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Man uses $1 million lottery win to finally visit doctor, dies shortly after from cancer

Harriet Sinclai
Newsweek
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 08:37 UTC
doctor's office
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A New York lottery winner who used some of his million-dollar prize to pay for a visit to the doctor, was told he had stage 4 cancer, and died several weeks later.

Donald Savastano, who won $1 million playing the New York Lottery's 'Merry Millionaire' game, said on collecting his prize that he had bought the ticket on a whim and was hoping the money would change his life for the better.

"Being a self-employed carpenter, I didn't really have a plan for retirement," Savastano told WBNG at the time. "The money will help with that. I don't have any other extravagant plans. I'll buy a new truck, pay off some debt and invest for the future."

As well as thinking about using his newly found fortune to book a vacation and buy himself a new truck, the self-employed carpenter also took the opportunity to pay for a visit to the doctor-something he had previously not been able to afford.

Comment: You pretty much have to win the lottery to afford healthcare in the US. See also:

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UK: Gas explosion rips through Bolton home leaving man fighting for life and woman injured

Aletha Adu
The Sun
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:13 UTC
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Emergency services scrambled to Rydal Grove in Farnworth at around 2.40pm following reports of a blast at the property. Hero neighbours rescued the man and a woman, both of whom who were left with 'serious burns'

An elderly man is fighting for his life in hospital after a gas explosion ripped through a property in Bolton.

Emergency services scrambled to Rydal Grove in Farnworth at around 2.40pm following reports of a blast at the property, where they also found an elderly woman with "serious burns".

Comment: Car packed with gas canisters rams into pedestrians in Shanghai, China, 18 injured - "not an attack" say police

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Attention

UN says at least 45 Palestinian schools under Israeli demolition threat


Middle East Monitor
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 10:34 UTC
A Palestinian man walks near a school
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A Palestinian man walks near a school that was demolished by Israeli forces
The United Nation Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Sunday that at least 45 schools in Palestine were facing the threat of destruction by the Israeli authority.

In a released statement, the OCHA acting Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territories Roberto Valent pointed out that a Palestinian school in East Jerusalem was destroyed by Israeli soldiers, and added: "The demolition was carried out on grounds of lack of Israeli-issued permits, which are nearly impossible to obtain."

"As in Abu Nuwar, hundreds of children attending one of at least 45 schools in the West Bank (37 in Area C" and 8 in East Jerusalem) with pending demolition orders are living in instability, with the specter of school demolition ever-present, threatening their access to education," Valent said in the statement.
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Redevelopment of Gestapo HQ into luxury condo incites anger in Hamburg


RT
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 02:48 UTC
Former Gestapo headquarters in Hamburg
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Families of Nazi torture victims are fuming over the transformation of the former Gestapo headquarters in Hamburg into a luxury condo at the expense of a memorial to those affected by the Secret Police's atrocities.

In 2009, city planners awarded a development contract to Quantum Immobilien to convert a complex of four buildings dating to the 19th century into a multi-purpose apartment complex. One of the buildings, now known as the Stadthöfe (City Courtyards), served as the city headquarters of the Gestapo - the Nazi secret police who used the facility to interrogate and torture people between 1933-43 during the reign of the Third Reich.
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Heart

Putin's teacher wills her Israel apartment "to Russia"

Vesti - translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Fort Russ
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 01:13 UTC
Vladimir Putin had once helped his high-school teacher to buy an apartment in Tel Aviv.
Mina Moiseevna Yuditskaya

Mina Moiseevna Yuditskaya
It has been reported that the former teacher of the president, who died at the end of last year in Israel, bequeathed her apartment in Tel Aviv "to Russia."

Due to it's ambiguity, the Russian Embassy in Israel explained that the Israeli authorities are trying to find possible heirs of Mina Yuditskaya's property, and once they are found, a decision will be made on the apartment.
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2 + 2 = 4

Jordan Peterson: An antidote against the pitfalls of postmodernism?

Jeffrey Howard
Erraticus
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:24 UTC
Peterson
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Dr. Jordan Peterson
Feminist maverick Camille Paglia has called him "the most important and influential Canadian thinker since Marshall McLuhan," declaring that "his bold interdisciplinary synthesis of psychology, anthropology, science, politics and comparative religion is forming the template for the genuinely humanistic university of the future." Meanwhile, conservative commentator David Brooks has echoed sentiments also shared by economist Tyler Cowen, referring to this moment as Jordan Peterson's ascension to the most influential public intellectual in the West.

A clinical psychologist initially trained in political science, Peterson is a professor at the University of Toronto who has risen to prominence as a firm advocate of free speech and individual responsibility. Raised as a cowboy on the Canadian plains, he toiled through various trades before entering the ivory halls of Harvard, writing Maps of Meaning, a complex but groundbreaking tome in the psychology of religion. His recently published, and more accessible book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, could not come at a more perfect time for Peterson's career, and perhaps, for Western civilization.

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Arrow Down

We just witnessed the stock market take its largest one day decline ever, down 1,175 points

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
stock market crash
The mainstream media seems so surprised that the stock market is crashing, but the truth is that it isn't a surprise at all. In fact, this crash is way, way overdue. If the Dow Jones industrial average fell another 10,000 points, stock prices would still be overvalued. I have been warning and warning and warning that this would happen, because stock valuations always return to their long-term averages eventually. On Monday, the Dow was down a staggering 1,175 points, which was the largest single day decline that we have ever seen by a very wide margin. In fact, it shattered the old record by nearly 400 points.

Shortly after 3 PM, all hell broke loose on Wall Street. The Dow dropped by more than 800 points in just 10 minutes. At one point on Monday, the Dow was down nearly 1,600 points, but a brief rally cut those losses roughly in half. However, the rally did not last long and stock prices collapsed hard as the market closed. At this moment, the Dow is already down more than 2,200 points from the peak of the market, and we are not too far from officially entering "correction" territory.

Comment: If one considers that financial markets - like the stock market - are nearly all manipulated and subject to changes by those with the knowledge, power and will to do so, it is interesting to consider the timing of this event. By all accounts, the Deep State narrative on 'Russian collusion' is coming apart at the seams. Considering the moneyed and political interests involved - and who have much to lose here - it's possible that this crash was timed to distract from all that's coming now. At the same time, as the author says, this bubble has been waiting to burst for quite a while now, so who knows.

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Dollars

Monsanto's suppression tactics: 'Decades of deceptive tactics to make billions of dollars'


RT
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:05 UTC
Monsanto coverup
© Yves Herman / Reuters
ARCHIVE: A protest against a planned $66 billion takeover of Monsanto by Bayer and Monsanto's glyphosate herbicides
Monsanto has been using different tactics to suppress vital information for people who are being exposed to Roundup to decide if they want to use it or not, says Carey Gillam, investigative journalist and author.

The story with the agricultural giant's Roundup weed killer began in the 1980s when tests on its primary ingredient, glyphosate, began to show cellular changes in laboratory animals that should have been considered early signals that the product could cause cancer. In 1995, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that this compound needed to be classified as a carcinogen.

Comment: Monsanto: History of Contamination and Cover-up

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Question

Everyone's forgotten about male suffrage. Why?

Neil Lyndon
The Telegraph
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:57 UTC
While the story of female suffrage is taught at school from a young age, few people today know the long and gruesome history of how men won the right to vote, says Neil Lyndon
hands raised
© Igor Stevanovic / Alamy
Hundreds of thousands of men were killed before male suffrage came into effect
On 23 March, while arguing the case on these pages for a Minister for Men, Tim Samuels apologised for trespassing on feminism's most hallowed ground and said: "We men have not had to fight tooth and nail for our votes".

No doubt, everybody would go along with that. Everybody in this country is taught from infancy that the Suffragettes had to wrest votes for women from a brutal male establishment that was protecting the monopoly exercised by all men. My daughters learned that lesson at primary school before they had even been introduced to the cardinal beliefs of the world's leading religions.

Comment: For more information see:

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Newspaper

Study: Eindhoven has an underage male prostitution problem

Janene Pieters
NL Times
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 23:50 UTC
Stock photo of a teen sitting against a stone wall.
© Wokandapix / Pixabay
Stock photo of a teen sitting against a stone wall.
At least 70 boys and young men between the ages of 14 and 22 years are active in prostitution in and around Eindhoven, and not all of them willingly, according to a study by welfare organization Lumens. The municipality of Eindhoven is shocked by these figures, alderman Renate Richters said to Nieuwsuur.

For this study, Lumens researchers spent 18 months speaking to boys and young men in places where they offer themselves. "We had a boy who was being exploited by his family", researcher Danielle van Went said to Nieuwsuur. His family dropped him off with men who he had to have sex with, and the extorted those men with videos of the encounter, she said.
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