Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has directed his most scathing comments so far at German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He said that most of the arrivals in Europe in the last two years have been economic migrants, and not refugees. He also told her: “We won’t pay for YOUR error.”
In other news, Finland is hoping to host the first summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump next year, after the latter becomes president.
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“Russian Hacking” A “Disinformation Campaign” Against Trump, Says Congressman
Intelligence agencies REFUSE to brief Congress
Intelligence agencies are refusing to brief members of Congress on claims that Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election, as Rep. Peter King charged that false information is being leaked to the media as part of a disinformation campaign to discredit Donald Trump.
Labeling the move “absolutely disgraceful,” Congressman Peter King told Megyn Kelly there was no evidence that Russia directly intervened to help Trump and no proof that this has changed since DNI director James Clapper’s conclusion on November 17th that Russia had no role in the release of the DNC or Podesta emails before the election.
“There is no consensus opinion, and yet we find it in the New York Times and the Washington Post and yet the House Committee on Intelligence was told nothing about this,” said King.
“This violates all protocols and it’s almost as if people in the intelligence community are carrying out a disinformation campaign against the president elect of the United States,” added King, noting that someone in the House or Senate could also be leaking false information.
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Black Lives Matter Activists Profiting $100k/Year Off White Guilt
According to HeatStreet, two female Black Lives Matter activists are raking in the dough after starting a business that offers a subscription service “to guilt-ridden white ‘allies’ who pay a monthly fee to be sent instruction on how to support their movement.”
Their names are Leslie Mac and Marissa Jenae Johnson, and they rose to prominence after storming the mic at a Bernie Sanders Rally in Seattle last year. With just a little bit of recognition, the pair has managed to sucker 300 customers, they claim, to send them money every month.
Here’s how the program works. For a $25 subscription, customers receive instructions to their e-mail inbox with tasks related to “white people striving to be allies in the fight for Black Liberation.” For $100 per month, customers receive a physical box to their postal address “containing a number of tasks for the month to challenge white supremacy and help them ‘do tangible ally work and support black women in both power and deed.’“
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George Soros Funding Anti-Trump Group
The liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), now fashioning itself as a powerful anti-Trump force, is funded by George Soros, big banks and several large corporations.
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Hollywood Celebrities Urge Electors Not to Vote for Trump
The push to pressure and overturn the Electoral College vote on December 19 escalated last night, when a group of celebrities created a video to urge Electoral College members to cast their votes for someone other than President-elect Donald Trump on Monday. “You have the position, the authority, and the opportunity to go down in the books as an American hero who changed the course of history,” several celebrities say in turn.
The group, which calls itself Unite for America and was formed to try to prevent Trump from becoming president, created the video published Wednesday, which features actors Martin Sheen, Debra Messing and Bob Odenkrik, among others.
Their mission statement is presented below:…
[Comment: What else can you expect from communists and useful idiots?]
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Jill Stein Spends $1m of Recount Donations on “Staff, Admin and Consultants”
After promising to spend “every dollar” of the donations she raised from disaffected Hillary supporters on recount efforts, Jill Stein has just released the following budget which reveals that over $1mm (or nearly 15% of the total $7.3mm raised) was used to fund her “staff payroll,” “consultants,” “administrative expenses,” and “compliance costs.” This looks eerily similar to some Clinton Foundation budgets we recently reviewed which claimed to have spent “every dollar” of their donations on “charity work.”
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Julian Assange: Media ‘Increasingly Not Very Important’
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday blasted US media outlets, contending in an interview that the power possessed by journalists had greatly diminished in recent years.
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Lame Duck Congress is After Your Contact Lenses
In 2004, Congress crushed this government-created monopoly by enacting the Fairness in Contact Lens Consumers Act (FCLCA), in effect declaring that prescriptions are the property of the patient, not the prescribing doctor.
As a result of this legislation, an optometrist is now required to give the patient a copy of his contact lens prescription after each visit. Now consumers are free to purchase their contact lenses wherever they choose rather than being locked into paying the inflated prices at their eye doctors’ offices.
Thanks to the FCLCA, the Walmarts of the world provide a wide range of contact lenses to consumers at competitive prices. This has turned the contact lens industry into a $7-billion-a-year industry that serves over 41 million people annually.
The Medical Lobby Fights Back
Contact lens consumers have a lot to cheer for — that is, unless the medical lobby gets its way. Johnson & Johnson, which manufacturers about 40 percent of all contact lenses, is not satisfied with its piece of the pie and has colluded with the AOA to push a protectionist bill through Congress that will restore its monopoly power.
If passed, CLCHPA will reduce consumer buying options and greatly increase costs by turning back the clock to the pre-2004 monopolistic practices. It will allow optometrists to “pocket-veto” third-party transactions through the process of direct verification.
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NBC News Morphs Into the Onion
NBC News has completed its metamorphosis into a the Onion-style joke fake news outlet with its latest “revelation” that Russian president Vladimir Putin was “personally involved” in the hacking of U.S. Democratic Party emails. A study of the NBC report reveals that there is-as usual-absolutely no evidence whatsoever for the claim, and is a perfect example of the “fake news” over which the controlled media hypocritically whines about.
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So much for the Russian hacking story. If the following exclusive report from The Daily Mail is true, then the entire Clinton narrative just fell apart.
A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by ‘disgusted’ whisteblowers — – — and not hacked by Russia.
Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September.
‘Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,’said Murray in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. ‘The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.’
His account contradicts directly the version of how thousands of Democratic emails were published before the election being advanced by U.S. intelligence.
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The Birth of Christ and the Birth of America Are Linked
As we approach the day in which we commemorate Christ’s birth, I am reminded of a quote by John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words:
“Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? . . . Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity, and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the prophecies, announced directly from Heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets six hundred years before?”
Adams was exactly right. The United States of America is the only nation in human history established by mostly Christian people, founded upon Biblical Natural Law principles, and dedicated to the purpose of religious and personal liberty and equal justice under the law for all men. This truth is easily observed within America’s earliest history.
America’s forebears first established a written covenant with God and each other as early as November 11, 1620, when they penned The Mayflower Compact. It states in part:…
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U.S. Kids Keep Getting Dumber; Ranked 31st of 35 Developed Nations in Math, New Study Reveals
The U.S. Department of Education has just released it’s latest ranking of international education systems (Program for International Student Assessment — – “PISA”) and performance of U.S. students just continues to deteriorate on both absolute and relative terms.
Perhaps it’s time to have a real conversation about the complete failure of “Common Core” and the idiocy of allowing teachers’ unions to hold our children hostage while hiding behind ridiculous contracts that grant tenure after 6 months and make it impossible to fire underperformers. Just a thought for the incoming Trump administration.
The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss summed up the problems nicely:…
Our schools no longer teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather than be taught how to think and problem-solve, children are thought what to think and how to feel. All these money-making and money-spending schemes tend to sound nice, of course, but they inevitably fall flat.
[Comment: This was always the goal of government indoctrination centres. See the book “Dumbing Down America”.]
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Vote Fraud? More Votes Than Voters in One-Third of Detroit Precincts
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was certainly right when she said, “We do not have a voting system we can trust.” And her aborted recount in Michigan helped prove it, revealing that more than one-third of Detroit voting machines recorded more votes than voters.
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Why the Media Can’t Tell the Truth About Trump
As far I can tell the world is in a much worse place after eight years of President Obama. China, Russia, Iran and Cuba are stronger. The Middle East is in shambles. Terrorism deaths are higher and the world has a massive refugee crisis. I can think of nowhere that the U.S. is better off today after eight years of Obama, Hillary and Kerry. Isn’t it time to give new ideas and a man accomplished throughout the world a chance?
Not for the legacy media and its Democrat clients.
I remember when George W. Bush was in office and the Congo and Darfur were of extreme importance to Hollywood and the media. As soon as Obama took office these people and countries were no longer important. Isn’t that telling?
The media and Democrats will be opposed to almost anyone Trump picks for any office or any action he announces. They will twist 180 degrees in order to attack him. Senator Obama, Hillary Clinton, almost all Democrats and the media all called the CIA and other intelligence agencies liars on WMD’s in Iraq. President Obama continues to say that the CIA gave him faulty intelligence on ISIS. But if President-elect Trump questions the CIA on reports of Russia interfering in the election and the media, Democrats and some Republicans are up in arms. They vilify anyone questioning the Intelligence agencies and treat this as if this would be the first time it the CIA getting something wrong ever happened.
It is fake news by the NYT, WaPo and other media outlets to state or imply that Russia supported Trump because they didn’t release hacked emails from the RNC. The RNC wasn’t hacked, so how could they have released them? Facts haven’t meant anything to most of the media for a long time because they have an agenda to push.
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Yachtsman Boasted About Murdering British Couple in the Caribbean in Front of His Son
Silas Duane Boston, of Sacramento, CA, now 75, told a friend in gruesome detail about killing a young British couple, Peta Frampton and Christopher Farmer, in 1978, He is now charged with the murders.
The California man charged with the murdering a British couple in the Caribbean in 1978 ‘laughed’ as he boasted about the killings, a friend has claimed.
Bryan Logsdon, 50, of Pomona, California, said Silas Duane Boston, 75, described Frampton’s dying screams as ‘funny’ while telling him about the killings during a trip to Mexico in the early 1990s.
Logsdon’s claims form part of the criminal case against Boston, who is set to go on trial for the murders of Peta Frampton and Christopher Farmer in January next year.
Investigators from the FBI also spoke to his sons, Vince, 52, and Russell, 50, whose testimony appears in documents lodged at Sacramento Superior Court last week and seen by DailyMail.com.
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Yahoo Admits New Hack of 1 Billion Accounts
Massive breach separate from hack of 500 million accounts announced in September
Internet giant Yahoo revealed Wednesday that more than 1 billion user accounts were compromised in August 2013.
The massive breach, separate from the hack of 500 million accounts announced last September, may include everything from names, email addresses and telephone numbers to birthdays and MD5 hashed passwords.
“Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts,” Yahoo’s chief information security officer Bob Lord wrote. “The company has not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. Yahoo believes this incident is likely distinct from the incident the company disclosed on September 22, 2016.”
The company says it’s in the process of notifying potentially affected users while taking steps to secure accounts through required password changes.
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Alan Thicke, Dad on ‘Growing Pains, ‘ Dies at 69
(NEW YORK TIMES) Alan Thicke, a Canadian singer, songwriter and actor best remembered for his portrayal of a father who was the ultimate suburban middlebrow dispenser of advice to his children on the television sitcom “Growing Pains,” died on Tuesday. He was 69.
His death was confirmed by the talent agent Nigel Mikoski, who represented Mr. Thicke. He died of a heart attack, Carleen Donovan, a publicist for one of his sons, the singer and songwriter Robin Thicke, said in an email.
Mr. Thicke had a genial warmth that he projected across all of his television work, most memorably on “Growing Pains,” which ran from 1985 to 1992. He played a psychiatrist, Dr. Jason Seaver, a classic 1980s formulation of the reassuring father, and solved everyone’s problems with a warm homily by the end of each 30-minute episode.
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Windsor Man Given Terrorism Peace Bond With 17 Conditions for Traveling to ISIL Territory
WINDSOR — Ten days after flying out of Toronto’s Pearson airport on Nov. 3, 2013, Mohammed El Shaer was photographed outside an ISIL-controlled police station in a Syrian border town called Atmeh, raising his index finger in the jihadists’ salute.
Standing beside him was Ahmad Waseem, whom El Shaer had accompanied from their hometown, Windsor, Ont. Two years later, Waseem is dead, killed fighting with ISIL, and on Thursday a judge imposed a terrorism peace bond on El Shaer.
Following a day-long hearing, Justice Lloyd Dean placed 17 restrictions on El Shaer, including that he not communicate with ISIL supporters. He must surrender his passport and wear a GPS electronic ankle bracelet for six months.
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1000 Muslims Close London Streets to Chant Allah Akbar and Demand Islamic Caliphate
MORE than 1000 Muslims took to the streets of London last night chanting Allahu Akbar and demanding an Islamic caliphate.
The street outside the empty embassy in Belgrave Square, London, was closed off as it filled with protestors and Islamic leaders chanting loudly and calling for America to be punished over Aleppo.
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50 Christian Statues Defaced and Decapitated in Germany
Fifty statues of Christ and other Christian figures have been defaced and smashed apart in a crime wave sweeping parts of Germany.
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EU 27’s Brexit Plans Leaked: Shock Report Shows Brussels Bigwigs Will Play Hardball
Britain will remain excluded from all preparatory talks as the EU desperately tries to give itself as much power and leverage as possible.
The dossier states: “The members of the European Council and its preparatory bodies representing the United Kingdom will not participate in the discussions or in the decisions concerning it.”
This is despite every head of state from every other EU country being invited to express their opinions on exactly how the Brussels bloc should conduct its negotiations, what stance it should take and how hardline it should be.
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Ex-Britain First Leader Paul Golding Jailed Over Mosque Ban
The former leader of Britain First has been jailed for breaching a court order telling him not to enter a mosque or encourage others to do so.
Paul Golding, who has stepped down as head of the group, admitted contempt of court and was jailed for eight weeks.
The injunction, which stopped him entering any mosque in England and Wales, was imposed in August.
But nine days later he drove four Britain First members to Cardiff’s Al-Manar Centre for a “mosque invasion”.
The injunction also banned him from encouraging others to enter a mosque…
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Germany Home to More Than 10,000 ‘Saudi-Backed’ Islamic Extremists, Report Reveals
AT LEAST 10,000 Islamic extremists living within Germany are being supported by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries, a shock new report has claimed.
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Lawyer: France Train Attack Was Ordered by Paris is Attacker
The main suspect in a high-speed train attack thwarted by three Americans last year in northern France acted on orders from the leading member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris three months later, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Terror-Stricken France Deploys Thousands More Troops to Streets Amid Christmas Threat
FRANCE will deploy more armed troops on the country’s streets to amid the increasing threat of a Paris-style attack during the festive season, the country’s newly-appointed interior minister has said.
Bruno Le Roux said that there were currently more than 7,000 heavily armed ‘Sentinelle’ soldiers patrolling France’s streets.
But the interior minister said up to 3,000 additional troops would be deployed to protect sensitive targets, such as airports, stations, Christmas markets, and places of worship, including churches and synagogues.
The interior minister told the French radio station RTL that Islamic State militants still posed a “serious threat” and that the country remained on “high alert” following the string of bloody terrorist attacks on French soil.
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ISIS Manufacturing Arms on Industrial Scale
(ABC News) The Islamic State group was manufacturing weapons in and around Mosul on an industrial scale with products largely purchased in bulk from Turkey, according to a report published by an arms research group Wednesday.
The findings show that IS maintained a “robust and reliable” supply chain between Turkey and Iraq that allowed the fighters to produce tens of thousands of weapons, the London-based Conflict Armaments Research said. The group’s researchers studied IS weapons found at manufacturing facilities and on the battlefield during the Iraqi operation to retake Mosul that is underway.
As Iraqi forces advance, the extremists are losing the physical capacity to manufacture weapons on an industrial scale, but the research group’s executive director James Bevan warned that highly trained fighters will take their expertise with them as they retreat.
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Arctic Thaw: Finland Aims to Host Putin-Trump Meeting in 2017
Finland is hoping to host a meeting between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, who will by then have taken up his role as US president, during the Artic Council summit in 2017.
The Finnish authorities plan to invite Putin and Trump to a summit of the Arctic Council, which the country is chairing from 2017 through 2019.
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European Union Agrees to Extend Russia Sanctions Until Mid-2017
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to extend the bloc’s main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine for six months until mid-2017, diplomats said. The decision was expected and the formal process to extend the sanctions on Russia’s defence, energy and financial sectors will take place early next week, they said.
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Geert Wilders: Why Voters Are Flocking to the Dutch Trump
Nieuwkoop, Netherlands (CNN) Minister Hank-Jan Prosman’s Church in the village of Nieuwkoop sits on a tiny spit of land surrounded by water. Its tiled roof rises above the surrounding flat, canal-riven fields.
There has been a church here for close to 500 years. For the last five years, it’s been Prosman’s home.
On an average Sunday, he says, about a third of the 800 villagers will come to attend his service.
He has got to know many of them well over the past few years and in that time has witnessed the growing popularity of Holland’s Donald Trump: the peroxide-blonde populist Geert Wilders.
Dutch far-right opposition leader Geert Wilders has called Islamic immigration “an invasion.”
Prosman tells me that he doesn’t consider himself a prototypical nationalist, but he increasingly finds himself echoing the concerns of his rural parishioners…
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Invasion Force 2x Size of Luxembourg
From January 1 to October 31, a total of 1,093,729 nonwhite invaders pretending to be asylum seekers landed in Europe-nearly double the entire population of the country of Luxembourg, which only has 530,000 residents. This colossal invasion force is currently arriving at a rate of over 2,674 every day, with 82,914 landing in the month of October alone. At this rate, Western Europe will be extinguished as a white region within a matter of years, rather than decades.
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Key Merkel Ally Vows to Run Against German Chancellor Unless She Slashes Migrant Numbers
Horst Seehofer, the head of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), said his party would stand in opposition to Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) if she did not implement new limits next year.
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Migrants: Czech President Urges EU to Protect Its Borders
According to Zeman Europe should aid development of African economy
(ANSA) — PRAHA, DEC 15 — Czech President Milos Zeman urges European Union to protect its outer borders, helping migrants in their countries instead of accepting them rashly. Zeman said it during a meeting in Lisbon with his Portuguese counterpart Marcelo de Sousa on Wednesday, according to Czech News Agency.
During the press conference the Czech President talked about the migrant crisis, says Cna agency: ‘The heedless accepting of migrants weakens the countries from which they come. Young capable men are leaving for Europe where they will most likely live on welfare, while their home will lack their brains’. This is the reason why Zeman urges Eu to help African countries in developing their economies. An efficient aid, stressed the President, doesn’t mean gifts to dictators.
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Migrant Crisis — Fresh Refugee Influx Would Overwhelm European Police Forces, Expert Warns
A FRESH influx of migrants is set to hit Europe and overwhelm the continent’s police forces and security services, an expert on EU politics has warned.
Roger Boyes said aid workers admit they “don’t really know” who many refugees are and warned that fears over Islamist terrorist infiltrating the continent are not just far-right conspiracy stories.
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Sweden: Rape and Violence Rise With Immigration
In a disturbing new short video, Ami Horowitz examines an alarming trend: growing immigration to Sweden has coincided with an alarming uptick in rape and violence, and some areas of the country have become downright dangerous to visit.
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Trudeau Teams With Soros on Refugee Scheme
The Trudeau government has hopped into bed with the unelected kingpin of Frankenstein globalism and the European migrant crisis: George Soros.
This week, Canada is hosting a high level meeting called the “Global Refugee Sponsorship Initiative”, in tandem with the United Nations, and George Soros’s Open Society Foundation.
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‘We Won’t Pay for Your Error’ Fuming Orban Shatters EU Unity With Migrant Attack on Merkel
But Mr Orban was more keen to talk about the issue of migration, claiming that the majority of arrivals in Europe are “economic migrants” and not genuine refugees.
He blasted: “We are still fighting over the mandatory migrant quotas. The Hungarians don’t want what the Germans, or to be precise, Angela Merkel demands.
“The Germans and other countries who made the mistake of letting these people into the EU are now trying to share them out, so every country also inherits their problem. Hungary doesn’t like this approach.”
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Obama Blocks States From Defunding Planned Parenthood
(US NEWS) The Obama administration has issued a final rule aimed at preventing state lawmakers from cutting funding for Planned Parenthood or other clinics that provide abortions.
The rule, issued Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, requires that organizations that provide family planning and preventive health care services not be barred from receiving grant dollars under a certain federal program for any reason other than those related to their “ ability to deliver services to program beneficiaries in an effective manner.”
In doing so, the regulation effectively clarifies that providing abortion services cannot disqualify an organization from receiving these funds.
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“As a result of this legislation, an optometrist is now required to give the patient a copy of his contact lens prescription after each visit. Now consumers are free to purchase their contact lenses wherever they choose rather than being locked into paying the inflated prices at their eye doctors’ offices.”
There are too many “closed shop” professions that are all about inflating the earnings of members and not about giving value for money to the public. You could actually argue they are unethical. I use to wear contact lenses and had to endure years of ridiculously expensive lens made by multinational corporations (usually in Ireland).
Another industry well overdue for a bit of competitive heat is the Hearing Aid industry. It another racket. I don’t wear them but my mother does and I know the outrageous price the professionals charge for these plastic electronic devices. I don’t believe the technology is more complex than a cellular phone. Likewise the audio clinicians keep their readings and prescriptions to themselves so as to maximize profit on sales of hearing aids. Open up competition and prices for the public would tumble.
I believe here in the US that Medicare does not cover hearing aids or glasses. But it does cover Viagra!
Wow, the UK is ahead of the US on this. I still can’t afford new glasses, but I can look for the cheapest option, and have been able to for some years.
The Culture of Death (aka The Democratic Party) can’t stop killing babies.
Sixty million and counting!
Shame on Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
B.H. O Joker is a shameless twoterming Muslim. ?
The breathtaking hypocrisy of the Democrats in particular, but even some so-called Republicans, in accusing Russia of hacking the American Election, but wanting to sweep under the carpet the fact that the US, under the failed President Barack Obama, had an underwater drone observing Chinese actions in the South China Sea, (which is a long, long way from the U.S.!) is almost comical.
To add to the hilarity, the Chinese have now captured said drone, and the Pentagon is now having a hissy-fit, “We want our drone back”, and Obama adds: “or else!”
** if she [Merkel] did not implement new limits next year **
Still, at this very late date, the fools think they must focus on stopping new immigration. They must understand that only repatriation of all invaders will save Europe. Without repatriation all Western countries will become a cultural and racial goulash at best or shariah cesspools at worst.
Merkel’s would be opponent may well think that a too-strong position will scatter the voters like chickens. If so, it is horribly sad that such temporizing is necessary, that the voters will flee from brutally hard truths.
Merkel, Blair, Sarkozy, Cameron, Hollande, and others are traitors for the devastation and misery they have guaranteed for “their” people.