TORONTO - Two U.S. fighter jets escorted a plane headed for Panama
back to Toronto's Pearson airport Friday morning after a passenger
allegedly made a threat.
"The aircraft turned around
approximately 45 minutes into the flight over West Virginia when an
agitated customer (allegedly) made a direct threat against the
aircraft," the airline said in a statement.
A 25-year-old man is in custody, Peel Regional Police said.
Sunwing flight 772 departed Toronto just after 7 a.m. with 183 passengers and a crew of six on board.
The
180th Fighter Wing, with the Ohio Air National Guard based in Toledo,
was conducting a training exercise at the time, and two F-16 fighter
jets were redirected to escort the Sunwing flight back to Toronto, NORAD
confirmed.
The plane landed safely at Pearson just before 9 a.m. and was met by authorities.
There were no reports of injuries.
Israeli news website, Kooker posted undated German footage, shot
in Gaza, of what it said were Hamas enforcers violently beating and
coercing residents to remain in their homes, despite their pleading that
the IDF called on them to evacuate the area.
Algemeiner (h/t Liz) In
the video, armed enforcers, some wielding batons, are seen beating and
punching recalcitrant residents, and, at several points turn on the
camera crew, and try to cover the lens. Some of the dialogue in the
video is also telling:
Vladimir Putin’s daughter has fled her home in the Netherlands amid overwhelming criticism from disgusted locals who demanded she be deported after the downing of Flight MH17.
“We have not seen her here since the plane went down,” a neighbor of Maria Putin told the British Mirror newspaper on Thursday, as 51 of the 193 bodies of Dutch victims were returned home.
The Russian president’s 29-year-old daughter had been living with her boyfriend Jorrit Faasen on the outskirts of Amsterdam, just 20 miles from the airport from which the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight departed.
“She moved in last year and it was all kept quiet for a while,” the neighbor added.
“But once it became known who she was, there was certainly some disquiet. And now this has happened. She is obviously not responsible for her father’s actions, but we don’t want — demonstrations around here.”
Her presence in the wealthy suburban village of Voorschoten sparked tremendous outrage among grieving locals who recognized a national day of mourning on Wednesday as the first wave of the Dutch victims was returned home.
A Congressional Committee report on the investigation of the Benghazi
terror attack has determined that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bears a good deal of the blame for what occurred, as she was in charge at that time.
Hillary ignored multiple warnings about the danger in Benghazi, denied requests for more security, and then she actually blamed the Ambassador himself for his own death at the hands of radical Islamic militants.
Rep. Trey Gowdy has vowed to subpoena Hillary Clinton as part of his Select Committee investigation of Benghazi, and this has Hillary scared. The Clinton machine has kicked into overdrive to attack Trey Gowdy’s credibility ahead of any attempts by him to depose or question Hillary, whether publicly or behind closed doors.
During a recent interview for NBC Nightly News, Hillary
Clinton was asked about the notes she kept on the Benghazi attack, and
if she would be willing to turn those notes over to Trey Gowdy’s
Committee. According to the Washington Free Beacon, she would not turn those notes over, instead referring to her not-so-successful book.
“They can read it in the book,” Hillary Clinton said. “Let’s see
whether this is on the level or not because that really matters to me. I
don’t want to be part of something which, in any way, politicizes or
demeans the sacrifice that we saw happen there.”
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This is just ridiculous. Hillary’s account of Benghazi in her book
is a highly edited, selective, and glossed over version of what
happened. Taking her account of the events, as detailed in the book, as
the true gospel of what occurred would be naive at best. Her initial
notes on the subject could provide valuable insight and information for
the Select Committee investigation.
Hillary has already proven herself to be a liar on multiple
occasions, and Gowdy would be wise to take a ‘trust, but verify’
attitude regarding anything and everything she has said about her role
in the Benghazi debacle. Hillary’s prior history of lying, and the lies
she has already told about Benghazi, are just some of the many reasons she must never become President.
Trey Gowdy needs to not only subpoena Hillary herself, but her notes, and all other pertinent documents, as well.
ASPEN, Colo.—The U.S. military is
preparing a strategy to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL or ISIS) in Iraq to prevent the al Qaeda offshoot from becoming a
larger global threat, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said
Thursday.
“The United States military does consider ISIL a threat to, initially
to the region and our close allies, longer term to the United States of
America,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said during a security conference.
“And therefore we are preparing a strategy that has a series of
options to present to our elected leaders on how we can initially
contain, eventually disrupt, and finally defeat ISIL over time,” he
said.
ISIL remains a dangerous group whose religion calls for setting up a
caliphate. The group has gained credibility among other elements who
view its recent successes in seizing major parts of Iraq as a key to its
future.
“This is a group that has aspirations and seeks a sense of religious
legitimacy,” he said, noting its claim to being the political heir to
the Muslim caliphate.
The group’s use of extraordinary brutality—such as mass executions
and public beheadings—has allowed it to gain followers, even though its
formal membership numbers around 7,000 fighters.
ISIL has used misinformation and information warfare to recruit
fighters and achieve some objectives while exploiting youth and
disenfranchised elements, he said.
“They’re very dangerous,” Dempsey said, noting that the group is “governing in northern and western Iraq.”
Dempsey did not rule out the future use of close air support against ISIL if the group becomes a more direct U.S. threat.
Ultimately, the defeat ISIL will require “pressure from multiple
directions and with multiple partners,” the four-star general said.
Mexico Complains About Texas Sending National Guard Troops To The Border…
Then try stopping the invasion of our country from your territory.
Via Fox Latino:
The Mexican government on Tuesday expressed its “concern”
over the decision by Texas authorities to send 1,000 National Guard
troops to the border to help stem the massive arrival of undocumented
child migrants from Central America.
“Attention to the immigration phenomenon must be paid from a
long-term regional perspective and based on the principles of good
neighborliness and shared responsibility,” the Foreign Relations
Secretariat said in a statement.
“The strategy for responding in an effective and humane manner to
this phenomenon includes the necessary shared responsibility among the
countries of origin, transit and destination of migration flows,” the
statement continued.
The secretariat declared its commitment to the protection of the
migrants’ human rights and the orchestration of “specific actions
directed at the most vulnerable, including unaccompanied children and
teenagers.”
America has a proud military tradition.
We are a country born out of war. Our first citizens were soldiers.
Our leaders were generals. Almost every President has served in the
military.
In an ultimate act of betrayal the Defense Department let 1,100 soldiers know that they are effectively fired, without jobs.
The scandal is not that they’ll be without a job. The Iraq and
Afghanistan war theaters are coming to a close and the need for an
enlarged force won’t be there. Numbers are expected to drop from 520,000
to just around 440,000, which is the smallest the Army will have been
since before World War II.
The scandal is that the soldiers are being told while they’re still
deployed. Still risking life and limb everyday for an employer that’s
already fired them.
Thousands of families in this country are military families, always
have been and always will. They’ve bled and died for the best of what
this country represents. What’s the difference between doing this and
just giving up?
The Defense Department’s rationale? “If the force is smaller, there’s
less margin for error. Let’s face it — things are pretty uncertain out
there.” Said one official.
Although these cuts have been known to be in the near future, the
mass media has refused to cover the topic, because we are a war weary
country and they don’t think we want to hear about it. Troop reduction
puts the country more and risk and suddenly the Media knows what’s best
for Americans. Since when did they become the guardians of reality?
Perhaps soldiers being laid off is inevitable, but going about it this way is absolutely wrong.
If you see a serviceman or Servicewoman today, please thank them.
In a book slated for release next month, a journalist recounts a 1999
interview with Hillary Clinton when the former first lady blamed Bill’s
mother for his addiction to sex and womanizing because of the abuse he
received as a young boy.
According to a Daily Mail report,
Hillary made the claims that her mother-in-law, Virginia Kelley, abused
Bill during his childhood in an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist Lucinda Franks. Franks, however, refused to use the quotes
for her article in Talk magazine — instead, she waited 15 years to
release the interview in her latest memoir, “Timeless: Love, Morgenthau and Me.”
“When a mother does what she does, it affects you forever,” Hillary allegedly told Franks.
According to The Daily Mail, the memoir recounts that Hillary didn’t
describe the specific ways that Kelley — who died in 1994 — allegedly
abused Bill, but said that she hurt him “in ways you wouldn’t believe.”
This isn’t the first time Hillary has claimed Bill grew up in a troubled and violent home,in a 1999 Philadelphia Inquirer article Hillary was quoted saying Bill was stuck in the middle of an angry dispute between his mom and grandmother.
“He was so young when he was scarred by abuse,” Hillary said. “There
was a terrible conflict between his mother and grandmother. . . . A
psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a
conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There is
always a desire to please each one.”
Franks told The Daily Mail that she
refused to publish the gripping material back in 1999 because she
didn’t want to fan the media frenzy fire surrounding the Monica Lewinsky
affair. According to the report, she decided to add it to the memoir
because of Hilary’s suspected presidential run in 2016. (RELATED: Bitter Hillary Supporter Snaps At Reporter For Asking Questions About Clintons’ Wealth)
In addition to Frank’s memoir, in the coming months a slew of Hillary
and Bill books are expected to be released, including Weekly Standard
Editor Daniel Halper’s book “Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine.”
Something extraordinary is happening in Iraq, and it seems no one is
wiling to talk about. Radical extremists have completely purged the city
of Mosul of its Christian population — a minority group that lived
there for nearly 2,000 years.
Considering the rampant instability that unfolded following the
removal of U.S. troops from Iraq, I find it bizarre that the Obama
administration has stayed so silent in the wake of the extreme violence
against Christians in Iraq.
The increasing violence perpetrated by ISIS has turned Iraq into Hell
on Earth for its Christian citizens, while the Obama Administration’s
lack of action in Syria has permitted a regrouping of jihadist forces
against Christians.
Ephrem Joseph III Younan, the leader of the Syriac Catholic Church is
pleading with “the civilized world” to take action to stop what he
described as “religious genocide,” reports The Blaze.
“We are so saddened that the civilized world doesn’t really care,”
Younan said. “Surely there are other dramatic problems — wars around us
in the Middle East… Gaza or Syria but here it’s … genocide … just
because they are Christians.”
Dr. Timothy Stanley wrote in an op-ed for the Telegraph that “this is
war crime that, strangely, no one seems to want to talk about.”
Stanleys called out the West for Staying Bizarrely Silent on Plight
of Iraqi Christians. The historian said that it took mere weeks for an
ancient culture to be entirely wiped out, calling the infractions
against Christians “a war crime that, strangely, no one seems to want to
talk about.”
“Invading Iraq, creating chaos and then pulling out has not
benefitted those left behind. Despite being responsible for the
upheaval, he said that the West has opted not to speak out about the
death, destruction and murder befalling Iraqi Christians,” Stanley said.
The Smoking Gun was the first outlet to report this, and did so weeks ago.
According to the Detroit News,
anti-capitalism "everyman" filmmaker Michael Moore owns 9 homes. On top
of a $2 million, 10,000 square foot lakefront mansion in Torch Lake,
Michigan, there is a Manhattan condo that was once 3 condos, and 7 other
properties. Moore's secret role as a land baron was revealed in divorce
papers:
The filmmaker, 60, who split his time between a home here and one in New York, is leaving his wife of 22 years, Kathy Glynn.
His hit movies and best-selling books have begat a lifestyle far from most ballcap-wearing, duck-waddling denizens of Flint.
Moore and Glynn own nine properties in
Michigan and New York, including a Manhattan condo that once was three
apartments. CelebrityNetWorth.com pegs their wealth at $50 million.
In legal pleadings, Moore blames his wife
for the expansion of the 10,000-square-foot home on Torch Lake, which
has a value of $2 million.
Since his 1989 "Roger and Me," Michael Moore has earned upwards of $50 million trashing capitalism.
In a rare criticism of the Commander-in-Chief, Gen. James Amos
slammed the administration’s Iraq policy at an event last week. The
Commandant of the Marine Corps commented, according to The Fiscal Times:
I have a hard time
believing that had we been there, and worked with the government, and
worked with parliament, and worked with the minister of defense, the
minister of interior, I don’t think we’d be in the same shape we’re in
today.
We may think we’re done with all of
these nasty, thorny, tacky little things that are going on around the
world — and I’d argue that if you’re in that nation, it’s not a tacky,
little thing for you. We may think we’re done with them, but they’re not
done with us.
Retired Col. Oliver North said on the Kelly File that such comments by an active duty officer are almost unprecedented.
Senior officers on active duty rarely ever speak this
way. I can think of MacArthur to Truman. I can think of Major General
Jack Singlaub, who actually resigned his commission and then spoke about
abandoning Korea to President Carter. But he…had resigned his
commission to make that speech.
That Gen. Amos would speak out while still on active duty shows how
strongly he feels about the setbacks Iraq has faced. Audio follows
below:
Conservative talker Mark Levin's legal unit, in a battle with the Environmental Protection Agency over allegations it delayed politically damaging regulatory moves until after President Obama's reelection, is charging that agency big shots are destroying key emails and texts to hide those efforts.
In the latest twist of his suit dating to August 2012, Levin's Landmark Legal Foundation
asked a federal judge to punish the EPA “for destroying or failing to
preserve emails and text messages that may have helped document
suspected agency efforts to influence the 2012 presidential election.”
Landmark cited news reports before the election that indicated the
agency was putting off unpopular regulations until after the president
won his contest with Republican Mitt Romney. The agency has since cracked down on coal pollution.
“The EPA is a toxic waste dump for lawlessness and disdain for the
Constitution,” said Levin, one of the nation’s most popular conservative
talk show hosts. His show is carried in Washington on WMAL. “The EPA
has to learn that you can’t save the planet by destroying the rule of
law,” he added.
The EPA has fought Levin's demand for emails and texts from
government and private email accounts of top officials, including former
administrator Lisa Jackson. But Federal District Judge Royce Lamberth has sided with Landmark.
The agency told Secrets that it is reviewing the Landmark filing. The
"EPA is strongly committed to transparency and the strict compliance
with open government laws such as the Freedom of Information Act. The
agency will review the motion filed today, as a part of ongoing
litigation with Landmark, and will respond accordingly," said a
spokesperson.
Every wonder why it seems that Hamas can’t hit the broadside of a barn with their rockets?
Apparently they do as well, and their current theory is that the Jewish God diverts the rockets so they miss.
Barbara Ordman, who lives in Ma’ale Adumim on the West Bank says,
“As one of the terrorists from Gaza was reported to say
when asked why they couldn’t aim their rockets more effectively: “We do
aim them, but their God changes their path in mid-air.”
Sounds like they need to serve a different God, no?
President Obama continues to take bold steps of action that reveal his true feelings toward Israel, and so far, they aren’t positive.
Obama started straining U.S. relations with Israel when he asked them to use “restraint” when dealing with terrorists who were constantly bombing their country and killing their children, which is a ludicrous thing to suggest, as no nation in the world would follow that advice.
The president continued to make things worse by warning the Israeli military not to invade Gaza with ground operations, and then slamming them when they did, placing the blame for Palestinian casualties on their shoulders, rather than on Hamas.
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After an Indian tribe in Idaho
cancelled a planned Ted Nugent concert at its casino earlier this week,
detractors in other states have joined the effort to compel organizers
elsewhere to call off his upcoming shows.
One such initiative, focused on a performance this weekend in
Oshkosh, Wis., got a response from the outspoken conservative rocker.
“I take it as a badge of honor that such unclean vermin are upset by
me and my positive energy,” he said in an interview published by the Appleton Post Crescent.
The performance, set to be part of a music festival called Waterfest,
was first targeted by protesters who published a petition online to
prevent his appearance. A local penned a letter to the editor demanding
Nugent be kept out of the festival, a sentiment echoed by critics just
days before he is set to perform.
In addition to the Idaho cancellation and protest in Wisconsin, the
Post Crescent reports that a Texas town paid him to stay out of a recent
Independence Day show; and another demonstration against an upcoming
concert is set for New Jersey in coming days.
Nevertheless, the 65-year-old star said the backlash has no bearing on the dedication he has to his craft.
“Put your heart and soul into everything you do and nobody can stop
you,” he said. “Sometimes you give the world the best you got and you
get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you got anyway.”
In typical Nugent fashion, he used the forum to personally address those who have been attacking his character.
“By all indicators,” he asserted, “I don’t think they actually
qualify as people; but there has always been a lunatic fringe of
hateful, rotten, dishonest people that hate happy, successful people.”
Amid the recent criticism, Nugent offered his gratitude to his fans
and the men and women in uniform he has so often worked to support.
“I have been blessed to be welcomed into the lives of U.S. military
heroes forever and have come to know the serious price paid for freedom
and the American dream,” he said. “I have vowed to these warriors that I
will put to use to the best of my ability those freedoms and rights
that they have sacrificed to provide we the people in this sacred
experiment in self-government.”
He concluded that every citizen can do his or her part in protecting the rights so many have died to preserve.
“I believe raising hell and demanding accountability from our elected
employees is job one for every American,” he said. “I am simply doing
my job.”
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