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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Muslim Doctor Fired From Ohio Clinic After Threatening to Purposely Give Jewish Patients Wrong Medication
[Gateway Pundit] A Muslim doctor was fired from a Cleveland, Ohio clinic after it was discovered she bragged she would purposely giving all Jewish patients the wrong medication.

Lara Kollab, 27, was a supervised resident at the Cleveland Clinic ‐ she must be one of those ’moderates’ we keep hearing about.

"Hahha ewww... ill (sic) purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds..." Kollab posted in a January 2012 tweet.

"Yahood" is Arabic for "Jew."

The Cleveland Clinic released a statement on Monday, via Cleveland 19 News:
"This individual was employed as a supervised resident at our hospital from July to September 2018. She is no longer working at Cleveland Clinic. In no way do these beliefs reflect those of our organization. We fully embrace diversity, inclusion and a culture of safety and respect across our entire health system."

According to reports, Kollab’s medical license remains active; her license was issued in Cuyahoga County in July 2018, it is valid until June 2021.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2019 05:40 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Moslem Colonists

#1  And WHY is her license still valid?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/01/2019 5:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Graduated from what med school?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/01/2019 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  CanaryMission.org tracked down her social media. Interesting.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 6:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Israelly Cool reports the lady went to an Orthodox Jewish medical school, Touro College Of Osteopathic Medicine.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 6:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Russia Today reports the Cleveland Clinic fired her in September for this, a few months after she started there. RT links to a Yeshiva World News report that says:

Kollab was an Internal Medicine Resident at the Clinic for a short period of time until her hate messages were brought to the attention of her bosses who quickly canned her.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 7:04 Comments || Top||

#6  ...Cleveland Clinic is one of my hometown's crown jewels, not to mention one of the finest hospitals on the planet - its clients regularly include kings, presidents, other notables and the wealthy (which is also why it has Cleveland's only Michelin-star restaurant, a private facility for special patients only).

Which is probably why the lowered the boom on this broad as quickly as they did when they found out. Letting things like that go even one minute longer than they have to would have disrupted the gravy train pretty badly, and for all the good they do, CC Hospitals is still a business.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/01/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#7  She will be with Doctors Without Borders soon. If not already.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/01/2019 7:59 Comments || Top||

#8  So she was practicing jihad, one patient at a time? She should have been fired. Her license jerked as well.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Monica Showalter at American Thinker's take
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 10:09 Comments || Top||

#10  She violated not only the law and is a racist scumbag, she violated the oath every doctor takes.

Fire her. In front of a firing squad.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/01/2019 11:03 Comments || Top||

#11  If I'm now averse to seeing any Muslim MD does that make me racist?

There are a number of activities of a terroristic nature that seem to be common to many, most? Muslims and this one is very disturbing.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/01/2019 11:09 Comments || Top||

#12  If I'm now averse to seeing any Muslim MD does that make me racist?

Good question. I already was.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/01/2019 13:00 Comments || Top||

#13  If I'm now averse to seeing any Muslim MD does that make me racist?

No. Muslim isn’t a race.
Posted by: Speamble Elmeack5265 || 01/01/2019 15:29 Comments || Top||

#14  Muslim isn’t a race. "Race" got nuttin to do with being called a "racis". It's all about power and punishment meted out to deplorables by our "betters". And actually being "better" got nuttin to do with considering yourself better.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/01/2019 15:42 Comments || Top||

#15  she violated the oath every doctor takes That "oath every doctor takes" is an urban myth. My class back in ye olden tymes soundly voted down taking anything like an oath, most of us thought it was hypocritical. Later classes changed their thinking, and not for the better. Even though I never took an oath, I did weird things like sleep in the patient's recliners in the ICU at night so I could be closest to where I would most be needed ASAP.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/01/2019 15:45 Comments || Top||

#16  One has to wonder of any patients she 'served' had developed unexpected complications during their stay. Particularly Jewish patients.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/01/2019 18:45 Comments || Top||

#17  She was still a supervised resident according to the article, which I believe means she did not yet see patients on her own.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 18:53 Comments || Top||

#18  most of us thought it was hypocritical.

Dude, that's why the call it the Hypocritcal Oath!

If I'm now averse to seeing any Muslim MD...

Snarkitude aside, that is the crux of the matter. We tend not to notice it, but in America, we have created a high-trust society. If I need my lawnmower fixed, I don't worry about what clan or religion the guy at the small engine shop belongs to. He fixes it. I pay him. If we have a dispute, we don't summon our clan members and duke it out, we have a legal system.

You can argue whether it is more efficient or just 'nicer' to live in a high-trust society, but it is a product of a Judeo-Christian society that values reciprocity - you treat people like you want to be treated.

What happens when you import people who don't share those values? What if your religion tells you to fight non-believers where ever you find them in whatever way possible? This is only one instance, of course, but how many 'lone wolves' do you need to reach a tipping point where trust starts to break down? Previously, it never would have occurred to me to worry or even think about a doctor's personal faith. Now...
Posted by: SteveS || 01/01/2019 19:40 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
29 Countries the US Government Doesn't Want You to Go To
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2019 09:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn. And I was gonna summer at Lake Chad...
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I can hear the screams of "RAACCISSSST!" already.

...and why isn't China on the list considering the kidnapping under color of law they engage in.
Posted by: Ulash Sproing5751 || 01/01/2019 10:35 Comments || Top||

#3  ..or Mexico and cartel 'vacations'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/01/2019 11:00 Comments || Top||

#4  How many are muslim majority?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 11:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't see Egypt on the list. Does that mean it's safe to go and see the pyramids now?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/01/2019 13:11 Comments || Top||

#6  ..avoid the bus.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/01/2019 13:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Don't travel to these 29 places? Not a problem.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#8  You could put a 1 in front of the 29.
Posted by: Beldar Angomble4525 || 01/01/2019 15:23 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Egypt cabinet to legalise 80 churches and attached buildings
[AlAhram] The cabinet committee tasked with reviewing requests to legalize unlicensed churches has approved the legalization of 80 churches and attached buildings.

In a statement issued on Monday, Egyptian cabinet front man Nader Saad said the committee charged with reviewing and legalising unlicensed churches made its decision following an review of requests filed by congregations to regulate their churches’ statuses.

The churches will be legalised on condition that they meet construction safety requirements and fulfil the state's rights in regard to churches built on state-owned land.

The decision brings the number of legalised Christian houses of worship since the committee was established in 2017 to 588.

In 2016, the government passed a law easing regulations and shortening time-length of obtaining licences for church construction and renovation.

Egypt's Christians make up an estimated 10- 15 percent of the country's 104 million population.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 02:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We shall see.
Posted by: newc || 01/01/2019 2:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Would never had seen the light of day under the Muslim Brotherhood (aka Obean's boys). Just saying.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/01/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn’t see the light of day under Mubarak, either.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 11:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I recall an early Christian family headed to Egypt when things became 'unwelcoming' in other ME lands.

Maybe the rulers are looking to end a pattern of 'bad luck'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/01/2019 12:30 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
DR Congo's ruling coalition, opposition both claim to win chaotic election
[PRESSTV] The Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
's ruling coalition and opposition have both claimed victory in the country’s chaotic presidential vote, which is meant to choose a successor to President Joseph Kabila.

Vital Kamerhe, the campaign manager to opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi, said on Monday that counting showed Tshisekedi and the other main opposition candidate Martin Fayulu neck and neck in the lead, both with over 40 percent of the vote. He said the ruling coalition candidate, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, who is backed by Kabila, had only about 13 percent.

This is while Nehemie Mwilanya, Kabila's chief of staff and a member of Shadary's campaign, told a news briefing that he was confident Shadary had won. "For us, victory is certain."

This comes as vote counting is underway in the DR Congo's long-delayed election. The first partial results are expected from the national electoral commission (CENI) on Tuesday.

Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Unexpectedly!"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 5:36 Comments || Top||


Britain
US envoy says Trump eyes immediate visit to UK after Brexit
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump is mulling a visit to the United Kingdom immediately after the country leaves the European Union in March.

The US ambassador to London, Woody Johnson, said on Monday that a state visit by Trump to the UK will be highly possible to take place in May, more than a month after Brexit.

Trump visited the UK last year amid widespread public protests as authorities were forced to make the visit an informal one. Nonetheless, the US president met Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the UK during the trip in July.

Johnson said a formal Trump’s visit to the UK, as promised last year by British Prime Minister Theresa May, would be better to coincide with ceremonies in the country to mark the end of the Second World War.

“Between you and me, I think that would be a good time,” said the US envoy while speaking to the BBC Radio, adding, “I would think the President would be in favor of it and looking forward to it because that was mentioned when he was over here, so if we can do that it would be, I think, a big positive.”
Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 00:45 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  To mark 'Independence Day'?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/01/2019 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Announce favorable trade relations?
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/01/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#3  T May doesn't want Trump derailing her establishment role in ensuring the UK stays in the EUSSR.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 9:50 Comments || Top||

#4  T May doesn't want Trump derailing her establishment role in ensuring the UK stays in the EUSSR. Posted by Bright Pebbles

Wasn't Christopher Steele and the folks at VauxHall Cross supposed to assist in preventing that from happening ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2019 10:03 Comments || Top||

#5  #1 P2K. Like the way you think.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/01/2019 16:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Brindependence Day.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 18:20 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Peru gets rid of glossy shrine to Marxist guerrillas
[American Thinker]
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 11:02 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russia detains American suspected of espionage
[IsraelTimes] Russia says its security services had detained a US citizen in Moscow accused of spying, the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West.

The FSB domestic security service says the American was tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
on Friday "while carrying out an act of espionage."

A criminal case had been opened, the FSB says in a statement, under Article 276 of the Russian Criminal Code, which allows for prison sentences of up to 20 years.

The statement identifies the American in Russian, using a name that appeared to translate as Paul Whelan.

In Washington, the State Department says it had been formally notified by Russia’s foreign ministry and was seeking access to the detained American.

"Russia’s obligations under the Vienna Convention require them to provide consular access. We have requested this access and expect Russian authorities to provide it," a State Department spokesperson says.

Citing privacy considerations, the State Department declined to provide further details including the person’s name.
Update from the Daily Mail at noon ET:
  • Paul Nicholas Whelan, 48, was arrested on December 28 in Moscow

  • He is a retired Marine who works for an auto parts company in Michigan

  • His brother says that he was visiting Russia to attend a friend's wedding

  • 'His innocence is undoubted' says the 'deeply concerned' brother

  • Whelan faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on spying charges

  • Putin foe Bill Browder speculates that Whelan is a 'hostage' for spy swap

  • Russian woman Maria Butina pleaded guilty to US conspiracy charge this month

  • Putin claims Russia 'will not arrest innocent people simply to exchange them'
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies


China-Japan-Koreas
9 hurt as car rams into crowds on famed Tokyo street
[PRESSTV] Nine people were hurt, one seriously, when a man deliberately plowed his car into crowds celebrating New Year’s Eve along a famous Tokyo street, police and media said Tuesday.

With an "intent to murder," 21-year-old Kazuhiro Kusakabe drove a small vehicle into Takeshita Street in Tokyo’s fashion district of Harajuku at 10 minutes past midnight, a police front man told AFP.

According to national broadcaster NHK, Kusakabe told police he was acting in "retribution for the death penalty
" without giving more precise details.

NHK footage showed a small box vehicle with a smashed front and paramedics carrying people on stretchers into ambulances.

One witness told NHK it was a "ghastly scene."

"I saw some guys collapsed on the street. As I walked closer toward the scene, many more people had fallen on the ground. By the time I reached the exact place, paramedics were already there helping people," he said.

Another witness who runs a clothing shop in the area said: "I am shocked that something like this happened on Takeshita Street."

Police immediately cordoned off the street, which was packed with people celebrating the New Year.

Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 00:56 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon secure $245.3M in military work in Orlando
[Orlando Business Journal] Gun mount, aircraft and maintenance device work will happen in Central Florida, thanks to three global defense firms getting more that $200 million worth of contracts.

Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Corp. (NYSE: RTN) and The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) each landed a contract for a combined total of $245.3 million. As the new year inches closer, more government contracts are being awarded to prepare for work in 2019.

Here's a breakdown for each work order that was reported by the U.S. Department of Defense on Dec. 28:

Lockheed Martin's Missiles & Fire Control division in southwest Orlando got a $109 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The three-year contract involves building and delivering 41 electronic Consolidated Automated Support Systems (eCASS).

The eCASS technology can troubleshoot an aircraft to figure out which areas need maintenance, saving the military a lot of money. The eCASS reportedly saves more than $1 billion annually by averting the repair of avionics at the next level of maintenance or sending parts back to the original equipment manufacturer. Sailors use eCASS to troubleshoot and repair aircraft electronics ashore and at sea, allowing them to return aircraft such as the F/A-18 and E-2D to operational status quickly.

The contract also provides for eCASS-related equipment, kits and test sets in support of various aircraft intermediate maintenance departments, fleet readiness centers, aircraft carriers and L-class ships. Most of this work will be done in Orlando, but also in Maryland, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Washington, New York, Minnesota and more.

This contract follows a $500 million, seven-year work order by the U.S. Navy in September for Lockheed Martin to build 200 eCASS.

The system also supports the F-35 stealth fighter jet ‐ another reason production of the eCASS is cranking up.

General Dynamics lands $29M contract for submarine work.

The U.S. Navy's nuclear ballistic submarine USS Maine is one of the newer Ohio-class submarines used by the Navy to conduct surveillance and for extended war-deterrence patrols. the Navy plans to replace the fleet under an $80 billion program.

In addition, Raytheon Corp. got an $81.3 million, two-year contract from the U.S. Navy for design agent engineering and technical support services for the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS), SeaRAM and land-based Phalanx Weapon System.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2019 10:12 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
French presidency faces new embarrassment from ex-bodyguard
[PRESSTV] Emmanuel Macron's former security adviser has revealed that he regularly spoke and exchanged messages with the French president even after he was removed from his job over a political scandal in July.

Alexandre Benalla, originally Macron’s bodyguard before taking the adviser’s role, made the revelation in an interview with French news website Mediapart on Monday, saying he has had conversations with the president and other brass hats on the Telegram messaging application since he was evicted from the Elysee Palace in July.

"We exchange messages on lots of different subjects. It's often like, 'how do you see things'. It could be about the 'yellow vests', the views on someone or security issues," Benalla said in the interview.

"It will be hard for them to deny, since all these exchanges are on my mobile telephone," he added.

This comes as French officials have time and again said there were no contacts between the former bodyguard and the presidency since his sacking.

Posted by: Fred || 01/01/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don’t remember this story. Was this the alleged gay bodyguard?
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/01/2019 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  He beat up some protesters
Posted by: Frank G || 01/01/2019 5:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Something VERY odd about Macron, he married someone who'd nowadays be arrested for child abuse, and then some persistent rumours about him and the bodyguard...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 6:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Shades of Bath House Barry's driver in Chicago...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/01/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||

#5  'Sacked'...was he ?

Ex-Bodyguard still carrying Dip passport.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/01/2019 7:03 Comments || Top||

#6  What's the French phrase for 'Blue Oyster'?
Posted by: Raj || 01/01/2019 7:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Someone should start a meme that the yellow vest protesters are being homophobic.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/01/2019 11:38 Comments || Top||

#8  French phrase for "blue oyster"? How about 'France'? Or, in honor of its national football/soccer squad, Les Bleus!
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/01/2019 22:08 Comments || Top||



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