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Traditional Easter celebrations have been cancelled in Egypt
over security fears after ISIS killed over 45 people with suicide bombs
in two churches on Palm Sunday.
The attacks came months after ISIS vowed to eradicate Christianity from Egypt, which comprises about 10% of the population.
“Christians
in Egypt are concerned about their safety during this holy week. Safety
is not guaranteed in spite of all the extra security measurements,
people are worried someone could sneak into a church and leave a bomb,”
an Egyptian Christian, who wished not to be identified, told
Express. “However, I was in Church last night and we had lots of extra
security placed there by the security department in our neighborhood.”
“It
is too early to tell what the outcome of the state of emergency will be
but it will give the government free hand to take extra measures such
as instantly capturing of suspects and trying to stop suspects before
they commit attacks.”
“We do have strong concerns especially Saturday evening when the main
Easter service starts and ends at midnight. It is one of the most
heavily attended services of the year,” he added.
Egyptian
president Abdel Fatah el-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency
following the Palm Sunday attacks, deploying the military across the
country and restricting freedom of movement in an effort to protect
Christians and “vital and important infrastructure,” and halt further
ISIS attacks.
“I ask Egyptians to bear the pain,” el-Sisi said, warning that the war against the jihadists would be “long and painful.”
The
anonymous Christian pointed out that “much of the population is either
illiterate or very poorly educated,” which are ideal conditions for ISIS
to recruit new jihadis.
“Christians are considered infidels,
following a corrupt faith, reading a corrupt bible,” the Christian said.
“They will blindly follow teaching of those who uphold the conception
that Christians are infidels.”
Some Christians are set to defy the
intimidation and attend more subdued and limited Easter services with
armed guards and “without any festive manifestations.”
Muslim War On Cross Cancels Easter In Egypt
Published on Apr 14, 2017
Due to fears of backlash by radical muslims Easter has been cancelled in Egypt.
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Japan is finalizing plans to
evacuate 60,000 of its citizens from South Korea in the event of war as
tensions between the United States and North Korea continue to build.
Japan’s
National Security Council has held urgent discussions on how it would
provide safe passage for its citizens if a major crisis arose out of a
potential North Korean nuclear test, which some have predicted could
happen this weekend.
Japanese
authorities are also readying for a potential wave of North Korean
refugees to pour into the country, amongst whom could be hidden spies
and agents, Japanese media reported.
“Besides commercial ships and planes,
Japan would want to send military aircraft and ships to assist in the
evacuation if the South Korean government agreed,” reports Press TV.
The
official who revealed the plan declined to be identified, citing the
“sensitivity” of the topic. A Japanese ruling party lawmaker and a
government source also told Reuters this week that authorities in Japan
were preparing for an influx of North Korean refugees, but that such
preparations were being kept secretive so as not to stir public anxiety.
Millions
of citizens in Seoul and other major South Korean cities could be at
risk if North Korea decides to retaliate against U.S. aggression.
It
was also reported yesterday that North Korea has evacuated 600,000
citizens from Pyongyang because the city does not have enough bunkers to
shelter its entire population. although the veracity of that report was
subsequently questioned.
North Korea’s Vice foreign minister Han Song Ryol told the Associated Press today that the country is prepared to use its most “powerful nuclear deterrent” if the U.S. launched a pre-emptive strike.
NBC reported yesterday
that the Trump administration could launch a conventional pre-emptive
strike if it suspects North Korea is about to follow through on a
nuclear weapons test, although this was subsequently denied by Pentagon
officials.
http://undergroundworldnews.com In
the latest escalation over what may be an imminent preemptive airstrike
on North Korea by US warships now located just 300 miles away from the
North Korean nuclear test site, moments ago China's national airline,
Air China, announced it was suspending flights from Beijing to the North
Korean capital, Pyongyang, from late on Friday, Chinese state
broadcaster CCTV said. It did not say why the flights, which operate on
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, were being suspended.
In the report
published on its website, CCTV did not cite a source while according to
Reuters, Air China could not immediately be reached for comment after
business hours. The last flight between the two cities took place on
Friday, with the return flight to Beijing arriving in the early evening,
the broadcaster said. Air China began regular flights between the two
countries in 2008 but the flights were frequently cancelled because of
unspecified problems, the broadcaster said. China is North Korea's sole
major ally but it disapproves of the North's weapons programs, and its
confrontations with the United States and its Asian allies, and it has
supported U.N. sanctions against it.
Following repeated missile
tests that drew international criticism, China banned all imports of
North Korean coal on Feb. 26, cutting off the country's most important
export product. North Korea's army vowed a 'merciless' response to any
US provocation, the official news agency reported Friday, as tensions
soar over Pyongyang's rogue nuclear program.
TURKEY TO VOTE TO BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC CALIPHATE
Published on Apr 14, 2017
Back
in 2013 Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s days were numbered as the Gas for Gold
scandal broke, ensnaring 16 of Erdogan’s allies. By July 2016 Erdogan
was running from a coup that threatened to end his Presidency. But
Erdogan gained the upper hand, blaming the coup attempt on former ally
and U.S. charter School scourge Fethullah Gulen. Bloody revenge was
loosed as over 300 Coup conspirators were killed. And a crackdown on the
free press criticizing Erdogan’s authoritarian leanings saw to it that
at least 200 journalists were imprisoned and 120 news outlets shutdown.
Turkey: Muslim cleric says giving Erdogan dictatorial powers is Islamic obligation, “no” voters are foes of Islam
Turk Election Violence Erupts in EU Published on Mar 14, 2017
With
400,000 Turks already living in the Netherlands, Erdogan’s government
sent representatives there to campaign in favor of giving the Turk
president dictatorial powers. When the Dutch government sent the
campaigners home, violence erupted and Erdogan, without any sense of
irony, accused the Dutch of being fascist Nazis. With the EU and even
Merkel taking the side of the Netherlands, Turkish rhetoric has become
so heated that the Dutch government warned its citizens not to travel to
Turkey. But the Netherlands is also having an election — in 2 days —
and Geert Wilders has taken the opportunity to again warn the Dutch
about Islamic invasion.
Turkish President Declared Caliph Of The Muslim World Published on Dec 29, 2015
As
he wrote for Yeni Safak, the pro-Erdogan main newspaper under the
control of Erdogan in Istanbul. In his article regarding the new
presidential system which Erdogan wants to establish, Karaman
desperately defended Erdogan and declared what we were saying all along
they will do; that Erdogan will soon become the Caliph for all Muslims.
The following is a presentation of the exciting part in an article
Hayrettin Karaman wrote: “During the debate on the presidential
system, here is what everyone must do so while taking into account the
direction of the world’s national interest and the future of the country
and not focus on the party or a particular person. What this
[presidential system] looks like is the Islamic caliphate system in
terms of its mechanism. In this system the people choose the leader,
the Prince, and then all will pledge the Bay’ah [allegiance] and then
the chosen president appoints the high government bureaucracy and he
cannot interfere in the judiciary where the Committee will audit
legislation independent of the president. ” Hayrettin Karaman http://shoebat.com/2015/12/27/90032/ http://therightscoop.com/erdogans-chi...
** http://www.infowars.com/erdogan-says-...
Take a look at the following article and
how it drips with pro vax arrogance! As a vaccine injured person I have
one thing to say to Scott Gottlieb and that is NO WE WILL NOT GET OVER
IT! Vaccine injury takes many forms and some of those can be mind and
unrecognizable, other times it can be severe! Vaccines have been linked
with cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, and brain damage that causes
learning disabilities, cognitive dysfunction, and Autism!
Where the hell does this excuse for a
man get off telling people to get over it? Scott Gottlieb has NO CLUE
what it is like to live with a vaccine injury! He has no clue what it
means to be a family dealing with the fallout of such an injury!
All of us need to work to end the vaccine lie and to restore health.
A good start is to willfully disobey any law that promotes vaccines and
to embrace natural immunity. If we the people stand together against
the elite we will be unstoppable!
This does not mean winning the war against vaccines will be easy, it
does not mean there will not be sacrifice! What is means is that by
standing in unity and not bowing to oppression it will happen! WE THE
PEOPLE! THIS IS HOW CHANGE WILL HAPPEN! (CW)
FDA Nominee Scott Gottlieb To Anti-Vaccine Crowd: Get Over It
By Alex Lash / Ben Fidler In what passes for a short hearing these days in Washington, DC, the
Trump White House’s pick to run the Food and Drug Administration, Scott
Gottlieb, spent less than three hours fielding questions from a Senate
committee Wednesday morning. Amid predictable splits between Republican praise for his past
industry experience and Democrat fire over potential conflicts that stem
from his private industry investments and consulting work, Gottlieb
took very public issue with one of President Donald Trump’s high-profile
grievances. Gottlieb was unequivocal that the anti-vaccine movement,
newly emboldened by Trump’s vaccine skepticism, was tilting at
windmills. “This has been one of the most exhaustively studied questions in scientific history,”Gottlieb said.“We
need to come to the point where we can accept no for an answer and come
to the conclusion that there is no causal link between vaccination and
autism. We’ve invested, and Congress has invested, enormous resources in
studying this question.”
Gottlieb painted himself as unafraid to push back against potential
pressure from his bosses. “I have a history of not being shy, about
speaking truth to power,” he said, and would make his views known “in
the proper venues.”
Gottlieb, 44, who served in the FDA from 2005 to 2007 in the George
W. Bush administration, also spoke forcefully about the nation’s opioid
abuse crisis. Senators from both sides asked Gottlieb what FDA could do
about the situation, which he called a public health emergency “on the
level of Ebola and Zika” that requires the “full gamut of public
resources.”
Gottlieb was cautious, however, in noting that much of the difficult
work lies outside the FDA’s purview. He was similarly cautious
describing specific potential FDA action, referring to regulatory
“frameworks” and statutes that the agency must follow—or that Congress
has to change. “We might have to come back to Congress,” he said, “and
have another conversation with all of you about how to make these things
happen.”
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) noted that the price of a life-saving
injection of the anti-overdose drug naloxone, which many first
responders carry on the job, has jumped dramatically since 2014.
Gottlieb responded that FDA regulations could perhaps be tweaked to
allow generic competition for high-priced drugs. Speaking more broadly
about lack of generic competition, which has helped some products
monopolize the market “in perpetuity,” Gottlieb told the Senate
committee, “I think this is an area we can make a lot of progress.”
While pleased to hear Gottlieb speak in urgent terms about the opioid
crisis—which in large part is responsible for overdoses now killing more Americans than shootings and car crashes combined—Democrats
also used the issue to probe Gottlieb’s ties to the healthcare industry
and whether he’d cave to political pressure from the Trump
administration.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) brought up Gottlieb’s past advocacy for a
“more holistic approach” to relieving chronic pain—using medical
devices, perhaps—and that New Enterprise Associates, the VC firm where
Gottlieb has worked for a decade, has invested in a company making
devices for chronic pain. “What assurances can you give us that your
business and financial relationships won’t bias you?” Baldwin asked.
Gottlieb, who has often used his position at conservative think tank
American Enterprise Institute to pen op-eds about FDA matters such as
sluggish drug approvals, generic drug rules, and off-label drug
promotion, said he would do nothing to “besmirch” the agency. “I get it.
I know why people care,” said Gottlieb. “FDA decisions are matters of
life and death, and I don’t want to reduce confidence in the agency’s
mission.”
Gottlieb has promised to recuse himself for one year from FDA
decisions regarding companies linked to him, divest from about 20
companies, and to step down from all boards. Questions about financial
ties and improper transactions swirled around Tom Price, the Health and
Human Services secretary, who would be Gottlieb’s boss. The Senate confirmed Price in February largely along party lines.
Gottlieb said his industry experience helps him understand how
companies try to “game the process”—use regulation to their commercial
advantage—and that he would try to design better regulations to prevent
egregious practices.
Gottlieb’s nomination has eased some fears in the life sciences world of drastic FDA upheaval
because of his agency history and private sector experience. One
potential candidate floated earlier by the administration had publicly
questioned whether FDA needed to evaluate drugs for efficacy. Trump has
declared he wants to cut FDA regulations by at least 75 percent.
The FDA saw plenty of reform in the Obama era,
as well, with several new incentives to drug makers and new pathways to
speed evaluation of drugs. The 21st Century Cures Act, signed by
President Obama late last year, gives the agency even more leeway, which
some critics considered an unacceptable loosening of standards.
While Gottlieb spoke often about streamlining regulations in today’s
hearing, he did not speak about radical disruption. “I believe in the
gold standard for safety and effectiveness,” he said. “That is something
that needs to be demonstrated through an empiric regulatory process
guided by the science and public health.”
But he acknowledged it will difficult to maintain high standards with
fewer staff, which proposed White House budget cuts would impose. “I’m
going to be committed to advocating for proper resources for the FDA,”
he said. The administration has already imposed a hiring freeze. As
experienced staff leave or retire, “replacing that kind of expertise and
institutional knowledge is going to be a significant challenge,”
Gottlieb said.
One Democrat questioned whether Gottlieb would also push back against
political meddling over access to contraception, which FDA regulates.
Gottlieb declined to discuss Bush-era FDA decisions about contraception,
and said that as a physician, he would be guided by science, public
health research, and the advice of the agency’s career staff.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will vote
on Gottlieb after the upcoming Congressional recess, a spokeswoman
said. ORIGINAL ARTICLE _________________________________________________
"I’m Gini Blesky and this is my daughter Mia
who’s 12. On the 21st of September last year, 2016, she had the first
HPV vaccination at school. The following morning she woke up and she
couldn’t walk. Her legs were shaky and she had burning in either side of
her spine all the way up her back. We took her to the doctor. They said
to take her home and give her some […] and a bath, she’ll be fine. But
she deteriorated by the afternoon, so we re-called the oncall doctor who
said just go straight to the A and E (ambulatory and emergency). We
took her straight to A and E and they admitted her for a few days. We’ve
done video directly right from the first day all the way through up
until now, and basically within days, about 10 days, of Mia having the
vaccination she completely lost the use of her legs. A couple of weeks
after, she lost the use of her body… her body went floppy."
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WASHINGTON —President Trump has signed into law a
bill that overturns a rule issued by the Obama administration that bans
states from defunding the abortion and contraception giant Planned
Parenthood.
“On Thursday, April 13, 2017, the president signed into law H.J. Res.
43, which nullifies the Department of Health and Human Services rule
prohibiting recipients of Title X grants for the provision of family
planning services from excluding a subgrantee from participating for
reasons other than its ability to provide Title X services,” the White
House simply write in a brief press release on Thursday. As previously reported,
the resolution passed the Senate on March 30 after Vice President Mike
Pence was called in to cast the deciding vote in the midst of a 50-50
tie. It cleared the House on Feb. 16 230-188, mostly along party lines.
“Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, that Congress disapproves the
rule submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to
compliance with Title X requirements by project recipients in selecting
subrecipients (81 Fed. Reg. 91852; December 19, 2016), and such rule
shall have no force or effect,” H.J. Res. 43 simply reads.
Title X was enacted in 1970 under the Public Health Service Act and
authorizes the Office of Population Affairs to oversee the disbursement
of federal funds for the purpose of assisting organizations that offer
“family planning” services. States distribute the capital to
reproductive and women’s health organizations as they see fit.
In recent years, a number of states have sought to defund the
abortion giant Planned Parenthood after granting the organization funds
for years, remarking that they do not wish to assist groups that provide
abortion services, even if the funds will not be directly used for
abortion.
But the Obama administration contended last year that stripping
abortion facilities of funding results in undesired births. It also
asserted that such locations are important because they provide
contraceptives.
“Reducing access to Title X services has many adverse effects. Title X
services have a dramatic effect on the number of unintended pregnancies
and births in the United States,” HHS said in September. “For example,
services provided by Title X-funded sites helped prevent an estimated 1
million unintended pregnancies in 2010 which would have resulted in an
estimated 501,000 unplanned births.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) consequently
drafted a rule—which it finalized in December—that amends the Code of
Federal Regulations to read, “No recipient making subawards for the
provision of services as part of its Title X project may prohibit an
entity from participating for reasons unrelated to its ability to
provide services effectively.”
But some lawmakers sought to overturn the rule, which they opined was crafted with bias and incorrect information.
“This edict was replete with statements that the Administration
cannot back up,” sponsor Sen. Diane Black, R-Tenn., said. “For example,
the rule stated that health care providers with a focus on reproductive
health—for example Planned Parenthood—can ‘accomplish Title X
programmatic objectives more effectively.’ This is demonstrably false.”
“According to Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report, Planned
Parenthood’s contraceptive services dropped by 18% over the last year,”
she noted. “And their total number of services provided dropped by 11%
even as their taxpayer funding increased by millions and their abortions
continued at over 320,000 a year.”
As previously reported, according to the organization’s annual report, Planned
Parenthood performed 323,999 abortions nationwide during the 2014-2015
fiscal year. The figure accounts for at least one-third of all abortions
nationwide, when compared to statistics released in November by the Centers for Disease Control.
As it has been in previous years, Planned Parenthood’s largest focus
in 2014-2015 was sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s), as it tested
and/or treated over four million people for sexual ailments, with over
3.5 million tests and 32 thousand men and women being treated for
ailments contracted through sexual activity.
Over 2.9 million people were provided with contraceptives or other
forms of birth control in 2014—from temporary to permanent, including
over 900 thousand emergency contraception kits. The figure is down from
3.5 million the year before, and 3.7 million in 2012. Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms as it is not licensed
to operate mammogram machines, and its annual report outlined that fewer
than 700,000 women received services surrounding cervical cancer
screenings (pap smears for women who have been sexually active),
equating to just seven percent of its services, while STD testing and
contraceptives accounted for 76 percent of its services, as opposed to
women’s health. Following word that Trump had signed the resolution nullifying the
Obama administration’s order, Planned Parenthood blasted the move,
asserting that the government was inflicting injury on women by allowing
states to reallocate funds to community health centers instead.
“People are sick and tired of politicians making it even harder for
them to access health care, and this bill is just the latest example,”
said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood
Federation of America. “Too many women still face barriers to health
care, especially young women, women of color, those who live in rural
areas, and women with low incomes.”
But Seema Verma, director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, told reporters following the signing that “President Trump is
delivering on his promise to give states the flexibility that they need
to make healthcare decisions that best meet their citizens’ unique
needs.”
