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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?
Part 2
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.
The Martin Mars is Canada's largest water bomber. It's staged at Sproat Lake BC, a short flight away from Fort McMurray and could have been used in the fight against the massive wildfire nicknamed "The Beast" by Fort Mac fire chief Darby Allen. But it wasn't.
The bomber wasn't there because the company that owns it wasn't asked by Alberta government officials to make it available to fight fires in Alberta.
Frank Giustra – key power broker and close colleague of former President Bill Clinton – has taken a seat on the Board of Directors of U.S. Oil Sands, an Alberta-based company aiming to develop tar sands deposits in Utah's Uintah Basin.
The funding will help get the ball rolling on "tar sands south," a miniature but increasingly controversial version of its big brother to the north, the Alberta tar sands. Giustra will likely help in opening the right doors for tar sands industry interests in the United States.
Giusta is best known for his work in the worlds of uranium mining and minerals mining, though he has dabbled in the Alberta tar sands finance world once before, lending upwards of $20 million in capital to Excelsior Energy. He serves as CEO and President of Fiore Financial Corporation.
Massive blaze in Alberta could double in size and go on for months, local officials predict. There are about 19,000 people already evacuated from the affected areas.
This is very long to get through, but worth watching. This guy makes a compelling case that the Fort McMurray fire is being allowed to run wild (supported by Canada's ignoring of Russia's offer to send water bombers) in order to destroy the town and allow the land, which sits over major uranium deposits, to be purchased for pennies on the dollar.
The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and fire fighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta.
The proposal was made late last week by Vladimir Puchkov, the Russian minister of emergency measures.
A spokesman for Russia's embassy in Ottawa, Kirill Kalinin, said Sunday that they continue to stand "ready to help our Canadian partners to fight the ongoing wildfires in Alberta."
So, the Russians offered to send their highly effective water bombers to help with the fire last week, but because the Russians cannot be seen as good guys, the Canadian government just let Fort McMurray burn up?
They are saying the fires could double in size TODAY alone.
I have scoured youtube, and found the 2 most hellacious clips out there.
This shit is completely out of control.
New Alert for people in Canada, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. Now a new large area has began burning in British Columbia on top of what is already going on in Alberta Canada.
As most people might already know, an extremely large fire has broken out across Northeast Alberta Canada near Fort McMurray. The massive fires have now forced the evacuation of over 88,000 people, with the loss of thousands of houses, and burning over 210,000 square acres in a matter of a few days time.
Now all of a sudden, massive plumes of smoke are appearing EXACTLY due West in British Columbia at another Oil + Gas pumping operation just North of Fort St. John, BC Canada.
(The new widespread fire location is upwind by 350 miles / 500km on the exact same latitude 56 43 N)
New car sales are up nearly 10 per cent this year over last year, and last year broke sales records. Canadians are spending tens of billions, and federal and provincial governments are raking in a healthy chunk of every dollar spent — 13 per cent, for example, in Ontario.
What the federal government is respectfully declining to discuss is the fact that it's also taxing people on money they aren't even spending, and forcing car dealers to collect it.
Incredible dash cam footage has captured a man's terrifying drive through the supercharged wildfires tearing through Alberta, Canada, which have forced 88,000 people to evacuate their homes.
More than 1,110 firefighters, 145 helicopters, 138 pieces of heavy equipment and 22 air tankers were fighting a total of 49 wildfires that now cover land the size of New York City. Seven of the blazes are deemed out of control.
On Wednesday, one resident in the devastated oil sands city of Fort McMurray filmed the moment he had to drive across town through flying embers and black-out smoke.
Cars can be seen veering from lane-to-lane to avoid the flames as gusts of wind threaten to push burning trees over. Though it was filmed at 2pm, the sky is as dark as night.
Canadian troops are training Kurdish forces for a planned assault on Mosul, a city controlled by the Daesh militants since 2014. But as Time magazine has reported, the much-delayed assault is hampered by tensions between the Kurdish peshmerga and the Baghdad-controlled Iraqi army.
Again the dispute centres on territory: Should areas won back from Daesh go to semi-autonomous Kurdistan? Or should they go to Iraq proper?
This poses a problem for Canada. Like the U.S., Ottawa supports the concept of a unified Iraq.
But in practice, it finds itself training Kurdish soldiers who don't view themselves as Iraqi and who might well end up fighting Iraqis.
Ted Cruz, the only Republican presidential candidate to be parodied as the zodiac killer, has called his campaign quits following Donald Trump's win in the Indiana primary.
The U.S. senator from Texas suspended his campaign telling his supporters Tuesday evening, "We gave it everything," and then moments later he accidentally hit his wife Heidi in the face — twice.
Heidi needs Secret Service protection!
'Huge parts … may burn tonight, and more of it may burn tomorrow'; Albertans flee a city in flames
All of Northern Alberta spent Tuesday night on a war footing as — with only a few hours of warning — 60,000 Fort McMurrayites endured one of the largest evacuations in Canadian history.
All across America, Ted Cruz is losing and he is losing badly. Cruz's presidential campaign is in crisis. Even pledged delegates are now renouncing him.
"Once Americans learn that Ted Cruz is not constitutionally eligible for the presidency, they quickly reject him," states Washington, D.C. law professor Victor Williams.
Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada in 1970, and Cruz held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Cruz is not a "natural born [American] Citizen" as Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution requires.
Even Cruz's spouse now calls him an "immigrant."
Short clip. This is a must-see.
A former Mayerthorpe mayor says he remains supportive of his firefighter son, who faces 18 counts of arson for a spree of major fires he allegedly started in the Alberta town.
The charges against 19-year-old Lawson Schalm are related to numerous suspicious fires in the area that began on April 19, including a massive one that destroyed the CN trestle bridge.
The number of misconduct investigations the RCMP launched into their own staff went up by 158 per cent in 2015 over the previous year, leaving 56 officers facing possible dismissal over allegations of serious misconduct.
A shocking new science study funded by the Alberta Ministry of Health and published in the VACCINE science journal has found that nearly 10 percent of Canadian females end up in emergency rooms (the "Emergency Department" in Canadian vernacular) following HPV vaccine injections.
The study is entitled Adverse events following HPV vaccination, Alberta 2006-2014 and is also found at this source.
Even more shockingly, vaccine researchers funded by the Alberta Ministry of Health declare this 10% emergency room visitation rate to be "low" and "consistent with those seen elsewhere [with vaccines]."
A Winnipeg mother says she feels "paranoid" about letting her children outside on their own after she came under scrutiny by Child and Family Services when it received a complaint about them playing in their backyard.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk recently got a second passport, obtaining Canadian citizenship.
It is reported "PolitNavigator" citing a source in the Verkhovna Rada.
As noted edition, obtaining Canadian citizenship Yatsenyuk – a guarantee of the Western partners to the life of the prime minister and his family, if "something goes wrong", and the situation in Ukraine will in a radical direction.
It is noted that Canada was among the first recognized in February 2014 the government Yatsenyuk after the coup in Ukraine.
Documentary evidence of receipt of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk second citizenship yet. According to the laws of Ukraine have dual citizenship is prohibited, however, in the current Ukrainian political phenomenon is not unique.
Read more at http://www.breaking-news.ca/breaking-canada-grants-citizenship-to-ukra...
Voters in Maryland will not only be casting their vote for presidential nominees on Tuesday, but will also pull the lever in a hotly contested US Senate primary between two Democratic representatives – one a white man, and the other a black woman.
Cruz confuses his citizenship, granted to him through Congress's statutory power to "establish an uniform rule of naturalization" (Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution), with the very different constitutional requirements for the office of president.
The constitutional requirements for the office of president are in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution: A president must be a "natural born citizen," 35 years of age and a resident of the U.S. for 14 years.
The Constitution was completed Sept. 17, 1787. The phrase "natural born citizen" meant people born within the U.S. That constitutional phrase remains a part of the Constitution and it has the same meaning today as in 1787.
The Ontario government gave taxpayer-funded rebates to five millionaires to buy one of the most expensive cars ever manufactured, the Porsche 918 Spyder.
CBC News has learned that five Ontario drivers received funding through the province's Electric Vehicle Incentive Program in 2015 for buying the Porsche 918, which retailed in Canada at about $1.1 million.
An Ottawa human rights lawyer has filed a human rights violation over the delivery of Dr. James Sears' "racist and "anti-Semitic" newspaper. James responds to the allegations.
Scores of Lower Mainland residents who wanted to tell the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade what they think of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade and investment deal negotiated by the Harper Conservatives were denied that chance Monday.
More than 50 people rallied outside the Richmond Radisson Hotel where the hearings were scheduled to be held, eventually being frisked before entering the hearing hall on a red carpet laid by protesters that read "170,000 Say No to TPP" -- referring to the number of signatures on an anti-TPP petition.
Although the committee did choose to hear from some applicants Monday, as for 170 other members of the activist group Leadnow who had applied to address the committee, they learned last week, without explanation, that they would not be heard.
"They were all rejected," said the group's Vancouver organizer, Jolan Bailey. "They didn't even tell us when they did. We only found out when they published the list of who was speaking -- we noticed that none of our people were on there."
Anna Tomerlin has done some extensive investigation into the family line of Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz and frankly, the information is quite disturbing. Anna has graciously allowed us to repost her article to inform the public.
It is time to choose The Constitution and The Republic over Politicians and Political Parties.
Ted Cruz's Natural Born Citizen status is in question. For that matter his citizenship status is in question. Cruz is an agent for a foreign power and foreign invader. Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz is not a United States citizen.
This is the most complete timeline (with documentation) of Ted Cruz' parents life. It is difficult to wade through but well worth it, as it confirms that Ted Cruz was not a US citizen at birth.
Rafael Cruz (Ted's father) was married to his second wife Julia Ann Garza from 1959 – 1996. Ted's mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, gave birth to Ted in 1970, while Ted's father was still married to Julia. Under Section 309(c) of the INA, children born out-of-wedlock to Americans abroad do NOT become US citizens at birth! They must be naturalized.
Ted Cruz was not a US citizen by birth.
This is the most complete timeline (with documentation) of Ted Cruz' parents life. It is difficult to wade through but well worth it, as it confirms that Ted Cruz was not a US citizen at birth.
Rafael Cruz (Ted's father) was married to his second wife Julia Ann Garza from 1959 – 1996. Ted's mother, Eleanor Elizabeth Wilson, gave birth to Ted in 1970, while Ted's father was still married to Julia. Under Section 309(c) of the INA, children born out-of-wedlock to Americans abroad do NOT become US citizens at birth! They must be naturalized.
Ted Cruz was not a US citizen by birth.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz vowed months ago to renounce his Canadian citizenship by the end of 2013. It's now 2014, and the Calgary-born Republican lawmaker is still a dual citizen.
How U.S. Senator Ted Cruz can renounce his Canadian citizenship
Ted Cruz, Tea Party favourite, to renounce Canadian citizenship
"I have retained counsel that is preparing the paperwork to renounce the citizenship," the junior Texas senator, who's eyeing a run for president in 2016, said in a recent interview with the Dallas Morning News.
He didn't dispute holding dual citizenship: "Not at this point," Cruz told the paper.
That's confounding Canadian immigration lawyers. Renouncing Canadian citizenship, they say, is a simple, quick and straightforward process — there's even an online, four-page PDF form on the Government of Canada website to get the ball rolling without the help of lawyers.
United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)
"A person born out of the jurisdiction of the United States can only become a citizen by being naturalized," "Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the Presidency." "It is important to recognize that "citizenship" itself is man-made. So we need to separate "natural born" from "citizen". The two are independent of one another. Naturalization statutes can make one a citizen, but not "natural born". That is solely about the physical circumstances of one's birth, such as location."
The Supreme Court elaborated in Luria v. United States, 231 U.S. 9 (1913)
"Under our Constitution, a naturalized citizen stands on an equal footing with the native citizen in all respects save that of eligibility to the Presidency."
An Ottawa human rights lawyer has filed a human right complaint for the controversial Your Ward News newspaper.
The Editor-In-Chief of the largest anti-Marxist newspaper in the world was being interviewed by a TV reporter and to her shock, on television to millions of viewers of the top newscast in Toronto, he praised Hitler and denied the holohoax. It turns out that he was being interviewed after a Human Rights complaint was launched for hate speech. He's so nonchalant about it. This is BIG NEWS here in Canada. Even when I went down the street to get a coffee this morning, everyone in the shop was talking about it ...
Complete details on the legalization announcement.
The Canadian Judicial Council has ignored the advice of its own in-house inquiry and recommended that a judge investigated for a suspected drug offence not be removed from office.
The recommendation from the council to Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould seems sure to end more than three years of uncertainty for Quebec Superior Court Justice Michel Girouard.
In the latest example of the unbridled hypocrisy and prevarication that is the stock-in-trade of all parties in the Canadian parliament, Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his minister of foreign affairs, Stephane Dion, have been caught out lying shamelessly about Canada's $15 billion arms deal with the brutal, US-backed Saudi monarchy.
"Anti-Semitism" may be the most abused term in Canada today. Almost entirely divorced from its dictionary definition – "discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews" – it is now primarily invoked to uphold Jewish/white privilege.
In a recent Canadian Jewish News interview long time l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) professor Julien Bauer slurs Arabs and Muslims as he bemoans "anti-Semitism". "In the corridors of UQAM, there are occasionally pro-Hamas demonstrations and anti-Semitic posters, but this is relatively rare," Bauer wrote in French. "At Concordia University, it's an anti-Semitic festival every day of the year! This is normal because there are many more Arab and Muslim students at Concordia than UQAM."
The Jewish community's leading media outlet, which recently called Jews the "Chosen People", failed to question Bauer's racism and Islamophobia. Instead, they put his picture on the front of the Québec edition.
Canada has suggested it may join the US missile defense shield after the issue has been dormant for the past decade. The government wants to gauge public opinion about the idea, while adding that that there is a growing ballistic missile threat facing North America.
Washington D.C. Law Professor Victor Williams has filed an Emergency Petition with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie demanding that the Canadian-born Ted Cruz be disqualified from the ballot. (Full details at his website – www.VictorWilliamsforPresident.com)
Ted Cruz was born in Calgary, Canada and held his resulting Canadian citizenship until May 2014. Scholars across the nation agree that Edward Rafael Cruz is not a "natural born [American] Citizen" as required by Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
The federal revenue minister has been called to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain a controversial deal between the Canada Revenue Agency and clients of the financial firm KPMG.
The House of Commons Finance Committee passed a motion Thursday calling on Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier to appear before the committee along with CRA officials sometime before May 20.
CRA offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax 'sham'
KPMG offshore 'sham' deceived tax authorities, CRA alleges
KPMG tax 'sham' used by at least 25 wealthy Canadians
Opposition MPs on the committee want to know why the CRA offered an amnesty to KPMG clients who took part in an offshore tax scheme in the Isle of Man, which the agency itself labelled a "sham."
A very complicated back story, which shows Ted Cruz's father to be a bigamist, among other things, and his mother to be a globe-trotting citizenship-renouncing serial marriage partner, establishes Ted Cruz is not a natural born citizen of the U.S.
There are allegations that Ted Cruz mother bore Ted out of wedlock (possibly before her divorce with her first husband was final), in which case under Section 309(c) of the INA Ted is not a US citizen by birth.
Judge Jeff Masin needs to be removed from the bench. The Constitution does not grant him the authority to change the Constitution at whim.
Judge Jeff Masin needs to be removed from the bench. The Constitution does not grant him the authority to change the Constitution at whim.
A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal's criminal underworld shows that Canada's federal policing agency has had a global encryption key for BlackBerry devices since 2010. The revelations are contained in a stack of court documents that were made public after members of a Montreal crime syndicate pleaded guilty to their role in a 2011 gangland murder. The documents shed light on the extent to which the smartphone manufacturer, as well as telecommunications giant Rogers, cooperated with investigators.
Toronto police Supt. Mark Fenton is in court this morning for a sentencing hearing, months after he was found guilty of discreditable conduct and two counts of unlawful arrests for his actions during the G20 summit.
Fenton is the highest ranking officer to be charged for their actions at the June, 2010 summit. He was convicted last August under the Police Services Act.
The Canada Revenue Agency has formally asked the CBC to hand over offshore tax-haven data from the massive Panama Papers leak, but the news organization is refusing.
"Don't you see? We have to protect the rich. We just HAVE to!!!!" -- Canadian Broadcorping Castration.
"No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." -- Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, clause 5
A New Jersey judge said he would rule Tuesday if U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is a "natural-born citizen" under the U.S. Constitution and therefore could appear on the state's June 7 Republican presidential primary ballot.
Judge Jeff Masin in Mercerville heard Monday from a group of New Jersey residents and a Catholic University of America law professor. They insisted Cruz, born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father, did not meet the constitutional requirements to be president.
I wonder if the judge waited overnight to see if any great offers came in! And Ted Cruz's mother appears on Canadian voter rolls prior to Ted's birth, which means she was a Canadian citizen when Ted was born. As Canada did not recognize duel-citizenship at the time, that mean's Cruz's mother had renounced her US citizenship prior to Ted's birth. Ted's father had to renounce his Cuban citizenship to become a Canadian citizen. Ted Cruz is thus not a US citizen by birth, but Canadian, born in Canada of two Canadian citizens.
A Washington, D.C. law professor has come up with a new way to challenge the eligibility of Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, to run for president.
Victor Williams is running for president himself.
He says that should help him get over the first hurdle that has so far caused other challengers to stumble -- a lack of legal standing to sue.
Williams, who teaches at the Catholic University law school, has registered to run as a write-in candidate for the Republican nomination in nine states for the sole purpose of challenging the credentials of the man he calls "Canadian Cruz."
"In 2 weeks the North American Law Center will release proof that Ted Cruz is a fraud. They have issued his campaign a warning that if Cruz doesn't tell the truth and step down they will release their proof – the truth that so many refused to believe or listen to." – Karen Bracken
The North American Law Center issued this stark notice to the Cruz campaign on their latest podcast on April 3 (19:00 mark) –
"We're talking about American citizens (who) think a guy who's Canadian-born is eligible to be a U.S. president – without any documentation whatsoever. If Ted continues on – we are going to release the files we have, two weeks from tonight, and we will bury Ted Cruz forever in American politics… If we have to stop this guy from defrauding this nation, then we are going to do that." – J.B. Williams, N.A.L.C.
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A day of reflection, moving forward in Prescott
PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the loss of 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot firefighters in the Yarnell Hill Tragedy.
It was the worst loss of firefighters since 9/11.
Prescott Fire Wildland Division Chief Darrell Willis helped found the team. He came to be known as "The Father of the Granite Mountain Hotshots," a fitting title, given how they truly were like his own sons.
Willis visited the Hotel St. Michael, where an exhibit honoring the fallen firefighters is on display. The exhibit includes a fraction of the thousands of items left outside the team's base, Fire Station 7, after the Yarnell Hill Fire. Willis was overcome with emotion.
"I was hoping the pain would go away," he said. "I've now come to realize that it's not going to."
Willis gave KTAR a rare peek inside Station 7, where a brand new metal sculpture is on the wall, featuring the belt buckles and logos of every hotshot crew in America.
"It's an unbelievable showing of love, gratitude and care," said Willis.
Another show of support came from a father and daughter in Flagstaff who spent 100 hours on a handcrafted table, also now at Station 7.
"It was milled out of a big juniper tree and then [they] engraved it with the name of each firefighter we lost," he explained. "It's a prized possession that we will take care of forever."
Bobby Woyjeck's brother Kevin was one of the Hotshot members who died in the June 2013 fire. He came to Prescott for the anniversary, and a year after the loss, he still struggles.
"It was the worst day of my life; everything is a blur. I had to inform my parents that Kevin had passed away and no child should ever have to do that," Woyjeck recalled. "I have nothing but praise for Prescott. It's strange being here, but it's awesome to be here."
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With health insurance costs soaring, employers may be tempted to make hiring/firing decisions based on whether a person is a drain on the organization's health costs. Our advice: Don't even think about it; and make sure your supervisors know it's illegal.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) says it's illegal to trim benefit costs by firing the most-costly employee. But a lesser-known law, a provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), gives workers another avenue to sue you.
The ADA's "association" provision says you can't discriminate against employees or applicants in jobs or benefits because they have a relationship with someone who has a disability. (Say, a company refuses to hire an applicant because her husband has cancer.)
While these types of ADA-association claims are rarely litigated, you can count on more of them making their way to court, many paired with ERISA claims, as well. One reason: Plaintiffs' attorneys have been largely unaware of this claim until now.
Recent case: A software company fired salesman Thomas Larimer shortly after the premature birth of his twin daughters, whose serious problems cost the company health plan nearly $200,000. Larimer sued, alleging violations of the ADA and ERISA, claiming the firing was based on current and anticipated health care expenses for his disabled children.
The company won the lawsuit.
Reason: While the court said that it's possible to prevail on such claims, this company was able to prove that Larimer's supervisors didn't know anything about the company's health care benefits costs. Plus, Larimer couldn't prove that the company's stated reason for the firing, poor job performance, was wrong. (Larimer v. IBM Corp., No. 03-2256, 7th Cir., 2004)
Final note: Lawsuits based on the ADA's association provision are typically tied to a spouse, child or other family member. But the law's language doesn't limit protections to family ties alone.
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Her opponent will be chasing Steffi Graf, and so too in a sense will Angelique Kerber.
No German woman has won a major since Kerber's idol Graf triumphed at the 1999 French Open, but Kerber will have the chance on Saturday night after progressing to the Australian Open final with a 7-5, 6-2 win over unseeded Briton Johanna Konta in an hour and 22 minutes on Thursday.
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21-time grand slam champion Serena Williams cruises past Agnieska Radwanska to book a spot in her 7th Australian Open final.
However, to break the drought, Kerber, 28, will need to defeat world No. 1 Serena Williams, who thumped fourth-seeded Pole Agnieszka Radwanska in the first of the two semi-finals held in the day session on Rod Laver Arena. While Kerber will be playing in her first grand slam final, Williams can draw level with Graf with her 22nd major title, which would leave her behind only Australian Margaret Court (24).
"It's a really special moment. I was trying to give everything today," Kerber said on-court after the match.
"I had a lot of support from Germany and around the world. The fans are amazing."
Seventh-seeded Kerber entered the match against tournament surprise package Konta as favourite. That status appeared justified when Kerber matched Williams' effort from earlier in the day by breaking the Australian-born Englishwoman twice in the first three games of the match.
But whereas Williams had powered her way past Radwanska, Konta was providing relatively stiff opposition, drawing Kerber into lengthy baseline rallies. The world No.47 had a break point in Kerber's first service game, and broke in the next two, winning four games in a row to edge ahead midway through a tight first set.
The rain that had descended on Melbourne prior to the first semi-final cleared prior to this match, meaning the roof on Rod Laver Arena was open. However despite sunny skies overhead, large droplets landed on the court late in the set. It coincided with Konta being broken in the 11th game.
Greek chair umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore called for ball kids to mop, and after a five-minute delay, Kerber served out the set.
The second was considerably easier, with a pair of breaks enough to steer Kerber through.
She becomes the 15th different woman to face Williams in a major final, and the first German woman to make the Australian Open final since Anke Huber lost to Monica Seles in the 1996 decider at Melbourne Park.


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3.1: Factoring Composite Numbers
This activity is intended to be used with Algebra I, Chapter 2, Lesson 1.
Time required: 15 minutes
Activity Overview
In this activity, students will work with composite numbers to find their prime factorizations in exponent form. They will create factor trees and use division as a means to finding prime factors. An extension involving finding a common denominator for two fractions is given at the end of the activity.
Topic: From Arithmetic to Algebra
- Prime factorization
- Factor tree and prime factors
- Prime factorization in exponent form
Teacher Preparation and Notes
- If an interactive white board is available, create a number sort with a Venn diagram. For example, intersecting circles for Primes and Multiples of 8. The students would be given a list of a few numbers to place into the proper part of the diagram. In this case, there would be no intersection. For another example, use Primes and Numbers less than \begin{align*}40\end{align*}. There would be quite a few possibilities for numbers contained in the intersection. (credit: Teaching Reading in Mathematics, M. Barton and C. Heiderma, 2000)
Associated Materials
- Student Worksheet: Factoring Composite Numbers, http://www.ck12.org/flexr/chapter/9612
Problem 1 – A Frayer Square for prime
Discuss students' Frayer Squares as a class, recording their responses on the board or an overhead transparency. Use this activity to assess students' knowledge of the concepts prime and composite.
A prime number can be divided evenly only by itself and 1. A composite number is a non-zero number that is not prime.
Problem 2 – Exploring a factor tree for a composite number
Examine the factor tree of \begin{align*}24\end{align*} with students and assess their prior knowledge of factorization and factor trees.
The number at the top of the tree is the number being factored. Moving up the factor tree represents multiplication and moving down it represents division. The circled numbers, or leaves of the tree, are prime. They make up the prime factorization.
Discussion Questions:
- What if the factor tree starts out with two different factors than the ones shown? Will you still get the same answer? Challenge students to change the factor tree using two different starting factors.
- Does it matter in what order I list the final prime factors? Why might a teacher prefer that the numbers be listed in ascending order?
- Why is the exponent form used for the prime factorization?
Problem 3 – Exploring division as a means to finding prime factors
Demonstrate how to find the prime factorization of \begin{align*}30\end{align*} while students follow along on their calculators. The factor trees on their worksheets help students track their progress.
Students will follow this example to complete the prime factorization and factor tree for the number \begin{align*}36\end{align*}.
Things students can do after working through this problem:
- How are prime factors used to create GCF and LCM? Demonstrate with an example.
- Explain how Eratosthenes' Sieve works to a younger student, to a peer, or to an adult.
Problem 4 - Factoring on your own
Students can demonstrate the use of prime factors in selecting a common denominator for fraction addition or subtraction problems.
They can use either method from the activity, factor tree or division, to find the prime factorization of each denominator.
Students can use the common denominator to simplify the expressions.
\begin{align*}& \frac{a}{126}+\frac{a}{84} && \frac{5x}{78}-\frac{x}{66} && \frac{n}{30}-\frac{n}{63}\\ & \frac{a}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}+\frac{a}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 7} && \frac{5x}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 13}-\frac{x}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 11} && \frac{n}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5}+\frac{n}{3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}\\ & \left(\frac{2}{2}\right)\frac{a}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}+\left(\frac{3}{3}\right)\frac{a}{2 \cdot 2\cdot 3 \cdot 7} && \left(\frac{11}{11}\right)\frac{5x}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 13}-\left(\frac{13}{13}\right)\frac{x}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 11} && \left(\frac{3 \cdot 7}{3 \cdot 7}\right)\frac{n}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 5}+\left(\frac{2 \cdot 5}{2 \cdot 5}\right)\frac{n}{3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}\\ & \frac{2a}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}+\frac{3a}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7} && \frac{55x}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 11 \cdot 13}-\frac{13x}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 11 \cdot 13} && \frac{21n}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}+\frac{10n}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}\\ & \frac{5a}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 7}=\frac{5a}{252} && \frac{42x}{2 \cdot 2 \cdot 11 \cdot 13}=\frac{42x}{858}=\frac{7x}{143} && \frac{31n}{2 \cdot 3 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdot 7}=\frac{31n}{630}\end{align*}
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Problem 2
- The exponent is three because there are three \begin{align*}2s\end{align*}.
- The number \begin{align*}24\end{align*} is not a prime number because it has factors other than \begin{align*}1\end{align*} and itself.
Problem 3
- There are no exponents in this example because there is only one of each factor.
- \begin{align*}36 = 2^2 \cdot 3^2\end{align*}; factor tree will vary
Problem 4
Factor trees will vary.
- \begin{align*}27 = 3^3\end{align*}
- \begin{align*}56 = 2^3 \cdot 7\end{align*}
- \begin{align*}72 = 2^3 \cdot 3^2\end{align*}
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The Hired Hand | 1970
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Skip to comments.WTSP-TV/Tampa--Violence at Tampa health care forum
Posted on 08/06/2009 6:27:04 PM PDT by tcrlafEdited on 08/06/2009 8:09:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Tampa, Florida - Angry protesters and strong supporters are clashing inside and all around a health care reform town hall meeting in Downtown Tampa. The meeting which was scheduled to begin at 6:00 at the Children's Board of Hillsborough County drew hundreds of people who quickly began to overwhelm staff and event organizers at the front entrance.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtsp.com ...
More info from a posting on the WTSP website:
"From what I gather - EXTENDED:
SEIU & Castor (whose contributors are predominantly unions trial lawyers, teamsters etc] organize (pay to play) a townhall and announce it at the last minute as to reduce opposition voices.
Never the less, the word gets out at the last minute to citizen-led, unfunded grassroots organizations like 9-12 meetup group. Citizens opposed to government-run healthcare gather at the last minute to have their voices heard.
Exactly what Castor and SEIU did not want.
Inside, the townhall seated are mostly union members/supporters/people - yet seats remain empty. Hundreds of citizens outside. And yet public is not allowed in.
Castor makes speech turns it over to panel. Soon leaves.
People were prevented access inside to the meeting. Because of this apparent denial of free speech and bias -- and the seemingly blatant sham of a 'townhall' -- many began to shout, some banged windows & doors.
This is what I am surmising / what I am gathering from updates via Twitter.
Cowards. Thugs. And liars. (The Dems and their Union thug supporters)
good for all those who turned out in Tampa to protest Deathcare / Hellcare / Zerocare.
I love this line from your post....
"Inside, the townhall seated are mostly union members/supporters/people - yet seats remain empty."
Does that mean no zombies, vampires or bears are seated?
"Dingell (D-MI) forum on health care forms gets raucous"
Updated at 8:15 p.m.
U.S. Rep. John Dingell was greeted with jeers and cheers today as he tried to explain why changing the nations health care system as he has advocated for more than a half-century in Congress makes sense.
Dingell, 81, told a health care forum he sponsored in Romulus that the legislation wont pay for abortions, as some protesters said it would.
There will be no payment of taxpayer funds for abortion, he said.
As Dingell tried to begin the forum, Mike Sola, of Milan, interrupted the congressman repeatedly as he pushed his son, Scott, in a wheelchair, to the podium. He said proposed changes wouldnt help Scott and called Dingell a fraud.
Even before the town hall began in Romulus, opponents of President Barack Obamas health plan engaged supporters.
You may be dead in five years, Val Butsicaris, 60, of Taylor, shouted. They may euthanize you.
She referred to concerns of government rationing of care for the elderly.
Mel Hoffer, 67, of Monroe, a retired Ford Motor Co. employee, said retired autoworkers have no guarantees.
We may need something to fall back on, he said.
Earlier in Troy, about 200 people gathered outside the office of U.S. Rep. Gary Peters to let him know they dont like Obamas health care plan.
The organized protests that came to metro Detroit today followed others around the nation this week. In Petoskey on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee, faced shouts of Thats a lie and Youve lost my vote at a meeting with senior citizens. I'd post the entire article on it's own but can't due to restrictions. http://freep.com/article/20090806/NEWS15/90806087/Dingell-forum-on-health-care-reforms-gets-raucous
From A Tampa Bay Online Article:
"Asked earlier today about possible disruption at the event, Kim Diehl of SEIU said, "We're prepared. We have strategies to deal with it if it should come up.""
Imagine that....
SEIU, the AFLCIO, and Obama's own stormtroopers, "Organizing For America" show up, and there is violence. Who'd a thunk it.
It's EXACTLY what the Radical Socialist Democrats wanted!!
But wait, I thought Obama was elected to be a uniter.
For some reason, I thought that would mean NOT openly engaging his "army" of Union and ACORN members to go head-to-head with peaceful protesters. I was expecting something more subtle, like a gentle wave of his hand.
Can't we all just get along? < /sarc>
Any video, or pics?
for first hand report - brief but there.
FReeper screamin sunshine was there - see their report at the end of the thread.
Guarantee you, next move, Obama will call up the Guard to patrol the meetings. That is what all these liberal talking points are about, so that he will have justification.
Sounds like a union thug event. Watch and see—Obama's flunkies are going to hurt some innocent citizen real bad at one of these things so as to deter people from coming out. That is the Community Organizer's MO.
I remember when the Philly thug union did this to two FReepers some years back to suppress opposition to their candidate (Ed Rendell).
That's what we want. Images of a town hall with people outside trying to get in.
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What is the point of a townhall where only one point of view can be expressed? It seems to me that this is a hijacking of democracy by Castor and his union friends. Take it out on the Congressman next November.
"The Difficulty of Tolerance"
"Must We Mean What We Say?"
These people are walking caricatures.
Now that the RATs are in power, they are employing tactics that would have made the Nazis envious. The Brownshirts at the "town hall" are just the latest example.
In a sane world, it would get reported as such and all citizens would be outraged. Maybe it will still happen in time, but for right now it looks like the Left's plans to completely destroy America from within are right on track, and around 50% of the country report that they approve of it.
May God have mercy on our country.
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"banging on windows" = "violence"???
I guess this reporter never saw the union thugs in Philly issue that beat down several years ago.
"Inside, the townhall seated are mostly union members/supporters/people - yet seats remain empty. Hundreds of citizens outside. And yet public is not allowed in. "
Let's see how many other congress-critters & reps try this tactic. They're gonna be sorry if they do, cuz it's not gonna look too attractive to the vast majority of Americans.
"sponsored by state Rep. Betty Reed, D-Tampa, and the Service Employees International Union,"
When I went to a Republican rally during the last election, the demonstration against it was being run by some jerk in an SEIU jacket.
Inside, the townhall seated are mostly union members/supporters/people - yet seats remain empty.
This needs to be reported. Including the bullsh*t staging done by the politicians and union thugs to shut out oppsing voices and fool the public into thinking everyone is going along with it. Needs to be on every channel. Hope they have video .
I don't see any Brooks Brothers suits.
KOS libs are blaming ALL of this on ....
Many of the protestors were from the 9-12 Project, or so they say on KOS.
Here comes the SPIN folks! it's all that EVIL, CRAZY, Glenn BEck's fault, NOT the fault of those innocent SEIU, Organizing For America, and AFLCIO union thugs bussed in and PAID for this event!!
Check out this KOS Idiot's comment about TAXPAYERS demanding thier elected representatives listen to THEM for a change!!!!
"Of course they hate democracy. (13+ / 0-)
They've been advocating a vengeful, uncaring theocracy for several decades now."
"This needs to be reported..."
It is. Right here. :)
Exactly how they want it. Dear God, what have the fools elected?
The more they pull this..the more they will fuel the anger.
You can see in that Tampa clip that people were pissed.
It's going to get worse. The citizens of American want to be heard.
Suits in Florida in July! (or anywhere else for that matter)
Leave it to Babs Boxer to spew BS like that.
I noticed those too. Telling!
I would agree that I hate democracy. Because we've definitely come to the point where ACORN/SEIU wolves are voting to eat us taxpaying sheep for dinner.
I think someone should be taping this and asking each and every person that is on the outside how they would vote on Obamacare. Then ask what district they are from. Then when people that are allowed in start pouring out, they should ask the very same thing making sure they ask what district they are from.
I bet you that people that are inside would have no idea what district they are from. Meaning they were planted thugs!
I attended Dingell's forum. They had so many people, they had to break it into two sessions, and there were still many people who couldn't get in. The schmuck who moderated it was a representative from AARP and was loudly jeered. The ACORN and unions plants were there, but they were greatly outnumbered.
Dingell, who wrote the bill and kept telling us he wrote the bill (the crowd responded loudly that he didn't even know what was in it, and got booed for writing it) got booed very loudly when he was introduced and when the meeting adjourned.
They thought they were setting a sympathetic mood by having a Dingell supporter with a horrible disease open the meeting by regaling us with her medical problems and telling us she was a social worker (which didn't do much to gleen her any sympathy). The crowd didn't appreciate being conned or lectured to and shouted, "We all have sob stories". She left rather abruptly.
The crowd was relentless. We were sick of the lies and the b.s. he was giving us and clearly let him know we weren't buying any of it.
Thanks for the link. Looks like a lot of fired up Americans who aren't going to take the forcing of Obamacare down their throats.
I have never seen Americans, regular people, so upset and so determined to have their voices heard by an unresponsive Congress than now.
Well, let's see.....I do remember the antiwar protests during the Vietnam era....but they were mostly funded by the Communists and filled by youth who did not want to be drafted.
Those protesters were treated aw heroes by the press and one of them became a domestic terrorist then - today top friend of the Dear Leader who has called out his brownshirts to "hit back twice as hard" and who has instituted his Nazi/Commie like "snitch" line.
Bravo all who turned out in Tampa! (well, Bravo to all but he ACORN/SEIU Browshirts)
news report
Absolutely pathetic.
The tree of Liberty.......
people trying to get in
"Because of this apparent denial of free speech and bias — and the seemingly blatant sham of a 'townhall' — many began to shout, some banged windows & doors."
We need to learn from the civil rights movement — joining hands and singing something like "We shall overcome," gathering quietly in huge numbers in a dignified manner. Make them look like the out of control, raging lunatics, and us as the innocent victims of their hate and lust for power. Give them no justification to react (bad PR on their part if they do).
Non-violence protest can be a extremely powerful force. We should study and use the methods of the MLK jr. effectively.
BS...prove it
Related - SEIU again....
SHOCK VIDEO-— DEMS SNEAK UNION THUGS INTO CARNAHAN TOWN HALL-1,000 Tea Party Taxpayers Locked Out!
Gateway Pundit ^ | August 6, 2009 | Gateway Pundit
Posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 7:53:59 PM by Free ThinkerNY
Over 1,000 St. Louis Tea Party Taxpayers showed up to attend the Russ Carnahan town hall meeting in South St. Louis.
They were Locked Out!
But... The Carnahan staff was sneaking in SEIU members in the side door marked "handicapped." Here's the video:
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.blogspot.com ...
they are making a huge huge mistake...I wonder if they recognize how this is going to backfire on them, yet.
I fear they keep this up. sooner or later someone is going to lose it on either side and it's going to end up in a firefight.
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