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'Fire and Fury': Hope Hicks' family, friends say she'll need therapy after she leaves Trump

Anna Giaritelli
Washington Examiner
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:43 UTC
Hope Hicks and Donald Trump
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Family and friends of Hope Hicks believe the White House communications director will have to seek professional counseling after she leaves her job in the administration, according to a report published Thursday.

"Following the Trump victory and her [Hope Hicks] move into the White House, her friends and intimates talked with great concern about what kind of therapies and recuperation she would need after her tenure was finally over," an excerpt from Michael Wolff's forthcoming book "Fire and Fury" stated, as reprinted in GQ.

Hicks, 29, was the first person President Trump's campaign hired in 2015. She had worked for Matthew Hiltzik's New York-based public relations firm before jumping to Ivanka Trump's fashion brand, where the eldest Trump daughter recommended Hicks for her father's campaign.

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Health

California Democrats propose to spend $1 billion dollars on health care for illegal immigrants

Hank Berrien
The Daily Wire
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:58 UTC
california immigrants
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Democrats, who have a monopoly of power in California politics, are proposing to spend $1 billion a year to provide health care to illegal immigrants living in the state. Medi-Cal, which is the state's Medicaid program, would eliminate legal residency requirements.

The proposal was offered as part of a $4.3 billion proposal from San Francisco Democrat Assemblyman Phil Ting, the head of the Assembly budget committee. According to NBC Bay Area, 7% of people residing in California lack health coverage, many of them illegal immigrants.

California has already eliminated legal residency requirements for Medicaid coverage for people under 19; Ting's proposal would extend that to all ages.

Comment: Sounds like the democrats have been smoking to much of the green stuff. Then again, being a sanctuary state, why not make more enticing for people to come stay illegally? Though the sign below turned out to be a fake, it sums it up nicely - democrats need the votes!

california road sign
© Kambree Kawahine Koa/Twitter
A fake Sanctuary State sign placed on the 15 Freeway between California and Nevada.


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Health

Flu crisis strikes the UK: Operations cancelled, no beds available, long waits

Liam Deacon
Breit Bart
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:00 UTC
NHS flu crisis
© David Sillitoe for the Guardian
Many hospitals have come under the cosh since Christmas amid very cold weather and higher than usual prevalence of flu.
The number of people forced to wait long periods in ambulances rose dramatically during the Christmas period, whilst Britain's hospitals were dangerously full.

National Health Service (NHS) figures show 16,893 patients waited more than 30 minutes in ambulances at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments in the week before New Year's Eve.

This represents a 42 per cent rise on the 11,900 which endured half hour handover waits the week previously. Those stuck for more than an hour almost doubled, shooting up by 95 per cent to 4,700 compared to 2,400 the week before.
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Ambulance

Carbon monoxide leak kills teen, sickens 41 others in New Jersey


RT
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 03:49 UTC
new jersey
© Dan Bowens/Twitter
Dozens of people were forced out of their apartments into blizzard conditions in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, as a carbon monoxide leak poisoned at least 41 people and killed a teenager.

A 13-year-old girl is dead and three of her relatives are in critical condition Thursday evening, following the poisonous gas leak in a 12-unit apartment building, WNBC reported.

A total of 41 people were treated, including 27 police officers, about 20 percent of the police force, according to WNBC.

Many of the exposure victims were children, according to WABC. Kids were reportedly seen fainting, as emergency responders set up a triage outside the residential building.
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Family

German transsexual woman loses case to be recognized as child's legal mother since he is the father


RT
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:29 UTC
german court
© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
A German transsexual woman whose sperm was used to fertilize an egg with her female partner can be registered only as the child's father, according to a ruling by the country's highest civil court.

The woman, who changed sex in 2012, has been in a registered civil partnership since September 2015. A child was born to the couple in June that year after the plaintiff's frozen sperm was used to fertilize an egg. However, the Federal Court of Justice ruled Thursday that while the law recognizes transgender people as their chosen sex, a change in gender does not alter the legal relationship between a parent and child in cases where the child was born after the transition.
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Syringe

Government mistakenly kidnaps innocent elderly man, forcibly injects him with anti-psychotics - then gives him $50 gift card for food

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Eugene Wright
A senior citizen was kidnapped by police, taken to a local hospital, and forced to take injections of psychiatric drugs and they had the wrong guy.

Eugene Wright told reporters he still has nightmares about being kidnapped, caged, and forced to take drugs. The 63-year-old Meadville man says he was just minding his own business outside his home in June of 2017 when he was taken into custody by police at the request of Stairways Behavioral Health.

They claimed Wright was threatening people at a local physician's office but he told the police and the representative from Stairways that was impossible because he was at work. What happened next was nothing short of a living hell and resembled a scene out of 1984. Wright says he's now suing for having his civil rights violated. He said:
They explained to me earlier that day at 10 a.m. I was at an orthopedic office threatening people. I was at work.
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Bizarro Earth

Police keeping 'open mind' about whether UK murder was revenge for gang rape


Sputnik
Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:56 UTC
abduction
© CCO/Pixabay
Last month Alex Vanderpuye was stabbed to death in east London. It has now emerged that when he was 13 he was part of a notorious gang who gang-raped a young girl in Hackney.

In 2008 Alex Vanderpuye was jailed for six years after being convicted of the rape and false imprisonment of the 14-year-old girl. Nine years later Vanderpuye was stabbed to death in the street.
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Info

Iran's riot wave comes to an end?

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:29 UTC
Iran
© JT/HAMED MALEKPOUR
Amidst big pro-government demonstrations yesterday the authorities are claiming that the protest wave which began in the Mashhad on 28th December 2017 has ended, and that quiet has returned to Iran's towns and cities.

It is not always easy to verify information coming from Iran, not so much because the government seeks to suppress information but because the flow of information from Iran is so intensely politicised.

This together with the relative absence of independent reporters on the ground makes it sometimes difficult to form a view of what is actually going on.

However the government's claim that the protest wave has ended does seem to correspond with information coming from Iran, which suggests that the protests are in the main over.

Assuming that this information is true - as seems likely - what general conclusions about the protest wave can be drawn?

Comment: Announcing the end of the rioting, IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari (the source of the 15k figure above) also "added that Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States had ordered the militants from Daesh to enter the Iranian territory in order to carry out subversive activities." That's probably unlikely, at least in the immediate future, but we'll just have to wait and see!

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Heart - Black

City of Chicago threatens to condemn good Samaritan's house for trying to keep the homeless from freezing to death

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Chicago homeless

The city of Chicago would seemingly rather watch homeless people die than allow a good Samaritan to offer up his home that doesn't meet their specs.
In the land of the free, if you try to help someone from freezing to death in subzero temperatures, you can and will be arrested and have your house stolen from you by state agents. A good Samaritan in Chicago is learning the hard way about the police state who is now forcing him to stop helping homeless people-or they will condemn his home and charge him.

When the brutally cold winter struck the Midwest last month, Greg Schiller did an amazing thing. This selfless individual opened up his empty basement to a group of homeless people who may have otherwise died sleeping out on the street. He offered them food, warm beverages, and cots to sleep on. He even provided the entertainment and played movies for them.

"I would stay up all night with them and give them coffee and stuff and feed them," he said. What's more, Schiller had a strict policy that no drugs or alcohol were allowed in his home.

Comment: In the 'land of the free', taking care of the homeless has become a revolutionary act. Cities across the country are cracking down on good people who want to help those in need.

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Bizarro Earth

65 year old man dies after teenager punches him, knocking him onto subway tracks

Matthew Haag & Ashley Southall
National Post
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 23:02 UTC
Bystanders jumped down and pulled the man off the tracks, the police said, but Jacinto Suarez died of his injuries hours later

A subway stop in Manhattan.
© Spencer Platt/Getty Images
A subway stop in Manhattan.
A 65-year-old man died Wednesday afternoon after a teenager who had been ranting incoherently punched him on a subway platform in Brooklyn, knocking him onto the tracks, the police said.

A witness flagged down a police officer at the station, Jay Street-Metro Tech in downtown Brooklyn, while bystanders jumped down and pulled the man off the tracks, the police said. The man, Jacinto Suarez, did not come in contact with the electrified third rail and was not struck by a train. Suarez, who lived on Staten Island, later died at Brooklyn Hospital Center.
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