USA - turning into a dangerous shooting gallery: : Two children, one a 9-year-old girl, shot in Fort Lauderdale - by Eileen Kelley, Chris Perkins and Brooke Baitinger

Shooters fire more than 50 bullets into a crowd in Fort Lauderdale. A girl and boy among the wounded.

A lively party inside the store turned to chaos. Children covered their ears to blunt the jarring sound of gunfire as they ducked for cover. A mother rushed in with her little girl, the glass door to the market shattering, according to store surveillance video. The girl’s mom tried to avoid the gunfire as she carried her little girl, but the child still was struck.

Note EU-Digest: Tourists and visitors, if you want a dangerous holiday, come to America - "the world's number one shooting gallery" , daily killings and no proper gun control laws.

Read more at: Two children, one a 9-year-old girl, shot in Fort Lauderdale - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

USA: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport Reopened After ‘Suspicious Wires’ Cause Evacuation, Delays

All entrances to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport were closed for over five hours Thursday morning while police investigated "suspicious wires" found in a vehicle, leading to evacuations and a massive law enforcement response.

Broward Sheriff's Office officials said deputies received information about the suspicious wires in the vehicle that was in a parking garage near Terminals 2 and 3 just after

Deputies responded to the scene and quickly closed the roadways and secured the area around the vehicle located on the upper level of the garage, evacuating people in the vicinity.

Read more at: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport Reopened After ‘Suspicious Wires’ Cause Evacuation, Delays – NBC 6 South Florida

Christianity: Questions you were afraid to ask in Church

Calvary Chapel in Fort Lauderdale had a special surprize in store for their congregation this past Sunday. A one hour question and answer session, on every kind of question one might have on Christianity, but either never did ask, or if they did, was given an unsatisfactory answer. Impressive and to the point Enjoy the clarity and openness of it, and pass it on to anyone you think would benefit from it.

To watch, click here: https://calvaryftl.org/series/97/sermon/788/questions-youre-afraid-to-ask-in-church/

Pollution - USA: Over 200 Million Gallons of Toxic Sewage Spills Into Fort Lauderdale Waterways |

More than 200 million gallons of toxic sewage – enough to fill 320 Olympic-sized swimming pools – spilled into Fort Lauderdale's waterways over the past three months due to breaks in the city's aging pipe system, according to a report Monday.

Note EU -Digest; Local Fort Lauderdale government, which clearly neglected keeping the infrastructure up-to-date, will now have to invest millions to do so, in addition to having to absorb the cost for litigation, the potential of polluted waters from local waterways also polluting  Fort Lauderdale beautiful beaches and lost tourist revenues etc.

Read more at:
https://spacecoastdaily.com/2020/02/over-200-million-gallons-of-toxic-sewage-spills-into-fort-lauderdale-waterways/

Turks, Azerbaijans and friends of Azerbaijan commemorate Armenian Khojaly genocide victims in Fort Lauderdale - by RM

The Florida Turkish Center in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday evening, March 1, 2014 commemorated the cruel Armenian genocide of innocent Azerbaijan civilians at Khojaly..

Following an introduction by Mrs Tohfa Eminova,  President of the Florida Azerbaijan Association, Mr Samir Bejanov, Political Officer of the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan  in Washington DC, provided the audience with a comprehensive report illustrated with slides and a video presentation of the actual sequence of events surrounding the Khojaly genocide. 

Mrs. Tohfa Eminova - (photo MB)

On February 25-26, 1992, Armenian occupation forces together with the 366th infantry regiment of Soviet troops stationed in Khankendi committed an act of genocide against the population of the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly.

Some 613 people were killed, 487 people were injured. Some 1275 residents were taken hostages. Most of them did not return from captivity. Their fate still remains unknown.

The Khojaly genocide is considered a crime not only against Azerbaijani people, but also against humanity, since it is fully consistent with the Convention on Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted on December 9, 1948.

According to this Convention, any crime against people based on their ethnicity is called genocide. And in Khojaly people were killed just because they were Azerbaijanis.

Mr. Samir Bejanov (photo MB)

Following the establishment of the Soviet rule in Armenia in late 1920, the Armenians were presented with a real opportunity to fulfill their age-old dream of creating an Armenian State on the territories of other nations. 

During the 70-years of Soviet rule, the Armenians succeeded in expanding their territory at the expense of Azerbaijan and using every possible means to expel the Azerbaijanis from their lands. 

Also during this period, the policy to expel the Azerbaijanis from their lands was implemented systematically and methodically. 

In 1920 the Armenians declared Zangezur and a number of other Azerbaijani lands to be part of the territory of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1923 they managed to secure the status of an autonomous province for the mountainous part of Karabakh within Azerbaijan. Consequently this created an artificial entity within the territory of Azerbaijan, while the Azerbaijani population living in the territory of Armenia at that time were not given similar rights. 

The current stage of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan may be regarded as having formally begun on 20 February 1988, when the Soviet of the People’s Deputies of the Nagorny Karabakh Autonomous Province adopted a decision to petition the Supreme Soviets of the Azerbaijan SSR and the Armenian SSR for the transfer of the province from the former to the latter.

 Florida Turkish American Association members (photo MB)

Before the adoption of this decision, basically at the end of 1987, the Azerbaijanis became subject of attacks in Khankendi (during the Soviet/Russian  period ) and this
resulted in a flood of Azerbaijani refugees and internally displaced persons.

On 22 February 1988 near the settlement of Askeran on the Khankendi-Aghdam highway, the Armenians opened fire on a peaceful demonstration by the Azerbaijanis protesting against the above-mentioned decision of the Soviet People’s Deputies of the Nagorny Karabakh Autonomous Province. As a consequence two Azerbaijani youths lost their lives, becoming the first victims of the conflict.

In 1991 central law-enforcement agencies of the then USSR apprehended dozens of the Armenian armed groups that operated outside Nagorny Karabakh. As a result, the Chaykend village of the Khanlar district of Azerbaijan was turned by the Armenian armed groups into a criminal hub from which they bombed and shelled surrounding villages and roads, terrorizing the local Azerbaijani population. From 1989 to 1991, in Chaykend and adjacent areas 54 people fell victim to the Armenian armed groups. In 1992 Azerbaijan regained its control over the Goranboy district.

At the end of 1991 and the beginning of 1992 the conflict turned into a military phase. Taking advantage of the political instability as a result of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and internal squabbles in Azerbaijan, Armenia initiated by giving external military assistance to combat operations in Nagorny Karabakh.

In February 1992, an unprecedented massacre was committed against the Azerbaijani population in the town of Khojaly. This bloody tragedy, which became known as the Khojaly genocide, involved the extermination or capture of thousands of Azerbaijanis as their town was razed to the ground.

During that fatal night of 25 to 26 February 1992 the Armenian armed forces, with the help of the infantry guards regiment No. 366 from the former USSR implemented the seizure of Khojaly - a small town situated in the small Nagorny Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan with a population  of 23,757, and cruelly decimated them. 

The large number of question from the audience during the question and answer period, following Mr. Bejanov's presentation, showed how much much the talk had impressed the audience. 

Given the present invasion of Russian troops into the Crimea area of Ukraine, the Fort Lauderdale Turkish Center presentation also provided  an actual insight as to Russian historical political strategies concerning their former territories. and spheres of influence    

The informative event at the Florida Turkish Center in Fort Lauderdale was concluded with Azerbaijan food and refreshments.

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Venezuela Thousands in South Florida demonstrate for peace in Venezuela

Thousands of South Floridians gathered at Doral's J.C. Bermudez Park on Saturday afternoon to show support for the peaceful protests in Venezuela. 

To view images of demonstration click on link below.

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Turkey: Demonstrations against Government of Erdogan now also in the US - by RM

Protest at South Florida  Pompano Beach

Spontaneous demonstrations took place today in South Florida and New York against the Turkish Government of Erdogan and its ever increasing dictatorial behavior, corruption and suppression of press freedom.

More demonstrations are expected  in US cities tomorrow.

There are presently more journalists locked up in Turkey than anywhere in the world, leaving Iran and China scrabbling in the dust, with by most reckonings 103 reporters behind bars, as opposed to 42 in Tehran and 27 in China. More journalists were arrested in Istanbul in one morning over last Christmas than the Chinese managed all year.

Protest Zucotti Park New Yok

One can only ask how a country that was held up as a "poster boy" for democratic reform by the US and the EU,  because of its apparent readiness to embrace western style democracy and capitalism, and be an example for so-called "moderate Muslim democracy" for the Middle East, went so horribly wrong?

Gulen the inspirational leader of Erdogan may preach openness and tolerance, but the movement run in his name is really a model of deceit and gradual establishment of Sharia law in Turkey.

This popular protest might be the last chance for all freedom loving Turks inside and outside the country to make a difference.

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Europeans on the scene shocked by Fort Lauderdale airplane accident

Airplane crash Fort Lauderdale

A twin engined Piper PA31 aircraft went down around 4:30 p.m., soon after departing Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, said Kathleen Bergen, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Fort Lauderdale fire Division Chief John San Angelo said that all three people on the plane died in the crash. 

"There was a lot of damage, a lot of fire -- I don't think anybody could make it through that," San Angelo said.

Two European citizens who witnessed the accident from the BJ's wholesale store on Powerline road about 200 meters from the impact of the plane, sent us a picture from their mobile phone. "I was shocked and will never forget this horrible scene of seeing the plane diving nose down into the ground and exploding into a fireball", one of them said.  

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Sun Sentinel: Zoom Airlines to offer Fort Lauderdale-to-London flights - by Tom Stieghorst

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Zoom Airlines to offer Fort Lauderdale-to-London flights - by Tom Stieghorst

Broward County will get regular nonstop flights to London for the first time in 10 years under a plan unveiled Tuesday by Canada's Zoom Airlines. Zoom has agreed to fly twice weekly starting in May 2008 between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and London's Gatwick Airport. The price for the flights will start around $750 to $800 round trip, including departure taxes, fees and an unspecified fuel surcharge. The London connection has been avidly pursued by tourism promoters in Fort Lauderdale. The 370,000 people who visit Broward annually from the United Kingdom typically fly through Miami or Orlando. Nonstop service makes it easier to sell Fort Lauderdale as a turnkey destination.