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  2. (Big League Politics) – John Brennan was an APAC (Asia Pacific) specialist spanning, China, the Korean Peninsula and out to the shores of Hawaii. Before Barack Hussein Obama made him DNI, APAC was his stomping ground and obviously he handled the Middle East. On January 14, 2018 at about 3:05 AM local Hong Kong time a man named Jerry Lee was prompted to fly out to the United States from Hong Kong.

    Who is Jerry Lee (JERRY CHUN SHING LEE)

    Jerry Lee was John Brennan’s right hand man, handler for APAC. A former Intelligence Analyst that worked with Jerry said “Lee is a great guy. As a handler he was forthcoming, straight to the point and guided his assets every step of the way.”

    According to a very odd and questionable affidavit, Jerry Lee left his position with the Central Intelligence Agency in 2007. In summary the affidavit for his warrant of arrest states that in 2012 he arrived in Hawaii with his family. According to the affidavit, the FBI surveilled his hotel and then without Lee’s knowledge searched his and his family’s personal belongings and found two booklets that contained HIGHLY CLASSIFIED information. Remember Lee was a cut-out and not a throwaway like many others that left the agency and did not transition into the newly formed IC element structure. . In the affidavit it is stated that they attained a search warrant but BLP was unable to obtain a copy of the search warrant. No record of such a warrant being issued during that period of time and or may be sealed.

    The affidavit gets stranger as you read it. The affidavit states he and his family then traveled to Virginia where they stayed until June 2013. Initially they stayed at the hotel in Fairfax and again they searched his belongings and again determined he was still in possession of the highly classified materials they had already previously determined to be a treasonous and criminal. Once again, BLP was unable to obtain a copy of the search warrant. No record of such a warrant was issued during that period.

    Lee is an ILLEGAL. Strzok is an illegal too. Illegal is the term used to identify the elites of the clandestine community. As the affidavit continues, surveillance was in full force. He was a target and they documented every single interaction, exchange and or discussion. The affidavit claims in May or June of 2013 before he departed for China, he was questioned.

    https://www.teaparty.org/lindeman-john-brennans-former-operatives-picked-off-grid-317507/

    • LIVE: Patriot Prayer / Proud Boys In Portland, Antifa

      Police have observed weapons on antifa side and are ordering them to leave

      • “Police have observed weapons on antifa side and are ordering them to leave”

        Deliver a few thousand sessions of “wood shampoo”, then please get back to us about your credibility. Eh?

    • Murder hunt launched as police track killer who inflicted massive injuries on woman (express, Aug 5, 2018)
      https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/998887/Hartlepool-murder-Cleveland-police-Oxford-Road-woman-stabbing

      “A MURDER hunt was today underway as police tracked the killer of a woman who died from “significant injuries” at her home in Hartlepool last night.

      Cleveland Police have launched a murder inquiry after the “targeted attack” on the adult woman on Friday evening.

      A police spokesman said the incident happened on Oxford Road, in the town in the North East.

      He said: “Detectives have now declared a murder investigation after a woman suffered significant injuries and died in Hartlepool…”

  8. BREAKING: 20 confirmed dead after plane CRASHES into Swiss Alps mountain

    ALL 20 passengers on-board a crashed flight in the Swiss Alps have died, according to reports.

    Authorities in Switzerland said all 20 passengers had died in the vintage plane crash.

    There are currently no details on casualties but the Ju-52 can carry up to 17 passengers, two passengers and a flght attendant.

    The airline posteda statement online: “We have the sad duty to announce that one of our Ju-52 aircraft had an accident today.

    “At the moment, no further information is available.

    https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/721277/Swiss-Alps-plane-crash-20-feared-dead-mountain

  10. 3 NATO servicemen killed in Taliban suicide attack on convoy in Afghanistan (RT, Aug 5, 2018)
    https://www.rt.com/news/435145-afghanistan-nato-killed-taliban/

    “Three members of NATO’s Resolute Support mission have been killed after a suicide bomber stuck a foreign troops patrol in eastern Afghanistan. A US serviceman and Afghan soldiers were also injured.

    The attack happened at around 6am local time as the convoy was driving in the Khala Zai area of Parwan, Wahida Shahkar, spokeswoman for the Parwan governor, told local Tolo News.

    A statement from the Czech military confirmed that the deaths were Czech service members and that the families of the victims have been informed. Defense Minister Lubomir Metnar has offered his condolences.

    Prague had recently have approved a plan to deploy 390 soldiers in Afghanistan through 2020, up from the current 230, according to Associated Press.

    Earlier, US Forces confirmed that that two Afghan National Army soldiers and an American serviceman were also wounded in the assault.

    The assault brings to seven the number of NATO troops killed in the country in 2018…”

  11. Report: Blast kills head of Syrian arms research program

    BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian newspaper says the director of a military research agency linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program has been assassinated.

    The pro-government al-Watan newspaper reported on its website Sunday that Aziz Esber, of the Scientific Studies and Research Center, died in a blast targeting his car the previous night, in Syria’s Hama province.

    It says Israel is suspected of carrying out the attack. Israel is believed to be behind airstrikes targeting the center’s facilities in Masyaf, Hama, last month.

    In April, the U.S., Britain, and France carried out joint airstrikes against the center’s Damascus facilities in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by government forces near the capital.

    Syria’s government denies using chemical weapons.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-blast-kills-head-syrian-arms-research-program-114457453.html

    • “ A Syrian newspaper says the director of a military research agency linked to Syria’s chemical weapons program has been assassinated.”

      I”m shocked!!!

  12. Pakistani policeman killed in raid linked to torched schools (abcnews, Aug 5, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistani-policeman-killed-raid-linked-torched-schools-57039994

    “Gunmen killed one police officer and wounded another during an overnight search operation for suspects linked to the torching of nearly a dozen schools in northern Pakistan, police said Sunday.

    Sanaullah Abbasi, police chief in Gilgit-Baltistan, said that one suspect was killed in the gunbattle and another 17 have been arrested in the ongoing operation.

    Suspected militants set fire to 11 girls’ or co-ed schools on Friday. Faizullah Faraq, a government spokesman, said the schools would be restored before classes resume in the last week of August.

    Later on Sunday, gunmen opened fire on the vehicle of a judge who was heading to the funeral of the slain police officer. The judge was unharmed, said police officer Abdul Wakil.

    Pakistan has struggled to combat religious extremism in the nearly two decades since the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of neighboring Afghanistan. In recent years militant groups have regularly attacked security forces and religious minorities.”

  13. Egypt says troops have killed 52 militants in Sinai (abcnews, Aug 5, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-troops-killed-52-militants-sinai-57040397

    “Egypt says its security forces have killed at least 52 suspected militants in recent days in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula.

    The military said in a statement Sunday that another 49 suspected militants have been arrested. It says it destroyed 26 hideouts and weapons depots, and dismantled 64 explosive devices.

    The military says airstrikes destroyed 32 vehicles containing weapons and ammunition in the Western Desert and in the south…”

  16. Fights break out between groups of demonstrators at rally

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed “flash bang” devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters.

    Four people were arrested during the protests, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement Saturday night. Officers also seized “multiple weapons throughout the day,” police said.

    A reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive was bloodied when he was struck by a projectile. Eder Campuzano said later on Twitter he was “okay.”

    https://apnews.com/72be678fb5a748c388128269a10f24f4/Portland-prepares-for-right-wing,-anti-fascist-rallies

  17. ‘We don’t want this here’: Mayor warns against violence at Portland rally
    Police are reminding demonstrators that weapons are not allowed in city parks, and acts of violence will lead to immediate arrest during Saturday’s Patriot Prayer rally and counter-protests.

    Ahead of Saturday’s planned Patriot Prayer rally and counter-protests downtown, Portland police announced Friday there will be an increased law enforcement presence due to past acts of violence.

    The bureau also pointed out that people are not allowed to bring weapons into city parks, or to have concealed handguns in Portland without valid Oregon licenses.

    https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/we-dont-want-this-here-mayor-warns-against-violence-at-portland-rally/283-580137841

  18. Fights break out between groups of demonstrators at rally

    Manuel Valdes and Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Updated 5:07 am PDT, Sunday, August 5, 2018

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Small scuffles broke out Saturday as police in Portland, Oregon, deployed “flash bang” devices and other means to disperse hundreds of right-wing and self-described anti-fascist protesters.

    Four people were arrested during the protests, the Portland Police Bureau said in a statement Saturday night. Officers also seized “multiple weapons throughout the day,” police said.

    A reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive was bloodied when he was struck by a projectile. Eder Campuzano said later on Twitter he was “okay.”

    Demonstrators aligned with Patriot Prayer and an affiliated group, the Proud Boys, gathered around mid-day in a riverfront park.

    FILE–In this June 30, 2018, file photo, the Patriot Prayer group holds a rally and march in Portland, Ore., amid a protest by anti-fascist groups. Portland is bracing for what could be another round of violent clashes Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, between a right-wing group holding a rally here and self-described anti-fascist counter-protesters who have pledged to keep Patriot Prayer and other affiliated groups out of this ultra-liberal city. (Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP, file) Photo: Mark Graves, AP / The Oregonian

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    FILE–In this June 30, 2018, file photo, the Patriot Prayer group holds a rally and march in Portland, Ore., amid a protest by anti-fascist groups. Portland is bracing for what could be another round of violent … more

    Hundreds of demonstrators faced them from across the street, holding banners and signs with opposition messages such as “Alt right scum not welcome in Portland.” Some chanted “Nazis go home.”

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Portland-prepares-for-right-wing-anti-fascist-13131405.php

  19. BEATINGS AND BLOOD IN PORTLAND=> Trump Supporter Clubbed – Blood Gushing From Head (VIDEO)

    Far left communists of “antifa” clashed with the Trump-supporting Patriot Prayer in Portland, Oregon Saturday. Though the groups have clashed several times over the last year and a half, the August 4th edition is shaping up to be like none other, as both groups are upping the ante.

    Portland police were bracing for a bloody rally and tried to prevent people from bringing guns to the event.

    The rally turned bloody Saturday afternoon after a black clad Antifa thug clubbed a conservative activist with what appears to be a flag.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/08/conservative-rally-turns-bloody-trump-supporter-clubbed-blood-gushing-from-head-video/

  20. Nigerian national suspected in destruction of gravestones in Osaka, Ehime

    BY TOKYO REPORTER STAFF ON AUGUST 3, 2018

    EHIME (TR) – Ehime Prefectural Police have arrested a 45-year-old male Nigerian national who is under investigation over the destruction of hundreds of tombstones and religious statues in Ehime and Osaka prefectures, reports Sankei Sports (Aug. 2).

    Thus far, police have accused Abraham Emanuel Uba, a resident of Hannan City, Osaka Prefecture, of pushing over one Buddhist statue — valued at around 80,000 yen — at a temple in Saijo City, Ehime at around 5:00 a.m. on July 15.

    Police did not divulge whether Uba, who has been accused of inflicting property damage, admits to the allegations. The matter emerged after the priest of the temple consulted with police on the day the damage was discovered.

    Police are also investigating whether Uba was behind a similar incident at a temple in Matsushima City, Ehime.
    https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan/nigerian-national-suspected-in-destruction-of-gravestones-in-osaka-ehime/

  21. Manafort Sure Spent Money But Were Those His Offshore Accounts?

    (Bloomberg) — Jurors in the Paul Manafort fraud trial may have come away from the first week of testimony with a vivid impression of him as a man who spent vast sums on luxurious houses, landscaping, and clothes, and who gave lenders phony documents as he grew desperate for cash.

    But prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who charged Manafort with bank and tax fraud, hadn’t provided much direct evidence through Friday to back their claims that he controlled the foreign shell companies that funded those purchases. Prosecutors accused Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, of failing to report those accounts on his tax returns or file required reports with the U.S. Treasury Department.

    https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/08/04/manafort-sure-spent-money-but-were-those-his-offshore-accounts#gs.FFprQSg

  22. Pro-Islamic State media outlet calls for BIOLOGICAL ATTACKS in the West, posters depict San Francisco

    This too will be ignored by the complicit, sharia-compliant Western press. A biological attack is the intentional release of a pathogen (disease causing agent) or biotoxin (poisonous substance produced by a living organism) against humans, plants, or animals. An attack against people could be used to cause illness, death, fear, societal disruption, and economic damage.

    https://gellerreport.com/2018/08/islamic-biological-attacks.html/

    • Full transcript of video

      Pro-ISIS Media Outlet Circulates Video Calling for Biological Attacks in the West

      Introduction pending

      This transcript was prepared from the original English subtitles of the video.

      Narrator: “Phrases mixed with the dust of death. American figures transferred to hospitals immediately after receiving messages from an anonymous. It is a silent disaster… Where neither the explosions nor the panic of the Crusader police cars is heard only, death spreads, victims fall. One after the other… in 1422 AH Crusader security services are shocked by Islamic bombing that shook the city of New York that turned its streets into pools of blood. Before America is able to collect the pieces of its citizens scattered all over the place it gets hit by the most dangerous strike. The atoms of the city’s air are contaminated by infectious germs and fatal bacterial diseases attached with letters with threatening words and phrases that makes US government remembers its chemical massacres and the crimes it committed against the vulnerable people and warns that the people of truth attained the ability to exact vengeance against their enemy

      “It was not long before… The American hospitals announced the deaths of hundreds, hundreds of cases that have been infected with foreign viruses. Bacteria has been developed and produced in large numbers to be inhaled by the victim and then the symptoms of the disease begins to increase. This is the expected punishment for the oppressive US policy or! Bioterror as they call it.”

      https://www.memri.org/tv/pro-isis-video-calls-for-biological-attacks-in-the-west/transcript

    • Pro-Islamic State media outlet calls for BIOLOGICAL ATTACKS in the West, posters depict San Francisco

      Pardon me, but isn’t this the point in time where we send out “Black-Budget” Spec Ops teams to pop several dozen caps into the hindbrains of maroons who make such distinctly unwise Whack-a-Wow-Wow?!?

      PS: And please don’t give me any of that ‘kill all of SF Commie Shite’. We nail the jihadists first and then sort things out on our own home turf later. Anyone who presumes to advocate the mass-murder of Americans, of any variety or stripe, really needs to detox and figure out a better way of getting upgefü¢ked. America and Americans deserve better. Whomever would dispute this notion can meet me outside…

  23. Amazon sparks privacy concerns as patent reveals AR goggles to direct employees through warehouses – and monitor their every move

    mazon has patented a pair of augmented reality goggles that could be used to keep a close eye on its employees.

    A newly filed patent describes a ‘wearable computing device’ that would overlay turn-by-turn directions on the goggles’ screen, showing employees where to place certain objects in one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers.

    However, the goggles laid out in the patent have raised the ire of privacy advocates who believe they could be used for far more nefarious purposes, such as tracking employees’ every move.

    Amazon has previously come under fire for the working conditions at its fulfillment warehouses, with employees complaining that they’re sometimes unable to get a break during the day, even to go to the restroom.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6020525/Amazon-sparks-privacy-concerns-patent-reveals-employee-surveillance-AR-goggles.html

  24. Bangladesh violence: Armed men attack US envoy’s cars amid protests (BBC, Aug 5, 2018)
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45074384

    “Armed men attacked a convoy of cars carrying the US envoy to Bangladesh in the capital Dhaka on Saturday night, US officials said.

    Ambassador Marcia Bernicat and her security team were able to get away unharmed, but two cars were damaged.

    It comes as thousands of students and school children continue a week-long protest calling for safer roads.

    Police have fired tear gas to disperse the crowds. At least 50 protesters have also been injured in street attacks.

    The US ambassador condemned the violence against the peaceful protesters on Sunday.

    Local media reported that political activists belonging to the ruling party beat students marching towards their offices, demanding answers for Saturday’s attack on protesters, which left dozens injured.

    “Nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence over the weekend against the thousands of young people who have been peacefully exercising their democratic rights,” a statement on the embassy’s Facebook page said.

    “The peaceful demonstrations of the past week in favour of better vehicle and road safety, led by students and school children across Bangladesh, have united and captured the imagination of the whole country.”

    Obaidul Quader, general secretary of the ruling Awami League, told journalists that party activists acted in self-defence as the students were marching on their offices.

    Young people took to the streets peacefully after a boy and girl were killed by a speeding bus last Sunday, despite repeated calls from the government for them to return to home.

    Over the past two days, unidentified men in helmets carrying sticks and metal rods have attacked protesters and journalists. Local media and witnesses blamed groups linked to the Awami League.

    Witnesses have told the BBC that anyone found filming the clashes, including journalists, have been beaten and had their equipment destroyed…”

  26. North Korea Demands Sanctions Relief For Denuclearization

    A North Korean official from Kim Jong Un’s inner circle says that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is undermining the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

    The claims come after North Korea denounced the U.S. for calling on the rest of the world to maintain pressure on Kim Jong Un through international sanctions.

    North Korea is saying that President Trump promised to ease sanctions on the country if it shut down its nuclear program.

    However, the U.S. State Department responded back, saying that sanctions must remain in place until the denuclearization occurs.

    http://www.oann.com/north-korea-demands-sanctions-relief-for-denuclearization/

  27. Chinese Foreign Minister: China Fully Committed to Ensuring North Korea Denuclearizing

    The Chinese Foreign Minister says the country is fully committed to denuclearizing North Korea.

    At the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conference today, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated the country is committed to establishing peace on the Korean peninsula.

    Yi claimed those goals can only be met if all countries cooperate.

    This comes after the North Korean foreign minister slammed U.S. warnings against any violation of international sanctions on the regime.

    http://www.oann.com/chinese-foreign-minister-china-fully-committed-to-ensuring-north-korea-denuclearizing/

  28. Iran Guards says it held Gulf drills as U.S. tensions rise

    DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Sunday it had held war games in the Gulf over the past several days, saying they were aimed at “confronting possible threats” by enemies, the state news state news agency IRNA reported.

    U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday that the United States believed Iran had started carrying out naval exercises in the Gulf, apparently moving up the timing of annual drills amid heightened tensions with Washington.

    “This exercise was conducted with the aim of controlling and safeguarding the safety of the international waterway and within the framework of the program of the Guards’ annual military exercises,” Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif said, according to IRNA.

    The U.S. military’s Central Command on Wednesday confirmed it has seen increased Iranian naval activity. The activity extended to the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway for oil shipments the Revolutionary Guards have threatened to block.

    http://www.oann.com/irans-revolutionary-guards-says-it-held-gulf-war-games-this-week-news-agency/

  29. Don’t forget: Someone was paying Steele to forward Trump-Russia allegations to the FBI in 2017
    By J.E. Dyer August 5, 2018

    Byron York published a superb article Friday on some little-remarked information from a Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) letter to the Justice Department and FBI in July. York highlighted the letter’s request for declassification of a series of FBI interview summaries (form FD-302s) on DOJ official Bruce Ohr, who was passing information from Christopher Steele to the FBI, even after the FBI formally terminated Steele’s role as a confidential human source (CHS).

    Steele’s role was terminated for cause on 1 November 2016. He had violated the terms of his FBI connection by speaking to the media about confidential matters. Yet Bruce Ohr – whom Steele had known since at least 2010 – continued passing information from Steele to the FBI, basically functioning as a cut-out, from 22 November 2016 to 15 May 2017.

    There is a lot to unpack from the Steele-to-Ohr-to-FBI saga, and we won’t get to it all here. I want to focus on a particular point, which is that the information flow continued not only after the 2016 election was over, but after President Trump took office.

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/05/dont-forget-someone-was-paying-steele-to-forward-trump-russia-allegations-to-the-fbi-in-2017/

    • What does the future hold for France’s ‘IS children’?

      PURE HELL!!! (In both directions.)

      As in: They will kill until being killed.

      For whatever reasons, way too few seem to realize this fundamental equation.

  31. One of the most dishonest WaPo fact checks ever tries to excuse Left’s threats against Sarah Sanders
    By Ben Bowles August 4, 2018

    And it fails spectacularly. The article, penned by Aaron Blake, attempts to parse a statement made by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders during her dust-up with CNN’s Jim Acosta last Wednesday. Acosta had just come off a bruising evening at a Trump rally in Tampa, where an audience hooted and jeered at him, and was in a real sense seeking validation from Sanders. Here is her reply:

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/04/one-of-the-smarmiest-wapo-fact-checks-ever-tries-to-explain-away-lefts-threats-against-sarah-sanders/

    • A Critical Message From Stefan Molyneux

      Thank you, Richard. As usual, Molyneaux knocks it straight out of the park. His closing insistence upon the need to work in-whatever-way (as we do here at Vlad Tepes Blog) to get the message out, create powerful memes, archive evidence, and disallow revisionist rutbags to alter this world’s historical record is our duty, privilege, and sacred honor.

      While there may not be much in any way of comparison, the West remains more-than-a-little fortunate to have this latter-day Churchill on tap. Stefan’s ability to craft memes on-the-spot will prove—in this age of superluminal sound-bites, 15 seconds worth of global fame*, and Drosophila melanogaster attention-spans—a more-than-priceless skill.

      I dread to consider where the West would be without people of the caliber like Laura Southern and Stefan Molyneaux (or, for that matter, Pat Condell).

      * Is it even possible to imagine how far the entire Trump-Hatred-Ugliness-Groups (i.e., THUGs) have propelled this President past that ’15 seconds worth of global fame’? It’s entirely beyond all conception how the rabid MSM has kept Trump, front-and-center, glowing in the spotlight.

  33. Australia: Nurses protest new code of conduct that requires ritual ‘white privilege’ apology with patients
    News.com.au August 4, 2018

    Ed. – This regulated health care thing is marvelous, isn’t it? So much gratifying news, we’re running out of file images.]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/04/australia-nurses-protest-new-code-of-conduct-that-requires-ritual-white-privilege-apology-with-patients/

    Australian nursing and midwifery code of conduct slammed over ‘white privilege’

    LAST year nurses were asked to call women “persons”. Now there’s another furore as they’re told to acknowledge “white privilege”.

    AUSTRALIAN nurses are pushing back against a change that requires them to “acknowledge white privilege” before treating patients.

    Nurses and midwives around the country must now adhere to a new code of conduct with a section specifically dedicated to “culture” and which details white Australians’ inherent privilege “in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders”.

    The new code, which came into effect in March, has been labelled “eye-watering”, “cultural madness” and “unacceptable”. A peak body representing nurses in Queensland is even calling for the chairman of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia to be sacked over it.

    “This is eye-watering stuff,” Graeme Haycroft from the Nurses Professional Association of Queensland told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

    “We’re calling for the resignation of the chairman of the board (Associate Professor Lynette Cusack) because she’s put her name to it and it’s unacceptable.”

    https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/australian-nursing-and-midwifery-code-of-conduct-slammed-over-white-privilege/news-story/4d1d71f45af35b8ffdd25fd40804d5a3

  34. Canada suggests euthanasia as solution for man complaining about abysmal quality of medical care
    Monica Showalter, Am. Thinker

    [Ed. – Certainly an ingenious approach. Thoroughly mistreat a patient, and then when he’s in despair over things like being given food poisoning by his “care” staff, advise him that — thankfully! — “assisted suicide” is a viable option for him.]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/04/canada-suggests-euthanasia-as-solution-for-man-complaining-about-abysmal-quality-of-medical-care/

    Socialism or death’ gets creepily literal in Canada

    Under socialized medicine, it doesn’t take long to go from suicide as a “choice” to suicide as a pushed “product” to suicide as a murder for bureaucratic “convenience.”

    Over in Canada, it’s gotten to stage two.

    Roger Foley is a 42-year-old man with a terminal neural disease that makes it nearly impossible for him to move his arms or legs or even speak. Under Canada’s zero-choice socialized medicine, he’s gotten absolutely crappy care from a Canadian home care service, one of whose many violations has put him in the hospital for food poisoning, which is where he’s at now.

    He states that when he complained about the bad service, he was told to go kill himself – politely, of course, since it’s the Canadian way. He’s saying “no,” and now there’s a lawsuit to force the Canadian socialized medical system to allow him some choice as to how he’s going to manage his own care, given the failures of the bureaucrats who chose for him. Obviously inspired by the Charlie Gard dilemma in the U.K., the bureaucrats are fighting back, determined to ensure he gets the substandard quality of medical care he’s already gotten, with the only “out” in suicide.

    A great deal for them, you see.

    Here is how one expert described the problem, according to CTV a few months ago:

    According to Trudo Lemmens, a professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, Foley’s allegations – if true – are “very troubling.”

    “If true, we would have here an instance of a patient receiving an offer for MAID (medical assistance in dying) while the patient precisely complains about receiving substandard levels of care,” Lemmens said in an email to CTV News. “MAID should not be introduced as an option to someone who complains about sub-standard care and clearly not to someone who is suicidal.”

    And as that lawsuit proceeds, well, guess what! Turns out Foley had tapes of the state’s pressure to take the suicide option, which certainly would be beneficial to the Canadian health care system, given the costs of his care that they don’t want to pick up, despite being socialist and all, and their already impressive record of failure. Imagine being told to return to the care of people who have already demonstrated they don’t want you to live.

    Here’s what National Review, citing CTV, reported:

    Foley expresses shock at the figure [for continuing hospitalization] and tells the man that he’d just read an article that quoted the Ontario health minister saying it’s “not legal” for hospitals to coerce patients like that.

    The man is heard saying that the hospital does not use “this conversation in every situation.” …

    Foley then says that he hasn’t been informed of a plan for his care and that his rights as a patient are being violated. “You have already violated my preferences … So what is the plan that you know of?” Foley asks the man.

    “Roger, this is not my show,” the man replies. “I told you my piece of this was to talk to you about if you had interest in assisted dying.”

    It sounds like one of those scenes in C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters. And that wasn’t the only instance of pressuring a patient toward suicide:

    Foley tells the man that he’s “always thinking I want to end my life” because of the way he’s being treated at the hospital and because his requests for self-directed care have been denied.

    The man is then heard telling Foley that he can “just apply to get an assisted, if you want to end your life, like you know what I mean?”

    When Foley says that he is being forced to end his life, the man protests and says that’s not the case.

    “Oh, no, no, no,” the man is heard saying. “I’m saying if you feel that way…You know what I mean? Don’t get me wrong. I’m saying I don’t want you to be in here and wanting to take your life.”

    Notice that Foley’s despair had to do with his treatment by the hospital – not his disease – and that rather than remedy that problem or offer suicide-prevention interventions, the fellow very casually suggested euthanasia.

    Once euthanasia becomes accepted generally, it could easily become the “remedy” of choice for hospitals and care facilities in dealing with troublesome or expensive patients. (There is anecdotal evidence of that in Netherlands and Belgium, for example.)

    In other words, if you are “wanting to take your life” over the bad quality of your care, well, then, socialism has a solution for you, a final solution, so buck up, buttercup.

    What a revolting picture. And how true it is that just allowing euthanasia in what is supposed to be a “first do no harm” life-giving and life-preserving profession has got to be the most corrosive, corrupting thing, particularly under socialism. For this poor man, there’s no way out of it; he has no choices if that lawsuit does not work. Apparently, it’s too much to ask the bureaucrats to get him some competent health care, because they don’t do competent health care; they just do “socialism or death.” That’s what is on offer from the Canadian system, which finds itself drawn to pushing for suicide, given the costs of socialized medicine as well as the lack of patient choices or staff accountability.

    Sound like something that makes you want to embrace Democratic Socialist “it girl” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dreamscape of “Medicare for All” here in the States?

    It’s what’s on offer for us if the left has its way and medical care gets socialized.
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    • I’m constantly railing against the euthanasia programs in the Netherlands and Belgium. Those are the ones best documented, others might be just as expansive. Routine, automatic organ harvesting is part of the package.

      Seek treatment for depression?
      You’d have to be CRAZY – !! – to take that risk in these EU socialist Paradise.

      • “I’m constantly railing against the euthanasia programs in the Netherlands and Belgium. Those are the ones best documented, others might be just as expansive.”

        Dear yucki, you do realize that Jack ‘Dr. Death’ Kevorkian was sued for malpractice, right?!?
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        ONE OF HIS PATIENTS LIVED!!!

  35. Father says daughter’s organs harvested against his will; sues hospital, donation network
    Brianna Heldt, TH August 4, 2018

    [Ed. – This sounds like an awful case – but one that would benefit from an airing in court. I don’t assume the father was treated unfairly, but he may have been. He should get to have his say. Not clear why the mother would be so ready to sign her daughter’s life away, but she may have been doing the best she could. Very sad all around. There are more stories than one would like to hear about overeagerness to pull the plug on “brain-dead” patients in order to harvest their organs.]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/04/father-says-daughters-organs-harvested-against-his-will-sues-hospital-donation-network/

    Father Sues Hospital, Organ Donation Network After Daughter’s Organs Are Harvested Against His Will

    A California man is suing both a hospital and organ donation network, claiming they harvested his daughter’s organs against his will.

    Brittany O’Connor died last November. The Fresno, California mother of two had been rushed to the hospital after attempting to kill herself by strangulation. She was placed on life support, and not expected to survive.

    Terence “Mike” O’Connor Jr., Brittany’s father, has filed the Fresno Superior Court civil lawsuit against Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) and Donor Network West.

    According to O’Connor’s attorneys Thornton Davidson and H. Ty Kharazi, this is not the first time the two groups have engaged in what they claim is “a pervasive and unlawful scheme to harvest organs from terminal patients.” They are pursuing class-action status for their lawsuit.

    Vice president of communications and public affairs for Community Regional Medical Centers (which oversees the hospital where Brittany O’Connor died), Michelle Von Tersch, offered the following in response: “While we won’t comment on the particulars of pending court proceedings, we do follow applicable laws for all organ donations, which saves so many lives each day. We extend our heartfelt condolences to Brittany’s family members for their tragic loss. We know it is a terrible time for them.”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/briannaheldt/2018/08/03/untitled-n2506648

    • I wrote the comment above before reading this article. Shocking stuff.

      Those who have so little sense of the sanctity of human life are already zombies. No soul.

      They’re dangerous. Should stay the hell away from the practice of medicine.

    • Richard, you are beginning to make those hairy-scary Nazi Über-Sqüéäks about [gasp!] PATERNAL RIGHTS!

      I’m unable to identify the exact (ex-moon-shot) NASA astronaut that brilliantly predicted how the invention of an Artificial Womb (i.e., prenatal incubator) would totally change the landscape of parental and, especially, paternal rights. A pregnant woman who doesn’t want to go to term? Hey! What about the father’s genetic rights?!?

      Just this one seemingly small facet of Junior Socio-Engineering 101 represents such a dire threat to the genetic choke-hold (in all senses) of Feminazis cruel vaginal cavities such that this one single technical advent forever could alter Western breeding patterns forever.

      Imagine MEN having a say in abortion rights? Ummmmm … no. “You don’t get to kill my child”. Wouldn’t that be a hella tectonic shift in the landscape of male reproductivity?!?

      • Japan is working on the breeding tanks, officially to create clones of perfect animals that don’t require a host mother. I have always suspected that they are working to have a way to get more kids to have future generations.

  36. Those times in 2008 when leftists literally attacked Fox News crews
    Caleb Howe, PJM

    Ed. – Caleb Howe is wrong about why Trump attacks the press. To say it’s because Trump “doesn’t like people criticizing him” is like saying the Brits fought back in the spring of 1940 because they don’t like people dropping bombs on them. Trump is fighting a war using a plan, not retaliating for bad notices. Observe that I didn’t say it’s righteous to wage the fight Trump is waging. But if Trump were merely retaliating against criticism, he wouldn’t be able to turn the tables with a thematic campaign — which is what he is, in fact, doing. At any rate, overall, Howe makes some good points here.]

    https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/08/04/those-times-in-2008-when-leftists-literally-attacked-fox-news-crews/

    Frenzied, Angry Mob Turns on Reporters in a Dangerous Physical Altercation #Throwback Thursday

    This week at Donald Trump’s rally, Jim Acosta specifically and CNN generally were the subject of an angry display by Trump supporters who shouted, cursed, and made insulting gestures, mocking the network and its reporters, as well as the press in general.

    The press are the enemy of the people, says the president. Despite an attempted narrowing of that broad indictment this afternoon, it is a given in MAGA circles that the press are the enemy of America and of Trump. Or the enemy of America because they are the enemy of Trump. That line is pretty blurry.

    Nevertheless, it’s obvious that the already near-peak resentment among the Trump base of the hated MSM is reaching new highs lately, and the president likes and encourages that hatred. It’s all the easier to get his spin and lies accepted as truth and transparency if the masses are trained to believe no one but you. It’s dangerous, that’s for sure.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/frenzied-angry-mob-turns-on-reporters-in-a-dangerous-physical-altercation-throwbackthursday/

  37. Strzok sought to keep FBI powers before joining Mueller team

    Rep. Darrell Issa, Republican member of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Foreign Affairs Committees, on revelations from newly released Peter Strzok emails.

  39. “Be Cursed Forever”: Extremist Persecution of Christians, January 2018

    by Raymond Ibrahim
    August 5, 2018 at 5:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12780/persecution-of-christians-januar

    The Slaughter of Christians in Egypt

    Three masked gunmen targeted and killed Bassem Attallah, a Christian man, 27, after identifying him as a Christian by the cross tattoo on his wrist. According to his older brother, Osama, 38, the siblings and a Muslim colleague, Muhammad, were walking home after work when three armed men, aged between 23 and 25 stopped them. “We thought they were policemen because they weren’t masked… They were wearing black jackets,” Osama recalled. “They approached us and asked Bassem to show them the wrist of his right hand, and when they saw the tattoo of the cross, they asked him: ‘Are you Christian?’ Bassem answered ‘Yes, I am Christian,’ and repeated that again in a loud voice.”

    The men then asked Muhammad his name and to show them his wrist. They saw no cross and allowed him to leave. On learning Osama’s name, which is popular among Muslims, and not seeing any cross tattoos on his wrist, they also allowed him to leave. “And then they shot Bassem in the head. I could not believe what happened to my brother. He fell on the ground in front of me and I was unable to do anything…. We lost a person dear to our hearts. My brother Bassem was a very good and kind man. He had a strong relationship with God. He was always reading in the Bible, praying and going to the church. He was loved by all people,” said his grieving brother. The murder took place in Al-Arish, Sinai, which in recent years has been the scene of many attacks on Christians—including the murder of two priests and the mass upheaval of Christian villages.

  41. Suicide car bomb hits military base in central Somalia (abcnews, Aug 5, 2018)
    https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/suicide-car-bomb-hits-military-base-central-somalia-57041369

    “A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle killing four people near the gate of a military base in Afgoye town, 30 kilometers (18 miles) northwest of Mogadishu.

    Col. Ahmed Ali said that two of the dead were soldiers and fatalities could increase from the 10 injured in the blast Sunday, which was close to the former national water agency’s offices.

    Residents report hearing a powerful explosion, followed by gunfire from the base. Addow Isse, a resident in the town, said he saw at least three bodies lying in a pool of blood.”

  43. U of Toronto expert on political Islam is first female leader of the Islamic Society of North America – Canada

    The first female leader of the Islamic Society of North America – Canada, a major Canadian Islamic non-profit group, is a University of Toronto lecturer in political science who has extensively studied the political aspects of the faith.

    Katherine Bullock is the chair of ISNA-Canada, an organization that works to promote the religion and advance the prospects of Muslim communities across the country. A political Islam expert at the University of Toronto Mississauga who has written multiple books on the role of women in Islam, Bullock is focused on ensuring the organization helps present and protect the best aspects of the Muslim faith.

    “We’ll have a strong emphasis on spreading the good word about Islam and its positive contributions to Canada,” says Bullock, the author of books such as Muslim Women Activists in North America: Speaking for Ourselves and Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes.

    Bullock is now the organization’s first female chair since its founding in 1982. In addition, the group currently has the first gender-balanced, most ethnically diverse and youthful board in its history. Bullock says these developments represent a positive step forward in a culture that has not traditionally allowed women to take on leadership roles.

    “I do hope it’s an opening and a beginning, and not an anomaly or a one-off blip…A lot of young women have told me how excited and proud they are of my appointment, and how they are hoping for more change, so the pressure is on,” Bullock says.

    One of Bullock’s first moves has been to conduct listening sessions with groups such as youths, women, imams and social service agencies. The sessions revealed: a desire for more opportunities for women to be leaders in ISNA-Canada; settlement support for immigrants; help with bridging the cultural gap between Canadian-born/raised Muslim youth and their parents; and having the organization contribute more to public conversations about Muslim affairs, as well as important issues such as poverty, housing and the environment.

    This feedback has shaped some of ISNA-Canada’s new programming. The group recently started a women’s basketball team, as well as a new recreational program for mothers and their preschool-aged children. Bullock is also focused on reviving the group’s Muslim Senior Forum, which provides opportunities for seniors to connect with each other and participate in physical activities and educational programs.

    Another priority for Bullock is professionalizing the organization by better documenting all policies and procedures. She says this will be key to establishing best practices for running the group, and ensuring it respects ISNA-Canada’s values of openness and diversity.

    Finally, she wants to ensure ISNA-Canada plays a more active role in dealing with the rise of Islamophobia in recent years.

    “Muslims are concerned about the rise of anti-Muslim racism. This can be everything from job discrimination to having your hijab pulled off to hate crimes,” she says. “We need programming that addresses those issues and helps communities be resilient, and that allows us to create bridges with the wider Canadian society.”

    Headquartered in Mississauga, ISNA-Canada provides a range of services to its 650 members and the broader community, such as marriage and funeral services, halal meat certification, Qur’an classes, a food bank, family counselling and a bookstore. It owns and operates three mosques and an elementary school in the area, and leads two affiliate mosques in Western Canada. Among its most popular offerings is its Friday prayer service at its Islamic Centre of Canada, which attracts about 2,500 participants.

    https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-expert-political-islam-first-female-leader-islamic-society-north-america-canada

  45. Who Is Tommy Robinson and What Does He Stand For? | This Morning

    Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is the former English Defence league leader who was previously jailed for contempt of court and breaching the terms of a suspended sentence.

    He has often spouted radical views and has gathered quite a following, but why is he so popular?

    Broadcast on 02/08/2018

  46. NZ – Right wing Canadian speakers spark heated protests in Auckland

    A group of about 30 people turned out to defend Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux’s right to speak but tensions flared when around one hundred counter-protesters arrived.

    • NZ – 1 News – Fighting Talk

      Where’s the line between free speech and hate speech?
      Canadian far-right commentators Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux have brought their controversial online message right to our doorstep.
      With their arrival into New Zealand this week, we go face to face with the pair and reflect the views of a wide range of Kiwis.

  48. Richard: I don’t know anything about this channel but I haven’t heard anything in the video that is wrong.

    The Economic Collapse Of China! $30 Trillion Dollar Dark Cloud Of Debt – 2018 China’s Yuan CRASH!


    • Pay attention to the debt, the Chinese government is the majority stock holder in their banks, that means that if/when the private loans are defaulted on the Chinese Government is responsible for all of the loans. Then remember that a lot of the loans the banks have made are to powerful members of the Chinese Communist Party who never make an attempt to pay back the loans and many of whom are dead.

      China’s economy is one of the weakest in the world and all of their lies and accounting tricks are attempts to make people be3lieve they are a rich and economically strong nation. They are skating on the edge of economic collapse and don’t have any real solutions to their problem outside of printing money. The Iran sanctions allow them to buy a lot of oil cheap and resell at a high price claiming it is their oil not Irans. This will provide a much needed infusion of foreign currency but it is unlikely that this will be enough to prevent a massive economic collapse.

  50. Breaking News 8/5/18 – Tom Fitton on FBI Releases 71 Pages of Docs Tied to Steele