Death toll in raging California wildfires jumps to 63, list of missing doubles to 630+

The deadliest fire in California’s history continues to burn uncontained as recovery teams find more and more bodies. With 63 victims confirmed so far, the local sheriff says there are over 630 reports of missing persons.

The town of Paradise and surrounding areas of Butte county were all but leveled in the blaze, which engulfed 8,700 homes and spread across over 140,000 acres. California governor Jerry Brown described the scene as a “war zone.”

The fire began last Thursday and is still only 40 percent contained, as tens of thousands of people remain under evacuation orders. The blaze spread extremely quickly due to low humidity and high winds, at some stages engulfing the area of a football field every three seconds.

The Camp Fire is not expected to be fully contained until November 30. Over 5,600 firefighters are currently combating the blaze, supported by hundreds of fire engines, bulldozers and helicopters.

Butte County sheriffs have begun collecting the DNA of relatives of the missing in the hope of identifying their remains amidst the charred hellscape.

California energy utility PG&E said its equipment may have sparked the fire, and a group of lawyers representing victims of the blaze has filed a lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, alleging it failed to properly maintain, replace and repair its equipment.

https://www.rt.com/usa/444134-california-wildfire-bodies-missing/

China plans to let victims sue vaccine makers for punitive damages after string of scandals

On Sunday night, a draft of the “Vaccine Management Law” was posted online for the public. If passed, the new law will allow people to sue drug makers for punitive damages in cases of death or serious illness caused by faulty vaccines. Due to multiple vaccine safety scandals in the country (a major drug maker was found to have sold 400,520 inferior DPT vaccines and 570 million yuan of improperly stored or expired vaccines were illegally sold across the country for years), the new legislation “is designed to establish a long-term supervision system by integrating articles from different pieces of legislation,” 1 and will allow “patients and families to sue vaccine makers and distributors for punitive damages if they knowingly sell faulty vaccines that cause death or serious illness.”2

This is unprecedented in China. And perhaps the world. And it’s about time.

Under current law, if a vaccine is proved to have caused adverse health effects, victims are liable for compensation (which varies depending on the economic status of where the vaccine is administered) from the local health authority. However, if the vaccine was part of a national immunization programme or from the drug makers, victims get nothing.

“The legislation is being introduced months after China’s second largest rabies vaccine maker Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences was found to have falsified its production records, used out-of-date materials, mixed different batches of products and failed to test them properly.

Fourteen company executives and staff members were detained over the scandal and senior officials were sacked.

Although the company was fined 9.1 billion yuan (US$1.3 billion) and ordered to set up a compensation scheme to pay victims up to 650,000 yuan, demands for tougher regulations have been mounting.”3

“Serious” breaches of the law like fabricating production inspection logs, changing batch numbers, filing fake data for lot releases, or failing to recall substandard vaccine could see firms lose their licenses and or pay fines worth five to 10 times the value of the products in question. Also, legal representatives and key staff involved could have their profits confiscated and be barred from the industry for 10 years. (Oh and officials who fail to catch these issues or who are found to have participated in a cover-up will be punished “severely”.)

Basically, China isn’t messing around.

Can you imagine if vaccine makers here could be held responsible for their product?

It remains to be seen what will happen if this law passes and what the process will look like to prove that a vaccine has damaged someone. We will update you when we have more information.

https://govtslaves.info/2018/11/15/china-plans-to-let-victims-sue-vaccine-makers-for-punitive-damages-after-string-of-scandals/

>>3921675

I saw some pictures of neighborhoods today, everything was to the ground and every second burnt out house still had cars in the driveway.

Anon who posted yesterday from cali appears right death toll will go into the 1000s

TOP KEK

Double middle finger…to EU? Top Romanian official slams union, makes ‘offensive gestures’

Things got obscene at the Romanian parliament as its deputy speaker vowed to resist pressure from the EU and go on with a controversial judiciary reform. The politician reinforced his statement by producing a double middle finger.

The fiery speech from the top official came in response to a damning report from the bloc, which accused the country of backsliding in the fight against corruption. Deputy Speaker Florin Iordache, who also leads the parliamentary commission discussing the judiciary reform, said that the government will carry on with its plans despite the mounting external pressure.

“We'll go on despite all the opposition from the European Commission,” Iordache told the parliament on Wednesday. “We want to be independent, we want to make the decisions according to our constitution and not because of the pressure coming from other quarters.”

The politician then rushed off the podium while extending the central digits of both of his hands. It remained unclear whether the apparent obscene gesture was addressed to the EU or not.

The opposition lawmakers, however, took offense, since Iordache appeared to be pointing at their direction. The official refused to apologize over the incident, claiming that he merely had a “spasm” following the speech and did not make any obscene gestures, according to lawmaker from the Save Romania Union (USR), Iulian Bulai.

On Tuesday, the European Commission released its annual report on the administration of justice in Romania, voicing concerns that the ongoing judiciary reform might jeopardize “the progress” it has made since joining the bloc. Brussels called upon the country's government to “suspend immediately” its judiciary reform and criminal code overhaul, appointing an “anti-corruption prosecutor” instead.

“I regret that Romania has not only stalled its reform process, but also reopened and backtracked on issues where progress was made over the past 10 years,” the First Vice-President of the Commission Frans Timmermans told reporters.

The reform, launched by the ruling Social Democrats party and its allies early in 2017, has attracted much scrutiny from the EU, which expressed fears that it might undermine independence of the country's judiciary system and make it highly politicized. Critics of the reform accuse the government of pushing it through to help politicians accused of corruption and to weaken the country's judiciary. The controversial reform also sparked mass protests across the country, forcing Iordache, who briefly held the minister of justice post early in 2017, to resign.

https://www.rt.com/news/444119-romanian-parliament-middle-fingers/

>>3921816

Long list of guilty.

Psychologists Call Out Tech Industry and the Psychologists They Hire to Design Programs to Hook Kids on Tech

While American public school systems collectively spent billions to provide “high tech” educations to students, Silicon Valley parents have been limiting their own kids’ use and exposure to technology in their homes and sent them to private low-tech schools. These Silicon Valley parents have been getting more media attention recently for their increasingly desperate and extreme measures in preventing their own kids from using and being exposed to screens. This includes spying on their nannies.

Tech companies deliberately use “persuasive design” to get children and everyone else hooked on their programs.

According to an August article from Vox, most people have no idea these companies hire psychologists to assist them in designing these programs. Classy, huh. Many former tech designers, inventors, and investors have expressed remorse for their past roles in creating addictive technology. Some are trying very hard to raise awareness so that this will be stopped.

This doesn’t seem to matter to the Tech Industry or to the psychologists they pay to create these addictive programs to promote more tech use and exposure. In August, a group of psychologists sent a letter to the American Psychological Association addressing this. More unsavory unscrupulous details may be read at Vox.

Technology can be a wonderful tool. There are many organizations who are working to promote safe use and exposure to all sources of technology. Please visit their websites if you are concerned about any of this:

More:

https://www.activistpost.com/2018/11/psychologists-call-out-tech-industry-and-the-psychologists-they-hire-to-design-programs-to-hook-kids-on-tech.html

>>3921913

It's so packaged now patsy ready usually already of balance by preliminary psychological engineering then easily set up. Same MO scale just varies.

Another EU rat outs himself

Spanish Defence Minister Backs Idea of Creating European Army

Madrid supports French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for creating a European army, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said on Thursday.

On November 6, in an interview with the Europe 1 radio station, Macron called for the establishment of a European army that would "protect" the union from China, Russia and even the United States. To support his idea, he cited alleged attempts by outside forces to meddle in Europe’s domestic affairs and cybersecurity.

"The Spanish government assesses this [idea] positively, like everything else that contributes to strengthening the European Union," Robles said, as quoted by the Vanguardia newspaper.

She, however, stressed that the project must be implemented within the framework of "maximum cooperation and integration" between the European Union and NATO.

Macron’s idea has already been welcomed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that "the times when we could rely on others are over."

US President Donald Trump, in contrast, harshly slammed Macron's initiative, calling it "very insulting," and suggesting that "perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the US subsidizes greatly."

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201811161069855449-spain-european-army-eu-france-macron/

US State Department Claims Daesh Was Created to 'Protect People' From Assad

Damascus and its allies have repeatedly accused Washington of waging a phony war on the jihadists, and of providing various forms of covert support for terrorists operating on Syrian territory.

The Syrian government is directly responsible for creating Daesh (ISIS)*, US special representative for Syria engagement James Jeffrey has alleged.

"The Syrian regime produced ISIS," the diplomat said, speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday. "The elements of ISIS in the hundreds, probably, saw an opportunity in the total breakdown of civil society and of the upsurge of violence as the population rose up against the Assad regime, and the Assad regime, rather than try to negotiate or try to find any kind of solution, unleashed massive violence against its own population."

"That created a space for ISIS to recruit people; to protect people to some degree, ironic as it sounds, from the depredations of the Assad regime; and very soon, ISIS had an army of 35,000 troops and had seized big chunks of both Iraq and Syria," Jeffrey said.

Later in the press conference, Jeffrey appeared to contradict himself, recalling that al-Qaeda in Iraq, the direct precursor to Daesh, was actually started in Iraq.

"ISIS's predecessor under the same leader, [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi, al-Qaeda in Iraq, was almost completely defeated when I was in Iraq…But it was able to regenerate itself because there was no long-term strategy in either Syria or Iraq, but particularly in Iraq at the time, because that's where we were focused on, to ensure the enduring defeat of these elements," the diplomat said.

Daesh's predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), was formed in 2004, soon after the US invasion of Iraq, which caused the country to descend into chaos as a number of terrorist groups, warlords and militia groups waged guerrilla warfare against the central administration, US forces, and each other for control of their territories.

No US Aid for Reconstruction

Calling Syria a "pariah" state, Jeffrey stressed that neither Washington nor "most of the rest of the international community that typically provides reconstruction funds" would do so "until we see a great deal more progress" in Syria.

Earlier this year, Syrian President Bashar Assad estimated that Syria's reconstruction could cost up to $400 billion and take 10-15 years to complete.

US Will Stay in Syria After Daesh is Gone

Noting that the US and its allies expect Daesh's holdings in Syria to be mopped up "in a few months'" time, Jeffrey admitted that the US military presence also supports other, "secondary" goals, including countering alleged Iranian "malign activities" and demonstrating a US "interest in achieving a political solution by the various ways we have, not just diplomatic but security and military, through economic tools and other assets that we have and that we're deploying in this conflict".

Accusing Iran of "contributing greatly" to Daesh's rise in 2013 and 2014, the US diplomat said that any resolution to the conflict will require their withdrawal. "Technically, the Syrian government invited them in; we expect the Syrian government to ask them to leave."

Damascus has repeatedly urged US forces to end their illegal presence in Syria, and have alleged that the US anti-Daesh mission was never about fighting terrorism.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201811151069828818-state-dept-says-syria-created-daesh/

>>3922107

more than 2 shakes is a pull!

Watch – Rand Paul on Trump’s Foreign Policy: Build Roads and Bridges in America, Not Afghanistan

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that America should be building roads and bridges in America, not Afghanistan.

“I’m tired of spending $50 billion a year in Afghanistan building roads and bridges over there where I would rather build roads and bridges here,” Paul told Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House during a wide-ranging interview that included President Donald Trump’s push to advance an America First foreign policy,

A study from Brown University released on Wednesday found that American taxpayers spent $5.9 trillion in military action in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan since 2001, which is $2 trillion more than all federal government spending during the 2017-18 fiscal year.

The Kentucky Republican contended that President Trump “truly believes in America First foreign policy,” however, he warned that some of his advisors have advocated against his foreign policy vision.

“I think that some of the people [Trump] surrounded himself with are really part of the foreign policy swamp that believes that war is always the answer,” Paul cautioned.

“When I talk to the president, I hear that we have been at war too long in Afghanistan. When I talk to him, I hear that his initial response is that we do not need permanent troops in Syria, I think he truly believes that,” Paul continued. “I think he believes stronger than almost anything else and he said it a million times that the Iraq war was a mistake, and it destabilized the Middle East and yet he’s surrounded by generals who often think we cannot leave or we will lose, or we must take one more village in order to get to a negotiated settlement. Or, even worse, the neocons who believe in unconditional surrender like we had with Japan in World War Two. That’s rarely the way war ends.”

The Kentucky conservative then added that America needs to reach a settlement with Afghanistan in which the United States can finally withdraw troops from the country and end the 17-year long war in Afghanistan. “It almost never ends with unconditional surrender. It usually ends with a settlement, and in Afghanistan, there needs to be a settlement,” Paul added.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who holds similar America First foreign policy views to Sen. Paul, told Breitbart News in an interview in April 2017 that America has spent well over $100 billion in Afghanistan rebuilding their infrastructure where that money could be better spent rebuilding American infrastructure.

“We can make up the difference by cutting spending, especially in a lot of ways that works with Trump’s narrative. We spent a $100 billion in Afghanistan rebuilding their infrastructure…. I would like to see Trump bring that money back. That’s a great opportunity right there,” Massie contended.

Watch the Full Interview:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/15/watch-rand-paul-on-trumps-foreign-policy-build-roads-and-bridges-in-america-not-afghanistan/

>>3921928

Weird