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delft

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now that would be something if true
Russia Considers Returning Snowden to U.S. to ‘Curry Favor’ With Trump: Official

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Snowdon can return to US if he will be given the Medal of Freedom. In the mean time all talk about it is to the advantage of him and Russia.
 

B.I.B.

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I now remember there is, since the '70's, a system of emergency beacons that are activating when a ship capsizes or sinks or when an aircraft goes down. It uses receivers on satellites to estimate the place of the accident but the beacon can also send its own coordinates. this can well be extended to huge farms anywhere in the World.

These days Personal locater Beacons are relatively cheap.Anyone going on outdoor activities such as camping bush treks etc are encouraged to have one. Tourists can hire them as well.If you're lost or injured it sends out a SOS signal with co ordinates for search and rescue to trace.

Although our farm is pretty much billiard table flat and the chances of a Quad bike accident are pretty slim, they are still equipped with satellite messenger. We also have a "Phantom" drone which is essentially used for stock checks and If it's daylight, we can use it to search if somethings wrong. It's much quicker than quad biking over 1500 acres.

Nearly 3 decades ago we had a Japanese climber who was caught in a white out and blizzard dug himself a snow cave and waited it out for six days.As he walked down the mountain he announced to a person that happened to be standing around
"Hi Im George, I think you could be looking for me" Meanwhile 6 NZ soldiers out of a squad of 12-14 out on a training course on how to survive in a mountainous region died.

Fatal storm haunts army
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before my lunch break is over:

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stunning picture (won some World Press Photo award, I closed the tab already) from the place I was unaware of:
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Saturday at 10:12 AM
Jan 11, 2017
while now I read National security adviser Flynn discussed sanctions with Russian ambassador, despite denials, officials say
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(LOL "The law against U.S. citizens interfering in foreign diplomacy, known as the Logan Act, stems from a 1799 statute that has never been prosecuted."
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and
Flynn on thin ice but still in at the White House after turbulent few days
A turbulent weekend has National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on unstable ground with President Donald Trump over Flynn's inability to deny that he spoke about sanctions against Russia with the Russian ambassador before Trump took office.
Trump, who doesn't like when his aides generate negative press, has expressed displeasure with Flynn to aides in recent days, said a source close to the President. Trump and his team are particularly bothered by the possibility that Flynn misrepresented his conversations to Vice President Mike Pence.
Flynn has no plans to resign and no expectations that he will be fired, a senior administration official told CNN Sunday.

While Flynn may have no plans to leave the White House, many inside the Trump administration are concerned with the fact that the national security adviser could have misled senior members of the White House, including Pence, who went on national television and denied that Flynn spoke about sanctions with Sergey Kislyak, Russian ambassador to Washington.
Flynn spoke with Pence at least twice Friday, according to another White House official who declined to say whether the conversations were about the ongoing controversy. The episode over sanctions against Russia has opened a rift between Flynn and Pence, who exchanged a chilly handshake Friday before Trump's news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Flynn did work with Trump over the weekend at Mar-a-lago, according to the official who declined to say with certainty whether the president and Flynn have addressed the ongoing issue.
"The knives are out," the official added, acknowledging that Flynn's future in the White House is hardly a sure thing. "There's a lot of unhappiness about this."

Administration officials, some of who were once unsure about the details of the story, now believe the national security adviser did, in fact, discuss sanctions with the Russian ambassador. A US official confirmed to CNN on Friday that Flynn and Kislyak did speak about sanctions, among other matters, during a December call, contradicting past statements by White House officials.
After the call was made public, Pence told CBS News on January 15 that Flynn did not talk sanctions levied by the Obama administration with Kislyak.
"They did not discuss anything having to do with the United States' decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia," Pence told CBS News.
On Friday, an aide close to the national security adviser told CNN that Flynn could not rule out that he spoke about sanctions on the call.
The White House official blamed much of the outcry against Flynn on a Washington culture that's always in search of a scalp, but people within Trump's orbit were unable to defend Flynn on Sunday.
Stephen Miller, White House policy director, was asked directly about Flynn's future on a number of Sunday talk shows. Miller responded by saying he was not the appropriate official to ask the question, hardly a ringing endorsement from the aide the Trump administration put out to talk on Sunday.
"I don't have any answers today," Miller said in response to questions about whether Flynn misled the vice president. "I don't have any information one way or another to add anything to the conversation."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime Trump ally, told CNN's Jake Tapper Flynn needs to clear up his story with Trump and Pence in an interview Sunday on "State of the Union."
The White House official, pushing back against the idea that Flynn spoke about sanctions, raised questions about the uproar surrounding Flynn and poked holes in the criticism coming from the general's detractors.
Why, the official said, would a general with years of experience in the intelligence field jeopardize his career by discussing something he likely knew was being recorded.

Trump is also deeply loyal to Flynn: Their relationship stretches further back than many of the national security adviser's White House counterparts.
While Trump's top White House advisers like chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon only came aboard after Trump secured the Republican nomination, Flynn was an early supporter and joined Trump's campaign as his top foreign policy adviser in early 2016.
But Flynn was not just a policy adviser. He also played the role of top surrogate on the campaign trail, seeking to boost Trump's national security bona fides and also leading the charge on political attacks against Trump's Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Flynn was also a contender to join Trump on the Republican ticket as his running mate. But even after he wasn't tapped for the vice presidency, Flynn continued to travel with Trump to most of his political rallies as one of his most trusted advisers in his small circle of aides.
"It's a problem," a senior White House adviser said Friday about the possibility that Flynn misled Pence.
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now recalled Dec 2, 2016
while google-translated
Le général Michael Flynn, futur conseiller à la sécurité de Trump: « un dingue...»
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General Michael Flynn, future Trump safety advisor: "a crazy ..."
The appointment of General Michael Flynn as Donald Trump's National Security Advisor (NSC) arouses some reservations in French military circles. "It's a crazy," says a general officer who has rubbed shoulders with him in recent years. "He has spent his entire career in intelligence and has developed a complicated vision," he adds.

This opinion is also shared in American circles. A good connoisseur of this universe explains that this appointment is "a catastrophe". "Flynn is excellent at the tactical and operational level, but totally lacking in strategic judgment" ( "theater-stategic and grand-strategic levels").

His analuses are without nuances, for example when he explains that "Islam is a political ideology that lies behind an ideology" - "it is like a cancer".

Michael Flynn, 58, belongs to the category of military "chemically pure" whose political sense is probably not the first quality. Michael Flynn entered the US Army in 1981 and has effectively conducted his entire career in the intelligence specialty. He served at the 82nd Airborne and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) before heading the DIA, the military intelligence agency, from which he was fired by the Obama administration. He has been involved in operations in Grenada, Haiti and especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Flynn left active service in 2014. Long Democrat, he joined the Trump team in the last campaign.

Other military personnel could be appointed to important posts, such as Generals Petraeus and Mattis, much more respected by their French counterparts.
 

Zool

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Just to wrap up the story, he finally made it home:
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  • Wang Qi crossed India border shortly after the Sino-India war of 1962
  • After his release from jail, he lived in a village in Madhya Pradesh, where he married a local girl and has two children
  • For long Wang was known as a man with no country but he returned to China at the weekend for an emotional reunion with his long-lost relatives
  • His biggest regret was he could not meet mother before her death in 2006
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PUBLISHED:22:47 GMT, 12 February 2017|UPDATED:00:00 GMT, 13 February 2017
Wang Qi, the 77-year-old Chinese army veteran who returned to his homeland on Saturday after 54 years in India, has not yet decided whether he will eventually settle in China or return to his home in Madhya Pradesh, his family has said.

Since his emotional reunion on Saturday in Xian with his brothers and sister, Wang has been swept up in a whirl of media attention and feted by the government.

His return has been celebrated by the Chinese media and has received non-stop coverage for the past few days.

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For long Wang was known as a man with no country but he returned to China at the weekend for an emotional reunion with his long-lost relatives

While Wang's wife Sushila, whom he married in the village of Tirodi in Madhya Pradesh where he has lived since 1969, and daughter Anita did not accompany him on the long journey to China because of health reasons, he was joined by his son Vishnu Wang, his daughter-in-law Neha and grandson.

As Wang, in the coming days, reunites with long-lost relatives, the family will also, in the weeks ahead, have to decide on his future.

The 77-year-old is thought to be keen 'on spending the last years of his life in China' as one acquaintance said, but his wife remains in India, where his son and daughter and their families reside.

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Wang with his family in Tirodi, Madhya Pradesh where he has lived since 1969

'This is a decision, the family has to sit together and decide, whether my father and us stay or go back, and when we go back,' Vishnu Wang told India Today, speaking at the hotel where the Wang family has been residing since their arrival.

They have been hosted by the local government in the town of Xiangyang, near Xian, which is an hour away from the remote and difficult-to-reach family village of Xuezhai where Wang Qi's brothers live.

Wang is expected to travel to the remote village on Monday and pay respects at the grave of his mother, who passed away seven years ago.

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Wang Qi with his Indian family and his relatives in China. He was offered a home in his native village

He never had the chance to see her again after being jailed in 1963 after entering Indian territory shortly after the Sino- India War of 1962.

Vishnu spoke of his father's joy at reuniting with his brothers, who last saw him as a young 20- year-old.

'My father met with his family for the first time after 54 years, his older and younger brother, and sister. He couldn't stop crying,' Vishnu said.

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Since his emotional reunion on Saturday in Xian with his brothers and sister, Wang has been swept up in a whirl of media attention and feted by the government

'We are thankful to both India and China governments for taking the good decision of allowing him to come to China. I'm also so happy, that for the first time he has been able to come here.'

The family's only regret was Wang being unable to see his mother.

'The only thing I'm sad about is he was waiting for so long to see his mother, but its a source of sadness for our family that she was not alive to see this,' Vishnu said.

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As Wang, in the coming days, reunites with long-lost relatives, the family will also, in the weeks ahead, have to decide on his future

The family faces a difficult decision in the weeks ahead, as Wang Qi decides whether to return to his family in India, or relocate with his wife, even as his children live in India. Wang is a Chinese citizen, and was issued a passport by China in 2003.

He has been granted a one-year visa by India, relatives said, which would allow him to return to his home in Madhya Pradesh.

China has unusually given his son Vishnu and his family a two year visa that is rarely granted to foreign citizens, underlining the significance Beijing has attached to the case.
 

manqiangrexue

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Just to wrap up the story, he finally made it home:
WHHATTT?? What did I just read? I thought they locked him up until now. They released him; he married, had a family and all that? Was he not free to go back to China? How was he not free? Why was he let out of jail and allowed to start a family but not free to go home? Nothing makes sense! LOL
 

Zool

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WHHATTT?? What did I just read? I thought they locked him up until now. They released him; he married, had a family and all that? Was he not free to go back to China? How was he not free? Why was he let out of jail and allowed to start a family but not free to go home? Nothing makes sense! LOL

Years in prison, years not allowed by the Indian Government to return home to China after release and eventually, on recommendation of friends he made, deciding to start a family and try to have some kind of a life... Trying to get home to at least visit his family and mother before she passed away (which the Indian Government did not help with and he did not make it)... Not exactly a LOL situation for a sympathetic human being.

Anyway I posted what, 3 different articles on the man's story with plenty other info out there? All of your questions have been answered. A sad story with a somewhat happy ending for the few years the guy has left.
 
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