using hot iron rods.
The FIR further states that the accused then brought Ansar to his house and told his family that he had been in a traffic accident.
Ansar's family then rushed him to Sheikhupura's District Headquarters Hospital where, after gaining consciousness, he narrated the incident.
Subsequently, on April 5, his sister lodged the FIR following which the police took the accused into custody.
Speaking to DawnNews, the victim's father claimed that the family was under pressure by the accused as well as the area police to reconcile and take back the case.
When contacted, the officials at DHQ confirmed that Ansar had been shifted to Lahore's Mayo Hospital as the facility in Sheikhupura lacked equipment and necessary supplies to treat patients with serious burn injuries.
Ansar's condition is reportedly stable now. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... his medical treatment is underway.
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When the woman's family learned of the friendship, her father, Manzoor, and her brothers called Masih's father asking him to tell his son to stay away from the woman
Wonder what her fate was?
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[Dhaka Tribune] In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jet-setters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the UN peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away, reports the Associated press.
The men who came from a far-away place and spoke a strange language offered the Haitian children cookies and other snacks. Sometimes they gave them a few dollars. But the price was high: The Sri Lankan peacekeepers wanted sex from girls and boys as young as 12.
"I did not even have breasts," said a girl, known as V01 ‐ Victim No 1. She told UN Sherlocks that over the next three years, from ages 12 to 15, she had sex with nearly 50 peacekeepers, including a "Commandant" who gave her 75 cents. Sometimes she slept in UN trucks on the base next to the decaying resort, whose once-glamorous buildings were being overtaken by jungle.
Justice for victims like V01 is rare. An News Agency that Dare Not be Named investigation of UN missions during the past 12 years found nearly 2,000 allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers and other personnel around the world ‐ signalling the crisis is much larger than previously known. More than 300 of the allegations involved children, but only a fraction of the alleged perpetrators served jail time.
Legally, the UN is in a bind. It has no jurisdiction over peacekeepers, leaving punishment to the countries that contribute the troops.
Without agreement for widespread reform and accountability from the UN’s member states, solutions remain elusive.
UN sex ring in Haiti
Here in Haiti, at least 134 Sri Lankan peacekeepers exploited nine children in a sex ring from 2004 to 2007, according to an internal UN report. In the wake of the report, 114 peacekeepers were sent home. None was ever imprisoned.
In March, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced new measures to tackle sexual abuse and exploitation by UN peacekeepers and other personnel. But the proclamation had a depressingly familiar ring: More than a decade ago, the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... commissioned a report that promised to do much the same thing, yet most of the reforms never materialized.
For a full two years after those promises were made, the children in Haiti were passed around from soldier to soldier. And in the years since, peacekeepers have been accused of sexual abuse the world over.
In one particularly grim case in Haiti, a teenage boy said he was gang-raped in 2011 by Uruguayan peacekeepers who filmed the alleged assault on a cellphone. Dozens of Haitian women also say they were raped, and dozens more had what is euphemistically called "survival sex" in a country where most people live on less than $2.50 a day.
Haitian lawyer Mario Joseph has been trying to get compensation for victims of a deadly cholera strain linked to Nepalese peacekeepers that killed an estimated 10,000 people. Now, he is also trying to get child support for about a dozen Haitian women left pregnant by peacekeepers.
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[Haaretz] On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home.
The only other salient detail known to police in Munich was that Krug commuted to Cairo frequently. He was one of dozens of Nazi rocket experts who had been hired by Egypt to develop advanced weapons for that country.
HaBoker, a now defunct Israeli newspaper, surprisingly claimed to have the explanation: The Egyptians kidnapped Krug to prevent him from doing business with Israel. But that somewhat clumsy leak was an attempt by Israel to divert investigators from digging too deeply into the case -- not that they ever would have found the 49-year-old scientist.
We can now report -- based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad’s archived secrets from half a century ago -- that Krug was murdered as part of an Israeli espionage plot to intimidate the German scientists working for Egypt.
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"Once ze rockets go up
Who cares vere zey come down?"
"Dats not my department,"
says Werner von Braun.
--Tom Lehrer
Intimidating the Nazi scientists working to finish the Holocaust? Not something I have a problem with -- though Ha'aretz, the New York Times of Israel, has its own particular view of events.
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I read about this several years ago.
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...Along with what Deacon Blues said, IIRC there's a mention in the novel The Odessa File of German scientists working for Egypt suddenly coming down with a bad case of dead.
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[NYT - Space and Missile Defense March 4, 2017] Raytheon, an antimissile contractor, gave an industry presentation in 2015 on missile threats to the United States and plans for new defenses, including cyber and electronic attacks before launch and in the first moments of flight.
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WINGOC: Wastewater to clean water - Windhoek, Namibia
In this city, which suffers from chronic water shortage, Veolia and its partners have managed a wastewater plant since 2002. The facility recycles large volumes of wastewater in order to produce drinking water for nearly 300,000 inhabitants. Windhoek is one of the only cities in the world to recycle its water for domestic use, and the only one to do so on this scale.
The WINGOC (Windhoek Goreangab Operating Company) contract is a 20-year O&M contract signed in 2001 with the municipality of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital. The project company’s two partners are Veolia (67%) and Wabag (33%). Veolia is the majority holding company.
The project consists of a clean water treatment plant constructed in 2003. Clean water is produced from wastewater originating from the Goreangab Dam and the Gammam Reservoir, and is distributed to the city of Windhoek. The treatment process is very complex with a series of filtration (including a number of membrane stages) and ozonation stages.
This is a global benchmark, as around the world clean water is only produced from waste water in Windhoek and Singapore. In particular, reaching clean water standards is difficult in view of the level of pollution that enters.
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Clean water is produced from wastewater originating from the Goreangab Dam and the Gammam Reservoir...
Dang, I didn't know that the water from there were so polluted, maybe if they would just connect their sewer pipes to the waste water treatment plant instead of dumping them into their lake and rivers...
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Then this from CLE: Cleveland police have issued an aggravated murder warrant for a man accused of shooting and killing another man on E. 93rd St. in Cleveland and posting the video on Facebook.
The video of the shooting was not broadcast live, as police originally reported. It was recorded and then uploaded to Facebook by Stephens, according to a Facebook spokesperson. In a statement, the spokesperson said the shooting was a "horrific crime."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A bride and groom headed to Costa Rica for their wedding got kicked off their United flight out of Houston on Saturday afternoon.
[Libya Observer] Authorities in Bayda have killed a Chadian national for conducting black magic rites after a series of mysterious suicides plagued the eastern city.
North Korea
[Dhaka Tribune] In the ruins of a tropical hideaway where jet-setters once sipped rum under the Caribbean sun, the abandoned children tried to make a life for themselves. They begged and scavenged for food, but they never could scrape together enough to beat back the hunger, until the UN peacekeepers moved in a few blocks away, reports the Associated press.
WINGOC: Wastewater to clean water - Windhoek, Namibia
