Chinese Restaurant Shut Down: "Roast Duck" was Dead Street Pigeons

A Chinese restaurant in Madrid has been shut down after it was caught serving roasted street pigeons as duck. 

The Jin Gu restaurant, in the Usera district of the Spanish capital, was raided on March 25 by police, who made sickening discoveries. 

Horrific footage taken inside the restaurant by officers showed gnarled strips of meat hanging from clothes horses. 

Another clip showed a bag full of dirtied meat, and bowls of plucked and cooked street pigeons.

Local media also reported that the restaurant had eight faulty, rusted freezers filled with bags of unlabelled and undated meat and fish, cockroaches in the kitchen, as well as a litany of rat traps across the floor. 

There were also no thermometers to measure the temperature of storage areas and the cookware was rusted and unsanitary. 

The restaurant additionally held several prohibited and illegal items, including sea cucumbers - which are protected by strict marine laws.  

The Jin Gu restaurant, in the Usera district of the Spanish capital, was raided on March 25

The restaurant was ordered to close and its owner is now being investigation for alleged public health crimes

Horrific footage taken inside the restaurant showed gnarled strips of meat hanging from clothes horses

Cops also found a secret storage room hidden behind a shelf in the restaurant's disabled toilet. 

In the wake of the raid, the restaurant was ordered to close and its owner is now being investigation for alleged public health crimes. 

The filthiness of the kitchen was laid bare by the footage

The restaurant held many illegal items including sea cucumber

Police said the restaurant had used street pigeons in place of roasted duck 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14586871/Chinese-restaurant-shut-roast-duck-dead-street-pigeons.html

Chinese boys filmed standing on a dining table and peeing into the broth pot at a Shanghai branch of Haidilao, China's biggest hotpot chain

Police said the two teens were drunk 

A Chinese restaurant in Kansas City has come under fire after a worker was filmed cutting up meat on the sidewalk

The owners said that the person was cutting up pork

Sydney Morning Herald food writer Callan Boys saw 'dead flies floating in the soy sauce'  at a Chinese restaurant

A male employee at China Yan restaurant caught mixing food with his bare arms and hands

Besides the appalling videos, the restaurant has received several citations for improper handwashing

Other footage caught another employee touching meat with his bare hands

This diner said eating at a popular Chinese restaurant left her vomiting through the night

A dozen diners fell ill after enjoying a Chinese New Year meal 

Yu Shang Food, Inc. recalled 72,240 pounds of meat products due to possible contamination with listeria bacteria

Fashionable Chinese young woman biting one of the wings of a cooked bat at a fancy restaurant. 

Soup cooked with a bat. Bats are used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat a series of illness, including coughing, Malaria and Gonorrhea

Cantonese-speaking diners preparing to eat soup made with the nocturnal animal. 

New China House was dealt 18 violations and ruled out of compliance for having deer heads and brains on the premises among other unidentifiable animal body parts

Inspectors found 'skinned and whole tails, legs, muscle meat, spines, necks and other unidentifiable parts both raw and cooked' in the restaurant

large rat hanging out on one of the chandeliers of a Chinese restaurant 

Rats roaming freely around a New York Chinese restaurant

How to Avoid Flying Over Enemy Territory

Fear in the sky: How to avoid flying over enemy territory, what to do if you land there

The best advice is as follows: If you are flying with an Israeli passport, it’s recommended to fly with Israeli airlines.

In the opening scene of the Tehran series, a young Israeli couple boards a flight from the Gulf. Midway through the flight, a technical malfunction forces the plane to make an emergency landing at the airport in Tehran.

The couple, terrified and seemingly aware of the risk, begs not to be removed from the plane. However, despite their pleas, Iranian security forces violently escort them off for questioning, cutting them off from the outside world.

While this is a fictional TV drama, the danger it depicts is all too real. Israeli travelers—whether they hold a foreign passport or not—could find themselves in a similar situation. Passengers must understand how flight routes are chosen, how to verify them, and how to avoid flying over or landing in enemy countries.

How flight routes are planned

Flight paths are typically planned in advance using international flight software called LIDO, a global planning system used by most airlines. This software receives data about the aircraft type, passenger count, altitude, weather conditions, and fuel consumption to suggest possible flight routes. Airlines also input a list of countries in which their planes are prohibited from flying over based on security, regulatory, and political concerns.

For instance, Israeli airlines program the system to avoid flying over countries like Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, as outlined by the Israeli Foreign Ministry. This restriction is not left to the pilot's discretion and cannot be altered mid-flight. The software provides several route options, but each one is pre-checked for both safety and legal compliance.

What you can do as a passenger

Gadi Amal, Arkia's chief flight officer, explains that if you're flying with a foreign airline, it may be your responsibility to check the flight route. Airlines from East Asia, the Gulf, or Africa do not always avoid flying over enemy territory on flights to Israel. Therefore, it's highly recommended to use apps like Flightradar24 or FlightAware. These apps allow you to track your flight number and review the routes of previous flights along the same path. They will show you exactly which countries your plane is flying over. You can also use AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, although they may sometimes provide outdated information.

For example, some flights from Dubai to East Asia pass through Iran, and Israeli passport holders with foreign passports may not realize this until it's too late. Passengers often ask, "What happens if I fly over Iran?" In the case of a flight malfunction, extreme weather, or a medical emergency, the plane might be forced to land in a hostile country.

What to Do in an Emergency Landing

So, what happens if you find yourself in that situation? It’s important to note that the plane is considered the territory of the country to which it belongs, regardless of where it lands. However, the crew can disembark passengers at an airport that follows international conventions. In non-democratic countries that don’t adhere to international treaties, various, often unsympathetic, scenarios may unfold.

“First of all, don’t panic,” says Amal. “Avoid speaking Hebrew, showing Israeli documents, or doing anything that might reveal your nationality. While you’re still on the plane, immediately contact the Foreign Ministry’s situation room or let your family know what’s happening. Hopefully, the Israeli government and security services will take over the situation. In rare cases, intermediary countries like Switzerland or Germany might intervene and conduct a quiet rescue.”

Amal also stresses that pilots will not deviate from the planned route, even in an emergency. Instead, they will aim to land at an alternative airport in a non-hostile country. However, factors like weather, air traffic control, or emergency directives may influence this.

Recommendations for travelers

The best advice is to fly with Israeli airlines if you have an Israeli passport. If you have a foreign passport, always verify the flight route ahead of time. If you have concerns that the flight may pass over enemy territory, consider a different flight.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-849230

12,000 Years Old Pyramid Off Japan

Mysterious underwater 'pyramid' believed to be 12,000 years old reshapes history

A sunken 'pyramid' near Taiwan may rewrite everything we thought we knew about the ancient world.

Sitting just 82 feet below sea level near the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, a mysterious object called the Yonaguni monument continues to stump and astonish researchers since its discovery in 1986.

This giant structure with sharp-angled steps stands roughly 90 feet tall and appears to be made entirely of stone, leading many to believe it was man-made.

However, tests of the stone show it to be over 10,000 years old, meaning that if a civilization built this pyramid by hand, it would have taken place before this region sank under water - more than 12,000 years ago.

That would place it further back in history than most other ancient structures by several thousand years, including the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge.

Currently, scientists believe that the ability for ancient humans to construct large structures like temples and pyramids evolved alongside the development of agriculture 12,000 years ago.

If an advanced society was already building giant step pyramids long before this time, however, it could change the history books forever and reveal another lost tribe of humans - just like the myths of Atlantis.

In fact, Yonaguni monument is often called 'Japan's Atlantis.'

Yonaguni monument has a pyramid shape with shockingly straight steps that appear carved

Yonaguni monument is roughly 60 miles to the east of Taiwan

The site recently gained widespread attention after scientists sparred over its origins on the Joe Rogen Experience podcast.

Graham Hancock, an author focused on lost civilizations and archaeologist Flint Dibble debated over the pictures of Yonaguni monument.

'To me, Flint, it's stunning that you see that as a totally natural thing, but I guess we've just got very different eyes,' Hancock said.

Hancock added that photographs from dives at the site clearly show human-made arches, megaliths, steps, terraces, and what seem to be a carved rock 'face.'

If Yonaguni monument really was built by a mysterious civilization over 10,000 years ago, it would add it to the growing list of puzzling structures that should have been impossible to construct that long ago.

Built around the same time period, Yonaguni monument could potentially join the man-made ancient structure of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey as evidence of lost civilizations.

This archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia is believed to have been inhabited from around 9500 BC to at least 8000 BCE, during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Era.

That's over 5,000 years before the Egyptian pyramids were built and roughly 6,000 before Stonehenge.

The sandstone slabs of Yonaguni monument have convinced many researchers into ancient civilizations that an advanced society built a pyramid before the end of the last Ice Age

Göbekli Tepe in Turkey was constructed around the same time as researchers believe Yonaguni monument would have been built in Asia

Meanwhile, another ancient structure in Indonesia could predate Göbekli Tepe and Japan's Atlantis by a staggering amount of time.

Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch explorers in 1890, is said to be the world's oldest pyramid.

Studies show that the 98-foot-deep 'megalith' submerged within a hill of lava rock dates back more than 16,000 years.

In 2023, scientists said the structure promises to upend the conventional wisdom on just how 'primitive' hunter-gather societies actually were - revealing the true 'engineering capabilities of ancient civilizations.' 

According to Dr Masaaki Kimura, the case surrounding Japan's Atlantis is very much still open for debate. Kimura is the scientist who tested the sandstone's age, finding that the rocks date back more than 10,000 years.

At this point in history, the structure would have still been on dry land, before the melting of massive ice sheets caused global sea levels to rise at the end of the last Ice Age.

Studies show that at the peak of the Ice Age, roughly 20,000 years ago, sea levels were approximately 400 feet lower than they are today.

Gunung Padang, referred to as the world's oldest pyramid, is believed to date back more than 16,000 years to the peak of the last Ice Age

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14580245/underwater-atlantis-pyramid-structures-thousands-years-old.html