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French police arrest far-right extremists planning attacks on politicians, mosques, migrants

AFP
France24
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:33 UTC
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© Zakaria Abdelkafi, AFP
Muslim worshippers leave at the end of the Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque of Paris on September 1, 2017
French anti-terror agents arrested 10 people on Tuesday over a suspected plot to target mosques and politicians, including a government spokesman, a source close to the investigation told AFP.

The arrests of suspects aged 17-25 were made in the Paris region and southeast France as part of an investigation into far-right activists, the source said.

The nine men and one woman are suspected of links to 21-year-old Logan Alexandre Nisin, a former militant of the far-right group Action Francaise Provence who was arrested in June, the source said.

One source said the woman arrested Tuesday is Nisin's mother.

Police investigations had unmasked "intentions to commit violent action" of which the details remained unclear, a judicial source said, but that involved "a place of worship, a politician, a migrant, drug trafficking".

Another source named the targeted politicians as government spokesman Christophe Castaner and radical left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon.
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Cork soldier pleads guilty to raping and abusing daughters

Sarah-Jane Murphy
Sun (UK)
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:08 UTC
Jerry O'Keeffe
© 3News
A RETIRED soldier who pleaded guilty to raping his daughter over a five-year period and to abusing another daughter will be sentenced next month. Jerry O'Keeffe, 69, of Youghal, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin to three charges of rape, five of indecent assault and one of sexual assault. These were merely nine sample charges out of a total of 78 covering a period from January 1980 to March 1987. Timothy O'Leary SC, prosecuting, told the court both women were waiving their right to anonymity.

Sergeant John Sharkey told Mr O'Leary the three charges of rape and two counts of indecent assault relate to O'Keeffe's eldest daughter Amy Barrett and took place at the family home at The Arch, Youghal.

Sgt Sharkey said O'Keeffe regularly asked Amy, who was aged eight at the time, to sit on his lap in the sitting room. He would then sexually assault her before bringing her upstairs to his bedroom where he would rape her. The abuse ended in 1985 when Mrs Barrett was aged 12.

Sgt Sharkey said the remaining charges related to the abuse of the younger daughter, Melissa O'Keeffe, at the family's new home at Catherine's Street in Youghal. O'Keeffe would go into the child's bedroom late at night after returning from the pub and climb into bed beside her. He would then molest her, the court heard.
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Vegas shooting survivor Kymberley Suchomel dies suddenly - UPDATE: Was planning to form survivors' group

Rene Ray De La Cruz
seacoastonline.com
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:54 UTC
Kymberley Suchomel

Kymberley and Michael Suchomel
About a week after surviving the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Kymberley Suchomel has died.

Suchomel, 28, who was not injured during last week's shooting, died early Monday at her Apple Valley home, according to her grandmother, Julie Norton, the co-founder of the High Desert Phoenix Foundation.

Norton found Suchomel just after 8:30 a.m. when she arrived to care for her 3-year-old great-granddaughter, Scarlett. She believes Suchomel may have died in her sleep after her husband, Mike, left for work at 4:30 a.m.

"Kymberley had epilepsy and she's always been prone to seizures - she told her friend that she recently had three focal seizures," Norton told the Daily Press. "I believe the stress from the shooting took her life."

Days after the shooting, Suchomel explained to the Victorville Daily Press how she and her friends escaped with their lives as a gunman, perched from a hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, opened fire on some 20,000 concertgoers on Oct. 1.

Comment: Here's Kymberley's account of what happened in Vegas that night:

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Update (Oct. 18): A long-time friend of Suchomel has made public a Facebook conversation he had with her before her death. She had planned to "organize a group of survivors" to "piece things together".
"You can share my comment for sure. And you can leave my name," Suchomel says in a Facebook message to her friend. "I'm trying to organize a group of survivors so if anyone wants to contact me they can. Because this fucked up shit doesn't make sense and we are trying to piece things together."

"The media can suck it. They have no idea what went down!" she added.

Suchomel goes on to tell her friend, who told Infowars he'd known her for years, that she was compiling a "second by second story" detailing her experience, and pinpoints on an image where she'd been seated with her friends.
The conversation:
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Clinton's chief strategist: 'Russian Facebook ads' didn't win Trump the election

Joshua Caylan
Gateway Pundit
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Chillary
© Getty
$1.4B can't buy me love.
In September Facebook announced it would turn over 3,000 Russian-linked ads to GOP-led congressional committees. The left claimed that 3,000 ads costing $100,000 that were neither favorable or unfavorable for either candidate flipped the 2016 election. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg even released a statement on the conspiracy.

President Trump went to Twitter soon after this release to respond to the latest Democrat-media hoax. President Trump was right again. Now we know for certain that this was all another fake news story. Russia Today reported in October that half of the Facbook ads ran after the election and 25% of the ads never ran at all.

Now this... Mark Penn, former chief strategist on Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, and Mrs. Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, admits it's impossible Russian Facebook ads won Donald Trump the White House. Penn uses basic math to dispel the notion that $100,000 of Russian ads would have had any impact of the election outcome.

Comment: So we can count Mark Penn among the few US intelligentsia that are not insane.

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Healthcare subsidies: Senators, Trump agree on bipartisan deal


RT
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:39 UTC
bright idea
© Wall St. Journal
Bright Idea?
Republicans and Democrats in the health committee of the US Senate appear to have reached an agreement on a plan to extend federal payments to health insurers that President Donald Trump had blocked. Trump said he supported the plan.

The plan agreed to by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Patty Murray (D-Washington) is intended to stabilize health insurance markets under the Affordable Care Act. "This takes care of the next two years," Senator Alexander told the New York Times. "After that, we can have a full-fledged debate on where we go long-term on healthcare." Alexander and Murray had been working for weeks on healthcare legislation separate from efforts by GOP leaders to dismantle the ACA, according to AP.

As one part of the deal, in addition to the the subsidies to health insurance marketing being funded for two years, there would be lower out-of-pocket costs for low-income consumers.

At a joint press conference by Trump and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras on Tuesday afternoon, the president said he knew about the Alexander-Murray deal. "It is a short-term deal, a solution for a year or two that will get us over this hump, so we don't have this dangerous period," Trump said.

The president endorsed the plan by Senators Graham and Cassidy, which would provide block grants to states to provide their own health insurance programs, as a better long-term solution.

Comment: Given a remedial prescription for the next two years, healthcare may temporarily be off life-support.

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Atlanta hospital: No transplant for 2-year-old son until donor father follows law


WSBT
Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:58 UTC
Anthony Dickerson and his son
© 11Alive / NBC Atlanta
An Atlanta hospital says it won't complete a 2-year-old boy's organ transplant until his father stops getting into trouble with the law.

Twenty-six-year-old Anthony Dickerson is supposed to donate a kidney to his 2-year-old son, Anthony Jr., who was born without the organs.

Local media report that Emory University Hospital sent a letter to Carmellia Burgess delaying the surgery until Dickerson can show he complied with his parole officer for three months.

Dickerson has been in and out of jail, most recently charged with fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer as well as possession of a firearm or knife during the commission of attempted felonies.

Burgess says the hospital is unfairly endangering her son.
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Life Preserver

Countering the opioid epidemic: Colorado overdose deaths decline after marijuana legalized

Cheryl K. Chumley
The Washington Times
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
opioid deaths
© Real Leaders
A new study has found that fewer individuals died from opioid overdoses in one state where marijuana has been legalized.

Interesting. And worthy of more, much more study.

This preliminary finding is hardly a reason to legalize marijuana for recreational use. But it does seem to suggest a deeper look at the medical uses of marijuana might be warranted. After all, it's been long known that marijuana is effective at easing pain, particularly for those suffering from chronic ailments, like cancer.

Opioids, meanwhile, are on their way out. The tea leaves point that way. The White House has called for crackdowns; pharmacies are beginning to listen; insurance companies are starting to pull back from payments.

Yet chronic pain sufferers are still - well, suffering.

So if marijuana is a feasible alternative, it should be explored.

Comment: More on this study: Marijuana legalization reduced opioid-related deaths & alters brain function, studies show

Other studies have had similar findings:

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Smoking

Borneo to enforce smoking ban at 76 public parks


The Borneo Post
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:41 UTC
No smoking sign in Borneo
© The Borneo Post
‘No Smoking’ signboard at Sibu Town Square Phase I.
Seventy-six public parks across the state have been gazetted as 'No Smoking' zones, following the enforcement on June 1 this year by the state Health Department.

According to state Health Department director Dr Jamilah Hashim, her side ran a three-month public awareness prior to the enforcement.

"Public parks should be used for healthy recreational activities. Smokers are, therefore, urged to respect other visitors who wish to utilise these public facilities without the dangerous side effects of secondary smoking," she said when asked about the number of compounds issued for those caught smoking at public parks across the state, under Regulation 11(1)(w) of Control of Tobacco Product Regulations 2004.
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Liquid democracy: Colorado candidate pledges to make political decisions based on Parti.Vote app

Dom Galeon
Futurism.com
Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Pie Chart of City
© Getty
By the People

Technology has the potential to radically change how elected officials perform their duties, and at least one political candidate thinks now's the time to take advantage of that potential. If Camilo Casas is elected to the city council in Boulder, Colorado, this November, he promises he will not make any decision by himself. Instead, he plans to put that power in the hands of the people via a liquid democracy app called Parti.Vote.

Casas built the app himself, and as he explained to Motherboard, he designed it to facilitate a liquid democracy. The idea is that instead of simply hoping their elected representatives support their stance on issues, citizens will be empowered to directly affect policy-making by voting through the app.


Comment: Great idea - a candidate who actually intends to represent the will of the people!! Should he be elected, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for political realities to derail this project. Trump is a prime example..

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'Hollywood now, Washington, DC next': Fmr Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney rails against gov't pedophilia

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:27 UTC
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© The Free Thought Project
"We're outraged and angry--not having had justice for at least a generation. Hollywood now; Washington, DC next." - Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D.

Let there be no doubt, those who engage in the child sex trade are society's most vile - and many times, as the recent revelations out of Hollywood are showing us, the most elite.

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney agrees and has devoted much of her life to ousting these vile predators. In February, McKinney made a point noting that going after child predators will lead to the downfall of both Republicans and Democrats - as this problem goes all the way to the top.

Now, this former congresswoman is at it again, promoting a documentary, titled, An Open Secret that exposes the horrific problem of child sex trafficking in Hollywood.

For those who don't remember McKinney, she is the Congresswoman who bravely questioned the elite - on the house floor - about their role in the child trafficking industry.

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