A young Jordanian man named Feras M. Freitekh grappled with his flight instructor over the controls of a light plane just before it was to land at an airport in Hartford, Connecticut. The instructor was unable to wrest control away from the student soon enough, and the plane crashed and burned on a street in East Hartford near the Pratt & Whitney jet engine plant. The student was killed in the crash, and the instructor was badly burned, and is recovering in the hospital. No one else was injured. Authorities believe that Mr. Freitekh was deliberately attempting to crash the plane to commit suicide, and say the incident was not connected to terrorism. Americans across the country were greatly relieved to learn that the unfortunate incident had nothing to so with Islam.
In other news, the Syrian man who was arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack committed suicide today in his cell in the German city of Chemnitz.
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On Thursday Iceland’s Supreme Court returned a guilty verdict for all nine defendants in the Kaupthing market manipulation case, after a long running court trial which began in April last year.
Kaupthing was a big international bank headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland. It expanded internationally for years, but collapsed in 2008 under huge debts, crippling the small nation’s economy.
By demanding that bankers be subject to the same laws as the rest of society, Iceland opted for a very different strategy in the wake of the financial crisis to rest of Europe and the US, where banks were fined nominal amounts, and directors and chief executives escaped punishment altogether.
While the US and UK governments provided bail outs and government stakes for their big banks with tax-payers’ money — essentially giving bankers the green light to continue behaving in the same way — Iceland adopted a different approach, declaring it would let the banks go bust, weed out and punish the criminal element at the top of the banks, and protect the savings of the people…
Meanwhile the economy that collapsed so spectacularly has rebounded after letting its banks go bust, imposing capital controls and protecting its own citizens rather than the elite bank bosses responsible for the mess.
This determination to hold people to account for actions that caused intense financial misery contrasts strongly with the U.K., the rest of Europe and the US. Yes, fines were imposed on the 20 biggest banks for transgressions such as market manipulation, money-laundering and mis-selling mortgages, but these costs fall on shareholders and, by hampering the banks’ ability to lend, they also punish the rest of society.
Meanwhile the guilty senior bankers, thanks to government bail outs, carry on making enormous profits and collecting their obscene bonuses as though nothing happened.
[Comment: Iceland shows the correct way to handle bankster shenanigans. This is exactly what the rest of the world needs to do. Globalists around Europe outraged at precedent — afraid their fellow citizens may get ideas to do the same.]
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The Total Amount of Debt in the World Just Hit a Record $152,000,000,000,000 (152 Trillion)
If anyone ever asks you how much debt there is in the world, now you will know the answer. According to the IMF, the total amount of debt around the globe has now hit a staggering 152 trillion dollars. That is an amount of money that is almost unimaginable, and the IMF says that it is equivalent to 225 percent of global GDP. It is the biggest debt bubble in the history of the planet, and it is rising at an extremely alarming pace. Experts all over the world agree that when this debt bubble finally bursts, it is going to create an economic crisis on a scale that humanity has never seen before.
When I first saw this number I was absolutely astounded at how reckless we all have become, and I was also amazed that there was hardly anything about this announcement in the mainstream media in the United States. The following excerpt comes from a story in a major British news source…
[Comment: This is what private central banking was designed to do. Enslave nations by put entire nations in debt to a cabal of private banksters.]
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“Liars for Hire” — Confessions of a Former Journalist From the Media Establishment
“The bottom line is to always remember that the media is not your friend in any way, shape or form, even if its lowest tier operatives fit the description of hapless victims rather than nation-wrecking enemies. The media must be opposed, exposed and boycotted at every turn until it starts bleeding money and choking on its own venom.”
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10 Signs That an All-Out Attempt is Being Made to Sabotage the Trump Campaign
Can the craziest election in modern American history get even crazier? At this point we are just 28 days away from the election, and it appears that an all-out attempt is being made to sabotage Donald Trump’s campaign. But the big surprise is where the worst of this sabotage is coming from. We always knew that politics in America is a dirty game, and that the Clintons are the dirtiest players in the game. And we always knew that the mainstream media was going to be in Clinton’s corner, although it has been a shock to what degree they have completely abandoned any pretense of objectivity during this election cycle. So it was always going to be an uphill battle for Donald Trump, but what he didn’t anticipate was blatant and widespread sabotage of his campaign from within his own party. In recent days it has become clear that the worst sabotage to the Trump campaign is being done by people that are supposed to be on his side.
It is being called “the Republican civil war”, and I don’t think that is overstating the case at all. Prominent Republicans all over America have turned their backs on Trump in recent days, and many of them have even publicly announced that they are going to be voting for Hillary Clinton.
I have always said that the establishment would move heaven and earth in order to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, and that is precisely what we are watching unfold right in front of us. Establishment Republicans, establishment Democrats, the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign are all working together to torpedo the Trump movement. Never before in modern American history have we seen anything like this. The following are 10 signs that an all-out attempt is being made to sabotage the Trump campaign just before the election…
1. Gateway Pundit is reporting on rumors that it was actually a close advisor to Paul Ryan (who wants to run for president in 2020 by the way) that leaked the now infamous Trump audio recording to the press.
2. The Blaze is reporting that there is a “mass hunt underway” at NBC News for more damaging comments that can be used against Trump.
3. According to Bill O’Reilly, there are three major media organizations that have “ordered their employees to destroy Donald Trump”.
4. There is a major push to have tapes from The Apprentice released which supposedly contain even more damaging things than were said on the audio recording released by the Washington Post.
5. According to Mike Cernovich, there are widespread reports of local GOP officials sabotaging the Trump campaign on the local level in critical swing states.
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Bill Clinton: Trump’s Base is ‘Your Standard Redneck’ [Video]
“Look, man the other guy’s base is what I grew up in.”
Bill Clinton characterized Donald Trump’s supporters as the culture “he grew up in” in Arkansas during a voter registration event in Belle Glade, Florida on Tuesday.
[Comment: Liar and fool. Trump’s base is those Americans fed up with globalists ramming a NWO agenda down their throats.]
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Billionaires Back “Black Lives Matter”
The Ford Foundation, one of the most powerful private foundations in the world, with close ties to Wall Street and the US government, recently announced that it is overseeing the funneling of $100 million over six years to several organizations that play leading roles in the Black Lives Matter movement…
The petty-bourgeois leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are now poised to exercise a significant degree of political influence directed at securing privileges within the political elite. A quick look at the founders of Black Lives Matter gives a sense of the opportunist and self-promotional character of the group as a whole. The official Black Lives Matter organization was founded by three people: Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. The three met as members of BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity). BOLD is one of the 14 organizations now being funded by the Black-Led Movement Fund.
One of these founders, Garza, runs an organization called the National Domestic Workers Alliance, on whose board sits Alta Starr. Starr oversees a fund at the Ford Foundation. She is also on the board of a foundation backed by billionaire George Soros, the Open Society Foundation’s Southern Initiative.
[Comment: Foundationas are tax free havens where billionaires can funnel money to causes that advan ce the globalist NWO agenda. In this case to BLM, in order to destabilize the US. They don’t want blacks and whites to come together to stand against globalists.]
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Developing: Jordanian ‘Student’ Intentionally Slams Plane Into Downtown Conn. City
The survivor of a Tuesday plane crash in Connecticut, piloted by a Jordanian national, told FBI investigators it was “not an accident,” according to The New York Times.
The pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, came to the U.S. on a temporary student visa in 2012 for flight school. The legality of his immigration status is unclear. Federal Aviation Administration records indicate Freitekh was issued a private pilots license in May 2015, and verified his certification to fly a single-engine aircraft.
Freitekh’s potential motivations are unclear at this time. Local media report he was killed in the crash.
The plane reportedly took off from a small flight school in Hartford, and went down on East Hartford’s Main Street Tuesday afternoon. Freitekh’s passenger, a flight instructor, survived in the crash, and the East Hartford Fire Department noted he was taken to the hospital with “significant injuries.”
The FBI is concerned because the plane went down next to a Pratt & Whitney (P&W) factory, which is classified as “critical infrastructure” by the U.S. government. The P&W factory is a global aviation manufacturer, including aviation parts for the U.S. military.
A P&W spokesman confirmed in a statement, “it does not appear at this time that any Pratt & Whitney employees or contractors were involved. Additionally, there is no impact to our operation here in East Hartford other than restricted traffic flow to the facility’s main entrance on Main Street. We stand ready to assist local officials as needed.”
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Did Hillary Sacrifice the Benghazi Heroes for Money?
Haidar began by telling us that his brother was one of the leaders of the Libyan freedom fighters engaged in the fight to overthrow the Gaddafi regime. Because of his leadership position, Haidar’s brother also attended high-level meetings with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Libyan operatives, besides U. S. Ambassador Stevens. One of those operatives was one Sidney Blumenthal, a long-time Bill and Hillary Clinton confidante. (Blumenthal was paid $10,000 a month from the Clinton Foundation while advising Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Libya matters, disobeying Obama’s direct order not to employ Blumenthal. He was also paid $200,000 a year from Media Matters, a left wing organization funded by socialist-financier George Soros. Further, the FBI questioned Blumenthal regarding his involvement in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal.)
According to Haidar’s brother, CIA agents, as well as military officers from Turkey and Iraq were in some of those meetings. The subject matter in the meetings was guns, ammunition and other major weapons of war … and money, lots of money. It seems that the Libyan freedom fighters had discovered a huge cache of Gaddafi’s military weaponry and they wanted to market some of those weapons to bring in money for their continued efforts to defeat what was left of Gaddafi’s military and political complex. There are always ready and willing international buyers for military hardware and the CIA knew every one of those buyers.
But it appears that Blumenthal also had connections to some of those buyers as well and set about to see if he couldn’t profit from his contacts. According to Haidar’s brother, Blumenthal had specific connections in the Turkish military and it appears that was where the lion’s share of the weaponry would end up. Remember, on the day of the attack on the Benghazi Consulate, Ambassador Stevens had earlier met with a Turkish diplomat.
In return for the seized Gaddafi military hardware, millions of dollars were funneled to the Libyan rebels and a large portion through the Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership in Canada. Those funds were then later transferred to the USA Clinton Foundation, with Blumenthal taking his usual cut for services rendered. All donors to the Canadian group were anonymous of course. We wonder how many Clinton-Blumenthal e-mails were purposely scrubbed from their Iphones, laptops and servers that the public will never see? Some of those e-mails were recovered by the FBI and contained classified information, a crime.
Much of the Canadian Giustra Partnership-Clinton Foundation connection was told in a New York Times article on April 29, 2015 at the following link.
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Erection 2008: Video Surfaces of Obama Flaunting His Junk to Reporters on Campaign Plane
First off, let me say that it’s a pathetic day when I am reporting on this, but hey, it’s the reality we live in. Our government and mainstream media are a bunch of little kids. This further proves it.
The media has not stopped buzzing about the fact that ten years ago, Trump made some piggish locker room comments that included the word “p*ssy”.
While that speaks for itself on Trump (it’s hard to believe people are really that surprised, it’s Donald Trump we’re talking about here after all), the entire event shows you how the media spins information to paint candidates in a positive or negative light for the American public based on establishment goals.
Want further proof?
This video of then-candidate Obama below is going viral on Twitter, with Tweet after ReTweet asking, “Where’s the outrage MSM?”
This is pretty gross but here it is folks — 2008, Obama is campaigning, and reporters giggle like school girls and gawk at his erection. pic.twitter.com/7JXvo1kQIH
– — Deplorable Mac 🸠(@TweetBrettMac) October 11, 2016
The video, shot by CNN in 2008 while Obama was on the campaign trail, speaks for itself.
You can hear the gaggle of female reporters giggling about it too. Now just consider for a moment what would happen if this was Donald Trump.
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Instructor: Student Pilot Fought for Control of Plane; NTSB Says Crash Intentional
A student pilot and instructor were arguing shortly before a small plane they were in crashed near Pratt & Whitney Tuesday, killing one of them, a high-ranking local law enforcement official said Wednesday.
The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the student pilot told the instructor he did not want to fly the plane any longer, although it is not clear why. Another source said the student pilot starting flying the plane erratically and the instructor fought to gain control before the crash.
An initial search of an apartment where the student pilot, Feras M. Freitekh, was staying turned up no evidence of terrorism, the source said. But the FBI continued to search the apartment until about 2 p.m. Wednesday. Freitekh, 28, was killed.
The National Transportation Safety Board said its initial investigation indicates the crash was intentional and that the FBI will lead the investigation.
East Hartford Lt. Joshua Litwin said the one of the victims escaped from the plane after it crashed and is being treated at the Bridgeport hospital’s burn center. He is expected to survive and is talking with investigators, Litwin said.
The instructor was identified by sources as Arian Prevalla. He is the president of the American Flight Academy and managing member of the Hartford Jet Center, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Authorities said they were trying to determine who had control of the plane at the time of the crash.
“Either of the two occupants at any time had the ability to take control of this plane,” said Litwin.
The wreckage of the plane remained on the scene of the crash Wednesday morning, and a stretch of Main Street was closed.
The Piper PA-34 Seneca struck a utility pole and wires, knocking out power to the area, and was then engulfed in flames, witnesses said. The twin-engine aircraft, which took off with a student and flight instructor at Hartford-Brainard Airport, crashed about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Public record show Freitekh has lived in Orland Hills, Ill. since April of 2013. He holds a license to fly a single-engine plane. Federal Aviation Administration records show he was issued a private pilot certificate on May 29, 2015.
Police also were at an apartment house on Annawan Street in Hartford late Tuesday and Wednesday, searching with dogs and wearing protective gear, the boyfriend of a resident of the three-building complex said. Sources said Freitekh was staying at the location and that investigators interviewed other flight students.
Eric Bass, who lives nearby, said a number of apartments in the complex are rented out by area flight schools for their students. He said the students who lived there are from foreign countries, although he did not know where. He said four students lived in the building where his girlfriend lives. Bass did not say whether police took anything out of the apartment. The complex was not evacuated.
Freitekh was staying at the apartment for at least five months, neighbors said.
Giselle Velazquez, one of his neighbors, said Freitekh was “very nice, polite, always smiling” and that he “always stopped to say hello.”
Another neighbor, Jessica Reyes, who lived in the same building, said he often cooked meals from his native Jordan for her and that he bought ice cream for neighborhood children.
Flight students also stay in an apartment on nearby Essex Street, which city records indicate is owned by Prevalla. A neighbor at 32 Essex St. said the owner of unit E frequently rents to trainees at Brainard Airport, typically young men who stay for months at a time. The unit has so much turnover, she said, that an “unoccupied” label remains marked on the front door for that unit.
Two men had recently been living there, she said, though she didn’t have their names. The head of the condominium association was not immediately available for comment.
The men live on the top floor of the Essex Street building. No one answered the door at the unit Wednesday morning.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned Wednesday that the general public should not jump to conclusions about the reasons for the plane crash.
“As a nation, we have all had to adjust to a new reality,” Malloy told reporters at the state Capitol. “When events such as this occur, we recognize that people almost automatically wonder if someone meant to do us harm. But we must exercise caution about jumping to conclusions before discovering and considering all of the facts.”
Malloy has been briefed by the state police, who are involved in the investigation along with other authorities. He declined to discuss specific details of the investigation and referred questions to the FBI…
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Official: Connecticut Plane Crash Appears to be Suicide Try; 1 Dead
EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A flight instructor and a student pilot had an altercation inside the cockpit of a small plane, and the instructor was unable to regain control from the trainee before the plane crashed near the headquarters of a military jet engine manufacturer, killing the student, a U.S. official familiar with the investigation into what happened said Wednesday.
The crash appeared to have been a suicide attempt by the student, and terrorism was ruled out, the official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly, told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
The Piper PA-34 Seneca crashed with the two men aboard during a training flight Tuesday in East Hartford near the headquarters of Pratt & Whitney while returning to Brainard Airport in Hartford, authorities said. The flight instructor was badly burned but survived…
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Only One Way for the FBI to Regain Its Lost Reputation
There is only one thing, at this point, that can rehabilitate the reputation of a once honorable organization now up to its neck in the muck of influenced investigations and tampered justice. A number of current FBI agents must publicly condemn Director Comey and deplore the deeply disturbing, very unusual actions taken by the FBI in these investigations. This may cost the agents involved their careers, but agents who care about the agency more than their careers will take that risk. These agents ought to explain exactly how this investigation was utterly wrong and how it deviated from normal practices.
Director Comey compelled twenty-five agents to sign nondisclosure agreements, but these agreements cannot prevent these agents from publicly criticizing how politicized the investigation appeared to them. In fact, this might even be more telling: “We have been ordered by Director Comey to sign nondisclosure agreements, so until he releases us from those agreements, we cannot provide details, but we can say this: the whole thing stinks from top to bottom. Everything about this investigation fails the smell test. If Director Comey will release us from the nondisclosure agreements, we will be happy to say more.”
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Paul Ryan Sabotages His Own Party With Trump Tape
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers… we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” — – -Alexander Solzehnitsyn
It turns out that the audio had been edited to give the impression that Trump was being adulterous in his attempt to seduce the woman. Edited out of the audio is Trump saying that the incident with the married woman took place when he was a single man.
Said Jerry Falwell, Jr. in a recent address: “I think this whole tape… video tape thing was planned, I think it was timed, I think it might have even been a conspiracy among establishment Republicans who have known about it for weeks and who tried to time it to do the maximum damage to Donald Trump, and I just… I just think it just backfired on them.”
Investigative journalist Mike Cernovich identified the source of the leak as Daniel “Dan” Samuel Senor, a close advisor to House Speaker Paul Ryan. According to Mike Cernovich, Donald Trump’s get out the vote efforts have been sabotaged at every level by the GOP, sources reported. Some of the sabotage is obvious and clear, and others is subtler. Their motivations for sabotage vary from personal and professional jealousy to financial.
Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit confirmed that GOP elites indeed had leaked the damaging audio.
Breitbart confirms Ryan and GOP globalists leaked the damaging audio.
Cernovics describes two ways in which Trump’s political party is sabotaging his voter registration drives:
1. Bait-and-switch: Cernovich says that Trump volunteers have told him that when they went to their local GOP office to get out the vote, they were told to campaign for other GOP candidates. When the volunteers say they wanted to campaign for Trump, they were told to leave.
2. The big ignore: Other Trump volunteers said they’d show up to GOP offices only to find the doors had been locked. Their calls would go unreturned. All of which made it impossible to volunteer to get out the vote for Donald Trump.
According to Cernovich, the GOP was sabotaging Trump’s efforts even well before the infamous “tape” was leaked:
The GOP’s plan was to lose Pennsylvania, Florida, and Ohio. Then the “hit mic” video gave them an excuse to make their sabotage public. The “hot mic” video had no effect on voter sentiment, but it did give the saboteurs an excuse to publicly renounce Trump. Local offices were shut down, and Senators and Congressmen and other Republicans were told that endorsing Trump would lead to funding being cut off.
The GOP is committing suicide.
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The Coming National Gun Ban — And How the States Can Resist
The law of averages predicts that at some time in the future, perhaps as soon as 2017, the Democratic Party will once again control the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress. When that happens, the next Democratic president — be it Hillary Clinton or someone else — will sign into law a sweeping, foreign-style gun ban.
The legislation has already been written. H.R. 4269 would enact a national, permanent ban on the manufacture and sale of so-called “assault weapons” and all firearm magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. The bill, introduced last December, already has149 Democratic co-sponsors (218 are needed to pass the House).
H.R. 4269 would ban all AR-15 and AK-type rifles and all civilian versions of military rifles produced anywhere in the word within the past 60 years or so. The bill would also ban all parts kits, stripped receivers, “bump-fire” stocks, thumbhole stocks, trigger cranks, so-called “compliant” rifles, and “any… characteristic that can function as a [pistol] grip.” Law enforcement is exempt from the bill’s provisions.
H.R. 4269 is not a “kick down the door and confiscate ‘em” bill. Existing rifles and magazines are “grandfathered” (but the transfer of existing magazines is permanently prohibited). Gun banners know that it is literally impossible to perform a door-to-door gun confiscation in a nation of 300 million people, and that any attempt to do so would certainly be met with violence. Consequently, they have pre-empted the “Come and take it” crowd by employing a long-term strategy. Once the manufacture and sale of certain weapons is prohibited, it is only a matter of time before the legislation would be amended to outlaw the transfer of “grandfathered” rifles as well as magazines, thus enacting a de facto confiscation within a generation…
If banning “assault weapons” has nothing to do with crime or terrorism, why are the Democrats so eagerly in favor of it? The answer is that they have a Hobbesian worldview, in which an all-powerful “Leviathan” government has a complete monopoly on the exercise of power. The Founders recognized that military-quality arms, not sporting arms, are an indispensable tool for challenging government oppression. Contemporary Democrats, who reject the Founders’ teaching, believe that such arms must be banned precisely because they can be used to challenge Leviathan’s authority.
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Trump as President Would Pose Global Danger — U.N. Rights Chief
GENEVA — The world will be in danger if Republican nominee Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the top United Nations human rights official said on Wednesday.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein cited Trump’s views on vulnerable communities including minorities and his talk of authorising torture in interrogations, banned under international law, as “deeply unsettling and disturbing”.
“If Donald Trump is elected on the basis of what he has said already — and unless that changes — I think it is without any doubt that he would be dangerous from an international point of view,” Zeid told a news briefing in Geneva…
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Trump Election Would be ‘Dangerous’, Warns UN Rights Chief in Extraordinary Intervention
Russia has immediately defended Trump, suggesting UN official shouldn’t criticise potential foreign heads of state.
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WikiLeaks Dump: Top Clinton Aides Slam Catholicism, Evangelical Christianity
Halpin characterizes Catholicism an “amazing bastardization of the faith.”
New revelations from the latest WikiLeaks dump has key Hillary Clinton aides taking heat after they are caught attacking two major faith groups in email correspondence.
[Comment: What else can one expect from Communists?]
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More Than 45,000 Canadians Estimated to Have Left the Country for Medical Care in 2015
VANCOUVER-Tens of thousands of Canadians continue to venture abroad for medical care, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. The study, Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2016, estimates that 45,619 Canadians in 2015 received non-emergency medical treatment outside the country. “A large number of Canadians clearly feel they have to leave the country to obtain needed and timely medical care,” said Bacchus Barua, study co-author and senior economist for health-care studies at the Fraser Institute.
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Trudeau’s Carbon Price Last Thing Ontario Needs
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced all provinces must soon adopt a “price on carbon” of $50 per tonne or else face a carbon tax imposed by the federal government.
This could mean yet another tax hike for Ontario families, who already pay 42.5% of their average income in taxes and have been hit hard by recent tax increases at both the provincial and federal level.
It’s the last thing Ontarians need.
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At Least 15 Youths Attempt to Burn Police Officers Alive in Paris ‘No-Go Zone’
Viry-Chatillon (Essonne) on Saturday. Around 15 hours, two police cars that were on duty in front of the sensitive city of Great Borne, were assaulted by fifteen hooded individuals.” Nicolas Goinard
“ After throwing in the cockpits of incendiary devices, attackers tried to block the doors to prevent passengers vehicles that caught fire out.” — Victim of “ targeted attack,” Police officer Sébastien, who likely saved the life of his colleague who is now in an “ artificial coma.”
A gang of “ youths” in La Grande Borne, “ located in both the communes of Grigny and Viry-Chtillon,” considered to be a “ no-go zone” in the southern suburbs of Paris, France, attacked four police officers with Molotov cocktails.
“ No, this scene does not take place in Syria,” began the French news outlet Le Figaro (translated), who reported that the attack on police officers was “ targeted violence.”
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France: Furious Le Pen Blasts Francois Hollande for Fueling Tensions Between Putin and the West
The National Front leader condemned the French president for betraying France’s diplomatic traditions by making “extremely bellicose” comments toward Putin over the Russian president’s cancellation of a diplomatic visit to Paris.
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France Creates National Guard to Combat Terror Threat
France’s government on Wednesday approved the creation of a National Guard to bolster the country’s security against potential terrorist threats.
The Guard is expected to reach 84,000 people by 2018 and will relieve traditional security forces. France’s police and military have been stretched following a series of devastating terror attacks across the country in the last two years.
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France’s Hollande Sees a ‘Problem With Islam’, According to New Book
French President Francois Hollande told the authors of a book just published that “France has a problem with Islam”, comments that risk dividing his party before next year’s presidential election.
Hollande made the remarks to the two authors of “A President Shouldn’t Say That…” in December 2015, a month after Islamist militant gunmen and bombers attacked Paris, killing 130 people. Their book was published on Wednesday.
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German Organized Criminals Benefiting From Islamic Radicalism
Organized criminals are benefiting from the wave of Islamic extremists in Germany because the threat of terror attacks take up so much police resources, leaving criminals with a free hand.
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Germany: Chemnitz Terror Suspect Jaber Albakr Found Dead in Cell
Jaber Albakr, a Syrian suspected of planning a terror attack in Germany, has been found dead in his jail cell. He was suspected of planning to carry out a bomb attack on an airport.
A Syrian man suspected of planning to carry out a bomb attack on a German airport was found dead in his jail cell after committing suicide, the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Hollande: France ‘Has Problem With Islam’
(DAILY MAIL) French president Francois Hollande has admitted the country ‘ has a problem with Islam’ and warned France’s national symbol will one day by a woman in a burka.
Hollande also branded ethnic minority football stars as ‘ guys from the estates, without references, without values, who leave France too early’, it emerged today.
The words were all part of a more general attack on people from Muslim backgrounds whom the Socialist Mr Hollande views as a major difficulty for his country.
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Forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland logged 455 sightings from members of the public between 2010 and 2015. Norfolk and Suffolk saw the highest number of reports.
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Muslim Man in Norway Raped Daughter for Being “Too Western”
A young Muslim woman in her 20s in Norway was raped by her father because she was becoming too Westernised.
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Sex Assault Imam Hifiz Rahman Flees UK Ahead of Sentencing
An imam who sexually assaulted two girls in the 1980s has fled the UK for Bangladesh ahead of being sentenced.
Hifiz Rahman, 58, absconded on Saturday after being found guilty the day before of assaulting the girls at a mosque in Dudley, police said.
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UK: Judge Refuses to Ban Paedophile From Taking Photos of Children
Martin Taylor took 8,000 images of children in his local town of Driffield, east Yorkshire, but the judge said he could not ban him from taking more in case he reforms and want to take innocent images.
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UK: Police Investigate Rapper Who Called for Nigel Farage Beheading
A so-called rapper who made an Islamic State-inspired music video calling for Nigel Farage to be beheaded is being probed by police.
[Comment: Just look at the guy in the photo. Looks like a nut.]
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Arms Dealer Says Administration Made Him Scapegoat on Libya Operation to ‘Protect’ Clinton
Clinton’s State Department — tried and failed to make him the scapegoat for a 2011 covert weapons program to arm Libyan rebels that spun out of control.
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Spain and Morocco Arrest Four Suspected of Link to Islamic Militants
Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested four Moroccan men suspected of links to militant Islamist activity, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
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New York Times Calls for Obama to Support a UN Resolution That Would Divide the Land of Israel
I have included the official State Department statement on this matter below. Just like Barack Obama did at the UN recently, the State Department referred to Israel’ s presence in the West Bank as an “ occupation” …
“We strongly condemn the Israeli government’ s recent decision to advance a plan that would create a significant new settlement deep in the West Bank.
“Proceeding with this new settlement, which could include up to 300 units, would further damage the prospects for a two state solution. The retroactive authorization of nearby illegal outposts, or redrawing of local settlement boundaries, does not change the fact that this approval contradicts previous public statements by the Government of Israel that it had no intention of creating new settlements. And this settlement’ s location deep in the West Bank, far closer to Jordan than Israel, would link a string of outposts that effectively divide the West Bank and make the possibility of a viable Palestinian state more remote.
“It is deeply troubling, in the wake of Israel and the U.S. concluding an unprecedented agreement on military assistance designed to further strengthen Israel’ s security, that Israel would take a decision so contrary to its long term security interest in a peaceful resolution of its conflict with the Palestinians. Furthermore, it is disheartening that while Israel and the world mourned the passing of President Shimon Peres, and leaders from the U.S. and other nations prepared to honor one of the great champions of peace, plans were advanced that would seriously undermine the prospects for the two state solution that he so passionately supported.
“Israelis must ultimately decide between expanding settlements and preserving the possibility of a peaceful two state solution. Since the recent Quartet report called on both sides to take affirmative steps to reverse current trends and advance the two state solution on the ground, we have unfortunately seen just the opposite. Proceeding with this new settlement is another step towards cementing a one-state reality of perpetual occupation that is fundamentally inconsistent with Israel’ s future as a Jewish and democratic state. Such moves will only draw condemnation from the international community, distance Israel from many of its partners, and further call into question Israel’ s commitment to achieving a negotiated peace.”
As you can see on the official State Department website, that press release was issued on October 5th.
At the exact same time, Hurricane Matthew was rapidly gaining strength, and it ultimately became the first category 5 hurricane to form in the Atlantic since 2007. It proceeded to slam into the southeastern United States, causing billions of dollars of damage in the process. The following comes from Wikipedia…
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Putin: We Know Who Destroyed Aid Convoy in Aleppo, Syria
We are concerned with the deterioration of Russian-American relations, Putin said
The attack on a UN humanitarian aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo last month, which Washington has blamed on Russia, was actually carried out by one of the terrorist groups present in the area, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
“It was one of the terrorist groups. And we know that, say, the Americans know it too, but prefer to take a different position, to falsely accuse Russia. This is not helping,” Putin said at an economic forum in Moscow.
[Comment: US backed terrorists attacked the convoy, trying to make it look like Russia did it, in order to use the incident as a pretext for greater NATO, US involvment in Syria.]
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Russian Government Officials Told to Immediately Bring Back Children Studying Abroad
In Europe, when it gets serious, you have to lie… at least if you are an unelected bureaucrat like Jean-Claude Juncker. In Russia, however, when it gets serious, attention immediately turns to the children.
Which is why we read a report in Russian website Znak published Tuesday, according to which Russian state officials and government workers were told to bring back their children studying abroad immediately, even if means cutting their education short and not waiting until the end of the school year, and re-enroll them in Russian schools, with some concern. The article adds that if the parents of these same officials also live abroad “for some reason” , and have not lost their Russian citizenship, should also be returned to the motherland. Znak cited five administration officials as the source of the report.
The “recommendation” applies to all: from the administration staff, to regional administratiors, to lawmakers of all levels. Employees of public corporations are also subject to the ordinance. One of the sources said that anyone who fails to act, will find such non-compliance to be a “complicating factor in the furtherance of their public sector career.” He added that he was aware of several such cases in recent months.
It appears that the underlying reason behind the command is that the Russian government is concerned about the optics of having children of the Russian political elite being educated abroad, while their parents appear on television talking about patriotism and being “surrounded by enemies.”
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court Lets Maduro Bypass Congress in Budget Process
CARACAS — Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed President Nicolas Maduro to put forth the country’s 2017 budget without going through the opposition-led National Assembly, breaking a constitutional obligation.
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Germany Limits Citizens’ Access to Benefits
Angela Merkel’s cabinet has rubberstamped a new welfare plan that will make it harder for EU migrants to claim unemployment benefits in Germany. Opposition parties call it a betrayal of the European Union’s ideals.
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Germany Coalition Party Considers Hungary-Style Migrant Referendum
The government coalition member Christian Social Union (CSU) party is considering having a nationwide referendum on the migrant crisis in the same style as Hungary.
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Hungary: 8 Suspects Held for Deaths of 71 Migrants in Truck
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Various murder and smuggling charges will be recommended against one Afghan and seven Bulgarian suspects for the deaths last year of 71 migrants who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated truck found in Austria, Hungarian police said Wednesday.
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Migrant Who Died in Calais Ambush Threw Himself at Car Travelling at 40mph
Nafthali Reichman said he and his son Abraham have been left traumatised after being ambushed by up to 50 migrants from the notorious Jungle camp near the Channel Tunnel terminal.
The father of a British driver who accidentally knocked down and killed a migrant in Calais believes the desperate man tried to leap on to the bonnet as they travelled at 40mph.
Nafthali Reichman said he and his son Abraham have been left traumatised after being ambushed by up to 50 migrants from the notorious Jungle camp as they headed for the nearby Channel Tunnel terminal.
The 63-year-old said the man had hurled himself on to the bonnet and smashed the windscreen in a desperate attempt to get to the UK. He also believes the Eritrean may have had a weapon.
As his son slowed down, the migrant fell off the car and ended up lying on the road, Mr Reichman said.
They decided to keep driving because they were terrified by a mob of migrants that surrounded the car.
‘It was unbelievably terrifying,’ said Mr Reichman, a jeweller from Stamford Hill in North London.
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‘No Alien Population Can Settle in Hungary’ Orban Snubs Brussels With New Migration Law
Mr Orban wants changes to the country’s constitution which will ban foreigners from settling unless they abide by new residency rules — against European Union (EU) wishes.
He submitted the proposed changes to the nation’s parliament yesterday.
The amended constitution, if approved, includes the paragraph: “No alien population can be settled in Hungary. Foreign citizens, not including the citizens of countries in the European Economic Area, in accordance with the procedures established by the National Assembly for Hungarian Territory, may have their documentation individually evaluated by Hungarian authorities.”
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Overburdened German Cities Tell Refugees to Move Out
ESSEN, Germany—Thomas Kufen, the mayor of this rust-belt town in western Germany, thinks his city has a bad case of refugee overload.
Since the beginning of the year, some 7,150 refugees have flocked to Essen from other towns, twice as many as the city was allocated for the whole year under Germany’s complex burden-sharing mechanism. This, Mr. Kufen says, is more than it can handle.
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Sweden: Protest After Migrants Gang Rape Woman in Wheelchair
A wheelchair-bound Swedish woman says she was gang-raped by five migrants who were then released days after their arrest, as the victim allegedly did not do enough to fight off her attackers, according to prosecutors.
The incident has sparked outrage and protest in the town of Visby, on the Baltic island of Gotland, due to the authorities’ refusal to detain or report the nationalities of the attackers.
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An Islamist girls’ boarding school which taught that men could beat women and that gay men could be killed faces closure after a student whistleblower exposed its worrying practices.
Aliyah Saleem was expelled in front of the entire school in 2011 just for owning a disposable camera.
Following her expulsion Ms Saleem spoke out about her treatment at Jamia Al Hudaa girls’ school in Nottingham, saying she was not taught geography, history, art or music.
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Trudeau’s Carbon Price…(TAX !)
This is a very poor link concerning Trudeau’s dictatorial tax. The premier in Canada who is leading the fight against this Tax is Brad Wall of Saskatchewan . He’s against such taxes and instead uses technology to reduce carbon emissions in his province. Reports I’ve read have said that he is talking to his people about legal action against the federal government with this unilateral decision by Trudeau. Brad Wall took control of Saskatchewan in 2007 and has won two successive elections since then. He took a “have-not” province and turned it around. He’s the most popular premier in Canada.The province is small with only 1.1 million people but is feisty and hates interference from Ottawa . Especially a Liberal Party government !
Ontario on the other hand is run by a Liberal premier (Kath Wynne) who just loves Trudeau’s government but Ontario covets high taxes and is deep in debt – Worse than California but with less people (13.8 million). She is also the LEAST popular premier in Canada !
If Brad Wall follows through with a legal challenge then things will get very interesting this Winter for sure.
The EU really is away with the fairies. I cannot see it surviving long enough to negotiate Brexit.
In Germany in the town of Moers a Syrian rapefugee sexualy assaulted a 15 year old German girl.
She tourned around and smacked in his face.
This was too much for him to bear, so he turned to the police for complaints, because he felt that she had treated him unfairly.
http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/mann-beruehrt-maedchen-unsittlich-und-beschwert-sich-aid-1.6318325