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Canadian elderly couple forced to live apart - he dies six weeks after reunited (VIDEOS)

Yuliya Talmazan
Global News
Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:43 UTC
Wolfram and Anita Gottschalk Britisch Colombia elderly couple

Wolfram and Anita Gottschalk


Update: The Gottschalk's grand-daughter Ashley Bartyik told Global News that Wolfram has passed away. She says the family was grateful he was able to spend the last few weeks of his life with his wife.


A Surrey, B.C. couple separated into different care homes for the past eight months has now been reunited and is thanking "everyone around the world" for sharing their story.

Global News broke the story of Anita and Wolfram Gottschalk, married for 62 years, after their granddaughter reached out for help.

The Gottschalks have been forced to live separately because they had been placed in different care facilities.

Anita, 81, has been living at The Residence at Morgan Heights, while her husband, Wolfram, 83, has been living at Yale Road Centre.

Wolfram has dementia and has recently been diagnosed with lymphoma, so the family is concerned Anita and Wolfram won't have much time left together.
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'California better hold on tight': ICE director promises doubling of officers after sanctuary state law signed


Fox News
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:00 UTC
Thomas Homan ICE Director

ICE Director Thomas Homan
Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan said California "better hold on tight" after its liberal Democratic governor allowed a sanctuary state law to take effect this week.

Neil Cavuto said that Gov. Jerry Brown claimed the law will protect illegal immigrants living quietly in the shadows of society from law enforcement intent on "yanking them out of there."

"I think it's terrible," Homan said, adding that Brown's action put politics in front of public safety.


Comment: Things are heating up in California, and it's not just the wildfires! The state has a history of clashing with the Feds over state law that directly upends federal law (the legal status marijuana immediately comes to mind). Where this will lead is anyone's guess, but overall, it can't be good. See also:

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NHS cuts and flu crisis push UK hospitals to the brink - Doctors describe 'third world conditions' and 'system fail'

Denis Campbell
Guardian
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:46 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.
Growing numbers of hospitals are struggling to cope with the onset of the NHS's winter crisis, with one A&E doctor apologising to patients for the "third world conditions" in his overcrowded unit.

Milton Keynes hospital admitted it was under "extreme and sustained pressure" because of the "very high" number of patients turning up and needing to be treated as medical emergencies.

"We are seeing very high numbers of very sick patients in the emergency department and fewer patients being able to be discharged - many because they also remain in need of acute care. Staff are working under incredible pressure to look after the patients in our care. I cannot overstate that. We are doing our best in extraordinarily difficult circumstances," said the hospital's chief executive, Prof Joe Harrison.

Comment: Consecutive governments, both Labour and Conservative, at the behest of Big Business have been lobbied to drive the NHS into debt so they can then claim that a health service which has operated successfully for over 50 years is now a failure, at which point they'll turn it over to privatisation. And if the country's railways are anything to go by, or if we look at the system in the US, the results will be catastrophic: FERRARI: COMPLETELY INSANE TO GIVE AWAY BILLIONS IN FOREIGN AID WITH NHS IN CRISIS



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Sold to up and coming political elite as a child, rescued 'sex slave' reveals

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:01 UTC
child sex slave
Adult and child sex trafficking is an unfortunate and horrifying reality that plagues countries around the world. As TFTP has reported, people have been arrested recently attempting to purchase children as young as three-months-old to abuse them. Now, one of these former child sex slaves has come forward to tell her story and provides insight into the elite sickos who have the money and resources to deal in the lives of children.

As the Free Thought Project previously reported, according to a London top cop, Britain's capital is a hotspot for forced labor and sex slavery.

Currently, there are an estimated 13,000 victims of forced labor, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude in Britain, according to Government data and the police have no idea how to handle it.

The number of child trafficking victims has risen to a record high, according to data obtained by the UK's National Referral Mechanism.

Comment: The #MeToo movement barely scratches the surface of sexual abuse rampant in Hollywood, industry and politics. This goes all the way to the top and goes far beyond unwanted knee-touches to a level of inhuman depravity. See also:

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London crime wave: Theft, burglary, rape, violent crime and homicide skyrocket

Raheem Kassam
Breitbart
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 12:00 UTC
Sadiq Khan
Britain's media celebrated in droves when London elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, in May 2016.

Now the cacophony caused by the "we're not racist" backslapping has ended, the true implications of a Khan mayoralty are being realised.

In Britain's capital over the past year, Khan presided over rises in knife crime, gun crime, theft, burglary, rape, homicide, and more. And not just by a little bit, either.

Comment: For over a decade budgets for the police, social programs and the NHS have been slashed, unemployment, poverty and food bank use continue to skyrocket and the economy continues to stagnate, so chances are the rise in crime isn't just because of Sadiq Khan's entry into office, his predecessor was babbling Boris Johnson after all, this is just another sign of the UK crumbling under the weight of its inept and corrupt establishment.

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Can California legally stop employers from consenting to federal immigration inspections?

Orin Kerr
Reason
Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:00 UTC
ICE illegal immigration US
On Monday, January 1st, a new California law will go into effect designed to give undocumented immigrants some protections from federal immigration enforcement. The new law, called the Immigrant Worker Protection Act, includes the following new text:
(a) Except as otherwise required by federal law, an employer, or a person acting on behalf of the employer, shall not provide voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to enter any nonpublic areas of a place of labor. This section does not apply if the immigration enforcement agent provides a judicial warrant. . . .

(c) This section shall not preclude an employer or person acting on behalf of an employer from taking the immigration enforcement agent to a nonpublic area, where employees are not present, for the purpose of verifying whether the immigration enforcement agent has a judicial warrant, provided no consent to search nonpublic areas is given in the process.

Comment: See also:

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France: Over a thousand cars torched and hundreds arrested during 'traditional' New Year unrest


Source
Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:36 UTC
FILE PHOTO: Firefighters extinguish a burning car during New Year celebrations in Lille, northern France, December 31, 2015. x
© Pascal Rossignol / Reuters
FILE PHOTO: Firefighters extinguish a burning car during New Year celebrations in Lille, northern France, December 31, 2015.
New Year's Eve celebrations in France have turned out to be not only a time of joy, but also a frantic spell for police and emergency service personnel who faced mass disorder across the country.

The number of vehicles torched during the festivities that spiralled out of control in Paris and other French cities have surpassed 1,000, the French Interior Ministry said in a statement reviewing the New Year's Eve celebrations. The number of vehicle arson attacks "slightly exceeded"last year's figures, when 935 cars were set alight, the ministry added.

Comment: Also See:

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Political activist flees Russia while under investigation for extremist activity


Meduza
Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:35 UTC
Vyacheslav Maltsev

Vyacheslav Maltsev
Ruslan Galiullin, a supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev's banned "Artpodgotovka" movement, has fled Russia, according to the website OVD-Info. Galiullin says he's currently somewhere in Europe. Federal agents detained him on November 4 on suspicion of extremist activity and later released him, after he promised not to leave the country.

Vyacheslav Maltsev has been living in exile since the summer of 2017. In late October, a Russian court convicted him in absentia of extremism and banned his political movement. In November, dozens of Maltsev's followers were detained throughout Russia, as the Artpodgotovka attempted to stage nationwide protests. Police have brought criminal charges against five other Maltsev supporters, as well.

Comment: Vyacheslav Maltsev is another rabid anti-Putin 'politician' who has been promising revolution in Russia for years. He and his followers resemble those 'Saakashvilis' Putin warned about during his 2017 annual Q&A - extremists who would tear down the country, replacing order with chaos:



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Dominoes

Iceland becomes first country to make it illegal to pay men more than women


Sputnik
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:37 UTC
iceland observatory
© AP Photo/ Dorothee Thiesin
The Nordic country has become the first in the world to mandate equal pay as it has passed a law that makes it illegal to pay men more than women.


Comment:
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex (see Gender pay gap). It was signed into law on June 10, 1963, by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.[1] In passing the bill, Congress stated that sex discrimination:[2]
  • depresses wages and living standards for employees necessary for their health and efficiency;
  • prevents the maximum utilization of the available labor resources;
  • tends to cause labor disputes, thereby burdening, affecting, and obstructing commerce;
  • burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and
  • constitutes an unfair method of competition.
The law provides (in part) that:

No employer having employees subject to any provisions of this section [section 206 of title 29 of the United States Code] shall discriminate, within any establishment in which such employees are employed, between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees in such establishment at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs[,] the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (i) a seniority system; (ii) a merit system; (iii) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex [...] [2]



Iceland has started the New Year with the introduction of a new law under which both government offices and private businesses will have to receive a special government certification on equal pay policies.

Those organizations that fail to prove pay parity will have to pay heavy fines.

Although there are similar provisions in places such as Switzerland or the US state of Minnesota, Iceland has become the first country to make it obligatory by law.

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Attention

Pentagon actively poisoning millions of Americans and covering it up

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Poisoning
© Murica Today
As the United States continues to increase the budget of the largest military in the world, Americans are paying a price that is far greater than their tax dollars-a recent study found that the Pentagon has contaminated more than 40,000 sites across the United States, exposing hundreds of thousands of Americans to dangerous chemicals.

An investigation conducted by ProPublica and Vox revealed that by testing and disposing of deadly chemical weapons in the United States, the Pentagon has "poisoned drinking water supplies, rendered millions of acres of land unsafe or unusable, and jeopardized the health of often unwitting Americans."

The study noted that while the Pentagon has spent more than $40 billion in an effort to clean up the contaminated sites over the years, the results have been overwhelmingly inadequate, and many Americans are still at risk, even after the government claims that the sites have been rendered "safe" for public use.

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