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Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome
Other Names for this Disease
- Klippel Trenaunay syndrome
- Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome
- KTW syndrome
- Weber-Klippel-Trenaunay
- Angio-osteohypertrophy syndrome
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Your QuestionHow does Klippel Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) occur? How, if it is not inherited, does it come about? Which gene is associated with it?
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What causes Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome?
The underlying cause of Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is currently unknown.[1] There have been many theories about what may cause this condition, including:
- paradominant inheritance - a theory that may explain occasional familial cases of sporadic conditions. This theory proposes that a person may inherit a mutation in one copy of a gene responsible for a condition, but another, acquired mutation (somatic mutation) must occur in the other copy of the gene after conception for a person to develop signs and symptoms.
- somatic mosaicism of an otherwise dominant lethal gene
- disturbance of blood vessel formation (vasculogenesis) in the embryonic period
- defects in the mesoderm (one of three layers of an embryo, which gives rise to structures including connective tissue, muscle, and bone)
- various chromosomal translocations and mutations - there have been case reports of these, but none of them have been proven to have any definite association with the condition.[1]
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If Klippel Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is not inherited, how does it come about?
Studies suggest that KTS may result from gene mutations that are not inherited. These genetic changes, which are called somatic mutations, probably occur very early in development and are present only in certain cells. Somatic mutations could explain why the signs and symptoms of KTS are often limited to specific areas of the body.[4]
Last updated: 1/10/2012
Which gene is associated with Klippel Trenaunay syndrome (KTS)?
Researchers suspect that KTS may result from changes in one or more genes that regulate the growth of blood vessels during embryonic development. However, to date, no associated genes have been identified.[4]
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- Vahidnezhad H, Youssefian L, and Uitto J. Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome belongs to the PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS). Experimental Dermatology. Januaray 2016; 25(1):17-19. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268729.
- Klippel-Tranaunay Syndrome. Genetics Home Reference. July 2010; http://www.ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/klippel-trenaunay-syndrome.
Other Names for this Disease
- Klippel Trenaunay syndrome
- Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome
- KTW syndrome
- Weber-Klippel-Trenaunay
- Angio-osteohypertrophy syndrome
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So, Ted Cruz is willing to hand the White House to Hillary Clinton ... to serve his own political ambitions for 2020.
Now let us remember something important.
Ted Cruz cannot serve as President of the United States. Article 2, Section 1, clause 5 requires the President to be a Natural Born American Citizen. Cruz was born in Canada, of parents who were Canadian citizens at the time. Because he was born out of wedlock, under Section 309(c) of the INA, Ted Cruz did NOT acquire birthright citizenship from his mother (who was born in Deleware). Ted was born a Canadian citizen and does not qualify to be the President. Also, under the 12th Amendment, he may not serve as Vice President.
The last thing this nation needs is another politician who thinks the Constitution and Bill of Rights are to be ignored when inconvenient!
Okay Rivero's Rangers, today's assignment is to copy the above text and post it everywhere this nonsense about Cruz wanting Trump to lose to Hillary so that Cruz can run in 2020 appears. Include the URL to my article at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/NaturalBorn.php. Because Cruz will lose 2020 to Hillary, as Hillary's lawyers will not hesitate to take Cruz' eligibility right to the Supreme Court.
We have wasted enough time with Ted "Born near the USA" Cruz! He has proven that he does not care for the voters or even the Republican Party. In fact he is just like Hillary; out for himself alone!
Now let us remember something important.
Ted Cruz cannot serve as President of the United States. Article 2, Section 1, clause 5 requires the President to be a Natural Born American Citizen. Cruz was born in Canada, of parents who were Canadian citizens at the time. Because he was born out of wedlock, under Section 309(c) of the INA, Ted Cruz did NOT acquire birthright citizenship from his mother (who was born in Deleware). Ted was born a Canadian citizen and does not qualify to be the President. Also, under the 12th Amendment, he may not serve as Vice President.
The last thing this nation needs is another politician who thinks the Constitution and Bill of Rights are to be ignored when inconvenient!
We have wasted enough time with Ted "Born near the USA" Cruz! He has proven that he does not care for the voters or even the Republican Party. In fact he is just like Hillary; out for himself alone!
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government will impose a "strong" price on carbon — and won't rule out a cap to ensure provinces meet a national standard.
In response to growing criticism and worry over the housing-crisis in Canada, political representatives have decided to push forth with their plans for new taxes as their solution to help with the problem. One thing that concerns many local residents is the number of vacant houses and other vacant properties around the city, some feel that by imposing the new taxes on these properties that it will prompt those home-owners to either rent or sell their properties and thus help to turn around the problem of houses being too expensive for locals. But others say that taxes aren't a long-term solution to solving the issue of why an increasing number of Canadians cannot afford suitable accommodation for themselves, and if anything they might only make the situation worse.
Taxes ALWAYS make things worse for the people. But that is all government knows how to do; take more money!
[Poster's note: I was waiting to see how long this 'thought crime' prosecution would take to occur, since the very lovely video the woman made went super-viral a few months ago.]
Americans fed up with the bullshit they've been fed for many years. They want the truth.
Flynn: This is where I think the world has misread Donald Trump. He has no intention to step away without examining all relationships that we have. His intent is to relook at the way we are organized globally, where the US is sort of expected to be a global leader, but relook at these alliances and these charters that we are under to make sure that they are still viable for the 21st century. It doesn't mean that President Trump comes into office and NATO goes away. But I would say that NATO as a political alliance does need to be relooked at in terms of everything — resourcing, capabilities.
Throughout the Sanders campaign, the Socialist Equality Party has welcomed the broad shift to the left that it revealed in the thinking of millions of working people and youth, while warning that the Vermont senator would inevitably disappoint his supporters.
Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign Tuesday, not with a bang but a whimper. The Vermont senator formally endorsed his rival in an undignified prostration before the Democratic Party establishment and Wall Street's favored presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The unity rally featuring Sanders and Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, had all the spontaneity and enthusiasm of a going-out-of-business sale. The funereal atmosphere was perhaps fitting
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich, independent researcher and writer, talks to RT International on the attempted coup d'etat in Turkey:
"This incident does not have the hallmarks of a military coup. It's almost like a mutiny."
This resolution is in part a response to the 2009 Kairos Document that was prepared by Palestinian Christians in Palestine asking their global Christian brothers and sisters to show their solidarity with them through Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions. The Mennonite resolution laments the violence in Israel and Palestine and repents its complicity in anti-Semitism and structures of colonialism that oppress Indigenous people in Canada. The resolution commits the Mennonite Church to further education on what is happening in Israel and Palestine, in addition its concluding demands are:
"We ask the Mennonite Church Canada General Board, along with regional churches, congregations, and members—to avoid investing in or supporting companies that do business with Israeli settlements and the Israel Defense Forces, and companies that are profiting from the occupation of the Palestinian territories; and
We encourage the government of Canada to support measures that put pressure on Israel (including through economic sanctions) to end the occupation and work for a just peace, in accordance with international law."
The Never Trump movement tried to make a stand. It failed by a massive margin.
CLEVELAND — Efforts to block Donald Trump's nomination — hyped for months by proponents as a growing grass-roots movement among Republican activists attending this week's convention — turned out to be a flop.
During key votes on Thursday evening, only 12 hard-core holdouts continued to resist Trump's nomination when members of on the powerful 112-member Convention Rules Committee considered a proposal to prevent delegates from rejecting Trump.
Republican delegates and party leaders gathering in Cleveland for next week's national convention praised Donald Trump's selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate, saying it would stabilize the ticket and calm social conservatives.
It adds significant government experience to Trump's outsider campaign for the White House.
"Principled Conservative" … "Solid Grasp On Policy" … "A Home Run" … "Could Not Have Made A Better Choice"
A Toronto-area school board and Toronto city police are investigating an elementary school teacher after pro-Israel lobby groups complained about comments she made during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians.
The teacher, Nadia Shoufani, addressed a downtown Toronto rally on 2 July, marking al-Quds Day, an annual event held around the world to support Palestinian rights and to protest Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
"Silence in situations of oppression and injustices is a crime against humanity," Shoufani said in her speech at the rally, in which she condemned the Israeli occupation and Israel's policies of home demolitions, land confiscation and arrests of Palestinians.
Shoufani also quoted Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, an important figure in the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), who was assassinated by Israeli Mossad agents in a car bombing in Beirut in 1972.
Apparently, when it comes to support of Palestinians, Canadians have absolutely lost any freedom of speech they ever had when it comes to criticising the Israeli occupation.
And was this teacher doing this during school-time?!? No, not at all; she was on her own time, at this rally.
So now in Canada, a teacher cannot support the Palestinian cause without potentially getting "investigated" (and most probably sacked, and shunned, never permitted to teach again) if they are pro-Palestinian.
I am quite sure that Michael Mostyn's "Final Solution" to the "Palestinian Problem" would be for every Palestinian to kill every one of their children, then kill themselves.
For people like Mostyn, the "problem" is that Palestinians, who keenly remember their history, and exist in the world, are still breathing.
I find this attitude painfully ironic, because it is eerily similar to the thoughts of a European leader during World War II regarding certain minorities in his country, and the world, he did not particularly like.
Putin does not want war. He is doing everything in his power to avoid it.
The trip-point of World War III will be the installation of Washington's missiles in Poland and Romania. As Putin recently made clear to the imbecilic Western journalists, these missiles can easily and secretly be changed from anti-ballistic missiles to nuclear attack missiles that can strike their Russian targets within 5 or fewer minutes of launch, thus depriving Russia of its retaliatory deterrent. Once these missiles are in place, Washington can issue orders to Russia.
Whatever the evil men and women in Washington who are gambling with the life of the planet think, Russia is not going to accept these missiles.
Mr Davis, a former Tory leadership rival to David Cameron, has described Brexit as one of the biggest issues facing Britain.
"The biggest issue over coming years will be managing Brexit, improving UK trade position, controlling borders and enhancing democracy," Mr Davis tweeted last month.
Making trade deals with countries outside Europe should be a top priority.
"That needs vision, optimism, energy and drive – that is why I am backing @BorisJohnson for Conservative leader," he added.
In the video below, Paul says that "if the FBI's decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton is accepted, we will have become a nation of two sets of laws: one for the Clintons, and one for everyone else."
A Reuters news report under the names of presstitutes Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold shows how devoid the West is of honest, intelligent and responsible journalists and government officials.
First we will examine the dishonesty or incompetence of the reporters and then that of Western government officials.
Actors Required for Security Drills (Crisis Actors) (USA) – Posted: 23 hours ago
E-9 is a private security firm is seeking crisis actors for training videos and drills.
Canadian Citizen
Confidentiality Agreement Must be Signed
Date: November 14 – November 17, 2016
Location: Colorado, USA
Seems odd they would need/want people from Canada for an exercise in the US!
By Brandon Turbeville
Canada's Obama, Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, is now making good on his task of providing a young and well-spoken face to a continuation of oppression, authoritarianism, globalization, and imperialism, much like his American counterpart did with great success eight years ago. Thus, it was to the cheers of many that Trudeau met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kiev to announce a greater "cooperation" between the two countries both in security and in trade, despite the announcement being nothing more than the telegraph of a continuation of imperialism and the giant sucking sound of "free trade."...
There is something NATO — and more importantly Canadian officials — want you to understand about the rising tensions with Russia: This is NOT your grandfather's Cold War.
In fact, throughout last weekend's Warsaw Summit they were really skittish about anyone drawing any comparisons to the nearly half century long standoff between East and West, which brought the world to the precipice of nuclear annihilation.
"The Cold War is history and it should remain history," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declared, as though just saying so was more than enough to make it so.
UK's investigation into Iraq invasion is 'example of what we could do with political courage', says codirector of Iraq Veterans against the War.
Following the devastating British inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq, American veterans and their families have warned that the US is liable to repeat the mistakes without a similarly comprehensive investigation.
The UK's Chilcot inquiry was released on Wednesday, and while it is no secret in the US that the invasion was a failure, nothing so damning as the 2.6m-word British inquiry has been released by an independent US government body.
Bush's poodle subordinated British sovereignty – and precipitated a disaster.
Do we really need a 2.6 million word report on how Bush's poodle, a.k.a. former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, allowed his country to be pulled into a conflict that claimed hundreds of British lives, thousands of American lives, and at least 150,000 Iraqi lives, while plunging the entire region into a maelstrom of terroristic chaos?
A good decade after being announced, the Chilcot report has finally been released, and what it shows is that the phrase "Bush's poodle" is blatantly unfair to poodles: after all, even a poodle is known to have gone off its leash every once in a while – but not Tony.
Now NATO has focused on what is described as "Russian aggression." Does NATO create its own security risks?
Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has been trying to find its new role. Its operations in Afghanistan and Libya were disasters.
U.S. intelligence veterans are calling on German Chancellor Merkel to bring a needed dose of realism and restraint to the upcoming NATO conference, which risks escalating the dangerous new Cold War with Russia.
MEMORANDUM FOR: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
We longtime U.S. intelligence officers again wish to convey our concerns and cautions directly to you prior to a critically important NATO summit – the meeting that begins on July 8 in Warsaw. We were gratified to learn that our referenced memorandum reached you and your advisers before the NATO summit in Wales, and that others too learned of our initiative via the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which published a full report on our memorandum on Sept. 4, the day that summit began.
The Brexit is just one rumbling of such discontent.
As the West's elites growl about "Russian aggression" – as they once did about Iraq's WMD – NATO leaders meet in Poland to plan a costly and dangerous new Cold War, while shunning the few voices of dissent.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's cry of distress is that of a man watching a tidal wave of destruction gathering force, similar to ones that have engulfed his country twice in the Twentieth Century.
An unknown number of German and Canadian troops have recently arrived in the northern Syrian town of Tell Abyad in the northern Raqqa province, sources in the Kurdish opposition told Sputnik on Thursday.
Technically this is an invasion, as Syria's government has not invited them nor given permission for them to be on their territory.
An unknown number of German and Canadian soldiers recently arrived in the city in northern Syria Tel Abijad, in the northern province of Cancer, said Sputnik sources from the scene.
Military personnel have been deployed in recent days in the area where the US-led coalition fighting against the terrorist organization Daesa.
Syrian television reported last month that German commandos entered Syria to join the French and US forces in the offensive on the city of Manbij controlling Daesa.
Manbij, a town located between the self-proclaimed capital Daesa-a Rake and the Turkish-Syrian border, is strategically important to terrorists.
Eager to hold the political "center," Hillary Clinton has budged little on Bernie Sanders's policy proposals beyond nice-sounding platitudes, a strategy that could lead to clashes at the Democratic convention, says Lawrence Davidson.
Hillary Clinton has pursued the presidency for almost a decade with a tenacious determination. She almost achieved the nomination in 2008 only to lose to Barack Obama. That led to an eight-year stifling of this ambition.
Finally, in the long run-up to the 2016 election, she was convinced the nomination was hers.
The much-edited Chilcot Report finally arrived and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has issued a pretty-sounding apology for his party's decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003. He called it the most serious foreign policy calamity of the last 60 years and "a stain on our party and country".
It's unfortunate that he dignifies the evil Iraq war conspiracy by suggesting it had anything to do with policy of the British people. It was a private venture, pledged in secret, by a Labour prime minister and his closest henchmen, and backed by the Cabinet.
First and foremost it was not so much a foreign policy disaster as a flat-out war crime for which Blair as chief perpetrator must be tried. And so must his Cabinet, who carry collective responsibility.
There will be mega-trouble if heads don't roll.
Screaming "I hate white people" before punching a random white woman in the face is not evidence of a racially motivated attack, at least if you take the word of Provincial court Judge Harry Van Harten.
The man in charge of the Canadian Police College in Ottawa has been moved to a new job just as the RCMP puts the final touches on a wide-ranging review into how the Mounties handled allegations of disturbing behaviour at the school.
As the college's director general, Chief Supt. Harold O'Connell oversaw operations at the school in 2014-15 when two instructors engaged in behaviour that led several of their colleagues to allege they'd been subjected to unwanted sexual touching, bullying and harassment in the workplace.
One thing is clear, whether or not everyone will agree with what is said, Trump is at least speaking more directly than most politicians do
It turned out that Trump wasted no time in making sure that the people of America understood that what had been done in the UK can be done in the United States.
If Trump wants to put America first, he needs to start firing the Neoconservatives and their lackeys from the White House and putting them on trial for making Americans look really bad.
Rather than listening and learning and modifying their actions, the ruling elites stick to "more of the same." This process clearly emblematized by the endless procession of Bushes and Clintons replacing each other in the positions of power.
In last week's speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian will adopt adequate measures to counter NATO's aggression. Putin also called for creation of an international security system open to all countries.
"Russia is ready to discuss this extremely important issue," he said, adding that such proposals have been so far left unanswered by Western countries.
At the upcoming Warsaw summit in July, NATO leaders are expected to green-light deployment of four battalions of up to 800 troops each to the Baltic States and Poland, along with intensifying the scale and pace of multinational military exercises. Recent live-fire drills, Anakonda 2016, Saber Strike and BALTOPS, involved thousands of troops and hundreds of combat vehicles to simulate large-scale operations in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
It is, at this point, not a question of IF NATO is going to wage a war against Russia, but WHEN.
You don't have the kind of continuous troop and equipment escalation on Russia's borders unless you mean to use it.
Black Lives Matter lunatics interrupted a gay pride parade in Toronto to call the organizers out for their "anti-blackness," they also demanded free money, free jobs and other handouts.
Congressman Grayson and Mr. Trump's threats of a lawsuit seemed to suggest Senator Cruz's birthplace in Canada—and that alone—would render him ineligible to be President of the United States. However, apparently only Democrats and the media are sufficiently credentialed to make the determination of defining the constitutional phrase, "No person except a natural born citizen…."
If they are pushing this nonsense again, it means Ted Cruz is going to make a play at the GOP convention!
Hopefully, a result of the Brexit will be the breakup of the European Union and NATO
Britain's exit from the European Union (EU) could probably prevent the United States from launching World War III, says Dr. P C Roberts.
Canada's warmongering Defence Minister, Harjit Sajjan, recently announced an increased Canadian presence in NATO, predicated on the narrative that Russia "annexed the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine and backed pro-Russian separatist forces in that country's eastern region."
Presumably his "Assad must go" narrative about Syria is wearing thin. After all, NATO member Turkey is a training ground for ISIS, a transit point for terrorists entering Syria, and, like the Canadian government, all of NATO, the Gulf monarchies, Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, and apartheid Israel, a staunch supporter of the terrorists; plus, it has also been long established that there are no "moderates."
Presumably, too, Sajjan needs to rebrand and recycle the "threat" narrative, and the "NATO are the good guys" meme, so he is now reintroducing Russia as a threat.
An exclusive interview with Dr. Alan Sabrosky
Q. Does a US-inspired NATO-generated Cold War climate already exist?
A. Not yet, but it is heading that way. Watch for it to intensify under Clinton, and to ameliorate under Trump.
snip: What did U.S. and NATO officials think — that people would simply remain where they were so that they could get blown to bits with the bombs that were being dropped on them, by the U.S. assassination program, or by the massive civil-war violence that came as a result of the U.S. and NATO regime-change operations?
People don't ordinarily behave in that fashion. Most people prefer to live rather than die and will do anything they can to survive. That's why those refugees fled to Europe— to escape the horrific consequences of interventionism by NATO and the U.S. national security state in the Middle East.
I wonder if deep down, those who are lamenting and groaning about the Brexit vote realize that: If there had been no U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, no regime change in Libya, no U.S. and NATO bombing and interventionism in Syria, there wouldn't have been a massive refugee crisis in Europe and, almost certainly, a rejection of Brexit by a majority of British voters.
Late last week, a spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada refused to comment on reports that appeared in Russian media last year saying former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has been granted Canadian citizenship.
"Due to privacy concerns we cannot comment on specific cases without consent," stated IRCC spokesperson Lindsay Wemp in an email.
Reports began to appear in the spring of 2015 on English-language news websites, mostly published in Russia, that Yatsenyuk, prime minister of the troubled Eastern European country from February 27, 2014, to April 14, 2016, had along with members of his family been quietly granted Canadian citizenship in 2015 and issued Canadian passports.
Cold War Climate to intensify under Clinton, and to ameliorate under Trump.
Q. As an American, Alan, how can you be enthusiastic about America's choices of US Presidential candidates in 2016?
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the German parliament should be consulted on the EU's free trade deal with Canada, setting her on a collision course with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.
July 1st has always been a special day for me. Forty nine years ago today I left the United States and applied for Landed Immigrant Status in Canada. My wife and I picked this date as it was a National Holiday and we figured there would be less security at the Toronto Airport…. and less questions. It was a special day in Canada, it was the 100th anniversary of Confederation.
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am...
A political beacon is about to be extinguished unless he breaks with the doomed Labour Party and sets up on his own
Well I don't know why I came here tonight
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right…
— Lyrics from 'Stuck in the Middle with You'
Brexit is a game-changing event. Now Euro-sceptics all over Europe has got fresh wind in their sails.
Few people expected the positive outcome of Brexit referendum. Among other doubters, I expected the UK government will borrow a trick from the Clinton collection, and proclaim the "Bremain" hath it.
The political establishment of both leading parties, the Tories and Labour, wished to remain in the cosy lap of the EC. This was the will of the Bank of England, and of the City of London; of the powerful media lords, of the creative minority of yuppies, of cosmopolitan intellectuals.
Britain's exit from EU deals a body blow to the US' trans-Atlantic leadership.
The unthinkable has happened with the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union. (BBC)
Arguably, this is potentially the most serious development in world politics since the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Curiously, both catastrophes happened 'voluntarily'.)
What lies ahead?
What you are seeing with the Brexit is the result of the Obama administrations pro-war, new Cold War policy.
With us to discuss the economic and political context of the Brexit is Michael Hudson. He is a research professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy. Also, he is an economics adviser to several governments.
Emails between school officials at one Canadian high school reveal the school has been struggling to integrate into the school adult Syrian refugees, who reportedly are bullying and threatening students and teachers, as well as making advances on young teenage girls.
Built with public subsidies, a Montréal firm can shift its 'head office' to a tax haven and workforce abroad, but Ottawa will continue to use its diplomatic, economic and military might to advance the company's reactionary international interests.
Over the past three decades a radical, worldwide social and political revolution has been slowly building steam. This revolution rejects the exploitation of human beings for private profit and seeks to eliminate these practices that have built our world and that continue to power global economic growth. The leaders of this revolution, including those involved in the Global Slavery Index, deserve to be applauded for their courage in waging what often feels like an impossible battle. But for everyone working in this field, good intentions are not enough. Dialogue, criticism and constructive debate are also needed to move this revolution forward.
By Matt Agorist
Should the parents of a child who sought out a homeopathic treatment instead of traditional medicine for their son's illness be punished if that treatment fails? An Alberta court says, 'yes.'
Judge Rodney Jerke sentenced David Stephan to four months in prison this week and his wife Collet Stephan to three months of house arrest. The couple was found 'guilty' earlier this year of failing to provide the necessaries of life to their 19-month-old son, Ezekiel, who contracted meningitis in 2012...
The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world's largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.
The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton. She is no maverick. She embodies the resilience and violence of a system whose vaunted 'exceptionalism' is totalitarian with an occasional liberal face."
Hillary Clinton has shown no real remorse over her support for neocon "regime changes," aggressive wars and belligerence toward Russia, leaving the oft-obnoxious Donald Trump as the relative peace candidate, says John V. Walsh.
Let us hear from these heretics, among them William Greider, Glen Ford, John Pilger, Jean Bricmont, Stephen F. Cohen and William Blum. Their words are not to be construed as "endorsements," but rather an acknowledgement of Trump's anti-interventionist views, the impact those views are having and the alternative he poses to Hillary Clinton in the current electoral contest.
Jim left his phone number, (905) 354-1965. I was going to call it after I filled out the form around 3am. But I wasn't about to let him match up this form with my real name and telephone number from caller i.d. So I'll give him shit when he drops by.
The Income Tax of 1917 captured almost nobody, save high-rollers raking in over $2,000 per year. And then only at four per cent. The marginal rates started kicking in at $6,000 ($97,000 today, a 1,530 per cent increase in inflation according to the Bank of Canada's own inflation calculator). By 1948 – 14 years after the creation of the Bank of Canada, far more Canadians had been captured.
There are new rumors that Ted Cruz plans to try to steal the nomination away from Donald Trump at the convention.
In this touching video, a Canadian woman of German descent apologizes to her late mom for reproaching her about the so called holocaust.
The defense contractor attempted to extort one of the most powerful sovereign countries in the world, warning that as many as 10,000 jobs would be lost if the country did not commit to purchasing a fighter jet that 'does not work.'
Forcing people to buy bad products has become the new American business model, whether it's the F-35, GMO seeds, or tainted vaccines!
While Canada is facing a lot of international arm-twisting to join a NATO brigade destined for Eastern Europe, sources are telling CBC News the Trudeau government is hesitating over concerns participation could detract from future peacekeeping missions.
The Trudeau government is considering a request to commit hundreds of troops to eastern Europe and take part command of a new NATO force being assembled to deter Russian aggression.
Canada's participation in the Baltic operation was discussed Tuesday by the military alliance's defence ministers, including Canada's Harjit Sajjan, at a meeting in Brussels.
This comes just days after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service quietly released an open-sourced global security analysis warning, among other things, that the hard-line policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin are becoming more deeply entrenched and that Moscow is retooling its military for a fight.
The concept of "Hate Propaganda" as a "criminal offence" is nothing less than a blatant example of government mind control; one that, here in Canada, has proven itself over the last half century of contentious litigation, to be extremely controversial, provocative and unjust and a clear and present danger to freedom of expression or "free speech" as defined by Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
It would appear Clinton has been coronated and not elected.
Too quick to judgment? The Democratic Party establishment and the media now call Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee to face off Donald Trump in November. Though this is before the Democrats hold their convention and while Clinton is still short of pledged delegates.
By now anyone even vaguely aware of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has heard the phrase ''the new anti-Semitism.'' It is a clever propaganda piece aimed at anyone who dares criticize Israel for its illegal occupation of the West Bank and its continued brutalization of Palestinians in Gaza.
But in the space of two days, new critics emerged from within the highest positions of Israel state power. Moshe Ya'alon -- until recently the Israeli Defence Minister -- and Major General Yair Golan, the Israeli army's deputy chief of staff, confirmed what many of Israel's most vociferous (and vilified) critics have been saying for years: that Israel is heading down the road of extremism and racism.
Golan issued a warning that linked attitudes and actions in pre-war Germany with trends in Israel today. ''It's scary to see horrifying developments that took place in Europe begin to unfold here,'' he said.
The companies were drilling lateral wells, which turn 90 degrees and travel for kilometres underground, extending under people's barns and homes. (Tight oil costs more to extract and produces lower quantities of oil.)
As industry fracked these deep, far-reaching wells with millions of gallons of water, toxic chemicals, and sand under high pressure and then burned off unwanted raw gas, the Hawkwoods and many of their neighbours began complaining about noxious emissions and earth tremors.
Some officials with the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) initially responded to general complaints in the region by saying fracking was proven and safe and that it couldn't cause earthquakes -- claims now proven false by a variety of scientific studies.
A Canadian court has awarded $13 million in non-diplomatic assets seized from Iran to the families of Americans who died in several attacks globally, which had allegedly been sponsored by Tehran between 1983 to 2002.
A politically motivated decision that's not based on facts and Iran wasn't even there to be able to defend itself
By Amanda Froelich
The Canadian province of Quebec used to be regarded as a haven for puppy mills, but that has since changed. In a bill tabled in Quebec in 2015, animals are now considered "sentient beings" rather than property. The legislation states: "Animals are not things. They are sentient beings and have biological needs." ...
Those who abuse animals and their needs may be fined unto $250,000. And, up to 18 months in prison is a possibility for repeat offenders...
Choosing to speak in San Diego, home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, on a platform draped with 19 American flags and preceded by half an hour of military marching music, Hillary Clinton was certain of finding a friendly audience for her celebration of American "strength", "values" and "exceptionalism". Cheered on by a military audience, Hillary was already assuming the role to which she most ardently aspires: that of Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
As usual, she goes for the military solution, ridiculing the notion of diplomacy.
The latest attempt of the Zionist lobby in Canada to shut down attempts to organize peaceful pressure against the state of Israel's systematic violations of international law came at what must have seemed an opportune moment. On May 17, the day that Bill 202, "the Standing Up Against Anti-Semitism Act, 2016: An Act respecting participation in boycotts and and other anti-Semitic actions", was presented to the Ontario provincial legislature in Toronto and quickly passed first reading, Ontario Premier Katherine Wynne was in Israel, where she warmly shook the hand of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Canada's Supreme Court Legalizes Some Sex Acts with AnimalsCanada's highest court has just ruled that some sex acts between humans and animals are legal.
In a quixotic ruling, the country's high court ruled that a man who
was on trial for raping and sexually exploiting his own daughters wasn't
guilty of "bestiality." The man reportedly, "smeared peanut butter on the genitals of his victims and had the family dog lick it off while he videotaped the act."
The convicted man took his case to the Canadian Supreme Court,
demanding that the bestiality charge be nullified. In the end, the court
Are you kidding me?!?
They are haunted by flashbacks of bloodshed, racism and despair.
They are Manitoba's Sayisi Dene, survivors of a devastating government-forced relocation in 1956. And this summer, they will be compensated for their ordeal. The federal government is finalizing a $33-million package.
"Will it make a difference? I don't know," Eva Yassie told CBC News. "Sad, sad. Dark, dark. Evil. That's all I seen at Dene Village."
A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals.
Hopefully, including the United States, and more specifically, Washington DC ... the State Department.
Administrators at the University of Calgary, Canada, have caved in to criminals and paid a $20,000 ransom to decrypt their computer systems' files after getting hit by a malware infection.
Last month, the university fell prey to ransomware, which installed itself on machines, scrambled documents and demanded cash to recover the data. Since they obviously weren't running decent backup procedures, the administrators have agreed to pay up in Bitcoins.
Toronto Police Services and correctional officers must revamp their policies on interacting with transgender inmates — especially at the point of arrest — after a historic settlement with a man who was stripped of men's clothing, forced into women's underwear and put into a holding cell for women.
During a recent sail on board HMCS Windsor, the Star had a chance to see firsthand the complexities of running the diesel-electric subs.
News of the sub's aborted Atlantic crossing comes as the federal government has dramatically boosted maintenance budget to keep the four submarines operational until 2023.
Higher than expected repair bills have forced Ottawa to add $900 million to the budget, bringing the total service contract to $2.6 billion until 2023.
Yet this latest problem means that none of Canada's four submarines are mission-ready. HMCS Corner Brook is undergoing heavy maintenance, which is expected to take until 2018. Faulty welds will keep HMCS Chicoutimi and Victoria, both based in Esquimalt, B.C., out of operation for the foreseeable future.
As Sherlock Holmes would say, "We are entering in deep waters, Watson".
The executive leadership now faces the problem of how to deal with a traitor, who may be the Democratic Party nominee for US President. How do the executive leadership and intelligence agencies back a foreign spy for president, who has been deeply compromised and can be blackmailed? This may explain why the FBI, NSA, and CIA hesitate to press charges; hesitate to even seriously investigate, despite the obvious nature of her offenses. Most of all it explains why there is no indication of the identity of Secretary Clinton's correspondents in the various reports so far available.
Even as Hillary Clinton closes in on the Democratic nomination, facts continue to emerge indicating that her sloppy email practices may have endangered secrets, including the identities of covert operatives, writes Peter Van Buren.
These are facts. You can look at the source documents yourself. This is not opinion, conjecture, or rumor. Hillary Clinton transmitted the names of American intelligence officials via her unclassified email.
From a series of Clinton emails, numerous names were redacted in the State Department releases with the classification code "B3 CIA PERS/ORG," a highly specialized classification that means the information, if released, would violate the Central Intelligence Act of 1949 by exposing the names of CIA officials.
A stunning revelation from MSNBC's Chris Matthews...
Matthews flat out states that there is a plan in place at MSNBC to announce Hillary as the clear winner, hours before anything is officially declared, to make people think they will be wasting their time by going out to vote for Bernie.
This is a stunning example of the dirty tricks that the mainstream media will play to further their preferred establishment candidate's position in the race:
There are several lines of inquiry against Mme. Clinton:
(1) Did she work with, as yet unnamed, foreign governments and intelligence services to strengthen their positions and against the interest of the United States?
(2) Did she provide information on the operations and policy positions of various key US policymakers to competitors, adversaries or allies undermining the activities of military, intelligence and State Department officials?
(3) Did she seek to enhance her personal power within the US administration to push her aggressive policy of serial pre-emptive wars over and against veteran State Department and Pentagon officials who favored traditional diplomacy and less violent confrontation?
(4) Did she prepare a 'covert team', using foreign or dual national operative, to lay the groundwork for her bid for the presidency and her ultimate goal of supreme military and political power?
The appointment this week of Avigdor Lieberman from the far-right Yisrael Beiteinu party to Israel's Minister of Defense is alarming many Canadian Jews. Hawkish, ultra-nationalist Lieberman is infamous for his belligerent stance on negotiations with Palestinians and saying that Palestinians who do not swear allegiance to Israel "should have their heads chopped off by an ax."
Initially, the hashtag was used as intended — earnestly by those who wanted to acknowledge his leadership and wish him well as he leaves politics.
However, as the night went on, most of the tweets were sarcastic in nature, pointing to what his opponents see as his failings in office.
Bill 74 has passed almost without notice (the casino industry being the notable exception) and will see the government agency in charge of lotteries in the province, Loto-Québec, draw up a list of online gambling sites that they will then send to ISPs.
ISPs will be required to block access to those sites within 30 days or face a $100,000 fine.
Leaked minutes of a meeting in Brussels suggest Downing Street is trying to fast-track an EU-Canada trade deal that will allow corporations to sue national governments in secret courts without parliamentary consent.
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is free trade deal between Canada and Europe, which shares many traits with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal being brokered between the EU and US.
Campaigners warn CETA, which has been finalized but not ratified, would pave the way for a "corporate power grab," while undercutting vital legislation put in place to protect workers' rights, the environment and consumer safety.
No one is allowed in or out, and no one is allowed to report (unless without pre-approval, I presume) what they see there.
Very strange indeed.
We host a roundtable discussion in Toronto about how indigenous and Black Lives Matter activists in Canada are working together to address state violence and neglect, and media coverage of their efforts. Last month, First Nations people occupied the offices of Canada's indigenous affairs department to demand action over suicides as well as water and housing crises in their communities.
By Nadia Prupis
"Health Canada's approval is irresponsible and disappointing," said Dana Perls of Friends of the Earth
Despite a sustained effort from public health and climate activists, genetically modified (GM or GMO) salmon has been officially sanctioned for sale in Canada.
And if that wasn't foreboding enough, a pending trade deal between Canada and the European Union means the country's first approved GMO food animal, known colloquially as the "Frankenfish," could soon be sold and eaten internationally...
Glyphosate is the world's most widely used weed killer. Some claim it is completely harmless, others say it is a serious health hazard for man and animals. A topical investigation into a controversial substance.
Canada took direct aim at the war on drugs Friday, announcing it will propose allowing doctors to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade heroin under its Special Access Program (SAP).
Ted Cruz and his allies are preparing for the coming National GOP Convention. According to a report in NBC News, Cruz who recently attended a GOP convention in his home state of Texas told his supporters and the public that the days ahead will be "challenging" for the Republican Party. He, however, expressed hope that those who remain loyal to him and the party "will be the remnant, will be the core of pulling this country back from the abyss."
Okay, one more time.
1. The Constitution requires the President to be a natural born US citizen, meaning a US citizen born inside the United States.
2. Ted Cruz was born in Canada of parents who were Canadian citizens at the time of Ted's birth.
3. Canada did not recognize dual citizenship when Ted was born, so Ted's mother was not a US citizen at the time.
4. Ted's supporters insist that because Ted's mother was born in Delaware, that he was automatically a US citizen at birth. However, Ted Cruz' father was still married to his previous wife when Ted was born and Section 309(c) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act states that children born to American citizens in foreign lands OUT OF WEDLOCK do not receive birthright citizenship.
Ted Cruz and his supporters are ignoring the Constitution, and haven;t we already had too many politicians doing that lately?
1. The Constitution requires the President to be a natural born US citizen, meaning a US citizen born inside the United States.
2. Ted Cruz was born in Canada of parents who were Canadian citizens at the time of Ted's birth.
3. Canada did not recognize dual citizenship when Ted was born, so Ted's mother was not a US citizen at the time.
4. Ted's supporters insist that because Ted's mother was born in Delaware, that he was automatically a US citizen at birth. However, Ted Cruz' father was still married to his previous wife when Ted was born and Section 309(c) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act states that children born to American citizens in foreign lands OUT OF WEDLOCK do not receive birthright citizenship.
Ted Cruz and his supporters are ignoring the Constitution, and haven;t we already had too many politicians doing that lately?
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How can you tell when "remembering" horrible events is being twisted to defend the status quo and support the powerful against the weak? When a sports network airs a Nazi Holocaust-themed show.
Last week TSN ran a six-minute video feature about Hank Rosenbaum, a Polish Jew whose life was turned upside down when German troops invaded 77 years ago. The sports angle for TSN's "Yom HaShoah, the international day of remembrance for the more than 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust" commemoration, was that Rosenbaum became a hockey fan when he arrived in Toronto six decades ago. The sports network showed him watching his 10-year-old grandson's house league game.
While the Rosenbaum story was horrifying and more socially meaningful than TSN's typical fare, does it really represent a concern for human rights by the broadcaster?
Straight comedy for libtards. This is really funny.
By Joe Wright
When it comes to regulatory tyranny, Canada and the United States have been one-upping each other for some time. For most people who believe in medical choice, the march toward mandatory vaccination has raised an alarm, but for students of history it should be forced reeducation of any type that signifies when the final line is about to be crossed. Ontario, Canada has a new proposal…
Controversial French comic reportedly refused entry to Canada at Trudeau airport
As you read the following, consider this; Ted Cruz' supporters, the Tea Party, the GOP, and the establishment media may all look the other way about the fact that Ted Cruz does not meet the Constitutional requirementss to be Predident or Vice President. But does anyone think that if the GOP anoints Cruz as their candidate, that Hillary's lawyers won't go to court and have him thrown out of the election?
Ted Cruz may have suspended his campaign as a total waste of time and money, but is working behind the scenes to try to steal the nomination from Trump at the state and national conventions, which is as good as handing the White House to Hillary Clinton.
I don't know about you, but I have had as much of this "The rules don't apply to anyone but you serfs" crap as I can stand.
I don't know about you, but I have had as much of this "The rules don't apply to anyone but you serfs" crap as I can stand.
The crackdown on government scientists in Canada began in 2006, after Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party was elected prime minister. During the nine-year Harper administration, the government placed a priority on boosting the economy, in part by stimulating development and increasing the extraction of resources, such as petroleum from the oil sands in Alberta. To speed projects along, the administration eased environmental regulations. And when journalists sought out government scientists to ask about the impacts of such changes, or anything to do with environmental or climate science, they ran into roadblocks.
Waking Times
At just 15 years old, William Gadoury has blown the minds of some of Canada's top astronomers, scientists and researchers by locating an ancient Mayan city that had never before been found. Satellite images have thus far confirmed his findings, showing unnatural geometric shapes precisely where the teenager said they would be, and now serious explorers are preparing for land expeditions to physically verify his incredible findings.
Investigators say arson is believed to be the cause of at least 10 wildfires in northeastern British Columbia.
Millions of people across Canada and around the world have been moved by the images of destruction and harrowing tales of escape that have emerged from Fort McMurray, Alberta, over the past week. On short notice and with next to no forewarning, some 90,000 residents were evacuated May 3, as a huge wildfire began to consume large parts of the city that is the hub for Canada's massive oil tar-sands industry.
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