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Five killed in plane crash shortly after takeoff at Essendon Airport, Melbourne, Australia

Rachel Eddie and Chris Pleasance
Daily Mail
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:16 UTC
Firefighters have been battling the blaze next to Essendon Airport in Melbourne's north

Firefighters have been battling the blaze next to Essendon Airport in Melbourne's north
Dashcam footage has captured the final moments of a doomed charter plane before it plunged into a shopping centre next to Melbourne's Essendon Airport.

Five people were on board the Beechcraft charter plane bound for King Island, Tasmania, when the aircraft crashed on Tuesday about 9am.

Max Quartermain, 63, a pilot from Melbourne who owns Corporate and Leisure Aviation with his wife Cilla, is believed to have been flying the aircraft at the time.

Greg De Haven, 70, a retired FBI agent from Texas, is also thought to have died in the crash along with two friends during a 'once in a lifetime trip' to Australia, according to posts on social media.

Russell Munsch, 62, who was also from Texas and a founding partner of Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr law firm, has been named among the dead by relatives.

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Red Flag

Elementary teacher 'reassigned' after Facebook post supporting Trump immigration ban angers parents

Victor Skinner
EAG News
Sun, 19 Feb 2017 18:19 UTC
Veronica Fleming

Veronica Fleming
An elementary school teacher in Collier County, Florida was reassigned to administrative duties over a Facebook post during the "Day Without Immigrants" protest last Thursday.

Parkside Elementary School computer lab instructor Veronica Fleming linked to a Chicago Tribune story about the nationwide protest and offered her take on the situation.

"The funny part about immigrants staying home is the rest of us who pay for them are here at work like we've always been. Looks like less mouths to feed today. Have fun while you still can. So glad to hear about massive deportation. Let's make America great again. Thanks Donald Trump!"
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Mr. Potato

Liberal fantasies: Fake news site provides alternate reality for liberals, where Hillary is president

Peter Hasson
The Daily Caller
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:11 UTC
clinton newsweek
© Justin Sullivan/Reuters
Liberals seeking refuge from reality now have a fake news website where they can pretend to live in a world where Hillary Clinton is president.

"Approval ratings for President Clinton hit 89 percent," "Confused by fake news, Redditers think Trump is president" and "DOJ considers charging Trump with treason" are just a few headlines featured on HillaryBeatTrump.org, a satirical news site devoted to covering stories from an alternate universe where Hillary won last November's election.

"In the midst of a Constitutional crisis, this is our response," the site's description reads. "Long live the true president, Hillary Rodham Clinton."

The site's proprietors do not identify themselves online, and did not return TheDC's request for comment, but their articles suggest they have liberal leanings.

The site's articles single out prominent Republicans like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and White House press secretary Sean Spicer for mockery.

"On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz went on Ellen to confess that he, of course, killed Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster in 1993," reads one recent article, which refers to Cruz as "the Republican front-runner to take on President Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2020."

Comment: This is only the natural progression of the social hysteria plaguing Democrats. An imaginary safe space is probably the best place for those who have lost touch with reality so completely. At least there, Hillary can only kill imaginary people.

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Ashton Kutcher speaks up about sex trafficking epidemic in Congress as thousands of busts occur

Nathaniel Mauka
Waking Times
Sun, 19 Feb 2017 17:31 UTC
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The actor Ashton Kutcher recently testified before Congress. Many are unaware that the press-dubbed 'pretty' boy who once dated actress Demi Moore, and that now has two children with actress Mila Kunis, is also an active voice against human sex trafficking.

Kutcher is the co-founder of Thorn, an organization that has developed software to reduce human sex trafficking violation investigations for law enforcement from three years to three weeks. In his emotional testimony before members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he thanked the leaders in the fight to expose the magnitude of the problem, and talked about the importance of stopping the inbound and outbound pipelines which lead to sex abuse of women and children.

Kutcher tearfully said,
"I've seen things that no person should ever see. I've seen video content of a child that is the same age as mine being raped by an American man that was a sex tourist in Cambodia. This child was so conditioned by her environment that she thought she was engaging in play."
Kutcher noted that the marginalization of refugees, and society's refusal to provide the most basic human need of love for people in numerous countries was leading to the epidemic of human trafficking.

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Syringe

Canadian science teacher facing discipline for questioning safety of vaccines

Brandon Turbeville
Natural Blaze
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:20 UTC
Tim Sullivan
© MONTE SONNENBERG / SIMCOE REFORMER
Norfolk science teacher Tim Sullivan, of Simcoe, is scheduled for a disciplinary hearing next week before the Ontario College of Teachers following a series of incidents at a school in 2015 related to a vaccination clinic. Here, Sullivan displays product monographs related to some of the vaccinations administered to local high school students.
Having gained leaps and bounds in the race to eliminate any vestige of free speech with its recent hate crime laws, Canada is once again trying to take the lead in the elimination of free thought, free speech, free expression and well . . . pretty much anything free.

This time, it is the persecution and punishment of a Canadian Biology and Physics teacher for daring to question the safety of vaccination and, even worse, allegedly asking medical professionals about the side effects of certain medications and whether or not students were being informed as to the possible dangers.
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Dollar

Visualizing corporate power: One infograph reveals the world's most valuable brands

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:51 UTC
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The world's most valuable brands, visualized in this nifty chart.

This infographic comes courtesy of HowMuch.net, which visualizes Brand Finance's list of the top 500 brands.

Each country's brand is sized accordingly to the dollar value of that company.
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Handcuffs

5 London teens arrested on suspicion of traveling to Syria to join terrorist group


RT
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:08 UTC
london police
© Cathal McNaughton / Reuters
Five London teens whom police suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join a terrorist group have been arrested.

The arrests on Monday follow searches of residential properties in South, West and East London on February 14.

Although police have not said the arrests are connected with the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), they said the youths were planning to join a proscribed organization.

The male teens are one each aged 15, 16 and 19, and two 17-year-olds.
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Hardhat

North Carolina needed 6,500 farm workers. Only 7 Americans stuck it out to the end of the season

Dylan Matthews
Washington Post
Wed, 15 May 2013 16:26 UTC
agriculture farm workers
© The Weinstein Company
Freddie Quell works at a cabbage farm alongside migrant workers in PT Anderson’s “The Master.”
When I talked to him about the economic effects of immigration last month, Center for Global Development migration expert Michael Clemens mentioned that he was working on research on agricultural migrant workers. That research is finally out, in the form of a report released by CGD and the Partnership for a New American Economy, a pro-immigration reform group started by Michael Bloomberg and Rupert Murdoch.

Clemens's study focuses on the agricultural industry in North Carolina, and more specifically on the North Carolina Growers Association (NCGA), which supplies manual laborers to North Carolina farms. The NCGA is the nation's largest user of the H-2A guest worker program,which is designed with agricultural workers in mind. Under that program's regulations, Clemens explains, NCGA "must submit an application to the US Department of Labor proving that it has actively recruited US natives and native workers will not take NCGA jobs."

That data is interesting, because it describes the labor market before any immigrant workers are recruited. That, as Clemens says, "allows us to assess the willingness of native workers to take farm jobs before they can even be offered to foreign workers, meaning that this study does not miss any impact caused by people who self-select out of an area or occupation because of competition with foreign workers."

That willingness, he finds, is basically nonexistent. Every year from 1998 to 2012, at least 130,000 North Carolinians were unemployed. Of those, the number who asked to be referred to NCGA was never above 268 (and that number was only reached in 2011, when 489,095 North Carolinians were unemployed). The share of unemployed asking for referrals never breached 0.09 percent.

Comment: North America has become so accustomed to food abundance, they no longer value those that produce their food. Furthermore, Big Agra has such a stranglehold on the industry, they place producers in the wage bind they are in because they can demand a farmer's products at prices that barely keep the operations running. Buying farm produce locally as much as possible can help break this evil monopoly.

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Brick Wall

Not just Oroville: Northern California infrastructure needs a major overhaul

Katie Dowd
SF Gate
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:36 UTC
Oroville Dam
© William Croyle/California Department of Water Resources via AP
This Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, aerial photo released by the California Department of Water Resources shows the damaged spillway with eroded hillside in Oroville, Calif. Water will continue to flow over an emergency spillway at the nation’s tallest dam for another day or so, officials said Sunday.
The Oroville Dam crisis reminded many Californians of something we only associate with earthquakes: Our crumbling state infrastructure.

It's not just The Big One that has the power to wreak havoc on our roads, dams, bridges and transit, though. As this winter has proven, extended periods of heavy rains can do it too. In addition to the erosion at Oroville Dam which prompted the evacuation of 200,000 people, rains have worsened our already awful roads.

Even before Oroville, the state was putting forward a major proposal to fix the state's aging infrastructure. Recently, Gov. Jerry Brown revealed the details of a $100 billion infrastructure proposal to President Trump, asking for upgrades to roads, levees, veterans services, ports and more. The proposal is a catch-up wish list; the state's already in a $136 billion backlog of road repairs, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
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Cards

Montreal city council votes to become sanctuary city to any undocumented migrants


RT
Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:40 UTC
migrants cross canada border
© Christinne Muschi / Reuters
A family from Yemen crosses the U.S.-Canada border into Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada February 14, 2017
The council of Canada's second most-populous city has voted to adopt the status of a 'sanctuary' for non-status immigrants. The motion means that any undocumented migrant will have full access to local services without fear of being turned in or deported.

The motion was passed by Montreal city council on Monday, and was initially put forward by Mayor Denis Coderre, who is also a former Canadian immigration minister.

Addressing the press, Coderre said Montreal has the means to take care of the refugees living there, and that it was time for the city to take action.

"[We can provide] healthcare, housing, integration. A lot of these people are victims. They've been victims of terrorist acts, they've been kicked out of their country or left because of their situation - from sexual orientation to political refugees. Some of them have been here six, seven, eight years.


Comment: Ironically, the majority of refugees from the Middle East have left their homes because of the actions of the governments of the West, including Canada. Their victimization is a result of the very governments that pretend to care about their well-being. Here's a thought for Canada: maybe don't support the psychopathic destruction of their countries and you won't need to create sanctuary cities.


"We have the capacity to provide services under our own jurisdiction, so when we are talking about housing, when we are talking about basic service - we will be able to do that," Coderre said, as cited by CTV News.
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