Saturday, April 29, 2017
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Delta pilot SMACKS woman while trying to break up fight between two female passengers after landing
THIS is the shocking moment a Delta pilot was caught on camera smacking a female passenger in a bid to break up a violent brawl in front of stunned travellers.
Footage posted on YouTube appears to show the pilot trying to separate two women who got into a physical altercation on an airport jet bridge shortly after the plane landed.
He then grabs one of brawling women by the arm and hits her before walking away as the pair continue to wrestle on the ground.
The fight reportedly happened Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta.
A clip of the incident was uploaded online on April 21 with the caption: “First thing I see when I arrive in Atlanta!”
The celebrity and entertainment news website reported a Delta employee gave a supervisor the video almost immediately after the incident.
Delta employees were upset because security wasn’t called, it added.
The airline said it is investigating the incident and taking the video “very seriously”.
The Sun Online has contacted Delta Airline for comment.
The latest plane drama comes after a Delta Airline passenger last week was kicked off a flight because he was desperate for the loo after waiting half an hour for take-off.
Video shows Kima Hamilton’s “outrageous” clash with cabin crew, which ended with everyone on board being forced to leave the plane and a further two-hour delay.
Earlier this month, 69-year-old Dr David Dao was left battered and bloodied after he was dragged from a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky after the airline overbooked seats.
Video of the incident provoked rage across the world and at one point $1billion was wiped off the company’s value.
The doctor received a financial settlement from United Airlines.
The troubled airline hit another blow after The Sun last week reported how three-foot Simon the rabbit appeared happy and healthy when he touched down at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport but was found dead a short time later.
It emerged the giant pet “froze to death” after he was accidentally left in a freezer for around 16 hours.
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Le Pen, Putin, Trump: a disturbing axis, or just a mutual admiration society?
The week after Donald Trump won the US presidential election last November, Marine Le Pen was inaugurating the headquarters of her own election campaign in Paris, less than a mile from the Elysée Palace she hopes to move into soon.
The far-right, anti-immigration Front National leader had been the only French political leader to back Trump in his bid for the White House. She has also made no secret of her admiration for Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin.
Unveiling her campaign symbol, a blue rose, she said that her election as France’s president would form a trio of world leaders that “will be good for world peace”, leading “a worldwide movement that rejects unchecked globalisation, destructive ultra-liberalism, the elimination of nation states, the disappearance of borders”.
Last month, Le Pen was in Moscow for a personal audience with Putin. “A new world has emerged in these past years,” she said. “It’s the world of Vladimir Putin, it’s the world of Donald Trump in the US. I share with these great nations a vision of cooperation, not of submission.”
Clearly, there is ideological common ground between the three leaders: variations on a theme of nation-first politics, support for economic protectionism and immigration controls, mistrust of international alliances and institutions such as Nato or the EU, and a rejection of globalism and the liberal consensus.
But Le Pen’s actual ties with the two leaders differ significantly. With Russia, at least, they go beyond the ideological to the personal and the practical. Her meeting with Putin in March was reported to be their first; but according to French investigative journalists, it is possibly their third.
Twitter Explodes Over Trump’s Surprise At The Demands Of Being President
After Donald Trump confessed to Reuters that he thought being president would be “easier” than it is, Twitter blew up with aghast responses from voters, people in politics and at least one former head of state, who pleaded with the president to please quit the White House and just stick to the golf links.
Trump’s remarks in an interview published Friday (”This is more work than in my previous life; I thought it would be easier”) drew a storm of comments expressing astonishment and derision, mostly delivered in the snarkiest way possible.
The comments were similar to Trump’s astonishing remark in February, when he observed: “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) laughed at first when asked about that comment but then got serious: ”Yeah, we got a clue. When you provide health care in a nation of 320 million people, yeah, it is very, very complicated.”
If anything, Trump’s latest comments were even more rattling, drawing a stunned response from former Mexican President Vicente Fox Quesada and a zinger from commentator Keith Olbermann.
Oxford political researcher Brian Klaas weighed in with shock, and Democratic political operative David Axelrod wondered at the reality of it.
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Turnbull Government has ordered an inquiry into GST distribution
The model takes money from rich States such as WA, which create wealth, and gives it to poorer States, such as SA, Queensland and Tasmania, to balance out “inequality”. The WA Government argues the model penalises the west for its strong resources industry while rewarding States which knock back mining projects.
Bureaucrats at the Commonwealth Grants Commission recently determined that next financial year WA will receive a pitiful return of just 34¢ in the dollar, ripping $4.5 billion out of the State at a time when it has the worst-performing economy in the country.
After questions from The Sunday Times, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann confirmed the inquiry, which will hold hearings and report back to the Federal Government by January 31, 2018. The timing of the review ensures the GST will be a key battleground in the 2019 Federal election.
“We want the Productivity Commission to have a thorough look at the impact current GST-sharing arrangements have on the national productivity and economic growth. We need to ensure that all States have the right incentives to grow and develop their economies so that we can optimise national productivity and economic growth in the process,” the senator said.
Source: Turnbull Government has ordered an inquiry into GST distribution | Perth Now
