Germany's cabin crew union has staged a New Year's Day strike, forcing the cancellation of dozens of flights. The union has threatened further action if it doesn't secure a new part-time structure for flight attendants.
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More than 70 Eurowings flights were canceled on Wednesday as a cabin crew strike stretched into its third and final day , according to the German airliner.
The strike targeted Germanwings, which operates flights for Lufthansa's low-cost subsidiary, Eurowings.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Lufthansa facing strike warning amid arbitration bid | News | DW | 26.12.2019
The German union representing Lufthansa cabin personnel says it will brief its members late Friday on a potential strike call before the year's end. Airline management says it is interested in further arbitration.
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The Frankfurt-based union Independent Flight Attendant Organization (UFO) said it would announce stoppage details on its YouTube channel late afternoon Friday local time (1600 UTC).
Controversial UFO photos sold at auction for $16,500 | KRON4
MYSTERY WIRE — Fraud or not, “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier’s photos claiming to show clusters of UFOs over the Swiss countryside are a prominent part of the lore surrounding UFO investigations.
News that they sold for $16,500 at auction to an unnamed bidder at Sotheby’s Auctions should come as no surprise. They have ascended to icons of the controversial field of ufology, which at the time was in a constant struggle for its reputation. One photo is displayed prominently in “The X-Files.”
Here Are The Rock Icons We Lost In 2019 — Kerrang!
Here are the icons within rock music that we lost this year, listed here so that we can take a moment to remember each one’s talent, influence, and legacy. We wish all their friends, family, loved ones and collaborators a happy new year, and send our hearts out to them.
Artist Larry Carroll, whose painting adorned the covers of Slayer's three most famous albums, passed away on May 21. He was 65 years old.
Dark psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson, best known for his work with The 13th Floor Elevators and Roky Erickson & The Aliens, passed away on May 31, at 71 years old.
Were you following this:
'Project Blue Book' Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. - The New York Times
So, despite the embellishments, we were interested to discover parallels between the TV version and the historical and current reality.
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The History series predictably sensationalizes and overdramatizes case investigations and the historical figures involved, adding many story elements that simply never happened. It's already hard enough for those trying to understand the truth about government involvement with U.F.O.s without mixing fact and fiction.
Ireland UFO: Pilots report bright, fast-moving object in sky - The Washington Post
The flummoxed person on the radio was simply an airline pilot who could not explain what she saw in the sky over Ireland.
The British Airways pilot was operating Flight BA94 from Montreal on Friday when she contacted the nearest air traffic control tower to inquire whether there were any military exercises over the Atlantic Ocean to which she hadn't been alerted, according to the Irish Examiner .
When controllers told her that the skies were clear, she politely set them straight. She said she and her crew saw bright lights streaking through the air at phenomenal speeds — twice the speed of sound.
216 UFO Sightings In Arizona So Far In 2019: What They Saw | Tucson, AZ Patch
ARIZONA – The National UFO Reporting Center gets witness accounts of unidentified flying objects every year from people in Arizona and elsewhere around the country.
The idea that we're not alone and aliens from another galaxy are circling the planet in strange-looking spacecraft has long fascinated us. Thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, are filed every year. In Arizona, while the clock ticks down to Jan. 1, 2020, so far 216 reports have been filed in 2019.
The Best of the CIA's 12-Million Page CREST Archive | WIRED
This week, the Central Intelligence Agency posted its CIA Records Search Tool database online , making roughly 930,000 declassified documents—over 12 million pages in all—widely accessible for the first time. Since no one has time to sift through that many digital files, we did it for you. Here's the last five decades of CIA papers, greatest hits edition.
The document trove, CREST, was already declassified and technically available to the public, but only in person, from specific computers at the National Archives in Maryland. Digitizing that big a haul has also been quite a process; in 2014, the CIA said it could take up to six years to get it all online.
Happening on Twitter
More than 70 Eurowings flights have been canceled as a cabin crew strike stretches into its third and final day. https://t.co/3NApgR0mp1 dwnews (from Germany) Wed Jan 01 13:32:00 +0000 2020
German cabin crew union says to strike next week at Germanwings https://t.co/qfRJI8ICKF https://t.co/I4dg24jZ1F Reuters (from Around the world) Fri Dec 27 21:55:50 +0000 2019
German cabin crew union says to strike next week at Germanwings https://t.co/EtNwdoDts5 https://t.co/XwmEcOA7BP Reuters (from Around the world) Fri Dec 27 18:42:12 +0000 2019
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