Yes, the world is mounting pressure against Russia’s president Vladimir Putin since evidence suggests that Russian equipment shot down Malaysia Airline MH-17, killing 298 innocent people. But what do Republicans think of the man they call “a leader?”
Circumstantial evidence suggests that Russia provided the missile that Ukrainian rebels used to shoot down the Malaysian Air jetliner on July 17, killing 298 passengers and crew, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in television interviews.
“There’s a build-up of extraordinary circumstantial evidence,” Kerry said yesterday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. “We picked up the imagery of this launch. We know the trajectory. We know where it came from. We know the timing.”
Putin confronts worldwide scorn just as the U.S. and its allies were trying to push him into a corner over the annexation of Crimea and his support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. The U.S. and Europe tightened sanctions last week, and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron told Putin on a call yesterday that the attack was “totally unacceptable,” his office said in a statement.
“Russia risks becoming a pariah state if it does not behave properly,” U.K. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said yesterday in an interview on Sky News. “We now need to use the sense of outrage that is clear to get a further round of sanctions tightening against Russia.”
A Florida police officer is accused of having sex with an underage girl he first met when she was 11 and he was assigned to her missing persons case.
Oldy Ochoa Jr., 48, a homicide detective who has been with the Miami Beach Police Department for 20 years, was charged with two counts of sexual battery Saturday for allegedly having sex with the girl in an unmarked police vehicle as he was taking her to her GED class, reports the Orlando Sentinel.
Ochoa first met the girl when he helped locate her six years ago when she had a missing persons case. While living with another family he petitioned the court to allow her to live with his family in December.
She stayed there for two months before running away, the newspaper reports.
The Pembroke Pines Police Department, which is investigating the case, could not make a copy of the arrest report available to the Daily News Sunday.
The victim told police Ochoa allegedly would hold her hand and kiss her while the two were sitting on a couch, the Sentinel reported.
The sexual assault occurred in an unmarked police car in February in an alley near the school where the girl was taking her GED classes, the newspaper reported. The pair also had sex in the car in a wooded area.
Ochoa is now at Broward County jail and his attorney told the newspaper he would not discuss the allegations.
The investigation was launched in March and Ochoa was relieved of his duties as an officer, the newspaper reported.
Miami Beach Police Chief Dan Oates issued a statement describing the situation as “a very sad day for our department” and they would take appropriate action regarding his employment when the criminal case concluded.
Joseph Wood – (image source: AP/Arizona Department of Corrections)
The ruling came from The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Saturday. Arizona is set to execute Joseph Wood on Wednesday, but as of now, that execution is on hold until the source of the drugs are revealed.
Joseph Wood, who killed his estranged girlfriend, Debra Dietz, and her father, Eugene Dietz, in Tucson in 1989, is scheduled to die July 23.
But his attorneys at the Federal Defender’s Office in Phoenix filed suit claiming he had a First Amendment right to know who supplied the drugs that will be used to kill him and the qualifications of the executioners who will carry it out.
Two of the judges in a panel of three sided with Wood; the third dissented.
At issue is a new drug combination that Arizona has turned to because it cannot obtain the drugs it normally uses for executions. That combination, and one of the drugs in particular, a Valium relative called Midazolam, has caused apparent “flawed executions,” as the court called them, in Ohio and Oklahoma.
In his weekly address, President Obama spoke about the importance of educating and training today’s work force for the jobs of today and for the jobs of the future. Through his opportunity agenda, the President is focused on creating more jobs, educating more kids, and working to make sure hard work pays off with higher wages and better benefits.
World Peace is eager to reunite with his former Lakers coach, Phil Jackson, and his former Los Angeles teammate, coach Derek Fisher, and erase the bitter memory of his original homecoming.
“[World Peace] has the utmost respect for Phil and Derek,’’ his agent, Marc Cornstein, told The Post.
“There’s a history there. They know he’s out there.’’
The Knicks are trying to add another good-sized small forward to the roster. After Carmelo Anthony, only rookie Cleanthony Early is a true small forward. During summer league play, Early is trying to prove he is ready to be Anthony’s backup, but hasn’t shown he can create his own shot.
The World Peace camp has expressed interest to the Knicks. Under the buyout, the Knicks already are paying World Peace $250,000 for next season. If World Peace were invited and made the team, he’d be eligible for the veteran’s minimum, $1.4 million.
In the wake of the tragic circumstances surrounding the downing of MH-17 where almost 300 innocent civilians lost their lives, President Obama met with the press and offered a statement.
In the statement, the president stated that “evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian-backed separatists inside of Ukraine. We also know that this is not the first time a plane has been shot down in eastern Ukraine. Over the last several weeks, Russian-backed separatists have shot down a Ukrainian transport plane and a Ukrainian helicopter, and they claimed responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet. Moreover, we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from Russia. This includes arms and training. It includes heavy weapons, and it includes anti-aircraft weapons.”
Now you know this was eventually going to happen. The United States President in will be blamed by Republicans for everything, no matter where in the world it happens or the circumstances under which it happens. Obama’s been for volcanoes, Bush’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and now, a Malaysia plane shot down in Ukraine.
Republicans, fresh out of ideas and clueless on how to govern, constantly play the blame game and Obama is always their target.
Former Republican congressman from Florida Allen West, took to his website and cast blame squarely on the White House for the almost 300 people who lost their lives when someone shot down a Malaysia plane in Ukraine. In his post, West just about accused Obama of pulling the trigger that brought down the plane, saying the President is “purposefully creating drama globally” and he used the downed plane as an example.
Sadly, hundreds of Ukrainians and 298 souls on MH17 have paid the price for the weakness and abject cowardice of Obama’s “flexibility.”
And here in America we quibble over a lawsuit against this charlatan.
The blood on Vladimir Putin’s hands was poured by Barack Obama who is indirectly responsible, accountable accountable [sic] and no different than Neville Chamberlain’s weakness in the face of the 20th Century maniacal dictator Adolf Hitler.
What’s sad is that Allen West has an audience, and his ignorant Republican following would believe anything if it attempts to bring down their president.
Now I’m sure some of you will enjoy this but to me, this is just too much work. And it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, beauty is only skin deep.
Now I can appreciate taking pride in the way you look or your beauty for that matter, but in this case, it’s taking in pride in your makeup selection.
The Malaysian plane (MH17) that was shot down in the Ukraine yesterday contained over 100 of the world’s top AIDS researchers, as they were en route to a conference in Melbourne, Australia. As of midnight Australia time on Friday, conference organizers said they had only been able to confirm seven names. Among the dead are World Health Organization advisor Glenn Thomas, as well as research giant and lauded humanitarian Dr. Joep Lange and his wife, Jacqueline van Tongeren, who has been researching AIDS for three decades. So that’s 30 years of AIDS research, literally shot down. Dr. Lange has written more than 350 papers and spent his career fighting for access to low-cost AIDS treatment in Africa. The International Aids Society said that Dr Lange’s death meant “the HIV/Aids movement has truly lost a giant.” Wow. What will this mean for the future of AIDS research?
According to reports, delegates already gathered in Melbourne for pre-conference meetings were informed of the deaths of 108 of their colleagues after the plane was downed by a surface-to-air missile yesterday. Chris Beyrer, who will take over the presidency of the International AIDS Society at the end of the global conference next week said, “We have been working hard to try and confirm how many people were on the flight. We’ve been speaking to a number of different authorities, and we think the actual number is much smaller.” The conference in Melbourne from July 20-25 will be featuring the world’s leading researchers, as well as advocates and guests such as Bill Clintonand Sir Bob Geldof.
“It’s going to be a very somber mood at the conference in Melbourne, especially for those of us who have been coming to these conferences for many years,” Clive Aspin, a health researcher, told Fairfax Media. It seems many of Dr. Lange’s colleagues already feel the impact of his death. Professor David Cooper, a leading Australian HIV researcher said, “Joep was absolutely committed to the development of affordable HIV treatments, particularly combination therapies, for use in resource-poor countries. The joy in collaborating with Joep was that he would always bring a fresh view, a unique take on things, and he never accepted that something was impossible to achieve.”
At this incredibly sad and sensitive time the IAS stands with our international family and sends condolences to the loved ones of those who have been lost to this tragedy,” IAS said in a statement.
Overall, 189 Dutch, 44 Malaysians, 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians, 9 Brits, 4 Germans, 4 Belgians, 3 Filipinos, 1 Canadian, 1 American and 1 Kiwi lost their lives in the plane crash.
Cash and jewellery is being stolen from victims of the Malaysian plane crash, Ukrainian politicians claim.
The missile strike which brought down the MH17 flight left naked bodies strewn across fields surrounded by hundreds of possessions including children’s books, playing cards, slippers, letters and old vinyl records.
But tonight it has been claimed that looters have descended on the distressing scene, stealing valuable goods from the 298 passengers and crew, who all died in the blast.
Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to the Kiev government, said: ‘I have received information that terrorist death-hunters were collecting not only cash and jewellery of the crashed Boeing dead passengers but also the credit cards of the victims.
Raids: Looters have been raiding the personal belongings and luggage of MH17 passengers strewn across the crash site in eastern Ukraine, officials claim
Disturbing: Dead bodies were found mixed in with debris, with some corpses having remained almost intact. Ukraine has appealed for respect for the 298 dead
Blast: Experts claim the aircraft will have exploded in the air after being hit by a shrapnel-based missile which scattered the plane and its passengers across the fields
Search: Teams are now wading through pieces of wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Shaktarsk to retrieve remains and belongings
‘Currently, they might as well try to use them in Ukraine or pass them on to Russia.
‘My humble request to the relatives of the victims to freeze their credit cards, so that they won’t loose their assets to terrorists.’
Speculation over the source of the missile, which remains unconfirmed, has sparked a propaganda battle between both sides of the Ukraine-Russia crisis.
Officials in Kiev have made repeated statements linking the attack to pro-Russian separatists.
Tonight, Downing Street supported the claims with a statement to say it appears ‘increasingly likely that MH-17 was shot down by a separatist missile’ fired from near Torez, an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels.
The Malaysian Airlines flight, a Boeing 777, was brought down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, with the loss of everyone on board.
Makeshift white flags have been placed to mark where bodies lay in corn fields and among the debris.
Others, stripped bare by the force of the crash, had been covered by polythene sheeting weighed down by stones, one marked with a flower in remembrance.
One pensioner told how a corpse smashed though the roof of her house. ‘There was a howling noise and everything started to rattle. Then objects started falling out of the sky,’ said Irina Tipunova, 65. ‘And then I heard a roar and she landed in the kitchen.’
The huge crash site still smelt of jet fuel on Friday, with personal belongings scattered far and wide.
Wreckage at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
Distressing scenes: Playing cards and children’s drawing books lie among the flowers in Ukraine’s eastern countryside after the MH17 was hit by an SA-11
Plea: An advisor to Kiev’s government has urged grieving relatives to cancel their loved ones’ credit cards as looters snatch items from the wreckage
A pro-Russian militant passes by the wreckage of MH17, which crash on Thursday afternoon after taking off from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam
Many belongings were completely undamaged, with T-shirts, suitcase
Aircraft and helicopter parts as well as dogs and pigeons were among the items being carried on the downed plane, according to the manifest
They included a pink children’s book, stockers, Children’s playing cards, slippers, cologne and a bicycle, seemingly undamaged, according to The New York Times.
Aircraft and helicopter parts as well as dogs and pigeons were among the items being carried on the downed plane, according to the manifest.
As well as the dogs, the manifest lists other live birds as well as textiles, diplomatic mail and freshcut flowers.
The paperwork looks all in order, with the items signed for and instructions about the required temperature in which the goods should be stored.
The flight number is marked clearly on the top of each page as well as the date of July 17 and a registration number. Point of loading is marked as Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, with the unloading point listed as Kuala Lumpur.
‘The plane broke up in the air, and the parts and human bodies are lying within a three kilometre area,’ said a post by Vsevolod Petrovsky after visiting the scene.
Emergency workers, police officers and even coal miners spread out across the sunflower fields and villages of eastern Ukraine, searching the wreckage of MH17
Out of the blue: A Ukrainian covers a body with a plastic sheet in a field. Malaysia’s prime minister said there was no distress call before the plane went down and that the flight route was declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation
All hand on deck: Coal miners help with the search effort at the crash site near the village of Rozsypne in eastern Ukraine
Disturbing: A woman walks past a body covered with a plastic sheet in a sunflower field near the site of a crashed Malaysia Airlines passenger plane near the village of Rozsypne
‘One body broke a hole in the thin roof of summer terrace in a private house.
‘I got out of the car and immediately saw the naked body of a woman, covered by some leaves.
‘There were many bodies without clothes around. Probably, their clothing was torn away after the loss of pressurization. Horrible.
‘I go further and see a hill made of the cockpit parts. The area is lit. The pilot’s body is in this seat, with seat belt fastened, he is dressed in his clothes.
‘Among the plane parts there were many parcels. Letters tied with a rope, books, old vinyl records, somebody’s shoes.
‘Children’s caps with the Dutch national flag colours. Amazingly, almost all of these things are not destroyed.
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‘There was no fire in this part of the plane. The fire was in the back part which is lying not far from Grabovo village.’
A local farmer said: ‘I was herding my cows and heard a buzzing noise.
‘I lay on the ground and thinking only that it would not hit me and my cows. Then I looked and saw that something turns sharply and two big wings were flying. Bang. And something explodes. It came from eastern side, from the side of Sokholikha mountain.’
David Cameron has insisted that those responsible for the apparent shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 must be ‘brought to account’ amid deepening tensions with Russia.
The Prime Minister described the catastrophe, in which nine Britons died, as an ‘absolutely appalling, shocking, horrific incident’ that ‘cannot be allowed to stand’.
The response came as the United Nations Security Council approved a statement calling for a ‘full, thorough and independent international investigation’ into the crash.
The Ukrainian government has blamed rebels using Russian-supplied surface-to-air missiles for the tragedy, while the Kremlin has accused Kiev of failing to agree a ceasefire.
Obama: Ukraine crash is an outrage of unspeakable proportions
“Treme” actor Rob Brown is settling his explosive “shop-and-frisk” racial profiling lawsuits against Macy’s and the city, new court papers show.
“The court has been informed that the parties have reached a settlement in principle,” Manhattan Federal Judge Lorna Schofield wrote Thursday with regard to Brown’s twin actions against the department store and the city.
Brown, 30, whose breakout performance was in the 2000 movie “Finding Forrester,” claimed he was handcuffed, “paraded” through the Macy’s flagship Herald Square store and detained on June 8, 2013 after being accused of using a fake credit card to buy his mother a $1,300 watch.
The HBO series star slapped Macy’s and the city with false imprisonment, negligent training and civil rights allegations, seeking unspecified money damages and a court order forcing Macy’s and the NYPD to stop the alleged practice of targeting minorities who shop at high-end stores.
A spokeswoman for Macy’s said, “The lawsuits by various plaintiffs who alleged racial profiling by Macy’s have been settled in principle. We are making no further comment.
“Our company strictly prohibits discrimination of any kind and has zero tolerance for racial profiling.”
A lawyer for the city said, “A settlement has been reached in principle, but the details are still being finalized.”
I really really really hate writing about the ongoing, never ending, never will end, “crisis” in the middle east. We have so many problems here at home that need fixing yet we, or should I say they (the mainstream media) push those troubles aside whenever something violent happens in that area of the world cause..well..violence gets dicks hard I guess.
This is also the reason why the murders on both sides of the conflict will continue. Both sides are excited by the blood shed. Both sides cheer when little children on the opposing side are killed. They all love it now. They love the violence and the retribution and the killings. They all get off on it now, the rebels, the establishment, the politicians, the suicide bombers, all of them. It’s a cycle they have grown used to and it’s why the USA should have no involvement at all. None. Zero.
OK I got that out of my system. The issue now is with NBC news and their removal of a pretty good reporter, Ayman Mohyeldin, from the Gaza strip. Mohyeldin had reported on the killing of four young boys who were playing on the beach by the Israeli military. He said he had just been playing with these boys shortly before they were murdered. Yes they were MURDERED, not merely KILLED.
NBC claims he was pulled because of “security concerns” but that doesn’t jive because they soon placed Richard Engel into the same position. Also these reporters are constantly in harms way, every single minute of every single day, so it’s obvious NBC is lying. The question is why? Why pull Mohyeldin? And why lie about it?
It’s no secret that there are many Jews in this country who are, for some strange reason, blindly sympathetic to Israel. Some of them have been to Israel but most of them have not. I’m always confused as to why they care so much. And if so why not relocate to Israel and join the fight? I’m half Jewish and half Italian. Yes I know I’m combining a religion with a nationality but that’s how we do it in New York so get over it. Many Jews consider me to be totally Jewish since it’s my mother’s side that is Jewish. However I have no connection to Israel at all, never been there. I have been to Italy just once. If Italy were to get into a conflict with a neighboring country I would have no vested interest in it at all. I would choose to look at it from a totally objective point of view. Mostly I just hate war and conflict and would hope it would all end quickly.
The problem we have in this country is that too many people see the Israel-Palestine conflict from an extremely biased point of view. They overwhelmingly support Israel. That is simply a fact. It’s also a fact that there are more Jews in important positions of power in our mainstream media than Palestinians. No this isn’t a stupid anti-Semitic “Jews run the world” paranoia rant, it’s simply fact. Therefore it’s obvious that some of those people and those who might answer to them don’t like it when Israelis are shown in a negative light. They will give the Palestinians some sympathy but just enough to try and keep people like myself off their backs, their hearts really aren’t in it.
Oh I really hate writing about this shit. I know liberals are mixed on this issue. Maybe some of you have been wondering what my beliefs were. But now we have this chicken shit move by NBC news. They have been known to slant to the left but that didn’t matter in this case. In these matters it rarely does. There are people with money who live in this country who don’t want to see Israelis look like murderers. But some of them ARE murderers as are some Palestinians. I have always seen the Israelis as the big rich bullies with the expensive weapons and the Palestinians as the kids who are fighting back anyway they can. Sometimes their ways are horrific and grotesque. Both sides see little reason to come to an agreement because the killing and the revenge and the never ending cycle of this shit seems so normal and feels so right to them now.
What we CAN control in this country is how we cover this conflict. What NBC did was just simply wrong just as it would be wrong to pull a reporter for covering the Palestinians killing Israeli children. That hasn’t happened though..has it?
This is why the mainstream media in the USA sucks. Money as with everything else in this Capitalism on steroids society, rules all. It trumps good reporting, it trumps fair reporting, it trumps right over wrong. This is why we can’t get “fair and balanced” news anymore. There is always an executive who is shitting in his or her pants over that one call they might get from a rich, angry advertiser.
So Ayman Mohyeldin gets pulled from doing his job. A job he does well.
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