Going through Q posts from 1 year ago (future proves past) and these are just some from that day (there were a lot).
Found this interesting because I have seen a LOT of talk all over today about many of these same subjects.
Ethiopian jet crash pilot's desperate move to save passengers and crew
The pilot of doomed Ethiopian plane ET 302 tried to save his passengers and asked to turn the flight around just before losing contact, it has emerged.
The Boeing 737 MAX 8, carrying 157 people, crashed shortly after take-off from the Ethiopian capital overnight, with investigators at a loss to explain the tragedy.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said the pilot was given clearance to turn back after reporting a problem with the plane and sending out a distress call.
The plane was only registered in November and is the second fatal disaster involving a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in just five months.
Last October a Lion Air flight – also a MAX 8 – crashed just 12 minutes after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people onboard.
The Ethiopian plane crashed just six minutes after departure, slamming into the ground at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 60 kilometres outside Addis Ababa, at 8:44 am.
FlightTracker 24 said it showed unstable vertical speed.
Revealing how he was devastated at the loss of the plane, crew and passengers, Mr Gebremariam said the experienced pilot had an “excellent flying record” and the plane was new with routine maintenance not revealing any issues.
“It is a brand-new aeroplane with no technical remarks, flown by a senior pilot and there is no cause that we can attribute at this time,” he said.
“Ethiopian Airlines is one of the safest airlines in the world. At this stage we cannot rule out anything.”
The airline boss said there were no defects prior to the flight and said it was hard to see any parallels with the Lion Air crash.
The jet’s last maintenance was on February 4, and it had flown just 1200 hours.
Investigators stress it remains too early to know whether the Ethiopia crash was caused by the same issues that doomed the Indonesian flight.
Indonesian investigators have not determined a cause for the October crash, but days after the accident Boeing sent a notice to airlines that faulty information from a sensor could cause the plane to automatically point the nose down.
The Lion Air cockpit data recorder showed that the jet’s airspeed indicator had malfunctioned on its last four flights, though the airline initially said problems had been fixed.
The crash is a serious blow to state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, which has expanded to become the continent’s largest and best-managed carrier and turned Addis Ababa into the gateway to Africa.
The crash is likely to renew questions about the 737 Max, the newest version of Boeing’s popular single-aisle airliner, which was first introduced in 1967 and has become the world’s most common passenger jet.
Aviation analysts say they are anxiously awaiting the results of the Indonesian airline’s investigation, suggesting the company’s future business could be affected if any parallels are found.
“If this has any relationship at all with Lion Air incident, it’s a pretty good bet that the [Federal Aviation Administration] will move to have all 737 MAX aircraft inspected immediately,” said Mike Boyd, an aviation analyst with US-based Boyd Group International.
If the results of such an inspection turn up significant design flaws in the 737 MAX, it could lead the planes to be grounded worldwide, he said.
In a statement addressing the crash in Ethiopia, Boeing said it has a technical team prepared to provide assistance at the direction of the US National Transportation Safety Board.
“Boeing is deeply saddened to learn of the passengers and crew on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a 737 MAX 8 airplane,” it said in a statement.
“We extend our heartfelt sympathies to the families and loved ones of the passengers and crew on board and stand ready to support the Ethiopian Airlines team.”
more here including video: https://www.9news.com.au/2019/03/10/19/53/news-world-ethiopian-airlines-plane-crash-nairobi-kenya
Maxine Waters Claims Without Evidence That She ‘Has Everything’ Needed To Impeach Trump
During an appearance Saturday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee began by claiming that Trump is not acting in the best interest of the country.
“I believe in the Constitution, and the Constitution gives us the authority and the responsibility to decide whether or not a president is acting in the best interests of this country. This president is not. As far as I’m concerned, he has enough violations, he’s been involved in a lot of activity that we believe needs to be made apparent,” Waters said.
“And so, I believe that we have everything that it needs to basically impeach him. I believe that. And you’re absolutely right, we’re depending on Mr. Mueller,” she added.
Waving her hands and appearing very excited, Waters continued by saying, “The American people should be depending on the people that they elected to represent them to determine whether or not this president is undermining the Constitution, whether or not he’s acting in our best interests, and whether or not he’s putting us in danger because he may be compromised in the way that he’s dealing with other countries.”
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) blasted President Trump on Thursday after he attacked his intelligence officials following their testimonies before a congressional committee, saying it was “past time for impeachment!”
Waters, a frequent critic of the president who often calls for his ouster, took to Twitter to ask when Americans would “wake up” to Trump’s reported lies.
“Impeach that mother**,” screamed freshman Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
This is the new normal.
Waters and Tlaib are everything wrong with America today.
Nothing will be good enough for them until Trump is out of office and he is replaced with an extreme radical.
The crazy just doesn’t stop!
https://ilovemyfreedom.org/watch-heated-maxine-waters-tells-msnbc-we-have-everything-needed-to-impeach-trump/?utm_source=star&utm_medium=twitter
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1104891609768968192
Anne Frank’s stepsister meets teenagers from swastika photo
When she first heard about the controversy, Eva Schloss, a Holocaust survivor whose mother later married Anne Frank’s father, was shocked. Students at a school in Southern California had been photographed giving a Nazi salute while standing in front of several dozen red cups arranged in the shape of a swastika. The photos, shared widely on social media last weekend, provoked widespread outrage.
On Thursday, Ms Schloss, 89, found out just what those teenagers were thinking. The answer, it turns out, is that they weren’t.
“I think they really didn’t think about the consequences, but I think they have learned a lesson for life,” Ms Schloss, who has been on a tour of the United States for several weeks speaking out about the dangers of prejudice, told reporters on Thursday after a private meeting with the students.
Her stepsister, Anne Frank, was 15-years-old when she died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany in 1945. Soon after the end of World War II, her father, Otto, published her diary, which went on to become one of the world’s best-known books. One of its most famous lines is “In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. “ Ms Schloss said the controversy showed that education about the Holocaust is still lacking, a fact that the school — Newport Harbor High School in Orange County — seems to understand.
“I think this school has got the message and I hope the state will have got the message and from now on things are going to be improved,” she said. Photos from the party were widely shared on social media last weekend, prompting officials from the school and school district to hold an emergency meeting on Sunday.
On Monday, Katrina Foley, the mayor of Costa Mesa, one of the two cities served by the school, released a statement saying there was “no place” for hateful imagery in the community and that even “normalising these symbols as a joke is dangerous.” At school that day, students wore blue as a show of solidarity with the Jewish community.
That night, hundreds of people packed into an auditorium at Newport Harbor High School for a community meeting where they heard from students, a rabbi and the spokeswoman for a local Jewish organization. The school has already interviewed more than two dozen students in its ongoing investigation into the party, it said in a statement.
In an interview Thursday, Sean Boulton, the school’s principal, said that “society as a whole has normalised hate language and hate speech.” The students, he added, had “got caught up in a larger national issue.”
In fact, various reports suggest that hateful speech and activity are on the rise.
According to a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center last month, the number of hate groups in the United States rose for the fourth year in a row in 2018. That is in line with a rise in hate crimes, which have increased nationwide in each of the three latest years for which FBI data is available. Early data indicate that reports of hate crimes in New York City are on the rise this year, too.
White supremacist groups have increasingly used propaganda on college campuses to spread racist and anti-Semitic messages in an attempt to recruit new members, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
In the past week alone, swastikas were found spray-painted on a trail in Milwaukee and displayed by students at an assembly at an elite private school in Washington. Last month, two 12-year-olds covered a playground in Queens with swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti as well. To Paul Nussbaum, president of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, episodes like the one documented in the photos from last weekend are the result of a failure of leadership — of parents, teachers and community leaders not doing enough to keep prejudice at bay. “The safety rails are not working,” he said. “We don’t have leaders that are shaming this type of thought and behaviour back into the shadows where it belongs.” The museum, about 50 miles northwest of Newport Harbor High School, is planning to host students, parents and officials from the district for an upcoming private tour at which they’ll meet with a Holocaust survivor and hear perspectives from Mr Nussbaum, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, and the museum’s executive director, who is the grandchild of Holocaust survivors.
Educating students is a central part of the museum’s mission, he said. Last year, nearly a quarter of its approximately 63,000 visitors were students, he said.
The key to educating young people about the Holocaust, according to Mr Nussbaum, is to focus on the personal.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/anne-frank-s-stepsister-meets-teenagers-from-swastika-photo